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Rouge Bunny Rouge added two new shades to their gorgeous eye shadow line: Eclipse Eagle, dark brown-grey plum with platinum iridescence (the richer and darker sister of 'Delicate Hummingbird') and Snowy Egret, smoked palest gold iridescence. Both are available as eye shadows or refills. And there is also a brand new product

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Block Site is a browser addon to help you block desired websites. To operate, simply right-click on any webpage and click on the "Block this website" context-menu item. The website will be added to the block list. Please note, the whole domain will be added to the block-list not just a URL. To change this list, open the options page and remove desired item.
For any blocked domain, you can add a redirect URL in the options page. So instead of blocking a page the website will be redirected to a desired URL.
Note: in order to report bugs, please visit addon homepage (http://mybrowseraddon.com/block-site.html) and fill the bug report form.
- This extension can access your data on all websites.
- This extension can create rich notifications and display them to you in the system tray.
- This extension can access your tabs and browsing activity.


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To begin with a definition: Self-esteem is the disposition to experience oneself as being competent to cope with the basic challenges of life and of being worthy of happiness. It is confidence in the efficacy of our mind, in our ability to think. By extension, it is confidence in our ability to learn, make appropriate choices and decisions, and respond effectively to change. It is also the experience that success, achievement, fulfillment – happiness – are right and natural for us. The survival-value of such confidence is obvious; so is the danger when it is missing."
Self-esteem is not the euphoria or buoyancy that may be temporarily induced by a drug, a compliment, or a love affair. It is not an illusion or hallucination. If it is not grounded in reality, if it is not built over time through the appropriate operation of mind, it is not self-esteem.
The root of our need for self-esteem is the need for a consciousness to learn to trust itself. And the root of the need to learn such trust is the fact that consciousness is volitional: we have the choice to think or not to think. We control the switch that turns consciousness brighter or dimmer. We are not rational — that is, reality-focused — automatically. This means that whether we learn to operate our mind in such a way as to make ourselves appropriate to life is ultimately a function of our choices.
Do we strive for consciousness or for its opposite? For rationality or its opposite? For coherence and clarity or their opposite? For truth or its opposite?


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Professional cover bands will often take requests, but you will need to give them plenty of notice. Please also keep in mind that cover bands may ask for an small additional fee to prepare songs that aren't already on their song list. You can view the cover band's song list on their Encore profile.


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Cisco Secure Application Delivers Business Risk Observability for Cloud Native Applications
iOS 17 Now Available: Elevate Your iPhone Experience
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Honda Confirms All-New XL750 Transalp for U.S. Market
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text: When young girls live in a stressful home where violence, depression or other disruptions are common they are more likely to become obese by age 5, compared to children raised in more stable homes. And when preschool girls witness a couple of bad events at once, they have an even higher risk of becoming obese, according to research presented in this week's medical journal Pediatrics. The study did not find the same obesity patterns in boys. Researchers aren't sure why, but suspect that it's because boys may cope with stress, in part, by being more physically active. So why are girls gaining weight when home life is stressful? "Potentially families who are experiencing these stressors may be managing the eating habits of their children in a different way," says study author Shakira F. Suglia, Epidemiologist and Assistant Professor at Columbia University in New York. But she says that's not the whole story. Suglia and fellow researchers studied the records from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study that looked at mother-child pairs from 20 major cities in the United States. They identified 1,605 preschoolers and found that almost 60% of them had experienced at least one of the following stressors: domestic violence, hunger, moving frequently or living in a shelter, a father in prison, a depressed mother or one who abused alcohol or drugs. The experts suggest that one of the reasons these factors tie into weight gain in girls has to do with how a mom relates to her child. If a mother is depressed or there is violence in the home, for instance, she may not be emotionally available to take care of the child. "Food may be used in excess as a tool for consoling or pacifying emotional needs of the child by the parent or to self-soothe by the child," the study explains. And often when people are stressed they reach for comfort foods that tend to be fatty or sweet and full of calories. But the researchers point out that even if a child mimics mom's unhealthy eating patterns that this does not account for all of the weight gain. Another possible explanation is that the child is experiencing the same stressors as the mom and that this is affecting her biologically. The child's stress response system gets out of whack - producing high levels of stress hormones which scientists suspect are linked to gains in belly fat and compulsive eating. And if mom isn't available to teach her child how to handle a stressful situation and develop what researchers call self-regulation, children tend to gravitate towards things that bring instant gratification - like sweets and high fat foods. "They are not only learning that they like to eat certain things [unhealthy foods] but that this could also be a way to manage stress," says Suglia. Previous studies in children have found that, when facing these stressors, girls tend to internalize their behavior more than boys. They often withdraw, feel depressed and sad. Boys, on the other hand, more often externalize their behavior by becoming aggressive, impulsive, and having trouble sitting still. The researchers in this recent study did not look into the reasons for the differences in weight gain between boys and girls; they simply found that it existed. They say more studies are needed to further explore these sex differences. Scientists know that if you're an obese child then you're more likely to be an obese teen and in turn, an obese adult. And being too heavy can be harmful to our health potentially leading to heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and certain cancers. Experts point out that addressing the factors that increase the odds for childhood obesity is imperative. Suglia says that when pediatricians and primary care doctors talk to families about obesity prevention, that the discussion needs to go beyond eating habits and exercise. Doctors should ask about what's going on in the home and offer families referral services and programs to help them cope with the stressors in their life. Source


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As the new basketball coach at USC, Andy Enfield will give stiff competition to Lane Kiffin for hottest spouse in the Athletic Department.
OK, so now that that's out of the way, I love this hire. But it's on pure potential, speculation, and magic stemming from his run to the Sweet Sixteen.
Looking at the numbers we can't say a ton about Enfield. After all, there are only two season's worth of data to determine much about his coaching abilities. He got this year's team – which included the conference's POY, Sherwood Brown – to play at a top-50 tempo (last season, Enfield's first, they were closer to average, coming in as the 101st fastest squad). They shot 52.3% of their shots from 2pt distance (Dunk City) this season. America got to see them play a fun, energetic, exciting, root-for-able brand of ball. He, like cross town rival Steve Alford, has been to one Sweet Sixteen.
He assisted at at Florida State beginning in 2006. During that time, the Seminoles had four Top-25 recruiting classes. Is this enough to say he's cut his recruiting teeth? Maybe. But note: did you see the spouse he recruited? Have I mentioned that?
Because ultimately, most of what we know is anecdotal. It's surface. It's fluff. Like a Maxim model, it's shiny and pretty and wonderful on the outside; but we're going to have to date her to find out if there's any depth.
Further fact finding, however, suggests that this guy has been wildly successful in just about every endeavor he's undertook: HS valedictorian, All-American basketball player (and All-Academic), entrepreneur (TractManager, All Net Shooting), NBA shooting coach, FGCU head coach (.594 win %, Sweet Sixteen), dating (perhaps NSFW).
Pat Haden has made a risky hire but an exciting one.
Of course the merits of such a hire will be evaluated on the eventual wins and losses accumulated by Enfield and the program he's about to build. One must adhere to rule #12 in Surviving Your Coaching Hunt. Believe.
And Haden – by "winning the press conference" – has made it a lot easier to believe.
In January, I called this coaching hunt the Battle for Los Angeles following the firing of O'Neill. The respective regimes in Pauley and the Galen Center were failing to bring in local talent which had been central to each of their previous success.
So now the battle begins – Alford v. Enfield – and I love what Haden has done. He's taken the completely polar opposite pick to that of his rival. Alford is a good hire, a guy with a proven track record of sound success and should continue to do such. Enfield has an HC track record of two years. Both are wildcards.
But my favorite part of this is the contrasting styles.
Alford has the bigger name job. His arena has 11 banners dangling in it and there is little doubt that he should be able to capture most blue chippers out of the LA area. He'll have to fight for them, but UCLA will always have clout and a leg up on these recruitments. But his style could be limiting. Some players might not fit well and that's where Enfield can swoop in, garner some of the premium athletes, and build the budding legend of The Galen Dunk Center.
This contrast propagates the Battle for Los Angeles, a fresh take on a classic rivalry.
Ultimately, however, comparing these hires is to compare apples and oranges. The parallels end at "vacant position." Haden had the drawing board. Guerrero had the gauntlet. Time will tell whether these are "good hires" or not for their respective situations.
Alas, I like the Enfield hire for the excitement it garners which is the best it can do when no games are being played. Did you see the Galen stands as the season came to a close? This program needed an injection of joy. Haden delivered.


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Global internet retailer Amazon.com <AMZN.O> could be facing its first strike in Germany by warehouse workers seeking better pay and benefits.
Amazon employs around 9,000 people across Germany and has come under fire from trade union Verdi for refusing to implement a collective agreement on employment conditions, in keeping with the country's other mail order and retail firms.
The union is also pressing for higher basic pay and bigger supplements for night shifts.
Amazon workers in the eastern city of Leipzig voted in favour of strike action earlier this month and staff at Bad Hersfeld, a town in central Germany where 3,700 are employed, joined them on Monday.
Verdi said almost 98 percent of those taking part in the ballot at Bad Hersfeld voted in favour of strike action.
"Amazon's management should … finally start talks on a collective agreement," the union's negotiator Bernhard Schiederig said.
A strike, which would delay deliveries to customers, could come within weeks, Schiederig told Reuters, although no date has been set.
Schiederig also told Reuters he thought a site visit by Peer Steinbrueck, the opposition Social Democrat candidate for chancellor, to Bad Hersfeld on Monday, where he met Amazon Germany boss Ralf Kleber and labour representatives, had gone well.
But he said management had again refused to enter negotiations on a collective agreement, though said they were happy to hold further talks with Verdi.
In Leipzig, the union is calling for starting pay of 10.66 euros an hour, compared with 9.30 euros now. In Bad Hersfeld, they want pay of 9.83 euro to be increased to 12.18.
Amazon Germany was not immediately available for comment on Monday. It has previously said that it pays wages that are competitive.
The online retailer hit headlines in Germany in February after it employed security staff from a company linked to a neo-Nazi group who were bullying its employees.
Amazon has since terminated the contract, saying it regretted the events.


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HarperCollins, my publisher for What Would Google Do?, just released a video version of the book, a 23-minute synopsis delivered by me, sans script, on camera. It's for sale on Amazon here. And here's a Wall Street Journal story about it and here's PaidContent.
The point of this is that the publisher is trying to find new ways to release books and the ideas in them. This is their first video book; if it works, they say in the Journal they'll make another half-dozen. The definition of "works"? Who knows?
It's hard for me to watch myself. But you're welcome to. Here's a snippet:


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In the last couple of weeks, Microsoft have released preview versions of two new software products. First up is Windows 8, the highly anticipated successor to Windows 7, sporting the brand new "Metro" interface, which promises to deliver a Windows UI suitable for tablet PCs. The other new product is Visual Studio 11, which debuts a number of key new features, including the next version of .NET and the ability to create Metro applications for Windows 8. All very exciting, and lots of us rushed to try out the preview versions as soon as possible.
Given that both products essentially are upgrades to existing and successful products, one would expect the reaction to these new products to be very positive. Both are loaded with cool new features and usability improvements, and yet the majority of the online chatter has been to complain.
What is the problem? As well as giving us new stuff, both products have taken something away. Windows 8 has taken away the Start menu, and VS 11 has taken away the colours from the icons. These two omissions, though relatively minor in the context of the overall changes, have managed to dominate the reaction to the new products.
One senses a little bit of frustration on the part of Microsoft (e.g. these two posts from Scott Hanselman), and you can understand why. All that hard work on new features has seemingly gone unnoticed, and all people can do is moan about two decisions that were intended as a bold step to improve user experience.
So what is the moral of the story? Users hate having features taken away from them. It doesn't matter if you tell them that the feature removed was redundant, or poorly implemented. They feel robbed and short-changed. They feel like they are not understood. And they resent having to change the way of working they have been comfortable with.
Microsoft have a few options available. First, they stick to their guns, and say "you'll thank us later, once you understand". That may of course be the case, but is it really worth upsetting your customers over this? Second, they back down, and give us back our start menu and our coloured icons. A victory for the customer perhaps, but that is a recipe for never making any progress. The third option is to make it configurable. Let us choose if we want the old-fashioned start menu, or the colourful icons. If the new UX is truly an improvement, over time, people will be won over, and the obsolete features can be removed in the next version.
In summary, if you want to remove a feature from your application, even if you consider it to be an unnecessary one, consider first making it optional (whether that be on or off by default). The customer isn't always right about what the best UX is, but they are right about what they like, and if they don't like it, they won't buy it. It will be very interesting to see which direction Microsoft take when the next preview versions come out. If they get it right, I'm sure they'll get more bloggers talking about how cool these new products are, instead of moaning about what was taken away from them.


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Voting Below the Line. For a long time, it's been the domain of the political nerds, the 3% of the population who know the policy of every party on any topic. However, thanks to the rise of sites like Below the Line, it's suddenly become easier to plan your vote in advance, without the stress of standing in the little cardboard booth on election day, trying to remember the difference between the Australian Labor Party and the Democratic Labor Party, or the Socialist Alliance and the Socialist Equality parties.
Pushing this new trend is the idea of protest voting a particular candidate – movements have sprung up, encouraging people to vote Stephen Conroy last (for his "insist[ence] on pressing ahead with a Mandatory Internet Filter for Australia"), or to vote Steve Fielding last (for being Steve Fielding, I suspect). So, how effective were these campaigns? Well, we can't know quite yet – the Australian Electoral Commission are yet to release the Below the Line voting data for Victoria. However, while waiting for the AEC to make it available, I've checked out what's been happening around the country:
- Victoria isn't the only state that saw protest voting a candidate as a way to get a message across – in Tasmania, Eric Abetz (Liberals) and Christine Milne (Greens) saw an unusually high proportion of people putting them last on the ballot (in comparison to other candidates, or their own party). Similarly, Gary Humphries (Liberal) in the ACT found himself put last by a large chunk of the voting populace. Unfortunately, I'm unfamiliar with all of these candidates – perhaps someone more knowledgeable can fill me in on why they ended up like this?
- One Nation, The Climate Sceptics and Family First are generally disliked around the country. They were by far the most common parties to be put last.
- Despite the unending news reports describing the epidemic of voter apathy in NSW and Queensland, both states saw an increase in the proportion of voters voting Below the Line – up from 1.78% and 2.68% to 2.15% and 2.98%, respectively.
- Around the nation, there was a general increase in the proportion of voters going Below the Line, up ~0.47% from 3.14% to 3.61%.
- Generally, the proportion of voters choosing to vote Below the Line increases as the number of candidates decreases.
- Tasmanians seem to be the most willing to vote Below the Line, with 19.53% of people taking the extra few minutes to do it.
Hopefully the Victoria Below the Line data will be released soon. Naturally, I'll be analysing how Senators Conroy and Fielding fared, and bringing you the results.
As a slightly less serious aside, there are no statistics on the number of polling places with sausage sizzles. As my local church hall had no such BBQ-related facilities, I will be pushing at both a state and federal level for urgent electoral reform to be enacted – the AEC should be responsible for ensuring all polling venues have fair and equal access to the appropriate equipment and supplies required to provide voters with charcoaled meat in a slice of white bread. 🙂
UPDATE 2010-09-21: Victorian stats released, corrected total BtL statistic to match.


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"Athletes are born winners, they're not born losers, and the sooner you understand this, the faster you can take on a winning attitude and become successful in life."
Charles R. Sledge Jr.
With the cold days dissipating & opening days approaching brings the beginning of the spring season & the excitement blooms up in many baseball fans as its a sign that the baseball matches are going to start. MLB matches have a great craze in the crowd of the US. The wait for these matches is always built in the mind of people. Not the only US, people all around the globe have the desire to watch MLB matches, especially of their favorite team. MLB tournaments took long to come up on the appropriate result of the winner. If you have ever played baseball in your life you can easily relate how thrilling this game is.
If ever in life you met a true baseball fan, then you can see the spark on his face while talking about the game. All the teams of MLB whether they are from a National league or American league need to battle against many other different teams to reach toward the winner's trophy. Presently a team from San Francisco is going to play against many different teams to retain their position in MLB.
The team is San Francisco Giant. This team was founded in 1883. They are the part of National League West, till date they won 41 matches and perform really hard to raise their position in coming matches.
This team has played against both National & American league team, & perform significantly good. They hold the jersey of black, orange, Gold & cream on their body. Their matches are scheduled against many different teams like Milwaukee Brewers, Colorado Rockies, New York Mets and many others.
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Through the annals of history Bolster Pillows have been curing aches and pains, providing comfort and ensuring a good night's sleep. Their eternal design allows for cold air to circulate through. Your bolster pillow will always be on the cool side.
Bolster Pillows originate from the Asia, dating back to Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt where wives would fashion them from bamboo as gifts for their husbands. They offered support to necks, backs, knees and heavy hearts – keeping husbands company when they travelled.
In Korea a Bolster Pillow is still referred to as "Juk Buin", which translates to "Bamboo wife".
Bolster Pillows traditionally have been used in tropical climates, where blankets were unnecessary. One could hug a bolster pillow to help keep you cool in humid evenings; and take the bite out of chilly mornings when temperatures dropped.
Throughout Europe there wasn't the need for a bolster pillow to keep you cool. Instead the Europeans used them as supportive accent pillows. Bolster Pillows were placed against the headboard with pillows placed on top. This arrangement allowed for the head and neck to lie in a more comfortable position.
In the North America, Bolster Pillows or Body Pillows are used in their traditional context and hugged while sleeping. This is advantageous because it ensures uniform support to your head, independent of your sleeping position.
The Bolster Pillow range comes in four colors and two sizes (19" and 45") to accommodate both body pillows and standard supportive Bolster Pillows.
Our Bolster Pillow range is completely handmade by master craftsmen and stuffed with fully organic Kapok fiber. Although the Bolster Pillow range is sourced in Thailand they are shipped promptly and affordably from our Santa Fe warehouse.


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Never Forget To Pray To Allah
Never forget that Allah is the Lord of all of humanity, including yourself, and that He is your only friend and helper. Therefore, never forget that when you ask for anything, ask it first from Him.
Prayer is one of the most important acts of worship to draw us nearer to Allah. By their very nature, all people feel the need to perform this act of worship. However, while it is a necessary and desirable part of believers' lives, a disbeliever resorts to it only in times of distress. The latter may not be accepted by Allah, since what is most commendable is to ask help from Allah both in times of ease as in difficulty, that is, in every moment of our lives. That is because, the one who prays to Allah is the person who acknowledges his weakness in Allah's sight, and his inability of accomplishing anything unless it is by His Will.
However, we need here to point to a common misconception: praying to Allah alone does not mean to sit-back, wait, and do nothing. A person must feel confident in the fact that Allah holds every event in His control. As well, he must be meticulous in employing the means Allah has shown as solutions. One who sincerely prays to Allah must also perform "prayers of action" in compliance with the rules established by Allah. What we mean by "prayers of action" here, is doing one's utmost to attain a desirable result. For instance, exploiting all forms of medical care is a form of "prayer by action" exercised by a sick person in order to recover from his illness. Offering one's prayers to Allah for recovery is a form of verbal prayer. Therefore, prayer by action is a fundamental act of worship that must always accompany verbal prayer.
While praying, never forget to be sincere and to turn towards Allah with a deep feeling of humility in your heart. Allah is nearer to man than his jugular vein. He knows and hears everything. Prayer is the easiest way to reach Him. Not a single thought that crosses your mind can be kept concealed from His knowledge. Although this is the case, many nevertheless are unaware that Allah has knowledge of everyone's prayers and wishes. They think that Allah only listens to some of their prayers, or that even if He hears, that He does not answer. (Surely Allah is far above what they attribute to him). This reasoning of theirs is flawed. Allah knows our innermost thoughts, every word we may utter, and He answers them all. Allah draws our attention to this fact in the Qur'an as follows:
If My servants ask you about Me, I am near. I answer the call of the caller when he calls on Me. They should therefore respond to Me and believe in Me so that hopefully they will be rightly guided. (Surat al-Baqara, 186)
Therefore, never forget that if we want something we need only to ask it from Allah. Reaching our Lord is that easy.
Man is impetuous by nature, a fact which is also stressed in the verse, "Man was created hasty. I will show you My Signs so do not try to hasten Me." (Surat al-Anbiya, 37) This hastiness may sometimes reveal itself in his prayers too. As is stated earlier, man always expects an immediate answer to his prayers.
However, we must bear in mind that it is Allah Who knows what is good for us. We are informed about this in the Qur'an, "it may be that you hate something when it is good for you and it may be that you love something when it is bad for you. Allah knows and you do not know." (Surat al-Baqara: 216) This is why, when a person asks for something from his Creator, he must be pleased with Him, whatever the outcome, being aware that the decision rests with Allah alone. Not everything you wish for may be good for you. Therefore, Allah answers the prayer, not in the way we necessarily expect, but in the way deemed by Him to be most just. It may well be that, in order for you to grow in wisdom, Allah may prepare your character otherwise until it is time for you to do so. It may also be that Allah will replace your wish with something still better, but is testing your patience and faithfulness. Indeed, Allah recommends us to be steadfast in prayer:
Seek help in steadfastness and prayer. But that is a very hard thing, except for the humble. (Surat al-Baqara, 45)
Do not forget that perseverance in prayer purifies a believer, and endows him with strength of will and character. As an answer to his prayers, a believer attains a deeper spiritual state, which is more valuable than anything else he could ask for.
However, those who do not regard Allah in a manner due Him harbour doubts in their hearts, falsely assuming that their prayers have gone unanswered. A believer, however, feels certain that Allah hears his prayers, and that, in some way, He answers them. He is fully aware that nothing is outside of His control, and that everything occurs according to a specific predetermined fate. Therefore, he feels no doubt that his prayer will be answered. Never forget to offer your prayers to Allah without doubting in securing Allah's help, knowing that your call will certainly be answered. Regardless of the situation, trust in the Lord, because Allah wants His servants to be near to Him. It is so easy for Allah, Who created you from a drop of fluid and created the universe from non-existence, to answer your prayers. Hence, all you have to do is to ask with faith and patience.
Prayer is a special bond between man and Allah. A person shares all his troubles and wishes with Allah; he pleads Him. Allah, Who hears every call, never leaves it unanswered. This is why the Qur'an does not specify merely one way of worship. The Qur'an urges man to "remember Allah standing, sitting and lying on your sides" (Surat an-Nisa, 103), which means that one can bring Allah to mind and pray to Him at any time and under all conditions, without necessarily performing any particular ritual or ceremony. That is because, what matters is not the outward performance but one's sincerity...
This aside, a particular place does not necessarily need to be assigned for prayer. Remember that you can pray in the shopping mall, on the street, in the car, at school, at work, that is, anywhere. All you have to do is to free your mind from idle thoughts and feel Allah's nearness to you.
Never forget that a life without prayer is meagre in the sight of Allah. As the 77th verse of the Surat al-Furqan reads, "What has My Lord to do with you if you do not call on Him?" Being conscious of one's subjection makes a person dear in the sight of Allah. Therefore, man must turn to his Creator, admit his shortcomings to Him, and seek help only from Him. Any other comportment would mean showing arrogance to Allah, and to incur an eternal punishment in Hell.
Never forget that Allah is the Most Merciful. Anyone who does evil and then asks for forgiveness will find Allah Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Surat an-Nisa':110) Hence, remember that Allah is the Most Merciful and the Ever-Forgiving, and pray to Him in hope.
No matter how serious the error you may have committed, and are in deeply remorse over it, it is not a reason for you to despair of Allah's forgiveness. Thus, no matter how guilty a person feels, he can always expect to find his Lord forgiving. In fact, the Qur'an informs us that it is only disbelievers who despair of Allah's mercy:
... Do not despair of solace from Allah. No one despairs of solace from Allah except for people who are disbelievers. (Surah Yusuf, 87)
On the other hand, never forget that no one can guarantee that he is worthy of Paradise. No one is safe from the punishment of his Lord. This is why, when calling on Allah, a person must hope for Allah's mercy, but also be in fear of losing His good pleasure. Just as how eagerly he prays to attain Paradise, so must he for avoidance of Hell. In other words, through fear of Hell, he hopes to attain Paradise. One who grasps Allah's greatness, fears His punishment, and desires to earn His good pleasure, will turn to Him with heartfelt sincerity and honesty. In a like manner, one who submits himself to Allah, and takes Him as his only friend and helper, will admit his struggles and distress to Him. As is in the case of the Prophet Ya'qub, who said "I make complaint about my grief and sorrow to Allah alone," (Surah Yusuf, 86), he will admit his sufferings and requests to Allah, and ask for help and good from Him alone.
Also remember that praying merely for the blessings of this world is a form of insincerity. The true goal of believers is Paradise. Allah grants the blessings of this world to those who desire them alone. Yet, it is not likely for them to attain the glorious recompense of the hereafter. As is stated in the Qur'an:
… There are some people who say, "Our Lord, give us good in the world." They will have no share in the hereafter. And there are others who say, "Our Lord, give us good in the world, and good in the hereafter, and safeguard us from the punishment of the Fire." They will have a good share from what they have earned. Allah is swift at reckoning. (Surat al-Baqara, 200-202)
In times of difficulty, the ignorant withdraw themselves and turn to Allah in prayer. Though, when relieved, they immediately lapse back into their former state of heedlessness, as if they had never called on Allah. That is, they turn to Allah as the "last resort." This ungrateful attitude is related in the Qur'an as follows:
When harm touches man, he calls on Us, lying on his side or sitting down or standing up. Then when We remove the harm from him he carries on as if he had never called on Us when the harm first touched him. In that way We make what they have done appear good to the profligate. (Surah Yunus, 12)
It is He Who conveys you on both land and sea so that when some of you are on a boat, running before a fair wind, rejoicing at it, and then a violent squall comes upon them and the waves come at them from every side and they realize there is no way of escape, they call on Allah, making their religion sincerely His: "If You rescue us from this, we will truly be among the thankful." But then, when He does rescue them, they become rebellious in the earth without any right to do so. Mankind, your rebelliousness is only against yourselves. There is the enjoyment of the life of this world and then you will return to Us and We will inform you about what you did. (Surah Yunus, 22-23)
Actually, not a single moment passes in which man is not in need of his Lord... So, never forget to call on your Lord "…humbly and fearfully, without loudness of voice, morning and evening" (Surat al-A'raf: 55, 205). Remember that the end of those who fail to offer their prayers to Allah will be the eternal torment in Hell:
Your Lord says, "Call on Me and I will answer you. Those who are too proud to worship Me will enter Hell abject." (Surah Ghafir, 60)


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The United States' goal throughout the crisis in Ukraine has been to support a democratic Ukraine that is stable, unified, secure both politically and economically, and able to determine its own future. Therefore, we support ongoing dialogue among the foreign ministers from Ukraine, Germany, France, and Russia to work toward a sustainable ceasefire by all parties in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions in eastern Ukraine that would build toward a lasting peace. We should emphasize, however, that our ultimate goal is not just a temporary halt to violence. We want Russia to stop destabilizing Ukraine and occupying Crimea, a part of Ukraine's territory, and allow all of the people of Ukraine to come together to make their own decisions about their country's future through a democratic political process.
Ukrainian President Poroshenko has proposed a detailed peace plan that includes a promise of amnesty for separatists who laid down their arms voluntarily, and who are not guilty of capital crimes, decentralization of powers within Ukraine, and protection of the Russian language. He also implemented a unilateral ten-day ceasefire on June 20 to create room for a political solution, which unfortunately was not reciprocated by the separatists and their Russian backers.
While Russia says it seeks peace, its actions do not match its rhetoric. We have no evidence that Russia's support for the separatists has ceased. In fact, we assess that Russia continues to provide them with heavy weapons, other military equipment and financing, and continues to allow militants to enter Ukraine freely. Russia denies this, just as it denied its forces were involved in Crimea — until after the fact. Russia has refused to call for the separatists to lay down their arms, and continues to mass its troops along the Ukrainian border. Many self-proclaimed "leaders" of the separatists hail from Russia and have ties to the Russian government. This all paints a telling picture of Russia's continued policy of destabilization in eastern Ukraine.
Here are the facts:
- Russia continues to accumulate significant amounts of equipment at a deployment site in southwest Russia. This equipment includes tanks of a type no longer used by the Russian military, as well as armored vehicles, multiple rocket launchers, artillery, and air defense systems. Russia has roughly doubled the number of tanks, armored vehicles, and rocket launchers at this site. More advanced air defense systems have also arrived at this site.
- We are confident Moscow is mobilizing additional tanks that are no longer in the active Russian military inventory from a depot to send to this same deployment site.
- We are concerned much of this equipment will be transferred to separatists, as we are confident Russia has already delivered tanks and multiple rocket launchers to them from this site.
- Available information indicates Moscow has recently transferred some Soviet-era tanks and artillery to the separatists and that over the weekend several military vehicles crossed the border.
- Social media videos of separatist military convoys suggest Russia in the past week alone has probably supplied the militants with at least two-dozen additional armored vehicles and artillery pieces and about as many military trucks.
- Publicly available videos posted on July 14 of a Luhansk convoy on the road to Donetsk revealed at least five T-64 tanks, four BMP-2 armored personnel carriers (APC), BM-21 multiple rocket launchers, three towed antitank guns, two ZU 23-2 antiaircraft guns, and probably a 2B16 mortar.
- A video of Krasnodon, near the Izvaryne border crossing, on 11 July showed two BTR armored personnel carriers, two antitank guns, and various trucks on a road heading in a westerly direction towards Donetsk.
- A video filmed in Donetsk on 11 July showed a convoy of three BMD-2 APCs, two BMPs, one 2S9 self-propelled gun, and a BTR-60 APC.
- In addition, after recapturing several Ukrainian cities last weekend, Ukrainian officials discovered caches of weapons that they assert came from Russia, including MANPADS, mines, grenades, MREs, vehicles, and a pontoon bridge.
- Ukrainian forces have discovered large amounts of other Russian-provided military equipment, including accompanying documentation verifying the Russian origin of said equipment, in the areas they have liberated from the separatists.
- Photographs of destroyed or disabled separatist equipment in eastern Ukraine have corroborated that some of this equipment is coming from Russia.
- Recruiting efforts for separatist fighters are expanding inside Russia and separatists are looking for volunteers with experience operating heavy weapons such as tanks and air defenses. Russia has allowed officials from the "Donetsk Peoples' Republic" to establish a recruiting office in Moscow.
- Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, who has long had a distinguished career in the Ukrainian military, was taken by separatists in mid-June. She is now being held in a prison in Voronezh, Russia. According to the Ukrainian government, she was transferred to Russia by separatists.
- Separately Russia continues to redeploy new forces extremely close to the Ukrainian border. We have information that a significant number of additional military units are also in the process of deploying to the border.
Ukraine's Good-Faith Efforts: In a bid to unify the country, President Poroshenko outlined a comprehensive peace plan on June 7. President Poroshenko's plan offers amnesty to separatists who lay down their arms voluntarily, and who are not guilty of capital crimes; commits to providing a safe corridor for Russian fighters to return to Russia; establishes a job creation program for the affected areas; includes an offer of broad decentralization and dialogue with eastern regions, including the promise of early local elections; and grants increased local control over language, holidays, and customs. President Poroshenko also has reached out to the residents of eastern Ukraine and is pursuing constitutional reform which will give local regions more authority to choose their regional leaders and protect locally-spoken languages.
President Poroshenko implemented a unilateral seven-day (later extended to ten days) unilateral ceasefire on June 20. He also proposed meeting with leaders from eastern Ukraine – including separatists – despite their stated unwillingness to abide by the cease-fire or to negotiate.
Yet Russia and its proxies in Donetsk and Luhansk did not act on this opportunity for peace. Hours after the ceasefire began, Russia-backed separatists wounded nine Ukrainian service members. During the course of the ten-day ceasefire, Russia-backed separatists attacked Ukrainian security forces over 100 times, killing 28 service members. The separatists continue to hold more than 150 hostages, mostly civilians, including teachers and journalists. Separatists have refused all offers by the Ukrainian government to meet.
This timeline of events leading to, during, and after the unilateral Ukraine ceasefire illustrates how the good-faith efforts of the Ukraine government and European leaders to broker a ceasefire with Russia and the separatists it backs have been rejected. Russia and the separatists they are supporting continued to destabilize Ukraine throughout the ceasefire, and continue to destabilize Ukraine today.
- May 25: PetroPoroshenko, who had campaigned on a platform stressing reconciliation with the east and Russia, is elected by an absolute majority of voters in Ukraine.
- June 8-17: PresidentPoroshenko hosts five rounds of contact group talks, facilitated by the OSCE envoy, in the lead-up to his announcement of a ceasefire.
- June 12: Poroshenko initiates a call to President Putin to open communication.
- June 14: EU-brokered gas talks end with a final EU brokered proposal: Ukraine accepts the proposal, but Russia rejected it.
- June 19: Poroshenko meets with eastern Ukrainian leaders, including separatists, in Kyiv.
- June 20: Poroshenko implements a seven-day unilateral ceasefire. Hours later, nine Ukrainian service members are wounded by pro-Russian separatists, foreshadowing separatists' 100 plus violent actions over the next 10 days.
- June 23: The contact group meets in Donetsk.
- June 25: NATO Secretary General Rasmussen notes that there are "no signs" of Russia respecting its international commitments with regard to Ukraine.
- June 27: Ukraine provides constitutional reform provisions to the Venice Commission for review. This reform would allow for the direct election of governors and for local authorities to confer special status on minority languages within their regions.
- June 27: Poroshenko extends the unilateral ceasefire another 72 hours to allow another chance for OSCE contact group negotiations to show progress.
- June 28: Ukraine shoots down two Russian UAVs violating Ukraine's airspace in the Luhansk region.
- June 30: Due to the separatists' refusal to abandon violence in favor of negotiation, President Poroshenko allows the cease-fire to expire.
- July 3: President Poroshenko in a telephone conversation with U.S. Vice President Biden reaffirms that he is ready to begin political negotiations to resolve the situation in Donetsk and Luhansk regions without any additional conditions.
- July 8: President Petro Poroshenko visits the former rebel stronghold of Slovyansk to meet with local residents after government forces recapture it from pro-Russian separatists.
- July 9: Ukraine restores electricity and train service to Slovyansk, and Ukrainian security forces distribute food, drinking water, and humanitarian aid to the population.
- July 11: The Ukrainian government establishes an inter-agency task force in Slovyansk that is conducting damage, security, and humanitarian needs assessments.
- July 11: The Ukrainian government reports that it delivered over 60 tons of humanitarian aid supplies in Donetsk Oblast over the preceding 24 hours, bringing the five-day total to 158 tons. President Poroshenko announces that Ukrainian security forces had successfully cleared nearly 100 mines and roadside bombs from liberated territory.
As General Philip Breedlove, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander for Europe, stated on July 1: "The cease fire in Ukraine was not ended because of accusations; it was ended because Russian-backed separatists responded with violence while President Poroshenko tried to open a window for peace. Russia's commitment to peace will be judged by its actions, not its words." As the United States and our European allies have repeatedly stated, we call on the Russian government to halt its material support for the separatists, to use its influence with the separatists to push them to lay down their arms and abide by a ceasefire and to release all hostages. Only then can the process of bringing peace to Ukraine truly begin.


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In the United States, generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) are increasingly burdensome for private companies to apply. At the same time, private-company stakeholders find U.S. GAAP to be decreasingly relevant to their information needs.
A blue-ribbon panel recently proposed a solution to these problems. The upshot of the panel's solution is that GAAP for private U.S. companies should be defined by a standard-setting body other than the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), which currently sets authoritative GAAP for all nongovernmental entities in the United States. Furthermore, the new body would define private-company standards by specifying extensive exceptions to FASB standards.
As I have explained in previous columns, the panel has disregarded four specific, significant risks in arriving at its solution. In this column, I'll focus on the last of the four: solution-implementation risk. The lack of attention paid to this and the other risks makes the panel's proposed solution a nonstarter.
What Is Solution-Implementation Risk?
Solution-implementation risk is a type of process risk. Specifically, it's the risk that the process of implementing a particular solution will fail. As such, it's distinct from problem-solving risks that arise prior to implementation, such as the risk of choosing an inherently ineffective solution to a problem.
In general, solution-implementation risk exists because the successful implementation of a solution is never automatic. Even for solutions that are problem-appropriate, well developed, and widely accepted by stakeholders, implementation isn't effortless or free. Successful implementation invariably requires scarce economic resources as well as competent stakeholders, neither of which can be taken for granted.
Solution-implementation risk can manifest itself in several different ways. For example, it may simply not be possible to implement a particular solution due to real-world resource constraints. Or the costs of implementation might exceed the benefits of solving the problem. In any case, it's important to recognize that a solution that carries high implementation risk is likely to be useless.
Three Risk Factors
There are three major factors that contribute to the solution-implementation risk associated with the blue-ribbon panel's proposed solution. First, the panel has left the details of implementation up to others. Without the discipline of thinking through the implementation process, problem-solving exercises such as the panel undertook often produce "perfect-world" solutions that are impossible or imprudent to implement in the real world.
The second risk factor stems from the fact that financial-statement users were severely underrepresented in the panel's composition and deliberations. But successfully implementing a solution to the problems of private-company financial reporting will require not only the participation of this key stakeholder group but also leadership from them. Unfortunately, most users of private-company financial statements aren't even aware of the existence of the panel or its proposed solution.
The third risk factor is that the successful implementation of the panel's solution would require the coordinated efforts of millions of stakeholders who have conflicting interests as well as diverse levels of motivation and ability. The phrase "Good luck with that" jumps to mind.
Managing Solution-Implementation Risk
It's especially important to manage solution-implementation risk in the case of private-company financial reporting because partial success at implementing the panel's solution would actually be worse than complete failure. As I have pointed out previously (see "The Big Risks of Little GAAP"), successful implementation among only some private U.S. companies and only some stakeholders would increase the diversity of standards used by private U.S. companies. This would in turn reduce comparability across reporting entities while increasing the complexity and cost of financial-statement preparation, auditing, and analysis.
So how can solution-implementation risk be minimized? Primarily by taking a realistic look at who must do what when, and why. Doing so may lead to the realization that we can't solve the problems of private-company financial reporting through an alternative set of private-company standards for general-purpose financial reporting. For example, to implement the panel's proposed solution, users of private-company financial statements would have to be ready, willing, and able to accept general-purpose financial statements prepared in accordance with standards other than existing GAAP. This would in turn require user education, IT system changes, other business-process changes, reviews of contractual provisions that are based on accounting metrics, and changes to state accountancy laws and regulations, among many other daunting-and potentially prohibitive-tasks.
The risk-blind solution the blue-ribbon panel has proposed has no realistic chance of solving the problems of private-company financial reporting in the United States. We need to try problem-solving again, this time paying attention to risk management from the start. Only by doing so will we have a chance of producing a much better solution than what the panel has proposed.
Contributor Bruce Pounder is vice president, accounting programs, for SmartPros Ltd. and is the immediate past chair of the Small Business Financial and Regulatory Affairs Committee of the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA). He will be a featured speaker at the 18th annual CFO Rising Conference & Expo in March. Bruce is also the lead developer and presenter for the Webcast series "This Week in Accounting."


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The Creepy Secret Sex Den and Gynecological Center of Tripoli
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The legacy of Qaddafi's Libya keeps getting weirder. The new president of Tripoli's prestigious Fateh University recently discovered a mysterious subterranean complex under Green Theater, a center for studying Qaddafi's political manifesto the Green Book. The complex contains a bedroom, jacuzzis, mood lighting… and a fully equipped gynecological operating theater with klieg lights and an observation deck. So that's, uh, creepy. Take it away, horrified new university president:
This [discovery] will give us a lot—a lot—of questions. Why we have a gynecological bed with fully equiped theater inside university? This is one. What's the rule of having a bed like that, a bedroom? Thirdly, a bathroom with jacuzzis and all these things? This is something which confirms, are suspicious, that this room may have been used to do something which is illegal. But we have confirm it, but all the facts are indicating that something related—I don't want to say rape—but sexual behavior, are there.
He notes that Fateh's official obstetrics and gynecological center is less than 100 meters away. Apparently someone wanted a more private venue for fiddling with the female reproductive system, and that someone probably had ties to Qaddafi's political faction. Is your skin crawling yet? [BBC]


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Reid Flair, son of WWE superstar Ric Flair, died today at the young age of 25, reports PWInsider.com.
Reid was wrestling for All Japan Pro Wrestling earlier this year, and was scheduled to appear at a couple indy events in Maryland with his father this weekend.
No details are being given as to the cause of death, but we'll keep you updated as more information becomes available.
WrestleZone.com would like to send out our condolences to the Flair family during this difficult time.


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City leaders from around the U.S. were treated to a rare bird's-eye view of the environment earlier this week at the Sundance Summit, a three-day mayors' retreat on climate change hosted by Robert Redford in Salt Lake City and at his 6,000-acre resort nestled beneath Utah's Mount Timpanogos, near Park City. In between briefings on "The State of the Science" and "Why You Should Care," and tutorials on emissions-trading programs and retrofitting public transport, a bipartisan troupe of 46 mayors representing nearly 10 million U.S. citizens slathered on sunscreen, grabbed bag lunches, and glided up the Sundance chairlift over miles of tumbling creeks, quivering aspens, and ponderosa pines.
"Oh, I'm just lovin' mayor camp!" said Melvin "Kip" Holden (D), mayor of Baton Rouge, La., as he dismounted the lift and headed back to the conference center. "I feel like I'm back in college — it's just that excitement of learning, that bigger-than-you feeling of wanting to make change."
That's precisely what Redford and his co-hosts — Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson (D) and the nonprofit ICLEI/Local Governments for Sustainability — had in mind when they organized the all-expenses-paid gathering, funded in part by Pew Charitable Trusts and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. "The whole idea was to bring leaders together in a magical place where the monumental implications of climate change and a passion for solutions could really take hold," Anderson told Muckraker.
Photo: Wil Tidman.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D), who served as energy secretary under President Clinton, kicked off the retreat with a feisty call to arms: "Let's face it, if we wait around for the federal government to act, we aren't going to see anything happen," he said. Though Richardson has been a pioneer in promoting renewable energy at the state level, he argued that "even the states are not as accelerated as the cities" when it comes to implementing climate initiatives. "I know where the power is, and I know it's with you guys."
Redford echoed that theme in his opening speech: "You here are closest to the people," he said. "The best and most significant change comes from the grassroots." He later added, "We can't let America play Nero while the planet burns."
The summit was just the latest in a string of recent efforts to galvanize local action on climate change. This year, at the urging of Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, more than 170 mayors nationwide have pledged to adopt Kyoto targets for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. The New Cities project, launched by Madison, Wis., Mayor Dave Cieslewicz (D), has a network of mayors working to implement on the local level the energy-independence proposals of the Apollo Alliance, a coalition of labor, environmental, and other groups that aims to spur eco-friendly economic growth. The Institute for Policy Studies in June launched a Cities for Progress campaign that's pushing for energy security, among other goals.
The Nation recently chronicled these and other progressive city-level campaigns in its cover story "Urban Archipelago," arguing that cities are the spots to watch for innovative, positive change. And last week, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof praised Portland, Ore., for having slashed its greenhouse-gas emissions below 1990 levels, even as it's been booming economically, proving wrong President Bush's recent claim that "Kyoto would have wrecked our economy."
Do the Bright Thing
This kind of economic optimism was a recurring theme during the Sundance Summit. Executives from the British-based consultancy The Climate Group impressed many in the audience when describing how 17 major U.S. cities had already reduced their emissions below 1990 levels and saved a total of $600 million through efficiency measures. "You must understand that tackling climate is financially a competitive advantage, not a liability," stressed Steve Howard, CEO of The Climate Group.
Patrick McCrory (R), mayor of Charlotte, N.C., and head of the Republican mayors' association, noted that municipal leaders have the power to move markets: "We are the ones building roads, designing mass transit, buying the police cars and dump trucks and earthmovers. We're the ones lighting up the earth when you look at those maps from space," he said. "Together we have huge purchasing power, and if we invest wisely, that can have huge implications for the environment."
But not all of the attendees, at first, drank in the cheer.
Mark Begich (D), mayor of Anchorage, Alaska, told Muckraker that among his predominantly conservative constituency, climate-change initiatives are a hard sell: "There are members on my city council who think the term 'global warming' is more objectionable than the term 'liberal.' Some consider it a wacko radical concept."
Mike McKinnon, mayor of Lynnwood, Wash., said he wasn't even sure what his constituents thought on the matter. "I don't believe we've had any discussions in our community on climate change. I have one staff member who is half-time on recycling — that's the full extent of my resources on the environment." When asked why he attended the conference if the issue was so low on his radar screen, he said, "When I read on the invitation, 'Salt Lake City … Sundance … Robert Redford … all expenses paid,' that said yes to me!"
Des Moines, Iowa, Mayor T. M. Franklin Cownie (D) said he wasn't willing to sign any climate-related agreements without first getting the support of his city council. "I want to sell 'em first rather than go dump it on 'em. I need to make sure they understand gas-house [sic] emissions and all that before I make any big pledges," he told Muckraker.
Graham Richard (D) of Fort Wayne, Ind., put it this way: "My job is to be pragmatic. If I approach this issue with my constituents as some kind of Kyoto thing, I guarantee that'll raise a stink. Now if I sell it as a cost-saving measure, that's another story."
After hearing a litany of suggestions for investing in energy-efficient lighting, clean energy for municipal buildings, and hybrid-engine police cars, Roberta Cooper of Hayward, Calif., said, "I am a small-town mayor with small-town resources. I don't have the budget or the political leverage" to buy into such programs.
But these are precisely the doubts and barriers that the Sundance organizers hoped to address. "We didn't want to bring the choir here," said Mayor Anderson. ICLEI Executive Director Michelle Wyman explained that a lot of research went into selecting cities and towns that "historically tended to be more conservative on enviro issues and were also hotspots for CO2 emissions. We wanted to cut through the partisan barriers and recruit grassroots climate leaders in new regions." And they had reason to be proud of their outreach — of the 58 invitations sent out, 48 were accepted.
Sunny Daze, Sweeping the Clouds Away
Indeed, as the sessions went on, skepticism began to fade and the message got through to even some of the most dubious participants.
The most persuasive cris de coeur came from Chicago Mayor Richard Daley (D), whose photograph was snapped admiringly by more than a few of his smaller-town counterparts. He has implemented measures on everything from tree planting and bike paths to renewable-energy standards and requirements that "all of our major big-box [stores] have to do green roofs," he said. He later told Muckraker that cities, more than states or federal agencies, "are terrific laboratories for testing environmental policies and initiatives. We can demonstrate what works [to reduce emissions] and send a signal to the federal level that they are economically safe to implement."
Soon, the ideas were flowing. Hayward's Cooper suggested that all small-town mayors unite in a coalition to increase their purchasing power for clean energy and green products: "If I join forces with mayors in neighboring cities, I have more leverage. By joining each other we can be more effective and adventurous than by standing alone." Fort Wayne's Richard then expanded on the idea, proposing a large nationwide network of mayors that could buy green products collectively in an online auction to accelerate economies of scale.
Aspen Mayor Helen Klanderud suggested that cities participate in a "Canary Alliance" in which they would document the local impacts of climate change — "how warming is threatening the skiing industry in Aspen, how drought is affecting crops in Idaho, and so on. That's the way to get people to understand that it is a local problem."
ICLEI's Wyman was thrilled with the results of the conference, saying, "What happened over the course of the past three days will change the way U.S. cities consume resources and do business." She pledged that her organization would help implement the ideas that emerged, chronicle successes and failures, and organize annual follow-up summits.
Redford, too, was positively buoyant: "What gives me hope is that in politics, baby steps can lead to sea change," he told Muckraker. "The whole political system can be terribly sluggish, stalemated, constipated — the barriers can seem insurmountable. But then all these distributed little pockets of inspiration slowly begin opening up, joining together, building a collective force, and can suddenly give way to tremendous momentum and change. That, I hope, is what's under way."
McKinnon of Lynnwood may end up bringing inspiration back to his pocket of the world; he's now vowed to strike up a dialogue in his community on climate change. "I've decided to make my half-time employee full-time," he beamed, "with a focus not just on recycling, but climate too. I just can't wait to get back home and start implementing."


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High divorce rates and teen pregnancy are worse in conservative states than liberal states
But moral panic won't help lower divorce rates and teen pregnancy in conservative states; education will.
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Ask most people about the differences between families who live in "red" (conservative) states and "blue" (liberal) states, and you'll hear a common refrain: Massachusetts and California are hotbeds of divorce and teen pregnancy, while Nebraska and Texas are havens of virtue and stability.
The reality is quite different. And the evidence should force all of us – conservative and liberal alike – to think carefully about the policies we set to help American families thrive in the 21st century.
According to a new federal study, women with a college education are much more likely to be married than are women who have never graduated from high school. And men and women who married after the age of 25 have lower divorce rates than couples who were married at younger ages.
We could have predicted these results. The US family system, which once differed little by class or region, has become a marker of race, culture, and religion. A new "blue" family paradigm has handsomely rewarded those who invest in women's as well as men's education and defer childbearing until the couple is better established. These families, concentrated in urban areas and the coasts, have seen their divorce rates fall back to the level of the 1960s, incomes rise, and nonmarital births remain rare. With later marriage has also come greater stability and less divorce.
Societal support for high school sweethearts who want to tie the knot at graduation or for shotgun weddings – where the bride is accidentally pregnant – no longer exists.
Difficulties in the "red" world, meanwhile, have grown worse. Traditionalists continue to advocate abstinence until marriage and bans on abortion. They've said an emphatic "no" to the practices that have made the new "blue" system workable.
Yet, paradoxically, as sociologist Brad Wilcox reports, evangelical Protestant teens have sex at slightly earlier ages on average than their nonevangelical peers (respectively, 16.38 years old versus 16.52 years old), evangelical Protestant couples are also slightly more likely to divorce than nonevangelical couples, and evangelical mothers are actually more likely to work full time outside the home than their nonevangelical peers.
While the devout who make traditional marriages work have happy stable lives, economic circumstances have made it harder to find matches that support gendered family roles and to get marginal couples through family tensions.
Sociologist Paul Amato concludes that among the marriages least likely to last are those in which women who would prefer homemaking roles end up working outside of the home much more than they expected because of the husband's inability to support the family.
These factors reflect class and cultural differences, but all of our research suggests that the great recession is likely to make things worse. The hallmark of what we have termed the blue family paradigm is training for autonomy.
With a more extended transition to adulthood, better educated youth also need greater flexibility – to navigate their developing sexuality; to switch jobs, cities, and specialties; and to renegotiate family and career responsibilities. In hard times, dual careers provide a cushion, and flexibility about gender and work roles makes it easier to trade off child care and employment.
Hard times, however, also increase calls for a return to more fixed and traditional values. The fact that traditional families are flailing often persuades them that a return to traditional values is that much more critical. In today's world, however, almost all of the traditional nostrums have proved counterproductive.
Missing from this debate is recognition of the bankruptcy of traditionalist family values as policy for the postindustrial era. We are entirely sympathetic with those inclined to lock up their daughters from puberty until marriage, but we do recognize that the societies abroad most insistent on policing women's virtue are locked into cycles of poverty.
In the United States, states that emphasize abstinence-only education, limit public subsidies of contraception, restrict access to abortion – and, yes, oppose gay marriage – have higher teen birth and divorce rates.
Yet the failure of the family values movement simply produces another round of moral panic and calls for more draconian restrictions. The most destructive have been those that marginalize the next generation. The latest studies show that as the economy has gone south, teen and nonmarital births and abortions have all increased. This indicates that contraception has become less available and pregnant women more desperate about their futures. Employment figures also demonstrate that male employment has fallen even further than female employment, making youthful weddings that much riskier.
The solution? As we outline in great detail in our book "Red Families v. Blue Families," there are three critical steps we can take: (1) promote access to contraception – within marriage as well as outside it; (2) develop a greater ability to combine not only work and family, but family and education; and (3) make sure the next generation stays in school, learns the skills to be employed, and cultivates values that can adapt to the future.
Naomi Cahn is the John Theodore Fey Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School, and a senior fellow at the Donaldson Adoption Institute. June Carbone is the Edward A. Smith/Missouri Chair of Law, the Constitution and Society at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. They are coauthors of "Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture."
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CANTON, Ohio – Forcefully and emotionally, Cris Carter summed up the 50th induction ceremony for the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday night.
The seventh and final inductee from the Class of 2013, Carter honored dozens of people in his life who were "going into the Hall of Fame with me tonight," as he followed Jonathan Ogden, Dave Robinson, Larry Allen, Bill Parcells, Curley Culp and Warren Sapp in being inducted.
More than 120 hall members, a record, and a crowd of 11,500 was on hand at Fawcett Stadium for the golden anniversary celebration of the shrine.
"I appreciate the process you have to go through to get to be a Hall of Famer," Carter said. "To be able to join these men on this stage in football heaven is the greatest day of my life."
Carter needed six tries to make the hall even though he retired as the No. 2 career receiver behind Jerry Rice. He choked back tears as he made his speech after being presented by his son, Duron, and he spoke of his problems with alcohol while playing three years for the Eagles before being released.
He hooked on immediately with the Vikings and hooked onto nearly everything throw his way: Carter finished his 16-season career with 1,101 catches for 13,899 yards and 130 touchdowns.
"This game gave me identity, gave me a sense of purpose," he said.
Parcells also seemingly spoke for everyone in the Hall of Fame, and all the people gathered Saturday night.
"There's a kinship created that lasts for the rest of your life," he said about his experience as one of the NFL's most successful coaches.
The master of the franchise turnaround as the only coach to take four teams to the playoffs, Parcells won Super Bowls with the New York Giants in the 1986 and 1990 seasons.
"Every organization I worked for supported me to the fullest," Parcells said. "Without that, you've got no shot."
Parcells was Coach of the Year honors in 1986 and 1994. He asked to have his bust placed somewhere near Lawrence Taylor in the hall "so I can keep an eye on that sucker."
As relaxed as if he had no one to block, Ogden became the first Baltimore Raven enshrined. The first player drafted by the Ravens after the franchise moved from Cleveland in 1996 and was renamed, Ogden was presented by the man who made that selection, fellow Hall of Famer Ozzie Newsome, now Baltimore's general manager.
A former college shot putter at UCLA, the 6-foot-9, 345-pound Ogden starred at tackle for a dozen seasons in Baltimore, winning the 2000 NFL championship.
"He is part of the foundation of this franchise, part of the reason we have two Super Bowl championships," Newsome said.
Ogden, who was given a 2013 Super Bowl ring by the team, made the hall in his first year of eligibility. He was a six-time All-Pro, made the Pro Bowl 11 times and was the main blocker when Jamal Lewis rushed for 2,066 yards in 2003.
"Talent isn't enough," Ogden said. "A lot of people have talent, they don't always live up to it. For me it is about maximizing, striving for perfection."
Allen, who sniffled his way through his speech, was just as dominating a blocker as Ogden. He also was the NFL's strongest man, once bench-pressing 700 pounds, saying "I did it naturally."
A lead blocker for Dallas as Emmitt Smith became the NFL's career rushing leader, Allen made six All-Pro squads and 11 Pro Bowls in his 14 seasons, the final two with San Francisco. He won the Super Bowl in the 1995 season and was voted into the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility,
"I just knew I had to win every play," he said. "That's the reason I am here. I knew if I lost a play, I had 45 seconds to get even."
Sapp became only the second Tampa Bay Buccaneer enshrined, 18 years after Lee Roy Selmon made it. He was elected in his first year of eligibility following 13 seasons in which he went from instant starter after being selected 12th overall in the 1995 draft to Defensive Player of the Year in 1999. That season, he had 12 1/2 sacks as the Bucs won their first division title in 18 years. For his career, Sapp had 96 1/2 sacks, extremely high for a defensive tackle.
"I sit here with the greatest among the great," Sapp said, breaking into tears. "We're here, baby."
Presented Saturday night by his 15-year-old daughter, Mercedes, Sapp made the NFL's All-Decade squads for the 1990s and the 2000s.
Sapp, who both Ogden and Allen said was as tough to handle as any player they faced, paid tribute to his roots in Plymouth, Fla.
"That dirt road was something rough," he said. "We sure turned it into something special."
Robinson became the 12th inductee from the vintage Packers coached by Vince Lombardi to be enshrined. Robinson was a prototype outside linebacker who could rush the quarterback, cover tight ends or running backs on pass plays, and stop the run. He made the NFL's All-Decade team of the 1960s and won three NFL titles, including the first two Super Bowls.
"This is the biggest day of the 21st century for the Robinson family," he said, adding that he "lives 25 miles from here but it took me 38 years to get here.
"Now, I am immortalized."
As is Culp, one of the game's most dominant defensive tackles for much of his 14 pro seasons, including the 1969 season when he helped Kansas City win the NFL title.
A five-time Pro Bowler, Culp also played for Houston and Detroit, retiring in 1981, then waiting more than three decades to be enshrined Saturday as a senior nominee.
"It gives me joy and inspiration that will last the rest of my life," Culp said. "I am just overwhelmed by the struggles, joys and tears of those who made it here. I'm happy to join them in the Hall of Fame.
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Book review: Island On The Edge: A Life on Soay by Anne Cholawo
It was the 1980's and career girl Anne Cholawo was having the time of her life in London.
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But then she swapped the bright lights for a holiday in The Hebrides and a life changing experience. She loved the Isle of Soay so much, she decided to stay!
Only accessible by boat and with just 17 residents, it really was remote. But Anne loved it and she is still there, all these years later.
And now she wouldn't swop it for anything. Her book tells a lovely, gentle tale of a lady who had to wind down to adjust to her new life, which proved to be anything but dull!
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Poll: Support For Obama Among Young Americans Eroding
After voting for him in large numbers in 2008 and 2012, young Americans are souring on President Obama.
According to a new Harvard University Institute of Politics poll, just 41 percent of millennials — adults ages 18-29 — approve of Obama's job performance, his lowest-ever standing among the group and an 11-point drop from April.
Obama's signature health care law is also unpopular among millennials. Fifty-seven percent of those surveyed said they disapprove of Obamacare, compared with 38 percent who said they approve.
A majority of respondents also said they disapprove of the way Obama is handling the economy, Syria, Iran and the budget deficit.
The results reflect a similar downward trend among the public at large. Recent polls ranging from Gallup to CNN show Obama's approval rating hovering around 40 percent, while disapproval of the health care law is in the mid-to-high 50s.
"Millennials are starting to look a lot more like their older brothers and sisters, parents and grandparents," IOP polling director John Della Volpe said in a conference call with reporters Wednesday.
The online survey of 2,089 adults was conducted from Oct. 30 to Nov. 11, just weeks after the federal government shutdown ended and the problems surrounding the implementation of the Affordable Care Act began to take center stage. The poll's margin of error was plus or minus 2.1 percentage points.
Fifty-five percent of the survey's respondents said they voted for Obama in the last presidential election, while 33 percent said they voted for Republican Mitt Romney. If the election were held again, Obama would still come out on top, but by a tighter 46 to 35 percent vote; 13 percent said they would vote for someone else.
According to the Pew Research Center, 66 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds voted for Obama in 2008, and 60 percent voted for his re-election in 2012.
Harvard's poll found millennials, like the rest of the public, aren't happy with Congress either. Just 19 percent of respondents said they approve of congressional Republicans, while 35 percent approve of their Democratic counterparts. Both figures are single-digit drops from April. Forty-five percent also said they would "recall and replace" their member of Congress if they had the option.
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... Anyone else out there have something similar?
Frankly, I'm suprised these shots/article were considered worthy of publication here, and the naïveté of the copy is mind-blowing.As others here implied, much to my relief as I felt my initial reaction, the style is as old as the hills. One would have to have been living in a cloud (possible) - or a camper - for a very long period of extended solitude to imagine anything here to be new or ground-breaking. I can recall some shots of Michael's in this style - whirling people - that were so much better. It ain't what you do...I think we have discussed the problem here several times: every darn thing has been done, better, by somebody already. Be it this cotton wool world (which, incidentally, I like), nudes, countryside, desert, mountain or ocean, another photographer did it years ago.That's absolutely no reason not to do it yourself; that's absolutely no reason to republish.In a nutshell, it sort of encapsulates the dilemma facing the amateur: is what I do worth doing, is it any good and why am I really doing it? Within that same nutshell we can find the salvation of the pro: he does what he does because he has generally been asked to do it, thus providing both reason and motivation for the act of photography.Rob C
My two cents...One of my favorite articles here at LL in a long time. As a photographer, I believe I'm on a journey. And hopefully it has interesting twists, turns, new directions. That's what the author describes. He is evolving. And he's out there working(!). I very much enjoy reading about people's journeys. Theirs will add to my own.I think most of the images are great, they are pleasing and interesting to view.So thank you to the author - excellent work - and to Michael for publishing.The OP asked if others were doing this kind of work. I have some recent attempts at this genre, so I'll show them here to make a contribution:My most successful: Color WaveSecond best: Morning WaveFall Color: Shimmy ShakeKeep shooting, writing and posting! Bob Towery.
In my opinion , some of these images are absolutely wonderful. Some of the most interesting images I have seen on the site in quite some time. And of course the style has been done before? What hasn't? The key is, does the images move you? For me, these did.
Frankly, I'm suprised these shots/article were considered worthy of publication here, and the naïveté of the copy is mind-blowing.
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The Cutest Bib on the Block...and a Giveaway!
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If you've been around long enough to know what 8mm films are, good chances you have some family footage somewhere in the attic.
James Miller, Designer and Photographer based in the UK came up with a clever way of converting 8mm footage to "modern" video using a full frame Canon 5D mark II, an old projector, some LEDs, and a broken lens.
The video how-to on Vimeo shows highlights of the build process and the description provides more detailed info.
The real smarts here is projecting the movie directly onto the sensor without a mediating screen (or a bedsheet if you're a regular reader :)