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WASHINGTON — House Republicans unveiled a bill Friday renewing the Social Security payroll tax cut and extending but trimming unemployment benefits but barreled toward a showdown with President Barack Obama by including language jumpstarting work on a controversial oil pipeline.
With Democrats claiming the measure is too stingy toward jobless and lower-income people, next week's House vote looms as the opening scuffle in a year-end battle that will let each party spotlight its economic priorities ahead of November's presidential and congressional elections.
The two parties generally agree on the bill's pillars: preventing the Jan. 1 expiration of payroll tax cuts and of extra coverage for the long-term unemployed, and avoiding a mandated cut in payments the government sends doctors for treating Medicare patients.
But the GOP tax cut and jobless benefits are less generous than Democrats want. And Republicans ignore the White House's preference to finance the bill by boosting taxes on millionaires, instead paying their bill's price tag — more than $180 billion — by extracting money from federal workers, boosting federal fees and requiring higher-earning seniors to pay more for Medicare.
"This package does not include everything Republicans would like, nor does it have all that Democrats have called for," said House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. "But it is a win for the American people and worthy of the president's signature."
White House spokesman Jay Carney derided the GOP package, saying, "Their plan seeks to put the burden on working families while giving a free pass to the wealthiest and big corporations by protecting their loopholes and subsidies."
Some GOP proposals — for example, charging some seniors more for Medicare, freezing civil servants' pay and raising some federal fees — are similar to past proposals by Obama.
While the measure's chief ingredients had been clear for days, the 369-page legislation revealed new details. These included letting states administer drug tests to some unemployment benefit applicants; barring welfare recipients from using their benefits at strip clubs, liquor stores and casinos; and cracking down on illegal immigrants collecting federal checks for the children's tax credit by requiring them and others to first produce Social Security numbers.
The GOP plan also staves off a threatened Medicare cut that would slash fees paid to doctors by 27 percent, which no one wants since it would destabilize health care for 47 million seniors and disabled people. The price would be paid by higher-earning seniors, who would pay higher monthly premiums for Medicare outpatient services and prescriptions starting in 2017.
Currently only about 7 percent of Medicare recipients pay higher premiums because of their income. Under the proposal, 25 percent would eventually pay higher monthly charges.
That would affect not only the wealthy but many retirees who consider themselves solidly middle class. Advocates for the elderly were quick to object, but Republicans said their idea is a virtual clone of an earlier plan by Obama.
Upper-income seniors have long paid higher Medicare premiums. But the GOP bill would increase those premiums for single retirees earning more than $80,000, rather than the current $85,000. The threshold for married couples would be $160,000 instead of the current $170,000.
In addition, those thresholds would stop growing to reflect inflation until 1 in 4 Medicare beneficiaries were paying the higher premiums.
Without action, the payroll tax paid by 160 million workers would return to its normal 6.2 percent on Jan. 1, up from 4.2 percent this year. That reduction, enacted in an effort to spur job creation, saved $1,000 this year for a family earning $50,000.
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Two Baylor football games have been moved to accommodate television broadcasts, the school announced this afternoon.
Baylor's season-opener at home against the SMU Mustangs, originally scheduled for Sept. 1, has been moved to Sunday, Sept, 2. The game will be televised by FSN at 5:30 p.m. CT.
SMU leads the overall series against Baylor 36-35-7, but the Bears have won nine straight. In their last meeting in 2005, Baylor defeated SMU 28-23 in Dallas.
Baylor will also travel to face ULM for the first time ever on Friday, Sept. 21 (7 p.m. CT, ESPN or ESPN2). The game was initially set for Saturday, Sept. 22.
The Warhawks are slated to visit Waco on August 31, 2013 which concludes the home-and-home series that was signed back in 2010.
"We welcome opportunities to play on television and are pleased with the visibility and opportunity for Baylor Nation to watch our games," head coach Art Briles said. "The 2012 team is ready to take the field and represent Baylor University."
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Isn't Baylor Babtist? Playin' on a Sunday, tsk tsk tsk ;)
I see Baylor beating SMU but losing to ULM in Monroe.
I sense a Louisiana Warhawk upset.
I say Baylor goes 5-7 this year.
If ULM hadn't already snuck up on Arkansas and almost done the same to Auburn, you might be right. I'll be there with my ULM gear on pulling for the Warhawks but it will be a tough one.

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Altoona, Pennsylvania 16601
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Representing America's conflicts from World War II to Vietnam, the veterans at Ponce De Leon Care Center speak the language of patriotism and service.
Finding a tale there is no hard task. Now and then the 20 veterans there get together to talk about their service.
These men include Robert Firth, John Serra, Earl Peterson, Alan Burgess, James Catlett, Frank Samec, Thomas Vaughn, John Bauer, Elmer Bruce Legear, Richard Parent, Sidney Frank Kinser, Warren Heath, Wayne Butler, Leaschen Doggett, Edward Karejwa, Daniel Henson, Ed Woltner, Albert Manning, Shedrick Lowndes and Joseph Dundon.
Firth, for instance, influenced several members of in his family to join the Armed Forces. Both his son and nephew serve in the Air Force, just like he did.
Firth, a navigator for the B-17 "Flying Fortress" during World War II, flew 30 missions. In one of the last, his squadron was ordered to destroy an anti-aircraft battery in a field.
"When we came near the battery I could see anti-aircraft shells explode close to the lead plane. One exploded a ways away from the lead plane. The next was even closer," Firth said. "The last one hit the lead plane dead on."
That aircraft was heavily damaged and fell out of the sky, he said. "I saw two parachutes come out, but that was it," he said.
Firth took charge and led the group to the target, letting loose a massive load of bombs, destroying the field.
"That's when I led the group back home. The only problem was, we were off course and I didn't know where I was," Firth said. "Plus, all of our instruments were gone. All I had was a simple compass."
But the group made it back to England and Firth received the Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery.
John Serra looked back on his time in the service with a smile. "It was tough, but I made the most of my time in the Armed Forces," he said.
After he was drafted, he was sent to train in Ireland.
Later, as a munitions and supplies driver, he participated in seven major battles and endured his share of close calls.
Finally, his luck ran out.
Serra was in a cabaret when Allied bombs accidentally hit the theater. He woke up in a hospital and recuperated there for two months. When released, Serra longed to be back with his company so he stuck out his thumb and hitch-hiked 250 miles back to the 189th Infantry Division.
"I had an angel on my shoulder," he said. "I made it out of every situation literally unscathed."
Ed Woltner served with the 24th Division then the 21st Division as part of the Army of Occupation in Japan. His task was to find Japanese soldiers who hadn't surrendered.
"My first impression of Japan and the way the people lived was pity," Woltner said. "They didn't have enough food."
He delivered messages during the day, but in his free times helped the Japanese improve their lives.
He lived with a Japanese doctor and his family. The doctor was extremely sick from radiation poisoning.
"He was simply in the wrong place at the same time," Woltner said.
Alan Burgess served in the 89th Brigade and 6th Armored Division, working as a scout for Major Gen. George Patton.
Burgess also helped liberate the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Ed Karejwa was a mechanic specializing in fuel injection and electric welding. One morning, he woke up in a hospital in France. His ship had been bombed.
"I didn't know what had happened to me or where I was," he said. "They fixed me up with silver. I have five silver ribs."
Some of the veterans at the center choose to block out their images of the war.
"I try hard to forget because if I look back it will all come back to me," said Earl Peterson, a Vietnam veteran in his 60s. "I lost some of my best friends."
Hillary McCarey, admissions assistant at the center, said people need to keep veterans close to their hearts.
"Our veterans are all too forgotten. People of my generation just can't understand what they went through," she said. "It is so interesting talking to them and hearing the stories."
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"Any recognition for the heroes of this center is well deserved," McCarey said. "They deserve all of our thanks."
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miss on all angles, and stock goes up?
Are Subs going to increase revenues and EPS? If so, why outlook sucks.
Someone help me understand or it was a setup for shorts!
In the previous model, $1 in new revenue was worth $1. Adobe's customers did not need to pay Adobe again for 18+ months, depending on the upgrade cycle. In the subscription model, $1 in new revenue has implied future value. That dollar will be paid over and over again, month after month, year after year in some cases. That is helping Adobe create a consistently repeatable revenue stream. This is why the street is placing more value on $997M in quarterly earnings with a large repeatable revenue base than it did a $1.05B quarter that was largely made up of one-time purchases.
are you short?
Not that complicated, with one million Creative Cloud subscribers Adobe generated 41% recurring revenues, at current subscriber growth rates Adobe will generate over one billion in recurring revenues within 9 months. So we are within 3 to 7 months before Adobe starts growing revenues and profit and these revenues and profits are going to be far more reliable and since everything will be on the cloud, margins are going to start to explode much higher. Adobe is about to mint mad MONEY!
revenue is even 41% because of upfront software sales + cloud subs. When ADBE trasitions completely to cloud, revenue will go down further.
Cloud = Growth
Why it does reflects in the numbers?


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Assault claim at Jewish youth camp
By Sandy Rashty, August 15, 2012
Police in New York are investigating an allegation of sexual abuse at an Orthodox Jewish youth camp.
Camp Shalva in South Fallsburg, for 12-14 year old boys, is reportedly being investigated after a man allegedly entered the dormitories and molested several campers.
Reports say that CCTV cameras at the camp caught an intruder entering the boys' sleeping quarters.
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Definición de procedure en inglés:
1An established or official way of doing something: the police are now reviewing procedures [mass noun]: parliamentary procedure
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- Failure to observe established safety procedures was the reason Noev gave for the incident on Sunday.
- Top Government officials said all procedures for adopting the budget had been followed properly.
- The official procedures, it seems, often work against our better interests.
course of action, line of action, plan of action, policy, series of steps, plan, method, system, strategy, stratagem, way, approach, formula, mechanism, methodology, MO (modus operandi), SOP (standard operating procedure), technique, means, measure, process, proceeding, operation, agenda;
routine, drill, practice
1.1A series of actions conducted in a certain order or manner: the standard procedure for informing new employees about conditions of work
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- The idea is to standardize procedures in order to avoid confusion and eliminate the many gray areas encountered in the past.
- And so, we do communicate with the vessel and we follow a set series of procedures.
- People who do well in the test are often also those who do well in exams - they're good at following a simple series of procedures.
1.2A surgical operation: the procedure is carried out under general anaesthetic
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- Tracheostomy is one of the most frequent surgical procedures carried out in critically ill patients.
- More complex surgical procedures should be carried out in hospital with full cardiac monitoring.
- It is a surgical procedure requiring general anesthesia and the use of an operating room.
1.3 Computing another term for subroutine.
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- In addition, input and output values of protected software procedures are monitored.
- The choice is between manual procedures or a simple software solution.
- It is evident that e-mail viruses have had the most profound effect on data backup procedures.
Late 16th century: from French procédure, from procéder (see proceed).
Palabras que riman con procedurebesieger, paraplegia
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Nice catch! (And doubly lucky it didn't hit her!)
Nice catch! (And doubly lucky it didn't hit her!)
Police in Toronto, Canada arrested a man at a baseball game for hitting a baby with the spray of a beer can he threw from his seat in the stands. Read the rest
From the New York Times:
"Yogi Berra, one of baseball's greatest catchers and characters, who as a player was a mainstay of 10 Yankee championship teams and as a manager led both the Yankees and Mets to the World Series — but who may be more widely known as an ungainly but lovable cultural figure, inspiring a cartoon character and issuing a seemingly limitless supply of unwittingly witty epigrams known as Yogi-isms — died on Tuesday. He was 90."
"You can observe a lot just by watching," he is reputed to have declared once, describing his strategy as a manager.
"If you can't imitate him," he advised a young player who was mimicking the batting stance of the great slugger Frank Robinson, "don't copy him."
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it," he said, giving directions to his house. Either path, it turned out, got you there.
"Nobody goes there anymore," he said of a popular restaurant. "It's too crowded."
A tribute to our #8. He will be greatly missed. https://t.co/9AI8vgA88B— Yogi Berra Museum (@Yogi_Museum) September 23, 2015
Berra's Yogi-isms were part of the marketing for the once very popular Yoo-Hoo chocolate beverage. Asked if Yoo-Hoo was hyphenated, he is said to have replied, "No, ma'am, it isn't even carbonated."
His parents must be very proud. Read the rest
This high school baseball player in Japan sure has panache at the plate! Read the rest
The Department of Justice has given up their decade long chase of baseball superstar Barry Bonds. Bonds remains the greatest baseball player I have ever seen.
Say what you will about the accuracy of Shin Soo-ji's first pitch at the July 5 Doosan Bears/Samsung Lions game, but you can't fault her for style! (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
Korea's Hanwha Eagles baseball team have installed rows of telerobot "fans" in the stadium that are controlled by remote spectators. (Thanks, Chris Arkenberg!) Read the rest
It was RoboCop Day in Detroit yesterday and the man-machine threw the ceremonial first pitch at last night's Detroit Tigers game, although sadly it wasn't Peter Weller in the suit (nor Joel Kinnaman); meanwhile, the city's crowdfunded RoboCop bronze statue is slated for completion later this year. Read the rest


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enrollment balancing
January Meeting Agenda
01-10-2013, 5:30-7:00pm
Old Business Asuntos pendientes:
5:30: Auction Committee formation, Auction Planning—Michelle Hodges
formación Subasta Comité, Subasta de Planificación-Michelle Hodges
Standing Reports Informes permanentes :
6:15: Principal's Report and discussion of status of Enrollment Balancing process
Reporte de la Directora y la discusión de la situación del proceso de inscripción de equilibrio
6:30: Site Council Report
Consejo Local Informe
6:40: Treasurer's Report
Informe del Tesorero
New Business Nuevo Negocio :
6:45 Fundraising for theater productions and program—Jennie Brown
recaudación de fondos para obras de teatro y programas— Jennie Brown
7:00 end
Enrollment Balancing, Backpack Benefit, Auction Planning: PTA Update–Week of November 13th
Hello All!
A busy week this is!
Tonight, Tuesday November 13th, is the Cross-Cluster Enrollment Balancing meeting at Jefferson High School Middle College. This is the first opportunity for parents from all schools in the Jefferson Cluster to meet and discuss the issues and how we work together for the betterment of ALL of our schools. 5:30-8:00pm. Some parents are meeting early at 5:00 outside to talk before the meeting—join us!
Cross-cluster Meeting Agenda
Jefferson Enrollment Balancing Information Packet
Feedback Form
Tomorrow, Wednesday, November 14th, is Noho's Hawaiian Cafe Benefit for the Northeast Portland Backpack Lunch Program. The cafe is located on Fremont Street at 46th Avenue Northeast and is open from 11 am to 9 pm. Come for lunch or dinner and 20% of your meal's cost will benefit our weekend food program for kids at risk of hunger on Saturdays and Sundays when their school lunch program isn't available. We hope you can come!
Thursday, November 15th, is the first King School Auction Committee meeting of the year. We are meeting at the school in the parent room at 5:00pm. If you would like to join or help in any way, either come on Thursday or email us!
Friday, November 16th is our weekly Parent Coffee at 8:40 am in the PTA office/Parent Room. Want to know what's going on? How to get involved? Or, just meet and socialize with other parents—come on in, even if you only have a few minutes.
Also: Support King's art program! This is a way to raise funds for creating a ceramics program in the broader art department curriculum. Only $798.90 to go! Click on the link to donate toward the purchase of materials: http://www.dickblick.com/ara/lists/2575/home
Keep up to date by checking the King School calendar at: www.kingpta.org/calendar
PPS Releases Enrollment Balancing Meeting Schedule
Here are the dates for individual school meetings regarding enrollment balancing/boundary changes/closures. They are listed alphabetically by school, not chronologically. The King PTA recommends that parents from each school attend meetings at other schools as well as their own to assure that information is distributed equitably by the district and that all parents are forming their opinions on complete and accurate data.
Beach PK-8
1710 N. Humboldt St. (97217)
Oct. 10, 6-7:30 pm, Auditorium
Oct. 16, 6-7:30 pm, ESL Family Night, Auditorium
Boise-Eliot-Humboldt PK-8
620 N. Fremont St. (97227)
Oct. 5, 8:45-10 am, Library
Chief Joseph PK-5
2409 N. Saratoga St. (97217)
Oct. 17, 6:30-8 pm, Library
Faubion PK-8
3039 NE Portland Blvd. (97211)
Oct. 15, 8:45-10:30 am, Cafeteria
Oct 27, 12-2 pm Cafeteria
King PK-8
4906 NE 6th Ave. (97211)
Oct. 19, Principal's Coffee, 9:15-11, Media Center
Oct. 23, 6-7:30 pm, Media Center
Ockley Green K-8
6031 N. Montana Ave. (97217)
Oct. 15, 5:40-6:40 pm, Auditorium
Vernon PK-8
2044 NE Killingsworth St. (97211)
October 11, 6-7:30 pm, Multi-purpose room
Woodlawn PK-8
7200 NE 11th Ave. (97211)
October 8, 6:30-8 pm, Auditorium
Enrollment Balancing–What is it?
• Save our School
• Make it Last
• What do we want for King?
Meet with other King Parents and community members to learn about and discuss the pending changes to school boundaries, programs, and school closures coming to North and Northeast Portland.
King School must grow to an attendance boundary that can bring us at least 450 students to keep the school open.
King could change back to K-5 or stay K-8. King may merge with another school.
Currently, King is in the Grant HS attendance area. If we merge with another school or close, this could change.
When: Friday, September 28th, 6:00pm
Where: Trace and Julie's house—4807 NE 10th Avenue
Spanish interpretation will be provided
So that we can prepare, we encourage you to tell us if you are coming: firstname.lastname@example.com, 503-460-2756
Inscripción equilibrio–¿Qué es?
• Ahorro de nuestra Escuela
• Hacer que dure
• ¿Qué queremos para el rey?
Reunirse con los padres de familia King y miembros de la comunidad para conocer y discutir los cambios pendientes en los límites escolares, los programas y el cierre de escuelas próximas al Norte y Noreste de Portland.
King School debe crecer a un área de asistencia que nos puede traer por lo menos 450 estudiantes para mantener la escuela abierta.
King podría cambiar de nuevo a K-5 o permanecer K-8. King puede fusionarse con otra escuela.
En la actualidad, King está en el área de asistencia de Grant HS. Si nos fusionamos con otra escuela o cercano, esto podría cambiar.
Cuándo: Viernes, 28 de septiembre, 18:00
Dónde: Joseph y Julie casa-4807 NE 10th Avenue
Interpretación españoles será proporcionado
Para que podamos preparar, te animamos a que nos diga si va a venir: firstname.lastname@example.com, 503-460-2756
Agenda for Next Enrollment Balancing Meeting
Jefferson Cluster Enrollment Balancing Planning
Tuesday August 21, 2012
Community Room
Jefferson Middle College for Advanced Studies
5210 North Kerby Avenue, Portland, OR 97217
Desired Outcomes: Refine enrollment balancing stakeholder participation process by:
- Developing guiding principles
- Sharing lessons learned from past processes
- Drafting specific frameworks for school-based and cluster-wide processes
Team Leaders: Harriet Adair, Judy Brennan Facilitator: Hector Roche
Recorder: Judy Brennan
5:30 Start Ups
- Introductions
- Review/Revise Agenda
- Ground Rules (Creating Community)
Carole, Hector-10 minutes
5:40 Guiding Principles Exercise
- Presentation
- Check for agreement
- Small group activity
- Whole group dialogue Hector
Harriet, Judy-50 minutes
6:30 Panel Discussion: Lessons learned from past enrollment balancing processes
- Panel comments (4-5 community members)
- Whole group dialogue
Hector-30 minutes
7:00 Work on specific participation plans
- Presentation
- Check for agreement
- Small group activity
- Whole group dialogue
Hector, Harriet, Judy-40 minutes
7:40 Parking Lot (OR PROVIDE IN WRITING AND SHIFT TIME TO NEXT STEPS) Presentation
- Whole group dialogue
Hector, Harriet 10-minutes
7:50 Next Steps Presentation
- Check for agreement
Hector, Judy-10 (or 20 with pkg)
8:00 Closing
PPS's Robb Cowie, Judy Brennan Talk Process
The King PTA and larger community hosted Robb Cowie, Director of Community Involvement & Public Affairs, and Judy Brennan, Director of Enrollment and Transfer on Tuesday, June 5th at King School. The meeting was arranged by the PTA so that parents could gather information that will help them prepare for the Jefferson cluster enrollment balancing process. Expected to begin this spring, the Jefferson round has not yet begun even though in the meantime, two schools (Humboldt and Young Women's Academy) have been closed. Parents at the meeting pressed PPS to set out a draft timeline of events so that all the interested parties can be informed and prepared to participate. None is yet forthcoming although the summer is expected to see the formation of an advisory committee and the actual discussion of the issues will likely begin with meetings at individual schools in September after school resumes with a proposal ready for the Superintendent in November. After the Superintendent makes a recommendation to the school board, the board will vote in January or February.
Click here for a partial transcript of the meeting and other Enrollment Balancing related documents.


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Specific information on USC's financial aid program and complete financial aid application instructions can be found at www.usc.edu/financialaid. The USC Financial Aid Office strives to meet each undergraduate student's full determined need and the process for doing so requires considerable documentation. Please follow all deadlines closely and plan ample time to complete the process. Graduate students are eligible for need-based loan funding through the USC Financial Aid Office, however need-based grants are not available.
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CM 1312nfi won't scan; scan software won't download
Am ripping my hair out after spending most of yesterday trying to get the CM 1312nfi to scan a document. It prints; just won't scan.
Here's what I've done:
downloaded HP Color LaserJet CM1312 MFP Series Full Solution and installed.
Run HP Print & Scan Doctor - it says scanning software can't be found.
downloaded HP Universal Print Driver for Windows PCL6 and installed
Run HP Print & Scan Doctor - it says scanning software can't be found.
Downloaded & installed HP Universal Print Driver for Windows PostScript
Run HP Print & Scan Doctor - it says scanning software can't be found.
Downloaded HP Universal Print Driver for Windows PCL5
Run HP Print & Scan Doctor - it says scanning software can't be found.
Unplugged printer and rebooted computer multiple times as instructed by the P&SD; also unplugged router
(these are the only drivers for the CM 1312nfi I can find on the HP website.
I am running a Lenovo touchscreen all-in-one desktop on Windows 8.1. I believe it stopped scanning when I upgraded to Windows 8.1 but it's hard to tell as I don't scan that frequently.
I appreciate any help - need the scanner operational!
Thank you
P.S. This thread has been moved from Printers – LaserJet to Multifunction and All-in-One. -HP Forum Moderator
Re: CM 1312nfi won't scan; scan software won't download
Try to purge your machine of all the HP crud and start over again (Win7 steps):
1. Uninstall from Programs and Features all HP Products
2. Remove all pritner queues from Devices and Printes folder
3. Remove the drivers from the Devices and Pritners folder
4. Reboot
5. Delete all C:\Program\HP folders
6. Delete all C:\Program86\HP folders
7. Rerun the Full Software install (this is the only one with the scan drivers)
8. Review the installation log in C:\users\<userID>\AppData\Local\Temp (should be something like hp*.log)
OS Upgrades have never worked with printer installations. You need to make sure you clean up the crud and start over as fresh as you can. Installing UPDs will not impact your scanner, they are print drivers only. You need either the Full software solution from HP or go through MS updates to get the HP Scan driver installed.
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An independent academic study, the Electoral Integrity Project addresses three questions:
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Under the direction of Pippa Norris, the research team is based at the University of Sydney and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
2016 EIP Workshops
Pre-IPSA Workshop on "Contentious elections" Sat 23 July 2016, Poznan, Poland
Download the final program, maps, and full-text papers for this event. Hope to see you in Poznan!
Pre-APSA Workshop 31 August 2016 in Philadelphia
The EIP/V-Dem Workshop and APSA Short Course on "Expert indicators in the social sciences" will meet in the Marriott Philadelphia, 8.30am-7.00pm on 31 August 2016, before APSA.
The event is cosponsored with the Varieties of Democracy (V-DEM) project and EPOVB. It features session and papers discussing the pros and cons of expert-based indicators and whether a code practice is needed in this field. Participants are asked to register in advance. More details...
Electoral analysis
The Year in Elections 2015 report
This report evaluates the quality of parliamentary and presidential elections held around the world. The latest release of the Perceptions of Electoral Integrity survey (PEI-4.0) gathers the views of over 2,000 experts and covers 180 national elections in 139 countries from 1 July 2012 to 30 December 2015.
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This course is an introduction to the relationship between political behavior and human motivation. Topics covered include: conceptual and methodological concerns; psychological perspectives and political theory; power and personality; the psychological burdens of freedom and their relationship to authority and individual will; illusion, reality, and the political order; symbols and political quiescence; the psychology of empire; and psychological insights into political behavior offered by fiction and film.
The purpose of this course is to provide an additional dimension to the student's understanding of the universe of politics. To the rational, and widely taken for granted, model of political behavior, the spirit of which is nicely captured by Harold Lasswell's well known definition of politics as "who gets what, when, how", this course offers an alternative model of the universe of politics. It is a model of political behavior which examines the "irrational", the world of human emotions and human personality, as they relate to and influence this behavior. Political Psychology, as it is generally known, is a well established field in the discipline of Political Science.
Course Title: Politics & Personality/Political Psychology
Overview Of Course
I. Introduction
II. Freud - Instinctual Drives & Civilization
III. Personality & Politics
IV. Political Leaders & Followers
V. The Political Psychology of Terrorism
VI. Dostoevsky - Religion, Authority, Freedom, & Individual Will
VII. The Matrix: Illusion, Reality, & Freedom
VIII. Edelman - Symbols, Symbolic Reassurance, And Political Quiescence
IX. The Paranoid Style & Conspiracy Thinking
X. The Psychology Of Empire
II. Freud - Instinctual Drives &
A view of "human nature" in ancient Athens:
"Then, with the ordinary conventions of civilized life thrown into confusion,human nature, always ready to offend(emphasis added) even where laws exist, showed itself proudly in its true colours, as something incapable of controlling passion, insubordinate to the idea of justice, the enemy to anything superior to itself..."
These are the observations of Thucydides [c. 460 - 400 BCE], the ancient Greek historian and student of political behavior, with regard to "The Civil War In Corcyra 427 [BCE]" in: Thucydides, History Of The Peloponnesian War (Rex Warner Translation/Introduction & Notes By M. I. Finley/Penguin Classics/1972), p. 245.
Readings: Freud, Civilization
Its Discontents, the entire monograph.
All students in this course should download and print for
their personal use a hard copy of "A Partial Glossary Of Freud".
This glossary can be accessed @ http://www.arnoldleder.com/readings/index.html.
Scroll to the section on "Political Psychology"
and look for "A
Partial Glossary Of Freud". This location is password protected. Password
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Wilfred M. McClay/The Moral Economy of Guilt/First Things, May 2011, No. 213.
Texas State University Library permalink. A valid Texas State University User Name and password are required.
The article explores the contribution of cultural process in the emergence of sense of guilt. According to the author, the advancement in civilization contributed to the heightening of the sense of guilt which made the people lose their happiness. He adds that religions in the world are trying to save the people from the sin of guilt. He stresses that the ability to feel guilt is one of the attributes of people. He also mentions the therapeutic unreality of guilt, which can be something illusory and omnipresent and the concept of forgiveness.
"In his grand and gloomy book Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud identified the tenacious sense of guilt as the most important problem in the development of civilization. In fact, he
continued, it seems that the price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt." (boldface added)
Dinah M. Mendes, "Totem and Tefillin", Azure, No. 44, Spring 2011. Review of: Arnold D. Richards (ed.), The Jewish World of Sigmund Freud: Essays on Cultural Roots and the Problem of Religious Identity (McFarland 2010).
Why we should fear our neighbors more than strangers/The
Chronicle Review, March 27, 2011.
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"The proposition that violence derives from kith and kin overturns a core liberal belief that we assault and are assaulted by those who are strangers to us. If that were so, the solution would be at hand: Get to know the stranger. Talk with the stranger. Reach out. The cure for violence is better communication, perhaps better education. Study foreign cultures and peoples. Unfortunately, however, our brother, our neighbor, enrages us precisely because we understand him. Cain knew his brother—he "talked with Abel his brother"—and slew him afterward.
We don't like this truth. We prefer to fear strangers. We like to believe that fundamental differences pit people against one another, that world hostilities are driven by antagonistic principles about how society should be constituted.
We hate the neighbor we are enjoined to love. Why? Why do small disparities between people provoke greater hatred than the large ones? Perhaps the work of Freud helps chart the underground sources of fratricidal violence. Freud introduced the phrase the narcissism of minor differences to describe this phenomenon. He noted that it is precisely the little dissimilarities in persons who are otherwise alike that arouse feelings of strangeness and enmity between them." (Freud's words are in italics.) [Boldface added.]
Cross-pressured partisans are willing to reassess their expected support for their party's nominee if they come to believe that an issue about which they disagree with their party is at stake in the election. These voters might find the salience of a conflicting issue increased by real-world events or personal experiences, but a political campaign can also activate a policy disagreement by highlighting the candidates' differences on the issue and calling attention to one's own party's failings and the opposition's virtues on the issue.
Finally, the third myth that we challenge in our analysis
is the enduring conventional wisdom that persuadable voters are
the least admirable segment of the electorate—poorly informed
and lacking in policy attitudes. The prevailing perception about
the persuadable segment of the electorate is that 'its level of
information is low, its sense of political involvement is
slight, its level of political participation is not high.'7
It is thought that these muddled voters make up their
minds on the basis of nonpolicy considerations, like candidate
personality, charisma, and the 'guy you'd wanna drink a beer
with' criteria. In contrast, our theory suggests that policy
issues are often central to how persuadable voters make up their
minds. To be clear, this book is not a polemical account of an
American populace composed of ideal citizens highly engaged and
fully informed across all policy domains. Rather, we argue
simply that for those voters who find themselves at odds with
their party nominee it is the campaign that often helps to
determine whether partisan loyalties or issue preferences are
given greater weight in their vote decision".
Does Our Language Shape The Way We Think?/www.edge.org/June
12, 2009
"For a long time, the idea that language might shape thought was considered at best untestable and more often simply wrong. Research in my labs at Stanford University and at MIT has helped reopen this question. We have collected data around the world: from China, Greece, Chile, Indonesia, Russia, and Aboriginal Australia. What we have learned is that people who speak different languages do indeed think differently and that even flukes of grammar can profoundly affect how we see the world. Language is a uniquely human gift, central to our experience of being human. Appreciating its role in constructing our mental lives brings us one step closer to understanding the very nature of humanity." (boldface added)
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Leaders & Followers
1. Personality of Leaders & Political Behavior
a. Political Leaders
(Revisited) Lasswell, "The Political Personality"; George, "Power as a Compensatory Value for Political Leaders".
Aileen Kelly, "Why They Believed in Stalin", The New York Review of
Books, April 26, 2007, Vol. LIV, No. 7, pp.
58-62. A review essay on Tear Off the Masks: Identity and Imposture in
Twentieth-Century Russia (Princeton University Press,
2007) by Sheila Fitzpatrick and Revolution
on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin (Harvard University
Press 2007) by Jochen Hellbeck.
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"... the Soviet notion of selfhood had deep roots in a different cultural tradition which did not recognize the same dichotomy of public and private. Lack of historical perspective is a major flaw in Fitzpatrick's book. The "new man" was not, as Fitzpatrick implies, a concept invented by the Soviet regime. It was central to a tradition of introspection and moral self-perfecting that arose in the early nineteenth century as a response to the dilemma of the Russian intelligentsia whose talents were frustrated in their benighted country, and whose longing for personal fulfillment was combined with a strong commitment to social justice. From Enlightenment rationalism, German romantic philosophy, and French utopian socialism many educated Russians absorbed a vision of history as a collective process leading to the fullest self-realization of man through the healing of all painful divisions between individuals and the social whole.
... In the worst years of Stalinism many maintained their faith in the Party's infallibility by developing a dual consciousness. As Stephen Kotkin explains, for Soviet citizens the discrepancies between lived experience and revolutionary ideology based ultimately on theory seem to have given rise to a dual reality: life could resemble 'a split existence: sometimes in one truth, sometimes in the other.' Even when theoretical 'truth' was contradicted by common sense, it still formed an integral part of everyday existence; without an understanding of it, citizens found it impossible to know what was permitted and what not. But acceptance of the truthfulness of the revolutionary truth also fulfilled another function: 'it was also,' Kotkin writes, 'a way to transcend the pettiness of daily life, to see the whole picture, to relate mundane events to a larger design; it offered something to strive for.' True believers (boldface added) could explain away the worst excesses of Stalinism by viewing the present from the perspective of eschatological time. In this form of secular religiosity, history, like Providence, was seen to move in mysterious ways; when the goal was attained it would become clear that policies and actions which now seemed objectionable or senseless all had their place in the overall grand design.
... The diaries Hellbeck has selected are especially significant for the light they shed on an aspect of the Soviet mentality under Stalin which, as he notes, Western readers find particularly challenging: the acceptance of violence in the service of self-realization. We see at first hand the operation, chilling and sometimes poignant, of the dual consciousness that allowed many to accept the mass slaughter of collectivization and the Terror and to justify the violence inflicted on them and those they cherished for crimes they did not commit.
... His study adds an important dimension to the work done by other scholars to throw light on the psychological reasons behind the collusion of moral idealists in the extreme violence of the Stalin years. He concludes by reminding us that the modes of thought that encouraged Soviet citizens to accept violence in the service of self-realization were not specific to the Soviet Union or the political left. (boldface added) In the first half of the last century the attraction of movements promising fulfillment through an all-embracing worldview led intellectuals across Europe such as Ernst Jünger and Georges Sorel to extol the morally and aesthetically purifying effects of political violence."
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
Film clip from "The Prime of Miss Jean Brody":
This film is based on the novel Muriel Spark/The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
James Wood/ The Prime of Ms. Muriel Spark/Atlantic Monthly, November 2004, Vol. 294, Issue 4.
Texas State University Library permalink. A valid Texas State University User Name and password are required for access
For an analysis of the life and works of Muriel Spark, see: Roger Kimball/Muriel Spark, 1918-2006/newcriterion.com/April 4, 2006
Joel Brodkin/The First Neoconservative: Herman Wouk, the Americanization of the Holocaust, and the Rise of Neoconservatism/New Politics/Summer 2005/Vol. X No. 3.
(See Brodkin's remarks on The Caine Mutiny.)
V. The Political
Psychology of Terrorism
1. Psychological Sources of Terrorism
Michael J. Mazarr/The Psychological Sources of Islamic Terrorism/Policy Review, June-July 2004, No. 125.
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Dostoevsky - Religion, Authority, Freedom, &
Individual Will
Readings: Dostoevsky, The Grand Inquisitor
Film: "The Brothers Karamazov" The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
New World at 75/The New Atlantis/No. 16, Spring 2007
"Huxley's most famous novel, Brave New World, was published in 1932, and the occasion of this seventy-fifth anniversary should lead us to wonder about his peculiar description of how we understand the future. We live in a time of biotechnological leaps forward that have made the term "Brave New World" almost a reflex for commentators worried we are rushing headlong toward a sterilized post-human society, engineered to joyless joy. It is easy to imagine that we see the shadows of our society in Huxley's vision of the future. But could it be that our insistence on seeing Huxley's book as an exceedingly successful prophecy actually prevents us from recognizing its real insight? Is there a way for us to understand the book free of the great distorting influence of our own times? We can do that only by reading the book on its own terms, as its first readers did, and by letting ourselves be guided by the literary, scientific, and cultural critics of Huxley's day. In doing so, we may glimpse afresh something of the meaning of Brave New World in its author's mind and time. ...
... This 'illusion of freedom' was cast into a clearer light by a reviewer who discerned that the temptation to sacrifice liberty to end suffering often becomes an attack on the reality of the liberty itself. Rebecca West, a prominent novelist and literary critic ... said Huxley had 'rewritten in terms of our age' Dostoevsky's famous parable of the Grand Inquisitor from The Brothers Karamazov—a 'symbolic statement that every generation ought to read afresh.' (boldface added)
By shifting the question from political control to personal conscience, West's reading anticipated the decentralized way that many of the particular scientific and cultural furnishings of Huxley's world have made appearances in ours. ... the separation of sex from procreation, and love from sex; the consumption-saturated culture threatening to commodify the consumers; the increasingly physico-chemical attempt to explain and treat a troubled psyche—we did not need bureaucratic threats or hypnopaedic repetitions to want these things, and in this sense Huxley profoundly overestimated (or is it underestimated?) mankind, and his book may, in the deepest sense, have gotten our present all wrong. We chose these things ourselves, uncoerced by terror or war or social engineers. They have been developed to respond to real human hurts and desires; and, as might be expected of human choices, the results and motives have been mixed."
Note: The text of Brave New World is accessible on the Web @ this location.
Lives, Controlled From Some Guy's Couch/NYT/August 14, 2007
(with links to related articles)
Bailey/Will Super Smart Artificial Intelligences Keep
Humans Around As Pets?/Reason/September 11, 2007
"By 2030, or by 2050 at the latest, will a super-smart artificial intelligence decide to keep humans around as pets? Will it instead choose to turn the entire Earth, including the messy organic bits like us, into computronium? Or is there a third alternative?"
"The Rapture of the nerds"? John
Coming Superbrain (w/links to related materials)/NYT Week in
Review, Sunday, May 24, 2009
Artificial intelligence is back in fashion, which raises the question: Will computer intelligence surpass our own
2. Erich Fromm - Escape
From Freedom
Fromm, Escape From Freedom Chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, & Appendix.
Lakshmi Chaudry/Mirror, Mirror On the Web/The Nation/January 29, 2007, Vol. 284 Issue 4, p19-22, 4p. (pdf)
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The article discusses the obsession with being famous, a desire shared by many of the generation born between 1970-2000, and expressed through media such as MySpace.com, reality television, and Internet blogging. Referred to as "micro-celebrity," the author contends that the craze to be famous or recognized on a mass scale is fueled by ego-centrism and self-focus instead of actual achievement.
Note Chaudry's observations on fame.
The Erich Fromm Society
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Yet the word nobody wants to own, the all-purpose put-down of the political moment, has a meaningful, indeed proud, heritage that hardly anyone seems to know or to honor. Only within black church circles can one, to this day, still hear Come By Here with the profundity that Mr. Gordon did almost a century ago."Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro/Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness (University of Chicago Press, 2000)/Excerpt from pp. xi-xx.
IX. The
Paranoid Style & Conspiracy Thinking
1. The Paranoid Style In American Politics: Richard Hofstadter
Readings: Richard Hofstadter/The Paranoid Style In American Politics, Introduction & pp. 3-92.
Richard Hofstadter/The Paranoid Style In American Politics (An essay which addresses a number of the themes in his book)/Harper's/November 1964
For background on Hofstadter and his work, see: David Greenberg/Richard Hofstadter: The pundits' favorite historian/slate.com/June 7, 2006
On conspiracy thinking, see: Michael
A Culture of Conspiracy:
Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America
(University of California Press 2003)
See Chapter Five of Michael Barkun's book @ http://www.ucpress.edu/excerpt.php?isbn=9780520248120#readchapter5.
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I was watching foot fetish videos on youtube and came across a video that I find to be amazing! I liked it so much that I made a quick gif of it and decided to share it on here. And yes, I do have a foot fetish. ( Don't judge me! )
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Media releases
Easter action to expose egg cruelty
Members and supporters of Viva!
ANIMAL group Viva! and veggie food experts the Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation (VVF) have teamed up to produce a fantastic new dedicated recipe website.
Consumers asked by Viva! to avoid dairy products to save badgers
OVER two thousand* animal lovers have already pledged to avoid Welsh dairy products ahead of a boycott by campaigning animal group Viva!.
To celebrate Pancake Day (March 8, 2011) veggie group Viva! have produced a delicious pancake recipe with a difference to get the day off to a flying start!
Viva! claims victory for the campaign it started one year ago
PLANS for a huge mega dairy at Nocton in Lincolnshire have today been withdrawn to the delight of animal welfare campaigners.


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Although we all knew, many questions remain unanswered. How about a forum about that?
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Although we all knew, many questions remain unanswered. How about a forum about that?
Maybe the citizens of Kaguya's world knew how to absorb and use the natural energy and in someway they destroyed their world and Kaguya is trying to absorb the chakra and natural energy from Naruto's...
I wonder what is the purpose of these chapters? Will Obito give his eyes powers to Sasuke? or Will they find something in that dimension?
What about the uzumakis? Could be Hamura the shinigami?
@paulbee are you sure it was said that hamura didn't have the byakugan? I can't remember having read that. could you please remember me where?
I think Kaguya will come back in the Shinju's flower and will get rid of Madara
guess there is no other form for the juubi
So the difference of the two brothers between chakra and body doesn't exist? You only born strong or weak
I think Guy will do serious damage to Madara to the point he will begins to worry, but Guy will run out of time and dies.
so i finish to read the chapter and feel like... really? are you kidding me?
If naruto is not saved by sealing the juubi arm in him, i can only think of being back summoned to mount myoboku and be saved for the toads
"Hey, put, in more ideas ahead of time that can be expanded on later. Otherwise you're gonna be in trouble" LOL, very funny kishi.
We at mangashare have a few.
Hi guys, do you think this hagoromo clan has relation with the so6p?
That's a good theory, but I think naruto will die. What you say can happen later to power up naruto.
I was thinking what if sasuke isn't sasuke but someone else? Like sai looking like sasuke, but...
i think the same
Technically speaking is just your assumption? or is there an explicit reference to it?
If izanami was created to counter izanagi, because uchihas were abusing of the power of izanagi. That means there were uchihas with the power of the senjus?
To use izanagi you must have both powers...
Oh Itachi!!! Hopefully someone will remember your teachings. Every jutsu has a weak point, i wonder in this case which one could it be?
The issue is quite simple, like electricity and a bulb, depending on the qualities or characteristics of the "bulb", "electricity" will make a particular light
i don't see chakra affects dna in a way like changing it, it looks more like activate something slept, something slept due to something missing. in the case of the princess kaguya, what happend it...
that makes a lot more sense. so for naruto to be a new sage of the six paths, he needs the rinnegan or awaken new ones
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I excuse myself for posting something out of topic but maybe someone can find it useful. You can ignore someone's posts; Go to the user's profile and add it to ignore list. Later the posts from that...


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Scrapbook Photos
Album for scrapbook photos
Oct 31, 2013
Photos: 2
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Album for profile photos
Photos: 1
Al Fateh Mosque
A photo collection covering Friday's 'Day of Rage' protest outside Al Fat'h Mosque only days after the Rabaa massacre. Clashes between police and protesters broke out shortly after the noon prayer, leading to at least 95 people being killed. In the past 3 days, over 1,000 people have been killed by Egyptian security forces.
Aug 16, 2013
Photos: 36
Iman Mosque
A photo collection covering the bodies of people killed at Rabaa arriving at a local mosque to be identified by family members. Over 1,000 people were killed when Egyptian security forces used live gunfire to disperse the pro Morsi sit ins at Rabaa and Nahda. The event is considered the worst massacre in modern Egyptian history.
Aug 15, 2013
Photos: 14
Rabaa Massacre -August 14, 2013
A photo collection covering the aftermath of a massacre against supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi at Rabaa in Nasr City. Egyptian security forces opened fire on protesters in a pre dawn raid, killing over 1,000 people and injuring several thousand more. The event is considered the worst massacre in modern Egyptian history.
Aug 14, 2013
Photos: 20
Anti Coup March - August 9, 2013
A photo collection covering a mass march by supporters of the ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi. The protesters have been staging a mass sit-in at Rabaa for over a month insisting that Morsi be returned back to power after the military overthrew him on July 3rd. Pro Morsi supporters insist that the protests will continue until civilian rule is restored.
Aug 9, 2013
Photos: 5
Anti Coup March - August 2, 2013
Aug 2, 2013
Photos: 7
Rabaa Massacre - July 27, 2013
A photo collection covering the aftermath of a massacre against supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi at Rabaa in Nasr City. Egyptian security forces opened fire on protesters in a pre dawn raid, killing at least 80 people. The event is the second massacre to take place since the military overthrew Morsi on July 3rd.
Jul 27, 2013
Photos: 9
Anti Coup March - July 26, 2013
Jul 26, 2013
Photos: 11
Atmeh Refugee Camp, Syria
A small photo collection covering life in Atmeh refugee camp located in Idlib province, Syria. Atmeh is home to over 30,000 Syrian refugees, making it the largest refugee camp inside Syria. The number of Syrian refugees arriving there continues to grow daily.
May 13, 2013
Photos: 10
Syria 2013
A photo collection of my recent trip to Aleppo, Syria
May 11, 2013
Photos: 51
Syria 2013 b/w
A photo collection in black and white of my recent trip to Aleppo, Syria.
Photos: 19
Photo Exhibit - This Land Called Palestine
A selection of my photography recently put on display as a part of this year's Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts entitled, This Land Called Palestine'. The photos span the period I spent in the West Bank as a freelance journalist. All the photos are printed on high-quality Fuji paper, custom matted, and set inside a 16x20 wooden frame. 4 photos are still available for purchase at $100 each. Please direct all inquires by email here: alimustafa AT gmail DOT com.
May 6, 2013
Mohammad Mahjoub removes GPS anklet device in front of Federal Court
A photo collection of Mohammad Mahjoub cutting off the GPS anklet device he has been forced to wear for over five years while living under house arrest as a 'security certificate' detainee in Canada. A recent Federal Court ruling finally lifted many of his outstanding bail conditions, bringing him one step closer to freedom. Originally fleeing to Canada as a refugee from his native Egypt in 1996, Mahjoub has been detained, without charge or trial, for the past 12 years.
Feb 1, 2013
Mohammad Mahjoub Court Hearing - September 6, 2012
A photo collection covering a small demonstration outside the Federal Court in downtown Toronto where former Canadian Minister of Public Safety Stockwell Day testified at a hearing concerning security certificate detainee Mohammad Mahjoub.
Sep 6, 2012
Twelve Years Too Many - March with Mohammad Mahjoub
A photo collection covering the march and rally held in support of Mohammad Mahjoub, an Egyptian refugee living in Canada who was arrested on a 'security certificate' and detained without charge or trial in 2000. He has remained in prison or house arrest ever since. His entire ordeal is based on secret 'evidence' that the Canadian government has admitted was likely obtained under torture. June 26, 2012 marks the 12 year anniversary of Mahjoub's initial arrest. Mahjoub is demanding freedom for himself and the two other men currently being held on security certificate cases. The event was organized by the Justice for Mahjoub Network.
Jun 26, 2012
Photos: 18
Photo Exhibit - Egypt: The Revolution Continues...
A selection of my photography recently put on display at a photo exhibit entitled, 'Egypt: The Revolution Continues...' The photos span the period I spent in Cairo, Egypt as a freelance journalist covering the Egyptian revolution. All the photos are printed on high-quality Epson paper, custom matted, and set inside a 16x20 wooden frame. $1,000 was raised during the photo exhibit with all proceeds donated to the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP). 10 photos are still available for purchase at $100 each. Please direct all inquires by email here: alimustafa AT gmail DOT com.
May 24, 2012
March on the Ministry of Defense - February 10, 2012
A small photo collection of a mass march to the Ministry of Defense calling on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to immediately cede power to a civilian government. Tens of thousands of people participated in the march, which took took approximately five hours to complete. The march took place on the one year anniversary of the fall of former president Hosni Mubarak.
Feb 10, 2012
Ministry of Interior Clashes
A small photo collection taken during the latest round of clashes outside the Ministry of Interior on Mohamad Mahmoud St. in downtown Cairo. These photos highlight the situation away from the scene of the clashes. The clashes began on February 2, 2012, when hardcore Ahly football club fans, known as 'Ultras', marched on the Ministry of Interior to claim retribution for the death of at least 73 of their colleagues at a soccer match in Port Said the previous night, when fans from the opposing Masry football club brutally attacked their Ahly counterparts with clubs, knives, and other weapons at the end of the game, while Central Security Forces (CSF) were seen standing idly by and doing nothing to stop the bloodshed. The 'Ultras' blame the Ministry of Interior for, at best, failing to appropriately intervene, or at worst, directly conspiring in the massacre by hiring a third-party to carry out the attack. An investigation into the incident is currently under way.
Feb 6, 2012
Photos: 16
Friday of Anger - January 27, 2012
A photo collection covering what protesters dubbed a 'Day of Anger' against the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF). Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians marched from Mustafa Mahmoud mosque to Tahrir Square, while others headed to the nearby state media building, known as Maspero, instead. The march is believed to be one of the largest ever to take place in the country since the Egyptian revolution began one year ago.
Jan 27, 2012
Tahrir Square - January 25, 2012
A photo collection covering the one year anniversary of the Egyptian revolution. Like last year, the day began with ordinary Egyptians taking to the streets in and around Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square; however, unlike the 18 day revolt that ultimately toppled former president Hosni Mubarak, this time they were not all together for the same reason. Some Egyptians returned to mourn the lives of loved ones lost, others to celebrate the ouster of Mubarak while many more were there to continue the path of revolution and reminder people that nothing has changed since the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) assumed power.
Jan 25, 2012
Photos: 21
Tahrir Square Demonstration - December 30, 2012
Photos from a demonstration on the last Friday of 2011. The crowd was not very large but a few hundred protesters assembled to lead chants against the ruling military regime, while parents of martyrs killed over the course of the past year came out to mourn and commemorate their loved ones.
Dec 30, 2011
Tahrir Square Demonstration - December 23, 2011
A photo collection from a demonstration in Tahrir Square on the last Friday of a long and eventful year of revolt in the country. The year 2011 has ended in much the same way as it began - with protesters taking to Tahrir Square to demand change and an end to the current regime. Although the crowd was smaller than demonstrations in previous weeks - and even smaller when compared to the the January 25th uprising - the mood was festive and marked by a sense of optimism. While former president Hosni Mubarak is no longer in the picture, whether Egyptians will finally topple the regime and all its surviving remnants once and for all in 2012 remains to be seen.
Dec 23, 2011
Pre-Dawn Army Attack
A photo collection chronicling the aftermath of a pre-dawn army raid on Tahrir Square, the second such attack in a row. Following rolling clashes between protesters and the army throughout the day and into the night, the army, alongside Central Security Forces, attacked Tahrir Square at approximately 4:30 am. When protesters fought back with rocks, the army used live round and sniper fire to disperse the protest and clear out the square, killing 2 people and critically injuring at least another five. No mainstream media were present during the attack, thus the only documentation of what exactly happened has come from freelancers and citizen journalists present at the scene.
Dec 20, 2011
Photos: 25
Occupy Cabinet Clashes - Part II
A photo collection of clashes between protesters and the army outside the Cabinet building where a sit-in being staged against the ruling military junta was violently broken the previous night. The clashes began after 'Aboudy', a protester involved in the Occupy Cabinet sit-in, was abducted and brutally beaten by the army in the middle of the night, prompting activists involved in the sit-in to respond by throwing rocks back at the soldiers. Soldiers and plainclothes 'thugs' responded by hurling rocks, bricks, and even chairs from the rooftop of the nine-story Cabinet building at the protesters down below, causing several head injuries. In the ensuing battle, the army and Central Security Forces killed at least 16 people and injured over 900, many by live round fire.
Dec 18, 2011
Photos: 24
Occupy Cabinet Clashes - Part I
Dec 17, 2011
Cabinet Sit-in
A small photo collection from outside the Cabinet building where protesters have staged a sit-in to to oppose the appointment of Kamal Ganzouri as Prime Minister of Egypt. Ganzouri was assigned the post by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) after Essam Sharaf, the previous prime minister, was forced to resign. The Cabinet sit-in is a space where each day people gather to discuss strategy, share ideas, and socialize in order to keep the protest alive until some of its core demands are met.
Dec 11, 2011
Street Graffiti - Cairo, Egypt
A photo collection of graffiti found around the downtown area of Cairo, Egypt. This album will be updated on an ongoing basis.
Photos: 40
Tahrir Square Demonstration - December 2, 2011
A small photo collection of a march and rally to honor the victims of the Mohamad Mahmoud St. clashes. Protesters held symbolic coffins for each of the martyrs slain and carried them in a procession from Tahrir Square to the Cabinet building where an open ended sit-in has been staged by protesters. The protesters are calling for Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to cede power immediately to a civilian government.
Dec 2, 2011
Election Day in Egypt
A photo collection covering the first round of the 2011 parliamentary elections in Cairo, Egypt - the first free and fair vote in the country's history. The vote took place only one week after an outbreak of violent clashes between protesters and the police on Mohamad Mahmoud St. left at least 40 people dead. While 52% of Egyptians decided to cast a ballot, many others have abstained or boycotted instead in protest.
Nov 28, 2011
Battle of Tahrir Square - Day 4, 5, 6, 7
A photo collection of the recent clashes in around Tahrir Square. Following the violent dispersal of a Tahrir Square sit-in by Central Security Forces (CSF) on the morning of November 19, 2011, clashes erupted between police and protesters that would rage on, virtually non-stop, for five days. The battle largely concentrated on Mohamad Mahmoud St. has resulted in the confirmed deaths of 41 people due to causes ranging from live round fire to tear gas inhalation. The clashes represent the worst outbreak of violence since the ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak in February. While the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) is promising that upcoming parliamentary elections will go ahead as planned, it remains unclear how legitimate elections of any stable and orderly kind can be held under such circumstances.
Nov 24, 2011
Battle of Tahrir Square - Day 3
Nov 21, 2011
Photos: 49
Battle of Tahrir Square - Day 2
Nov 20, 2011
Photos: 39
Battle of Tahrir Square - Day 1
Nov 19, 2011
Photos: 42
Tahrir Square Demonstration - November 18, 2011
A photo collection from a recent demonstration in Tahrir Square organized against the supra-constitutional principles document drawn up by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) that protesters fear, if passed, will exempt the military from any civilian oversight. Although a wide array of political forces participated in the demonstration, the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamic factions made up the overwhelming majority of those in attendance. The demonstration was among the largest to be held since the January uprising that toppled former president Hosni Mubarak.
Nov 18, 2011
Maspero Massacre Aftermath
A photo collection encompassing several days following the deadly clashes between Egyptian army personelle and Coptic Christian protesters outside the state media building known as Maspero that saw at least 27 Egyptians killed. The Maspero massacre represents the worst outbreak of violence since the January 2011 uprising that ousted former president Hosni Mubarak nearly nine months ago. Egyptian activists have accused the ruling military government of trying to sow sectarian strife in the country as part of a classic 'divide and rule' strategy to hold on to power.
Oct 13, 2011
Maspero Massacre
A small photo collection from the Maspero Massacre in Cairo, Egypt, in what was up until that point the worst outbreak of violence the country had witnessed since the ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak in February. Coptic Christians and their supporters marched from the neighborhood of Shubra and descended on Maspero, the state media building, to oppose recent arson attacks on Christian churches in Upper Egypt. The protesters were met with extreme force by the army guarding the building, resulting in the deaths of at least 27 people. Autopsies would later affirm that many of the casualties were crushed by military tanks, while several others suffered bullet wounds at close range.
Oct 9, 2011
Tahrir Square Demonstration - October 7, 2011
A photo collection from a recent demonstration in Tahrir Square entitled, "Thank you, Now Go Back to Your Barracks." The purpose of the demonstration was to pressure the ruling military regime to cede power to a civilian caretaker government until parliamentary and presidential elections in the country can be held. The military, headed by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), assumed power following an 18 day revolt in January that ousted former President Hosni Mubarak.
Oct 7, 2011
Public Transportation Workers Strike
A photo collection of public transportation workers going on strike to demand a living wage, among other basic grievances. The strike involved several protest actions outside the headquarters of the Egyptian Cabinet in order to pressure the government to take their demands seriously, including an open-ended sit in that lasted several days before a tentative agreement between the two parties was ultimately reached.
Oct 4, 2011
Photos: 17
Qalandiya Checkpoint
A photo collection documenting clashes between Palestinian youth and Israeli soldiers at Qalandiya checkpoint, just outside the city of Ramallah. A few kilometres away, in Ramallah's Yasser Arafat Square, the atmosphere was much more celebratory as approximately 7, 000 people assembled to watch Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas deliver a historic speech to the United Nations General Assembly in which he announced his plans to apply for full membership status and recognition of a state on the 1967 borders.
Sep 23, 2011
Photos: 30
Qalandiya Checkpoint Demonstration
Photos from a demonstration at Qalandiya checkpoint in the West Bank, where Palestinians gathered on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan to demand access to Jerusalem. Only Men over 50 years of age and woman over 45 were allowed entry into the city in order to worship at Al Aqsa mosque, one of Islam's holiest sites.
Aug 26, 2011
Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv
A photo collection of the massive tent city erected along Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, Israel, to protest rising housing prices, among other common grievances. The tent city regularly plays host to lively discussion and debate on key socieconomic issues that cut across the political spectrum of Israeli society, including housing, education, and healthcare. Although the basic demand of 'social justice' has served to unify the growing protest movement, critics both inside and outside of Israel have been quick to point out that unless the issue of the Occupied Palestinian Territories is seriously raised and addressed the term will be nothing more than an empty slogan. The response has been that raising the issue of the occupation may divide the protest movement at a critical stage in its development. The tent city is now entering its third week. Just how far it will go in the pursuit of 'social justice' remains to be seen.
Aug 7, 2011
Photos: 23
West Bank, Palestine
A photo collection spanning my time spent in the West Bank from the period of July - September, 2011.
Aug 1, 2011
Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem
Photos from a protest in Sheikh Jarrah, a neighbourhood in East Jerusalem in which Israeli settlers have expelled several Palestinian families from their homes. The settlers are currently threatening even more home evictions, uprooting Palestinians from their homes and forcing some to live on the streets. Weekly protests taking place every Friday have been organized by the community in response. International solidarity activists regularly attend these protests.
Jul 22, 2011
Photos: 15
May Day 2011
A photo collection of this year's May Day march and rally for labour and migrant justice, organized by No One is Illegal and several other community groups throughout Toronto. This year's May Day included two contingents - one led by No One is Illegal and another by M1M - which converged in the end at Dufferin Grove Park. Over 1,000 people participated in the march and rally.
May 3, 2011
Photos: 55
Why We March
A photo collection from a city-wide mass mobilization protesting the austerity measures of recently elected mayor Rob Ford.
Under the popular banner of 'Rally for Respect', Over 1,000 people from across the city converged upon City Hall to defend workers' rights, social services, and access to affordable housing, among other demands.
The demonstration was organized by a broad coalition of labour unions and community groups.
Apr 9, 2011
Photos: 47
The People vs. US Steel
A photo collection from a rally and march in solidarity with United Steelworkers Local 1005, which has been under a 'lockout' by employer US Steel for 12 weeks.
The union's 900 workers and 9000 pensioners are fighting for the following basic demands: a fair pension plan, domestic job protection, and - above all - the dignity of its members.
What side are you on?
Jan 29, 2011
Photos: 33
Daniel Adam MacIsaac
Photos of Daniel Adam MacIsaac at the G20 Alternative Media Centre, immediately following his long and painful ordeal in police custody during the G20 Summit in Toronto. His full account can be read on my website here: http://bit.ly/fHcYyE
Jun 27, 2010
Photos: 6
G8/G20 Protests
A photo collection covering the G20 protests in Toronto, Canada. Following a weeklong series of themed days of action, over 10, 000 demonstrators took to the streets of downtown Toronto on June 26th to protest the G20 Summit.
The unprecedented $1 billion security budget, massive chain-link fence surrounding the downtown core, and widespread abuse of civil liberties that transformed Toronto into a virtual 'police state' will remain the enduring legacy of the G20 Summit.
But amidst the heavy police repression and wreckless vandalism of a few demonstrators, it is the powerful display of popular resistance to the G8/G20 that must never be forgotten.
Jun 26, 2010
Photos: 41
G20 Redux
A small photo collection revisiting the popular demonstrations surrounding the G20 Summit in Toronto from June 25 - 27, 2010.
Nobody will be able to forget what happened in our city during the G20 Summit weekend. Everyone by now has some small story to tell. What's yours?
Jun 25, 2010
Gaza Freedom Flotilla Global Day of Action
A photo collection from a rally and march held in Toronto as part of a global day of action to protest Israel's deadly raid on a humanitarian aid convoy bound for Gaza in which 9 activists were killed and dozens of others wounded.
June 5th also marked the 43rd anniversary of the ongoing Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
The rally was organized by the following groups: Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid; Palestine House; Canadian Arab Federation; Toronto Coalition to Stop the War; and the Canadian Peace Alliance.
Jun 5, 2010
Photos: 26
MST Assentamento
A photo collection from my time spent with the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) of Brazil, the largest social movement in Latin America. I had the privilege of meeting and briefly living with members of the MST during my visit to Brazil in the summer of 2008.
A warm message of love and solidarity to my friends and comrades: Osvaldo, Andreia, Aline, Ammine, Michel, Romolo, Tim Balada, and everyone at the Assentamento, Professor Luiz D. Macedo .
Until we meet again soon. A luta continua!
Aug 1, 2008
Saudades do Brasil
A photo collection spanning my time spent in Brazil during the summer of 2008. The majority of photos were taken in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, although a few were taken at the Iguaçu Falls, on the border shared between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay.
Jun 1, 2008


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Sweet Spinach Potato Soup
Total Time
Prep 5 mins
Cook 20 mins
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 large onion
- 2 large sweet potatoes
- 3 cups water
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1⁄2-1 lb spinach
- 3 tablespoons minced garlic
- 1 1⁄2 cups hot soymilk (I prefer nonfat vanilla)
- Chop onion and potatoes, boil in water and salt until tender.
- Stir in spinach and garlic.
- Puree, return to pot.
- Stir in hot soy milk.
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I'm sorry, but no one liked the taste of this.
I really liked this soup, but I did make some changes. Instead of 3 cups water + 2 tsp salt, I used 3 cups vegetable broth. I used yams, but I always sub yams for sweet potatoes...just my preference. I had 16 oz frozen cut leaf spinach. I added half and pureed with me stick blender, then added the rest to give a little more texture. I added a little salt after cooking. I did use fat free half and half instead of soy milk. I, personally would recommend using only the 1/2 pound of spinach and/or doubling the sweet potatoes/yams. Honestly, the taste of the yams was pretty much masked by the spinach and I would have liked more yam taste. I will make this again with my adjustments. Thanx for posting this recipe!


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