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Friday, July 31st, 2015 | Uncategorized | 50 Comments
Why "Heritage Not Hate" doesn't work any more:
Confederate battle flags were stealthily placed on the grounds of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s church, and authorities said Thursday they were looking for two white males who were recorded on surveillance camera leaving the banners behind.
Atlanta police Chief George Turner said his agency was working with federal authorities and they have not determined what charges might be levied. Turner said they have not ruled out a hate crime.
The Rev. Raphael Warnock, senior pastor at King's home church Ebenezer Baptist, called it a "terroristic threat."
"It is a hateful act," he said. "I view it as an effort to intimidate us in some way, and we will not be intimidated."
It was the latest volley in the fight over the Confederate flag and Civil War-era monuments ever since a white gunman was accused of killing nine black church members in South Carolina. Statues of the Confederacy have been vandalized around the South, and state governments in South Carolina and Alabama have removed battle flags entirely from Capitol grounds.
I'm a Southerner and immensely proud of that fact. My paternal relations all came from Tennessee or thereabouts. And I live in Missouri, the last Confederate state to surrender (when Frank James walked into the Missouri governor's office in 1882 following Jesse's murder).
But let's be brutally honest, HnotH8ers. For about a century now, since the rise of the Second Klan, far too many people have waved the Confederate Battle Flag (actually, the Confederate Naval Jack, to be accurate) to celebrate, well, racism. And none of you have ever done anything meaningful to stop it.
Face facts. That symbol's dead. And you allowed it to die.
Want to display Confederate pride? You've got dozens of other banners to choose from starting with the Stars and Bars. Hell, Georgia's current state flag is about the most "Confederate" flag there is including Mississippi's.
Thursday, July 30th, 2015 | Uncategorized | 22 Comments
Never trust anything written by anyone who refers to him or herself as "The Rev. Dr." Case in point: in the Hoafington Pust, the Rev. Dr. John Dorhauer recently penned "An Open Letter To White Men":
Every single one of you suck. But since I understand that, I suck WAY less than you do.
I might have gone for the quick summary there.
Tuesday, July 28th, 2015 | Uncategorized | 32 Comments
The Seventh-Day Adventists recently voted down women's ordination, a fact that angered Susan Shaw no end:
Last Friday Seventh Day Adventists voted to continue to deny ordination to women.
Bet you didn't think the SDA's had that much juice, did you? Actually, they don't; these days, Sue's mad at lots of churches.
Earlier this month, three women AME pastors in South Carolina received hateful, menacing letters denouncing them for violating biblical norms about women's submission. My own former denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, fractured with women's ordination as one of the key points of controversy. And the Catholic Church certainly doesn't seem poised to change dogma on this issue any time soon.
Don't get Sue wrong. She loves a good theological debate as much as the next person.
Differences in beliefs about the proper mode of baptism or the correct day for worship or the nature of atonement make for interesting conversations, and all of us Christians would be better off if we'd talk more with one another about our theological differences. I personally enjoy a rousing dialogue about the afterlife or the function of prayer. These are engaging ideas, worth the intellectual struggle.
But there's one idea that's as settled as the Resurrection and is not open to debate. Churches that don't ordain females
Sue has to say that since she's Professor of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University and is all a-scared a male pronouns. What's she basing this on? You've read all these "arguments" before so I'll only bore you with two.
But the question of women's ordination is not the same as disagreement over the meaning of communion. Women's ordination is about the valuing (or de-valuing) of women as full human beings. It is about the actual lives and callings of women and to deny it does real harm to individual women, unlike debating the nature of the Trinity. While opponents of women's ordination offer biblical and theological arguments to support their position, their practice of barring women from ordination has the unbiblical and unchristian effect of dehumanizing, marginalizing, and excluding women from participation as full human beings of equal worth before God.
Sue? It might interest you to know that the vast majority of Christian MEN worldwide are not ordained. So I guess that means that the Christian church dehumanizes, marginalizes and excludes men from "full participation as full human beings of equal worth before God." Unless you're working some kind of "priesthood of all believers" vibe here in which case "ordination" doesn't mean jack.
First, the exclusion of women from ordination suggests that women are not fully human. This view of women relegates women to second class citizenship and submission. While opponents of women's ordination may argue that women and men have equal value but different roles based on gender, this "separate but equal" argument always seems to leave women in subordinate roles. The denial of ordination to women maintains patriarchal hierarchies of value, with men in the position of somehow being more like God than women and therefore better able to represent God than women.
Or it means that certain Christian women have actually read the words of Jesus Christ and realize where true power in the Church actually resides. Since they, you know, actually believe this stuff.
Friday, July 24th, 2015 | Uncategorized | 51 Comments
The Legacy of the Civil War is a little book that I cannot recommend too highly. It only runs a hundred pages or so (normal readers can polish it off in an hour, give or take) and in it, author Robert Penn Warren states that the North's prize for siding with the angels during That War was what he called the Treasury of Virtue.
That is, if your ancestors fought on the Right Side, every single thing that you do hereafter is forever justified and right. QED, everybody whose ancestors fought on the Wrong Side is eternally damned:
Which, forcefully argues Thomas J. Sugrue in The Washington Post, of all places, is complete and utter crap:
Most predictably, pundits have renewed their characterization of Southern states as the ball and chain of America. If all those backward rednecks weren't pulling us down, the story goes, the United States would be a progressive utopia, a bastion of economic and racial equality. "Much of what sets the United States apart from other countries today is actually Southern exceptionalism," Politico contributor Michael Lind wrote this month in an essay called "How the South Skews America." "I don't mean this in a good way."
"The South as national cesspool" idea basically got started in April, 1865 and, thanks to the Treasury of Virtue, has been going strong ever since.
This argument recapitulates an old, tired motif in American journalism that the South is the source of our nation's social ills. It has been blamed for our obesity problem ("Why Are Southerners So Fat? " Time asked in 2009), persistent poverty ("The South Is Essentially A Solid, Grim Block Of Poverty," the Huffington Post asserted in 2014) and general stupidity ("What's Wrong with the South?" the Atlantic scoffed in 2009). This time, in the wake of the church shooting, the states of the old Confederacy have become a national scapegoat for the racism that underpinned the massacre. If only they would secede again, Lind and others suggest, the nation would largely be free from endemic prejudice, zealotry and racist violence.
Look at it this way. Resurrecting the CSA wouldn't change much.
Not even close. These crude regional stereotypes ignore the deep roots such social ills have in our shared national history and culture. If, somehow, the South became its own country, the Northeast would still be a hub of racially segregated housing and schooling, the West would still be a bastion of prejudicial laws that put immigrants and black residents behind bars at higher rates than their white neighbors and the Midwest would still be full of urban neighborhoods devastated by unemployment, poverty and crime. How our social problems manifest regionally is a matter of degree, not kind — they infect every region of the country.
Except maybe increase African-American emigration to the new nation.
In fact, many of the racial injustices we associate with the South are actually worse in the North. Housing segregation between black and white residents, for instance, is most pervasive above the Mason-Dixon line. Of America's 25 most racially segregated metropolitan areas, just five are in the South; Northern cities — Detroit, Milwaukee and New York — top the list. Segregation in Northern metro areas has declined a bit since 1990, but an analysis of 2010 census data found that Detroit's level of segregation, for instance, is nearly twice as high as Charleston's.
News flash, leftists. American racism was never EVER regional.
The division between black and white neighborhoods in the North is a result of a poisonous mix of racist public policies and real estate practices that reigned unchecked for decades. Until the mid-20th century, federal homeownership programs made it difficult for black Americans to get mortgages and fueled the massive growth of whites-only suburbs. Real estate agents openly discriminated against black aspiring homeowners, refusing to show them houses in predominately white communities.
What about all the Southern violence against blacks? What about all the Northern violence against blacks?
When all else failed, white Northerners attacked blacks who attempted to cross the color line, using tactics we typically associate with the Jim Crow South. They threw bricks through the windows of their black neighbors' homes, firebombed an integrated apartment building and beat black residents in the streets. In Detroit, to name one example, whites launched more than 200 attacks on black homeowners between 1945 and 1965. In Levittown, Pa., hundreds of angry whites gathered in front of the home of the first black family to move there and threw rocks through the windows. Racists burned crosses in the yards of the few white neighbors who welcomed the new family. That violence occurred in 1957, the same year whites in Little Rock attacked black students integrating Central High School, yet it's that story — of racial bias in the South — that dominates our narrative of America's civil rights struggle.
So, you know, motes, beams and all that.
It's reassuring for Northerners to think that the country's problems are rooted down South. But pointing our fingers at Dixie — and, by implication, reinforcing the myth of Northern innocence — comes at a cost. As federal troops and Supreme Court decisions forced social change in the states of the old Confederacy during the 20th century, injustices in the North were allowed to fester. That trend continues, as Northerners seek to absolve themselves of responsibility for their own sins by holding aloft an outdated and inaccurate caricature of a socially stunted South. In 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. said: "Another group with a vital role to play in the struggle for racial justice and equality is the white northern liberals. The racial issue that we confront in America is not a sectional but a national problem." That holds true for most of America's troubles today. Enough finger-wagging at Dixie. Change begins at home.
What's badly needed is a comprehensive history of the relationship between the northern United States and the southern United States from colonial times down to the present day. If you want to understand this country, realize that the Civil War, not the Revolutionary War, is the single most important event in this country's history, one that we botched back then and that we're still fighting today.
Because the "winners" managed to completely squander their "victory."
Monday, July 20th, 2015 | Uncategorized | 36 Comments
The recent revelation that Murder, Inc. harvests aborted fetuses for fetal organs (or, to use the Rev. Katherine Ragsdale's nomenclature, hors d'oeuvres) has hit MI a lot harder than it wants to admit. Cici Richards gets to the heart of the matter (so to speak):
The president of Planned Parenthood on Thursday apologized for the "tone and statements" of its chief medical officer, whose candid comments about fetal organ removal have generated heavy attacks against the organization.
"Our top priority is the passionate care that we provide. In our video, one of our staff members speaks in a way that does not reflect that compassion," president Cecile Richards said in a video statement released Thursday afternoon.
"This is unacceptable, and I personally apologize for the staff member's tone and statements," she said.
Yeah, that's exactly what was wrong with that story, Cici. The tone. In the meantime, here's Jon O'Brien, president of something called "Catholics For Choice," with an article entitled "Planned Parenthood Attack Campaign: Not Letting the Facts Get in the Way of Your Story."
In response to an attack video released earlier this week by an extreme group of anti-abortion activists, Christopher Hale penned a piece that tries to deceive the reader by claiming that Planned Parenthood did something wrong. In reality, his article is just part of an elaborate smokescreen that the antiabortion movement is using to distract the media and politicians.
Hale's organization, Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, is part of an effort to defund and discredit Planned Parenthood. In fact, Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good is so hell-bent on making abortion illegal they went so far as to equate a woman's abortion decision with torture and war. Considering this is his organization's starting position, it's hard to believe anything that Hale tells us is objective.
Fascinating stuff, Jon, but nowhere near those "facts" that you believe that this hit piece got wrong.
Planned Parenthood provides critical reproductive healthcare services for some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in our American society–traditionally underserved populations. It is an organization that epitomizes the social good. As Catholics, we have an obligation to stand up for the conscience rights of all individuals when it comes to personal, private decisions such as abortion. That he seeks to undermine and deny those choices for some of the most vulnerable American women is downright despicable.
Not according to your own church, you don't.
The Center for Medical Progress has the same end goal as Hale's organization–and everyone in the rabid antiabortion movement. The Center for Medical Progress made the misleading video in the most explosive manner possible to ensure Planned Parenthood will be targeted by all of the antiabortion candidates as we move towards the next presidential election. The goal is deeply political, and it's not grounded in reality. The truth is: nowhere in the video does a staff member from Planned Parenthood discuss "selling" fetal tissue. Claiming that they did does not make it so, and certainly does not make it truthful. In fact, as a Catholic who cares about the common good, I think it's critical that tissue is donated to help find cures for diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. I believe it's moral, ethical–and downright necessary–when done as part of a patient's wishes and within the legal guidelines.
Still waiting on those "facts" of yours, Jon.
Saturday, July 18th, 2015 | Uncategorized | 23 Comments
MCJ fun fact: I may be one the last people on Earth whose Internet access is dial-up. Shocked the hell out of my brother when I told him that several months back. "We'll have to do something about that," he told me.
Not sure what big bro can do about it considering my finances. And I'm not sure that it matters much since President Claus wants to buy me high-speed home Web access:
Calling the Internet a 21st century necessity, President Barack Obama on Wednesday unveiled a program to bring faster Internet connections to more low-income households, particularly to help students living in public and assisted housing stay ahead in school.
Under ConnectHome, the public, private and nonprofit sectors have pledged to work together to provide high-speed connections and digital devices to more families at lower cost.
More than 90 percent of households headed by a college graduate have Internet access, Obama said. But fewer than half of low-income households have similar access.
In this day and age, Obama said the "digital divide" puts these individuals at a disadvantage by limiting their educational and economic opportunities because the Internet is increasingly needed to find a job, finish homework or keep in touch with family and friends.
"In this digital age, when you can apply for a job, take a course, pay your bills … with a tap of your phone, the Internet is not a luxury. It's a necessity," Obama said in Durant, Oklahoma, on the first day of a two-day visit to the state.
Friday, July 17th, 2015 | Uncategorized | 13 Comments
I started doing this in on various platforms back in July, 2001. Don't bother looking for the old stuff; prior to what's here now, it's all pretty much gone forever, which is no great loss, believe me.
I guess that my daily visit count averaged around 300 or so and a fair amount of that was me. That was until 2003 when Robbie got his pointy hat and hooked stick, the Anglican controversy fired up, I began focusing almost exclusively on the Anglican story and other assorted pseudo-Christian weirdness, people like Kathy Shaidle and Binky began linking to my stuff and I began to get traction, leading to whatever Web reputation that I have today.
But here's the problem with covering a story like this for as long as I have. Do this sort of thing long enough and nothing, and I literally mean nothing, shocks or angers you any more. Case in point courtesy of Rod Dreher.
I'm not going to post it here because that might just be the single most offensive image ever deliberately offered by an allegedly "Christian" school, Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite's Chicago Theological Seminary, so click on the link if you want to. But I genuinely can't get all that worked up about it. I wish I still could.
Wednesday, July 15th, 2015 | Uncategorized | 63 Comments
Initially, I wasn't particularly shocked by this story:
An undercover video shot last summer by a new pro-life organization called Center for Medical Progress purports to show the chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood of America talking on camera about how to abort a child intact so the child's body parts can be transferred for medical and scientific research.
The video was shot by a team led by David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress posing as representatives of a start up biotech firm in the business of buying fetal body parts for medical and scientific research. Daleiden told Breitbart News, "It as remarkably easy to make contact with Planned Parenthood" to discuss procurement of fetal tissue.
I mean, it's Murder, Inc., it's what they do. But the truly scary thing about this story is that the more you think about it and the deeper you dig, the more horrifying this all eventually becomes. Satan, and I'm not being at all figurative here, is in the details. Like these.
The video purports to show, between bites of lunch and sips of wine, Dr. Deborah Nucatola saying, "A lot of people want intact hearts these days, because they are looking for specific nodes."
She adds: "Yesterday was the first time she said people wanted lungs. And then, like I said, always as many intact livers as possible. People just want…some people want lower extremities, too. I mean that's easy. I don't know what they're doing with it, I guess they want muscle."
Or these.
[Nucatola] talks about pricing. "You know, I would throw a number out, and I would say it's probably anywhere from $30 to $100 [per specimen] depending on the facility and what's involved."
In the video, Nucatola goes into great detail about ordering specific body parts and how the abortionist goes about ensuring those parts are not damaged in the abortion. She says the abortionist uses "ultrasound guidance, so they'll know where they're putting their forceps."
And then she talks about the baby's head. "The kind of rate-limiting step is procedure is calvarium.
Know what a calvarium is? There should be one on top of your neck.
Calvarium — the head — is basically the biggest part. Most of the other stuff can come out intact."
Nucatola says the doctor has to be "just kind of cognizant of where you put your graspers, you try to intentionally go above and below the thorax, so that, you know, we've been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I'm not gonna crush that part, I'm going to basically crush below, and I'm gonna crush above, and I'm gonna see if I can get it all intact."
Nucatola explains how the position of the baby can be changed so that she can be extracted up to the head and then collapse the head so that all the other body parts can be extracted without damage.
Think about that for a second. The "chief medical officer" of Murder, Inc. doesn't want it's accredited teppanyaki chefs to go in there and just start indiscriminately slicing and dicing. MI has a bottom line to think about.
They're harvesting them. The bastards are harvesting them.
But they're "harvesting them" for medical research. They're trying to save lives.
Oh, come on now, Johnson. You've just been diagnosed with some kind of terminal illness; the doctors tell you that you have 3 to 5 years left. Optimistically.
But there's this treatment deriving from the research on or the direct use of fetal tissue that could extend your life be decades or even cure you. Are you seriously claiming that you would refuse such treatment if you knew where it came from?
Yeah, pretty much. Prolonging my existence is not a high, personal priority right now. And if it necessitates killing other human beings, it's far too high a price to pay anyway.
Will this story have legs? The Washington Post has picked it up so we'll see.
Monday, July 13th, 2015 | Uncategorized | 65 Comments
Sorry for the extended absence. Last week, I did something, and I have no idea what, to my left elbow that basically rendered my entire left arm even more than I useless than I am. How bad was it? Well, it deprived me of several days' sleep since it was impossible for me to find a position to put my left arm that wasn't extremely painful.
And how to put this delicately? Let's just say that going to the bathroom, realizing that you normally hold your toilet paper in your left hand and that any activity at all involving your left arm is absolute agony when you're trying to finish things up on the porcelain throne, as they say…well, you do the math. (My kingdom for a bidet) Let's just say that I took more than my share of short baths last week.
How's the wing? It's not completely back but it's getting there. Last night, I had my first good night's sleep in quite a while.
Moving on, who do you like in 2016, Johnson? I'd love for Ted Cruz to get the nomination just to see leftist heads explode at the prospect of the Glenn Beck/Ted Cruz post-election victory interview. I could vote for Marco Rubio. I wouldn't be happy about it but if I had no other choice, he's the way I'd go.
Jeb Bush? If the GOP establishment wants to rub my nose in it, I'm going third party. Ben Carson? He's already a great man and should stay that way. Lindsey Graham? What are you, high? Trump? What are you, on crack? Chris Christie? Vice-president maybe, president no. Rick Perry? Yeah but I don't think he has a chance. Bobby Jindal? Very long shot.
But I have to tell you, I'm liking Carly Fiorina more and more.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Big economic speech coming tomorrow from Hillary Clinton. She's going to address what she calls the defining challenge of our time, the wage gap, the fact that Americans are working harder than ever before, but their wages are not going up. Do you agree with the way that she's defined the problem? And if her ideas aren't the best way to address it, which ones are?
FIORINA: Well, I think income inequality is a huge problem. And let's look to the state of California where I lived for 12 years, liberal policies have been in place for decades, and yet 111 billionaires, good for them, the highest poverty rates in the nation, the exodus of the middle class, the destruction of industry after industry. Now they're destroying agriculture in California.
The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code. So, she made to cry income inequality, what I will continue to point out is the fact that every policy she is pursuing will make income inequality worse, not better, crony capitalism even worse, not better. And meanwhile, we will continue to crush the businesses that create jobs and middle class families.
Why? Because if Hillary Clinton takes down the Democratic pot, Fiorina, if present performance is indicative of future results, seems to be the only Republican presidential candidate who will take on the Hillbilly and take her on hard.
What about the social issues, Johnson? Let's be realistic. From Reagan on down to Bush II, "conservative presidents" have promised to do something about them and have failed. Why? Because this country isn't ruled by an autocrat; presidents have had to work with Congresses and those Congresses haven't been there.
At all.
Do I think that social issues are no longer important? Far from it. They basically determine how I vote.
Considering the current make-up of the Supreme Court and the Congress, "homosexual marriage" isn't going away any time soon. Neither is abortion.
But as long as there is a substantial conservative social issue vote in the Congress, neither will go any further.
Tuesday, July 7th, 2015 | Uncategorized | 117 Comments
Why aren't Lois Lerner and John Koskinen already in jail?
Newly obtained documents from the conservative educational foundation Judicial Watch detail an official memo from October 2010 of a meeting between Lois Lerner and officials at the Department of Justice and the FBI to plan for the prosecution of targeted nonprofit organizations.
A lawsuit filed under the Freedom of Information Act produced the documents which included the memo as well as revelations that the Justice Department wanted IRS employees to turn over sensitive documents before giving them to Congress, Judicial Watch said in a press release Tuesday.
In a letter from Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, then-House Oversight Committee Chairman said "this revelation likely means that the IRS—including possibly Lois Lerner—violated federal tax law by transmitting this information to the Justice Department."
An IRS document confirms that the organization supplied the FBI with 21 computer disks containing 1.25 million pages of confidential information from more than 113,000 tax returns.
"The FBI and Justice Department worked with Lois Lerner and the IRS to concoct some reason to put President Obama's opponents in jail before his reelection, and this abuse resulted in the FBI's illegally obtaining confidential taxpayer information," Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, said in the release.
Answer: because this is Barack I's Personal Rule.
Saturday, July 4th, 2015 | Uncategorized | 38 Comments
Friday, July 3rd, 2015 | Uncategorized | 56 Comments
In a move that surprised absolutely no one who's been paying attention for the last twelve years, the Episcopal religion, at its recent General
Coven Convention has decided to allow "homosexual marriage" ceremonies to take place inside its temples:
Episcopalians voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to allow religious weddings for same-sex couples, solidifying the church's embrace of gay rights that began more than a decade ago with the pioneering election of the first openly gay bishop.
The vote came in Salt Lake City at the Episcopal General Convention, just days after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage nationwide. It passed in the House of Deputies, the voting body of clergy and lay participants at the meeting. The House of Bishops had approved the resolution Tuesday by 129-26 with five abstaining.
The vote eliminates gender-specific language from church laws on marriage so that same-sex couples could have religious weddings. Instead of "husband" and "wife," for example, the new church law will refer to "the couple." Under the new rules, clergy can decline to perform the ceremonies. The changes were approved 173-27. The deputies also approved a gender-neutral prayer service for marriage on a 184-23 vote.
Considering the margin of those votes, I give that "conscience clause" no more than three years or the next Gen
CovCon. But I don't know why people think this story is newsworthy (the Washington Post also picked it up). This was the single most inevitable event in the world.
And we have this from What's-His-Name, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Archbishop of Canterbury today expressed deep concern about the stress for the Anglican Communion following the US Episcopal Church's House of Bishops' resolution to change the definition of marriage in the canons so that any reference to marriage as between a man and a woman is removed.
While recognising the prerogative of The Episcopal Church to address issues appropriate to its own context, Archbishop Justin Welby said that its decision will cause distress for some and have ramifications for the Anglican Communion as a whole, as well as for its ecumenical and interfaith relationships.
Oh, sweet mother of…
As far as "traditionalist" Anglicans are concerned, wherever they happen to live, I don't know what's beyond "We're not laughing with you, we're laughing at you." Complete, total and utter scorn and contempt? But whatever's there, I passed it a long time ago.
Thursday, July 2nd, 2015 | Uncategorized | 13 Comments
For those who deny the "slippery slope" meme, and swear on the soul of their sainted grandmother (bless her soul) that the LGBT+54 movement is simply about fairness for LGBT's – well, I freakin' well DID tell you so:
Polygamous trio applies for marriage license
Bill (not IB)
Thursday, July 2nd, 2015 | Uncategorized | 45 Comments
Yeah, I'm running a little low on material at the moment. But my foot's bothering me again so hopefully there will be better stuff up tomorrow:
(1) Sweet potatoes/Yams - Indescribably repulsive tubers like these sometimes make me doubt the wisdom of God. But then I think that this is one of those mysteries that we will not learn the meaning of until Christ returns. In the meantime, nothing can make these things palatable, even adding miniature versions of the following.
(2) Marshmallows – I wasn't a big smores fan when I was a kid because of these things. I began to prefer dark chocolate to milk chocolate fairly early on in my life, mainly because I began to feel that sweetness was a quality that should be employed sparingly, not excessively trowelled on like these disgusting things had.
(3) Seinfeld – The most overrated television show in American history for two reasons. (A) It wasn't funny. (B) Every great American sitcom, from I Love Lucy down to The Dick Van Dyke Show down to Friends down to quirky recent sitcoms like Community had one thing in common.
At the end of the day, their characters liked each other. Push came to shove, they had each other's backs.
I never got that from Seinfeld. Indeed, as I saw it, the four main characters really didn't know each other at all and never interacted with each other in any meaningful way; they might have been four strangers mindlessly repeating their stupid, unfunny lines.
But in order to be fair, here are three things that I love but that normal people, inexplicably, hate:
(1) Anchovies - No finer proof of the truth of Calivnism exists than this. God created anchovies because he preordained from the foundation of the universe that man would create pizza.
(2) Marmite/Vegimite – I'm sorry but you have to respect any culture that thinks that spreading spent brewer's yeast on its morning toast is a good idea.
(3) Braunschweiger/Liverwurst – I'm sorry but I LOVE the stuff even though it's one of the single worst things that you can put in your body.
Have at me.
Sunday, June 28th, 2015 | Uncategorized | 113 Comments
In view of the Supreme Court's second major intervention against the legislative processes of the several states by declaring Same-Sex Marriage as a "constitutional right" (as was done with abortion in "Roe v. Wade") I'd like to hear from our commenters as to their opinions on the following:
1) How long will it be before a gay couple files the first lawsuit against a church for discrimination, based on the refusal of the church to perform same-sex marriages?
2) What church (RC, Orthodox, Southern Baptist, etc.) will be the target?
3) What "progressive" churches will file "amicus curiae" briefs supporting the plaintiffs?
4) What are the odds that the lawsuit will be filed in the Ninth Circuit Court in California (so near and dear to all of us?)
5) How long will it take before the lawsuit works its way through the system to the Supreme Court, and how will the Supremes respond to the question of religious liberty versus gay rights?
Let's hear from you, boys & girls! (And yes, that is meant to be a politically incorrect assessment of gender!!!!!)
Bill (not IB)
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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Publication date
|May 19, 1970
|Filing date
|Oct 30, 1968
|Priority date
|Oct 30, 1968
|Publication number
|King Rudy W
|Original Assignee
|Orbit Valve Co
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (4), Classifications (10)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
y 1970 R. w. KING 3,512,546
BLOCK AND BLEED VALVE SEAT Filed Oct. 30, 1968 A TTOR/VEYS United States Patent 3,512,546 BLOCK AND BLEED VALVE SEAT Rudy W. King, Little Rock, Ark., assignor, by mesne assignments, to Orbit Valve Company, a corporation of Arkansas Continuation-impart of application Ser. No. 545,146,
Apr. 25, 1966. This application Oct. 30, 1968, Ser.
No. 771,929 The portion of the term of the patent subsequent to Oct. 21, 1986, has been disclaimed Int. Cl. F16k 3/26 US. Cl. 137-312 2 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A block and bleed type valve of the Orbit type includes a valve seat composed of material known under the trademark Bakelite. The valve core, when seated, is in seating and sealing contact with two face portions formed in the material between which a communicating annular groove separates the two faces. A plurality of bleed openings extend from this groove to and in communication with the exterior of the valve.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This invention is an improvement over prior U.S. Pat. No. 3,131,906, issued May 5, 1964, and in particular is a continuation-in-part of copending application S.N. 545,146, filed Apr. 25, 1966, and since abandoned, and application S.N. 609,680, filed Jan. 16, 1967.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to improvements in fluid flow control valves and valve seats for particular utilization in what is known in the art as block and bleed systems." In particular, this application relates to what is known in the art as Orbit type valves such as are best described in prior Pats. 2,076,840; 2,076,841; 2,516,947; and 2,719,- 022. This type of valve is best described as one wherein the valve core and its seating surface are, in the open position, fully out of contact with the valve seat. Upon rotation of the valve core approximately 90, the valve core moving mechanism is adapted to thereafter move the core and its seating surface towards the valve seat for contact therewith, closing the valve passageway.
Block and bleed systems have heretofore been utilized to connect differing stored fluids into a common flow line and outlet for dispensing. The problem inherent in many of the prior systems is in the event there is a valve leakage from a particular identified fluid, the outlet flow line often becomes filled with an undesired fluid relative to what is desired to be dispensed by the next user. Hence, unless removed and bled from the system, contamination and intermingling of the fluids would result. For example, such a system is utilized in the dispensing of kerosene, gasoline and naphtha from separate storage containers into a common dispensing outlet. Heretofore, dual spaced valves were positioned between the connection from a particular stored fluid to the common outlet flow line. A valve bleed circuit is connected between the two valves such that when the two valves are closed the bleed valve would be open. In the event of any leakage beyond the first of such closed valves, fluid would not enter the main and common flow outlet but instead would be exhausted through the bleed to storage or waste and hence would not contaminate the common outlet line with possible undesired fluid. However, it was found that this was a costly and involved method requiring numerous valves and numerous operations in the utilization of such a system. Block and 3,512,546 Patented May 19, 1970 This invention overcomes the problems heretofore existing with the prior art devices and systems and provides a single valve and single valve seat with dual sealing faces. The faces are of the material, well known in the art, of Bakelite, and are formed in combination with a two piece metallic ring. The valve seat is formed by spaced seating faces formed within the Bakelite material, each face separated by an annular groove. Provis on is further made for interconnecting the annular groove or space between seating faces to the outside of the valve seat and the valve for bleed or other control purposes. Hence, this invention differs over that disclosed in the aforesaid copending applications in that the Bakelite insert seating face is divided annularly by a groove and provides the separate seating faces for use with valves of the Orbit type.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING The figure is a view, partly in cross-section, of a typical valve arrangement, utilizing the valve seat of this invention.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Referring now to the drawing, the figure depicts a valve of the type described herein.
Valve body 12 includes flanged connection members 14 and 16 for interconnection with a conduit within which the valve is to be inserted. Flanges 14 and 16 may be replaced by threaded or Weld type connections, not shown, or by any other type of pipe connection devices known in the art to mount the valve within the line.
An upper bonnet 18, shown only partially, is attached to body 12 by a plurality of bolts 20 between which a gasket 22 is positioned to provide a proper seal. Although a bolted connection is shown, it is understood that the upper bonnet may be welded to the body portion 12 or otherwise sealably retained. Bonnet 18 ordinarily extends upwardly and includes provision for a handle or crank (not shown), which serves to operate valve stem 24. The valve stem is positioned within bushing 26 which is threaded or otherwise attached to bonnet 18, as shown. Bushing 26 functions to hold the valve stem 24 in alignment relative to valve core 28. Suitable packing, gaskets or O-rings (not shown), are provided between the valve stern 24 and the bonnet 18 in a variety of arrangements to prevent any fluid leakage from the valve. Valve core 28 is the working member which serves to close and open the valve 10 and, according to its position, to either permit, prevent, or control flow of fluids through the axial openings 30 and 31 of the valve. The valve core 28 as shown in this valve design is rotatable and pivotal in trunnion bushing 32 at its lower end. The rotary and pivotal movement of the valve shown is accomplished through the combined rotary and linear movement of valve stem 24 with particular regard to the cam-like surface 34 relative to follower pins 36 formed as a part of valve core 28. The pivotal movement occurs upon the linear downward movement of stem 24 causing the core to pivot in bushing 32 wherein convexed annular surface 38 engages with the valve seat of this invention generally indicated by the numeral 40. Surface area 38 may be either integrally formed with the valve core 28 or may be a hardened stcllite element affixed by welding, etc. Typical of the valve and valve core operation shown in the figure is best described in said prior Pats. 2,076,840; 2,076,841; 2,516,947; and 2,719,022.
The valve seat 40 is preferably formed separately of body 12 and is pressed or shrink fitted into position such that the seating face portion is engageable with the surface 38 of core member 28. The valve seat is formed by retaining a ring of dissimilar Bakelite material 80 as used and described herein between fitted and separate stainless steel machine parts comprising inner sleeve 82 and outer sleeve 84. Outer sleeve 84 is provided with a peripheral end groove portion 86. In the assembly and manufacture the Bakelite ring 80 of substantially rectangular cross-section is pressed into place by the fit of preformed sleeves 82 and 84. Thereafter the portion to face the valve core is machined to form dual seating faces 88 and 89, separated by annular grove 90. The faces extend slightly beyond arcuate surfaces 91 and 92 of the respective sleeves 82 and 84. Suitable conduits 96, at least one, are drilled to provide communication from the groove 90 to the end groove 86 and the space between the valve body and valve seat.
Formed in the valve bdoy 12 is a bleed opening 70 which communicates peripheral space 86 of the valve seat when in position to a bleed line 72 and valve 74.
Older valves can be accommodated to receive the valve seat of this invention merely by providing an opening 70 for the bleed line.
In use, valve seat 40 is sealably fitted into place as provided within valve body 12 so as to expose arcuate seating faces 88 and 89 thereof to valve core 28 and in particular, its mating surface 38. The movement of the valve core as heretofore described provides radial surface contact between surface 38 and seating faces 88 and 89.
An important use of this invention lies in the configuration of the valve seat for utilization in a block and bleed flow system as heretofore described. That is, when the valve of this invention is in the closed or seated position, as has almost occurred in the drawing, any product fluid valve seat leakage, from wear or other means, beyond the seating engagement of either surface 88 or 89 will be directed into the groove 90 and thence to bleed outlet conduit 72 as controlled by a valve 74. Similarly, leakage through axial passageway 31, bypassing the normally seated surface 38 with seating faces 88 and 89, will bypass into the bleed system as described.
Although this invention has been described with a certain degree of particularity, it is manifest that many other changes may be made in the details of construction of usage without departing from the spirit and scope of this disclosure.
What is claimed:
1. A block and bleed valve comprising:
a valve body having a passageway therethrough;
a valve core;
a valve seat;
means to move said core away from or into engagement with said seat to respectively open or close said passageway;
said seat comprising:
an outer metallic sleeve member, an inner metallic sleeve member and an insert ring of Bakelite material assembled to form an integral ring portion,
said sleeve members and said insert formed to define a seating face,
a normally open shallow grove in said face of said insert leaving said insert face exposed on both sides thereof said groove,
a second normally open groove in the outer periphery of said outer or inner sleeve, and
at least one normally open bleed conduit communicating from said normally open shallow groove to said second normally open groove; and
a controllable flow conduit means in said valve body providing communication between said shallow groove and the exterior of said valve body.
2. A block and bleed valve according to claim 1 including:
seal means between said outer sleeve member and said valve body and a seal means between said inner sleeve member and said body to seal each side of said normally open groove.
References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,960,335 5/1934 Firmie 251-368 X 3,050,077 8/1962 Wheatley 1373 1 2 3,131,906 5/1964 King 2513l5 X 3,306,315 2/1967 Cook 137-246.22
WILLIAM F. ODEA, Primary Examiner R. GERARD, Assistant Examiner
|Cited Patent
|Filing date
|Publication date
|Apr 17, 1933
|May 29, 1934
|Finnie Dewey J
|Check valve
|May 11, 1959
|Aug 21, 1962
|Charles Wheatley
|Double sealed gate valve
|Nov 17, 1960
|May 5, 1964
|Orbit Valve Co
|Valve seat
|May 6, 1964
|Feb 28, 1967
|Cook Valve Company Inc
|Lubricated ball valve construction
|Citing Patent
|Filing date
|Publication date
|Mar 19, 1970
|Feb 8, 1972
|M & J Valve Co
|Valve apparatus having leak-detecting means
|Jan 12, 1976
|Mar 21, 1978
|International Telephone And Telegraph Corporation
|Purged valve assembly and method of sealing
|Jul 21, 1986
|Jun 7, 1988
|Ruhrgas Aktiengesellschaft
|Shut-off device in the form of a ball valve
|Jul 14, 1989
|Oct 15, 1991
|Valve fluid control device and fluid backflow protection device comprising same
|U.S. Classification
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification


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J. asked some excellent questions.
I would love to see more posts on figuring out how warm or cool a color is, particularly as it relates to matching colors to one's fan. What is the very coolest blue? Originally I thought it might be the blue that has an RGB value of (0, 0, 255) – an HSL hue of 240. However, that blue is opposite yellow on the color wheel, so I thought maybe the coolest blue would actually be the one that is directly opposite orange, which would be closer to a hue of 203.
C: Your Q is best directed to an expert in RGB colour models, which is not me. May I suggest that this information might not be what a colour-analyzed shopper needs?
I seem to be coming at PCA the opposite way. Since I have not the knowledge of mixing pigments or colour models, I can only begin where the end result makes sense. From there, I seem to work back to figure out how the parts came together. The order of PCA for a client is not different. It begins in the store and looks backwards to when she sat down in the colour analyst's chair. What does she need to know? How to use her palette.
Regarding the coolest blue, or warmest for that matter: IDK what warmth of colour means. We say "True Winter colours contain no warmth." If that means no yellow, then it can't be. Every human being contains yellow. The True Winter palette contains yellow. The yellow content of True Winter greens is undeniable. Many Winter neutral colours are distinguished by strong yellow content, along with gray and red. The language needs to evolve to say "True Winter colours contain the coolest yellows."
The best definition of warm colour appears to involve the ratio between yellow and red. The cooler the Season palette, the less red is mixed with the yellows, down to none at all in True Winter. The more red relative to yellow, the warmer the colour is. Please understand that I am guessing at how this works. I welcome any help figuring it out.
Defining a cool colour depends on the colour. For yellow, the coolest version is the one that leans most blue in the ROYGBIVROYGIVB continuum. That order is fixed because it is the order of rainbows on this planet. A cool yellow is green-leaning.
Blue is different in its behaviour. An explanation Kathryn Kalisz once wrote to me:
Relative to each other, a red-blue is considered warm, and a green-blue is considered cool, red being warmer than green on a colour wheel. When these blues are in prints or composition with other colors, then the relationship reverses. Because of the yellow content in the green-blue, it harmonizes better with the yellow content in the other warm colors, and therefore, we call it a warm blue. In a group of colors, the blue-red has a purple tinge and harmonizes with the cool tones. Now it becomes a cool blue tone.
Let's say there is a 'coolest' blue, the blue-purple range being the convention, red-orange the warmest. A more important question to the woman shopping with her palette is,
Does the coolest blue appear in human beings? I think that, like other animals, we contain and see best the colours of our own species, or maybe of organic forms on this planet. Of organic forms, plants will differ since they contain no hemoglobin. We see inorganic pigments but are not coloured as are inorganic elements, dyes, or the various colours computer models can generate. From the original question, does the coolest RGB code even apply to humans?
Despite being a century old, the Munsell system persists because it appears to represent human vision exceptionally well. I don't disagree. What I see in front of my eyes works. I do question whether Munsell's system could be a platform for something more interesting, intricate, and complex, more artistic and less technical, beyond the entry point of his colour charts.
For now, those charts interpret human colouring with high fidelity. Incorporating other colour systems like Pantone make less sense to me since they span too many colours, animal, vegetable, mineral, computer, neon, textile, plastic, and so on, that have nothing to do with humans.
Or perhaps I should ask – since it's really about how one's face reacts to the color – what is the (theoretically) most ideal blue hue for a cool season – the "ur-blue"?
C: There are many. Lighter, darker, cooler, more or less muted, redder and greener. Perhaps people within one Season probably have their own best blue but who could you find to agree? Taste is not involved in PCA. In fact, we work to extract personal preference from the decision-making.
The important part is that a particular set of colour characteristics or behaviours best harmonizes a particular human colouring. With that set in hand, the client's job is to become very good at using it.
I believe that Kathryn Kalisz's Sci\ART colour groupings are the most rational in existence because they keep the 3-way marriage between the physics of light, human biology, and the behaviour of colour intact. We can shuffle the nomenclature forever and never change a thing. That is talking theories first, observable facts after. Wrong order.
Humans are pretty good at judging value and brightness. We're pretty terrible at gauging warmth because it's a relative relationship. Maybe that's why PCA from photos is so unsuccessful for me. Still images are too static to represent how fluidly colour behaves to our real-time eyes, far more than we are ever aware of.
We're also not great at judging warmth when one of the other colour dimensions changes. I could show you two of any colour from the very same value level and you might think the muted one was darker. Some might say that the muted colour is cooler because it behaves the way our brain knows cool colours do from the world we live in. Cool and/or muted move backwards, or so we think.
Colour harmony is really not about matching colours. We have no idea what colours are, we can't remember them accurately, and they are never what we expected when we see them a different comparison. Believing in what we think we see, meaning colour matching, is why so many women are paying for less-than-best hair colour and can't find a lipstick that looks like part of their face.
To truly work with colour, I think we have to embrace the inherent unknownable. Have you read "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry"? The best book I have picked up in ages. Colour requires a space for mystery to be OK as we learn to work with it, just like Harold learned to do with the larger reality of life. Dragonflies embody the physics of flight and impossible magic. Leaving room for both enriches and enlarges the experience of the dragonfly.
Learn to work with your colours. Don't put your attention into non-existent rules. Accept the palette you have, from the system you chose, and practice finding what aligns with it. I know you're trying to do that. Logic is how we begin. It is helping you ask all the right Q. Keep doing what you're doing.
I'm getting the idea that maybe finding a "cool" hue might be about finding the coolest shade of that color. For instance, a very green blue would be relatively warm, but a very blue green would be relatively cool?
I have a tendency to think a color might be True Summer until I compare it to my fans, and then I realize it looks more Dark Winter. I think perhaps I'm looking for cool colors that are muted, and instead sometimes find a cool color that is slightly DARK instead. Ok, technically this isn't a question. : -)
C: Questions related to application are taking us in a more constructive direction. We would love to bring the answers down to one set of criteria, If This Then That, a safely anchored set of rules. Colour analysts would love that even more but it doesn't work that way.
Colour is as fluid as any magic, now you see it, now you don't. Try not to think in terms of how it has to be. Learn to work with what you see in front of you. Instead of logical predictions, put the two things together and look, as you did here. In 'realizing it looks more Dark Winter', you absorb what makes it not True Summer without even trying.
We can't compare the heat of a green-blue and a blue-green unless we're certain that the other variables, value and saturation, are fixed. As soon as one aspect changes, everything changes. Something had to be added or subtracted – red, yellow, blue, something. Adding yellow to mixtures might warm them, and it lowers saturation. Therefore, True Warm Seasons will not be fully saturated. We can't change one thing without changing all the others.
True Summer and Dark Winter are variations of warmer, muted True Winters. They got there in different ways. One adds Summer gray. One adds Autumn orange (brown is added to Autumn, brown being dark orange). This is hardly new information. I'm just not sure how much it matters to the client in the store.
Doesn't even matter to the colour analyst as long as she can read her drapes and knows her own limitations. Every analyst, like all humans, is limited in her colour acuity, even if only colour matching, by the absolute need for real time comparison. Add to that the chemical limitations of biology (fatigue, sleep, eye strain) and lighting on rod and cone chemistry, and calibrated comparison is the only hope I have of getting a true result.
Were there too many limitations to bother (or to admit to) for doing PCA? Not if you ask me. It simply acknowledges reality. In the real world, nothing needs to be perfect to work extremely well. We are surrounded by examples. Experts learn to extract the maximum info from the real world framework. In any field, experts are constantly on the lookout for information which can be trusted, and that which cannot. If a system can't stand up to inquiries on that subject, well now, that might be when to not bother.
Weirdly, I've also found that I sometimes have trouble telling whether a given blue, green or purple color fits into True Summer or Soft Autumn. Some of the colors seem SO similar – for example, True Summer 3.10A compared to Soft Autumn 5.8A, or True Summer 4.6A compared to Soft Autumn 5.6A. I know I'm supposed to try to figure out how well a fabric goes with the whole fan. But truly, if I had any one of those shades in a fabric, I don't think I could possibly tell which fan it went best with.
C: I understand the problem. Soft Autumn blue is not obvious to understand. I test many (that end up in Soft Summer) before finding one.
If you can't tell by looking at the whole fan, look at each colour group separately. The whole fan is WTMI (way too much info) coming in. Separate out the reds and decide if the palette looks calm and strong or has taken a step back.
If you have both True Summer and Soft Autumn palettes, do the Summer lipsticks look frozen? They will if the fabric is Soft Autumn.
Can you assemble a white shirt/gray pants outfit from the palette for that shade of blue? Summer wears blue well, it might not matter that much. It is not necessary to doubt every purchase, just move away from obviously poor choices.
Look at the green strips. Do they make sense or are they just hopeless together?
Look at the colours that really define the Season. Do Soft Autumn peanut butter and ochre yellow look great with the blue fabric? If the blue fabric were a turtleneck, could she find a beautiful lipstick?
As a True Summer, are there some blues in other seasons that would look just as good on me as my own blues do?
C: It depends on the sensitivity of the viewer. When the wavelength of the colour and the person match, the appearance can clarify, focus, and captivate in a way that other Seasons' colours would not attain. That said, most folks have never seen that and could not recognize it. This is not a reason to compromise (which Summers don't like and Autumns insist on), just don't get too immobilized by a perfect standard. Red, yellow, brown, beige, or purple are the colours to be more rigid about between these Seasons than blue.
Most of the world is so used to seeing wild mismatch, and so used to adapting for changing lighting over a day, that they'll see something good going on even when colours are close. Vision didn't evolve for us to look beautiful. It evolved as much as it needed to for us to eat and not get eaten before we mate and raise our young.
You probably have several fine blues from all three Summer palettes, and maybe a few low contrast choices from True Winter. If you can identify the great blues and ignore the million blues that are not even worth trying on, you are way ahead of the game you were playing pre-PCA.


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Job Recruitment Plan Sketched Out for Nets New Home
It might not be the fast-track to the front-office, but a part-time job taking tickets, selling popcorn or even scrubbing the bathroom floor at the Barclays Center sounds good to unemployed Brooklyn resident Kevin Webb.
"I've put in applications to McDonald's, Burger King, Appleby's, but jobs are hard to get," said the 32-year-old Webb. "I'm not choosy ― I'm hungry."
Recruiting will begin next week for some 2,000 positions available at the still under construction Barclays Center in Brooklyn — which is set to open this fall as the new home of the Brooklyn Nets.
Jobs were among the central promises of the new arena and the adjacent high-rise neighborhood slated to be built next to it. On Thursday, while workers pounded, welded and drilled, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Bruce Ratner, CEO of developer Forest City Ratner, painted with broad brush-strokes the arena's employment forecast and recruitment strategy.
Ratner wouldn't say how many of the 2,000 positions will be minimum-wage, but without being specific, he suggested they won't all be bottom-rung.
"It's highly likely [the jobs] will be unionized, and they will negotiate a wage," Ratner said. "So, it'll be above a living wage, I'm sure. I know."
Bloomberg added "But that's not the government forcing them to [raise wages]. And if we had forced them to do it, we'd have had to give them more of a subsidy to get this thing going."
The city's subsidy to the project is $200 million, Bloomberg said.
Next week, officials from the Barclays Center and some of its contractors will begin meeting with local Brooklyn leaders to lay out worker recruitment plans. Those plans will focus on the areas immediately around the arena, and especially on residents of public housing. Job fairs are expected to begin in June.
The quality of the work, not just the quantity of it, however, continues to be an issue, particularly as the mayor and the City Council spar over a pair of bills designed to boost the wages of some low-income workers.
Bloomberg vetoed one of the City Council wage bills on Wednesday, and pledged to veto the other, as soon as it passes, which could happen as early as next week.
But for Luis Figueroa, who was standing outside Barclays Center, any work he could find would be welcome. Figueroa, 53, lives in East New York and hasn't worked in seven years. He's on disability and can only work a limited number of hours, anyway, in order to retain the federal benefit.
"I'd like to work with people ― maybe take the tickets, sell the tickets, locate people to their seats," Figueroa said. "It wouldn't bother me, if it's minimum-wage. A job's a job."


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A key event in the 2015 global climate agenda, the World Summit Climate & Territories is the principal gathering of subnational and local governments and other non-State actors in the lead up to COP21 in Paris.
Subnational and local governments are at the forefront of climate action: they are taking action to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to the impacts of climate disruption. Their contribution will be key to the success of the Paris conference in December.
Six months before COP21, the World Summit Climate & Territories will be a unique opportunity for all the major groups of non-state actors (subnational and local governments, NGOs, business, workers and trade unions, youth, women, scientists) to make their voices heard, highlight the importance of a territorial perspective on climate.
In Lyon, they will present their concrete commitments and specific proposals to the negotiating States who are expected to agree on a new bold and universal climate deal in Paris in December.
Organised by the major global networks of subnational and local governments and hosted by Rhône-Alpes Region on 1-2 July in Lyon, the Summit is presented under the High Patronage of the President of the French Republic. The event is labelled COP21 and it is organised in collaboration with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
A new tourist Welcome Area recently opened in Lyon St. Exupéry airport.
The purpose of this information hub is threefold: improve the quality of welcome and information services for tourists visiting the Rhône-Alpes Region, provide transport options for travel throughout the entire region, and promote all that the Region has to offer. Modelled after this vast and modern region, the new international area will offer a range of services: tourist information, a lounge area, self-service access to information via touch-screen tablets, and a display wall showing the Region's promotional videos.
Ideally located in the centre of the airport, the Welcome Area is a gateway for the more than 2,500,000 yearly passengers who will find a comprehensive and varied transport offer. Indeed, since 1993, the Rhône-Alpes Region has been investing in regional routes: the airport shuttle and a number of destinations that are directly accessible from St. Exupéry: Grenoble, Voiron, Annecy, Bourg en Bresse, and more than 30 ski resorts in the winter.
The Welcome Area's ticket office will provide information and tickets for public transport, thus offering airport clientele a service that is adapted to their needs and available as soon as they arrive.
UNESCO has inscribed the decorated Cave of Pont d'Arc, known as Grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc, on the World Heritage List. It is the culmination of a tireless campaign by the Rhône-Alpes Region and its partners to protect and promote this priceless site.


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We stayed in Cottage 1 with three bedrooms. The bedrooms are air conditioned and we did use the ac, mostly because there is some road noise at night, but it wasn't enough to keep us awake - we slept great. The cottages are equipped with everything you need, and the internet works well, even on the beach! There are no TV's, no pool, no beach towels, and we didn't miss any of that!
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Memorial Day Special: U.S. Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Return War Medals at NATO Summit
Democracy Now! returns to Chicago, site of the largest NATO summit in the organization's six-decade history, where nearly 50 veterans discarded their war medals by hurling them down the street in the direction of the NATO summit. We hear the soldiers' voices as they return their medals one by one from the stage. "I'm here to return my Global War on Terror Service Medal in solidarity with the people of Iraq and the people of Afghanistan," said Jason Hurd, a former combat medic who spent 10 years in the U.S. Army. "I am deeply sorry for the destruction that we have caused in those countries and around the globe." Scott Kimball, an Iraq war veteran, adds: "For all the servicemembers and veterans who are against these wars, you are not alone!" Click here to see the other parts of the 2013 Memorial Day Special: 2, 3, 4, 5.
Mother of Iraq Veteran Who Committed Suicide: "Honor the Dead, Heal the Wounded, Stop the Wars"
On a makeshift stage outside the NATO summit in Chicago, antiwar veterans fold an American flag that flew over NATO operations from Bosnia to Libya and which represents the flag that is "draped over the coffins of thousands of Americans killed in combat and thousands more who have committed suicide after they returned from service." They present the flag to Mary Kirkland, mother of Derrick Kirkland, who joined the military in 2007 and committed suicide in March 2010 after his second tour of duty in Iraq. "I am not ashamed that I have to tell people that my son committed suicide. I am ashamed of the military for failing to give him proper mental health treatment," Kirkland says. The military originally reported that her son was killed in action. Click here to see the other parts of the 2013 Memorial Day Special: 1, 3, 4, 5.
Scott Olsen, U.S. Vet Who Nearly Lost Life at Occupy Protest, Brings Antiwar Message to NATO Summit
We're joined at the NATO summit in Chicago by Scott Olsen, who survived two tours in Iraq but almost died when he was hit with a police projectile at an Occupy Oakland protest last year. Olsen returned four of his medals at Sunday's antiwar march. When asked why he's joined the Occupy movement and is protesting against the heavily policed NATO summit, Olsen says, "I'm going to make every effort I can to show them that we're doing the right thing, we're in the right, and no matter what they do to any of us, we've got each other's backs, and we're going forward." Click here to see the other parts of the 2013 Memorial Day Special: 1, 2, 4, 5.
U.S. Army Vets Join with Afghans for Peace to Lead Antiwar March at Chicago NATO Summit
The antiwar march at the NATO summit on May 20, 2012, in Chicago was jointly led by members of Afghans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW). "We're here to protest NATO and call on all NATO representatives to end this inhumane, illegal, barbaric war against our home country and our people," says Suraia Sahar, a member of Afghans for Peace, who marched alongside Afghan war veteran Graham Clumpner during the anti-NATO protest in Chicago. "I feel honored standing next to this veteran, Graham, because they're now, I believe, in my opinion, doing the right thing in speaking out against the occupation and war alongside us today." Clumpner says, "I reject any affiliation with this war." Click here to see the other parts of the 2013 Memorial Day Special: 1, 2, 3, 5.
"Hero of War"–Rise Against Song Captures Iraq War Veteran's Tragic Experience
We conclude Democracy Now!'s 2013 Memorial Day special with the video for the song, "Hero of War," by Rise Against. The Chicago-based punk band's Tim McIlrath sang the antiwar song for protesters outside the NATO Summit in Chicago earlier this month. It tells the story of an Iraq war veteran reflecting on his experiences while serving in the military. "I kicked in the door, I yelled my commands. The children, they cried, but I got my man. We took him away, a bag over his face, from his family and his friends," McIlrath sings. The video for the song has been viewed more than 13 million times online. Click here to see the other parts of the 2013 Memorial Day Special: 1, 2, 3, 4.
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I am decidedly pro-meat and cheese. Nothing gives me more joy than thin slices of prosciutto and creamy goat cheese. But sometimes when I'm feeling a little bogged down during the week, I like eating something that will give me energy and won't throw me into a midday food coma. Step in: vegan sandwiches.
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NBC Sports Gears Up for NASCAR with 2015 Schedule Reveal
NBC and NBCSN will combine to present 20 NASCAR Sprint Cup and 19 Nationwide Series races during the 2015 season, beginning July 4 from the historic Daytona International Speedway.
NASCAR returns to NBC Sports Group in 2015 with 39 combined Sprint Cup Series and Nationwide Series races across NBC and NBCSN, beginning on Fourth of July weekend from historic Daytona International Speedway. The schedule is highlighted by exclusive coverage of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, including the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday, Nov. 22, on NBC.
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NBC Sports Group will present exclusive coverage of the final 20 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and 19 Nationwide Series races of the 2015 season. Of NBC Sports Group's 20 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races, seven will be carried on NBC, with 13 airing on NBCSN. Four of NBC Sports Group's 19 NASCAR Nationwide Series races will air on NBC, with 15 airing on NBCSN. NBC Sports Group's 2015 NASCAR race coverage will visit numerous storied tracks across the country, including Daytona, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Watkins Glen International, Michigan International Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, Darlington Raceway, Charlotte Motor Speedway, and Talladega Superspeedway.
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ZURICH, SWITZERLAND — Barry Callebaut on Sept. 3 inaugurated a new, joint cocoa processing facility in Makassar. The facility will be operated as part of a joint venture called P.T. Barry Callebaut Comextra Indonesia. Barry Callebaut owns 60%, and P.T. Comextra Majora owns 40% of the joint venture company.
The $33 million cocoa facility in Makassar will have an initial annual grinding capacity of 30,000 tonnes. It is supported by a long-term bean supply agreement with P.T Comextra Majora.
Barry Callebaut said the opening is part of its effort to further enhance its manufacturing footprint in fast-growing Asian markets. Besides the newly built Makassar site, the company has four other cocoa plants and four chocolate plants in the region.
"The new facility in Makassar built jointly with our partner P.T. Comextra Majora opens new cocoa sourcing possibilities and further strengthens our overall manufacturing footprint in our Region Asia-Pacific," said Juergen Steinemann, chief executive officer of Barry Callebaut. "Together with earlier investments and the recently acquired cocoa factories from Petra Foods in Asia, we are able to offer the best factory structure and support in a region where demand for quality cocoa and chocolate products is growing rapidly."
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