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Dear Justice Tongue:
I was brought up short the other day when opposing counsel objected to all of my discovery because I had not first served initial disclosures. They also objected because my standard set of rogs and requests supposedly exceeded some new artificially low limit under the "new rules". "What new rules ?" I asked aloud, at which time I was informed by the receptionist that the discovery rules had been turned on their head. I immediately suspected a meddlesome committee of "liberal elites" bent on having the government interfere with the courts. Why can't they leave us alone to duke it out as we always have? Why fix something that isn't broken? What is the great Justice Tongue's take on these new and unimproved pesky products of committee chaos?
Yours Truly,
Dear DOZ:
Oh my! How exactly are you employing the term "new?" Or let me be more pointed in my examination. What percentage of your billable hours are logged during waking hours? You say your receptionist brought you up to speed. I suspect the janitor could have done so as well.
Oh, what a burden has been placed upon you as a member of the bar to actually have to read and implement something new with the hope and ambition of expediting the judicial resolution of disputes. Oh sure, you and your kindred have been endowed a legal monopoly in the right to represent the interest of others in court and the power to exact ever-escalating fees in endless senseless battles over information that rational minds would freely exchange. What an intrusion on your solitude just because clients are completely dependent on your efforts (or lack thereof) to represent and efficiently promote their interests.
Hmm, I just wonder if in your apparently few sentient moments you could grasp the larger concept that the practice of law is not just about you. There is that pesky problem of the clients' best interest and the fact that you may be doing as much harm to them as the corporate malefactors that drove them into your grasp in the first place. Ask your receptionist if he or she could afford to protect his or her rights in a system that spends most of its time and energy dancing around the universe of possibilities, all the while emptying the client's pockets long before the few and the well healed can taste the sweet relief of some measure of resolution. With increasing impatience I watch unprepared and distracted "advocates" going through the motions (pun intended) with little evidence that they have any intent or ability to bring matters to trial. It is as if they exist in an insular reality in which the process is the product, and the overweening reality is their status in the law firm's hourly billing marathon.
Do not get me wrong, the revisions to the discovery rules are far from perfect. But you need to hear the wake up call. If the hallowed system of distributive justice is not serving the interests of real people with real problems (you know the people that vote), they won't value it. This just in: people will not protect that which they do not value. In other words, they will allow your precious franchise to go bye-bye and the monied malefactors will have their way with this branch of government as well.
I am guessing that by now you are completely lost. Okay. Take this meager offering to your receptionist (or janitor) and let them continue to "bring you up to speed".
Fondly, Tongue


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Finish Time — 06:34:14
Average Pace — 15:03 per mile
Steps Taken — 62,880
Mantra of the Day — "Courage cannot be beaten"
In the same way that Day 4's problems dragged me down at the start of Day 5, so my stronger finish on Day 5 carried over into a more positive outlook this morning. In addition we were treated to a spectacularly beautiful Lake District morning, that would have lifted the spirits of the worst curmudgeon.
Breakfast filled my belly, Body Rehab ninjas worked their magic, and I was almost impatient to get out on the road. What a difference from yesterday's dismal start…
Not wanting to overdo things I started with the same walk-run routine as yesterday so that I could warm up gently. After the first drink station I felt that I could handle a full run, so off I trotted. Amazingly the ankle felt fine, and everything about the spring morning relaxed me and gave me huge confidence for the day. I jogged past the black pig snuffling in his field, I jogged past Randy Crag, I jogged past Hawkshead — and marvel of marvels I jogged up Devil's Gallop. Steepest hill on the whole course, and the first time since Day 1 that I had taken this one at a run.
I settled into my rhythm and went back to the basics of minimalist running. Focus on centre of gravity, weight distribution, feedback from the body, and foot placement. Count the steps, count the breaths. Adjust, fine-tune all the time. And suddenly I was at Newby Bridge, having marked a regular pace on almost every single mile since the start.
Best of all I felt strong, and capable of carrying on at the same pace all day. Mile 14 went by, then mile 16 where Aly had written a message of encouragement on my banana! MIle 18, tick. Mile 20 and I'm in Bowness dodging Japanese tourists and bad drivers. Mile 22, Ice Cream Mountain where I chat briefly to a couple of guys biking Lands End to John O'Groats. Mile 24 and I'm *still* clocking the miles at the exact same pace. The last two miles were a treat. Smooth and easy, no pain to speak of, just looking forward to reaching the finish line.
Today's run, although one of my slower performances, will go down in my personal records as one of my strongest runs ever — psychologically for sure, and also physically given the trials of the last couple of days. Any time you run a full marathon at the same steady pace, mile after mile, you know that you are in control. And it feels good!
I'm curious to see what happens tomorrow. I am on a high from today's performance (almost two hours faster than yesterday) and I will have to rein myself in so as to continue my recovery and be on full form at the weekend. This journey is taking twists and turns that I could never have anticipated…
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Great word, curmudgeon :)
Now (17/5/12) only 3 more to do. You seem to be getting into your stride. Yay!
Hello Rob
What did you do to come 6.34.14 i do not know. You have completly gone past the wall now! Your so on your way to be running none stop now. Good luck from me and the whole of class 4 Otterton Primary school.
"Run strong, embrace power"!
I held my breath while reading Day 5 and cheered as you completed Day 6. Well done Rob – keep going, believe in yourself and in the support of us couch potatoes who are inspired on a daily basis.
Rob, your achievement up to date is more than admirable! Keep going strong.
The mantra of the day cannot be more appropriate for what you are doing. Tiziano and Anna are also following your exploits, they send their love and want you to know they are rooting for you.
No doubt Rob, you are our hero!! Well done, keep it up. I wish we could be there with you in that beautiful place. I bet you will never see Lake Windemere the same again. Good luck for tomorrow!!
Your own version of "The loneliness of the long distance runner"", Rob. Strength of mind seems to be the key to getting through this challenge.

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Even though this topic may not be new to many WordPress admins, I am putting here to help whoever wants to identify type of SPAM in their WordPress blog and how to control it.
Had reported early in my post (Disabling WordPress Commenting still allows SPAMMERS to Comment) about lots of spam issue in our blog and I even disabled 'Comments' option but it has not really helped me to control even 1% of SPAM.
I was so curious to see what was really SPAMMING.
- Identified the Public IP of a SPAM post (you can easily find this on all SPAM posts)
- From kStats, I did a search for that Public IP and you can see below image that specific SPAM is actually TRACKBACK (trackback is to identify if someone is linking to our article)
I continued doing this search for random SPAM posts and finally found that all those SPAM posts are actually TRACKBACK
Then I found an article – Disable Trackbacks and followed their instruction to disable trackback. So as of now I am free from SPAM and put back 'Comment' for this blog. You can freely Comment now.


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Erected in 1784, Daria Daulat Bagh is popularly known as the Summer Palace of Tipu Sultan. Haider Ali started the construction of this structure, though it was completed by his son Tipu Sultan. Counted among the 'must visit' sites of the region, the palace was given the status of a National Monument in 1959.
All travellers passing by Srirangapatna must visit this site. Daria Daulat Bagh exhibits architecture style of Indo-Saracenic, along with beautiful frescoes and ornate. Tourists can see different types of drawings and paintings, block prints, line sketches and clothes of Tipu Sultan on the first floor of the structure.
Along with that, mural paintings portraying his military movement against the British can also be witnessed on the ground floor of the palace.


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by Andrew '16
I started law school having a great support system. I am lucky enough to have an incredible spouse at home, as well as supportive friends and family. They have been a source of constant encouragement, especially in my decision to go to law school. That being said, the kind of support I have found since being at NUSL has changed my whole school experience.
I think it started before I even stepped foot on campus. Once I knew I would be attending NUSL, I reached out to an NUSL Admissions Ambassador. I asked him numerous questions and he helped calm some of the initial apprehension I had about going into 1L year. Once on campus, I signed up for an upper level mentor through the Student Bar Association (SBA). As a 3L, she has served as an endless source of information throughout the first semester. She gave me the scoop on professors, classes, exams, and just about everything else under the sun. She even looked over a couple of assignments that were particularly troublesome and gave me recommendations. Honestly, in-school support has been a life-saver, if even just to answer some of the unknowns.
Outside of NUSL, there are even more resources for support. For instance, I signed up for a mentor program with a local bar association. They matched me with an attorney who has practiced law in Boston for over a decade. Over lunch last week, he was able to give me some career and interest focused direction as well as insight into what it is like to practice law in the area. There are dozens of bar associations in Boston and beyond with similar programs for students, so it is possible to have several opportunities to meet people in the field. Of course, I am also excited to establish connections with co-op employers and other practitioners in the future. Working professionals are able to give a unique view completely removed from school and help keep in perspective the reason why I came to law school in the first place.
I guess the bottom line is that it never hurts to have friends and confidants. The difference that comes with having a legal mentor is that each of them understands what it means to be a law student. They remember what it was like to have been in my shoes. Without their insight, this experience would have been much different. And really, why go it alone when you don't have to?


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~ Today's Inspired Thought ~
~Inspired Action ~
How I appreciate such wise words. My mind is awake to the thoughts of how I have allowed myself to become my own obstacle in so many ways than one. I can't control a flat tire. I can't control the job market. I can't control the rain. I can't control who lies to me. But there have been plenty of obstacles that I could of prevented from coming my way.
Now I ask myself "How am you getting in my own way right now?"
I am now fully aware that there are a limitless supply of life obstacles that will come our way, obstacles that we just can't see coming. So I should not make room for obstacles that I can prevent and control. Obstacles that come from me procrastinating. Obstacles that come from me miscommunicating. Obstacles that come from me being stubborn or careless.
I need to save myself the time and trouble and just stay ready for the ones that are least expected.
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Day 184: Our Politicians Are Mad (Angry, too)
Disorder has turned universal. Armed hospital invasions are common in blue states, red states, border states, states of anxiety, hopeless states. Is the State itself in danger?
It's our fault. We didn't prepare. Sucks, doesn't it?
Who wants to read that?
No wonder politicians hate this and other blogs. Since bloggers are the ones calling them liars and presenting the truth about our national mess, it must be our fault that no one believes anything they say.
But I wasn't uptown last night when people broke into Lenox Hill Hospital looking for vaccine. I didn't shoot it out with anyone along Park Avenue. I can't even tell you how many people got killed—or how many patients were scared to death—because the city won't say and the press won't demand answers. Anyway, I was here, working to inform my fellow Americans about peaceful ways to survive.
Which can include what to guard against. I'm hearing stories of flu survivors making trouble—gangs of toughs who endured H5N1 robbing those who still cower from it. One report said they look for targets in masks. (Never let it be said that my need to sell things prevents me from sabotaging sales.)
According to some DC speechmakers, I'm the real problem: They are willfully misinterpreting my fanciful discussion about H5N1 antibodies and genomic subtype cycles. Why? They want to justify barring anyone who's not medically trained and/or institutionally certified (connected, in other words) from criticizing the government's failure to function properly during this oft-forecast emergency. Holding poor Hope-Simpson and his New Concept up for public scorn, they propose a bipartisan bill to outlaw "any effort to spread panic, conscious or otherwise."
In other words: Shut up! I call this bipartisan authoritarianism. It's been brewing for a long time, but it picked up speed and mass on Sept. 11, 2001. Few politicians of any stripe bother to stand against it.
Any such repressive statute would benefit only lawyers who can't find work after the pandemic subsides. I've got better things to do than give Congress a free consultation, but that thing needs a rewrite. What constitutes—a loaded word these days—criminal unconscious effort? Are Freudian slips to be criminalized?
Fortunately, I've been trying to help avert panic for six months. It's all documented, right here. Click, click, click: Case closed!
Blame the Lame
So I have nothing to 'retract.' I'll go back to watching these demagogues grind their gums about immigrants—wretched, maskless, jobless people who are dying like bugs. Who dare not shout back like us natives when big taxpaid boots kick their doors in.
This is what scapegoating is about. When the Black Death came to Europe in the 14th Century, Christians murdered Jews for allegedly poisoning the water supply. The god-fearing majority stole Jewish property, sacked the ghettoes, incinerated babies.
Blaming a weak element of the populace still satisfies man's dumb need for the illusion of control. If we can believe that our problems derive from certain people, we can pretend to solve things by punishing the culprits—even liquidating them. That was Adolf Hitler's appeal.
If today's enemy is us—the poor fools who failed to prepare for a pandemic despite years of warnings—we've simply got to find a better adversary. We can't punish ourselves. Things are bad enough. But someone must pay.
I don't want to argue the merits of immigration. I moved to a city that celebrates it with every beat and every screech. Our country is founded on it—voluntary ("Give me your tired, your poor…") or not ("This most rotten branch of human shame…"). Americans can certainly burn the welcome mat if they choose.
But foreigners did not invent this plague and Americans haven't figured out how to end it. Nature is taking its course. Human nature isn't helping. Don't make things worse. Save the rhetoric for the next election, whenever that might be.
Scapegoating: If you're not against it, you're with it.


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Yesterday Ryan Giggs' badly kept secret was finally out, as it was revealed in the House of Parliament that the Manchester United legend was in fact the footballer who had taken out an expensive super injection to stop the media from covering or even mentioning that he had an affair with lads mag model Imogen Thomas.
The soccer idol's six-month affair with the former Big Brother star was rattled out by The Sun newspaper, but it was Giggsy's shocking nature of how determined he was to keep the truth from coming out that has really made him look bad.
After being caught cheating, he ruthlessly dropped his mistress like a hot potato and hit her with legal papers saying she'll go to jail, should she ever speak about the affair. And while his identity was kept a 'secret', Imogen was left to face the heat alone.
Of course she was in the wrong too, so she only has herself to blame, but why it's OK for her to be ousted and hounded by the press and not him, just seems totally unfair.
But the thing that really made this story ridiculous is when Giggs' legal team tried to sue Twitter and their laughable attempts to stop users of the micro-blogging social networking site for tweeting about the affair, saying they could face two years in jail. Yep all 75,000 of them – which is just damn right ridiculous.
As a hardcore United fan, it's very disappointing to see one of our greats fall from grace at such a pivotal point in his career. But what will make this worse is not the fact he cheated on his wife. He could have just come clean, said sorry and people would have eventually forgiven him and forgot about it within four months. I'm sure another footballer with a wondering eye would soon come along and steal his thunder.
But is was the silly lengths Giggs went trough, in order to try and keep the sordid affair a secret and his attempts to sue twitter, that is what will really make this story and run.
Personally, I blame his lawyers for even thinking that they could successfully go up against Twitter, that's just stupid. They should have known better.
I hope Ryan Giggs can publically get through this and won't be remembered as that 'super-injunction footballer who slept with that chick from Big Brother'. Because let's face it, the tabloids are going to go to town with this story….


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But Paris has much to offer too for someone who wants to soak up the atmosphere of the period when Prince of Wales was Regent and Britain was at war with Napoleon. What could those places be?
|Entrance to Malmaison
|Part of Josephine's toilette.
|The back of Josephine's salon.
|Napoleon's private bedchamber.
A visit to the Cathedral of Saint Denis on the northern tip of Paris (and available by the Metro) is a trip to acquaint you with the horrors of the French Revolution and the Terror, the counter influence on the British mindset during the wars of that period. Saint Denis is the church in which most of the kings and queens of France and their children are buried. I say most of them because many are indeed buried elsewhere. However, once you've entered and admired this church, the first gothic cathedral in France and its architecture, and once you've admired the enormous number of sarcophagi of various French monarchs and their families, a visit to the crypt is what you're really after. Here you will find the plaque on the wall which is all that remains of that noted monarch, Louis XIV. It is ironic to find his burial place in such a barren place. But walk further into the center of the crypt and here you see only a huge flat black granite stone covering a very deep pit. This is the marker for the burial plot of those aristocrats of the ancien regime who died by the guillotine during the Revolution and most numerously the Terror. Their bones were collected from various churchyards and from the Conciergerie (on the Isle de France) where they were interred after execution. This tragedy of their deaths by violent means is the very horror that outraged the British, many of whom were their relatives. This slaughter of the nobility is what the British sought to avoid for themselves. While they spent significant national treasure attempting to defeat the various regimes that succeeded the Bourbons, including the emperor Napoleon, they were attempting to ensure not only their own survival, the continuance of their economic system, but also their naval power around the world.
|The dining room in Malmaison
|Louis XIV plaque in crypt of Saint Denis
|Life size gisants of praying Louis XVI and his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette in chapel of Saint Denis
|Chateau Chantilly: View of the stable block and riding academy.
|Walter view of Chantilly
|Salon with murals commemorating the Fronde led by the Grand Conde.
|A portion of the music room with harp.


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I made this cute little bunny treat jar using a small glass jar from Hobby Lobby as the base. I took a large pom pom and hot glued it to the back for the tail, and four small pom poms hots glued to the bottom for his little feet. For the face, I used the Doodlecharms cartridge to cut the bunny head and then hot glued it to the lid. (For this, you will need to use sand paper to roughen up the lid a little for the glue to stay and make a mark at the bottom of the lid while it is on the jar so your bunny will be facing the correct direction when you put the lid on) I filled my bunny with white m&ms that I got from Party City. I love how cute he is and that he is refillable. :)
I am entering this into the following challenges:
Creative Sisters Monday Challenge: Bunnies: http://www.pattilynncreations.blogspot.com/
Alphabet Challenge Blog: W for White and another color: http://alphabetchallengeblog.blogspot.com/
Sunday, April 10, 2011
6 comments:
Very Cute, great idea.
Thanks for joining us at AC.
Huggies Angel
- April 10, 2011 at 2:23 PM
- Running Turtle said...
So cute! I love the color WHITE... so this is just the cutest thing! Loving the white M&M's!!
- April 10, 2011 at 2:45 PM
- Shawnee said...
I love this cute bunny.
- April 10, 2011 at 3:36 PM
- Besthobbyeva said...
So cute!
- April 10, 2011 at 7:05 PM
- Janet Katz said...
What a cutie! And white M&M's too. Love how clever this is. Thanks for joining us at the Alphabet Challenge Blog.
- April 11, 2011 at 9:34 AM
- Helen Ann said...
what a cute idea - love the tail
Thanks for joining us at the Alphabet Challenge Blog, hope to see you again soon
Hel XOX
- April 12, 2011 at 2:05 PM
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There's a very good chance that, unless NHL players and owners can come to some kind of miraculous eleventh hour resolution, the league will be dealing with its fourth lockout since 1992. As CBSSPorts.com points out, with each stoppage has come a bigger hit to the pro hockey schedule, culminating in the loss of the entire 2004-05 season.
In Los Angeles, this means that the Stanley Cup-winning L.A. Kings may not enjoy the full fruits of their first season after a stirring victory. Some obvious question arise. If a lockout comes, how much will it cost the players? What will be the local ecoomic impact?
Those are relatively simple to answer. Some players, depending on where they are in their contracts (which pay out more in some years than in others), will feel some pain, although as Bleacher Report notes, a few players could head to the Kontinental Hockey League and garner reduced wages there.
The local economic impact, as we learned last year when the NBA lockout pushed the start of the season from November 1 to Christmas, is not insignificant. But as we also learned, L.A. has a nicely diversified economy and isn't ultimately dependent on the Lakers and the Clippers to get by. If an NFL team comes to town, this diversity will be even more greatly enhanced.
A more worrisome question is: "What will this do to the fortunes of the Kings?"
As NHL teams go, the Kings aren't in great shape. There were rumors, reported last May by the N.Y. Post, that AEG, which owns the Kings, wanted to unload the team. AEG's Phil Anschutz, along with partner/rival Ed Roski, bought the team close to two decades ago for $113 million. Now, all around him, Southern California pro sports teams are selling for big money. The Dodgers for more than $2 b-b-billion. The Padres for $800 million. Okay, those are baseball teams. But a Stanley Cup-winning hockey team has to be worth a few hundred million, right?
There's certainly every chance that AEG and Anschutz may need to spend some money to attract an NFL franchise to L.A. in order to secure the future of a new downtown football stadium adjacent to Staples Center. And selling his half of the Kings would allow Anschutz to concentrate on having a proper rivalry with Roski, who had his own competing plan for an L.A. NFL stadium to be built in City of Industry, east of L.A.
But besides all that, the Kings' financials don't look all that great, at least on paper. Forbes rankes them as the tenth most valuable NHL team, at $232 million. For comparison, the number one team, the Toronto Maple Leafs, is worth $521 million. The number nine team, the Pittsburgh Penguins is worth $264 million. But both the Maple Leafs and the Penguins have a far lower debt-to-value ratio than the Kings. The Leafs are at 25 percent, the Penguins at 38 percent. The Kings? They're at 66 percent. That means two-thirds of the Kings total value is effectively mortgaged to creditors.
Meanwhile, the Leafs had an operating income of $82 million in 2011. The Penguins lost money — $200,000 — but the Kings lost ten times more: $2 million. In fact, the Kings lost far more in money in 2011 than any other NHL team in the Forbes top ten. Overall, as top ten NHL teams go, the Kings' financials look the worst.
Speaking of Forbes, one of their sports-business guys, Chris Smith, argues that the Kings shaky finances would only be compounded in their negative impact by a lost season, which could see even a championship team get lost amid all the other teams that play in and around L.A.
Losing money is nothing new for the Kings. Back in 2003, the L.A. Times reported on an unusual audit that a season ticket holder was able to undertake. In that article, the Times said that the Kings were on track to have lost well over $100 million dollars since the Anschutz purchase in 1995. And the piece countered the suspicion that the Kings' history of losses was a type of tax shelter. It seems that the team has usually lost money just because...it's lost money.
The Kings gave Los Angeles much to cheer about by bringing a Stanley Cup to the city for the first time. Unfortunately, that good Karma on ice may now be wasted, as a lockout looms. In which case fans can go back back to worrying less about the Kings' trophy case and more about its bottom line.
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Ghost in Hong Kong
When film director Mamoru Oshii was looking for a model of the city of the future for his seminal 1995 animated film adaptation of Ghost in the Shell (based on the manga by Masamune Shirow), he turned to the cityscape of Hong Kong for his inspiration. Actual spots in the city were recreated for use in this cinematic representation of a near-future city (set in 2029) characterised by decadence, anarchy, and fantastical high-tech hyper-reality.
When asked why Hong Kong was chosen as the backdrop for the film Mamoru Oshii and his art designer, Takeuchi Atsushi, had the following explanation:
[Oshii] When I was in search of an image of the future, the first thing that came to my mind was an Asian city. At first I did not think it was possible to create a perfect cityscape for the future; and what was done in the past seems unconvincing to me now…. The only way, if one is to be true to the methodology of animation, is to use real streets as models, so I thought of Hong Kong. It is like the Los Angeles of Blade Runner; what has been achieved in that city set will be of use to later films.
[Atsushi] Ghost in the Shell does not have a definite chosen set, but in terms of street scenes and general atmosphere, it is obvious that Hong Kong is the model. Such a choice has, of course, something to do with the theme: on the streets there flows an excess or a flood of information, along with everything this excess brings out. The modern city is swamped with billboards, neon lights and symbols…. As people live in this information deluge, the streets will have to be depicted accordingly as being flooded…. There is a sharp contrast between old streets and new ones on which skyscrapers are built. My feeling is that these two, originally very different, are now in a situation where one is invading the other. Maybe it is the tension or pressure that is brought about by so-called modernization! It's a situation in which two entities are kept in a strange neighboring relationship. Perhaps it is what the future is.
[Atsushi] In the midst of the profusion of signs and the heat of the messy urban space, the streets are remarkably chaotic. Passers-by, shouts, cars, all kinds of mechanical noises and human "sound pollution," all merging into one, forcing itself into humans' central nervous systems through their ears. But why do people succumb to this "destructive" environment? Now that the artificial has replaced the natural, humans are like animals in the past, deprived of the characteristics of being human as a whole. Pulled directly into the whirlpool of information through the stimulation of visual and auditory senses, their feelings are henceforth numbed. On the other hand, countless mutually interfering and uncertain data pass through cables at light speed. This is the way informatics continues to expand its domain.


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TPG has sourced a cable ship to undertake the repair of PPC-1, the underwater cable that stretches from Sydney and Guam and is operated by the telco's subsidiary Pipe.
PPC-1 suffered a major fault on 5 February, taking down the entire cable system.
During the outage TPG has been routing traffic via Southern Cross and the Australian Japan Cable system.
TPG's contracted repair vessel is being used to repair the Basslink Interconnector that stretches from Tasmania to the mainland.
However, today the telco revealed it had contracted an alternative cable ship to repair PPC-1.
The cable ship has departed Taiwan for Cairns, where equipment will be loaded for the repair. It is estimated to arrive in Cairns on28 February.
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Americans for Hezbollah
The stand-off in Lebanon continues. During the recent public protests, Lebanese blogger Anecdotes from a Banana Republic observed some strange things:
At the sit-in downtown, I bumped into an elderly American woman sporting a plethora of Hezbollah scarves around her neck, a Hezbollah baseball cap on her head and other Hezbollah paraphernalia attached to the travelpouch around her waist. The travelpouch and white sneakers were a dead giveaway. She was eating something that resembled greasy chunks of pork and wiping the fat on her pants. A friend of mine had described an American woman who attended the "International conference in support of the resistance" a few weeks ago at the UNESCO Palace. She fit the description. He had left the conference after she railed on and on about how much she loves Hezbollah and how Americans love Nasrallah. I stopped to talk to her. She was accompanied by an elderly gent from the International Action Committee, a misguided, reactionary "leftist" organization headed by Ramsey Clarke. They were on a solidarity visit. They expressed concern about transporting all their Hezbollah souvenirs and "gifts" back to the US. I wished them good luck and split.
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Thurston County man convicted of animal cruelty gets suspended sentence for alleged Pierce County sex crimes
A Thurston County man accused of torturing and killing animals he bought online has been sentenced in another case in Pierce County, related to accusations he sexually assaulted minors.
The result is that he won't serve more time behind bars, if he avoids further trouble with the law.
As part of plea negotiations, David Christopher Williford, 28, pleaded guilty Nov. 10 to four counts of fourth-degree assault, reduced from initial charges of child molestation and rape.
Superior Court Judge G. Helen Whitener sentenced Willford to two years suspended, which means he won't serve the time if he maintains law-abiding behavior. As part of that deal he also must seek a psychosexual evaluation and follow-up treatment.
Deputy prosecutor Robert Yu said the state would have had evidence trouble had Williford gone to trial on the initial charges.
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According to charging papers, an acquaintance reported last year that Williford had raped two women when they were minors. Police interviewed the victims, who said Williford had sexually assaulted them over a period of years, started when they were about 5 and 8.
At the time of that investigation, Williford was in custody for the Thurston County animal abuse charges.
In that case, Williford pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree animal abuse last year as part of a plea deal, and was given a one-year suspended sentence.
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Forni di Sopra, where you can find high quality for a low price
The First International Chess Tournament of Forni di Sopra will take place from June 12th to 18th in Forni di Sopra, part of the Friulian Dolomites Natural Park and one of the jewels of the Italian Alps.
The Ovens Valley is surrounded by the Alps on the north and on the south by the Carnian of the Dolomites Mountains of Friuli, which last year was declared World Heritage location. Described by alpine J. Kugy as "an exciting world of wonderful castles, towers and more … incredibly scenery". As an important and popular tourist resort, Forni di Sopra offers a pure environment with many opportunities to practice different sports.
Forni di Sopra is also part of Authentic villages: the houses still retain the typical architecture carnica, evoking the atmosphere of a storybook. Evidence of past history are also present, findings have allowed the participation of UNESCO.
Nature, history, culture and traditional tastes are the strengths of this splendid location, in the casket that contained the Dolomites, just waiting to be discovered in order to offer its treasures …
The International Chess Tournament of Forni di Sopra is a result of close collaboration that ties for years the Accademia Internazionale di Scacchi with the Circolo Scacchistico Udinese, and the idea that acts as a flywheel for this event is all summed up in the slogan: "Forni di Sopra, where you can find high quality for a low price."
Indeed the quality is based on our experience as players and organizers, our commitment, and the fact that for the success of the tournament we count on the collaboration with www.scacchirandagi.com, which represents an important certification on the Italian chess scene.
We decided to organize a tournament in a beautiful place with high quality but also with an accessible price to all – Full board, in all the hotels affiliated with the tournament, for only 45 €! We know that nowadays it is very important to combine quality with price, and we would like to thank all the sponsors.
The playing hall is the Palasport of Forni di Sopra. The complex includes swimming pool / gym with large and bright conference rooms no more than 5 minutes walking distance from the center.
The A section is available to players with an elo above 2000, 9 rounds Swiss system , time control 90′x 40 moves + 30′ + 30"
The B section is open to players with an elo above 1600 ELO (and lower than 2000 ELO), 8 rounds Swiss system, time control 90′x 40 moves + 30′ + 30 "
The C section is open to players with an elo under 1600, 8 rounds Swiss system, time control 90′x 40 moves + 30′ + 30 "
The total prize money amounts to 10,000 Euro
The arbiters of the tournament will be: AI Antonio Sanchirico, AI Manlio Simonetti, ACN Philip Capizzi
Registration fees are as follows:
• Ordinary Registration: € 50,
• over 60, women, U16 and for players with ELO higher than 2300: € 30,
• free to GM and IM
Tournament Schedule
Sunday, 12.06.2011
12.00 – Registration Deadline
Open A – B – C
16.00 – Round 1 Open A – B – C
Monday, 13.06.2011
16.00 – Round 2 Open A – B – C
Tuesday, 14.06.2011
9.00 – 3rd Round Open A – B – C
16.00 – Round 4 Open A – B – C
Wednesday, 15.06.2011
9:30 am Simultaneous exhibition offered by Dental project APOLLONIA
16.00 – 5th round Open A – B – C
Thursday, 16.06.2011
09.00 – 6th round Open A
16.00 – 7th and 6th round Open A- B – C
Friday, 17.06.2011
9:30 am – Tournament rapid "Vigna Meridiana" & "Pasticceria Myriam"
16.00 – 8th round and 7th round Open A Open B Open C
Saturday, 18.06.2011
9.00 – 9th round and 8th round Open A Open B Open C
At 15:00 Palasport Forni di Sopra – Awards Ceremony
The tournament will be covered on www.scacchirandagi.com and www.accademiainternazionalediscacchi.com and the top 30 boards will be broadcasted live.
Ten Grandmasters and 15 International Masters will be invited, as well as top Italian players.
Currently confirmed titled players are Grandmasters Julio Granda Zuniga, Oleg Korneev, Manuel Leon Hoyos, Carlos Matamoros, International masters Giulio Borgo, Duilio Collutis, Danil Dyvrnyy, Pierluigi Piscopo, Martha Fierro, Federico Manca, Fabio Bruno.
A simultaneous exhibition offered by Square APOLLONIA DENTAL PLAN with the participation of five Grandmasters is set for Wednesday, June 15th.
Rapid tournament offered by Rapid Vigna Meridiana and Pastry Myriam is scheduled for Friday, June 17th.
The Stage
In the mornings Accademia Internazionale di Scacchi will offer free lessons to all young players as preparation for the Italian Under-16 Championships in July 2011. To participate is easy enough, just register for the tournament and sign up for the classes that are held by teachers of the Accademia Internazionale di Scacchi in Perugia.
In addition to these purely chess events, we can also organize football, tennis and ping-pong games, food and wine tastings, walks and excursions to the beautiful trails of Forni.
The traditional festival of spring herbs and chessboards
Two different and contemporary events that we will see in Forni di Sopra combine the tasting of the products based on local wild herbs … and chessboards in all areas were you can analyze games.
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Intersex individuals are born with neither male nor female genitalia, but with genitalia that are somewhere in-between. Because they don't have definitive genitalia their gender is in question throughout their lives especially at birth. When doctors encounter ambiguous genitalia they are pressured to either assign the child male or female and as a result are forced to pick a gender for the child. When a gender is chose the doctor conducts procedures to "correct" the ambiguous genitalia to make it appear closer to the assigned gender. Because the children exhibit characteristics of both body parts, they are mutilating the child to preserve the gender binary. A child who fits into neither male nor female is left with a lifetime of repercussions for a doctors momentary decision.
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Apparently having learned no lessons from the Iraq WMD debacle, the New York Times is pushing for a heightened confrontation with Iran, slipping into the same kind of hysteria that it and other major U.S. news organizations displayed in 2002 and 2003.
In its latest neocon-styled editorial – commenting on a new critical report about Iran's growing truculence toward nuclear inspectors – the Times concluded with this judgment:
"Tehran, predictably, insists it is not building a [nuclear] weapon. Its refusal to halt enrichment and cooperate with the I.A.E.A. [International Atomic Energy Agency] makes that ever more impossible to believe."
Beyond the grammatical point that "impossible" like "unique" is an absolute adjective that can't be modified, the Times misses the point that its previous over-the-top hostility toward Iran – evidenced in its news columns as well as its opinion pages – has helped create the dynamic that is driving the standoff over Iran's nuclear program to a crisis point.
Amazingly, the Washington Post, usually an even more reliably neocon bastion than the Times, offered a more thoughtful assessment in its own Friday editorial on the same topic. The Post noted that the most promising area for negotiation with Iran was its past willingness to swap some of its low-enriched uranium for more highly enriched isotopes for medical purposes.
But the Post observed that delays in reaching an agreement over a proposed swap of 1,200 kilograms of low-enriched uranium – combined with the steady increase in Iran's stockpile – "has greatly complicated the prospects."
The Post said that "when the deal was first proposed, Iran would have given up more than two-thirds of its stockpile and would have been left with less than the amount needed for one bomb. To achieve the same effect, Tehran would now have to be induced to nearly double the amount of low-enriched uranium it turned over."
The Post noted that Iran currently has enough low-enriched uranium to build two nuclear bombs, if it chose to bring the refinement up to much higher levels and committed itself to design and construct a nuclear weapon.
However, what the Post – and the Times – don't mention in their two lead editorials is that they and their neocon friends were instrumental in frustrating President Barack Obama's initial efforts to reach an agreement on the fuel swap last year and that they then helped sabotage a parallel deal negotiated by the leaders of Brazil and Turkey earlier this year.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva persuaded Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to accept the swap agreement in May, completing the negotiations that the Obama administration had begun.
At that point, the swap would have removed about half of Iran's low-enriched uranium leaving the Iranianis only enough to theoretically begin work on one bomb, assuming they actually wanted to.
Though the swap would seem to have represented a major step forward – since one hypothetical nuclear bomb is far less threatening than two and since the agreement might have led to more Iranian concessions – the deal was trashed by opinion leaders at the Post and the Times.
The Post's editors mocked the Brazil-Turkey initiative as "yet another effort to 'engage' the extremist clique of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad."
The Times star columnist Thomas Friedman chimed in, terming the Brazil-Turkey peace effort "as ugly as it gets," the title of his column. Friedman, who was also a top cheerleader for invading Iraq (having dubbed himself a "Tony Blair Democrat"), made clear that he would only be satisfied with more "regime change" in Iran.
"Ultimately, [the success of the Iranian opposition] — not any nuclear deal with the Iranian clerics — is the only sustainable source of security and stability. We have spent far too little time and energy nurturing that democratic trend and far too much chasing a nuclear deal," Friedman wrote.
Administration hardliners, like Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, also treated the leaders of Brazil and Turkey as unwelcome interlopers who were intruding on America's diplomatic turf.
Lula da Silva responded by challenging those Americans who insisted that it was "none of Brazil's business" to act as an intermediary to resolve the showdown with Iran.
"But who said it was a matter for the United States?" he asked, adding that "the blunt truth is, Iran is being presented as if it were the devil, that it doesn't want to sit down" to negotiate, contrary to the fact that "Iran decided to sit down at the negotiating table. It wants to see if the others are going to go along with what (it) has done."
What Iran saw instead was a parade of American pundits and policymakers heaping scorn on the Iran-Brazil-Turkey accord.
Puzzled by the U.S. reaction, Brazil released a three-page letter from President Obama to President Lula da Silva encouraging Brazil and Turkey to go forward with the swap deal. In the letter, Obama said the proposed uranium swap "would build confidence and reduce regional tensions by substantially reducing Iran's" stockpile of low-enriched uranium.
However, the administration's hawks – backed by the elite opinion-shapers of the Post and Times – prevailed over Obama. Instead of embracing the swap deal, the Obama administration pressed forward with harsher sanctions against Iran, despite warnings that the sanctions would only harden Iran's nuclear stance.
Now, after Iran predictably reacted with greater animosity and suspicion toward the international community, the Times editorialists are determined, again, to ratchet up the tensions in line with Friedman's view that the only acceptable solution is "regime change."
The Post's editorialists at least were honest enough to note the failed swap deal, but they, too, ended on an ominous note, suggesting that a U.S. military attack may be the only solution.
Noting a new analysis by the Institute for Science and International Security that Iran may already be producing weapons-grade uranium at a secret facility, the Post concluded: "If that is the case, economic sanctions are unlikely to prevent it."
So, this is where the biased journalism of the Times and the Post -- especially regarding Iran's 2009 election (click here or here for details) -- has led the world, to the brink of another Middle East conflict.
Having brushed aside the disaster in Iraq and the related bungled war in Afghanistan, the neocons and their allies appear to remain the chief arbiters and the leading architects of U.S. foreign policy.
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Business in the Community: Second Chance: Ban the Box
UK Charity Uses Familar Feature To Highlight Workplace Prejudice in Leo Burnett Effort
Published on Oct 22, 2013
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This clever interactive campaign by Leo Burnett for UK charity Business in The Community (BITC) makes use of the "Skip Ad" button on online ads to great effect. The film (directed by Blink's Dougal Wilson) puts the viewer in the position of a potential employer interviewing a job applicant across a desk. If they press the "Skip Ad" button as he starts to explain that he just got out of prison (as you'll see in video above) , the interview begins again with the applicant begging them to "hear him out." The endline urges us to give him ex-offenders a second chance. See the full video, sans skipping, here.
The idea is to draw a parallel between employers rejecting potential job applicants who are ex-offenders and viewers of online videos skipping ads they don't want to see.
Leo Burnett's specialist not-for-profit and behavioural change division, Leo Burnett Change, created the spot as part of an integrated campaign for BITC's Ban the Box project to end discrimination in the workplace. Ban the Box is calling on UK employers to remove the default criminal-record disclosure check box from job application forms.
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If you've been reading my blog this week you know that I'm late w/ my Monday "Get Messy" post.
A reminder... those posts consists of my sharing my Art Journal pages inspired by the prior week's "Get Messy" prompts because every Monday a new set of prompts is provided.
I have been a busy bee this week as far as posting...
This after stating I would be posting only once a week: Dead Pool Valentines.... ( clickable link)
That always seems to happen... when I make a plan, the opposite occurs...
(I will NOT win the Lottery... Doesn't hurt to try right?! LOL)
So here are my pages:
I created 4 total, but I already shared 1 of them: You Remind Me... (clickable link)
These 2 were inspired by the "Pixar - Inside Out" Prompt.
They were both fun to make and I love the colors but my favorite is the "Spirit Animal" one (left hand side).
(left) DISGUST is My SPIRIT ANIMAL -
"cuz that expression is the one I have on my face most of the time (especially at
work) and our thought process is almost identical.
Also, she just so happens to be voiced by one of my favorite actress/comedians
- Mindy Kaling- and is the ONLY REASON I watched "INSIDE OUT"
'Disgust is highly opinionated and extremely honest. She always has the best of
intentions and refuses to lower her standards' ---> (as written by) Disney Wiki"
(right) Pixar's "Inside Out"-
"Meet the little voices inside your head" ("Inside Out" tagline)
The washi tape and buttons represent each emotion and in the order they fit into my personality.
This next page comes from a different prompt and a prompt from a previous week; Week 3.
We were encouraged to be inspired by the following quote:
"Take pleasure in the rich random patterns in your life" - Hector and the Search for Happiness.
Before I share the page I want to explain it...
For some strange reason when I was reading "patterns" my brain was thinking "routine".
IDK why... it just was... every time!
It wasn't until after I made my page that it dawned on me that the word was "patterns" and not "routine"... but by then it was too late.
No worries though because I still like the page and how the main element of it, the cartoon w/ the orange BG, truly represents my thoughts on "routine".
And technically the prompt was 'to be inspired by' the quote, not create a page based on it exactly!
As I stated the photo with the orange BG is how I feel about routine...
The Pinky and the Brain was just added because of the fact that they had the same "routine" every night which goes w/ my thought process at the time I was making my page.
And then I just added the quote in my own handwriting and a quick additional note about how I feel about routine:
"I have a -Love/Hate- relationship w/ routine"
There you have it.
Another week of Get Messy completed!
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Yoda is - that's who! Just look at those ears, how could we have not seen the resemblance to that wise and mysterious Grand Master of the Jedi Order? Like his namesake, our Yoda is renown within the shelter for his wisdom and contemplative demeanor. So often, one can look out into the play yard and see him sitting there just feeling The Force as he travels along his spiritual journey and all of the other pups are running around like silly Siths.
"Size matter not" said the Star Wars sage and so does this little 12 lb mysterious species mix, so do not judge him in his ability to be a powerful combatant for your heart. One of his favorite places to sit & survey his galaxy is a warm & comfy lap so that all may listen to his voice as he passes on the wisdom that he has accumulated over the years - and although he's only about 1 1/2 years old, he's gathered a LOT of wisdom as, you see, "truly wonderful, the mind of a dog is."
Come on out to the shelter and meet this Grand Master, we can guarantee that he will not use his Light Saber, but he just might light up your smile.
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Dockers rewrite the script
GOALS Fremantle: Pavlich 6, Ballantyne 3, Walters 2, Pearce, De Boer, Crowley. Geelong: Mackie 2, Hunt 2, Christensen, Taylor, Selwood, Duncan, Stokes, Vardy, Motlop.
BEST Fremantle: Pavlich, Mundy, McPhee, Walters, Barlow, Hill, Dawson. Geelong: Selwood, Mackie, Bartel, T Hunt, Taylor, J Hunt.
REPORT James Kelly (Geelong) rough conduct against Tendai Mzungu (Fremantle).
UMPIRES T Pannell, B Rosebury, J Bannister.
CROWD 44,460 at MCG.
SELDOM, if ever, have the expectations about an AFL final been turned on their head as spectacularly as they were in the first 30 minutes at the MCG. The scoreline at quarter-time looked like you might have expected. Just with the teams the wrong way round.
Fremantle's opening burst in an elimination final few expected it to win, let alone dominate to the extent it did early, was little short of stunning. This wasn't just a case of a warm favourite being caught on the hop. Geelong was completely dominated by the Dockers in every conceivable facet of the game. Had it not been for just one flaw, a little bit of inaccuracy, the game would have been effectively over before it had barely begun.
Right from the start, Freo was not only clearly ''on'', but had a fanatical intensity for which even the most seasoned Cats had no answer. It started at the top, with skipper Matthew Pavlich having the first three shots at goal. The first, he shanked. The second, following a beautifully crafted pass from Michael Walters, was spot on. The third, after he out-bustled Tom Lonergan, was a stroll.
Even as the prolific David Mundy created his second goal in a couple of minutes with a quick kick to Hayden Ballantyne, and Ryan Crowley converted another set shot to make it four goals to zip, you still felt this was more an aberration, or at best a cameo. Perhaps the non-plussed Cats thought it, too. And that was a huge mistake. Because there was far more to come.
The stats by the 20-minute mark said plenty. Fremantle had just taken its 10th mark inside 50, as many as Geelong usually concedes for an entire game. It had doubled the Cats for forward-50 entries. Beaten them for contested ball and even more convincingly for the uncontested stuff. This was far from the dour, stodgy outfit people presumed Ross Lyon would send into the fray.
The Dockers ran, spread and carved huge holes in the Cats' defences. By the end of the quarter they'd had the ball in their forward half nearly 80 per cent of game time. The margin was 36 points, with the Cats held goalless.
It blew out further to 48 after Matt De Boer and Clancee Pearce made it seven goals to zip. Zac Dawson wasn't giving Tom Hawkins a look in, and he wasn't alone. Mundy and Michael Barlow were superb, Ballantyne his usual nuisance value, the still-raw Walters inventive and dangerous near goal.
But in a way what happened then was perhaps even more impressive on the part of the Dockers. The seemingly inevitable Geelong revival did eventually come. In fact, several times. And on each occasion, Fremantle was able to quell the uprising.
There was the Cats' three goals in four minutes into the second term to drag the deficit back under five goals. That was the cue for Walters to snatch one off the ground after Joel Corey had been pinned in his defensive goal square.
It happened again at the start of the second half, goals to Steven Motlop and Mathew Stokes making it a very gettable 20-point gap, the smallish but very parochial crowd finding its voice, the knowing looks exchanged.
Instead, the Dockers slammed on four of the next five, Pavlich, in surely one his very best and certainly his most significant game, again taking charge at the opportune moment.
His fourth for the night was another strong mark out in front. The fifth, however, was an absolute gem, keeping his feet in a one-on-one with a second opponent, Harry Taylor, giving him the slip, running in on the tightest of angles, and after considering squaring the ball, taking the initiative and drilling it home. Ballantyne pumped another lethal shot into Geelong's heart with a follow-up on the run, and Walters coolly stepped clear and restored the margin to 39 points. The Dockers stood tall twice more in the final term, too, as the Cats gave it one final, desperate shot. The ineffective James Podsiadly went back, Taylor and long-kicking Josh Hunt forward.
Again the September masters loomed ominously with goals to Andrew Mackie and Allen Christensen, back to four goals with 20-odd minutes left. Again, Freo struck on the counter-attack, Ballantyne relishing the opportunity to charge in and hammer another nail in the Cats coffin, now just about completely closed. And after Hunt had revived the tiniest flickers of a Geelong heartbeat with two goals, the gap now 17 points with just under five minutes still to play, Pavlich fittingly delivered the last rites, driving home his sixth.
Fremantle hadn't just clung on after getting off to a flyer. It had set the tone, braced itself for a worthy opponent to hit back, and gone punch for punch, always finding the appropriate answer when challenged. In 18 seasons in AFL company, no victory has come close to this one for enshrining not only the Dockers' football credentials, but their character.
Geelong, for its part, fought on, but couldn't find when it mattered most, at the start, the same sort of intensity with which it set Sydney on its heels last week. Skipper Joel Selwood couldn't have done a lot more, certainly. Jimmy Bartel came good after a slow and fumbly beginning. Taylor Hunt tried to lift his team as best he could. But the Cats' forward artillery was effectively muted by Dawson and co. Their defence was never allowed to peel off and distribute the ball with any sort of ease, the Dockers' forward pressure red-hot, Matthew Scarlett suddenly looking every bit his 33 years again, Lonergan a trier but simply beaten by a champion in Pavlich's brilliance.
And so Geelong's expected historic charge at a premiership from the unlikeliest of positions was snuffed out before it had even begun. You won't find too many people prepared even today to consider the possibility of the team which killed the Cats' dream performing a similar miracle. But after last night, who can say with certainty. Lyon's team sure is developing a taste for defying the odds, and its many doubters.
As you'd expect, the crowd of 44,460 was dominated in no small way by Geelong supporters. But what fans were there on behalf of the purple army certainly didn't keep a respectful silence. The Freo chant dominated the barracking stakes, even before the game had begun, and reached a crescendo as it became apparent in the final few minutes that a historic away finals win was about to be recorded. The performance from the Fremantle fans was just as impressive as the one by its players.
While it has lifted its scoring capacity significantly in recent games, Fremantle still isn't seen as one of the AFL's more potent scoring machines. But the Dockers mustered 12 scoring shots to just one in the opening-term blitz, putting Geelong's defence under the type of pressure it has rarely known for years. By late in the first term, Freo has taken 10 marks inside its forward 50. That figure is what the Cats usually concede in an entire game.
Zac Dawson still has his share of critics. But the former Hawk and Saint turned in one of the finest performances of his 94-game career on one of the competition's most intimidating propositions in Tom Hawkins, holding the previously rampant Cat key forward goalless, and to just nine possessions and three marks. Ross Lyon's liking for the much-maligned backman makes a lot more sense to a lot more people now.
Quarter 1
A Matthew Pavlich goal got Fremantle underway five minutes in. The Dockers started well, chopping off balls in defence and moving it precisely upfield. They turned a couple of the Cats' early chances into messy, unfulfilled ones and went two goals ahead when Pavlich outmarked Tom Lonergan, got up and scored from the goal line. Hayden Ballantyne's brave mark made it a three-goal lead, then Ryan Crowley and Pavlich again made it five by the 21-minute mark. Dockers by 36 points
Quarter 2
The Dockers controlled play, failing only to put the Cats away even at this early stage. A Matt de Boer set shot, 10 minutes in, put them on that path although the Cats were getting a touch more of the ball. Behinds to Tom Hawkins and Allen Christensen were the Cats' only scores. Down by 48 points, Andrew Mackie marked and scored Geelong's first goal, while Joel Selwood and Mitch Duncan goaled soon after. A Michael Walters' soccer goal interrupted that charge and the Cats still faced a massive challenge at half-time. Dockers by 34 points
Quarter 3
Fremantle began with a three-man forward line, indicating a desire to shut things down, but goals to Steven Motlop and Mathew Stokes had the Dockers on the back foot. A third, to Nathan Vardy, kept Geelong's score ticking over but the Dockers continued to find room to move. Two Pavlich goals and a running shot from Ballantyne kept the Cats at arm's length, before another Walters goal took them further ahead. A Lonergan shot hit the post, Duncan's shot went right, Zac Dawson outmarked Hawkins and the game seemed over. Dockers by 38
Quarter 4
The Cats rolled the dice, throwing Harry Taylor forward and moving James Podsiadly back but after six minutes they'd only made up two points. They weren't done with: Christensen scored off a set shot to bring the margin to four goals and Josh Hunt's shot slammed into a post. Again, Fremantle broke the flow with a goal of its own; Stephen Hill, Walters and Ballantyne teamed up to score. Hunt nailed his second but time was running out. That was as close as they got in one of the biggest September upsets in years. Dockers win by 16
Rohan Connolly, a senior football writer for The Age and radio broadcaster with sports radio station 1116 SEN, has been covering the game since 1983. A multi-AFL Media Association award-winner known for his passion and love of the game, he analyses the AFL for the newspaper and contributes a blog and weekly video, "Footy Fix", for The Age's football website, Real Footy.


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In response to Julian Savulescu's defense of the publication of this short paper on infanticide.
Let me grant – controversially – that there are bad "arguments" on the world wide web. Did you really need to highlight those arguments in defending the publication of this piece? It seems like rather a bit of a strawman. Surely there are better arguments against the publication of the article (some are in this very discussion thread). Why respond to the garbage?
Frankly, there's a bit of hyperbole here as well: "More than ever, proper academic discussion and freedom are under threat…"
Really? "More than ever…"? Come now, Mr. Savulescu. Surely you know history better than this. The web has transformed dissent-with-a-bullet into dissent-with-a-fallacy. At least I know a red herring made of straw will never kill me.
I would argue that you are wrong to claim the paper is original, which is the real reason that it should not have been published. Singer expressly considers maternal/family interests in "Practical Ethics — Taking Life: Human," and he certainly was not the first utilitarian to do so.
There's certainly nothing novel about the rest of the paper. If reminding us that infanticide is happening overseas is a reason to publish the paper, then it would seem that the journal's audience has become the uninformed layperson – how standards have fallen! Did you really write that, Savulescu? I'm shocked that a writer as original as you would stoop to such a shabby argument in defense of such a cursory piece. Maybe the shift from author to editor…? No, no, I must not go there.
The paper's provocative. It sparked interest in the journal. As a serious piece, however, it's just way too short and undeveloped. I am an unpublished academic philosopher, so I have little to hang my hat on as far as denying anyone else their moment in print. However, I would confidently maintain that this is just not substantial enough to be worthy of publication. Less than three pages as an argument in favor of infanticide? No argument by the authors for their take on personhood, but instead merely a "We take 'person' to mean…" comment? "We take…"?! That's a lazy device.
There's more: No defense of using the concept of a person to adjudicate the abortion debate? No attempt to draw a non-arbitrary line between those non-persons who are merely sleeping and those who are in PVS states or are otherwise incompetent? The inexcusable use of the undergraduate's favorite phrase "…many humans are not considered…" as a way to deflect responsibility for crafting an argument of one's own?
The argument at the end of the "potential persons" section did interest me, however: its conclusion is to argue that while there is no obligation to preserve the life of this particular individual since it is not a person and we must therefore privilege the actual lives extant persons, there is an obligation to think about the totally non-existent lives of future generations because such people "will exist" (emphasis on "will"). So, this living thing in front of me exists, but not as a person. It can die because it's not a person. But this future person that doesn't exist can't be harmed/killed because it will exist as a person (no, wait — I think it already exists as a future person). So as long as the newborn in front of me was one of the future persons that I thought about nine months ago before getting pregnant, then it can't be harmed since it was going to exist as a person when I thought of it. Now, since this article has forced me to think about all future persons (whoever they may be), I can't justify harming/killing any of them, since I would be killing persons. Therefore people not reading this article can kill any newborn (and maybe any sleeping philosophers), but those of us who have read it are doomed to preserve the lives of all future generations — after all, they'll be persons. It makes perfect sense.
Now, is this engagement reasoned enough to pass peer review at JME?
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Congratulations to all who have been published so far and happy selling.
I am still eagerly awaiting mine, but due to the massive volume of books it will take time.
So watch this space folks, hopefully this blog owner will be a published author very soon.
In the meantime, do check out the other authors on my list at the top and my growing 'book shop' on my website.
Monday, 8 December 2008
Excitement mounts as D-Day approaches for members of YouWriteOn.com
Excitement and tension is rising for all of the writers who have taken part in the Arts Council sponsored http://www.youwriteon.com/ publishing deal. We should start hearing about our books tomorrow.
This is a colossal task for Edward Smith and his team and the people of Legend Press, who have worked around the clock to fulfil 5000 authors dreams.
It is also going to be very beneficial, too, as 10% of profits will be donated to charity. The first of which is Sightsavers International. A very worthy cause indeed. Sight is so precious and considering that 75% of the 37 Million men, women and children who are blind, needn't be.
Many celebrities are ambassadors and supporters of this vital charity, including Joanna Lumley, Gordon Ramsay, Graham Le Saux and Debra Winger.
You will have noticed that I have a list of our authors at the top of my blog. I am also going to have a showcase on my website of as many of the books that will be on sale as I can. I will be a wee bit busy if I manage to locate all of them!


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