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Super Bowl commercials should be the talk of the town today amidst chips and salsa and that stranger at the Super Bowl party who won't stop talking to you because he/she had too much to drink.
So much for Super Bowl commercials surprising us with their hilarity these days; many of them have already hit the Web. What once resulted in guacamole bursting out of your mouth now will just elicit a simple, "Eh, I've seen this one before, I'm already tired of it."
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, besides having the chance to notch his first Super Bowl victory, is already being called the more "marketable" quarterback than Pittsburgh's Ben Roethlisberger if he does indeed come away with the Lombardi Trophy tonight.
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The ninth-generation Honda Civic sedan and coupe in Si trim appeared at the 2011 Detroit auto show in concept forms. As usual with Hondas, the styling of these concepts is very close to what the real products will look like when they go on sale this coming spring, but the interiors and the details remain in conceptland.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A story that Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o's girlfriend had died of leukemia — a loss he said inspired him to help lead the Irish to the BCS championship game — was dismissed by the university today as a hoax perpetrated against the linebacker.
Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick says his faith has not been shaken in Te'o "one iota."
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I just heard the Cleveland Browns will draft Manti Te'o in the first round. Then they can at least pretend they won a Super Bowl.
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Skip to comments.'These Aren't Special People': Seinfeld Ridicules 'Absurd' Royal Wedding
Posted on 04/14/2011 9:18:28 AM PDT by Judges Gone Wild
The Royal Wedding has divided the nation - some breathlessly counting down the days, others rolling their eyes over the growing excitement. And now Jerry Seinfeld has weighed in on the upcoming nuptials of Prince William and Kate Middleton, calling the wedding 'a circus act.' The comedian, promoting his stand-up show at the O2 on June 3, will undoubtedly
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It is funny to see Hollywood realize that they are just the useful idiots of the powers that be.
He's right. The attention being paid to these people is embarrassing.
I though he and his pals were in jail in Vermont or New Hampshire
It is absurd indeed..
Its funny to hear a Hollywood entertainer ridicule anyone else for considering themselves more important than anyone else.
>>"We don't have anything like that"
What about America's Royal Family, the Kennedys?
Why? Its there party might as well let them have fun...
He may be right but he is a lib and Christian hater.
They are just as special as Seinfeld is.
It's a couple getting married, albeit a "royal" couple. I think if it brings some joy in the lives of people, then great!
They are not special and neither is Seinfeld.
Great post, skeeter. Seinfeld's comments were the usual Hollywood boobishness and insularity.
There is always excitement in Great Britain over a royal wedding. Mostly because the royals do it up sooooooo beautifully. As someone who witnessed the opening of Parliament one year, I can attest to their genuis for pageantry. I'm now getting postcards from my English friends celebrating the event. Also, every street in England generally throws a "block party" on these occasions. I'll probably watch to see her wedding dress. Absolutely nothing wrong with that!
Sadly, Kate Middleton is no Diana in terms of either beauty or charisma. Hope her marriage works out better,though.
open mouth, insert hoof...
Who can forget our own royal family? Those beautifully-orchestrated weddings where Uncle Teddie probably threw up on the bride and Papa Joe probably raped the maid of honor! How I long for those old days before we abolished the Kennedys!
Well, the romance and spectacle of the thing has its appeal for many people, even here. I get that, and I'm a guy's guy, myself. I can tell you I'd rather stay up and watch that for however long it's on than the comparable number of "Seinfeld" episodes. Or even one, for that matter. Kate Middleton alone is worth it.
p.s. My wife grew up in England, so this is a big deal for her. Even though she never wants to move back.
>>We dont have anything like that
...we certainly do! As you said the Kennedys. The Clintons. The Cuomos. The kenyans.
These people were not.
Are you kidding? We have THE MESSIAH!!!
As you point out, there are the Kennedys. And I don't recall being able to escape news about Chelsea's wedding.
Or the latest Hollywood "wedding" for that matter.
The royals are symbols of the nation at large, and of Britain's past and heritage. I personally wish Britain were more like it was, say, 100 years ago than it is now.
Bunch of incessant whiners on this thread.
Comedian is bad. Couple is bad. Hollywood sucks. She is no Diana, he hates Christians, what about the Kennedys, who cares about celebs...? Sheesh. Just jump off a bridge if everything offends you.
It's too early in the day to be drunk, WTH are you thinkin'?
What did you mean by that?
What I find most funny about this thread is the apparent assumption for some that Seinfeld is NOT speaking as a comedian, but rather as a social commentator.
Uh folks, he's a sarcastic comic making sarcastic observations.
Trying to deconstruct his comments so that they reflect poorly on him is silly. He is doing what he does.
The only thing that offends me are Seminoles.
"Hey, how 'bout that Royal Wedding...what's up with that?"
Chopping my own penis off with a butter knife would be more funny and far more entertaining than Jerry Seinfeld could EVER be.
Your mileage may very.
I guess it takes a circus act to know one.
"He is doing what he does."
Yes. But his body of work is so shallow and vapid, I find it amazing he can look in the mirror in the morning after criticizing someone else for being shallow and vapid.
Besides, I'm sick of the iconoclasts in this country who destroy our traditions for no other reason than thats what iconoclasts do.
He's so gay!
Yeah, they're a circus act - but when the same type and degree of hoopla and media attention is given to butt-headed actors and actresses (and comedians) from Hollywood... now THAT'S show business!
Someone's a little bit full of himself.
One day, this couple will likely be King and Queen of all 16 nations of the Commonwealth realm. As King, William would be "Head of State" for each of those nations (including the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand ...). Also, as King, William would be "Head of the Commonwealth", an organization of 53 nations, with a population over 2 billion people. While the epicentre of wedding frenzy will be in Britain, the event will be meaningful for over 1/3 of the world's population.
We, in the Commonwealth realm, separate the roles of "Head of State" and "Head of Government". We venerate the former, as the symbol of our respective nations (and a common link). We treat the later with no more or less respect than any elected politician deserves.
The U.S.of A. had a successful revolution, to rid itself of the Monarchy. By not separating the roles of "Head of State" and "Head of Government"; you have allowed many of the trappings of monarchy to slide back in, and rest on the office of the POTUS. Consider the pomp and circumstance surrounding the "State of the Union" address, and the excessive difference shown to the POTUS at these events.
Interesting point. Perhaps, one day soon, America will rid itself of it's oppressive (and hidden) Head of State.
They are "rich welfare"....
You've put your finger on it exactly. These royal events bring out in droves what's left of patriotic British "subjects". That's a VERY good thing. I think when the Queen goes though, the whole country is going to fall apart. That is: unless Prince William turns out to have all her genes (which I doubt) and kicks his dad to the curb (which I also doubt).
And so many people in this country tear down our traditions because it seems to be the fun thing to do. This has always confused and appalled me. I love tradition. It's what ties us to our past and future.
There isn't enough make up on earth to make that mug look good.
Remember: his father - that fat head Prince Charles - is going to get there first. Pity that poor country!
After posting a dig at Seinfeld here on FR, I picked up my mail to discover my husband had just bought all of "Seinfeld" on Amazon! Actually, I think it's one of the most brilliant shows ever created - and completely non-political.
The Spanish Royal family must have been insane to marry close relatives like that.
The couple is special to their families and to their countrymen. They seem like a delightful pair and I want their wedding to be all they hope it to be.
It becomes a spectacular when the same forces, that put Seinfeld where he is, are doing their thing — and his mouthing out on it.
excessive difference — should be: excessive deference (doh!)
Hey, modern day Hollywood DOES suck, Kate Middleton is NO Diana and the Kennedys ARE pathological freaks who vomit at weddings. Personally, I enjoy saying these things and have NO intention of jumping off a bridge.
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I see the same thing ---- tons of hispanic families --- most who don't speak a word of English filling several carts of all kinds of food --- but usually they have plenty of cokes, cookies, candies, store decorated cakes and the rest. They not only have a food stamp card but plenty of WIC coupons too ---- plus those kids are getting free meals in Head Start and public school. They're usually obese with lots of obese children. Interestingly enough it's the hispanic families who speak English who don't use the food stamps.
The average wealth of the food stamp beneficiary is well below the national mean, even accounting for fraud. The average wealth of the Medicare beneficiary is well above the national mean.
So, while it may be right to criticize social welfare such as food stamps, it seems ludicrous not to also criticize the real deadbeats in our society -- the millions of seniors who suck from the public teat while living in luxurious digs in places like Myrtle Beach, Sun City and Tampa Bay. Some 60 percent of the federal budget goes toward benefits to seniors, who are the richest demographic group in the US. Contrast this with about 17 percent of the budget that goes to the poor.
The biggest welfare chiselers are senior citizens and their AARP lobbyists. In a few short years, I will be one of them, and it makes me sick to think that my bills will be paid by the generations that come after me. But that's what our democracy has wrought: welfare for the old and rich.
High-priced foods are a natural for food-stamp recipients. They can be most easily sold for cash to buy whatever.
The card itself can even be "rented" to others for cash
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Unreal. The purpose of the food stamps system is to provide assistance to people who for some reason cannot feed themselves.
Would you approve of more money being taken out of your paycheck so people can buy cigarettes and booze?
You're comparing apples to oranges. Food stamps are only made available to the poor, so of course the average income of food stamp beneficiaries is going to be below the national average.
As for seniors being the richest demographic group in the U.S., these people have 40+ years of work behind them.......along with 40+ years of retirement savings. That "wealth" that they have accumulated is what they have to live on for the rest of their days. Would you prefer that they didn't have retirement savings, in which case we would be having to support all of their needs?
Exactly. I remember the embarrassment of a friend of my mother back in the 70s. Her husband had been laid off from his job and took a job in Canada. They had 5 kids that had to be fed, even though the dad, the breadwinner, was only getting paid once a month. The mom applied for foodstamps so that the kids could be fed. Luckily for them it only lasted 6 months and the dad was able to get a job back close to home.
Would you approve of more money being taken out of your paycheck so people can buy cigarettes and booze?
I am both a smoker and a beer drinker, as is my husband - those items have always been among the first to go when money gets tight in our household.
I'd prefer constitutionally limited government that didn't pander to groups based on their proclivity to vote.
Remember when that was the bedrock of conservative thought?
So I assume you think food stamps would be a good idea so long as everybody qualified for them?
The standards are not stringent. You can go into stores around here and see more people using food stamps than are using cash, they are allowed to purchase nothing but junk foods, there is often a working man living in the household who stands right in line with the family and buys the beer and cigarettes and lottery tickets with cash. "Common-law marriages" also are very convenient for this --- the parents never legally marry --- the mother can get more food stamps for every baby she produces --- and as long as the babies keep coming, she never will be expected to work.
Excellent point. Poor planning doesn't entitle anyone to suckle at the government teat.
I have the insurance, I have paid for it myself in after tax dollars for many years. I hope I never use it, but I sure won't be putting a gun to anyones head to steal their property because I prioritized incorrectly.
I'm sorry he didn't plan, but not enough to deny my family whatever is left after I take care of the things that need takinbg care of to see that they are taken care of and I'm not the recipient of stolen property.
No, I wasn't implying that at all. I was simply pointing out your faulty reasoning in comparing the average income of food stamp beneficiaries to that of Medicare recipients. One program is available only to the poor, whereas the other is available to all qualifying seniors regardless of income. It stands to reason that the average income of the more inclusive group would be higher.
One of those rare events, IMO. Everybody is right... because american socialism is a convoluted mess.. the conversation should rightfully be one also.. No silver bullet will ever kill american socialism, pandora is out of the box.
And the democrats are living in the box and the republicans are remodeling it... for FREE.. The libertarians are tok'ing across the street laughing about the crazy old lady living in the basement(but there is no basement)... Lady Liberty has been screwed so many times shes not a lady anymore and Uncle Sam is the PerP doing it..
Wonder if communism is the political system in hell !... Oh! well... 2nd cup of coffee... cheerio..
It's true in some cases but who's fault is that?
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Maroun al-Ras
|Maroun al-Rass
مارون الراس
|Coordinates: 33°04′50″N 35°25′20″E / 33.08056°N 35.42222°ECoordinates: 33°04′50″N 35°25′20″E / 33.08056°N 35.42222°E
|Nabatieh Governorate
|Bint Jbeil District
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Maroun al-Ras (Arabic: مارون الراس) is a Lebanese village nestled in Jabal Amel (Mount Amel) in the district of Bint Jbeil in the Nabatiye Governorate in southern Lebanon. It is located around 120 km (75 mi) south east of Beirut, roughly one km (0.62 mi) from the Israeli border.
Military history[edit]
Lebanese Civil War[edit]
On March 1, 1978 the village was occupied by a force of 60 Phalangists, drawn from the villages around Ain Ebl, at the behest of the Israeli military and led to believe by Israeli advisors that they would be welcomed with open arms by the inhabitants. The Phalangists had received vague promises of air support from Israel should they be met with resistance, which they never received. Seven Phalangists were killed when Fatah militants and their allied of the Lebanese National Movement arrived, and the rest of the phalangists had to flee. Israeli troops remained in Ain Ebl until Israel's invasion of Lebanon two weeks later.[1]
2006 Lebanon War[edit]
The village was the scene of a major confrontation between the Israeli Army and Hezbollah fighters during the 2006 Lebanon War.[2]
Maroun al-Ras is strategically important as it overlooks the surrounding towns. The village's elevation is 911 meters (2,989 feet).
During the Battle of Maroun al-Ras of the 2006 Lebanon War, the village was occupied by Israel, which claimed it was a stronghold for Hezbollah and one of the launching points for rocket attacks on northern Israel.[3]
There are reports that control of the village was contested at the time of the ceasefire. After-battle reports claimed the IDF troops never fully secured the border area and that Maroun al-Ras was never fully taken.[4][5]
- ^ Tveit, Odd Karsten (1985). Nederlag. Israels krig i Libanon (in Norwegian). Cappelen. pp. 50–52. ISBN 82-02-09346-5.
- ^ Israel Enters Southern Lebanon - Hits Maroun al-Ras and Yaroun Villages :: Middle East News and Perspectives :: Hyscience
- ^ http://sg.news.yahoo.com/060722/3/429gv.html
- ^ Asia Times HOW HEZBOLLAH DEFEATED ISRAEL-PART 2: Winning the ground war
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Iris Marie Mack is an American writer, speaker, former MIT professor, and former derivatives, quant/trader and investment banker.
Mack earned a bachelor's from Vassar College, a doctorate in applied mathematics from Harvard University,[1] and a Sloan Fellow MBA from the London Business School.[2] Mack is also a former derivatives and quantitative finance analyst and trader who has worked in financial institutions in the U.S., London and Asia.[which?] She has also spent some of her professional career at NASA, Boeing and AT&T Bell Laboratories, where she obtained a patent for research on optical fibers.[2]
Mack lectures and consults on energy derivatives, quantitative finance and high-frequency trading for the Fitch 7City Certificate of Quantitative Finance Program in New York City,[3] Fitch 7City Corporate Finance Consulting Group in Singapore[4] and The Terrapinn Group in Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia and London.[5] In 2010 and 2011 she wrote a number of articles for the Huffington Post including "Bob Rubin Just Wants to Be Cuddled" where she describes her relationship with Bob Rubin in 2007 and 2008 during the financial crisis while he was Chairman and "Senior Counselor" at Citigroup.[1] She currently lectures at the graduate level on energy trading and risk management at the Freeman School of Business.
She also serves on the boards of the United States National Research Council's Transportation Research Board, the Edwin Moses Global Institute, the AlgoAnalytics Trading and Financial Analytics (India), MarketExpress Financial News and Research (India), the Women Mentor Women Foundation and the I Can Still Do That Foundation.[1]
Mack founded Phat Math Inc. in Miami, Florida in 2003. A few years later in 2007 she and her colleagues at Phat Math launched their prototype mathematics edutainment social network PhatMath.com. Students in grades K-12 and College have access to free 24/7 online math homework help on PhatMath.com, which was named one of the Top 50 Social Sites for Educators and Academics and 25 Useful Networking Sites for Grad Students.[by whom?]
She has been an astronaut semifinalist,[1][2] one of Glamour Magazine's "Top 10" college students,[1][2] one of Glamour's "Top 10" working women,[1][2] an investment banker,[1][2] an Enron Energy Trader[1][2] and an MIT professor.[1][2] In addition, she was the second African-American female to earn a doctorate in Applied Mathematics from Harvard.[1][2] Later she became a mathematics and business school professor, while simultaneously running a consulting firm.[1]
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- Energy Trading and Risk Management: A Practical Approach to Hedging, Trading and Portfolio Diversification, ISBN 978-1118339336
- Mama says, "Money Doesn't Grow on Trees!", ISBN 978-1413408911
- Mama says, "Money Doesn't Grow on Trees!": World of Dr. Mackamatix Mathematics Edutainment Book, ISBN 978-1456502904
- Convergence analysis of block implicit one-step methods for solving differential/algebraic equations, ISBN 978-1175753960
- Generalized Picard-Lindelf theory, ISBN 978-1178750638
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- ^ "Dr. Iris Mack". CQF. Retrieved 2014-05-02.
- ^ "Corporate and finance division". Fitchlearning.com. Retrieved 2014-02-05.
- ^ "Dr. Iris Mack". Terrapinntraining.com. Retrieved 2014-02-05.


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January 20, 2010
You could say it wasn't a fair fight. With a proposal like, "California is the First Failed State," the debate on Tuesday seemed a foregone conclusion. Those of us who live in the state and watch the news trot out a litany of funeral announcements for successive state services – education, medical care for the poor, arts programs, government paychecks – kind of thought it was obvious.
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Forty years ago, the United States government began a "war on drugs" whose cost so far is estimated at $1 trillion, and rising. In 2006, newly elected Mexican President Felipe Calderón began a crackdown on the drug-smuggling cartels—a "war on drugs" that really is a war, involving military troops and weapons and more than 10,000 dead so far. Americans buy drugs from the cartels and sell them guns, and Washington arguably provided the example for the Mexican government's hard-line tactics. So is America to blame for Mexico's drug war? That was the topic at last week's Intelligence Squared US debate at New York University.
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The team in favor of the proposition, America is to Blame for Mexico's Drug War, scored an undisputed victory with 72% of the audience at the debate's conclusion siding with them.
November 30, 2009
Whatever else they may do in office, presidents are largely judged—by the voters, if not historians—on their handling of the economy. So with unemployment edging into double digits, last week's Intelligence Squared US debate topic—"Obama's Economic Policies Are Working Effectively"—attracted the largest audience in the history of the series...
November 18, 2009
"Obama's economic policies are working effectively." That was the motion that Intelligence Squared US put to its New York audience Monday night for a vote. One three-man team defended the president's policies; another denounced them. Though the "anti" team ultimately lost the vote, it made the more compelling argument...
November 18, 2009
Are Obama's economic policies actually working? Intelligence Squared posed this question to six policy experts at a debate in New York this week.
November 17, 2009
Just hours after a government audit lambasted the New York Fed as meek in its role in AIG's rescue last fall, two big names in the financial world sparred over similar questions of government heft–or lack thereof–in downtown Manhattan on Monday night.
November 17, 2009
Neither his trademark Cheshire-cat smile, nor his plucky self-confidence was enough to rescue former Gov. Eliot Spitzer from losing the vote Monday night.
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Call it the Rubber-Chicken War—the looming trade dispute between the United States (which has announced punitive tariffs on imports of Chinese tires) and China (which is threatening retaliation against American poultry exports).
March 29, 2009
It won't help anyone recoup the money lost in the housing bubble or the market crash or the recession, but there's a certain satisfaction in knowing where to put the blame.
March 17, 2009
An Oxford-style debate held last night at New York's Rockefeller University featured an argument over whether Washington or Wall Street "was more to blame for the financial crisis."
November 16, 2008
A sequel to the ballyhooed debate in 2007 over the motion that "Global Warming is Not a Crisis" has been scheduled in New York City in January, this time exploring a new premise: "Major Reductions in Carbon Emissions are Not Worth the Money." Those in favor of the motion (some additions may come, organizers say) will be the "skeptical environmentalist" Bjorn Lomborg; Philip Stott, the British biogeographer who has become a prominent critic of global warming worriers; and Peter W. Huber, the Manhattan Institute scholar, lawyer and mechanical engineer who has written that energy waste is unavoidable and beneficial.
October 27, 2008
Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske thinks having more guns in the community doesn't deter crime, and he plans to argue that Tuesday night in a New York City debate.
October 27, 2008
Tonight in New York City, I'll be participating in a gun control debate hosted by Intelligence Squared, in partnership with National Public Radio.
September 18, 2008
NEW YORK--The other night we attended the first-of-the-season Intelligence Squared debate. We've been going to these for a while and always find them interesting and stimulating. This week's topic was health-care policy, and one of the panelists arguing for more federal control was former Enron adviser Paul Krugman.
May 26, 2008
Lloyd Cohen thinks people should have the right to buy or sell organs, an idea reviled by doctors. As of last Wednesday at 5:44 p.m., according to the minute-by-minute count on the Web site of the United Network for Organ Sharing, there were 75,629 people awaiting kidney transplants in the United States.
April 23, 2007
Better more domestic surveillance than another Sept. 11, 2001, type of attack on U.S. soil? That was the question in a lively, sold-out, Oxford-style debate sponsored by The Rosenkranz Foundation at the Asia Society's New York headquarters Wednesday night.


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Thanks for the response! I'll probably use it in entire sheets (with a large hole cut out around the plant that is being mulched) in order to suppress weed growth and keep the ground moist. My veteran vegetable growing parents suggested this, so I assume they know what they are talking about.
Hopefully, as long as I don't leave the escort ads facing up, it will be fine with the P-patch.
Thanks again!
You are not Scully. This is a forgery!
Shall I be first to the obvious Zinger?
Here goes:
Just out to make the Boss Man Steen proud.
I have chickens at my place, and I find that old Strangers, passed through a paper shredder, are ideal bedding material. Much cheaper than straw, less dusty than wood shavings, and newsprint covered with chicken shit is amazing worm food. My creatures have never been so happy!
If you're trying to kill grass, make sure you put down a LOT, and overlap like crazy. We're killing some grass that way, and although twelve sheets thick was recommended, that's not nearly enough. I would actually use cardboard if I was doing it again, although you lose the mulch aspect -- the idea with newspaper is that once it's all dead you can just turn it into the soil. Cardboard we're going to have to pull out of there.
I am far too lazy to pull weeds (I hate grubbing in the dirt!), so I've been using the "bury it" method for years - put down several layers of newspaper, wet it thoroughly, then cover with a couple inches of mulch. I use compost, because it looks nice and enriches the soil. It's the only method that works worth a damn for someone as disinclined to garden as me.
I did it using full-size newsprint (Thank you Pee-Eye!) several years ago. It does work very well at keeping the weeds from popping up, but also as noted above it won't really compost on its own. You will need to mechanically till it in somehow.
It could be I didn't do it quite right, and/or was misinformed- I put it down right over the weeds, then put black visqueen down over it, weighed down with rocks. Let it sit all year, and next spring expected rich, thick mulch. While the weeds were dead (the black visqueen absorbs light, and gets nasty hot underneath, killing everything), the newspaper sort of just sat there and got a little mushy.
But I tilled it in, and the garden ended up growing very well.
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The 'Voice of the MBTA' Is Retiring
But he says he'll still do announcements if asked.
But he says he'll still do announcements if asked.
A mysterious IPA called White Ship.By Alex Wilking
Summer cooking at its finest.By Asia Bradlee
Washington Square gets an outpost of the Painted Burro.By Jacqueline Cain
Dumpling Kingdom is here for you.By Alex Wilking
Queen Bey mistook him for Bryan Adams.By Matt Juul
Chic modular self-watering planters.By Madeline Bilis
Get ready for nine weekends of shuttle buses.By Spencer Buell
Where to buy, see, and learn about them.By Madeline Bilis
It had a lot to do with Ted Williams.By Matt Juul
His speech was about 'second chances.'By Spencer Buell


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The Village is a culture experiment born from the shared aspiration to explore what village life means and how to bring that into a contemporary context. Our intention is to learn by doing, to be engaged with how to actually create and sustain a Village.
This project is an interactive, intergenerational, education-based environment focused on earth based wisdom traditions and the skills necessary to be a sustainable, thriving, interdependent community. There is a focus on honoring the elements and cycles of the natural world, on identifying and refining our individual and collective offerings and remembering a life that integrates the sacred and the creative into everyday. Whole system organic design is at the heart of the Village structure. The unique gifts of everyone present are nurtured and cultivated, creating an environment where, like a traditional Village, every single person has an integral and valued role to play.
The Village consists of multiple micro-environments, including the Sacred Fire, Ancestral Arts Arbor,Community Lodge, Witchs Hut and the Permaculture Action Hub. Within these spaces, participants will have the opportunity to experience many aspects of this way of being, such as wisdom transmissions, song and story sharing, ceremony, and practical applications of earth based concepts. We will be providing varied forms of ancestral arts classes such as carving, fire making and weaving, as well as councils and presentations of traditional stories and prophecies with Indigenous Elders and lineage holders. The Village will function both as a site for learning to occur and as a hub for the promotion and networking of other organizations and projects that are aligned with our mission.
When we begin shifting our core life question from What do I truly want? to What do I truly have to offer? then, as a community, we begin to evaluate wealth based on the whole system rather than the individual parts. The Village intends not only to begin shifting our collective awareness in that direction, but also to provide tangible guidance for how to recognize and develop these offerings in a way that benefits both our personal evolution and our ability to be of real service to the larger whole.
In pretty much every corner of the Earth, our own ancestors faced oppression against spiritual knowledge, as our tribal communities and the earth worshipping traditions assimilated to the dominant cultural. Many came to America to escape religious oppression. We are all indigenous to the Earth.
However, some of us have more privileges: race, class, gender, sexual orientation, being able-bodied, etc. These privileges affect peoples access to power & resources that affect our livelihoods. Before thinking that America is a melting pot, visualize a tossed salad of heritage and tradition. We need to come together. But before we can just do that, weve got some work to do.
We do not need to take on the earth-based spirituality of Native peoples to fulfill our feeling of cultural & spiritual lack. A growing number of us are looking to our own roots and inside ourselves to recover and remember the ancient earth-based knowledge and spiritual wisdom of each of our ancestors. Now can mark a beginning journey of consciously deepening our understanding and honoring our ancestors traditions.
Native peoples are still here, fighting for basic human & religious rights, and for respect. But because the majority of society learns about Native cultures in textbooks, cartoons, and movies, the realities they face and even their existence remains invisible. At Halloween, Indian costumes are sold alongside Spiderman, mermaids, and fictional characters. Many of us grew up playing cowboys and indians or watching sports that have indian mascots. These experiences support the entitlement of non-native people to reenact our storybook versions of exotic, romanticized stereotypes (noble savage, warriors, pristine environmentalists, shamans or magic indians). It is a kind of American Indian image painted by white oppressors. So sporting that headdress means being a walking representative of 500+ years of colonialism and racism, perpetuating stereotypes that native people have been fighting against for just as long.


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AT&T Inc. has announced a new set of lesson plans designed to help consumers get the most out of the "Digital Lifestyle." New online tutorials, available at www.att.com/choice, invite consumers to a hands-on experience with communications and entertainment products and services offered by AT&T, including AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet, AT&T| DISH Network and Cingular Wireless.
The site will launch with demos focused around AT&T's most popular services and features. The company will add additional tutorials every few weeks. The tutorials, through 60-second live action video vignettes, will demonstrate how easy AT&T products and services are to use. Initially, consumers will learn easy tips and tricks for:
Storing and sharing photos online
Recording and viewing digital content on a digital videorecorder
Setting up and managing a wireless home network
The online tutorial program is another tool designed to position AT&T as a trusted communications and entertainment services provider for consumers. The tutorials illustrate how the innovative and advanced features of AT&T products and services can help make consumers' lifestyles more manageable. New demonstrations in August will include:
Setting up and managing TV and Internet parental controls
Downloading wireless ring tones
Sharing photos using a Cingular phone
Other IT news about AT&T
PNY Technologies, Inc. ("PNY") has launched the new XLR8 GeForce GTX 275 graphics card. The newest edition to PNY's high-performance graphics cards features an NVIDIA GeForce GPU supporting CUDA for GPU-acceleration of NVIDIA Graphics Plus technologies, including PhysX.


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Book review: Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide
By Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Price: $34.99 with free shipping
This book is not a dictionary, although it works as a kind of operations lexicon for users of Photoshop CS5, and it offers readers a more exciting experience than a dictionary. The bright typography and compelling layout, coupled with the large number of images, illustrations, and screen shots, make for a book that invites browsing.
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About Ian Scott-Parker
After training as a cartographic surveyor and then draughtsman, Ian worked in the haulage and manufacturing sectors before retraining to operate a short-run digital-color print studio. He spent the larger part of the last century of the previous millennium in the UK and the larger part of the present millennium in the USA, but claims to look younger than that makes him sound. Now retired, he lives as an Internet recluse with his wife Beth, whom he met through MyMac, and four unruly rescue dogs, Tika, Sammy, Gracie, and Truffie.