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August 3, 2007
who knew roads and bridges were disposable?Yeah, it's one thing to sit around and make jokes about our crumbling infrastructure and how we're in for a two-decade traffic jam when we try to find a city where there's fresh drinking water and the sewers work, but it's another thing entirely to do what true American problem-solvers do: point fingers.
So, instead of me trying to fabricate who's at fault this time (landing, as usual, on Tom Delay or Grover Norquist), please browse this very useful explanation, as told to Wonkette by an actual unnamed lobbyist. The answer? Time Magazine's Person of the Year, 2006. Though "greed" is also an acceptable answer.
It's too twisty and windy to summarize (i.e., the summary would contain exactly as many words as the content being summarized), but at least it's got some Beltway chicanery for the pullquote:
The current transportation funding mechanism is called SAFETEA-LU, which stands for "Safe Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users," but the "Lu" is actually former Transportation Committee Chairman Don Young's wife's name, so he made his staff come up with a fucking acronym that used that because that's how stupid and parochial transportation policy is.
Plus also there's a glancing mention of Delay -- at least he's still relevant!
I suspect this unnamed lobbyist supplying the succinct-as-possible (not being ironical, no) explanation may in fact be Thomas Pynchon. But then again the greater possibility may be that Thomas Pynchon is some kind of hivemind that provides accurate but but confusing glimpses of the world as it really is.
Either way, enjoy your weekend motoring.
Posted by mrbrent at 4:16 PM
all bridges will be frisked and searchedEven if you are not patriotic enough to buy into the clear and present danger of the international terrorism of steam and structural engineering, maybe you still feel a twinge of concern or two when personally crossing one of our fine American bridges. Well, National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Mark Rosenker would like for you to close your eyes and think of the greater glory of France:
[Rosnker] said it's too early for officials to know if the accident could have been avoided. "They [bridges] are built not to fall down. This is an anomaly and we're going to try to find out why this is an anomaly and prevent that anomaly from ever happening again" said in an appearance on ABC's "Good Morning America" Friday.
That's awful nice of the Chairman, distilling the phenomenology of bridge failure ("it broke") for the GMA viewers at home. Even the fact that bridges are not built to fall down alone is about as concern-allaying as you could hope for, if you were a congenital idiot, being spoken to by another congenital idiot. Though those that were worried that the 35W bridge was actually designed to keel over on an appointed day must be sleeping the night through now.
Also, if Chairman Rosenker has questions about why the 35W collapse was an anomaly, then perhaps he should go back to his earlier point about how falling down is not one of the intended uses of a bridge, and then consult a dictionary. Sadly, the Chairman is not the only public speaker suffering from syntax-shock.
Posted by mrbrent at 11:26 AM
August 2, 2007
it's not the disaster we're mocking, it's peopleIn light of yesterday's events in Minneapolis, everybody please welcome steam's powerful new ally in domestic terrorism -- structural engineering. This is a particularly alarming development, as there are structures everywhere, and many of them have been engineered.
The serious among you might raise the point that these are not hostile acts by notions that hate our freedom, but rather infrastructure failures emblematic of our government's decades of neglect. Further, that if attention is not turned to this problem, our nation will be crippled by incidents -- a road here, a water system there, an power grid elsewhere -- that will slowly strangle commerce and saddle the economy with billions of dollars of emergency costs.
Fortunately we are not serious people, and we agree that these alarmists suffer from a pre 9-11 mentality (maybe, June or July of 2001). The only way to stop these forces from destroying our way of life is to invade somebody. Maybe somebody small. We've had trouble with the average-sized invasions. How big is Samoa?
Also, we must begin suborning the potential partners of steam and structural engineering -- get there first, sign 'em up. Imagine, for example, if gravity joins their nefarious plots? Or friction?
Posted by mrbrent at 10:42 AM
August 1, 2007
the new deepthroat will see you nowI do love me an anonymous source. I'm too young to have direct memories of Deep Throat (though DT never was referred to until after Woodward/Bernstein wrote the book, right? I guess there was no Gawker then), but I hear word of someone alleging to have direct, inside knowledge of something, I haul ass over. It's like the buzz you got the first time you read Bouton's "Ball Four", with the additional jolt of Bouton being an unnamed whistle blower sharing info at great personal risk. I even wasted an afternoon or two cruising the John Titor threads years back.
More recently (and less tinfoil-hattily), a DailyKos diarist has sniffed out a commenter on certain TPMMuckraker posts who seems to have a concise and direct knowledge of certain intelligence operations that may or may not be perpetuated by various and sundry federal agencies. Of course, in the grand tradition of anonymous whistleblowers, much of the information proffered is veiled in hypotheticals and vague leading questions -- which is just delicious!
Mueller appears to be referring to a sub-contracted effort which indirectly supports the [National Security Council] with a special domestic security unit. These units engage in direct engagement with state-side personnel and civilians. Contractors, law enforcement, and intelligence personnel are assigned under non-direct-NSC-[National Security Agency] units, but are hidden inside commercial entities. The groups appear capable of moving quickly, with no direct supervision, but act as internal security forces, completely outside FISA oversight.
This may not be exciting as Robert Olen Butler's private emails, but allegations of shadowy domestic intelligence organizations suborning business interest cooperation are enough to keep me interested for the time being. I have not had the chance to much more than skim through this, but any additional excuses to keep me off Deadspin are always welcome.
Posted by mrbrent at 12:01 PM
July 31, 2007
i am no big, but i could take goldberg, hungover and trepannedRoy Edroso contemplates how the funny works, when forced into a tiny square hole of ideology:
On the whole [Jonah] Goldberg seems to think liberal humor is creaky and preachy ("going after televangelists and preachers is so old"), while attacks on "political correctness" are as fresh as springtime.
When I hear of some consrevative comic that avoids the fifteen year-old "Feminazi" schtick, then I will revisit the argument of "Why Conservatives Like Bruce Tinsley Especially Are Not Actually Remotely Funny, But Rather Smugly Filled With Hate". Not that I'm not filled with hate -- I hate Bruce Tinsley, because his drunken driving will probably hurt someone more talented than himself.
But enough of me. Go read Alicublog.
Posted by mrbrent at 10:14 PM
your advertising robots are learning slowlyHey, I just noticed something really creepy! I was surfing around, and landed on a website. (This one, if you must know, which is really indispensable.) I got to the bottom of the page, where there was an advertisement, as you increasingly see these days in the digital tubes of the Internets.
It was an advertisement for a retailer that sells books and the like. And the specific books that were being advertised were not at all thematically linked to the subject matter of the host website. In fact, the books advertised were generated by the last searches I did on this retail website.
Now, I'm passing familiar with the technology that would enable this little bit of targeted marketing, but I gotta say, the shit is creepy. I'm on a consumer advocate website, and a little bit of Flash is pimping Jerzy Kosinski novels to me -- the dissonance is quite jarring. Also jarring is the fact that I was searching Kosinski novels for work, and not for pleasure. So not only is my websurfing being stalked by a robot that keeps track of what I might want to buy, but the robot is dumb, and shoves books I do not want to purchase in my face. Ah, sweet mystery of life!
And imagine someone reading this in decade's time, wondering how sweetly naive this Titivil fellow was, as adverts are beamed directly onto their retinas.
Posted by mrbrent at 1:53 PM
July 30, 2007
glenn beck is father coughlin's idiot nephewGlenn Beck is just great. Some of the right-wing ideologues go to great lengths to mask their inherent ill-will behind rhetorical flourishes and semiotic ingenuity. Beck just spews forth with the bile. The more polished of the thinkers can tell you what exactly is American about yearning for immigration reform; Beck just thinks he wants to say that he plain don't like the brown people and all their enchiladas.
As a most recent example, Beck, like other not-so-progressive commentators, is mistrustful of Vice President Al Gore and his efforts heighten awareness of a potential planetary peril. The more refined versions of the arguments against efforts to combat/ameliorate climate change run something along the lines of, "The science isn't proven, we cannot hinder our prosperity, and what's so wrong with change? bla bla bla." Done well, it's almost convincing. Glenn Beck is not so refined:
[Y[ou know, Al Gore's not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. The goal is different. The goal is globalization. The goal is global carbon tax. The goal is the United Nations running the world. That is the goal. Back in the 1930s, the goal was get rid of all of the Jews and have one global government.
Beck's problem with the concept of climate change is that Al Gore is too Hitler-y.
It's about as defensible as accusations of being a space alien -- a charge that can only be dignified by a response. It's true that Gore, and other advocates of a muscular response to climate change, are advocating a global response, but then again, it's a global problem. As history advances, the species needs to bootstrap its problem-solving capabilities to a planetary level (especially as we understand threats that are also on a planetary level). This may sound like sci-fi (and maybe this is what is so scary to gibbering fools like Glenn Beck), but, now that we're a few centuries away from believing that some sort of god-creature eats the sun every night around sunset, there are problems that affect all the species, all over the earth, the consequences of which are more distant and discrete.
To wit, Glenn Beck is still all flat-earth, and he thinks Al Gore, with his PowerPoint, is some kind of witch.
Also, it's illuminating how much can be discern about a body from their accusations. A cringing, superstitious Beck suspects something is not right about the poindexters and their concerns about how hot is outside. Does he accuse them of paternalism, or undue excitability? No. Rather, in the total absence of supporting evidence, he accuses them of a dark conspiracy with the ultimate goal of forcing all the God-fearers to believe only and exactly what is proscribed to be believed.
Glenn Beck, with his suspicions of the non-Christian, and his doughy embrace of homogeneity, has forgotten that one about the pot and the kettle.
Posted by mrbrent at 3:55 PM
dreams are usually only interesting while you're dreamingI try to avoid writing about dreams I may or may not have had -- mostly because I'm not so much a hippie. Also, I have certain concerns about the quality of time spent by the prospective reader, etc., as intersected by my pervasive self-deprecation. But! I had a dream last night that meets the criteria for "funny" and "entertaining", so, then.
So, I'm in the vagued-out apartment with the vagued-out people with whom I'm sharing this apartment. It's on the third floor. In the course of whatever fractured narrative that's occurring, I look out the window, down to the sidewalk. There is a dwarfish older fella, directly beneath me, waving his arms and twitching. He's talking, barely stopping to breath, and he's wearing what looks like a monk's robe, made of butcher paper. It is Robin Williams. I call to the vagued-out roommates, and they come see. We decide that we should call the authorities, before Robin Williams terminally annoys a passer-by.
Basically, I had a dream that could be titled, "Hey, Robin Williams, get off my lawn!"
Okay. Enough of that.
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India's highly polluted capitol city Delhi added a record number of vehicles to its streets in the past year, Times of India reports.
Of the 500,000 new vehicles plying the traffic-plagued streets of the city, 80% of these were private cars and two-wheeled motor vehicles, while the number of buses only increased by slightly over 2,500—meaning the city is still 4,000 buses short of its goal for expanding public transportation by 2010.
60% of all new vehicle sales in Delhi are now powered by diesel engines, contributing to the city's already formidable air pollution. Last year Delhi was ranked the 10th-worst polluted city in the world overall, from all sources, and in 2010 tied with Beijing as the city with worst air quality in the world.


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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Sacramento State's Kylie Kuhns and North Dakota's Madi Buck have been named the Big Sky Conference Women's Basketball Co-Players of the Week, the league announced on Monday.
Kuhns has been named Big Sky Player of the Week four times in her career. She is the second to earn the honor this season, as junior Se'nyce Parrish won after scoring 39 points in an overtime win at Oregon State. Hornets earned the award three times last season.
Kuhns, a senior from Salem, Ore., tallied 20 points and 15 boards to push Sacramento State past rival UC Davis, 66-65, in overtime on Sunday afternoon. With the Hornets down three to the Aggies and under a minute left in the game, Kuhns grabbed an offensive rebound on a missed three-pointer and, as she was fouled, muscled in a layup. She sank the ensuing game-tying free throw to tie it up at 57-57 and force overtime.
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|Laurindo Almeida, Salli Terri, Martin Ruderman
Duets With Spanish Guitar
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Jazz, Special Interest, Classical
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A Prize Winner!
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"At the first Grammy Awards in 1959, Salli Terri was nominated for Best Classical Performance, Vocal Soloist, along with Callas, Tebaldi, and Ferrell (Tebaldi won). The album did win the Grammy for Best Engineered Classical Record, a honor richly deserved as evidenced by the glorious sound of this CD.I think a review in the May, 1958 issue of Hi-Fi & Music Review says it best: "...a prize winner in my collection. Laurindo Almeida's guitar playing captures the keen poignancy and rhythmic elan of Brazilian music with superb assurance and taste. He is joined by an excellent flutist, Martin Ruderman...and a mezzo-soprano whose velvet voice and astonishing flexibility has hardly an equal at present...Salli Terri. She sings Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasileiras No.5 with a sinuousness and ecstasy which make this the finest modern version."It is no wonder that Villa-Lobos himself called this the best recorded version of his composition...and 45 years after its original release, it stands the test of time. A prize winner, indeed!"
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"why did not EMI make this a definitive CD release of the 3 classic Laurindo Almeida / Salli Terri LPs? - eg not one of Salli Terri's songs from the second album are included - how disappointing that some of the most beautiful guitar duets ever recorded are no longer available - incomprehensible!"
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CYO Softball runs from March to the middle of May. There will be a JV (5th & 6th grade) and Varsity (7th & 8th) girls teams. Signups typically start in January, so start checking then for signup information or use the Sign Up to Play to receive an email from the AD/Coach at the beginning of the season.
Junior Varsity - 5th and 6th Grade*
Varsity - 7th and 8th Grade#
Practices are typically Tuesday-Friday nights depending on gym availability. Games are schedule by the Archdiocese of Detroit – CYO and are typically held on Tuesday-Thursday Nights or on the weekend.
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The Bulletin Zinfandel Rose
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Plenty of raspberry and watermelon fruit flavours, juicy and light and a refreshing finish.
In sunny California, The Bulletin winery produce fantastic smooth, easy-drinking wines that are full of flavour. These can all be enjoyed without breaking the bank!
Grapes: 100% Zinfandel
Region: USA / California
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Notes: This has plenty of raspberry and watermelon fruit flavours. Juicy and light, it has a refreshing bright acidity on the finish. A typically blackberry/cherry fruit dominated nose, is matched on the palate by ripe fruit very much to the fore with just enough supporting acidity to create a sound balance.
Serve: At 10-12c with beach BBQ's, Tuna steaks, White Fish eg Cod, Pollack, Dover Sole, Chicken and also with spicy food.


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Operation Active Endeavour (OAE) is a maritime operation conducted by NATO allies in the Mediterranean. The missions actions are aimed at preventing or countering terrorism coming from or conducted at sea and all illegality possibly connected with terrorism, such as human trafficking and smuggling of arms and radioactive substances.[1] Since it was first enacted it has searched over 79,000 merchant vessels.
OAE started as a result after September 11, 2001, as a response to the terrorist attack on the United States. It marked the first time in history that NATO members were called upon to fulfill article five of the North Atlantic Treaty, which stated that all members would come to the defense of an attacked member. The operations naval assists came when NATO reassigned its ships from of the cost of the Spain to the Mediterranean. This force took the name of Standing Naval Force Mediterranean (STANAVFORMED).[1] NATO also deployed Airborne Warning and Control Systems aircraft (AWACS)for air surveillance and early warning capability by transmitting data. In 2004, former NATO enemy, Russia, joined as a partner to the mission.[2] In May 2007, Ukraine military sea forces joined the alliance in its operations.
In 2006, the United States came forward with the idea of spreading NATO's OAE to the Turkey controlled Black Sea. Turkey, a NATO member strongly opposed the idea. They stated that it would be breaking the Montreux Convention, a treaty signed in 1936 which stated that foreign warships would not stay more than 21 days in the Black Sea during peacetime. Turkey also stated the having OAE in the Mediterranean would be redundant because of Turkeys own missions, Operation Black Sea Harmony and BlackSeaFor.[3] [4] Turkey and United States relations remained strained on the issue until the United States shelved the idea.


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Fans of HBO's "Game of Thrones" now have a way to brush up on the events of the chaotic previous season.
Created by students in a first-year design course at ECV Aquitaine in France, this minimalist re-imagining of the show's iconic intro gives fans an update on where their favorite characters are in Westeros.
The video shows the most important places from the series and connects them with animated versions of the house sigils, which include a crow, a wolf, a lion and, of course, a dragon. Fans will recognize the actors' names splashed on the last location their characters appeared in third season -- a factor that makes the new opening a good refresher leading into what promises to be an exciting fourth season.
The new season of "Game of Thrones" will premiere April 6.


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I am working full time now and busy as all get out with summer being here and all, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Luckily I have plenty of photos to pull from for here because my photo taking is now evenings and weekends only, but the security of a full time job is amazing and I am so blessed to work for a company that I love working for. This weeks photos are from Fourth of July -- I am still learning how to take firework photos and these are the ones that I feel turned out ok. Hope y'all enjoy them, Peace and luv to all, Laura
Seen While Wandering
Photos I take while wandering around town. "Not all who wander are lost" J.R.R. Tolkien
Monday, July 15, 2013
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Hi everyone, I hope your week was amazing. My photos for this week are of Seattle. One of my favorite things to do is ride the ferry and take photos of the view from it. As you can see I was in a black and white mood when editing. The Great Wheel is a year old today so it is a newer aspect of the skyline, but it is so much fun playing around with what photos I can get in and around it. I have not been up in it yet but am looking forward to it and the photos I will get from riding it.
Until next time,
peace and luv to all
Laura :)
Seattle Waterfront
The Columbia Tower and surrounding buildings
The Great Wheel
The Great Wheel with the Space Needle peeking around a building
The Space Needle
Seattle skyline
Monday, June 24, 2013
Raindrops and Flowers
Really I just love when beautiful flowers have raindrops on them and living in Western Washington I get to see them a lot more often than others perhaps. Here are some from last week after a downpour on my way home from the bus stop.
Hope everyone has enjoyed these, peace and luv to all,
Sunday, June 16, 2013
What a week it has been
Yes, I know it is father's day here and no I don't really celebrate it since my father and all my father figures have passed away so I don't have some mushy father's day post, but I do have some fun photos from around town this week.
This is a Bohemian Waxwing - I totally looked it up, I just wish I could have gotten a few more shots before he flew off.
Yay the carnival is in town - this is in Burien for their Strawberry Days Festival they have every father's day weekend.
Summer in western washington means construction everywhere - but I think it is interesting so I take pictures of it.
This guy just got new shoes and cannot wait any longer to wear them.
The cherries in my neighbors tree are almost ready!!!
Thistles - I don't know why but I have always loved them. Maybe because Eyeore eats them!!
The things you come across while walking around town. How do you accidentally loose your shorts and not realize it??
These flowers are just so pretty.
And yeah, just everything about this. The old building, the recycle bin and the sign just make this an awesome shot.
I hope everyone has had an amazing week. Peace and luv to you all.
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Summer is coming
Today 6/6/2013 was sprinkler testing day at the small parks around my house. I am not sure if I was stalking the Renton Parks guy or if he was maybe stalking me, but we ended up at both parks at different times so I got some fun sprinkler shots. I hope you enjoy them.
Peace and luv to all
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A Jewish Lent? The Month of Elul
This year, the Jewish month of Elul falls on August 18 through September 15. (Technically, Elul is the sixth month of the Hebrew calendar, with Nisan (Passover), being the first, even though Rosh Hashanah is considered the Jewish New Year.) Elul precedes the month of Tishrei, which contains the High Holy Days: The Feast of Trumpets and The Day of Atonement (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur)—as well as the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) shortly afterward.
Because the Hebrew calendar is lunar, the Jewish holidays fluctuate in relationship to the common calendar. Some years, the above mentioned holidays take place early to mid-September, but other years, they fall in early October, or some time in between.
It is customary (at least among Orthodox Jews) to blow the shofar (ram's horn) every morning during the month of Elul, at the conclusion of the morning prayer service.
With the beginning of Elul, one awakens to teshuva—repentance—turning back to the path. Hearing the shofar helps to make for such an awakening. Elul is a period of preparation. It involves introspection, review of the year, and preparation for repentance." Selichot, or penitential prayers, are said the Saturday before Rosh Hashanah, for a minimum of 4 days beforehand. On the first night of Selichot, prayers are said at midnight. This intensifies the approach to the "Days of Awe," the ten days encompassing Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.1
So perhaps Elul can be seen as kind of a Jewish Lent. It is a time of anticipation, meditation and penitence, leading up to the greatest days of the Jewish year, especially the Sabbath of Sabbaths—Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. This is similar to Christians anticipating Resurrection Sunday, whether in a formal sense (Lent), or a less formal reflection on the season. As a Jewish believer in Jesus, I feel the parallel keenly.
As a Conservative (fairly religious) Jewish kid, I experienced intimately the rhythms of the Jewish calendar year. So it wasn't surprising that Elul was a time of anticipation, with summer break winding down, classes filing back into order, and the Indian summer of the San Francisco Bay Area sizzling hotter than any time of the year. (It always seemed to be hottest on Yom Kippur, when we were fasting and wearing heavy clothes!)
Elul was definitely a time of renewal, at least for those of us who took the Jewish religion seriously. I anticipated "meeting" God in the sanctuary and being cleansed of sin on Yom Kippur. (I always had a powerful sense of God's majesty, even in my pre-messianic days.)
Elul was also the time of my Bar Mitzvah, which occurred after a two-week family trip to Israel in the summer of 1982. I remember chanting all seven Torah portions and my haftarah portion, as well as leading the congregation in much of the liturgy.
I looked forward to dressing up and dining at festive holiday meals, and going to shul (synagogue) with my Mom's parents. They moved out to California back in 1979—from Freeport, Long Island—to be close to us. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur were always the greatest times of the year, in no small part because my grandparents were with us to celebrate.
My Grandpa Leon was the Jew par excellence in my family. He had moved to New York from Poland at age seven. His parents placed him in a Jewish orphanage in Yonkers, where he remained through high school. He always gravitated toward Orthodoxy, eventually choosing to worship with a Persian Sephardic congregation in the Bay Area rather than an English-speaking Ashkenazic (Eastern European) congregation that he considered too liberal. In his very last years he transferred his allegiance to the ultra-Orthodox Lubavitcher Chabad community, which he embraced until he died.
During Elul, Grandpa took me to synagogue to observe a minor holiday which anticipated the Days of Awe (ten days of serious spiritual reflection which encompassed Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur). That holiday, Selichot (or Slichos in Yiddish), was a somber holiday which was geared toward helping the congregants to a position of repentance. It started at night, and I recall that staying up really late was part of it—though I never really made it very far. Each year a different local rabbi was asked to lead the service.
As a religious Jew, I looked up to my grandfather. He and I used to stay in shul on Yom Kippur after the morning musaf service, when the majority of the families headed for home. We remained for the afternoon service, which included the reading of the haftarah Jonah, my favorite haftarah of the year. Then there was the Avodah service, which referred to Yom Kippur in the days when there were still Temple sacrifices. Then there was the martyrdom service, upholding the great martyrs of Jewish history. I usually stayed out during the Yizkor service, which commemorated loved ones who had died. Finally, the rest of our family would rejoin us for the late afternoon neilah service, in which we prayed that God would keep open the gates of salvation for us to enter. After neilah, most of us would stagger over to a table of light dairy food to break the fast.
Yom Kippur was a totally purgative holiday. I recall feeling that prayer, repentance and good deeds had indeed cleansed me from my sins. But it was like a trip to the spiritual dentist—when it was over, little by little I felt my soul develop "plaque" again. Before long I sensed that I was dirty and required cleansing once again. There was no once-and-forever break or covering for sin available for us as Jews.
When I met Jesus as Messiah during my junior year of college, I came to know for the first time that God had made the perfect sacrifice for sins on my behalf and on behalf of all His people. Since then, my entire view of Yom Kippur has changed. I now see it as a Day of Commemoration and joyful confession. I know I have been forgiven once and for all, but I appreciate the time to reflect and repent as a way to maintain a clear fellowship with the God who has saved me to the uttermost.
Elul still remains for me a month of preparation. But now it is a time to prepare for God's unmitigated blessing, with alertness and confession of sin, in order to maximize the experience of that blessing. Just as Lent is helpful to some Christians in reflecting on the death and Resurrection of Yeshua, Elul is a time for us Jewish believers to simplify our lives and listen to God more carefully so that we can enter the Days of Awe with greater momentum.
- The Jewish Catalog, Vol. 1, compiled and edited by Richard Siegel, Michael Strassfeld, and Sharon Strassfeld (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1973), p. 120.


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With its Mediterranean style climate, diverse communities and high standard of living, Perth is one of the world's most liveable cities. Western Australia has a dynamic business environment with a strong history of international trade and investment, many resource and agricultural assets and is home to a third of all ASX (Australian Securities Exchange) listed companies. There is no better time for migrants to make the move and take advantage of the range of business opportunities available in Western Australia.
Located in the same time zone as around sixty per cent of the world's population, Perth is a globally connected city in which to live and operate a business. It is particularly well-positioned as a gateway to the Asia-Pacific region, with daily flights to many locations including Indonesia, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and China.
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John McGuinness is a pretty cool dude. You would know that if you spent some time with him. In case you haven't though, here is you best chance, as British actor Andrew Shim is working on a project called "Inside the Passion" – the first episode of which covers McPint, in all his Average Joe glory.
The format is one part "day in the life" and another part "candid interview"…and there might be a couple fart and dick jokes in there as well. All in all, it shows McGuinness to be the down-to-earth fella most fans know him to be, and most racers aren't.
At over 20 minutes long, there are also some fun cameos from riders like Lee Johnston and Conor Cummins.


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This morning while surfing at South Fistral, I encountered a bang on my head when a gust of wind lifted my 9'6'' longboard in the air right above me just after I got off of it after a ride in and it nearly knocked me out.
Since it happened this morning I have been thinking about purchasing a surf helmet but I know little about them. For a start do they fill up with water if you go under? and looking at surf shops online, no one seems to have them. I have seen one or two on Amazon but the reviews are all from kitesurfers and kayakers and not surfers.
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1. How many songs are used to compose the Homeric Hymns?
2. Which one of the following epics was composed by Homer?
3. In a tribute, which Greek historian attributes the "Hymn to Apollo" to Homer?
4. What meter are the hymns composed in?
5. Who is the other major composer of early Greek poetry that is mentioned in the Introduction?
6. What is the length of the shortest hymn?
7. What is the length of the longest hymn?
8. According to the evidence presented in the Introduction, what are some of the hymns most likely a prelude for?
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A swing suitable from birth to 9kgs in weight or until baby can sit up unaided. The structure has been designed to allow them to play and relax in a raised position, both indoors and out. The four-speed motorised rocking motion swing has a remote control handset so parents can control the rocking motion from a distance and also start the tunes and nature sounds; it even has a heartbeat sound option which reminds babies of their prenatal time. The special ergonomic shaped booster cushion with an integrated wedge ensures newborns are lying in the correct position; it also has a double layer of padding to provide a snug fit for the head. The cushion can be adjusted to two different heights to adapt to a baby's growth, and the booster can be removed completely when more room is needed. Features: Remote control, Hanging toys to stimulate baby, Ultra snug booster cushion: it forms a nest for newborns keeping them in the correct position, Practical easy to remove tray, Vibration unit which gently soothes baby, 4 speed motorised rocking motion, Ideal for outdoor use, thanks to the raised seat and to the adjustable sun canopy, 2-position reclining backrest, ideal both for play and relax moments, Ultra-compact structure when closed making it easy to carry when out and about


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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) plans to fully implement a high-speed poultry production model that allows industry and private companies to take over inspection at poultry production plants. The model includes cutting 1,000 USDA poultry inspection employees and replacing them with plant inspectors who have to examine 165–200 birds per minute (bpm), from the original 140 bpm. That's the inspection of more than three chickens per second.
The proposal, formally known as the HACCP Based Inspection Models Project, or BIMP, will improve food safety and save taxpayer dollars, according to the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). But under the proposed rule, the USDA would shift federal inspectors away from quality inspection tasks, allowing slaughter lines to speed up production.
The FSIS is responsible for ensuring public health and food safety by examining all poultry for feces, blemishes, or visible defects before they are further processed.
About 1.2 million cases of food poisoning are caused by salmonella each year from contaminated chicken, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The program could pose a serious health risk by allowing a greater chance for contaminated meat to reach consumers. In affidavits given to the Government Accountability Project, current inspectors say the proposal speeds up assembly lines so much so that it hampers any effort to fully examine birds for defects.
"It's tough enough when you are trying to examine 140 birds per minute with professional inspectors," said Stan Painter, a federal inspector in Crossville, Alabama. "This proposal makes it impossible."
"Cutting the budget does not justify putting the health and safety of consumers and workers in the balance," said Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food and Water Watch.
This week, food inspection workers (members of the American Federation of Government Employees) rallied outside the USDA to oppose the proposal. At the protest rally, inspectors held signs that read: "Chicken Inspection Isn't a Speed Sport," "Don't Play Chicken with Safety," and "Speed Kills."
We count on USDA inspectors to help us keep our families safe and healthy.
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|15 Jan 2013
Windows 7 installation issue
Hey, i have a problem with my computer..
What i know is that it dont want to create a System reserved Partition... when i press "New" in the installation setup window.
And im booting for a Usb, i´ve installed before with an usb and it worked perfect.. but not my main computer
___When i try to install windows7 on it i get the following message.
"Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer´s hardware may not support booting to this disk.
Ensure that the disk´s controller is enabled in the compuer´s BIOS menu
Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition.
see the setup log files for more info
I tryed to change the hard drive on the computer but that dont work i still get the same message.
I dont know what to do, and i have been up for more that 25hours straight trying to find a solution, i would be glad if anyone have a solution.
Best regards Matt ^^
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|15 Jan 2013
Unplug all other HD's and peripherals,
Boot into BIOS setup, reset to defaults, save changes. Next if an EFI BIOS, enable Legacy BIOS, set DVD drive first to boot, HD second. Then set SATA controller to AHCI. Save changes and Exit.
Then boot into installer DVD or flash stick burned or written using tool and latest ISO for your licensed OS version here. Your flash stick may be bad so if it fails download another iSO and write with tool to stick.
At first installer screen Press Shift + F10 to open a Command Box, type:
SELECT DISK 0 (after confirming Windows 7 target HD #)
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SIZE=102400 (for 100gb partition, adjust as desired)
Next click Install Now, then Custom install to Clean Install Windows 7 to the partition you created. If it fails then report back at which step and the verbatim error message.
In addition read over these steps to understand the tools and methods which work best to get and maintain a perfect Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7. The steps are the same for retail.
After install you can adjust partition size or Create new partitions for data, etc. in Disk Mgmt. We are creating the partition here to mark it Active which overcomes certain install failures.
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|15 Jan 2013
i sould also mention im not good at computers so i understood only 0.5% of the text
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|15 Jan 2013
can i do diskpart even if there is no OS?
i dont understand this:
"Boot into BIOS setup, reset to defaults, save changes. Next if an EFI BIOS, enable Legacy BIOS, set DVD drive first to boot, HD second. Then set SATA controller to AHCI. Save changes and Exit.
Then boot into installer DVD or flash stick burned or written using tool and latest ISO for your licensed OS version here. Your flash stick may be bad so if it fails download another iSO and write with tool to stick."
ohh and about the os, i got it from microsoft and i booted it with Win7 usbTool :)
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|15 Jan 2013
Start at the top and ask us any questions you have to get the steps done. You can also ask Google.
Do you know if you have an EFI BIOS? If not then you can skip the first part in BIOS setup for now to see if running the commands is enough.
If you completed the ISO download and the MS tool wrote it to stick successfully then it should work.
I'd also set the HD first to boot in BIOS setup (when you're checking for EFI listings) and trigger the USB stick using the one-time BIOS Boot Menu key at boot.
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|16 Jan 2013
okej, well i done that!.
Now it says:
Disk 0 Partition1 | 100GB/100GB| type System
Disk 0 Partition 2 | 132.9GB/132.8GB | Type Primiar
im translating from swedish so the text might be diff..
The installation program could´nt create a systempartition or find a "active" systempartition, For more information check the install log...
And i also get...
it cant install windows on this disk. its not sure that the computer´s hardware can support starting from this disk.
Controll that the disk´s ........ is active in BIOS Meny..
Thats what i get :-(
Keep in mind that this computer is old, about 6-8years old, it worked good, but it crashed when i installed a program....
then i could´t install any Windows on it, so i took out the harddrive, and 2days ago i putted it back in to see if it is still working...
I might have done something with the cabels???
i mean i dont even remember if it was on "Master Or Slave". or of this white little thing is suppost to sit on the hhd. This -->>> ImageShack® - Online Photo and Video Hosting
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|16 Jan 2013
Is the Hard Drive the only device on the IDE ribbon cable?
If so make sure the jumpers are set to Master. Do this by googling the make of the HD (e.g. Western Digital) + jumper settings to look at a chart on how to place the jumper on the pins, using tweezers.
Then plug the IDE ribbon cable in firmly to HD and mobo, power cable firmly into HD.
It seems like the listings you quoted show that it successfully completed a 100gb Primary partition for install. Did you mark it Active?
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Enter BIOS setup by tapping the key given on first screen (normally F2), look on each tab for Reset to Defaults or Reset to Optimal Defaults, select it, Save and Exit.
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This is a wish-list compilation that I'm hoping the Monopoly City Streets developers strongly take into consideration as the game develops.
I think the fans really do know best.
- Secure sign on
- Email registration / Verification
- No identical user names
- Ability to update password
Earning Money
- More granular rent accumulation – hourly or every 6 hours
- Intersecting streets should have an added rent multiplier
Game play
- Make alliances an official part of the game – lock them from turning on each other while in the alliance.
- Private messages between players
- More reasonable chance cards.
- Penalties should be percentage based on either cash on hand or property value
- Ability to hold multiple chance cards
- A jail card
User Interface
- Easier way of finding other players
- External feed of what's happening in the game
- If you've got enough cash be able to auto-populate a street with certain buildings, or auto-sell.
Leader boards / Winning
- Multiple network lists, ie. friends, enemies, alliances
- Larger sortable leaderboard
- Have a way of showing conglomerates / clans
Official Communications
- I'm actually okay with non-drastic rule changes, like a new chance card has been introduced, if it's been properly announced
- delete cheaters immediately
I'm sure there are lots more! Leave a comment if there are features, rules, gameplay, options, etc. you'd like to see in the future release of the game and if it's not totally off the wall I'll continue to add it to this list.
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- 1 September 23, 2009 at 10:20 am
That auto-populate feature would be unbelievably convenient.
One thing that bugs me is if you get a bonus card and you click "Construct Bonus Building" it takes you back to the "centre" of the street. I have a $20m street that is huge and every time I get one it takes me back to the centre and I have to spend 3 weeks scrolling back to where I was.
The option to zoom out and still be able to see traffic cones or even larger houses dotted along the street so that on long streets you don't have to miss your daughter graduating in 16 years because you're still trying to find where you stopped building.
As for intersecting streets I agree, but for some reason some streets are split up for no good reason. I have one half of a pretty long street and someone else has the other half. Obviously they can't change ones that are already bought or built upon but they could change ones that aren't.
I agree with the rent accumulation. Either put the amounts back up to what they were after the reset or give us the same amounts but more regular payouts.
Holding multiple chance cards would be nice, but I think they'd have to limit it to either 3 at a time or something similar, or reduce the number you get within a day.
- 2 September 23, 2009 at 10:29 am
Here's a few features that I would like to see:
* Additional zoom levels
* Street lists viewable at most close zoom levels, with filters (ie available to buy, not available, to buy, view only streets within a certain price range etc)
* Ability to form alliances and to place/demolish 'special' buildings on each others streets
* Monetary incentive for owning surrounding streets/whole suburbs (possibly via increased rent)
* Bookmarks/pins so you can save areas of interest (ie streets you want to buy but don't have the funds for)
Given the less than ideal handling of the game by the makers thusfar, I doubt they will bother with developing it any further than it already is. After all, it IS just a medium in which to advertise the board game.
- 3 September 23, 2009 at 11:00 am
actually I'm against the more frequent rent payout – if it was every hour then I'd spend the rest of my life glued to the screen. I actually think the way it is right now is alright – kind of sticks to the 'going past go' thing on the real monopoly.
the additional zoom levels is great and definitely monetary incentive for owning neighborhoods!
Loving the rest of the ideas you've put up, thanks
- 4 September 25, 2009 at 8:17 am
I would like to see rents bassed on development density of the area.
They already have some density calculation going on…just look at the map when you zoom out a layer….the build indicators change bassed on development density. Sure at the moment the scale is way off….most areas should still be showing small houses or the next one up…. but the point is its already halfway there. This would shift focus from the long widely spaced roads in the country side to the cities….hmm City Streets….that would seem to gel with the games name.
Probably the reason this wasnt completed (im sure that was the intention bassed on the original FAQ) was an inability to calulate which zone the street was in….that should be easy enough if the multiplier was shifted from the whole street to the building….so buildings at one end of a road in the center of town would earn higher rents and those at the other end out in the sticks would earn lower.
An extension to this would be to base what buildings are allowed to be built in an area on the current density…..so that we actually have to start off building small buildings and working up to larger ones as the areas density increases.
This would also mean that a big magnate couldnt move into a small town and start plonking down replica's of the empire state buildings …. this extension would mean that areas of play are a little more isolated from the progress in other areas.
Another grief of mine are the local leader boards…these appear to be really really local. It would actually be more interesting if instead of bassed on people who purchased their first street in your local area it was bassed on all people who own property in your local area. perhapes with the ability to switch between looking at their (associated assets, ie local assets on local board, national assets on national board, and their total global asssets).
If you are top of a board you could be given a monopoly token and we could have a seperate leader board showing those players that currently have the most local monopolies, national monopolies or even the player with the current global monopoly
Just My 2 cents
- 5 September 26, 2009 at 7:53 am
i'm against
more regular rent payouts (it would mean that those with jobs or social lives are at a serious disadvantage)
an official alliance system (rich players would be spammed for requests and wouldn't benefit from such a system…)
ability to hold chance cards (stockpiling demolition cards would totally chance the gameplay for the worse…you could easily suddenly find your £30m street with 10 buildings destroyed and replaced with10 hazards in about 5mins)
i'm for
a couple of extra leader boards because curently everyone i "spy" on is in the same leaderboard as my friends.
auto-build/sell button: it is incredibly annoying to sit there for hours building 300 green houses on a street especially when (as TJ says) collecting a chance card then returns you to the middle of the street.
an email notification if someone offers on your streets, an offer is accepted, you're sabotaged etc.
A better scroll button, something that i can use my arrow keys or click an arrow instead of having to click and drag to scroll across the screen
Other points
penalty cards ARE (so far as i am aware) already a percentage (either of building value or cash value depending on the chance card…) hence rich players get much larger penalties than poor players
messenger system will never happen (nice as it would be): they want to keep the game family friendly and it would lead to all sorts of censoring (swear words bullying etc) and spam (accept my offer, accept my offer, accepet my offer…)
why do we need an easier way of finding other players? who is it you want to find that you can't already?
if you could view streets at all zoom levels you'd end up with a very large list of streets (being able to filter out smaller streets would be nice though…would stop me clicking on a for sale price and finding a 100k street instead of the 30m one i was looking for :p)
- 6 September 26, 2009 at 8:21 am
also correcting the rent payouts so that they are actually paid at 12am GMT (as stated) instead of 1am GMT. of course with plenty of warning to users :p
- 7 September 28, 2009 at 11:16 am
In relation to the sorting of streets or filtering the lower cost streets out, you can use this Greasemonkey script for Firefox that allows you to sort streets by ones that are available and then by their cost or alphabetically. They also have a handy building tool that shows how many of a certain type of building you can build before you run out of money.
They're apparently working on better sorting/filtering as well as an auto-populate feature.
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In the saga of this season's ShareLunker, it's the tale of three lakes — and O.H. Ivie and Falcon are on the short end of the stick.
When the Toyota ShareLunker Program enters the peak of the season during the largemouth bass spawn in March and April, Ivie and Falcon usually produce more than their share of fish weighing 13 pounds and more, which qualify for entry.
During the 2010-11 season, O.H. Ivie, on the Colorado and Concho rivers about 55 miles east of San Angelo, had seven entries, and Falcon, on the Rio Grande about 40 miles east of Laredo, six.
Falcon only has one and Ivie none so far this season, which began Oct. 1 and ends April 30.
Meanwhile, Lake Austin has three entries, same as last season, and now is the leading lake.
Credit the drought, and maybe the economy, too.
Fishing license sales are down about 30 percent, and some theorize that anglers' favorite fishing holes were so low last year that they are sitting it out. Poor economic times and high gasoline prices may play a role, too.
While the levels at some North and East Texas lakes have rebounded with generous rains, Ivie and Falcon are still down. Ivie's three boat ramps should be in water through the summer. But the one at Falcon State Park is not, leaving only the Zapata County ramp off U.S. 83.
Lower water levels also mean a changing shoreline, and areas that were favored spots are high and dry — leaving anglers to learn the lake all over again.
The drought benefited Lake Austin in one way. To kill hydrilla, the lake level is reduced every two years. It wasn't last year, meaning access remained good and there were more hooks in the water than at other lakes.
Still, the number of ShareLunker entries so far is only seven while there were a total of 19 last season.
Texas Parks & Wildlife Department officials do not know what exactly to make of it all.
"But one thing we do know is that if you're not fishing, you can't catch fish," said Larry Hodge, information specialist with TPWD's Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens, headquarters for the ShareLunker program.
While this is no stellar season, the ShareLunker program overall is a success in promoting conservation and producing trophy bass throughout the state through selective breeding.
TPWD began stocking Florida largemouth bass, which grow to be the biggest in Texas waters, in the early 1970s. In 1980, a 14.1-pound bass broke the 43-year-old state record of 13.5 pounds. The current record 18.18-pound bass was caught in 1992.
The ShareLunker program began 26 years ago when only a handful of lakes produced bass weighing 13 pounds or more. Since then, 530 ShareLunkers have been donated from 55 public reservoirs and more than a dozen private lakes.
More than half of the entries are Florida bass. About five years ago, TPWD gained the equipment to test DNA, and only 100 percent pure Florida bass are kept for the breeding program, which pairs the big female entries with Florida male stock to produce fingerlings with the best genetic potential.
Those fingerlings are stocked in the lake where the ShareLunker entry was caught, along with other waters across Texas.
It takes eight to 10 years for a bass to reach 13 pounds.
"With DNA testing, in the next few years when one is turned we're expecting to be able to say with certainty that we grew that fish in the ShareLunker program and put it in that lake," Hodge said.
Accomplishments range from improved knowledge of proper handling of big fish and the value of catch-and-release to sparking an interest in bass fishing and nationwide attention to the unique program.
"For the amount of money you spend, I don't know of anything else you can do to have more fun and do your blood pressure more good than fishing," Hodge said. "I think those people who didn't buy licenses will be back once the lakes come back up."
And those lunkers will be waiting for them.
John Goodspeed is a freelance writer. Email him at email@example.com.
ShareLunker facts
The Toyota ShareLunker Program promotes conservation and enhancement of trophy bass fishing by rewarding anglers who donate a 13-pound or heavier largemouth bass to the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department breeding program.
Dates: Entries accepted Oct. 1-April 30.
Prizes: Every angler entering a lunker receives a fiberglass replica of their trophy, ShareLunker clothing and recognition at a banquet at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens.
Heaviest fish: Angler with largest entry gets a lifetime Texas fishing license.
How to enter: Verify weight on a certified scale listed on website and call ShareLunker pager at 888-784-0600 or 903-681-0550 for pick up.
Website: tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/visitorcenters/tffc/sharelunker
Care: Avoid excessive handling; don't hold by lower jaw; put in aerated live well and weigh as soon as possible; while awaiting pickup, keep in aerated live well, a minnow tank or ShareLunker holding station (see website); try to prevent fluctuations in water temperature.
Age: A bass takes 8-10 years to reach 13 pounds.
Breeding: Entries' DNA are tested, and only the pure Florida strain — which grow the biggest — are kept for breeding.
Offspring: Largemouth bass produce between 5,000-15,000 eggs.
Stocking: 96 percent of the 575,000 ShareLunker fingerlings produced from 2005-2011 went to public waters, including the lake that produced the lunker; the rest went to private reservoirs for research.


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The Fashion Police are feeling blue. Not literally, you understand, we're just really enjoying the colour right now, especially now that the clocks have changed at Fashion Police HQ and we're now languishing in the darkness much of the time. This bright blue shoulder bag by Marc Jacobs has definitely helped cheer us up, though, and even although we wouldn't dream of paying £515 for a bag that wouldn't work with every single colour in our wardrobe, if we did have the money burning a hole in our pockets, it would be a pretty nice little pick-me-up, no?
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