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Whether you've been dating for a year or married for 15, cashing in on regular date nights is oh so important. It fuels that bond and gives you that together time that everyone needs. And if it is super easy and budget-friendly? Well that's even better. Ashley Brooke is sharing 5 simple tips for crafting your own neighborhood date night with the one you love. And champagne is most certainly on the menu. See even more captured by Amalie Orrange right here!
From Ashley Brooke Designs... Ever since my husband and I started dating, we've been doing neighborhood date nights. It's a little tradition of ours that has stuck. We love going on them, and we love how easy it is to make them happen! Honestly, it's so simple to throw a few things together in a picnic basket and head out for a sunset bike ride after a long day of work. Not only does it get us outside, but we also get the chance to actually enjoy our neighborhood. These dates are budget friendly, but they feel extra special! If you haven't tried a neighborhood date night, follow my tips below. I pinky promise this is about to be your new favorite date night tradition.
1. Dress It Up
Even though you'll just be biking around town, it's fun to feel just a little fancy! Put on a pretty easy-to-wear sundress and a pair of flats (something you can easily pedal in!). You don't want to wear anything over the top, but you, of course, want to wear something that makes you feel like it's date night.
2. Pack a Picnic
Whether you pack a full dinner or snacks, pick up a little something that will make the night extra fun. I always bring a bottle of champagne or wine because either makes the night feel really special. I also love having trail mix and strawberries on hand. Just like your outfit, keep things simple!
3. Time It Right
It's really easy to miss the sunset, so make sure you check the sunset time on your phone before you head out on your adventure or you'll be biking in the dark. This has happened to us more than once!
4. Find a Spot
On your drive home from work, take an extra loop around your neighborhood. Are there any parks, benches, or pretty stoops that you could use for your picnic? If so, make a note! It's always good to have a plan and to know where your bike or stroll is about to take you.
5. Snap a Polaroid
Some of my favorite photos of my husband and I are taken with my Instax camera at our sunset picnics. I keep them on our refrigerator to remind me to plan more neighborhood date nights like this.
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Following our PrestaShop getting started guide? Your next step is to learn to add shipping to your products.
After you have finished installing PrestaShop 1.5, you can begin to add new products to your online store. In this introductory article, we are only going to focus on the very basic product requirements. There are many options you can set for products, however we will go more indepth into those in other tutorials.
To add a product to PrestaShop 1.5:
- Log into your PrestaShop 1.5
- Using the top menu bar, hover over the Catalog tab and click on the Product selection.
- You are now on the Catalog: Products list page. To add a new product, click on the green Add New button in the upper right corner.
- This is the Products: Global Information tab. Here is where you add all the basic information about the product. The only required information here is the product name. Once completed, click the green Save button in the upper right corner.
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July 18, 2016
Oscar Grant's Uncle Bobby, aka Cephus Johnson, speaks about the recent police execution of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge and Phil Castile in Minneapolis. We talk about the role of new media in exposing these two cases. He also discusses Obama's response to the police executions of Black and Brown people and his inaction. We also discuss the Dallas sniper killing a number of police officers last night in response to the rampant police terrorism plaguing the Black communities of the U.S.


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The Victoria's Secret supermodels are, by far, some of the most idolized women across, not only the country, but the entire world. They feature to-die-for tans, perfect complexions, gorgeous hair, and rock hard bodies. They seem to be photographed in their designer swimwear more often than they're photographed in their regular, day-to-day clothes. To give you some inspiration in more ways than one, we've put together some of our favorite Angels beach looks.
It seems that so many of these girls love the ever-popular bohemian trend. These swimsuits have features that label them as "boho" like their crafty prints, an array of colors (always including brown), and bohemian details in the hardware. To get this look, try either Call On Me or Crazy For You from Lady Lux. The chevron prints in both are not only hugely popular, but easily a bohemian-style print. Call On Me features colors that are reminiscent of a "desert oasis" with the oranges and teals. Both feature brown leather hardware that not only adds some luxury detail to this luxury swimwear, but it completes the bohemian trend.
As we mentioned above, these girls are known for their glowing, golden tans. Fresh faced from beautiful, tropical locations such as Brazil and Africa- these girls were born with their perfect complexions. That doesn't mean you can't recreate their look with a killer spray tan, however. What goes best with a great tan? A bold swimsuit to draw attention to it! With colors such as coral, turquoise, and purple, you'll be sure to stand out on the beach and show off your beautiful tan! Doutzen Kroes was spotted in a bright coral bikini at the beach- similar to the coral color in Pretty Young Thing. As Behati Prinsloo shows us, purple (like in the Unforgettable bikini) looks great against the bright turquoise water. Another great option? The Paradise bandeau- which mimics the bright blue waters of the native lands of these gorgeous women.
Lastly, these girls love their flirty floral prints. Using strictly feminine colors such as pinks and teals, these flirty styles show off a softer side of anyone wearing them. We love Alessandra's triangle bikini, which features glamorous hardware at the hips. If you're looking for a triangle (like Alessandra's), Secret Escape could be the suit for you. Otherwise, we think Floral Fantasy is about as feminine as they come- featuring not only the flirty floral print, but also the glam hardware and a sexy cut.


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd Jan 2013 20:04 UTC
"As was widely expected, the Federal Trade Commission announced this morning that it has reached a settlement agreement with Google, bringing the commission's antitrust investigations into the search giant to a close. Two different areas of Google's business were being explored: the way it prioritized search results, and the way that Google had sought injunctions against devices that were thought to have infringed upon standards-essential patents from Motorola." Would have loved to see the FRAND system crumble, though. Let the patent mess explode - to change the system, we need disruption, not appeasement.


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August 30, 2007
My Battle With Drugs
I didn't start using drugs regularly until I was 25. Before that, I occasionally smoked pot, drank and did acid. I actually tried pot for the first time after I found my father's stash and stole a couple of buds when I was 16. I did drink a little while I was a teenager. Once I got drunk on a babysitting job. I found their liquor, and drank myself into a stupor. They came home to me passed out on the couch and never invited me back to babysit. Big surprise, huh?
I got married to a real winner, after we gave up our daughter for adoption. He pushed LSD on me. So I did LSD with him. I stopped liking it though, and quit. I kept feeling this "darkness" overtaking me every time I did it. It would give me anxiety attacks, too. He really liked to drink, smoke pot and be controlling. He threatened to hit me a couple of times, and pushed me up against the stove once. We got happily divorced in 1995 after separating a year and a day after our daughter's first birthday.
When I started smoking pot regularly, it seemed to be the perfect solution to the depression I had suffered from since I had been a kid. I was volunteering at an illegal coffee house, mixing espressos and lattes and making Belgian waffles. Everyone who worked there smoked marijuana. That was how the owner paid the people who worked there. I got tired of feeling left out and started smoking pot when they all did.
I've never liked manufactured drugs and didn't want any pills for my depression, so I never went and saw anyone about it. I tried a couple of St. John's Wort capsules, but that, of course, didn't help. I didn't know that you have to take it on a regular basis. "Herb" seemed the perfect solution, and at first, it seemed to help me have a good time as well. It seemed to make me happier, but it increased my anxiety to the point where I couldn't handle being around people when I was high.
At first, I'd clean like crazy when I was high. It seemed to help me get more work done. Later, I didn't feel like doing much of anything while I was high. It stopped making me happier, too.
I began to have tactile hallucinations that same year. I thought it was the marijuana. It felt like someone was touching my genitals. At first this was pleasurable but soon became annoying, and then unwelcome. It didn't occur to me to tell a doctor about these hallucinations, first of all, because they were embarrassing, secondly, I didn't know how to tell anyone. The hallucinations happened whether I was high or not. Many explanations for these hallucinations occurred to me, including demons and ghosts. They'd happen regularly.
I kept smoking pot. I thought it was helping me cope. I associated with people who I knew better then to associate with. One of them was a child molester who began stalking me. I'd smoke in front of children, which I never thought was right. I ended up getting pregnant with a convicted rapist's child. He'd been a friend before he was convicted of date rape, and he continued to hang around after he got out of jail.
While pregnant, I moved in with a man I'd met in a bar, as a roommate. He was a gypsy. He didn't seem to care that I was pregnant. He kept pressuring me to take acid. Finally I gave in and took a half a hit. My cat killed his gerbil and he made me get rid of her. Finally he kicked me out for not keeping the house clean enough. Before that, I was driving his minivan while stoned, without a license. I'd pick up my pot smoking buddies and go get stoned.
My best friend stopped hanging out with me, because her drugs were "better" then mine. Hers are legal. She takes perscription painkillers. She's never without them. She's always telling the doctor she has bronchitis, but she never coughs. Her boyfriend and one of her other best friends are regular marijuana smokers. She used to be addicted to speed when she was a teenager.
After the birth of my daughter, the whole world went wacky. I started hearing voices, jumping at shadows and having other tactile, visual and audio hallucinations. I thought it was black magic, the devil, that I was in Hell, and that it could all be blamed on the marijuana. But, still I didn't quit smoking it. I had my daughter for about four months before they took her away from me. It was an extremely stressful situation. When I'd breast feed her, the tactile hallucinations would get worse. It was absolutely intolerable. It felt like rape. I'd get in a rage and shake her while breastfeeding.
I began to believe that vampires were after me, and that all my former friends had turned into vampires. Everything seemed to feed the delusion that I was being stalked by telepathic vampires. It didn't help that her father was stalking me and the child molester was stalking me. I could not handle being around anyone for very long, and even refused to let others into my house.
Finally, I decided that my daughter needed her family. I didn't know which family members to trust, so I started hitchiking in the middle of the night from Washington with the baby. I did not smoke pot during the few days I was on the road. I was heading towards Wisconsin or Minnesota. I got as far as Missoula, MT before I mentioned the vampires and had the cops called on me. They put my daughter in foster care. Convinced I'd never get her back I took a small bottle of sleeping pills. About an hour after that, I went to the hospital. They shoved tubes down my nose. At the time I believed the charcoal they were going to give me was vampire blood and that if I took it willingly, I would turn into a vampire. So I kept running away. Finally they strapped me down and forced me to take the charcoal.
After that, they put me in the hospital, where I was diagnosed with psychosis n.o.s.. They treated me with haldol. When they discharged me, I told them I wanted to go back to Washington. So they sent me back to Washington, and my daughter arrived in Washington a month later.
I picked back up with the marijuana habit when I got back. I continued to take my meds until I adopted out my daughter to the foster family. They would not give my daughter back to me while I was still in denial about my mental illness and still smoking pot. I didn't want to quit smoking pot, and I couldn't accept the fact that I was mentally ill. The foster family offered to adopt her. I told them, finally, that as long as they didn't change her first and middle names, I would adopt her out to them.
I lost my housing, which was conditional on me having a child. I could not deal with the idea of moving, so finally they came to kick me out with the cops and I had to leave all my stuff behind, except what I could carry.
That was the beginning of three years of homelessness. I travelled down to California. I was too paranoid to beg my so called friends to let me stay with them. I smoked pot whenever I could get my hands on it and drank occasionally. I hitchhiked around the country, making sure I went to every one of the continental 48 states. It was a dangerous lifestyle, but it seemed less dangerous then making like a sitting duck sitting in one place. This also enabled me to find more pot, money, and food. I was too paranoid of landlords, etc. to move into a place. I did not feel like, with my mental illness, anyone would let me move in with them.
It all ended when I came back to Wisconsin in 2002. My sobriety date is July 12, 2002, because the day before that date I was arrested for burglary. The night I committed burglary, I had been getting drunk and singing karaoke. I'd been having many conversations with "God" in my head and He "told" me to burn down my dad's house. So I did that after taking a blanket and fishing pole from his garage (burglary). They later charged me with arson.
I spent a year and a half in jail before they let me plead NGI to arson. They sent me to a mental institution where I was committed for twenty years. They gave me ten years probation for the burglary. I'm now out on conditional release. That's where they diagnosed me with paranoid schizophrenia. I've since come to terms with my mental illness, and my need for medication.
I'm thankful I'm back to a sober lifestyle. I'm even more thankful I've got sober people to hang around with. I learned my lesson about hanging out with and associating with drug addicts. Eventually, they'll drag you down with them, if they aren't in recovery.
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Stripling, 23, posted some impressive numbers in the California League early this season. He struck out 34 batters in 33 2/3 innings, walked 11 batters and allowed just one home run. Those are numbers for anyone to hang his hat on, let alone a guy in his first full season in a hitter's haven.
I saw him in person on Tuesday against the Stockton Ports and, while he wasn't his sharpest (4 IP, 6 H, 4 R, 3 BB), he showed me some good things.
Stripling's velocity sat in the low-90s and he touched 94 a few times. He used his curveball and changeup pretty liberally. Both flashed good potential at times.
This move was presumably made for a couple reasons:
- He's 23 and the most advanced starting pitcher the Dodgers have in the low minors
- Onelki Garcia was placed on the disabled list
It'll be interesting to see how he handles Double-A pitching. As of now, he should be skyrocketing up Dodger prospect lists. He was No. 11 for me when the season started. He's easily in the top eight now, and probably even higher than that.
Quakes' closer and left-hander Michael Thomas was promoted along with Stripling on Tuesday to Double-A. The 24-year-old, a 35th-round pick in 2011, had a 1.46 ERA, 0.89 WHIP, 5.8 H/9, 2.2 BB/9, 12.4 K/9 and a 2.23 FIP in 12 1/3 innings.
He won't close for the Lookouts, but he should get a lot of work against some advanced hitting.
Pedro Baez will take over as the Quakes' closer.
Left-handed pitcher Eric Eadington (11.42 ERA, 9.3 BB/9) and right-handed pitcher Ryan Acosta (13.11 ERA, 16.2 H/9) both struggled mightily in Double-A and were demoted to Rancho Cucamonga to make room for Stripling and Thomas.
Outfielder Bobby Coyle was also demoted to Rancho Cucamonga.
Herrera back in the bigs
Elian Herrera was recalled to the Dodgers to replace Jerry Hairston, who hit the disabled list Tuesday with a strained groin.
Don Mattingly had said he wanted someone who could play both corner outfield spots, so naturally, the Yasiel Puig speculation began. Alas, it was Herrera who got the call.
Herrera wasn't doing much with the bat at Triple-A Albuquerque, hitting just .250. His versatility is nice, but I wouldn't expect much out of Herrera this time around.
Lee good, again
Zach Lee posted another "ho-hum" performance on Tuesday night in Chattanooga:
6 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 5 K, 91 pitches, 59 strikes
Like I said, ho-hum for Lee these days. The kid is having a fantastic season thus far (2.15 ERA) and is proving his worth with every passing start.
Puig is exciting
This is not breaking news, but Puig is an exciting player. In fact, he's the most exciting prospect the Dodgers have ever had.
From my most recent article on Yahoo! Sports:
"Much is made about prospects. As Jason Parks of Baseball Prospectus says, they'll break your heart. But they'll also - one day - be the cornerstone of a franchise.
Enter Los Angeles Dodgers' uber outfield prospect Yasiel Puig. Puig, 22, is the most exciting prospect the Dodgers have ever had. But he could still break the collective heart of Dodger fans.
With his immense power potential and great, but not quite Bo Jackson-like athleticism (because there's only one "Bo"), he has scouts and fans alike drooling just thinking about the potential."His time is coming, folks. It probably won't be until 2014, but we can wait 11 months. It'll be worth it.
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Last week Barry, Josh, came to Detroit (along with robot building schmuck Kevin) to be included in the opening of the Museum of Contemporary Arts Detroit, (aka: the MOCAD) an old brick warehouse in the heart of Detroit, converted into a modern art gallery by some VERY passionite folks. Ariving on Monday and begining to work on Tuesday, Josh and Barrry began an AMAZE throw up on the front of the building finishing it in one windy cold day. On Wensenday Kevin put up his robot, hanging from the top of the old warehouse, and the crew did the side of the building up in a Josh One A-OK 2007 piece. Locals were amazed at the graffiti; an old lady with a walker walking commented, "Oh, this is going to be nice." Buses stoped and asked what it said; "AMAZE!" of course... On the outside walls of any other gallery in any other city, the giant graffiti would look out of place, however, on the decapitated dirty streets of Detroit, it fit beautifully in. Detroit is so thankful and honored for Barry to come to town.
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South Dakota State Eliminated from FCS Playoffs with Loss at Eastern Washington
South Dakota State played the #3 seed in the FCS Playoffs to a first half draw Saturday, only to fall victim to a second half offensive explosion, as the Jacks were eliminated by Eastern Washington 41-17 in Cheney.
The Eagles (11-2) outscored SDSU 27-3 in the final 30 minutes to advance to the quarterfinals for the second straight year.
Big Sky Offensive Player of the Year, quarterback Vernon Adams, threw for 217 yards and five touchdowns, giving him 51 on the year.
The Jacks struck first, taking the opening kickoff and marching 75-yards down the field, with Austin Sumner hitting Reggie Gandy on a 14-yard scoring strike to give SDSU its only lead of the day at 7-0.
The South Dakota State defense did its best to slow down one of the most productive offenses in the national, forcing EWU to punt on its first two possessions.
But the Eagles showed off their quick strike abilities the third time they touched the ball, turning a short field into a 2-play, 26 second, 51-yard scoring drive, with Adams finding Zack Gehring for a 22-yard touchdown and a 7-7 game.
Eastern Washington's next possession lasted just 52 seconds and covered 70-yards in three plays, the last an Adams to Cooper Kupp 40 yard pass to give the Eagles a 14-7 lead.
Both EWU scoring drives were aided by SDSU 15-yard penalties (personal foul, pass interference).
The Jacks did bounce back to tie the game with 1:40 to play before halftime, as Sumner went 4-for-5 and running back Zach Zenner picked up 20 of his 71-yards, the final one yard tying the game at 14.
The second half started poorly for the Jacks and went downhill in a hurry, as SDSU was called for a delay of game penalty on the opening kickoff of the third quarter.
On Eastern Washington's second possession of the half, running back Quincy Forte busted loose on the first play for 49-yards and the Eagles were in SDSU territory. Adams led them to the end zone moments later on a 3-yard touchdown pass to Zach Wimberly to make it 21-14.
The next Jackrabbit drive helped EWU put the game out of reach as Ethan Sawyer attempted a fake punt on 4th and 2 from the SDSU 43, only to be dropped for a nine yard loss by Anthony Larry, giving the Eagles the ball, and all of the momentum, at the Jacks 34.
It took Adams just four plays to capitalize, hitting Kupp for a 15-yard score and a 27-14 lead
South Dakota State got its only second half points on the next possession when Justin Syrovatka capped a 13-play, 63-yard drive with a 27-yard field to cut the EWU advantage to 27-17.
But as the fourth quarter began, EWU struck quickly again, 3 plays, 70 yards, 43 seconds, with Adams connecting with Cory Mitchell for a 69-yard touchdown.
The Eagles added a late touchdown on a 20-yard run by Forte, finishing the game with 504 yards of total offense, compared to 403 by SDSU.
Adams completed 12-of-22 passes for 217 yards, while Forte rushed 21 times for 202 yards.
For SDSU (9-5), Sumner ended the afternoon 26-of-40 passing for 315 yards. Senior wide receiver Trevor Tiefenthaler recorded career highs of 11 catches for 139 yards, while Jason Schneider added six receptions for 81 yards in setting the Jackrabbit single-season record with 78 receptions.
Zenner crossed the 2,000-yard mark for the second consecutive season, finishing the year with 2,015 after tallying 71 yards on 21 carries.


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April 11, 2013
PITTSBURGH (AP) — New Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam no longer has a stake in the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The Steelers announced Thursday that Haslam's minority share in the team has been bought by existing stockholders and new investors Scott and Russ Swank.
Haslam purchased the Browns in October and directed Steelers President Art Rooney II and Morgan Stanley to find suitable buyers for the shares he acquired in 2008.
Haslam spent $1.05 billion last October to buy a 70 percent stake in the Browns from Randy Lerner. Haslam — who made his fortune as president and CEO of Pilot Flying J, the largest operator of travel centers and travel plazas — will receive the remaining 30 percent owned by Lerner in 2016.


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Anyone know where I can find the commands that would allow me to switch to specific workspaces? I'd like to make alt+1 switch to workspace 1, and alt+2, etc via additional keybindings!
For me, those key binding switch tabs in Iceweasel. CTL+ALT+<arrowkeys> switch workspaces for me. I have my pager in a 2x2 layout so I use the left and right as well as up and down.
Yeah they do the same for Firefox. I was using wmii recently and I became very accustom to using their bindings to switch workspaces (alt+1, etc). I was hoping to change it so that xfce was more like wmii for bindings. Thanks though!
Also, I'd love to somehow change Alt+F2 to Alt+P instead.
You can have icons on the panel to decide which desktop to use. Left click the panel -> add to panel and you'll see a long list of items you can add to the
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Right click for menu>>settings>>keyboard settings and create your own scheme.
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Over the years I have always been intrigued at just how much of a role superstitions play in Las Vegas. Lucky charms, lucky hats, lucky coins, lucky numbers even lucky rooms, visitors and locals alike go to great lengths to ensure that Lady Luck is on their side. Even casinos such as The Wynn have omitted floors ending in the number four as the number four brings with it bad luck.
These same kinds of superstitions have spilled over into the Las Vegas real estate market as well. Buyers have been known to avoid closing on a home on a day ending in the number four and they most certainly would not buy a home with an address ending in the number four. Why? The number four in Chinese sounds eerily similar to the word death. They are much more attracted to the number eight which is associated with riches or wealth.
Set aside bad feng shui and unlucky numbers and there are a slew of other spooky housing superstitions. St. Joseph sells houses. Did you know that a statute of the patron saint of selling homes is commonly buried in the front yard of homes with the hopes that it will speed the selling process?
No faith in St. Joseph? Protect your home from witches this weekend by putting fennel seed in the keyholes of your doors or in the door jams. Whatever the superstition, if buyers, sellers and homeowners believe in them they'll continue to put them into practice no matter how silly it may seem.
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Track and field, speedskating lose major sponsors amid international financial slump
BRUSSELS – Two major Olympic sports — track and field and figure skating — have lost key sponsors in the midst of a global economic slump.
The South Korean electronics giant Samsung has been sponsoring track and field's Diamond League series of top meets. The company's decision comes on short notice following last summer's London Olympics.
The International Skating Union also must begin looking for a major sponsor. The Dutch energy supplier Essent said it will end its longstanding backing of speedskating after the 2014 Sochi Winter Games.
"To be honest, it is not easy," ISU President Ottavio Cinquanta told The Associated Press. "The international market is not in the very best condition. One has to admit, there is some problem. We will have to pay attention to what to do."
Soccer still has money-making capability in hard times. Manchester United proved that over the weekend when it clinched a major eight-year sponsorship deal with the insurance firm Aon estimated at $230 million. But annual sponsorship commitments like Samsung or Essent are counted in a few million dollars annually. That, however, doesn't make the income any less essential.
The ISU was fortunate in that Essent gave it a full year's warning that it was ending a 16-year relationship.
"Of course, we were not on the market (before) looking for another sponsor," Cinquanta said.
Europe is a prime market for both track and speedskating but the continent has been hit for the past three years by a government-debt crisis that has pushed many nations into recession and high unemployment as companies struggle to make ends meet.
Often sponsorship is an obvious cost-cutting division, making the search for new sponsors in a bad economic climate even tougher. That's especially true for a niche sport like speedskating, which can count on global attention only when the Winter Olympics come around every four years.
Essent and Cinquanta refused to say how much the annual sponsorship of international competitions cost, but the Dutch newspaper Volkskrant estimated Essent's involvement in the sport at $5.2 million a year.
The timing for track and field's ruling body is difficult. The Diamond League begins in Doha, Qatar, on May 10, with more meets later that month in Shanghai, New York and Eugene, Ore.
"The Diamond League and the IAAF are confident that another title sponsor will be secured in the near future," IAAF spokesman Nick Davies said.
Almost at the same time, Samsung announced a sponsorship partnership with Usain Bolt, "who is, above all else, a symbol of the sport of athletics," Davies added.
Sponsorship experts see the Samsung deal as a business decision based on the premise that it can get greater exposure from a straight affiliation with Bolt rather than the Diamond League, where the name of the overall sponsor is sometimes trumped by an individual meet promoter.
Sports federations like the IAAF and the ISU have been advised to look further toward Asia, where the economy is still in relatively good health compared to Europe's.
"When you look at the overall sponsorship market, it is still growing by about 4 percent," said sports management professor Wim Lagae of Leuven University.
He adds that the loss of Samsung should not pose too big a problem for the IAAF.
"It is only one of several categories," he said. "And if you lose sponsorship, even if it still is an important issue, it is not the end of the world because you still have TV rights, ticketing, and other diversification income."
The IAAF has guaranteed income from TV until 2018 and from marketing until 2019, as well as increased revenue from the International Olympic Committee following the success of the London Games. Reserves for the next five years are estimated to stay above $65 million.
As for speedskating, Lagae said it was only normal for Essent to show some fatigue after 1 ½ decades of sponsorship — a notion echoed by the company itself.
"As sponsor, we reached the ceiling of our possibilities," Essent Chief Executive Erwin van Laethem said.


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The State of the Judiciary: 2009 – Building a 21st Century Judiciary
The Minnesota judiciary today finds itself in circumstances unlike those even a few years ago and courts are striving to do their work more effectively and efficiently despite limited resources and increased demand for services. Working in partnership with the bar and other entities, the Judicial Branch is rising to meet a variety of challenges, including to preserve an accessible, fair and impartial judiciary.
Thank you for that kind introduction. It is great to be here with you in Duluth today. I have been coming to these conventions since the early 1980s. I remember fishing from the shore in Duluth one year, slipping on some rocks and going into Superior up to my waist. Not a good thing to do most days, but particularly in early June. Those of you who know Judge John Smith or hail from the Park Rapids area may know that I have succumbed to the watery depths not once, but twice now in pursuit of the elusive "whopper." There was also an incident on Potato Lake in addition to Lake Superior. Don't worry—nothing was hurt except my pride, and I learned a valuable lesson—never fish with a reporter and a judge with a camera! Proving that good news travels fast, but humiliation travels at the speed of light, the Potato Lake dowsing even ended up in Outdoor Life. So if you are keeping score, that is "Fish – 2" and "Eric Magnuson – greatly humbled."
It is good to be among so many of my colleagues from the practice of law. During my years as a practitioner, I participated actively in the State Bar Association, starting with the Young Lawyer Section when I was a young lawyer. Later, I cochaired the Pro Se Implementation Task Force and chaired the Court Rules Committee, and the Court of Appeals Task Force. I served in the Assembly during my time as president of the Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association. In other words, I feel at home with you here today.
I have been chief justice for just over a year. If time flies when you are having fun and one of the high points of your year was deciding if a vote for Lizard People counts, you have some idea of how long this year seemed to me.
I often get asked if the job is turning out to be what I thought it would. The simple answer is: No. When I accepted the appointment, I thought I had a pretty good idea of my duties, including writing opinions, advocating for change in how we select judges in Minnesota, and dealing with administrative matters and funding issues.
After all, I had clerked for one chief justice, Robert Sheran, and worked for and been mentored by another, Doug Amdahl. Plus, I had appeared before the supreme court dozens of times as an appellate lawyer.
But as I now appreciate, my mentors lived and worked in a different world, and at a different job, largely because they served at a time when the courts were a loose confederation of county-based trial courts and state-funded appellate courts operating in a pre-digital environment. The State Court Administrator's Office in those days had limited duties and only a few employees, and the supreme court focused mostly on hearing appeals and periodically updating court rules.
Today, the Minnesota Judicial Branch is a fully state-funded, unified system of trial and appellate courts whose administration is overseen by the Judicial Council and a state court administration of more than 170 employees, many of whom are dedicated to maintaining the technology that underpins today's court system. The chief justice serves as the chairman of the board of this $300 million a year business with 2,800 employees, and it turns out, that is a pretty big job all by itself.
Furthermore, the environment in which the courts function has changed dramatically. Demographic shifts, funding challenges, increased caseloads and technology advances put enormous pressure on the court system to keep pace with demands.
One of the most important things I have learned in my first year on the job is that today—in 2009—the job of the chief justice is not just to write opinions and manage the administrative issues of the judiciary. It is nothing less than to provide leadership in building a judiciary for the 21st century.
So how are we doing at that task? What is the state of Minnesota's judiciary today?
It is in a state of great flux. On one hand, we have incredible strengths. We have very high levels of trust and confidence from the people we serve. We have some of the most talented and hard-working judges and court staff in the country. We have a high-functioning governance system—the Judicial Council—and have made enormous strides in beginning to bring the courts' antiquated paper system into a more seamless, electronic network. You have heard many of these strengths recounted at previous "State of the Judiciary" addresses, and for good reason—they are important.
But the world in which the judiciary operates has changed, even since my appearance on this stage last year as a brand new chief justice. The economy, credit collapse and state budget woes have all altered the way in which we build the judiciary of the 21st century.
Let me give you one example: Now when we recount our many strengths, citizens—and sometimes even legislators—ask whether we really need to excel. In other words, in a day and age where everyone is making financial sacrifices, does Minnesota really need a superb court system? Isn't mediocre perhaps adequate, good enough?
The short, simple and blunt answer is: No. A mediocre court system ultimately costs more to operate, especially when staff reductions and case backlogs cause greater and greater delays in the administration of justice. Unlike a business that just cuts back on production, we have a constitutional obligation to provide justice for all who come through our courthouse doors. The cost of rolling back the courts from "Judiciary 4.0" to "Judiciary 1.0"—especially in the face of increased pressures and dwindling resources—is enormous.
To be sure, one of our greatest challenges in this era of cost-cutting is what I call the "clarity of naiveté." The less you know about something, the simpler the answers seem—it is just human nature. Someone hearing about our budget challenges at first may be tempted to say, "well, why don't you just cut X." Once you know why something has come to be, the picture is more complex. Instead of asking, "why don't we just cut X," I have found it more valuable to ask, "why do we do this the way we do?" and then, "how can we do this better?"
I have spent much of this first year helping people understand that the system that serves citizens best is the system that demonstrates efficiency, effectiveness and accountability. If there is one thought that you take away from my remarks today, I hope it will be that we are engaged like never before on the question of "how can we do this better?"
Answering that question—successfully—is the only way we will achieve real efficiency, effectiveness and accountability, and it is a solid foundation on which to build the judiciary of the 21st century.
As we all know, the judiciary cannot function without resources. Let me give you a brief overview of where things stand following the most recent legislative session.
Following several years of shortfalls and underfunding, at the beginning of the session, we were operating 9 percent short-staffed, we were closing public counters, delaying cases, and forced to cut juror per diem. Then came the prospect of a 10 percent base cut. With personnel costs comprising 85 percent of our budget, we quickly calculated that a base reduction of 10 percent would mean cutting another 400-500 employees and we would be unable to process 21 of 51 different case types, based on their priority.
Most out-of-custody adult and juvenile misdemeanors would not be processed. Offenses like shoplifting, trespassing, worthless checks, and underage drinking would be in the low-priority category, to be addressed only when time allowed.
Conciliation court, consumer credit, and property-related claims would just sit in someone's in-box waiting for action. The same would be true with tens of thousands of traffic and ordinance violations. And civil cases, always subordinate to the constitutional requirement of speedy trials in criminal cases, would be even further delayed.
That projection immediately raised concerns with legislators and with the governor. The question was put to me more than once whether the courts would not be abdicating their constitutional responsibilities if they simply stopped handling large numbers of cases. My response was pretty simple—if we do not have enough people, we cannot do all the work. If we do not have enough money, we will not have enough people. And then I asked: Whose constitutional responsibility is it to fund the justice system? It was an argument that seemed to get some traction.
We undertook a statewide campaign that was, in many ways, relentless. But it worked, because I got a lot of help.
The State Bar Association under the able leadership of Mike Ford played a huge role in addressing the legislature and the governor, and in rallying its members to contact their local legislators. Jim Backstrom and his colleagues from the County Attorneys Association, John Stuart and Kevin Kajer from the State Public Defenders Office, and Jerry Lane and Gary Hird from the Legal Services Coalition all expended tremendous time and energy in the effort.
Local bar organizations, including the Hennepin County Bar Association under the leadership of Mary Vasaly, stepped up and joined in the campaign. Our judges were also tireless in their service, including Kathleen Gearin from the 2nd Judicial District, David Knutson from the 1st and Chuck Porter from the 4th, who also serves as president of the District Judges Association. And we were joined by law enforcement representatives, as well as members of local government and labor organizations.
In the end—thanks to all that work by all those people and many more—our funding was not cut nearly as much as we had feared. The final budget bill, which the governor signed and is now law, provided for a roughly 1 percent overall cut to the courts, a 3 percent cut for the Board of Public Defense (which can be offset if the supreme court agrees to raise attorney registration fees) and a .8 percent reduction for civil legal services.
Our ability to avoid much deeper cuts was not without a price, however. As part of the effort to close the revenue gap, significantly increased fees were imposed on a wide variety of cases. As a result, it is going to cost more to go to court and to practice law in Minnesota. This is not what we wanted, and many would say that this is not the right way to fund the justice system. However, it was a tough reality.
We must avoid the temptation to think our comparatively small funding cut was a great success. It is better news than the alternative and I am proud of this considerable achievement, but we needed a $24 million increase just to keep the courts functioning at the same, reduced level that we have been over the last year.
So in light of this financial landscape, what is next in building the 21st century court system?
We are trying to better match our workload to our staff, by moving both work and people across district and county lines. For example, Rice County now processes conciliation court filings from Olmsted County and this kind of work sharing is happening across the state. The good news is that we are making better use of resources as a result.
At the same time, we are moving to equalize funding allocations statewide. We call this "staffing to the most efficient norm." It has been a very hard process. It requires concentrating work so that we can be more efficient. Our studies showed that while Hennepin and Ramsey counties, for example, can achieve a high degree of efficiency because of a high volume of work, it is difficult to achieve that same level of efficiency in smaller courts. Nonetheless, our smaller courts are being asked to do more with fewer people, and the result is likely to be delays in case processing and document filing, as well as in issuing court orders or warrants.
We have flattened the management structure to further reduce costs. Fifty percent of our court administrators now oversee more than one county. Two of our ten judicial districts now share an administrator. And we have made many other supervisory cuts as well.
We have instituted a statewide fine collection system and sent our older unpaid fines and fees to a private collection company. As a result, in the last three years we have increased our revenue collected by $23 million. That is money that cities and the state have used to fund the justice system and other parts of state and local government.
Given our budget shortfall and shortage of judges, we likely will be reaching out to the bar to ask lawyers to volunteer to serve as referees to hear conciliation and perhaps other minor civil cases on a pro bono basis. This is now being done in Ramsey County and has proven to be a positive experience for the court and the volunteer lawyers. This proposal is being studied by a Judicial Council committee chaired by Brown County Judge John Rodenberg, with recommendations expected by the end of this year.
Judge Rodenberg's committee is also studying our current judicial district structure to determine if changes are warranted, including whether our districts should be restructured to achieve greater administrative and cost efficiency, and whether there should be changes to our judge-staffing configurations or assignment of duties.
Technology will play a central role as we build a court system that can function effectively in the 21st century.
We have completed the installation of MNCIS, our state-of-the-art case-information system. Its web-based platform will open up many new opportunities for faster, more accurate and more efficient sharing of criminal justice information between the courts, our justice partners, and the public.
We are moving forward with three projects designed to reduce work for court staff through the electronic transfer of case information.
- E-Citations will allow police to enter citations into our case-management system directly from computer terminals in their squad cars or their records management system. Many locations are already using the technology, including law enforcement agencies in Hennepin, Ramsey and Anoka.
- E-Complaint enables prosecutors to electronically file complaints. Carver, Hennepin, Ramsey, Olmsted, St. Louis, Rice, Mower and Freeborn counties are already using the system. Kandiyohi, Houston, Steele and Waseca counties are in the planning stages.
- E-Charging is underway with a successful pilot project in place at the Virginia Courthouse since March 19, and is used in filing felonies, gross misdemeanors, and statutory misdemeanors. St. Louis County courthouses in Hibbing and Duluth are expected to go online in June with E-Charging and will include branches of the county sheriff's office, as well as police departments throughout the county. Olmsted, Carver and Kandiyohi are expected to be using E-Charging this summer. I am pleased to say that E-Filing of civil actions is also on the horizon, scheduled for implementation in the 2012-13 biennium.
One of our key initiatives right now is to centralize and automate as much as possible the handling of the 1.2 million payable citations our courts process each year. Instead of processing those tickets and fines in 87 separate counties, they will be handled by a single processing unit, with most payments made online or over the phone.
At the same time, we are studying the possibility of centralizing the handling of some of our lower-level and specialized hearings before subordinate judicial officers instead of judges, perhaps using video conferencing technology or ITV. We are doing some of that now with rural child support magistrate hearings with great success, so we know it can be done effectively.
Earlier this month, the supreme court established a task force to be led by Judge Chuck Porter to study and recommend changes to the Rules of Criminal Procedure that might, among other ideas, expand the use of ITV in criminal cases to reduce law-enforcement transport costs and cut the time for many of the participants.
Recognizing that budget constraints will be in the picture for the foreseeable future, the Judicial Branch is redoubling its efforts to answer the question, "how can we do this better?" We have found that the quality of the answer often depends on who helps us tackle the question. Our problems are rarely ever suffered or solved in isolation; we need your help—our justice partners and the bar.
We have learned from our successes with the Children's Justice Initiative and our drug court efforts that partnerships across disciplines are inherently better at problem-solving than those partners acting alone.
Last fall, I convened the Criminal Justice Forum, a collaborative gathering of all the players in the criminal justice system (including prosecutors, defense lawyers—both public and private—law enforcement, corrections and local government officials), to brainstorm about how we might change the criminal justice system in large and small ways to make it work better. Not only did we get some concrete positive ideas, but the fact that those diverse parties were willing to come together and work collaboratively impressed both the legislature and the governor. In fact, the legislature specifically urged us to continue the effort, and to expand it to the area of civil litigation, a task I am working on now.
You can expect to see more of these multidisciplinary collaborations—and be invited to join them—in the months and years ahead. They have produced nation-leading innovations, measurably improved performance, and more satisfying work for our employees. This is government at its best, working across boundaries, breaking down barriers and implementing innovative approaches to better serve citizens. As we build the judiciary of the 21st century, these partnerships will be even more central to our operations and success.
The court system in the years ahead must be more accessible than ever for our citizens. We have taken major strides on this front in the last two years. Case information for both trial and appellate courts is now available through our website. In its first year, this innovation resulted in more than 1 million case searches—searches that no longer require a trip to the courthouse. Next month we will unveil a new website that will make court information even more useful and more accessible. And later this summer, we will introduce a new tool that will allow people summoned for jury duty to respond online, saving mailing costs and staff time.
Our Virtual Self-Help Center on our website continues to attract large numbers of visitors, averaging more than 30,000 visits a month. Every courthouse is now equipped with a computer work station where the public can access the Self-Help Center, and each workstation includes a telephone that will connect the user to support staff during limited hours.
We have allowed cameras in appellate courts for many years now, and provide a video archive of supreme court oral arguments on our website. Although more controversial, we are investigating the greater use of cameras in trial courts. The broadcasting and webcasting of the Senate election trial was favorably received by the public and enhanced the credibility of the judicial process. Later this year, a supreme court committee will recommend a pilot program intended to explore the possible consequences of greater camera access to district courtrooms. The order for the pilot project includes a requirement for a study to determine the impact on witnesses and parties that cameras may have, something I know many prosecutors, defense lawyers and victims advocates are concerned about. We do not know where that pilot will lead us, but we are taking the right step in at least exploring a new direction.
Impartial Judiciary
Finally, in the midst of these enormous administrative challenges, we must remember that even if our 21st century court system is efficient, accessible, collaborative and technologically advanced, it will fail in its core mission if it is not viewed as fair and impartial.
We have had a recent reminder that our current way of selecting judges in Minnesota is burdened with the risk of eroding public confidence in the fairness of our courts.
Earlier this month the United States Supreme Court ruled that the West Virginia Supreme Court chief justice must recuse himself from a case involving a company whose CEO had contributed more than $3 million to the effort to elect the justice. The justice had refused to step down in the case.
The United States Supreme Court said: "Just as no man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, similar fears of bias can arise when—without the other parties' consent—a man chooses the judge in his own case."
But we do not have to look to the East Coast for evidence of this threat to public trust and confidence in Minnesota's courts. Wisconsin has had two extremely expensive and highly contentious campaigns for supreme court seats in the past four years, complete with negative ads, charges of ethical violations against the candidates, and ugly name-calling. Ohio, Michigan and Illinois have been through similar elections in recent years. The effect of every one of those elections is to damage the credibility of the judiciary as an increasingly cynical public views judicial elections as similar to highly partisan legislative and executive branch elections. Even judges in those states concede that not only does the public think court decisions are affected by campaign contributions, but the judges themselves believe that campaign-induced bias enters into judicial decisions.
A proposal to change the way we select judges is pending in the Minnesota Legislature. It would preserve the right of voters to remove a judge they feel is not worthy of the robe, while minimizing the influence of campaign contributions. I supported retention elections with public judicial-performance evaluation at this convention last year. I believe even more strongly today such a constitutional amendment should be put to the voters for their decision next year.
Because this is not all about any individual judge, or any single election. It is about providing that the process we use to evaluate and retain our judges ensures competence, dedication, high performance, and objectivity. No system is perfect, but retention elections coupled with public performance evaluation of our judges will help preserve the impartial and fair judiciary that Minnesotans currently enjoy and make it less likely that bitter, expensive, and partisan judicial elections will become the norm here as they have elsewhere.
It will take great effort to achieve these goals, and to overcome the opposition of those who are reluctant to change how we select our judges.
To meet this challenge, I ask the Minnesota State Bar Association and its individual members, as well as the public and the judges of our state, to support these efforts to assure the preservation of Minnesota's fair and impartial judiciary just as you all worked this past year to assure adequate funding of the justice system. We are at a critical juncture in the history of our judicial system. We cannot allow overt and damaging politicization of the judiciary to happen. The best way to achieve that end is to address the issue before it becomes in Minnesota the huge problem it has been elsewhere.
These are important times not just for the courts, the legal profession and your clients, but for our country as a whole. We need to keep in mind what one scholar has observed, "history never feels like history when you're living through it."1 We are called to make history every day, but some days are more challenging than others.
But even with the many challenges ahead of us, I see success, not failure, in our future. Despite the challenges we have experienced over the last year, the Minnesota Judicial Branch is healthy and has the support of the public and an active and productive Minnesota State Bar Association.
So despite the obstacles and the unknowns, and after a fairly tumultuous first full year as chief justice, I leave you with two thoughts: first, confidence in the future and the people who will help us secure it, and second, and equally important, an overwhelming sense of gratitude. Gratitude for my able and gifted colleagues on the supreme court, the court of appeals, and the district courts. Gratitude for incredible court staff throughout the state who care so deeply and personally about the quality of their public service to Minnesotans. Gratitude to the legislators and governor and to the citizens of Minnesota, who made the justice system a priority in challenging times. And gratitude for our strong and lasting friendship with a bar that is second to none.
In closing, I would like to thank the Bar Association leadership and members for your critical support in the last legislative session.
1 John W. Gardner (1912 – ), quoted by Bill Moyers.
THE HON. ERIC MAGNUSON is chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. He delivered these remarks at the annual convention of the Minnesota State Bar Association, June 26, 2009, in Duluth, Minnesota.


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Which Foreign Dignitaries Did Sarah Palin Actually Meet?
Sarah Palin increased her foreign policy experience by 475% today and the media wasn't allowed to hear any of it! Because Sarah Palin doesn't really speak to the media much/ever, so they have to follow her around and ask the photographers dispatched to capture the photo ops what they heard her say, as if she is just like her new pal Henry Kissinger and she is engaging in top-secret high-level diplomatic negotiations. Except… at the end of the meetings the ensuing media accounts don't have anything to write about, because nothing actually transpired, so the poor journalists are left to write about how she lipsynched that she "had a good time" meeting the emperor of Tokyo or whatever. So what's a bigger waste of time than following Sarah Palin around while she says nothing about meaningless meetings with foreign dignitaries? Making up fictional event-free meetings with foreign dignitaries for the sake of a pointless quiz to see if you can tell which ones actually (pointlessly) happened!Three of these meetings actually happened, according to the Times website. Three just happened the way I imagined they would were I a reporter assigned to watch various other foreign dignitaries harmlessly shaking hands and exchanging niceties with Sarah Palin before being ushered off to exchange more niceties and possibly a game recipe or two. Guess which is which! 1. Talking Georgia With Kissinger
Gov. Sarah Palin wrapped her first day of motorcade diplomacy with a 90-minute meeting with Henry Kissinger, where they spoke about Georgia. Ms. Palin and Mr. Kissinger sat on blue couches, separated by an end table with photographs of President Nixon and President Reagan on it. As photographers were led in, Mr. Kissinger could be heard saying that he gave someone "a lot of credit for what he did in Georgia," according to a reporter who was allowed to watch. "Good, good,'' Ms. Palin said. "And you'll give me more insight on that, also, huh? Good." The photographers were ushered out. When Ms. Palin emerged from the building, a news producer asked her how it went, and she mouthed the words, "It was great."
2. Palin meets her old "Sister" Mayor.
One familiar face in what would be a long string of otherwise new acquaintances was Sergey Alexandrov, the mayor of Mirny, a town of about 40,000 in Russia's mineral-rich far east that is Wasilla's partner in the international "citizen diplomacy" network program Sister Cities International. A McCain staffer told a reporter had visited Alaska in 1998 or 1999. A tall, ruddy man who appears to be in his mid-fifties, Mr. Alexandrov greeted Ms. Palin with a small bow and a handshake, then made a hand gesture that was an apparent comment on the vice presidential nominee's height. Ms. Palin pointed to the heel of her black pump. A staffer said the pair had engaged in a "spirited" debate following Mr. Kissinger's remarks.
3. Palin and Karzai Bond Over Children
When Gov. Sarah Palin sat down with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan on Tuesday afternoon, the polite preliminaries to their conversation centered around children, as Mr. Karzai spoke of the birth of his first child last year. "What is his name?" Ms. Palin was heard to ask, as she met with Mr. Karzai in the suite of a midtown hotel, according to a pool report. "Mirwais," Mr. Karzai replied. "Mirwais, which means, 'The Light of the House.'" "Oh nice," Palin responded. "He is the only one we have," Mr. Karzai said.
4. Palin and Sundaravej talk cooks and cuisine.
For lunch, a security detail whisked Ms. Palin to her next appointment at the Royal Thai Consulate, where she was slated to dine over a briefing on a recent Thai-South Korean trade dispute from former prime minister Samak Sundaravej. The two entered a dining room through an entrance flanked by gold Bhudda statues and sat at a table set with meat skewers and spring rolls. "Did you cook all this yourself?" Ms. Palin asked Mr. Sundaravej, according to a photographer, who said the former prime minister explained that the embassy retained a cook on staff for such events. Ms. Palin jotted notes in a spiral steno pad.
5. Meeting Uribe
The next stop on Governor Palin's whirlwind diplomatic tour was a meeting with President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia. Mr. Uribe has a warm relationship with Senator John McCain, who paid him a visit during extremely unusual campaign trip to Colombia over the summer where he expressed support for a free trade agreement. The meeting was held in the residence of the Colombian Mission on the Upper East Side in an ornate room with a pink stuffed chair and a chandelier, according to an account provided by the reporter allowed to accompany her into the event, Ms. Palin was overheard telling Mr. Uribe, "Thank you for your work.'' Then the motorcade left for a sit-down at Kissinger Associates.
6. A Visitor Ponders The Implications Of A Palin Vice-Presidency
A reporter stationed at another side of the Kissinger Associates building saw Kissinger briefly emerge from a back exit to heartily greet a tall slim man of apparent Arab descent. Mr. Kissinger was overheard wishing the man a happy birthday before apologizing that a surprise guest would be "keeping me all day." "Like your father, only I am allowed to go to the bathroom," Mr. Kissinger told the guest. "A woman then!" the man replied. "Let me meet her!" Mr. Kissinger paused. "Well, you two are about the same age, but she you would never know," he said with a faint chuckle. "Her youth is — in many respects — quite well-preserved." "Inshallah," the man muttered in response. "Leave it to you, Henry. The one thing Bibi and I agree about…well let's just say this false Jew 'Levi' is on both our do-not-fly lists!" "Well, you know what I say: even the paranoid have real enemies. And if the enemy of your enemy is your friend…" "Fuck you."


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Chris Hayes sent the right wing blogosphere into its latest hissy fit by making a perfectly reasonable statement about being uncomfortable with calling all soldiers heroes on his MSNBC show on Sunday. For the record, here's the actual statement he made:
I think it's interesting because I think it is very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words "heroes." Why do I feel so [uncomfortable] about the word "hero"? I feel comfortable — uncomfortable — about the word because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. Um, and, I don't want to obviously desecrate or disrespect memory of anyone that's fallen, and obviously there are individual circumstances in which there is genuine, tremendous heroism: hail of gunfire, rescuing fellow soldiers and things like that. But it seems to me that we marshal this word in a way that is problematic. But maybe I'm wrong about that.
No, you're not. You're absolutely right. We throw around the term "hero" far too casually, especially in times of war. It's part of the myth-making and emotional blackmail that always accompanies war. There are soldiers who certainly do act heroically, and Hayes named some of those situations. We give those who engage in such heroics special recognition with things like Silver Stars and Congressional Medals of Honor. And the mere fact that we recognize genuine heroism is a reason to stop throwing the term around so casually and applying it to anyone who joins the military or goes to war.
That doesn't mean those who don't show such heroism are bad or cowardly, nor does it denigrate those who join the military in general. And those who claim it does are engaged in exactly the kind of ostentatious, hyper-emotional, faux-patriotic ritual gesturing that rational people should find discomforting. It triggers emotional responses that shut off rationality for most people when considering, from the safety of their own living rooms of course, whether to send other people to kill and die.
There's a lot more we can do for those who have, in fact, gone to war, especially of the unjustified variety (and no, I do not think that all war is unjustified, though I don't think we have fought a just war since World War II). We could start by giving them the resources to survive the trauma of what they've experienced, not just physically but mentally as well. More veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have now committed suicide after returning to this country than have died in those wars. We owe them every possible resource to help them cope.And the best thing we could do to help soldiers and veterans is by not turning our brains off whenever the government tells us we have to invade a country full of dark-skinned people who haven't done anything to harm or threaten us. The best thing we can do is prevent the creation of more veterans who carry the deep wounds of war, both physical and psychological, with them every day. That's why reason and skepticism, two things in short supply in this country (and perhaps this species), are so vitally important.
Unfortunately, Hayes caved in to the faux super-patriots and apologized. Kind of. His apology actually says nothing at all about the issue he addressed:
On Sunday, in discussing the uses of the word "hero" to describe those members of the armed forces who have given their lives, I don't think I lived up to the standards of rigor, respect and empathy for those affected by the issues we discuss that I've set for myself. I am deeply sorry for that.
As many have rightly pointed out, it's very easy for me, a TV host, to opine about the people who fight our wars, having never dodged a bullet or guarded a post or walked a mile in their boots. Of course, that is true of the overwhelming majority of our nation's citizens as a whole. One of the points made during Sunday's show was just how removed most Americans are from the wars we fight, how small a percentage of our population is asked to shoulder the entire burden and how easy it becomes to never read the names of those who are wounded and fight and die, to not ask questions about the direction of our strategy in Afghanistan, and to assuage our own collective guilt about this disconnect with a pro-forma ritual that we observe briefly before returning to our barbecues.
But in seeking to discuss the civilian-military divide and the social distance between those who fight and those who don't, I ended up reinforcing it, conforming to a stereotype of a removed pundit whose views are not anchored in the very real and very wrenching experience of this long decade of war. And for that I am truly sorry.


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You think of drinking whiskey and playing golf as things you do in your leisure time to unwind. But some people actually get paid to do these things.
Take Colum Egan, the master distiller for Bushmills whiskey in Ireland. Or Jerramy Hainlaine, whose title is actually "Director of Golf" for Hilton Worldwide.
And, when you're watching fireworks this weekend, know that there are hundreds of people across the country who set off explosives for a living.
We interviewed these guys and several others who have the World's Coolest Jobs. Click here to read about what their work entails — and how they landed such a cool job.
So, what are the world's coolest jobs? Click ahead to find out!
By Cindy Perman
Posted 2 July 2010


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Don and Maryjane Westra will share their experiences of living and serving in Zimbabwe for the last three years as Global Ministries missionaries during a program planned for 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Congregational United Church of Christ, 308 E. Second St. N. in Newton.
An Iowa native, Don serves as staff to the Micro-Enterprise and Strategic Planning/Management Program at Mt. Selinda, and Maryjane serves as a hospital administrator, which includes administration responsibilities at the Daisy Dube Children's Home in Mt. Selinda. Global Ministries is a joint endeavor of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ that seeks to receive and share the Good News of Jesus Christ by joining with global and local partners to work for justice, reconciliation and peace.
There will be a time for questions and answers following their presentation. All are welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be served.


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DescriptionLong-tailed Weasels are voracious predators, foraging day and night for small vertebrates, and scavenging for carrion when necessary. In captivity, adults can consume an amount equal to one-third their own body weight in 24 hours. In the wild they may store food in a burrow or near a kill site. They are solitary except for the July-August breeding season. Both males and females maintain territories, marking them with chemical secretions from anal glands. Litters usually comprise 4-5 pups, born in a den. In 12 weeks they reach full adult body weight and begin hunting for food, pursuing mates, and establishing territories. Foxes, raptors, Coyotes, domestic dogs and cats, and rattlesnakes all prey on Long-tailed Weasels, and although they can live in a variety of habitats, population densities are low. In some locations they are endangered, and in others, considered threatened or species of concern.
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Michelle Dockery & Beau John Dineen Hold Hands at Polo Cup!
Michelle Dockery shows off her svelte figure while arriving with her boyfriend John Dineen at the Cartier Polo Cup on Sunday (June 15) in London, England.
The 32-year-old Downton Abbey star and her Irish-born beau were joined at the event by Kristin Davis.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Michelle Dockery
"We finish filming at the end of August," Michelle's co-star Joanne Froggatt recently told THR about the new season. "I haven't seen all of the scripts yet, but nearly all. Some things from season four carry over into season five. It's not just resolved and they move forward with their lives. They're still struggling to deal with what's happened to Anna. It doesn't simply resolve and disappear."
FYI: Michelle is wearing a Antonio Berardi dress, with a Cartier bag, sunglasses, jewelry.
10+ pictures inside of Michelle Dockery with her boyfriend John Dineen in London…


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From Washington State Patrol reports
Driver injured
COULEE CITY – A local man was injured May 7 when his car collided with a sport utility vehicle on state Highway 17 south of town at Dry Falls.
David T. Holz, 60, was taken by ambulance to Coulee Medical Center, Grand Coulee, the Washington State Patrol said.
He was northbound and following the SUV, driven by Kendra R. Bartell, 40, Omak. She slowed to make a turn and Holz's vehicle struck Bartell's in the left rear at 4:59 p.m.
She was not injured. Her vehicle was drivable.
Holz's vehicle was destroyed.
Both drivers were wearing seatbelts. No drugs or alcohol were involved.
Holz was citied for failure to yield right of way, the patrol said.
Pedestrian injured
OMAK — A pedestrian was injured May 9 when he was hit by a pickup truck while crossing Engh Road.
Omak resident Danny R. Haywood, 50, was taken to Mid-Valley Hospital, Omak, after being hit by the truck, driven by Donald E. Leslie, 20, Okanogan, the Washington State Patrol said.
Leslie was northbound on U.S. Highway 97 at 9:45 p.m. and attempting a right turn onto Engh Road. Haywood was in the crosswalk.
No drugs or alcohol were involved. Leslie was wearing a seatbelt.
Leslie was cited for failure to yield to a pedestrian.
Two injured
REPUBLIC — Two people were injured May 10 when their sport utility vehicle went off state Highway 21 about five miles south of town.
Phyllis L. Erickson, 56, Wauconda, was southbound at 7:58 a.m. when she braked suddenly and the vehicle overturned, the Washington State Patrol said. She was cited for reckless driving.
She was injured and was transported by a private party to seek medical assistance.
A passenger, Stephen M. Erickson, 59, Wauconda, was injured but not transported.
It's unknown whether either was wearing a seatbelt. No drugs or alcohol were involved.
Okanogan man cited
CONCONULLY – An Okanogan man was cited after the flatbed truck he was driving went off an embankment on the Conconully side of the Seven Devils on Conconully Highway.
Ronald J. Allard, 51, was cited for
hit and run unattended-property damage, Sheriff Frank Rogers said. Allard was not injured.
Fire District No. 9 and deputy Dennis Irwin were dispatched at 8:30 a.m. to the crash at milepost 13, about a mile south of Happy Hill Road.
The empty truck was located 50-60 feet down an embankment off the northbound shoulder. The area was searched by first responders.
A fence and a couple of posts were damaged.
Allard contacted dispatch around 9:30 a.m. and told deputies he was unsure what happened to cause the crash, but said it was dark at the time. He walked back to his family's shop on Kermel Road.
Rogers said it's not known whether alcohol was a factor.
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With so many highly anticipated movies crowding into the spotlight during the final weeks of the year, it's easy to forget that the Golden Globes ceremony on Jan. 16 — the first major award show of the season — hands out television kudos as well. And since the telecast reaches 150 countries — and tends to generate a larger worldwide audience than the Emmy broadcast in September — a best series nomination can generate a significant publicity boost, particularly for those newly minted programs the Globes are first to recognize. Among this year's wet-behind-the-ears best series nominees are "Boardwalk Empire," which premiered on HBO in September, Showtime's Laura Linney-starring "The Big C" and AMC's "The Walking Dead," a ratings juggernaut about a zombie apocalypse that has aired just six episodes since its Halloween premiere.
Here's a rundown of the best series nominees with an assessment from Los Angeles Times television critic Mary McNamara.
"BOARDWALK EMPIRE" (HBO) Season 1
The series: Initially tagged as a retread of too-familiar gangster territory by some, the Prohibition-era "Boardwalk Empire" has garnered good premium cable ratings and strong overall critical support with its dense, deepening stories, magnetic minor characters and standout performances by Steve Buscemi and Kelly Macdonald, both of whom were also nominated.