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I have Battlefield 4, Battlefield 1, Call of Duty WWII, Civilization VI, ARK, and Star Wars Battlefront II
I actively play those games for the most part if anyone you want to get down just let me know.
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Spring is here! Really?
Spring is a breath of fresh air in the Adirondacks! After a long and cold winter, we embrace the warmer rays of sun. While we love our winter activities, we welcome the sounds of birds chirping and rustling leaves, letting us know warmer weather is on the horizon. It is time for us to pull up an Adirondack chair, sit on our porch, and watch nature at its best!
I love Spring in the Adirondacks because we often have the vast forests, thousands of lakes, little shops and sought-after entertainment all to ourselves. The North Woods are just waking up from the long winter, the palette is a thrilling pale green, and the sky filled with skeins of geese, flying home for the summer. And although the days are warm, Whiteface is often (as its name suggests) still white and the ski trails are open.
As for weather? Well, April is also known as Mud Season to the locals, because that's when the snow is melting and the mud is flowing… A few days ago, we experienced another afternoon of flurries. But, today, the sun made a welcome return for April's Fool, after two days of playing hide and seek. And, all along our home, ice is melting, leaving wonderful sculptures everywhere.


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Blast from my past: "What next?" Rolling Stone (2004)
What Next?
ROLLING STONE convenes a panel of experts to discuss what went wrong in Iraq--and where we can go from here
By AMANDA GRISCOM
Rolling Stone, 8-22 July 2004.
At the end of 2002, as the Bush administration prepared to invade Iraq, Rolling Stone convened a panel of experts to assess the march to war. Things have since gone far worse than most imagined. There is no evidence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction -- the rationale used to justify the invasion. The fighting continues to escalate long after Bush declared "mission accomplished," and the White House tried to ignore the abuse and humiliation of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers. As the U.S. prepares to hand over control to an interim Iraqi government, we reconvened key members of our panel, along with some new experts, to examine the current situation in Iraq. What went wrong -- and what should we do now?
Before we look forward, let's look back. What have been our biggest strategic blunders since we invaded Iraq?
Gen. Anthony Zinni: We've had a year of disasters. The strategy going into Iraq was patently ridiculous -- this idea that we'd generate Jeffersonian democracy and plant the seed of freedom in the Middle East. The rationale was even worse: We grossly overstated the threat and cooked the books on the intelligence. Then we put on the ground a half-baked pickup team that has alienated the people and can't connect to viable leadership.
Gen. Wesley Clark: We went in with far too few troops and seat-of-the-pants planning. We've been there for more than a year, and the borders still aren't being controlled -- jihadis and extremists are coming in from Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Fuel convoys are getting routinely attacked; oil facilities and police stations are regularly targeted.
Rand Beers: The precondition to freedom is security. You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.
Thomas P.M. Barnett: It was a major mistake for the Bush administration to say to potential allies, "If you're too big a pussy to show up for the war, we're not going to let you in on the peace or rehab process -- and don't expect any contracts." We had such a macho view of war that we completely miscalculated the dangers of peacekeeping.
Fouad Ajami: Now we're a Johnny-come-lately for a U.N. resolution to internationalize the political process. You might call it deathbed multilateralism.
What about the blunders behind the scenes at the White House?
Sen. Joseph Biden: I've been a senator through seven administrations, and this is by far the most divided one I've ever served with. The internal discord is rampant. It's not just Colin Powell, who has differed with Vice President Cheney at every turn. It isn't just Richard Clarke and the others on the intelligence team who have angrily defected. It's General Eric Shinseki, who was fired for telling the truth. It's Lawrence Lindsay, Bush's economic adviser, who was fired for saying the war was going to cost $200 billion. The price tag is even higher now, and still they submit a budget for 2005 without a single penny for Iraq. What in the hell is going on?
Bob Kerrey: Karl Rove's hair is on fire -- he's worrying about what the polls are saying about America's attitude toward Iraq. Voters want out. The greatest risk is that we'll make decisions for political reasons -- that Rove will say we've got to call it quits or we're not going to win in November.
What would happen if we did pull out in a hurry?
Zinni: To pull out now would be a tremendous defeat. It would accelerate the path to civil war and make us and the region extremely vulnerable. The boys aren't coming home anytime soon.
Youssef Ibrahim: We've got to cut our losses -- the sooner the better. Our presence is only aggravating the chances for civil war. The best-case scenario at this point is for the U.S. to declare victory and get the hell out. Iraqi resistance is rising by the day, and the United Nations, NATO and the Europeans are refusing to come in. There is no fig leaf to put on this.
Biden: It would be strategic suicide if America withdrew anytime soon. I meet regularly with a group of seven four-star generals about Iraq; each one says we don't have enough force protection to even withdraw in an orderly fashion. It could be a bloodbath on the way out, and hasten civil war.
Would civil war spill over the borders to create a regional conflict?
Biden: Very likely. If civil war breaks out in Iraq, the Sunni Triangle will become a snake pit and violence will spiral throughout the region. Within five years you'll see the emergence of another strongman in Iraq. Afghanistan will fall and become a new hotbed of terror. Radical Islamists will seize control in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, and the same thing could occur in Iran, which will become the major power in the region.
Beers: It could spill over the borders -- no question about it -- but would it drag the other states in? More likely, the border states would do everything to contain the conflict to Iraq. Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.
So let's assume we're in it for the long haul. How do we even begin to regain control?
Zinni: Security is the most important issue short-term. I'm talking probably at least a year and twice the number of boots. People won't help build a new Iraq unless they can walk to a police station -- much less a voting booth -- without fear of getting killed.
Barnett: The Bush team needs to eat crow and make the tough deals necessary to internationalize this. They need to call a summit meeting of the major powers, including Russia, China and India, and say, "We have a problem in Iraq. Our loss would be as big a loss for you -- economically and otherwise -- as for us. What will it take to get 10,000 Chinese troops, 10,000 Indian troops, 10,000 Russian troops? What do you want in return?" We know what the deals are. India would probably demand, for example, that we don't declare Pakistan a major ally. Russia wants full membership in NATO. China might ask us to stop planning a missile defense in northeast Asia.
Zinni: The international soldiers have to be there. You have to see the bar scene from Star Wars, where there's a lot of different uniforms, not just all American desert cammies.
Biden: We need to rapidly train an Iraqi army and police force. They need to feel they are fighting for themselves. If I'm president of the United States, my orders to our generals and ambassador are, "If I see you once on Iraqi television, you're fired. I want Iraqi faces on Iraqi television." It should take two to three years to get 35,000 Iraqi troops out there.
Should we even be talking about a June 30th hand-over? Are we prepared?
Clark: That date was picked as a political gambit before there was a real plan for what to do. We're not prepared, but we're not going to be able to renege on that commitment.
Ibrahim: June 30th is the biggest joke around. There will still be 135,000 American soldiers in Iraq. We will pick a new governing council -- a whole bunch of new lackeys. A superambassador -- John Negroponte -- will command an embassy of 3,000 Americans. Every controversial thing that the new government does will look like Negroponte's fault.
Sir Jeremy Greenstock: The interim government will be sovereign in the sense that Iraqis will be equal partners in every decision made by America and the international community -- in running the budget, trying Saddam, determining the future of the oil industry. Decisions cannot be executed without their agreement.
Ajami: We have to transfer power. This should have happened long ago. We could have gotten an Iraqi to run the country the way we got Hamid Karzai to run Afghanistan. America would still have had considerable influence behind the scenes, but we should never have had an American out front -- it's why the polls show that eighty-two percent of Iraqis want us to leave immediately.
We keep hearing that the violence will escalate around June 30th and the year-end elections -- that it will only get worse before it gets better.
Chas Freeman: It's not rocket science to figure out that the easiest way for the interim Iraqi authority to establish credibility among its people will be to turn on the U.S. By refusing to give authority, we will create a situation in which they will feel obliged to seize it from us.
Zinni: If you're going to have an election, the first thing you have to do is determine the form of government you're going to have: parliament, a federated system, a confederated system? You need political parties. I don't see that happening. Iraqis don't understand what kind of government they're going to have. They are going to be told how to vote in Friday prayers by some mullah.
Kerrey: Any time you have disorder, any radical who stands on a stump and gives a speech wins the day. So I can get up and say to a religious Shiite in Baghdad, "We didn't have prostitution in the old days, so vote for me, and anyone who is a prostitute will be beaten. If you don't like this disorder, we'll bring order back with a strict interpretation of Islamic law." He'll get a standing ovation.
We went into Iraq thinking it was a secular state, but the political rhetoric among Shiite and Sunni leaders has intensified. Is religion taking the place of politics?
Ajami: I supported the war in part because Iraq had in it the roots of secular culture, which I believed positioned it well to adopt a representative government. What I never imagined was how quickly the Sunni Arabs -- who relied on the secret police to control the country under Saddam -- would fall back on the mosques as their weapon of control. More surprising was that the Shiites -- the oppressed underclass who represent sixty percent of the population -- have also begun to use Islam as a political tool. It connects them, the dispossessed, to the united Muslim world at large.
Greenstock: Iraqis are a proud people, in no small part because hundreds of years ago they ruled the known world from Baghdad. That's embedded in their national psyche.
Is the concern that as the religious tenor among Iraqis intensifies, they will begin to identify their struggle as part of the larger conflict of Islam vs. the West?
Zinni: This is a key point. Everybody I know in this part of the world says you cannot let this become a religious war. You can't let this become Islam vs. the West. I fear that's what it's become. We're viewed as modern crusaders. We have our own mad mullahs in America -- the Jerry Falwells, the Pat Robertsons -- who criticize Islam. They are heard much louder over there than they are here.
Ibrahim: It's worse than that. Bush himself is seen to be a mad mullah. The president has repeatedly asserted that God is on our side in Iraq, that he's consulting with a "higher" father. The zealotry even infects the military. General William Boykin recently said, "My God is much bigger than their Allah" -- this was all over the Arab media. He was never fired or reprimanded for making that statement. Prisoners have given accounts of being forced to thank Jesus and denounce Islam. The perception in the Gulf, where I live, is that this administration is vehemently anti-Muslim. Like it or not, we are in a war with 2.1 billion Muslims.
Beers: Even though the clash between Islam and Christianity during the Crusades took place 1,000 years ago, those terms clearly still have resonance in the Islamic community and Al Qaeda. To invoke religion is to give our opponents ammunition in the larger war on terrorism.
We often hear that the war on terror has supercharged radical Islam and energized the recruitment of terrorists. What evidence do we have to support this?
Freeman: Increasing sophistication in the ambush tactics and improvised explosive devices used to kill American troops indicate growing cooperation between secular Iraqi factions and religious extremists like Al Qaeda. Sunni insurgents in Iraq are being helped by Hamas from the Palestinian occupied territories, and the Shiites are being assisted by Hezbollah from Lebanon. All these forces are cooperating, even though many have historically been mortal enemies. Clearly, the U.S. is a big enough enemy for everyone in the region to put aside their differences.
Beers: We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq. Intelligence shows Al Qaeda recruiting in places as far-flung as Indonesia, Thailand, Pakistan, Kenya, Somalia and Nigeria, as well as in Saudi Arabia and Syria.
Ibrahim: In Saudi Arabia, where Al Qaeda is waging a daily war, at least fifty people have died in the last month alone. They bombed five housing complexes and an American school. In the heart of the industrial sector, four Americans from oil companies were shot and one was dragged by a car for four hours.
Should we view radical Islam as the enemy?
Zinni: Any time we look at an "enemy," we look at it at three levels. At the tactical level, the enemy is the terrorist organizations and the financing they get. The operational level is the enemy's center of gravity -- it's the rationale, which is radical Islam. At the strategic level, it's the continuous flow of young people so desperate and angry that they're willing to believe it. At the tactical level, we could be winning - we could be hurting Al Qaeda and capturing its leadership. But as an ideology, it's strengthening. It is probably stronger now than before September 11th, in terms of recruiting manpower willing to kill themselves.
Surely the Abu Ghraib prison scandal didn't help. Should Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld or other Bush officials resign?
Beers: The Navy has a custom -- if a ship runs aground, the captain is relieved regardless of who is responsible. That's how Abu Ghraib should be handled.
Biden: I was in the Oval Office the other day, and the president asked me what I would do about resignations. I said, "Look, Mr. President, would I keep Rumsfeld? Absolutely not." And I turned to Vice President Cheney, who was there, and I said, "Mr. Vice President, I wouldn't keep you if it weren't constitutionally required." I turned back to the president and said, "Mr. President, Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld are bright guys, really patriotic, but they've been dead wrong on every major piece of advice they've given you. That's why I'd get rid of them, Mr. President -- not just Abu Ghraib." They said nothing. Just sat like big old bullfrogs on a log and looked at me.
Speaking of Cheney, how does this instability affect contractors such as Halliburton?
Zinni: Halliburton is spending staggering sums of money building fortified workplaces. It's killing the American taxpayer, who's footing the bill. There are two bodyguards for every worker. For $100,000 a year, you've got a truck driver from West Virginia. If I'm an Iraqi, I say, "For that cost, you could hire ten of us as drivers. And if I'm getting a paycheck, I'll have a vested interest in that truck getting through." Even the way we do contracting makes no sense.
What about our oil concerns? We often hear that a prime reason we went into Iraq was to get access to its oil as our ties to Saudi Arabia falter.
Greenstock: Oil is not the big bogey we should be worried about. Oil will go on flowing come what may, so long as there is reasonable order in the oil-producing countries. Whatever the character of the regime, it always wants to sell its oil. Look at Iran, Saudi Arabia, even Qaddafi in Libya.
Freeman: Yet the oil system is extremely vulnerable to shock. There's a rule in the Middle East that you don't need these fancy seismic studies to locate oil reserves -- if you find the Shiites, there's usually oil. There are more than 1 million Shiites in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia, which is where the oil is. They've suffered persecution by the religious majority in Saudi Arabia, and they're vulnerable to spillover from the anti-American struggle in Iraq. The global nightmare is that there would be terrorist action among Saudi Shiites directed at the oil pipelines, ports and refineries. For Americans, that would mean four or more dollars per gallon of gas.
Ibrahim: The sixty-year relationship we've had with Saudi Arabia is on the verge of collapse. How many times have we asked them to please, please open the spigots so we can bring prices down? There's a new 900-pound gorilla coming called China. In ten years, it's going to be the largest consumer of oil in the world, which means that the people who produce oil are no longer kissing America's ass -- they're beginning to kiss China's ass.
Has the war at least produced a new respect for American military power?
Ibrahim: Hardly. We are no longer loved because of Iraq, and we are also no longer feared because of Iraq. The neoconservative dream of regime change throughout the region -- in Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Libya and Somalia -- is dead. Do you really think any of those countries are afraid of us after watching us bleed in the streets of Iraq?
Biden: The perception of us is that if we don't succeed, we're a paper tiger. We can project power, but we don't have staying power. The Bush administration has seriously damaged the legitimate and necessary role of power in our foreign-policy arsenal. What happens if we have another Milosevic? Will there be support for a U.S. president in taking down a genocidal maniac? No.
What does the future of war look like? Will we face World War III?
Zinni: My son is a Marine captain, and he's going to face a changed battlefield -- messier than Haiti, Bosnia, Somalia, Iraq. It's no longer honorable fighting, where you defeat the forces of a nation-state on the battlefield. He's going to face all sorts of violent components -- insurgents, terrorists, warlords -- as well as environmental challenges and humanitarian problems.
Barnett: We're going to end up replicating the struggle again and again. Like spraying the cockroaches in one apartment and scattering them to the next -- we're driving terrorists to the next country over. Sort of like rooting out old Japanese warriors on some isolated Pacific island twenty years after World War II, we're going to be killing off the last of these guys years from now in deepest, darkest Africa.
In the near term, is a change of administrations the best way out of the quagmire?
Ibrahim: I voted for Bush, but I'd sooner die than vote for him again. The neocons are vampires through which we have to drive a wooden stake. Neoconservatism must end as an ideology if you want America to recover its position as leader of the world.
Kerrey: We need a coalition of the pragmatic in the White House, not of the religious or ideological. John Kerry will be much more capable of making the tough deals necessary to bring in the allies and make it work. In an odd way, that's good news for Bush. I predict that in the end, the two of them will celebrate a great bipartisan foreign-policy victory in Iraq, begun by President Bush and finished by President Kerry.
Biden: About six months ago, the president said to me, "Well, at least I make strong decisions, I lead." I said, "Mr. President, look behind you. Leaders have followers. No one's following. Nobody."


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How to request Reissue AdSense Cheque
From last few months I am unable to give much time to my blog,this is affecting my blog traffic and Adsense earning.I haven't had an Adsense check since January.
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A look into the thought process of how I came to write this post. See if you can follow:
For several years, I've been playing fantasy baseball. For several years, I would make it to the finals of the playoffs in one of my leagues, but always lose and come in 2nd place.
Being a superstitious guy, I thought changing the name of my team would bring a better streak of luck.
Being from Connecticut, I was brainstorming clever names for my team to properly represent my home state. But because Connecticut doesn't actually have their own sports franchise, nor does anything rhyme with the name, you can see where my dilemma appeared (to find out what I would name a professional sport franchise from CT if ever given the chance or resources, read post here).
I thought of coming up with a team name affiliated with New York, because that's where I was born and because I am a huge Yankees fan. But the only mascot I could think of that rhymed with "Yankees" was the "Crankies," and I didn't feel like naming my team after a 4-year old after just having woke up from a midday nap.
I thought of incorporating Boston/Massachusetts because I have been living here for the past five, going on six years. But because of my strong distaste for Boston sports teams, I couldn't give in to having an exclusively, Boston-related team name.
I started thinking of names that incorporated all three states. The New Yorkachusetts. The Massayorkicuts. The Reason-for-traffic-when-you-drive-from-NY-to-Boston. But, as you can tell, nothing stuck.
Then I started looking up what people from each state were called. For example, if you were from New York, you were obviously referred to as a New Yorker. Did you know someone from Connecticut is either called a Nutmegger or Connecticuter? Pretty lame.
While there are many names associated with Massachusetts residents (e.g. Bay Stater, Bostonian, Massachusite), one particular slang term caught my eye: the Masshole. If you're thinking what I'm thinking, the name is derived from exactly the word that first pops in your head. And if you've ever been to Boston, or driven anywhere in the streets of Massachusetts, you will understand where that name comes from.
Having been a resident in MA for quite some time now, I will have to admit that I am slowly converting to becoming a Masshole. Reckless driving, speeding, tailgating, turning without signaling, swerving in-and-out of traffic… the only things missing are the finger gestures and obscenities (some of which, I confess to have muttered under my breath).
Author H. Jackson Browne, Jr. once quoted, "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." Besides the color and make of my car or my license plate, driving is one of those things that preserves my anonymity. I can honk at someone for sitting at a green light, or cut someone off for driving too slow in the fast lane, because I know I'll never have to confront that person face-to-face. As long as I don't get caught and can get away with it, it's easy for me to live up to the name so many Masschusetts drivers merited until this point in history.
My aunt told me you can tell a lot about a person from the way they drive. This is probably what she meant.
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Gospel Connection: How are the fruits of the Spirit manifested in your life (Gal. 5:22-23)? In what ways can you put to death the work of the flesh (vv.19-21)? Do you look for recognition when a fruit blossoms in your life? Do you hide your identity when a desire of the flesh comes to surface? How does Christ make a difference in the way you live, even if it is something as trivial as driving?
And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Meet Me In St. Louis (1944): Have Yourself a Charming Little Movie
Set in the Missouri burg of the title in 1903, the film centers on the Smith family, middle class and ready to see and celebrate the coming Louisiana Exposition of 1904 but instead of a straight narrative, St. Louis is really a set of colorful, sentimental vignettes set to some of the catchiest tunes and loveliest melodies to come from Hollywood in the 1940's, with Garland of course taking on the bulk of the lilting tones. Along with "The Boy Next Door" and "Under the Bamboo Tree" with the precocious moppet Margaret O'Brien, Judy and gang belt out one of the most glorious four minute interludes of musical magic known to the golden age of American cinema with "The Trolley Song". Written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, "The Trolley Song" was not only nominated for an Academy Award as the year's Best Song (it lost out to "Swinging on a Star" from Going My Way) but had several very popular renditions that hit the airwaves during the decade. The most enduring song to come from the St. Louis musical resume however, was Judy's poignant holiday signature, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas". Hauntingly beautiful in its delivery both visually and audibly, "Christmas" has become a standard on Yuletide play lists.
In an auburn wig with very heavy bangs, Garland had shed the "baby fat" much discussed by her studio boss Louis B. Mayer, but her trimmer figure could still pack a vocal wallop and did so. She is handsomely supported by a superlative array of MGM talent including the above mentioned O'Brien, Lucille Bremer, Mary Astor, Leon Ames, Marjorie Main, Harry Davenport and Tom Drake, as the "boy next door". The entire cast charms its way from scene to scene evoking the feel and sound of turn of the century Americana via the MGM backlot.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
"May the Merry Bells Keep Ringing; Happy Holidays to You"
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Happy Thanksgiving!: Please, Pass the Yams
Have a safe, happy, healthy and classic Thanksgiving!
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Photograph by Annie Musselman.
After a startling success collaborating with Hollywood ingénue Zooey Deschanel on the 2008 breakout album She & Him, indie-music favorite M. Ward recently wrapped production of his next solo effort, Hold Time, to be released by Merge Records on February 17. The Portland native, whose rise to acclaim began in earnest with 2005's Transistor Radio and continued with 2007's Post-War, brings his broad portfolio of talents to bear once again on Hold Time: deft guitar playing, wonderful melodies and atmospherics, and without question the most haunting whisper in recorded music. Throw in guest performances from the likes of Jason Lytle of Grandaddy, Tom Hagerman of DeVotchka, Lucinda Williams, and Zooey Deschanel, and Hold Time is another M.Ward gem—both huge and intimate at once. VF.com sat down with Ward in New York to pick the guitar-picker's brain.
VF Daily: Hold Timeis another excellent addition to the M. Ward canon. Has anything changed in your process?
M. Ward: Not really. The process remains the same as it's always been. Every song starts with a four track at home and an acoustic guitar. The key is to keep everything as fresh as it was when I first started.
Every writer has ways or tricks of getting back to that place. For me, especially when I am traveling and I have to do the same song over and over again, more often than not it's a question of how can I return back to the spot that inspired the original idea of a song. A lot of times it's remembering the people that I was with, the thing I had read in some book or some newspaper article. I have learned that if I can make sure I hold on to that spark, then it will be able to fuel the song and ideally propel it to the time when I either have to record or perform it.
Your last album, Post-War, seemed to be about imagining a future when the Iraq war was over. This album seems more like a collection of great songs. Is it meant to be more than that?
I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.
You've worked with some of the most talented women in music, who incidentally happen to be some of the hottest: Zooey Deschanel, Neko Case, Jenny Lewis, and Lucinda Williams to name a few. What is it about you that makes these women want to work with you?
[Laughs] I've worked with just as many talented women as I have talented men, and I feel fortunate enough to have that great balance. What the draw is, though, is for other people to determine, not me.
O.K. But is there a thread that connects them, other than you?
There is just as much a thread between them as all the males I have worked with. They all have a great passion for music. But the women you mentioned—we have a lot of overlapping interests in older records and older ideas.
Zooey Deschanel was a wonderful surprise on She & Him. And she's back on this album, singing on "Never Had Nobody Like You" and "Rave On." She's got quite a distinct sound. Can you explain it?
Her voice belongs to no time. That is a very evocative place for a listener to be. As somebody who produces records, I am more often than not aiming for that healthy confusion where listeners have to ask themselves some fundamental questions: What is happening here? What is that sound? Where did this happen? When did this happen? Did this recording happen a year ago or thirty years ago? I recently heard Aretha Franklin covering God Bless the Child on the radio in San Francisco. It's from the sixties, but it sounded like a recording that could have been made a few months ago. Certain artists have the ability to do that. Zooey is one of them.
You're only 35, and you've already got an old voice in a young man's body. What's going to happen when you actually get old? Will your voice then become ancient, like Bob Dylan's? Or will you pull a Benjamin Button and get younger?
Like Dorian Gray, you mean? It's a question I ask myself every day. It seems like I should know the answer but I don't.
A lot of your songs have a moment that feels like release. Obviously, a lot of songwriting aims to create tension and release, but yours can feel blissful. "For Beginners," on this album, has that aspect to it. How do you find that in the songwriting process?
That's a great question. I feel like if it happens, it happens accidentally. Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.
Your use of lyrics often has a wonderful meandering aspect to it, with lots of wordplay and double meaning. Take "Fisher of Men" from this album: "He's got a line in the water…He's a fisher of men…he's got a lot on the line." Are you sitting there with a thesaurus when you're writing tunes?
When I hear that song, I think about the movie The Missiona bit. It might be about a missionary. And a missionary has a lot on the line. But it all happens so fast. It happens subconsciously. So much of it is stumbled upon. Sometimes you will find yourself when you're writing and playing guitar chords, you will be mumbling something that turns into words.
You often flirt with issues of spirituality. I think I heard you mention (if it was you speaking) that you were Catholic on this album. In the song "Blake's View," you reference his suggestion from the poem "The Grave" that death is just a door. How does spirituality come into play for you as a songwriter?
There is definitely some overlap when you're talking about inspiration and spirituality. I am very interested in where those two circles overlap. I don't claim to understand it, but I am very attracted to the mystery of it. If I could explain it in words, I would, but I like to think the record answers that question for me.
There might be one answer on your last album, Post-War. The song "Chinese Translation" seems to suggest that the answer to the big questions is just wonderful music. Am I right?
You are right. The customer is always right. But I've had a lot of interpretations of that song. I think the worth of a song can be measured by the amount of interpretations you get from it. All of my favorite books and movies, you can have discussions about what they mean. Like David Lynch movies. Great songs are the same way.
Ron Sexsmith is a songwriters' songwriter. So are you. Sexsmith has yet to achieve the widespread adulation and acclaim many think he deserves. You're growing in popularity, but you're certainly no superstar. So what is enough? Is it enough to know all your peers respect you? Or would you enjoy the cover of Rolling Stone?
I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness. More often than not, I think it's a ticket to madness. When was the last time we saw any of my favorite artists on the cover of Rolling Stone? I think it's a great magazine, but I don't really read magazines that much. Magazines have a shelf life of 30 days. Newspapers have a shelf life of one day. There's no point in aiming to conquer that territory.
I feel like there's an aura behind or around a lot of your music, as if you were sound engineer for the room, but also the musician. As if you were at once your own Daniel Lanois producing M. Ward as well as being M. Ward himself. Are those two distinct parts to your process, or just two parts of one whole?
For me, there are two halves of a production. The first half is the composition. That's a place where atmosphere doesn't matter at all. You're just hammering away at constructing something that has legs to stand on and has words you can imagine yourself saying for the rest of your life and a chord progression and melodies you can imagine feeling comfortable with in the moment and for the future. Once you feel like you have something that has a good foundation, that's when you take it into the studio. That's where you open the door to some chaos and improvisation and chemistry with your friends and fellow musicians. That, more often than not, is where the atmosphere is created. It comes in the latter half of production for me.
You obviously draw from the past in much of your sound. But it's also startlingly original. How do you thread that needle?
Sometimes when I am writing a song I will have a specific sound in mind. I might try, for example, to imitate a guitar sound from Howlin' Wolf's great guitarist Hubert Sumlin. To try and get Hubert's sound is an incredibly amusing challenge. And then to imagine Hubert being in a room with Chet Atkins—some impossible meeting like that—is endlessly entertaining.
You're a bit of a collaboration maniac. A lot of artists will wait until later in their career to start collaborating. Why so much so soon for you?
I've never gone out of my way to ask to be on somebody else's record. It's always been a very organic creation. My favorite collaborations are the ones going on right now. I'm working on another project with Zooey. We're in the demo process right now. I'm also working on an album with Conor Oberst and Jim James, for our band Monsters of Folk. We've done two tours together, but the gears are moving slowly on the record. It's still in gestation. Hopefully, it will be a bit of a beast.
Who are your favorite writers?
My favorites are the ones that I discovered when I was around puberty, probably. The ones that I return to the most are mid-century American writers, whether we're talking about music or literature. The list would probably start off with Emily Dickinson. I don't spend a lot of time reading writers that are alive and well, although I do like David Sedaris. I'm more drawn to time-tested ideas, in both literature and music. I also recently rediscovered Wallace Stevens. I used to think he was out of reach. But now I feel that he is within it, if that makes any sense.
I read somewhere that "Amazing Grace" is your favorite song. True?
If I am on my deathbed, that's what I would say, yes. It is going to be sung forever. The durability of that song is mind blowing. Think of how long it's endured already. A lot of my favorite writers try to achieve the same level of gravity that ancient songs achieve. And that song is a no-brainer. It's eternal.
Favorite Dylan song?
"If Not For You."
Any other current projects?
I am producing a record for a songwriter named Carlos Forster. He's from San Francisco. I'd like to think that will come out at the end of 2009.
People have had a lot of fun labeling you—You're a modern folk interpreter. You're an acoustic retro whisperer. Label yourself.
Guitarist. That's the way I started out and that's probably the way I will end up.
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Server emulator
A server emulator is the reimplementation of online game servers, typically as clones of proprietary commercial software by a third party. The term private server is also used while it may not be accurate as often the legitimate server is also privately owned. The private server is not always made by the original company, but usually attempts to mimic it in some way.
Technically, a server emulator does not emulate by the traditional definition. Instead it is the alternative implementation of the proprietary gaming server that communicates with the same gaming client through the same, reverse-engineered proprietary protocols. Server emulators exist for many online games.
The term server emulator also has other uses. For instance, VMware Server is sometimes called a "server emulator" as it emulates hardware for the server to run.
Unlike in cases of phishing, the emulator usually does not try to steal identity of the legitimate server. Original server software that is stolen, like AEGIS, is also not a server emulator. Reimplementations of standardized protocols or server behavior is not considered to be emulation.
According to a study based on Ragnarok Online emulated servers, "Players turn to the illegal private server solution to fulfill their expectations for better means of avatar customization, specific technical features, an improved social environment, and enhanced gamemaster availability." [1] Other reasons why players use server emulators is to avoid the monthly fees or purchasing fees for certain games, as well as to experience an accelerated and/or altered mode of play. Some server emulators are designed on the emphasis that a game has closed, like Toontown Online.
Emulating the server of the proprietary commercial game often violates EULA as many commercial MMORPGs require the user to sign a clause not to create or use server emulators. It may also violate DMCA and has all issues, typical for reverse engineering of any kind. The server may try to avoid violations by serving from the country where some intellectual property laws apply differently or not at all.
Another issue is a possible infringement of the game creator's copyright. If the complete emulator is a work of its own, copyright violation is not as obvious as EULA violation (see Lotus v. Borland case). However sometimes the original server software leaks out of the company that created the game, for example AEGIS (Ragnarok Online). Use or distribution of leaked code is widely held to be copyright infringement. There are cases where a game creator has effectively shut down private game servers by threatening lawsuits due to intellectual property violations, such as offering a modified client (see information on NEXON v OdinMS) for download or offering downloads of modified files from the original game package.
In August 2010, a California Central District Court awarded Blizzard Entertainment $88 million in a lawsuit against Scapegaming over copyright-infringement.[2] Scapegaming's violation involved operation of an unauthorized copyrighted version of World of Warcraft. Scapegaming ran microtransactions encouraging players to donate money to advance in the game resulting in $3,053,339 of inappropriate profits. This is one of the first big cases implemented against server emulation.
In July 2011, Nexon has threatened to take MMORPG development community RaGEZONE to court over users creating and sharing custom emulated servers. Nexon claims to file legal proceedings against all parties involved in the MMORPG development scene. Disney has also fought against server emulators for its MMO Club Penguin, resulting in the closure of iCPv3 in October 2010, which had over 100,000 users when Disney filed a cease and desist notice against the emulator.[3]
In late 2011, the online chatbox provider xat filed a lawsuit after a developer published a copy of the source code to her server emulator. The suit was later dropped as the developer had not infringed copyright.
See also
Game Server Emulator List
- Ultima Online shard emulation -- Legal issues
- Point Blank -- PBX Games, PBDev
External links
- - Announcement of a Star Wars Galaxies server emulator on slashdot.
- - RaGEZONE announcement on Nexon and legal proceedings.
- ↑ Debeauvais, T.; Nardi, B. (2010). "A qualitative study of Ragnarok Online private servers: in-game sociological issues." (PDF). In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG'10).
- ↑ Matthew Humphries (17 Aug 2010). "Blizzard wins $88 million from Scapegaming over illegal WoW servers". Retrieved 2014-10-23.
- ↑ "iCPv3 is Gone? – New iCP?". 18 Oct 2010. Retrieved 23 Oct 2014.


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"We can help companies plan and build their products and also coach them on how to reach the next level of digital maturity. Then we help them map the fastest, leanest route to success, creating a better business with less risk," he says.
It's an area people-person Moise has plenty of experience in. From program manager at Microsoft to development director at Electronic Arts and project director at Blast Radius, he has a performance-packed record of building high-performing teams and leading projects from inception to rapid realization.
"Even when I worked at these big companies, I always had a passion for driving change and challenging the status quo," he says, adding that finding and managing the right people is essential. "When you grow a team from five to 120 people in six months, you need to know who you're hiring. Autonomous, high performance teams are vital for successful growth and expansion."
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Ricoh Aligns With IPRO Tech to Streamline Document Management Process for Litigation Industry
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Press release from the issuing companyWEST CALDWELL, N.J., April 21 -- Ricoh Corporation, the leading provider of digital office equipment, announced today that IPRO Tech, an electronic document management software provider, has joined Ricoh's Alliance Program. Ricoh and IPRO Tech offer the IPRO Copy+ solution to help legal professionals address document management challenges such as efficient access to and organization of evidentiary materials. Ricoh's Alliance Program consists of an exclusive group of consultants, systems integrators and software companies that work with Ricoh to provide effective software, digital imaging and document management solutions. The Alliance program was created for companies whose products and technologies can integrate with and support the competitive stance of Ricoh products and solutions in the marketplace. "Through our alliance with IPRO Tech, Ricoh continues to streamline the document management process and reduce inefficiencies for target vertical markets such as the legal industry," said Wayne Mize, vice president of solutions marketing division for Ricoh Corporation. "By utilizing each other's expertise, we have created a tangible, cost-effective solution that is able to increase bottom-line results for attorneys." In the fast-paced litigation industry, it is imperative for law firms and legal services bureaus to be able to access and utilize files in a quick and organized manner. As a requirement, many courts are now requiring both paper and electronic copies of evidence. IPRO Copy+ is able to address these needs by allowing users to copy, image, OCR, print, and export images of legal documents in one easy step. Additionally, IPRO Copy+ helps in the Bates numbering process, which is used in the litigation industry to help reference evidentiary documents. As an example, it is able to simplify a legal copy job known as Copy-Label-Copy, a complex Bates numbering task, saving end users both time and money. The IPRO Copy+ solution, which runs on a standard PC and works with Ricoh's multifunction copiers (MFPs), is inexpensive to implement, cost effective to use, and can be easily integrated into the existing business processes of legal firms or litigation service bureaus. This solution allows users to manage the copy process via a touch screen and streamlined user interface, located next to the multifunction digital copiers. User training is minimized due to the intuitiveness of IPRO Copy+ and its ability to mimic the copy process. The Ricoh multifunction digital copiers that currently support IPRO Copy+ include the Aficio 2090, Aficio 2105, Aficio 1060, Aficio 1075, Aficio 2022SP, Aficio 2027SP, Aficio 2035SP, Aficio 2045eSP, Aficio 2051, Aficio 2060SP and the Aficio 2075SP. Another way that IPRO Copy+ is able to save end users time and money is by allowing document images to be reviewed and remedied prior to printing, eliminating the need for costly revisions. Additional standout features of IPRO Copy+ include its ability to utilize Ricoh color scanning capabilities, create customized Bates number formats, create TIFF and PDF image file, rotate and reorder pages prior to printing and create Manifest reports (index of document collection) and Job Cost reports (statistics on job processing) to better manage work and end users. Ricoh's Alliance Program encourages leading software companies, content management systems integrators and consulting companies to work together with Ricoh to provide innovative and effective software, digital imaging and content/document management solutions for the business community. There are two divisions within the Alliance Program, the Strategic Alliance Program and the Technology Alliance Program. IPRO has joined the Technology Alliance Program, which is comprised of third party software companies who specialize in niche solution offerings that complement Ricoh's hardware and software technologies. To learn more about Ricoh's Alliance Program and the IPRO Copy+ solution, please visit http://www.ricoh-usa.com
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Bayern Munich will be forced to close part of their Allianz Arena stadium for the Champions League visit of Manchester United, as punishment for fans displaying an offensive banner aimed at Arsenal's Mesut Ozil in the last round.
Sector 124 of the Allianz will be closed for the second-leg of their quarter-final against David Moyes' men, due to take place on April 9.
Bayern, who could retain their Bundesliga title this week, have also been fined €10,000 following the homophobic banner, featuring the words 'Gay Gunners', along with a cartoon of midfielder Ozil and the club's signature cannon.
The Bavarian club's 71,000-seater stadium, which hosted the 2012 final, will now have a slightly reduced capacity for what could prove a crucial match.
A Uefa statement said the decision was due to Bayern supporters' 'displaying of an illicit banner'.
'The UEFA control and disciplinary body has decided to order the partial closure of the [stadium] in particular, the closure of sector 124 for Bayern's next UEFA competition home match, namely their UEFA Champions League quarter-final second leg against Manchester United on April 9.'
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As we work to improve our public speaking skills here at NYSL Promotions HQ, we're learning that preparation is as important as what we do at the podium. Here are a few strategies we're applying to set ourselves up for speaking success every time we take the stage.
We begin every big presentation by homing in on three key points, making them as clear and memorable as possible. As we rehearse our speeches with colleagues or trusted friends, we ask them to repeat our main points. If they can summarize the essential arguments we want to make, we know we're on the right track.
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Immigrant tuition bill inches closer to passage, but legislative hurdles remain
A bill that would allow some undocumented students to pay in-state college tuition rates won the support of the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday.
But the proposal may be in trouble with Gov. Rick Scott.
Its sponsor, Sen. Jack Latvala, R-Clearwater, said Tuesday that he plans to have the upper chamber "pass the House [version of the] bill."
Scott has only expressed his support for the Senate version.
The main difference between the two proposals has nothing to do with undocumented students. Instead, it lies in a separate provision regarding the so-called tuition differential.
The Senate language forbids universities from raising tuition above the rate set by the Florida Legislature. The House language allows for a differential of up to 6 percent.
Latvala said he had spoken with House and Senate leaders, and decided the House plan made more sense.
"I think everyone is in agreement on it," he said. "Maybe there are some small differences, but I believe we will work it out."
He plans to change the Senate bill at its next stop, he said.
But Scott, who considers holding the line on tuition one of his top priorities for the session, has made his opinion clear: He likes the Senate version of the tuition bill (SB 1400) because it "keeps college affordable for Florida's students."
Scott has said nothing about the House version of the bill. That proposal, by Rep. Jeanette Nuñez, R-Miami, has already passed on the floor.
When asked Tuesday if he would sign the Nuñez proposal (HB 851), Scott re-affirmed his support for the Senate version.
He added: "I'm going to work with the Senate and the House to make sure we have a bill that lowers tuition for all Floridians."
Still, the House version may be Scott's best shot at lowering the tuition differential this year. If neither version becomes law, the tuition differential will stay put at 15 percent.
The Senate version of the bill drew emotional public testimony Tuesday. One man from Santa Rosa County implored Republicans not to further divide the party by voting for the bill.
It passed out of the committee by a 7-2 vote.
Latvala, who was expecting the final outcome to be 5-4, said he was pleasantly surprised.
"We still have a way to go," he said. "But I feel very good about this bill."


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Happy birthday to me!--er, Finding Bliss in Books, that is... I honestly can't believe it's been an entire year that I've been blogging, and I especially can't believe how much blogging itself and more importantly, the blogging community, has become such an integral part of my life--which is something I've honestly never expected. This is just a forewarning that I'm most likely going to get pretty emotional/sentimental with you guys, and all of this is probably something you've read in countless blogoversary posts before, so if you want to skip all this sappiness and get down to the giveaway below, I can't say I don't understand. If you do choose to read the following, 1) thank you, and 2) prepare yourself for a very long thank you note and a good dose of sappiness.
You there, by your computer, the one still reading this even though there's a flashy giveaway just below the sappiness: I always knew I liked you... (Should probably stop before this begins to resemble a really creepy 'choose-your-own-adventure' novel.)
I've met such amazing people since I've started blogging (or, more accurately, since I actually got out into the blogging community after months of endless intimidation), and I will be forever grateful for how the community has welcomed be, even without knowing who I was and what I was like. It sucks feeling like the new blogger on the block surrounded by older bloggers, and months before socializing I had gone through embarrassing scenarios in my head of what would happen if I did branch out, that everyone would initially dismiss me, and I am glad to be able to look back at how wrong those scenarios were, because this entire community is filled with amazing people. And also, of course, for this fabulous community and the people in it who accepted me and who I was without hesitation when I was sure nobody would. So thank you so much to the endlessly amazing Jenni, Kara & Lyn, Christina, Steph & Kat, Giselle, Amy, Jessie, who I speak to practically daily, and also thanks anyone else who even spoke to me in the first few months of me reaching out in the blogging community, for welcoming me and accepting me, and, at the time, practically unprecedentedly, and making me feel a lot less alone. My relationships with each and every one of you above-mentioned lovelies mean so much to me, and I love you all.
And, speaking of other people I love who have made my one year of blogging so amazing--thank you so much to my amazing followers, whether it be on here, Goodreads, or Twitter; however you follow, thank you for taking a chance with me and putting up with me willingly. And thank you to everyone who's ever taken the time out of their schedules to write a comment on my blog. Hell, thank you to anyone reading these very words right now, because that means you've visited my blog and have given it, and me, a chance by reading these words I've written, and that's all I can ever ask for. I hope you decide to stick around. And lastly, thank you so much to all the authors I've grown relationships with over this past year, and especially all of the authors who have taken part in my blogoversary celebration. Before I started blogging, authors were practically celebrities whom I would never have been able to even fathom myself interacting with, and even now whenever I see an author follows me on Twitter or any time I engage in a full-length conversation with an author, that shell-shocking feeling hasn't gone away.
Thank you to everyone. Thank you to my readers--even the ones who came onto my blog and promptly left in a "Nope" fashion similar to this, for whichever reason. You've all made this past year amazing and fantastic and I love this community and the people in it more than words can even begin to describe.
And now for my final 'thank you'
What's a Finding Bliss in Books blogoversary without a giveaway, right? And yes, I know that I've had seven giveaways as part of my blogoversary celebration (which I hope you all enjoyed), but this is the real deal! This is my blogoversary day. Exactly one year ago I decided to create this very blog you're reading now. Although when I created it it was called The Lazy Reader and its design interface was blue with random banners on the side and random pictures of animals, and an even more random empty armchair just sitting there in my header, but aside from the fact that it looked like shit, the foundation for this blog was created one year ago today.
Which calls for a pretty damn big final, one-year giveaway, right? I think so.
Which is why I've created an epic giveaway for you comprised of TEN semi-mystery ARCs. And here's how it will go down:
I know most of you guys like knowing which books you'll be getting when you're entering a giveaway. To be honest, I'm just like you. I don't want to enter a mystery box giveaway, win it, get all excited, only to open the box and find sixteen signed paperback copies of Fifty Shades of Grey one week later. I get it. Which is why I've set up a semi-mystery box giveaway, that way I'm not flat-out telling you the books you win, and the more you know about YA, the more points you get towards winning! I suppose you can think of it as a YA Jeopardy of sorts. So here's the deal: below are ten hints to ten ARCs I will be giving away to one lucky reader. To make it easier for you, since I know some of the hints are tough, each and every one of the ARCs I'm giving away are not released as you're reading this, nor will they be released before this giveaway ends. If you think you know what one of the ARCs I'm giving away is, you write the name of that book in the Rafflecopter below with the entry that has the number that corresponds with the hint. If you get the book correct, you get the points. If you're wrong, you do not get those points. Note: the amount of points rewarded for each hint is based on how difficult I think the hint is. 2 points is what I classify as easy, 3 points is medium, 4 points is hard.
Sound good?
Good. Let's get to the hints.
1. This sci-fi debut features cats... IN SPACE!
2. This book's title contains creatures of the underworld and a place where things I'm terrified of live. [DOUBLE HINT - Note: this book is NOT Revel, but read this review to help find out which book this hint is!]
3. Global warming and Greek myths combine in this previously self-published dystopian debut.
4. Reminiscent of Nightmare on Elm Street, this chilling debut is about a teen with a condition that is the book's title.
5. Twins and hallucinations are main factors in this upcoming sci-fi/dystopian debut.
6. This debut's cover's main colors are blue and purple, and it is about aliens and a sinister game of survival.
7. A blind princess, a mutant beast, and an enchanted rose take center-stage in this YA retelling of Beauty and the Beast.
8. This post-apocalyptic debut follows a teenage girl and toddler named "Baby," who are being followed zombie-like creatures.
9. Having red hair is everything in this debut novel pitched as a YA Stepford Wives.
10. This sophomore novel is by an author with a novel debuting in April, and is about one pissed off cousin seeking out revenge for a boy who broke her cousin's heart.
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Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:46 am
Thank you very, very much. Well, this is isnt exactly the message Id planned, but sure I want to say THANK YOU to all of you .
And I want to start today by saying how grateful I am to all of you, to everyone who poured your HEARTS and your HOPES into my campaign last May 2007, who knocked on doors and made calls or send text messages, who talked., sometimes argued with your friends and neighbors who invested so much in our common enterprise, who lifted Spirits of their Children and whispered in their ears, See, you can be anything you want to be.
To my former classmates, my good friends, to the Barangay Officials, Social and Civic Leaders, Barangay Leaders, Family Members, Youth Organizations, Generous benefactors and individuals, telling anyone who would listen why you supported me. And to all those young INTELLIGENT voters, who casted their votes for me .my MANY THANKS for your STRENGHTS and LEADERSHIP.
To my family, especially my Mother and my daughter Frankie, you MEAN THE WORLD TO ME, AND I THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU HAVE DONE.
So to all those who intelligently voted for me and to whom I pledged my utmost, my commitment to you and to the progress we seek is UNYIELDING.
You have inspired and touched me with stories of the joys and sorrows that make up the fabric of our lives. And you humbled me with your commitment to our municipality.
So many of you from all walks of LIFE women and men, young and old, rich, poor and middle class, gay and straight, YOU HAVE STOOD WITH ME.
And I will continue to stand strong with you every time, every place, in every way that I can. The dreams we share are worth FIGHTING for.
I entered the POLITICAL RACE because I have an old fashioned conviction that public service is about helping people solve their problems and live their DREAMS. Ive had every opportunity and BLESSINGS in my own LIFE, and I want the same to all Jamindanganons.
I ran as a son who benefited from opportunities my mother and father never dream of. I ran as a father who worries about my daughters future and a father who wants to leave all children brighter tomorrows.
Now, on a personal note, when I was asked what it means to be a young candidate, I always gave the same answer, that I was proud to be running as a young gay candidate , but I was running because I thought Id be the best Sangguniang Bayan. But .
But I am gay. I know there are barriers and biases out there, often unconscious, and I want to build a Jamindan that respects and embraces the potential of every last one of us.
Let us . Let us resolve and work toward achieving very simple propositions: There are no acceptable limits, and there are no acceptable prejudices in the 21st Century in our Municipality.
I denounce in the strongest terms the habitual attempts to discredit and malign me by anybody because of POLITICS which is until now being hurled against me tactlessly with only purpose of distortion of truth and destroying my persona which I find it baseless conjecture.
And so the exhaustive issues goes on in this vein, ranting and raving against me. In my analysis, I can certainly say these are all negative spin and mental dishonesty foisted to everybody. Consisting of outright falsities, distortions of truth and gratuitous innuendo. To you all I say: You are a SHAME of this Municipality. And a black mark of our HISTORY.
The diabolic attempt to threaten and destroy me publicly constitutes desperate moves by unmotivated individuals whom I know is still very envious to me.
Having been goaded and baited beyond endurance, in response I declare: I HAVE NO FEAR. I lose the Sangguniang Bayan seat, I have loose my hard-earned reputation for a good governance and desire for a BETTER CHANGE, if I will lose my very life- I have no FEAR. I am beyond FEAR. The greatest fear I had was that politics might harm my family, and that I WILL NEVER ALLOW.
Human as I am, Yes, I was HURT, very HURT and disappointed with the turnout of the election. Not only for my personal satisfaction but because such turnout curtails and hinders my always desire of SERVING YOU unselfishly Hurt especially to those who have helped and expected me to WIN Forgive me, but I can not avoid to point out that the actual election process and results connotes bad impression into my LIFE realizing that joining into POLITICS is not all GOOD INTENTIONS but unfortunately it is swallowing hard ill and massive culture of malpractice during election our citizens have been doing for CENTURY with abuse from our so called LEADERS who acted as frontline in corruption, vote buying and other illicit and misdoings which a IDEALISTIC and NOBLE candidate cannot bare to SEE and swallow, much cannot forget.
Nevertheless, I HAVE NO REGRETS the lessons learned and the experience it brought within me is more that WINNING. I just had to accept it. It wasnt nice and definitely it wasnt FUN, but it made me realized that you should really enjoy and remember the good day because you are going to deal with the bad days. I also realized that there is more to life than getting up caught worrying and dwelling on what was happened. Yes, I wanted to win that Election. Yes, I want to be successful in my supposed to be political endeavour, but there are worst things that can happen in LIFE that getting out for nought or for three. There is always DIGNITY in Losing and if I in the future same chance will be given to me, I will never think it twice with simple reason .. My desire of pursuing my advocacies aggravated with strong commitment for a better change for JAMINDAN is still STRONG and unwavering.
Hence, I choose not to look back because it will hinder me in moving forward but with fervent Prayers and hope that we will help each other to educate our Voters not to SELL their votes but instead vote INTELLENGENTLY and not only because of the P20.00 bills given by candidates.
Let us join hands in educating some of our voters on conscience and intelligent way of voting in order that they will gain back their DIGNITY and RESPECT for themselves. Make them realize that election is not only a one day bonanza but instead let us help them understand that it is more than the food, the liquors, the T-shirts that candidates are given during campaign period but it is our Children future is at stake.
Let us let our conscience tells that we should not run for public office position when our only intention is to get salary from the government, or use it in our personal gratifications most especially if we know within our selves that we are not mentally, educationally equipped and without noble purpose of SERVING wholeheartedly . Worst let us not make PUBLIC SERVICE our last recourse to help feed our family.
And until that day comes, you will always find me on the front lines of DEMOCRACY, fighting for the future.
To those who are disappointed that we couldnt go all the way, especially the young people who put so much into my campaign, it would break my heart if, in falling short of my GOAL , I in any way discouraged any of you from PURSUING YOURS.
As Winston Churchill said on taking office some thirty years ago: if we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing the future.
Today our concern must be with the future. For the world is changing. The old era is ending. The old ways will not do.
Always AIM HIGH, WORK HARD, and CARE deeply about what you believe in. And, when you stumble, keep faith. And, when youre knock down, get RIGHT BACK UP and NEVER LISTEN to anyone who says you cant or shouldnt go on.
Although we werent able to shatter the HIGHEST, HARDEST GLASS CEILING this time, THANKS TO YOU, and the light is shining through like never before, filling us all with the HOPE and the sure knowledge that the path will be LITTLE easier NEXT TIME.
So I want to say to my supporters: When you hear people saying or think to yourself, If only, or, What if, I say, please, dont go there. Every moment wasted looking back KEEPS us from MOVING FORWARD. There are many things we do not want in this world. Let us not just mourn them; let us change them.
Now, being Human, we are imperfect. Thats we need each other, to catch each other when we falter, to encourage each other when we lose heart. Some may lead, some may follow, but none of us can go it ALONE.
And looking out, I have never felt so BLESSED. The challenges that I have faced in that campaign.. are nothing compared to those that thousands of Jamindanganons face every day in their LIVES.
So from now on, Im going to count my BLESSINGS and keep on going. Im going to keep doing what I was doing long before the attention/s and intrigues and sometimes cheap talks ever showed up and what Ill be doing long after theyre gone: working to give every Jamindanganons the same opportunities I had and working hard so that everyone has a chance to grow up and achieve his or her God- given potential.
Saligan ninyo.. nga PADAYUN KAG MABASKUG SA GUIHAPON ANG AKONG HANDUM nga kamo paga SERBISYUHAN kag sa GUIHAPON si RICHARD MENDOZA padayun nga maging TINGGOG sang LAMHARON KAG KABASKOG SANG JAMINDANGANON.
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Committee on Food Security CFS with IFFA
IFFA was present at the Committee onFood and Secuirity. IFFA participated in a panel discussion on Feminism, Forests and Food Security and Women's Important Role in the Development of Sustainable Management of the Forest Landscape, as well as the Importance of Forests for Food Supply Globally on October 9th at FAO in Rome.
|Lennart Ackzell represented IFFA at the meeting of the Committee of Food Security
The Role of forests in the landscape and trees in farms to support food production by water management, erosion control, providing nitrogen fertilizer, hindering drying winds and direct food production such as fruits.
The women equal engagement in forestry planning, management and business is simply for advanced cooperatives or business entities the best use of its human capital for best business performance. Good examples are Emma Berglund the General Secretary for the European Confederation of Family Forest Federations, the two biggest family forest cooperatives (of the four in Sweden) have women as Chairperson and at the recently held IFFA Pan African Forest & Farm Producer Organization's meeting 1/3 of the participants were women! A very promising record.
The panel was moderated by Peter Holmgren General Director of CIFOR. IFFA was represented by Lennart Ackzell.


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Vocational Rehabilitation - Andrew Frank
21/03/18. "For most people, their work is a key determinant of self-worth, family, esteem, identity and standing within the community, besides, of course, material progress and a means of social participation and fulfilment".
Dame Carol Black summarises the benefits of employment as we now understand it. For most individuals, work is beneficial for health, and worklessness is definitely harmful, with an increased risk of illness and suicide. Work has thus become a cornerstone of rehabilitation after injury or other long-term illness. It is thus very regrettable that the legal system is seen by some injured individuals and professionals as a huge barrier to people working.
Those rehabilitation professionals who specialise in the inter-relationships between health and work are now being called vocational rehabilitation (VR) professionals (VRPs). Most come from a health professional background although some reflect skills acquired from business (e.g. from human resources) with an interest in health conditions.
The type of rehabilitation approach needed depends on whether the individual needing vocational rehabilitation (VR) has ever worked, is still in employment but facing difficulties, or is now out of work having previously been employed. What is very clear, however, is the need for work-related issues to be considered from the first day of injury, even though active VR may not be appropriate for some time. For those in work, health or legal professionals must enquire about the nature of the job, difficulties envisaged in any return to work (RTW) and they must be advised to remain in contact with their employer. They and their families must understand that there are many ways to help injured individuals RTW even though, for some, it may mean a change in work. Some individuals and/or their families may believe that a RTW is not possible e.g. after a spinal cord injury (SCI), and these attitudes need to be challenged early e.g. by asking what makes you think that?
For those whose injuries were acquired during childbirth or childhood, education is key to long-term employment prospects, although other factors are important. Thus gaining appropriate social skills and self confidence through sport or activities such as scouting and obtaining appropriate work experience are also fundamental. Exposure to successful disadvantaged individuals during education is really valuable in inspiring young people into expecting to be able to work and have a family etc.
For those with recent injuries who are entitled to compensation, the use of interim payments may be important in providing equipment or other forms of rehabilitation that is not readily available through the National Health Service (NHS). Peer support from individuals who have similar impairments to that of the client can be immensely valuable e.g. for those who have experienced a SCI.
Individuals in employment may be able to RTW with relatively minor modifications to their workplace or tasks. The Equality Act facilitates this and VRPs are used to explaining to employers how they can assist the RTW process. Often this will minimise sickness absence (SA) to the advantage of both employer and employee. For those with more complex injuries and consequent SA, the first step is often a worksite visit following which a RTW plan can be agreed between employer and employee. Then the VRP explains how an early RTW facilitates the employee's rehabilitation by a phased return to hours/tasks/responsibilities, job modifications (accommodations) and assisting supervisors and co-workers how they can assist in this process, including for some, the use of 'work buddies'. These co-workers can be given appropriate training to cope with an individual's more complex needs e.g. if they have emotional difficulties or epilepsy.
It is now considered fundamental that injured individuals are highly likely to RTW prior to resolution of all their symptoms and prior to conclusion of health management. The employer thus becomes a key part of the rehabilitation process.
Similar skills are needed when a RTW with the former employer is not possible, but additional factors are assessed by the VRP. They may include the client's transferrable skills/aptitudes, hobbies that might convert into a wage etc. The general advice is to seek a RTW with the same employer/same job, same employer /different job but different employer/same job and different employer/different job is also viable. The government gives advice/support through the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Jobcentre Plus to both employer and employee where appropriate. This includes consideration of self-employment.
VR usually involves multidisciplinary working in partnership between the client/patient, health professionals, employer and insurers. The insurer is usually the government through the DWP but private insurance should be utilised when appropriate. In that situation rehabilitation can be enhanced though the use of the private sector when the Rehabilitation Code (currently under revision) should guide the process. The charitable sector is also valuable in this situation, not only in giving peer support but also advice on RTW options, funding for equipment not available through the NHS etc.
Vocational rehabilitation offers injured individuals the best hope of successful employment in spite of often serious injuries. Different strategies may be needed for those at different stages of working life. But aiming for employment from the first stage of an injury or acute illness gives the best likelihood of a successful return to work and the financial, health and social advantages that this brings.
Andrew Frank
Further Reading
Black, Dame Carol. Working for a healthier tomorrow. London: TSO; 2008.
British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine. Vocational assessment and rehabilitation for people with long-term neurological conditions: recommendations for best practice. London: British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine; 2010.
Connolly P, Stevens T. Get back to where we do belong. 2016.
Department for Work and Pensions; Department of Health. Improving Lives: the Future of Work, Health and Disability. London, Department for Work and Pensions; Department of Health, 2017
Frank AO, Sawney P. Vocational rehabilitation. J R Soc Med 2003; 96(November):522-524.
Frank AO. Vocational rehabilitation: supporting ill or disabled individuals in(to) work: a UK perspective. Healthcare 2016; 4(46). DOI:10.3390/healthcare4030046
Frank AO. Why should we and how do we support injured individuals back into work? Journal of Personal Injury Law 2017; 4: 217-228
International Underwriting Association of London. The Rehabilitation Code. 2015. https://www.iua.co.uk/IUA_Member/Publications/Rehabilitation_Code.aspx
MASCIP Multidisciplinary Association of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals. Vocational Rehabilitation Guidelines. MASCIP; 2017. https://www.mascip.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Mascip-vocational-rehab-guidelines-NOv-2017.pdf
McNaughton D, Symons G, Light J, Parsons A. 'My dream was to pay taxes': The self-employment experiences of individuals who use augmentative and alternative communication. J Vocat Rehabil 2006; 25: 181-96.
Vocational Rehabilitation Association Vocational rehabilitation standards of practice. High Barnet, Herts: Vocational Rehabilitation Association, 2013; 1-14.
Waddell G, Burton AK. Is work good for your health and well-being? London: The Stationary Office; 2006.
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You come to work one day and your boss walks into your office. He/She tells you that the Company is "restructuring". He/She says there are going to be changes to your position. Your salary is going to be reduced and you are going to be reassigned or transferred. Your title is going to change. Perhaps you are told that going forward you will report to the person you trained last year. Maybe the office is moving to another city or town and you do not want to move there.
Can the Company force you to accept whatever the changes that directly affect your position? Can you tell them that you refuse to accept the changes and demand that they pay you severance? Can you quit and sue for wrongful dismissal? Do you have to continue working for them "under protest" after telling them you refuse to accept the changes? How long do you have to tell them you refuse the changes before you lose your legal rights?
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Yikes! It's still Monday, barely--so here is a picture.
The mosaic facade is probably from the 1960s--I'm guessing--I suppose I could just say "Mid-Century." You can see the address, 389 Palos Verdes Blvd. It's in south Redondo Beach, just north of Calle Miramar. There's a tiki right in front, and I understand there are more in the courtyard inside.
Just one of those classic buildings you pass but often don't notice.


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Choose a suite on the sea, our rooms are spacious and beautifully decorated. Explore our shoreline and tidal pools, take a short stroll to sandy Tonquin Beach or Tofino's quaint village centre when staying at our Tofino BC Bed and Breakfast. Enjoy the beautiful view of Duffin Cove from your room with a private entrance, or relax on a seaside deck to watch birds and boats sail past.
"Warm hospitality and a Continental Breakfast await you in our waterfront home" - Host Val Sloman
Tofino Bed and Breakfast Accommodation Features:
• Continental breakfast
• Ensuite bathrooms
• Refrigerator and coffee bar
• Private deck or patio area
• Beautiful view of Duffin Cove from our seaside deck or your spacious room.
• Comfortable sitting areas in rooms (one with a fireplace)
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Awake to the sounds of the waves and the sea birds in the morning.
Savor a quite breakfast while enjoying the views and meet new friends in the great room. Let us help you enjoy Vancouver Island's Pacific Rim.
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Members of Chapel Hill's Elders for Peace staged a reading of Jack Gilroy's new play "The Predator" during their weekly meeting at Carol Woods Retirement Center on Dec 10. Following the reading, audience members asked questions of the performers, who remained in character for a spirited discussion of the play's content. Author Gilroy is making the script available to groups interested in reading and/or performing the two act play, which features an Air Force officer (and drone operator) who is a widow of a Marine officer killed in Iraq, her daughter, who is beginning to question the new age of drone warfare, a pro-drone US senator and a peace activist who has witnessed the devastation of drone attacks first hand.
For information, contact John Heuer at firstname.lastname@example.com, or call 919-444-3823.
Read more about Jack Gilroy's play, The Predator.
Read more about playwright Jack Gilroy's anti-drone activism.


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Welcome to the Jeays message board.
Number of designs available
-Mr Jeays
-Ballad Of Ruben Garcia
- Jeays Web page collage.
Photos forwarded to Webster so hopefully he will post on site soon.
Hi Step
All sounds good though nothing received on email yet.
Best wishes
2 new designs both on White (the cheaper option!!).
-October Black ,Green and Olive on white shirt.
- Cupid (at last) Black ,Blue and pink on White shirt.
Photos to follow courtesey of Webster.
Most enquiries seem to relate to whether I can get XXXL or XXXXXL shirts done!!! I will check the market. I have recently acquired an XXL for myself which I think is massive (about a 48/50") but I will see if there is anything bigger out there.
Will keep you posted!!
T Shirt producers closed for refit until 1st Oct. No oreders until after then!!! Thanks.
Many thanks to Step Taylor, for sorting me out a 3XL t-shirt.
Yes but do you like it!!!!!