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Why Do Atheists Have to Talk About Atheism?
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Whenever the subject of atheism comes up, anywhere that isn't an atheist discussion group or something, one sentiment almost inevitably comes up:
"I wish atheists wouldn't talk so much about atheism."
The sentiment gets worded in many different ways. "The new atheists are so evangelical." "This atheist criticism of religion is just intolerant." "You atheists are just as close-minded as the hard-line religious believers you're criticizing."
But the essence of it is the same: The fact that many atheists are talking publicly about our atheism, and are trying to persuade people that we're right about it, shows that we're ... well, evangelical, intolerant and close-minded. So today, I want to explain why so many atheists think it's important to talk about atheism ... and why many of us try to persuade other people that atheism is correct.
The first answer is the most obvious: Anti-atheist bigotry. Atheists talk about atheism because there's a lot of misunderstanding and hostility toward us. It's nowhere near as severe as racism or sexism; but it does exist, and it has real-world consequences.
Parents are denied custody of their children for being atheists; people are harassed and and their homes vandalized by their neighbors for being atheists; teachers are suspended for being atheists; teenagers are harassed and suspended from school for being atheists; politicians whip up anti-atheist fear to try to get elected. (And that's just in the U.S. I'm not even talking about parts of the world where atheism is a crime punishable by imprisonment or death.)
Making ourselves visible, coming out about who we are and what we do and don't believe, is the best way we have to counter that.
That's only a small part of the story, though. Another part -- and probably more important -- is that many atheists see religion not just as a mistaken idea but as a harmful one. We see it as a serious social problem, a type of belief that on the whole does significantly more harm than good ... and one that, because of its ultimately unfalsifiable nature, has little or none of the reality checks that other belief systems eventually have to measure up to.
We see people bombing buildings, abusing children, committing flagrant fraud, shooting political dissenters, etc., etc., etc., all behind the armor of religion ... and we feel a need to speak out.
Even that, though, is missing the crux of the issue. The crux of the issue, the most important answer to the question, "Why do atheists have to talk about atheism?" is this: Why shouldn't we?
Thinking you're right, and trying to persuade other people you're right, is not intolerant or close-minded -- it's a cornerstone of democracy. That's how it works: people explain their ideas, debate them, make arguments to support them, revise or refine or drop them in the face of valid criticism, make snarky jokes in the face of stupid criticism.
The marketplace of ideas won't flourish if people don't bring their ideas to the market. Being close-minded doesn't mean thinking you're right; it means refusing to reconsider your position, even when the evidence suggests that you're wrong. And being intolerant doesn't mean thinking other people are wrong; it means refusing to listen to them, and dismissing them entirely as stupid or wicked, simply because you disagree with them.
Think of it this way. Is it intolerant or close-minded to say that single-payer is the best plan for the American health care system? That public funding for solar power will reduce our dependence on foreign oil? That global warming is real? That the theory of evolution is right? Is it intolerant or close-minded to try to persuade people to come around to any of these points of view? And if not ... then why is it intolerant or close-minded for atheists to explain why we don't believe in God and to try to persuade people that, of all the ideas people have about religion, atheism is the most plausible?
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but then i remembered that i took some sleeping pills about an hour ago, so now I can't stay up as long as i want…
but then i remembered that i took some sleeping pills about an hour ago, so now I can't stay up as long as i want…
and there's proof.
There's only one person who could've made this movie…
Why would Drake Bell play Timmy? Timmys suppose to be short and dorky…. ;-;
I lost one of my best friends today. She's not dead. All because she changed her entire being for her boyfriend. *her boyfriend is what you call a "Juggalo"
so of course he got her into all that shit, and slowly I could see her evolving into something she isn't. just to keep her boyfriend happy.
I cannot express how much that angers me completely.
I'm not talking about just my friend, i'm talking about how that happens in general.If the person you're in a relationship with asks you to change even one thing about yourself, he/she is not right for you. This is the first time that this kind of thing has ever happened to me. Losing a best friend is a horrible thing, and eventually everybody will experience this. That is mainly the reason I hate best friends.
I love "Best friends" but i hate having them. Friendship usually last about 3-5 years at max for me. At the beginning, it's all fun and giggles. We have fun together, we hang out, we do everything together. Then we distance slowly because we don't have any classes together or they went to a different school. we still hang out. Then we completely lose contact with each other. the only thing we have is social networking sites. It's not the same.
But if your not talking to your friends anymore because your fucking boyfriend/girlfriend doesn't like them, then your a desperate sad person who will do anything just to feel taken.
Note: lose the prick/cunt asap if they want you to exile your friends.
mother fucking shit douche asshole.
My heart breaks every time I lose a best friend, it's like breaking up with them, they're dead to you. This all went down for me today.
Jenniebeth, I don't know if you'll see this, but if you do, I'm sorry your a desperate girl who puts ugly pricks you've known for 6 months before your best friends that you've known for 4 years. I hope you'll always have your memories with you, because I'm dead for you, and you're dead to me.
I'll miss you.
And you heard the ice cream truck drive past your house.
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Ka Se Kahoon- Original composition by Vijay Krishna
Lyrics & Chords
Most of 2011 has been brutal on me, mainly so with music and health taking a major beating. The little music that I have been fortunate enough to have been in touch with ranges from a couple of random covers to a few originals, now in different stages of completion.
Vijay Krishna's Kahe Ruthe is one of my favorite originals on Muziboo. Ka se kahoon is a pathos folk ballad in Hindi. Hopefully the pain and longing that I have tried to focus on, comes through, apart from the diction, of course.
Thanks Vijay for the opportunity, and all the diction coaching. Appreciate it!
Vijay has also put together a video for this. You can watch it here
Original Music, Arrangement, Lyrics and Mix: Vijay Krishna
Vocals: Meera
Ka se kahoon sakhi
sayaan nahi aave
sawan beeto jaye
aankhiyaan bichyaaye , dwar khadi main
peer sahi na jaye
veerhaa ki agni main, jale mora man
koi na jane mora , haal jiya
kethi firu main, gali gali yea
piya ke nagar jaye, Kaun si gali?
sapne dikhaaye jage yea nayanwa, sawan beto jaye
aankhiyaan bichyaaye, dwar khadi main
peer sahi na jaye ( Ka se kahoon
Anbu Mohamed said
Welcome Back Meera….
Excellent composition !! Brilliant vocals and a professional hands on mixing !! Total package overall !! Enjoyed the rendition thoroughly !! Goes to my favs without any hesitation
♫♫♫ Anbu J. Mohamed ♫♫♫
Tha Kathir said
Superp singing and greate feel from it.
Excellent composition.
Keep it up dear Meera and Krishna.
Please listen my uploads and write your feel about it. I love Music & friends, n the god inside of me.
Madhukar Mehta said
Meera ji, Excellent singing…. with right expressions and harkatein….
Krishna ji, Excellent composition and musical arrangement was fabulous, loved it & fav'd it too!! Meera ji's Ss and Ts could have been mixed to be softer…
Chookar Mere Man Ko
Praba Balakrishnan said
nice composition…. Feel is so good…. yes I felt the pain…. Good one guys….
Praba B
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language;
Please Listen to
good job meera…
Rinu Srinivasan said
Great one……liked it!
"God Bless You! "
Latha Ganti said
Wonderful composition & rendition ! Liked it !
Kumar Srinivasan said
Loved the tune and arrangement Vijay – very apt for the theme of the song.
Great singing Meera. You sounded very much at ease and have done a great job emoting. A few more variations would have made this even better.
Kala Vijay said
great composition.great singing with lots of feel.felt the pain really Meera.
(by any chance if i missed out any of your uploads and not commented,pl feel free to scribble me.)
'cannot live without music'
Vijay Krishna (back.... lets make some music) said
Thanks Guys :-).
Thank you Meera,It was wonderful working with you. Truely professional. Looking forward for more such colabrations.
Cheers !!
Listen to my originals :
Youtube Link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkE0vbzuAfM
Adithi said
Beautiful composition, orchestration and singing! Original compositions have become a rarity these days in Muziboo- this came as a fresh whiff of breeze!
Loved it! :)
Peace if possible, but truth at any rate – Martin Luther
Prahalad r said
very soothing and breezy composition and singing was just suiting the mood of the song… overall it was vry refreshing… loved it…
Swati Prasad said
this is fabulous!!
music vocals everything is very nice
Swati Prasad
Ramesh Tadi said
Vijay, fantastic composition and wonderful lyrics and arrangements… Great suff!!
Meera – you never disappoint us, always give us the best of your talents… God bless… keep them comming.
Ramesh Tadi
Hamsapriya said
Meera & vijay
Beautiful composition by Vijay & Amazing singing by Meera
Fantastic work by both of you
Enjoyed it so much
Do treat us more & often
Goes to my fav's
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ராஜ் குமார் அஞ்சன் said
:-O apparam thaan comments…
♫ ♫ Raj ♫ ♫
If there is affinity, no matter how bitter it could be, one is always contented… If there is no affinity, let love be in your heart…
Prem j Hans said
Vijay …loved your work, Music, lyrics and arrangement. Just fab!
Meera …expressive singing, Loved it. Great work guys.
Latest Upload:- Hey Bhagwan Shree Ganesha (Original Composition)
Shampak Chakravorty said
Very Nice Meera…. Hearing you after a long time :)
Certainly very unconventional cover :)
@ Vijay… very very good work dear… Keep it up :)
Everything was just perfect :)
LIked & Favorited :)
Shailender said
Wonderful composition and fabulously sung, Meera……the expressions were very captivating……
Very professional mixing…….
Music is my meditation…….Shailender
Harshan Nambiar said
Meera….wonderful composition and great singing by you. The initial humming sounded like George….who is that ? :)
The only thing I feel from a mix perspective is that your vocals should be brought a little back in the mix to give that haunting feel. I could be wrong……
I heard it on FB and I loved it……to my favs.
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Uthra said
Meera: Welcome back! Nicely done. Good control on lower range – beautiful.
Vijay: Wonderful start. Enjoyed the composition. The flute interlude reminded me of "Vishweshwar darshan kar"
Had to listen to it twice as the video was lovely too!
Neetu (away) said
Awesome job as always M!!
Vijayji: Great work!!:)
Do visit my songs here.
When music comes from the heart, Language is no Barrier!!….:)
Awesome in all departments. Smooth composition, professional arrangement, Good Lyrics and So beautifully sung by Meera. Brilliant !
Have a listen to Rafi Sharddhanjli
2 Points.
Veerha should be Birha Unless it is poetically diverted. I should stand corrected if otherwise.
Peer is pronounced as Pheer which is incorrect.
I hope you find it constructive before pushing to iTunes.
Have a listen to Rafi Sharddhanjli
Arvind R said
Very nice rendition Meera … bright and clear on this nice melodic compositon with a contemporary beat. Your voice had good expression and energy in this and was good to hear. Good stuff!!.
Hope things get better for you soon. All the best.
~With a rhythm is born a song. From a pulsing heart is born music!.
~ Arvind ~
Sudha Kumar (back to listen to all of you..) said
Awesome feel-good stuff, Meera. This is what you shine in with your quality vocals, Meera. Arrangement was really good, and I liked how the video projected it as well, Vijay.
Hope you are doing ok, Meera. Do keep in touch… :-)
Loved it,
P.S. > Small doubts on pronunciation of "beeto" , "virha or birha" , "jale" etc…
"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. "
- Nelson Mandela
Shaniruh said
Meera……superb singing with lot feel & beautiful composition by vijay ….gr8 work !!!
Smitha Passanha said
Beautifully and expressively sung Meera ! Liked it a lot ! The only diction issues I thought were "Viraha" instead of "Birhaa" and "firu" instead of "phiru"….but those are minor. The composition was also quite unusual and interesting……great job guys !
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Vishak Subramoney said
so nice to see u back Meera gaaru. ur voice was certainly missed here. beautiful vocals. loved the music as well.
Chondryma Chakrobortti (inactive) said
Loved the composition and arrangement Vijay. Great singing Meera !!
Sanjay Sankar (indefinitely away) said
Lovely composition, Vijay! Awesome vocals as always, Meera!
Harry Chops said
Vijay – Very nice soothing composition. Great lyrics too.
Meera – What a voice and absolutely flawless singing.
Just to nitpick, mix is quite loud.
Loved the original piece very much.
My latest cover
Ankahee (Lootera)
Pratibha said
Loved it! Very touching composition and you nailed the feel Meera! :) Loved the husk in your voice and the smooth finish.
Kumaran.k.k. ( i am back ) said
wow…. great tune….great composition….great singing….great orchestration….excellent !!!
always yours,
"music, the language of universe"
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Akhil c nair Music creates love said
Hi Meeraji superb singing….with lots of feel….superb composing and arrangement by Vijayji….over all excellent……
Biju Ramachandran said
beautiful singing….sweet vocals
nice feel…….good pathos number….liked it…
Nivetha said
Lovely composition & singing… Loved ur husky voice & the feel was too good :)
Vijay Krishna- You have done a great job… Best wishes :)
Thanks & Regards,
Raja Mohamed.j. said
No words more !! simply awesome sang and composition*Meera manohar*. youR voice are my loveble one…Meera manohar…Thank you so much given chance for listening in your sweet voice….GBU.
Music are my breath:)
Swamy Kitcha said
super tune, composition & arrangement. great work team. loved it. Meera's voice is a great boost for the song. Expecting more to come from you guys :-)
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Fareej said
Superb composition and beautiful rendition by Meera too…. Well Done team……
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Dr. priya Rajan said
Meera visiting u after a long time….
This is George's humming :)
Good lyrics, and composition, Vijay the flute portion really did convey the essence of the theme.
Everything is fine, would wish to suggest – u repeat the last lines and just try to fade away the vocals with the music.
For visualization t will give a very dramatic effect…. other than that loooved it loots. FAV''' and God bless.
MUSIC is the language of the soul!
Vijay Krishna (back.... lets make some music) said
Thank you so much guys for appreciating.
Dr Priya – This is not George humming :-)…
I will try to work on your suggestion regarding repeating last line.
Once again thanks guys for your time :-)
Listen to my originals :
Youtube Link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkE0vbzuAfM
Anand Sawkar said
Hi Meera Manohar,
Excellent composition !! Brilliant vocals and a professional hands on mixing !!
Vijay – Very nice soothing composition. Great lyrics too.
Meera – What a voice and absolutely flawless singing.
No words more !! simply awesome .
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Summary: The enchanting true story of a girl who saw fairies, and another with a gift for art, who concocted a story to stay out of trouble and ended up fooling the world. Frances was nine when she first saw the fairies. They were tiny men, dressed all in green. Nobody but Frances saw them, so her cousin Elsie painted paper fairies and took photographs of them "dancing" around Frances to make the grown-ups stop teasing. The girls promised each other they would never, ever tell that the photos weren't real. But how were Frances and Elsie supposed to know that their photographs would fall into the hands of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? And who would have dreamed that the man who created the famous detective Sherlock Holmes believed ardently in fairies-- and wanted very much to see one? Mary Losure presents this enthralling true story as a fanciful narrative featuring the original Cottingley fairy photos and previously unpublished drawings and images from the family's archives. A delight for everyone with a fondness for fairies, and for anyone who has ever started something that spun out of control.
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Tired of being made fun of for her fairy stories; decides to paint out detailed fairies;.
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By Tayleigh Davis - bio | email ALBANY, GA (WALB) - Traffic engineers made an Albany intersection safer today. A driver crashed into a business at the intersection of 7th Avenue North and Monroe Street. Neighbors blame fencing around a construction site for wrecks and close calls.
"It's a different kind of fence and different place-there's something about that corner," said Leighanna Lashley who lives near the intersection.
A few days ago Lashley heard a car slam into the Albany Floral and Gift Shop after trying to avoid another car at the intersection.
Lashley says even if the wreck didn't stem from the construction fence, it's still a dangerous problem that needs to be fixed.
When I called Traffic and Engineering Manager Randy Casagrand, he checked out the problem right away.
"I got in the car and came out to take a look and there is a sight distance problem concerning the fence," Casagrand said.
Casagrand says about 6,000 cars travel on 7th Ave. everyday and it's a significant amount of traffic to create a problem for drivers.
To make matters better, Casagrand asked the contractor to move the chain-link fence that was near the curb closer to the construction project.
Crews set up a black silt fence at a 45 degree angle that way when people turn the corner on 7th Ave. North and Monroe Street, they can see on-coming traffic a little easier.
The city will also raise a Truck Route sign so it wont block the view of drivers turning right which is important to Lashley and her family who use this road on a daily basis.
The city has a record of seven wrecks at that intersection in the last five years. If there are at least five crashes at an intersection within one year, city engineers will consider safety changes.
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Austin PROCEED: Project-Centered Education in Mechanical Engineering Lead Institution: University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX Category: Course/Curricular Date Implemented: September 2000 Website: http://www.me.utexas.edu/proceed/ Program Description: PROCEED (Project-Centered Educa- tion) is a department-wide curriculum reform program with the overarching goal of producing BS graduates who are exception- ally industry- and graduate study-ready. The central themes are (1) better connection of theory with practice, (2) restoration of the "hands-on" element of engineering education, (3) building reviews cited the hands-on philosophy as a major strength and teamwork and organizational skills, (4) enhancing communica- gave high marks to courses employing reverse engineering. tion skills, and (5) developing competence in dealing with Outcomes 8, 9, and 10 depend on general education courses and complex open-ended problems. Specific activities include extracurricular experiences. collaboration with corporate engineers to develop case studies, Assessment Information: The QQI (Quantity, Quality, and videoconferencing with corporate engineers to demonstrate Improvement) instrument was developed to assess student applications of related theory, use of reverse engineering of real perceptions of the effectiveness of project-based courses by products and systems in many courses to teach analysis and measuring the quantity and quality of learning opportunities design, development of hands-on labs and integration of lab and student achievements with respect to specified learning work with theory in core courses, outcomes. It was piloted in 2002, introduction of new computer incorporated in an online survey, simulation projects in several and subsequently implemented in a theory courses, development of an representative sample of newly online portfolio system to showcase student project work, implemented project-centered courses. QQI provided valuable development and application of comprehensive assessment feedback to instructors at the formative stage, as well as methods, opening of a senior elective sequence to a broad confirming which outcomes received the highest positive variety of career path options, and creation of Bridges to the student response as a result of the implementation of project- Future certificate programs which encourage high-performing centered learning. Other methods include exit interviews with undergraduates to participate in research as a jump-start to graduating seniors, feedback from recruiters and departmental graduate study. Faculty met in informal seminars to discuss advisory committees, and ABET reviews. A doctoral student how to prepare mechanical engineers for the 21st century with from the College of Education with 10 years of mechanical no budget, space, or faculty constraints. Workshops, some with engineering experience developed metrics for assessing the corporate advisors, then defined 15 pilot projects. Components effectiveness of project-based methods. Detailed formative and are often provided by sponsors, who also provide detailed summative evaluations of several PROCEED classes against product information and send engineers to talk about them. control sections were carried out in the early stage of imple- Faculty and students regard project-centered education as worth mentation. 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"Pancreatic cancer is my only competition out there & I intend to beat it." (Today Show)
Julie Weiss is known to many as the "Marathon Goddess." After completing the LA Marathon on March 17, she's proved to be an inspiration to all. The 42-year-old mother of two finished her 52nd marathon in Los Angeles – in a span of 52 weeks. That's 26.2 miles every single week for 2012. Julie's 2012 journey is incredible, but her story is even more powerful.
In 2007, Julie was an "overweight single mom relying on medication to fight her depression" (LA Times). A friend encouraged her to start running and Julie immediately fell in love with the road. Before long she had completed a triathlon and shed all of her antidepressant medications. Her biggest fan – her father – was always there to encourage and push her. He helped her train to qualify for the Boston Marathon and gave her the strength to keep training after failing to qualify eighteen times for the race. Julie finally qualified on her 19th attempt – but the sweetness was bittersweet. She'd learned just one week earlier that her father had died after has bout with pancreatic cancer.
Julie felt compelled to do something more than just run. She wanted to use the sport to raise money and awareness and fight the disease that had robbed her of her father. She turned her website into a fundraising platform for Pancreatic Cancer Action Network and has traversed the globe every weekend for the last year, completing 26.2 miles at each stop. New York, LA, Rome, Canada – Julie has finished marathons all over. Even better – she has raised over $180,000 for PCAN.
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Since the late 1980s, a small army of TV characters have come out of the closet as gay or lesbian. It has been a tried-and-true story arc, as the hero or heroine with The Big Secret faces down a few demons, external and internal, before living out in the open. With the recent Supreme Court decision against the Defense of Marriage Act and polls that show majority support for gay marriage, many say that watching so many gays come out on TV, along with knowing openly gay people in real life, has been essential to acceptance.


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Don Emblen offered to make a chapbook for me on his letter press, the big one in his garage, a massive metal thing with type you set by hand. In Marcel Proust's Within a Budding Grove (C.K. Scott Moncrieff translation) the narrator contemplates his ambitions:
"As an author becomes alarmed when he sees the fruits of his own meditation, which do not appear to him to be of great value since he does not separate them from himself, oblige a publisher to choose a kind of paper, to employ a fount of type finer, perhaps, than they deserve, I asked myself whether my desire to write was of sufficient importance …"
Am I that humble? I remember Don describing a poet who came and helped set type for her book. After experiencing what work goes into making the thing she decided, Don said, in the future she would use fewer words.
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- David Lee said...
I wonder if I'd use fewer lines if I had to carve them into a plate in order to publish them?
- February 1, 2008 at 5:27 AM
- Glenn Ingersoll said...
Imagine how much less you'd write if you had to do it all in blood!
- February 1, 2008 at 11:25 AM
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Watch how big business contributes to obesity in America - America's obesity problem is economic, where big business makes unhealthy food ADDICTIVE. America's overweight people consume 50% more food, and big business likes this. Big business studies Americans like lab rats to increase consumption (and obesity). Know that the wellness industry, which is about healing and fitness, differs from the sickness industry, which treats symptoms. Big media gives gross disinformation on healthy living - they prefer you remain fat for their profit. And here's a fast food secret: your brain doesn't tell your body until 15 minutes later you've eaten enough, so if you're sitting there eating up a storm at a fast food place, you've probably eaten too much. The older you are, the less likely big media and the fast food industry will fool you with their disinformation about what is good for you and what is not.
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"The world is engaged in the most difficult and trying struggle in its long history. All of the great epics which have torn the world for the last 2,000 years pale in comparison to the great ideological gulf which separates us from those who oppose us. It is our responsibility not merely to denounce our enemies and those who make themselves our enemies but to make this system work, to demonstrate what freedom can do, what those who are committed to freedom and the future can do." -John F. Kennedy, 7 days before his assassination.
Hi!!! My writings will be a continuation of Robert Kyosaki's teachings on financial education. He coined the term "Your House Is Not An Asset". Boy was that ever true from 2006 on to now. 6 years of lower home prices and still too many homes on the market. A shadow inventory that is in the millions. If we enter into a new recession and unemployment jumps we will be talking even more. Cities like Detroit and Cleveland are simply bulldozing homes down to get rid of the blight they cause in some neighborhoods.
He also says that mutual funds are bad investments. When you consider the fees associated with mutual funds and the roller coaster ride the market has had over the last 12 years this is most certainly true. There are exceptions of course. Smarter people financially have been able to find good returns on their money over the same period by investing in so called alternative investments. These include things like Managed Futures, LLC Partnerships, Residential Rental Property and Mortgages. The problem with these types of investments is that you need to be what is called an 'accredited investor'.
The people of America and for that matter the entire western world have been deceived by their governments and lied to about their retirement ever since the Great Depression. In this country Social Security was not passed to provide Americans pensions for 20 years or provide so called disabled people with benefits for life. It was conceived in order to solve a problem during the depression of too many elderly people dying on the streets. As an emerging super power that was bad for society to have such a high rate of homeless elderly people.
Social Security and other public pensions are the largest ponzi schemes in history. They make Bernie Madoff look like a preschooler. It is funny that the first public pension was invented in Prussia in the late 1880's. They had a retirement age of 70 years old. At that time in Prussia the average life expectancy was 45 years. In the case of the Prussians this was a way to get the populace to be servants of the government by involvement in the military and other government programs.
Beware of government that comes bearing gifts. Pension programs and other social service programs are a needed part of government, but not to the extent to which they have been perverted. Take a look at the data since Johnson's Great Society program. Welfare that was created then has completely ruined the African American family. There's a higher percentage of Black men in jail than there is living with the mother of their child or children. This shows that although a program is enacted for the good of a few it ends up hurting the masses.
I do not want to sound like I am starting an anti-government rant here because I am not. I am simply trying to convey that the financial education we give ourselves has a great impact on our future and the future of our country. The greatest threat to American dominance in the world is not terrorism, not the Chinese and not the Iranians. It is ignorance and the downward spiral ignorance creates in a society. Ignorance creates a less moral society. Without morals a society starts to implode on itself. Rome is your classic example and there's not a better example in history. Arrogance and ignorance defeated Rome, not the barbarian hoards.
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LAS VEGAS -- A Nye County school psychologist is facing almost two dozen charges of child pornography, according to the Nye County Sheriff's Office.
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Heart to Heart
Brent Allen returned to driving a truck following a heart transplant in 2001.
Brent Allen was born with what his mother simply calls "heart problems." When he was a grown man, working as a trucker, they would nearly kill him.
"I had my first open heart surgery at six months, the second at 6 years and the third when I was 11 or 12," says Brent, who is now 29.
He also had a pacemaker installed in his chest in 1986 to keep his heart beating regularly. But no problem could keep Brent from his lifelong dream.
"Since third grade, all he's wanted to do is truck," his mother Pam Allen says.
Brent began trucking after high school in 1993. He went out on his own in 1998, hauling grain and milk during the winter and working at a construction company in Edelstein, Ill., over the summer. But in the fall of 2000, Brent knew something was wrong.
"I was having trouble catching my breath. I was tired all the time, and sick," he recalls. "I thought I had the flu, so I went to the doctor. I found out my heart was getting larger and pressing on my lungs."
Brent was diagnosed with congestive heart failure, a crippling condition in which the heart cannot pump enough blood to the body's other organs. His doctor gave him medication, but it worked only briefly. In the spring of 2001, Brent was placed on a transplant list. But he continued to drive.
"I was pretty tired at the end of the day, but I just kept at it," he says. It would have been hard to find somebody to drive my truck, and then I'd have to pay them."
Many people wait years for a matching donor. Some never find one. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, about 63 people receive an organ transplant each day, but another 16 people on the waiting list die because not enough organs are available.
But because of his relatively rare blood type, B positive, Brent had a new heart within five months. He was sitting at a wedding reception when he got the call. He rushed to the hospital and had a new heart the next morning. He owes his new life to a 22-year-old girl whose family chose to donate her organs.
Nearly every organ of the body can be donated. A heart, kidney, liver, lung, pancreas, intestine, cornea or even skin can be transplanted. Bone marrow can be donated from living donors. Mothers can even donate the umbilical cord blood from their babies.
While new organs can become the only way to save a person's life, they do not guarantee complete health. Now that he's back to driving, Brent must take eight pills a day to keep his body from rejecting his new heart.
"I take two different pills for rejection. I also take a blood pressure pill once a day. I take an aspirin every day and some other stuff to fight infections," he says. "I'll be on some kind of meds for the rest of my life."
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Washington • New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner is urging Utah lawmakers to reject a bill that would try to put the Beehive State ahead of Iowa or New Hampshire in the presidential primary race, arguing that New Hampshire's 100-year-old contest is the best test of candidates.
A House committee this week advanced HB410, providing that if Utah wanted to fund an early presidential primary, it must do so a week before any similar balloting. It's a clear shot at New Hampshire and Iowa, both of which grab the attention of the national news media and major candidates for months. Rep. Jon Cox, R-Ephraim, says it's unfair for those two states to always get the spotlight and Utah could actually play a role in electing the next president.
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But Gardner, who by law must place the New Hampshire primary a week before any similar contest, says his state's contest allows all candidates to compete on the same level, working town markets and holding house parties instead of campaigning through major television ads and fly-in-fly-out stump speeches.
"I've heard the arguments over the years and I wish they wouldn't," Gardner said when told about the Utah bill. "I would hope that another state wouldn't do it."
There are benefits to holding the first contests in the presidential race, and New Hampshire is full of reminders of them. Walk into a diner in Manchester and you'll find pictures of the owner with a variety of presidents and presidential wannabes, small-town newspapers command serious attention from candidates and voters get ample opportunities to ask specific questions of those they may vote for.
It's a unique situation that now begins with Iowa, moves to New Hampshire, then South Carolina and Nevada. Being first can't be beat, say political observers.
"If you want to get the prettiest girl, always best to get to the dance early," says Mark McKinnon, a former senior adviser to President George W. Bush's campaigns and the co-founder of the No Labels effort.
Cox, a freshman lawmaker appointed, says other states need to stop letting Iowa and New Hampshire control the process of picking presidential nominees. It's gone on far too long, he said.
"The reason for this bill, is in my mind, our presidential nominating process is blatantly discriminatory," Cox said during a committee hearing this week. "I believe it creates second-class states."
There are, however, consequences for jumping ahead.
The Republican National Committee has carved out the right for the traditional early states to go first without any retribution. Other states that try to move ahead lose a significant number of delegates at the national conventions. Utah's GOP, for example, has 40 delegates but would be reduced to nine if it goes before March 1, 2016.
The Democratic National Committee hasn't set its rules for primaries yet but is expected to follow its past protection of the traditional early states and penalize those who try to compete.
Cox says the benefits of being first would outweigh the delegate penalties because New Hampshire, for instance, only has 14 delegates to begin with.
His bill would allow the state to use online voting — which it currently permits for overseas military voters — as a way to let Utah be more flexible in choosing the eventual date for the primary, and to lower the cost of holding it. If the Legislature passes Cox's bill and Gov. Gary Herbert signs it, the state would first have to fund the Western States Primary to move forward.
Former Gov. Mike Leavitt first pitched the idea of a primary that combined several states in the Rocky Mountain region as a way to get candidates to pay attention to the Intermountain West. Not enough states signed on to make the effort worthwhile.
New Hampshire, however, claimed the first-in-the-nation status by simply sticking with its primary during the early- and mid-1900s when other states jettisoned their contests. When less-well-known candidates with little money started winning delegates against more popular and well-funded contenders, the primary became the standard test it is today.
Gardner, who has overseen the New Hampshire primary since 1976, says he understands when other states say it isn't fair that the Granite State gets all the presidential focus but he says the legacy came naturally — the state didn't steal it away from anyone or try to jump ahead — and that it's a proud tradition voters there won't give up on.
"We've had it 100 years, why would we say, 'OK, just take it from us?' " Gardner said, adding that every state has its own long-established culture. New Hampshire's happens to be politics.
"What if Maryland or Louisiana said, 'It's not fair that the Statue of Liberty is always in New York. Why can't we tow it down to Baltimore or to New Orleans?' There's an historical reason why [the first primary] got to be where it is. There's an historic reason why the Kentucky Derby is in Kentucky."Next Page >
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Found January 01, 2013 on NESN.com:
PLAYERS: Andy Reid, Adam Schefter, Kevin Kolb, Tony Romo, Jason Garrett, Jason La Canfora
TEAMS: Philadelphia Eagles, Arizona Cardinals, Dallas Cowboys
TEAMS: Philadelphia Eagles, Arizona Cardinals, Dallas Cowboys
It seems that some reporters might have jumped the gun on an agreement between the Arizona Cardinals and Andy Reid.¬ÝOr the team isn'Äôt ready to admit to such a deal exists. Either way, the Cardinals'Äô Vice President of Media Relations had a clever response to the reported Reid deal. Mark Dalton tweeted, 'ÄúI'Äôm 99% sure that reports of a deal being 95% done are 100% incorrect #azcards.'Äù Well, then. The Cardinals met with defensive coordinator Ray Horton on Tuesday, according to Adam Schefter 'Äî and while we'Äôre not saying that'Äôs just to fulfill the Rooney Rule, if rumors are true that the Cardinals are all in on Reid, it certainly looks like it. Arizona will meet with Reid on Wednesday, according to Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports. Reid'Äôs main pitch to the Cardinals will be that he can fix quarterback Kevin Kolb, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL.com. It'Äôs debatable that Kolb even technically needs 'Äúfixing.'Äù And if he does, it'Äôs also debatable that Reid is the one that can do it. Before goin
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Writing/Logging Bugs....Must read for QA people
Writing is easy, but writing clearly is hard. When it comes to write bug explanations... well, writing seems to get even harder, as far as the IT professional is concerned. In my life as a developer (especially while working at Graycell Technologies) I have seen a lot of bug reports that are either incomplete or missing critical reproducible steps, or have no explanation of why the results are wrong. Juts Imagine (my dear testers) if you were a developer and you got this kind of bug report, won't you feel frustrated? The best you could do is to mark the case as not reproducible and assigned it back to the tester. The tester, would, in turn would, insisted that the bug was there and, well, there went a football-kicking session. Congratulations, you've wasted a few non-productive minutes on just trying to get message across. All these wasted minutes would add up, resulting in a loss in productivity. And at last it is always a developer's ass to be kicked
So my hope is that for those who haven't know how to write a proper bug report, they can gain something after reading this post. As for those who are already knowledgeable (like our QA lead at GCT), they would still find the information here useful, or at least entertaining.
The Dos:
1. Clear title-- Good title is a must, as the developer should be able to grasp the essence of the bug report from the title alone.
2. One bug per issue-- Report one bug in a single issue, no more, no less. If you put in too many bugs, some of them may be overlooked. To avoid confusion and duplication, please, one bug per issue, no more, no less.
3. Minimum, quantifiable steps to reproduce the problem-- This is important. Developers need to be able to get to the problem in the shortest time. So the testers' job is to help them to do just that. Testers need to do a few round of testing to clarify the steps, and to be able to reproduce the problems using minimum steps. We the developers will appreciate the extra efforts, really. If the testers can't specify the steps to reproduce the problem, then the developers have to conclude that the bug doesn't exist.
4. Expected and observed results-- A bug report should always contain the expected and observed results. A generic description like "This is a bug" is not helpful, because the bug in question is not immediately obvious to the developers. Another reason for spelling out explicitly the expected and observed results is that sometimes the developers don't think that the bug is a real bug. So it is the testers 'duty to explain to the developers what went wrong.
5. The build that the problem occurs-- Daily builds are common nowadays. So if the testers don't specify the exact problematic build, developers might have a hard time trying to solve an already-solved problem. That will be a waste of resources.
6. Include background references, if possible-- If a bug is related to other bugs, then please include that information in the bug reports. This will help everyone who reads the report understand the issues.
7. Pictures-- A picture is worth a thousand words! Sometimes words just don't flow; in that case why don't just capture a clear picture that illustrates the problem?
8. Proof read the bug report! -- This is very, very important. Now the bug report is readied, but why not just trial run what is written to make sure other people can follow and reproduce the problem exactly? A proofread bug report has a much higher chance of being understood properly by the developers and fixed by them.
The Don'ts:
1. Don't write generic titles-- Don't write titles like "Help!", "What happen?" These kinds of titles are devoid of content at best and irritating at worst. So please provide a clear, concise title to your reports.
2. Don't use personal communications-- Put everything you know, all the latest developments in the bug report. Don't resolve the bug privately with the developers. The whole purpose of bug report is to capture all the interaction that is going on so that the knowledge won't be lost. Using personal communication or resolve the case privately is defeating very purpose of bug tracking.
3. Don't assume that the developers can read your mind-- The developers don't have telepathic ability. Don't ask them "do you get what I mean?", or "you get me?" follow up by a confusing stare. Try your best to express yourselves, use pictures if possible. And don't assume, the developers can only follow things that are written on the bug report, don't assume them that they will do a few extra steps you think are obvious.
4. Don't kick the bug report around! -- We have enough politics in the office already. Using bug report to score political points is detrimental to everyone.
5. Don't be rude-- Well, if you can help it :)
That's all from me, anymore?