text:
Web development
Orçamento $250-750 USD
I need my website re-configured.
79 freelancers estão ofertando em média $496 para esse trabalho
hello sir, i can do your project.... please accept my bid so that i can start it... i m expert in this type of project... u can also see my portfolio... please sir accept my bid.. please hope u will do i m waiting f Mais
Hello, We have read your project details and we are very much interested to work with you. If you want then we can have a 1-1 discussion on FL chat. kindly let us know. Relevant Skills and Experience We have the best Mais
Hello Deesara, Good Evening!! - As you mentioned you want to re-configured your existing a website. - We are most suits you as we have a core experience with web application development. **Let's come forw Mais
Hello Friend, I am an expert e-commerce developer, I will re-configure your online store. You can check reviews:- https://www.freelancer.com/u/ntiersolutions.html Relevant Skills and Experience Opencart, Wordpress, W Mais
Greetings, Thanks for the opportunity. AIS Technolabs (Expert Website Developers) is a dedicate team with over 5 years' experience and a strong workforce of 240+ Professionals. Understanding: I have gone throu Mais
Hello, my name is Michael. I represent Ukrainian based IT-company Webbook Inc that provides services in the IT-sphere for international business. We were carefully reviewing the requirements of the job description, so Mais
Hello, I do have a website where i have listed all of my work / projects [login to view URL] Let me know if you would like to discuss it further. Thank You, Muhammad Relevant Skills and Experi Mais
Experts here, We can do this re-configuration work with your [login to view URL] forward to discuss further with you. Relevant Skills and Experience more than 10 years experience in web and mobile app design and developm Mais
Hi - I've read your project brief and can see that you need your website redesign and reconfigured. I have 8 years experience in designing and developing websites. Relevant Skills and Experience I am highly qualified Mais
Hi Thanks for posting this requirement. We are, India based website design & development company since 5 years effectively deliver and concentrate in high quality design & development. Relevant Skills and Experience Mais
I have read your requirements and think that I would be a great fit for this project, Ready to start Relevant Skills and Experience Yes, I am working from 10+ years Proposed Milestones $555 USD - milestones
Hi, Thanks to view my ideal line, i do not want to say more about my work, you can check my profile and decide work of experience. I want to work for professionals and for those who really want to do something specia Mais


text:
By Spike Eskin
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – DeSean Jackson was out to promote his new song featuring Snoop Lion, and he wound up making a bold declaration about this year's Eagles.
As you, me, Michael Vick and Vince Young may remember, such things haven't worked out too well the last few years.
"The Philadelphia Eagles, [we're] still a top 5 team in the NFL if you ask me," Jackson said on ESPN's First Take on Wednesday. "Regardless of what everybody else say, we gonna go out there and get it done this year."
The top five prediction is pretty clear, if somewhat unlikely, it's the 'still' part that comes across as confusing. The Eagles finished 4-12 last season, and 8-8 the season prior to that. They haven't been a top five team in the NFL for quite a while.
When questioned on his prediction, Jackson stuck to his guns.
"Top five. I said it. I said top five. I can keep us at 28th, but I'm saying it with chest sticking out and everything. Top five in the NFL."
As you'd figure, Jackson was asked about the never-ending discussion of who the first string quarterback should be for the Eagles. Chip Kelly has repeatedly, and understandably claimed that it's still an open competition. Jackson's friend Snoop predicted last month that the starter would be Vick, and it appears that Jackson is on the same page.
"I don't want to be put on the spot, I know ya'll gonna do me like that, but you know Michael Vick, he's got a lot of confidence in himself. Honestly, he's been here—going on 12 years in the NFL. I think he'll get the job," Jackson said.
"Nick Foles is a great, great talent coming in from Arizona, actually a Pac-12 guy. He has the height, he has the skills too. Going into the camp I think Michael Vick will probably be the starter, but we still don't know. I think Chip Kelly is going to keep everybody honest and keep everybody open to it."
DeSean Jackson, ladies and gentlemen.
Top Content On CBSPhilly
- PHOTOS: Summer's Hottest Concerts
- VIDEO: Latest News & Weather
- AUDIO: Podcasts & Shows
- NEWS: Top Headlines
- PHOTOS: View The Best Galleries

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Watchdog: Tax dodgers must be named
Tax dodgers should be "named and shamed" to discourage the rich and famous from exploiting legal loopholes to avoid paying billions to the Treasury, a spending watchdog has recommended.
Aggressive avoidance scheme promoters are "running rings" around HM Revenue and Customs, said the Public Accounts Committee.%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%
It warned that the taxman is losing the "game of cat and mouse" to clients and promoters as they deliberately take advantage of the time it takes HMRC to shut down a particular avoidance method to make their money.
HMRC must start publicly listing promoters and those who use their schemes, the committee said.
Last year comedian Jimmy Carr admitted to making a "terrible error of judgment" after it emerged he used a complex scheme to reduce his tax bill. The K2 tax-avoidance scheme Carr is said to have used enabled members to pay income tax rates as low as 1%.
PAC chairwoman Margaret Hodge said: "Promoters of 'boutique' tax avoidance schemes, like the one brought to our attention by the case of Jimmy Carr, are running rings around HMRC.
"They create schemes which exploit loopholes in legislation or abuse available tax reliefs such as those intended to encourage investment in British films, and then sign up as many clients as possible, knowing that it will take time for HMRC to change the law and shut the scheme down.
"Their clients can then take advantage of this window of opportunity to make a lot of money at the expense of the UK taxpayer, while the promoter simply moves on to a new scheme and repeats the process. It is a game of cat and mouse and HMRC is losing.
"It has allowed a system to evolve where the dice are loaded in favour of the promoters of tax avoidance schemes. The complexity of tax law creates opportunities for avoidance, there are no penalties to stop people promoting these schemes, and HMRC is ineffective in challenging promoters who are deliberately obstructive or deliberately sell schemes they know do not work.
"Promoters pocket their fees whether their schemes work or not."
HMRC's biggest tax cheats of 2012
Watchdog: Tax dodgers must be named
Up Next
See Gallery
Discover More Like This


text:
The St. Andrew's Medical Mission, founded in 1913, is a testimony of faith and vision, as well as a living miracle of God's love and compassion for mankind. Inspired and guided by God, many different hands have steered the course of the Medical Mission.
Today, St. Andrew's Mission Hospital is a non-profit voluntary welfare organisation. Its services have expanded and evolved so as to minister not just to the physical well-being but also to the emotional, social and special needs of the community.
Copyright © 2015 St. Andrew's Mission Hospital. All rights reserved.
Affiliated to:


text:
Kind of, but we have better style.
|This Article is an A! This article has all the sections and images in place, making it complete.
Crown Princess Roxy
|Age (at first appearance)
|June 9
|Professional Status
|Winx, Specialists, Earth, Tir Nan Og
|Powers and Abilities
| Animal Empathy
Animal-related spells
Wildlife Control
Animal mind-control
Give human speech to animals
Heal injured animals
Create sentient animals from inanimate objects
Emit beams of magical energy
|Personal Status
|Gardenia, Earth
| Klaus (father)
Morgana (mother)
Manuel (love interest) (comic only)
|The Last Fairy on Earth
|Voice Actors
| Debora Magnaghi (Season 4-5,Season 7)
Tiziana Martello (Season 6)
|Sara Camacho (Season 4)
|Liliana Mumy
|Suzy Myers (Season 7)
- Main article: List of Roxy's outfits
Roxy has waist-length, dark pink hair with blonde tips and dark violet eyes. She has a sea green, long-sleeve top with a hot pink shirt over it, which has a blue paw print in front. She wears short, denim capris with a chain hanging off at her waist and hot pink and white, laced-up boots.
Roxy's fairy outfit consists of a light sea green, one-armed top that has two pale lavender straps holding it over her right shoulder. She also has light sea green shorts with a greenish-yellow belt over them. The belt has three purple circles on it, with several pink ruffles hanging off of it. On her right arm is a light sea green, fingerless glove that reaches between her shoulder and elbow. Her shoes are lime green, platform boots with white heels and pink socks. Her hair does not change. Her wings are edged with green and dark purple on the inside. At the edges of the wings are swirled, light pink designs.
Roxy is very upbeat, cheerful, and willful, caring a great deal for animals, loving them, and keeping them as pets to the point of making her own secret shelter for them in the back of her father's bar. She's very brave, having confronted the Black Circle a couple of times and burglars even when she could not transform, and is always willing to help those in need. However, she can also get confrontational whenever she's angry or feels threatened, sticking up for herself when others put her down. She can also be very stubborn, demonstrated in her reluctance to believe that fairies exist, even when the evidence was literally staring her in the face. But on the same note, she is prone to tears when very confused or scared. Often she is overpowered by tears when forced to make an important decision under pressure as in "A Fairy Found". Roxy lives in Gardenia, just like Bloom, and this makes the two quite close because of their shared backgrounds and experiences. The Winx first met her at the Frutti Music Bar where she and her father worked, and got to befriend her later in the series. She owns a pet dog, Artu, whom she loves very much and is willing to sacrifice herself for.
Roxy appears for the first time in "Love & Pet" in the witrine of the Love & Pet. Because the shop wasn't opened yet, Stella gets rid off her in a rude way. Because she unconsciously used her power to talk with fairy pet, this accident was mistaken as an assault by Wizards of the Black Circle.Roxy is initially wary of the Winx, thinking that they are just a bunch of snobbish vain girls. She worked as a bartender and waitress at her father's bar, the Frutti Music Bar. Later, she changes her opinion when the Winx follow her to her personal room at the Frutti Music Bar because the Winx realized that she was downloading more than one pet (she downloaded several, all under different names). This makes her even more suspicious of the girls, thinking they're crazy, and decided that she and Artu need to lose them.
Later on, after escaping to Gardenia's factory area, she is attacked by the Wizards of the Black Circle, leading her to believe in magic and the Winx earn their Believix. Slowly and after learning that she is the Fairy of Animals, Roxy starts to use some limited power on Artu, such as making him talk along with the Fairy Pets. After a while she decides to show her powers to her Dad, but during her attempt, Roxy discovers that it is Duman in disguise. After being kidnapped, Roxy manages to escape and save her dad, but Gantlos tries to stop her.After Gantlos harms Artu, Roxy becomes very enraged and transforms into a fairy, just like how Bloom first transformed herself in Season 1 when she was facing the Trix. After struggling to use her new magic to protect herself, the other Winx girls sensed her magic trail and arrive to save her. Once Roxy reunites with Artu and Klaus in Gardenia train station, she complains to Bloom that she does not want to be a fairy, as it is too dangerous, but when Ogron attacks Bloom and Roxy's father, with help from the mysterious woman in her dreams, Roxy fights back. As she gains more confidence with each passing day, she wants nothing more than to free the Earth fairies from imprisonment. She plays a vital part when the Winx need to free them.
Once Roxy helps free her fellow Earth Fairies, she feels sad due to the fact that they all want revenge. After Bloom defeats Nebula in a fight several days later, Roxy manages to convince Morgana to drop her quest for revenge. After the Black Circle betray their promise to surrender, Roxy and the rest of the girls, especially Aisha, are deeply saddened by Nabu's sacrifice in order to stop the Black Circle's plot.
The following morning, Roxy has a vision of Morgana being trapped somewhere in the castle. After fighting off Nebula and the Warrior Fairies (including Aisha), Roxy frees Morgana from the magic mirror as she, being Morgana's daughter, is next in line to be queen. Once Morgana is free, Roxy is overjoyed at finally finding her mother, and Bloom again comments that she is so much like her.
After following the Earth Fairies to the Omega Realm, Roxy aids Morgana and the Winx in convincing them not to seek revenge and aids in the defeat of the Wizards once and for all.
After leaving Omega, Roxy witnesses Morgana's abdication and the crowning of Nebula as the new queen (Roxy being too young to be queen herself), and Aisha rejoining the Winx, and returns to Gardenia with the Winx and Morgana. The following night, Roxy accepts Faragonda's offer to study at Alfea.
In the first episode of season 5, "The Spill", after one of the Winx's concerts, Roxy revealed that she was will be working her last shift at the Frutti Music Bar. Roxy reveals to Bloom that she got accepted into Alfea, and would be leaving soon. As Bloom showed excitement for the fairy, Roxy told Bloom that she had been like a big sister to her, reminding Bloom of Daphne. When there was an explosion on an oil rig near Gardenia, she wanted to help the Winx deal with it but instead was told to take care of the people on the beach by Bloom.
In the following episode, "The Rise of Tritannus", Roxy is seen working her last shift while the Winx are performing their last concert. She also helps the girls and fellow concert goers clean up the beaches.When she arrived at Alfea in third episode, "Return to Alfea", Faragonda graciously welcomes and introduces her to all Alfea students, pointing out to everyone that she was the reason why magic has finally returned to Earth. When the Winx arrived, she was thrilled to be at Alfea and happy to see them. Since then, Roxy had a more minor role for the reason of the season. Roxy continues to have regular cameos while at Alfea.
Later that year, in ninth episode "The Gem of Empathy", she appears as a spectator for one of Stella's fashion shows. However, when the showcase went awry, Roxy and a couple of other students left along with some of the other girls.
In the eleventh episode of the fifth season, "Trix Tricks", Roxy was seen watching the annual Red Fountain wind-rider competition and cheered for the guys.
At the beginning of episode twenty-two, "Listen to Your Heart", Roxy is seen from the side lines, cheering for a volley ball game between the Winx (except Bloom) and Krystal's team.
She appears again, along with Artu, during Stella's fashion show in the twenty-third episode, "The Shark's Eye.
In the twenty-fifth episode, "Battle for the Infinite Ocean", Roxy is shown eating breakfast at Alfea with the Winx and other fairies.
In the finale of season 5, "The End of Tritannus", Roxy is seen at the very end during the Winx's celebration concert. She is with many other attendees while cheering for the girls.
In the beginning of "The Flying School", Roxy is seen inside Faragonda's office, being called to heal a crow which the Winx found. After sometime, Roxy came to Faragonda's office again with it, which has been given the temporary ability to speak. The crow then reveals the she is Griffin, and explains what happened to Cloud Tower.
In "The Lost Library", Roxy asks the Winx for help to return Griffin to her real form, Flora attempts to break the spell but fails.
In "The Secret Greenhouse" with the help of Palladium, she uses her magic to return Griffin, Carol, Evie and Lori to their original forms.
In "Broken Dreams" she is seen in the Alfea Gym, practicing with the Winx, except for Bloom.In "Mythix", Roxy joins with the Winx girls and meets up with her mother, Morgana, along with the other girls' moms for Mother's Day. The girls and their respective mothers have a pizza party and celebrate with dancing.
She has her last appearances, being in "The Music Cafe", Winx helping with the magic of music Musa did in the musical caffe, and the "Anthem" appears as bassist with fairies and make magic to defeat witches. More coming soon...
Coming Soon...
Magical AbilitiesEdit
Roxy is the fairy of Animals and from planet Earth, the last fairy from Earth until she freed the Earth Fairies during her first visit to Tir Nan Og. She has the power over Animals. She can feel what they feel, possessing a form of empathy towards them, and can calm them down if they're scared, hurt, or angry. She has the power to speak to them through telepathy and can even summon them in that sense. She can also grant them the ability to speak like humans. She's also been shown to lend magical strength to them, as she did to Artu in episode seven in Season 4, allowing him to break free of the fairy hunter and enter their barrier to return to her side.Along with this, she seems to possess a form of "danger sense" as seen in Winx Club Forever! of Season 4 and can emit a flock of butterflies that stuns her opponents. Also, as of late, she has gotten the hang of a simple telekinesis spell and has also learned how to fire a beam of magical energy like the other girls can.
As the fairy of animals, she possesses the power to make animals act under her control, give them human speech, read their minds, give them strength, track them down, and also cast simple energy beams (usually colored apple green).
Later on, she also creates an animal golem from stone and gives it life to aid her.
At first, Roxy was skeptical of her powers and the Winx, and refused to become a fairy, but as the season progressed, she learned to accept her magical powers. She does not use her powers as much as the other Winx girls in battle, because she is inexperienced. Roxy can also control the White Circle, the key to the Earth fairies' realm of Tir Nan Og. The White Circle also makes her stronger.
Other things coming soon...
Transformation SequencesEdit
- Main article: Roxy/Gallery
- "Roxy" is the abbreviated form of the name "Roxanne", which is derived from the Greek name "Roxana", itself being the Greek spelling of the Old Persian name "Raukhnaka"/"Rauxnaka", "Roshania" or "Raukhshna", meaning "Little Star", "Bright as the Dawn" or "The Bright One", which was the name of the Bactrian noblewoman Roxana, who was the wife of Alexander the Great. The Modern Persian version of the name is "Roshanak, with modern meaning of "Luminous Beauty".
- Roxy can use her powers to communicate with animals, much like the famous character Dr. Dolittle.
- When she was a baby, she slightly resembled Bloom as a baby, except for changes in color. This is because the character bases are the same.
- Throughout Season 4, Roxy seems to be the only fairy who has not gained her Charmix or Enchantix, due to the fact why her hair remained the same when she gained her Believix.
- In the planning stage, Roxy's eyes are yellow and her top is baby blue and pink. Even though her top color was changed, the colors of her planning top & eyes are sometimes shown in the official series, like in episode 8.
- In Season 5, she no longer has blonde streaks in her waist-length dark pink hair. It is unknown if that is the production error or her new design.
- Yet later in Season 6, her hair re-gains the blonde streaks.
- Roxy has been confirmed to be a major part of the seventh season, even officially joining the Winx Club. Her help will be fundamental to protect all the Fairy Animals and the Winx in their journey.
- Roxy's Dutch voice actress, Meghna Kumar, also voices Stormy in movie 3.
- In Season 7, her transformation sequences was reanimated.
- Roxy's (DuArt) Season 7 voice actress, Suzy Myers, voices Stormy in the 4Kids dub.
- She is still the future Queen of the Earth Fairies, as Nebula was merely chosen to be her regent.


text:
Located in uptown Toronto The Right Wing Sports Pub is proudly serving the appetite of locals since 2011. Our chefs crafted a large range of customizable foods that have the ability to entice any palate. Our bid screens made our ambinc3e a great spot to enjoy quality American & Canadian food along with a big Game.
Order our juicy dishes from home via JUSTEAT and get your food delivered right at our place.
Choose from our large assortment of American & Canadian flavors on our menu such as Sandwiches & Wraps, Create Your Own, Salads, Build Your Own, Burgers, Wings, Chef's Specialties, Side Orders, and Beverages.
Dont be shy do contact us about everything and anything, we will be glad to hear from you.


text:
Welcome to Jason Soden Photography. We would love to hear from you! Please send me your email to be included in our photo of the month email, and monthly blog. I really appreciate you taking the time to look at my photos, and hope you enjoy looking!!
|211 SW Courtland
Topeka, KS 66606
United States
|Daytime phone
|Web site
|visit website
|Like Us on Facebook
|Follow on Instagram
Jason Soden Photography is based in Lawrence, Kansas. Our portraiture, and fine art collecting customer base includes all of northeast Kansas including Topeka, Holton, Lawrence, Kansas City, and beyond. We will ship any prints, including fine art prints anywhere in the U.S.
I (Jason) began my photography career by taking photography as a general elective class at Washburn University. I've been hooked ever since. After taking photography, I taught myself posing, lighting, web development, and the ever evolving digital aspect of photography.
I love travel, particularly on the Kansas plains, and Rocky Mountains. My pictures reflect my passion for travel.


text:
I don't believe agent's are trying to purposely lie to potential home sellers. There are just some agents out there who seem so worried that they are going to disappoint or upset a homeowner, that they end up glossing over some of the harder truths.
Whenever I see this scenario play out I always think of Jack Nicholson's famous line from A Few Good Men: "You can't handle the truth!" I would argue that yes, you not only can handle the truth, but you deserve it and should demand it.
Most homeowners only see the prices that homes are listed for, not what they actually sell for. Your agent's responsibility is to:
When a real estate agent presents their pricing recommendation to you, the first questions you should ask them is "Why?" A competent agent will not be offended and should have valid and detailed reasons and data they can point out to you that will support their price.
Sign in|Recent Site Activity|Report Abuse|Print Page|Powered By Google Sites


text:
Fevered is the sequel to Tango Key and I wrote it originally as Alison Drake, in the early 90s. It begins more violently than most of my books, but as you'll see, it fits the character. An audio book from Crossroad Press will soon be available. For now, you can read it on Kindle and Nook and other e-readers, $3.99.
Here's an excerpt:
He was clawing his way through the pain, trying to surface, to lift above it, beyond it. But the pain burned through his legs, pulling him under again.
The screams awakened him.
They fluttered through the house like bats, rising and falling, slapping the cool air. He couldn't tell where they were coming from or who they belonged to—his wife? His sons? Himself? His hearing faded in and out, as though he were perched at the edge of a canyon, listening to an echo as it made its way toward him—and then away again.
Henry Michael tried to rise, but couldn't. His hands were bound, and his legs refused to work. He couldn't feel them from the knees down. Get up, old man, get up.
Up from where? Where was he? Why were his hands tied? Why was everything so fuzzy? His glasses, right, he wasn't wearing his glasses. No wonder he couldn't see worth a damn. He moved his back and felt the hard surface of the floor, its wood. . . . Why am I on the floor?
The screams were rising again, pounding the air around him, terrible screams, and once more he tried to lift up and failed. A sob wrenched from his throat as hot shoots of pain burned through his thighs, fanning out across his groin, his belly. Please, oh God, please, make the screams stop. No more screams. Please.
The pain blinked off, then on again, then off, and he squinted his eyes, attempting to focus on something, on anything, but it was useless. A gray fuzz sprouted like fur at the edge of his perception; the pain bit more deeply, and he fell back against the floor, his chest heaving from the exertion. Be calm, old man. Be calm. You're imagining those screams. They're inside your head.
Yes, all right. He would think backward from this moment to the moment when . . .
What? What was I doing before this?
No, Christ no, he'd been . . . reading. He'd been reading through a case and
(But why are my hands tied?)
his youngest son had been sprawled in the beanbag chair, watching TV, and his wife, Jenny, had been
(Why do my legs hurt so much? Why . . .)
in the kitchen, cleaning up after supper. His oldest son had been in the kitchen with his mother, doing his homework. An ordinary evening,
(. . . my legs, the stink of blood, oh God, what . . .)
until the doorbell had rung, until a woman had arrived and . . .
no God no lemme be wrong please please
Henry Michael started to whimper. His teeth chattered. Terror and revulsion broke loose inside him as the screams spurted into the air once more and then died abruptly, like an artery that had been sucked dry. The fuzz, the webs, were clearing from his mind, and he knew the woman would come for him now, to finish what she began when she blew off his kneecaps and shot his youngest son in the chest.
He heard her footfalls, rapid and urgent, moving toward him from the kitchen, the dining room. He caught a whiff of her perfume. He heard her breathing; the sound of it echoed inside him as the screams had. He sensed her stopping just behind him, at his head, and felt her eyes boring into him. He pressed his elbows against the floor, pushed, pressed, and pushed again to propel himself away from her, but his legs felt like two-ton lead pipes. They wouldn't budge.
"How're the knees, Judge? I bet they smart, huh."
"Wh-why're you doing this?" He moved his head back, but the only thing he could see were her legs, blurred and gray, like distant tree stumps. "Wh-why?"
"You really don't know, Judge? I thought you were a bright man. That's what everyone says, you know. That you're a very bright man, the biggest supporter of capital punishment in the state of Florida. Yes siree, Judge Henry Michael, hotshot." She touched his forehead and he winced. Her skin was cold, clammy, like a corpse's. "Bet you don't feel like much of a hotshot now, do you." She patted his cheek. "Your wife wasn't very brave, Judge. I was really very disappointed in her."
"Please," he sobbed, trying to wiggle away from her but failing. "Wh-what do y-you want?"
"Don't squirm like that, Judge. It's very unbecoming. And besides, there's no place to go. You can shriek if you want, but that won't do much good, because all the windows are closed. I kept telling your wife that, but she didn't care. She just screamed and screamed, and I got fed up with it."
"Pl-please . . ."
"All you have to do is die, Judge." She was doing something to his legs now. Sitting on them? Tying his ankles together? He couldn't tell because he had no feeling in his legs and he couldn't see her clearly enough. "Nothing is simpler than dying. Even being born isn't as simple as dying, Judge. That's one of those cosmic thoughts you get sometimes when you're about to fall asleep. Like you, Judge, you're about to take a long nap." She laughed. "And if I were you, I'd sure be thinking about how easy it is to die."
"Please," he whispered.
"You can think of me as . . . let's see . . . what would be a good name for me. Oh." She snapped her fingers. "I know. The Avenger. I'm the Avenger, just like on the old TV show. Remember that show, Judge? With Emma Peel and that turkey sidekick of hers?"
Another laugh. Dear God, how that laugh terrified him, hurt him, pressed down against his gut with its horrible weight, its unbearable weight.
"I don't believe in getting back at someone, Judge. I just get even."
And she laughed some more, a weird, high cackle, and Henry Michael began to pray. Bless me Father, for I have sinned. . . . The prayer, what was the rest of the prayer? He couldn't remember because now she was touching something sharp and cold to the side of his neck. "You know what this is, Judge? It's an old-fashioned hat pin. It belonged to my grandmother. On Sundays, she would fix a couple of these pretty pins in her hat and off she would go to church. Can you see it, Judge?"
He knew she was holding something above him, but it was a long, gray blur. Old and tired eyes, like your bones, Henry, like your bones. "I . . . I . . . my eyes . . . aren't very good."
How normal his voice had sounded for that moment. My eyes aren't very good, as if he were talking to someone at the courthouse, an acquaintance. My eyes are old . . .
"Oh, your glasses. Right. I forgot all about your glasses." She slipped them on over his nose. One lens was shattered and it fractured her features, created a mosaic of her face. But through the other lens he could see her soft skin, her bright, mad eyes, and there, the hat pin. It was long, slender, with a small red bulb on the end like a tiny impaled radish. "Isn't it pretty, Judge?"
"Pl-please," he stammered, "d-don't hurt Jenny. Don't hurt m-my sons, don't . . ."
She smiled. "Too late, hon. Jenny's taken the route of the big sleep. Remember? And your sons, too."
No no no
". . . You should've thought of that four years ago. He didn't deserve the chair, you know. Have you ever seen anyone fry in the chair, Judge? You know what burning skin smells like? You know what happens when all the juice zips through you? I . . . I was there. I saw him fry. I saw him twitch. I smelled him b-burning, you son of a bitch."
"Who? Who?" he cried.
"God will have to tell you, Judge. Say your prayers, okay? It's only fair you should have a chance to say your prayers. Even a man going to the chair has that chance. I'll say them with you. 'Now I lay me down to sleep. . . .' C'mon, Judge, say it along with me. 'Now I lay me . . .' "
But when he opened his mouth, only his raw, ragged breath came out.
"Oh Christ," she snapped. "I give you a chance to say your prayers and you blow it." She removed his glasses. "I'm afraid you've exhausted my patience, Judge Michael. Now, this is going to smart a little. You'd better not move your head, either, because that'll just make it worse."
Pain exploded in his right eye as she slid the hat pin into the corner of it, down under the lid, deeply into the eyeball. It ruptured. It bled and oozed. He shrieked and bucked against the floor, and she straddled his chest and kept working the pin back into the eyeball, through the optic nerve, cooing, "Now, now, Judge, you're not very brave, either." She pressed something cold and sharp against his throat. For a blinding second he felt a warm rush of blood against his chest. He sucked at the air, but there wasn't any. There was no air, no light.
There was nothing.


text:
A high court judge, Justice O. Ottabba has granted bail to Fafa Sanyang, a former official of The Gambia's government accused of corrupt practices in a US$12 million oil scandal.
Mr. Sanayng's bail was set at US$1.3 million (GMD52,000,000) with two Gambian sureties and deeds of landed properties within the Greater Banjul area to be submitted to the court.
State prosecutors were taken by surprise by Justice O. Ottabba after he refused to overturn the bail of three other former government officials said to complicit in the scandal, including former Permanent Secretary Muntaga Sallah.
"I find and hold that there are no circumstances that can warrant the court to revoke the bail of the accused persons," Ottabba said.
Gambian authorities this year indicted at least 39 officials including ministers and permanent secretaries, accusing them of corrupt practices and economic crimes.
Corruption remains a major impediment to economic growth in The Gambia. Despite some reforms and restrictions, authorities say the practice continues to undermine growth and productivity. The country's Attorney General Mama Fatima Singhateh validated a bill to establish an anti-corruption agency.


text:
NARRATOR: This week on NOW...
An American woman returns to her birthplace, Afghanistan,
and is shocked to learn that 19 relatives have been killed in an American
MASUDA SULTAN TRANSLATING FOR AFGHAN MAN: Can't you tell the difference between Taliban and
NARRATOR: This week, new reports of civilian casualties.
We talk to N.P.R. News reporter Steve Inskeep in Kandahar.
America has destroyed the Al Qaeda network in Afghanistan. What's next? We ask writer James Carroll.
JAMES CARROLL: The Pentagon now stands as a symbol of all that this country
has to be proud of but it also stands as a symbol, a kind of warning to us, that
we can misuse our power terribly.
NARRATOR: A Bill Moyers interview.
And big business has found a new source of profits:
BILL ASHER: Once they start hearing large companies
are distributing it, they start to realize there must be demand for this. This must be normal.
NARRATOR: But author and social critic Katie Roiphe sees no
KATIE ROIPHE: Maybe you're giving pornography more power when you make
it so forbidden.
NARRATOR: From our studios in New York, Bill Moyers.
MOYERS: Welcome to NOW
All week we've been hearing about the administration's
proposed budget. It would place our country on a war footing.
The President wants to double the spending on homeland
security and increase defense spending by the largest amount in 20 years.
Spending on highways, the environment, job training would
be among the casualties of the war on terrorism.
There are, of course, other casualties in that war and they are
our subject now.
NPR's Steve Inskeep is on the other end
of our satellite in Afghanistan.
Thank you, Steve, for being with us.
STEVE INSKEEP: Glad to do it, Bill.
MOYERS: The Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld,
has now admitted that the attack you reported on was a mistake, that friendly
Afghans might have been killed.
Has there been any reaction yet to that acknowledgment
INSKEEP: Afghan authorities are happy but also pained by
this whole development, Bill.
This has really put a lot of Afghan officials in a really
difficult situation because the fact is the people who are in control of
Afghanistan now were put there by the United States. They're very strong supporters of the United States.
I think initially their inclination, Bill, was simply to
let this thing pass, if possible; but there was an awful lot of protest at a
local level.
People in Oruzgan province were insisting that the people who
were attacked in this raid had no connections whatsoever to the Taliban, that
they were loyal to the new government.
MOYERS: Clearly the American military did not know
who the bad guys were there.
Has there been a breakdown in the intelligence that
American forces are receiving?
INSKEEP: U.S. and Afghan authorities have given us only the
sketchiest details about exactly why they thought that these two different
buildings in this village in Oruzgan province were occupied by Al-Qaeda fighters.
Now, if you look at them on the surface there was some
reason to suspect that something was going on there. Both of these buildings were occupied by a lot of armed men
and there were weapons stock piles in both places including weapons that had
belonged to the Taliban.
But one of the buildings had armed men because they were
police officers, and the other building had armed men because it was a
disarmament commission.
There is one official, a very senior official in the Afghan
government, who describes this, Bill, as an Afghan mistake.
It says it was the Afghans here who caused the problems by
feeding bad intelligence but we don't have any details about how it happened.
MOYERS: You told me in our conversation yesterday
that the ability of the American military to strike precisely is really
INSKEEP: It is really amazing.
Actually just a short distance from where I'm standing,
Bill, there are three houses, two of which during the war were allegedly
occupied by Arabs, supposedly members of Al-Qaeda.
And the U.S. Military bombed two of those houses and
completely destroyed them. One house is just a pile of bricks.
The other house is a pile of bricks and a few pillars of
concrete that somehow remain standing. Yet the house that is in the middle was relatively
undamaged. The windows were blown out. Other than that, the house is fine and just needed some
minor repairs.
Incredible accuracy.
But I think what we see with the Oruzgan incident is that
when you take that incredible technology that the United States has, the
incredible fire power that the United States has and the training that they have
and direct it at the wrong target you get devastating results.
MOYERS: You reported on NPR, that handcuffs,
plastic handcuffs, were found on some of the bodies.
Is there any evidence to suggest that those victims were
tied up and shot by American forces?
INSKEEP: I've seen what are alleged to be the plastic
The governor of this province has been carrying them around
in a plastic bag, and he showed them to me.
It's impossible to verify that they really came off the
wrists of dead men. But that is what witnesses say.
MOYERS: Those pictures that came back of the
Afghans holding the money, the American money, the thousand dollars that each
family got, are the Americans now handing out money to victims as a matter of
INSKEEP: I can't say if it's absolutely a policy.
What I can verify is that money was handed out in this
instance. We talked to numerous witnesses who said they had received
money. We talked to witnesses who said that they were in a
room full of families of the victims when the governor of the province
handed them money and did not say it was from the government of
Afghanistan. He said "this is from someone who wants to help you."
We also spoke to the governor himself in an interview on
tape. At that time the governor said he had received the cash
from U.S. Special Forces.
MOYERS: Has any American said that the U.S. will
start doing anything differently as a result of this sort of incident?
INSKEEP: I think each one of these incidents causes the
U.S. to try to be a little bit more careful, Bill.
The United States' military, in fact, I think focuses first
on avoiding mistakes.
They first avoid... focus on not getting killed, for
example. They focus on not destroying their careers by making
mistakes like this. So I have no doubt that people right now are trying to
figure out how this happened, trying to avoid having it happen again.
You have a situation where you rely on your allies for
intelligence, and you cannot always be sure whether the allies are giving you
the best information that they can.
MOYERS: Thank you very much, Steve Inskeep, and
good luck on your journey home.
INSKEEP: Thanks, Bill.
MOYERS: Now for a different first-hand account of
the war's toll on civilians.
Soon after 9/11, the independent journalist Jon Alpert connected with a
young American citizen named Masuda Sultan, whose father brought her to New York
when she was five to escape the Soviet Union's invasion of their homeland. (Read an interview with Masuda Sultan)
The two of them, Jon Alpert and Masuda Sultan, headed to
Afghanistan searching for her extended family.
Here is an excerpt from their journey.
MASUDA SULTAN: On September 11, when the World Trade Center
collapsed, I felt disbelief and anger, like many Americans.
I'm also an Afghan, living in New York. My name is Masuda Sultan. I was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
I knew these events would have repercussions for my family
back home.
Looking down at Ground Zero, I want to rebuild it. I also want to go back to Kandahar and help them build there.
ALPERT: When Masuda said good-bye to her
sisters, she didn't know if she'd see them again.
She was on her way to a war zone halfway around the world. The first stop was Quetta, Pakistan. It's near many Afghan refugee camps.
Masuda wanted to visit the refugees because she had been
one herself.
SULTAN: My family began leaving Afghanistan as a result of
the Soviet invasion, and those that didn't leave immediately started flowing out
over the last 23 years, and some of them have now left as a result of the U.S. bombing campaign.
ALPERT: Since Masuda was born, one-third of the
people in Afghanistan have become refugees.
These crossed into Pakistan in the last three months.
SULTAN (TRANSLATING FOR REFUGEE): He says it was very difficult to live there in the
U.S. bombing.
He says he had four cousins that were killed in the U.S.
SULTAN: Do you all know what happened to the Americans on September, 11 and
what do you all think about that?
SULTAN (TRANSLATING FOR REFUGEE):Whether the deaths are in the United States or
Afghanistan, they are all a bad thing."
SULTAN: When I see those refugees here in... I can't help but think
that I could have very well been one of them.
Many of them come from Kandahar, the city that I'm from.
And it breaks my heart to see how much they're suffering
right now.
ALPERT: Next Masuda went to visit her cousins,
the most recent members of her family to become refugees.
They had been near Kandahar when the Americans started to
bomb. Now they were in Pakistan.
SULTAN: We're here at my cousin's house.
I'm really nervous about what we are going to hear about
their experience.
ALPERT: Masuda had reason to be nervous.
Her cousin began listing all the family members who were
killed when the American planes attacked.
SULTAN (TRANSLATING FOR COUSIN): His daughter died, his daughter-in-law, his
brother, his nephew, one of his cousins, another cousin.
He says he lost three grandchildren and a nephew.
ALPERT: Everybody had been killed in a tiny
village named Chowkar.
Masuda's family explained why they had gone there.
SULTAN: They were living near government buildings in
Kandahar with Taliban close by.
They figured that the U.S. would target those buildings, so
they didn't want to get hurt by those so they moved outside of the city and went
to their farm just on the outskirts.
They were there for two weeks before they were hit. There was a low-flying plane, and they came out of their
houses and many of them were shot at.
ALPERT: The attack came on the night of October
Some wounds have healed; others never will.
SULTAN: This is the daughter that she lost.
This couple, they had four kids.
There's only one mother-in-law left out of the whole
All of these children were there running from the bullets,
and it's her leg, as well. That's another one of the bullets.
This is a daughter of one of my cousins. Her mom was killed, and that's her other sister over there.
There are 19 people in total, and one woman was four months
pregnant, so you can count it as 20.
The U.S. was demanding from the local Afghans that they show
them where the Al Qaeda forces were.
And that... because these Afghans were being paid large
sums of money, they had to come up with locations and people.
They were targeting people that they had no clue of their
guilt or innocence.
SULTAN (TRANSLATING): When the plane started shooting at them, they lost track of
where everyone was and it was chaotic.
He says that... he says that when they realized what had
happened, one of his sons yelled out that there are many sheep lying out here.
When they went to find out, they saw that it was
It was their family shot on the floor.
ALPERT: Masuda couldn't understand why her
family was attacked; they were cousins, and uncles, not Taliban.
So she set off to Afghanistan to find the village of
Chowkar and to find some answers.
SULTAN: We're now right on the border between Pakistan and
Afghanistan. We're crossing as we speak. We're now officially in Afghanistan. Welcome.
ALPERT: Chowkar is a 90- minute drive north of
Kandahar, in the middle of what looks like nowhere.
SULTAN: My family left the city, traveled through the
desert thinking no one would want to bomb around here. I mean, look at how desolate it is.
23 years of war for this land, I mean, look at it.
I think this is the village.
This is it.
Oh, my god.
ALPERT: On the night of the attack, there were
30 farmers here and 40 members of Masuda's family, including the ones we'd met
in Pakistan.
SULTAN: This is the village that my family came to, to
escape the city, where they thought they'd be targets.
Ironically, the target was here.
This is one of the craters created by a U.S. bomb. It's huge. They bombed about every three meters. There's craters all around us.
Trees have fallen. I can imagine them in flames. That's how... that's how my family described them.
SULTAN (TRANSLATING): That tree about ten meters up, they were hovering just
about that high.
When the women were hit, they would try to move out of the
way. They left a track of blood, the child right there next to
SULTAN: And they're trying to get away and this is what happened to
my family.
SULTAN (TRANSLATING): Can't you tell the difference between the Taliban and
the women from ten meters high?
ALPERT: Everyone told Masuda there were no
Taliban anywhere near the village, but how can you prove that somebody wasn't
SULTAN: This is my cousin's brother-in-law's house, and
they say that the only people left here are two little girls.
Everyone else was hit.This probably was the hardest hit house in this area.
Out of all these kids, these three kids were bombed right
here. These three kids became refugees, and these three kids
survived. Their mother and their father have died.
This is my cousin's room, Nasmiya.
Her daughter and her daughter-in-law died right here.
SULTAN (TRANSLATING): He says, "imagine what it must have been like for
those women and kids that were in these houses, running out of their houses in
the middle of the night, in the middle of the desert, not knowing which way to
run towards, and being in shot in the head by these people."
ALPERT: They were being shot at?
SULTAN: Yeah, they were being shot at.
ALPERT: By whom?
SULTAN TRANSLATING: By the Americans.
his is the child that I have left.
What am I to do now?
My wife was killed, my children were killed.
This is the one that's left.
He says, "They bombed our houses.
May their houses be bombed, as well."
SULTAN: I don't agree with him.
I think nobody should have to experience this.
And if you're going to wish for something, you may as well
wish for the best-- for this to be rebuilt and maybe for this to never happen
The consequences of September 11 range much farther than we
could ever expect, both in New York and here in Afghanistan.
My family was here.
ALPERT: About 40 miles from Chowkar is the main
base for the U.S. Military.
SULTAN: We're pulling up to the gate of the base here in
Kandahar airport.
I'm going to find out what happened to my family in Chowkar.
SULTAN: I have a question.
AMERICAN SOLDIER: Okay.
SULTAN: Firstly, I want to say I appreciate the efforts of
yourself and everyone here in ousting the Taliban.
I'd like to know what happened in that village in
Chowkar in the middle of the night. Apparently there was some kind of an attack by the U.S. Nineteen members of my family were killed. They were offered no explanation. It's been about two months, and I'm wondering if you've had
time to investigate that.
AMERICAN SOLDIER: We weren't even on the ground at that juncture.
So, you know, a question of that nature, you'd probably
either have to contact U.S. Central command or D.O.D. as far as to the specifics
of what happened.
SULTAN: How low can this helicopter be?
How close to the ground can it be when it's shooting?
AMERICAN SOLDIER #1: It can be as low as it needs to be, really.
SULTAN: My family said there was a helicopter hovering
over as it was attacking.
AMERICAN SOLDIER #2: More than likely it might have been one of the
special forces type aircraft we have around here.
SULTAN: It's unbelievable all the wreckage you have around
It's got to be kind of strange working in these conditions.
AMERICAN SOLDIER #3: Especially knowing what happened to the Soviets,
how quick they pulled up to leave all this stuff behind.
Every time I start missing home or something I just think
back about what happened.
I'm from New Jersey.
I've been to the World Trade Center hundreds of times.
Every time I get homesick, I think about that.
SULTAN: I want to say thank you for ousting the Taliban
and for keeping us Americans at home safe, but my family was killed in this,
too, and they were killed by Americans, American soldiers.
AMERICAN SOLDIER #4: It'd be kind of difficult to put it into
perspective, I suppose, but I know what our intent was when we came here, and that was to try to free the Afghani people from the treachery
of the Taliban.
SULTAN: What's the logic for targeting this little village
in the middle of nowhere with no Arabs, you know, no Al Qaeda forces, no Taliban?
AMERICAN SOLDIER: Couldn't tell you, don't know.
Don't have any information on it.
SULTAN: Bye, guys, bye-bye.
After visiting with those guys, the only thing that has been
cleared up for me was the intent wasn't to hurt civilians.
But why they would kill those people? I don't know.
MOYERS: And the truth, as in any war, is difficult
to discern.
Before airing that report we talked to a representative of the organization Human
Rights Watch. He interviewed three families of survivors of Chowkar and said he
turned up no evidence that Taliban were in or around the village at the time.
But we also called the Pentagon.
The spokesman says nothing has appeared to change the
original explanation, that Chowkar had been "a validated military
target," was a Taliban facility with tents on the outskirts sheltering
Taliban fighters.
Two reports, each different.
MOYERS: Why, then, bother even trying to sort out the unintended
but inevitable human cost of war to those caught in the crossfire?
Some of you will remember that I was the White House
spokesman for part of the Vietnam War.
You try to sort these things out as best you can, to
discount the thrill of war for those who advocate but never have to suffer from
LORI GRINKER: I think that as an American, I never thought I
would experience war in my country, and I wanted to know about war from the
perspective of these people.
As many as 15,000 children served as soldiers in Liberia.
In the case of the boy who's standing in the center, Otis,
he was the colonel.
They called him "Commanding Officer Dirty Ways."
And he had six boys assigned to him, like guards.
And then they would go out and do things, horrific things.
Sometimes they even had to commit atrocities against their
own families to show loyalty to their commanders.
I was in Cambodia trying to document the effects of war on
the people who'd been in that civil war.
This man had been a fighter. He was with three comrades. They were out in the field and they were hit by a mine
and he lost his legs. He said that sometimes he gets confused in dreams and he
thinks he has two legs.
In Vietnam, women have been fighting for over 2,000 years.
They were called the long-haired warriors.
She was working building this bridge along the main
highway, and they were hit by a bomb from the United States.
She's wearing her old prosthesis, and this new one that's
sitting next to her was brought over by this American group.
She said that they hated the Americans when they invaded
them, and that now it was different because they were coming and giving them
limbs. She said the people are good, it's the leaders who are not
so good.
This is Henry Green.
He's a British veteran of the Korean War.
You know, he had a successful life, but when it came to the
war, he just couldn't speak. He was in this group therapy for post-traumatic stress
disorder, and every time he attempted to speak in the group he would start to
cry. He just broke up so badly that he couldn't talk.
And I find that all over the world, all these people who
have fought come away with kind of a poetry in them and a sadness.
And it... it... I'm sure it's always there.
I haven't found one person who would say there's a day that
goes by that they don't feel the war in some way or another.
MOYERS: Listening to Lori Grinker, I realized James Carroll could say much
the same thing.
James Carroll has wrestled with the demons of war.
He's working right now on a history of the Pentagon.
His father, an Air Force General, was founding director of
the Defense Intelligence Agency, and during the Vietnam War picked the target
for American bombers.
There was grief in the family, and Jim Carroll won the
National Book Award for his memoir called AN AMERICAN REQUIEM: GOD, MY FATHER, AND THE WAR THAT CAME BETWEEN US.
Since leaving the priesthood, he's published 11 books,
including most recently CONSTANTINE'S SWORD: THE CHURCH AND THE JEWS
He's also a columnist for the BOSTON GLOBE.
Thank you for joining me.
JAMES CARROLL: A pleasure, Bill.
MOYERS: I was in the White House while your father
was at the Pentagon. And I'm wondering did he ever come home and and anguish
over the civilian loss of life in that war?
CARROLL: Not directly, not openly. My father took seriously, I think, very seriously his... the bond of silence and secrecy that went with intelligence
There were implicit and painful signals that I recognize after the fact.
The main thing I saw from my father in those years though
was a profound sense of worry and anguish.
One time he told me that I would be responsible for the
family if he didn't come home thinking, I think, of the imminent threat of a
nuclear war.
MOYERS: What you say in AMERICAN REQUIEM and other
writings, what you reveal is your discovery that among your father and his
colleagues there was a real debate going on about what to do in Vietnam or
whether the war could be won.
CARROLL: It's true. As I learned, for example, those of us standing outside the
Pentagon denouncing the bombing of North Vietnam, simultaneously I discover from
Robert McNamara's memoir and other sources the Defense Intelligence Agency is
giving McNamara monthly, weekly reports saying the same thing: the bombing of
North Vietnam is not working.
It's stiffening the resolve of the North Vietnamese and the
Vietcong, which led eventually to McNamara's own loss of faith in the
possibility of the bombing working.
It came as a big surprise to me that my father could be
understood as having opposed the bombing, even while, to me, he was very
critical of those of us outside who were raising questions about it.
MOYERS: So you stood outside the Pentagon opposing
the bombing in Vietnam. Your brother was a draft resister. Your father was inside, a general who was directing the
CARROLL: Right.
And I had another brother who was an F.B.I. agent catching
draft resisters.
So it was a family story in a way in my experience which
was very pointed.
MOYERS: Do you suppose that the men inside the
Pentagon right now and at the White House had the same kind of ambivalence, the
same kind of doubts that your father experienced?
CARROLL: Well, whether they would recognize it as
ambivalence and doubts, there's no doubt in my mind one of the most important
and unknown stories in America today is the argument that goes on inside the
Pentagon. I'll give you one example.
In the '50s into the early '60s one of the great debates
was whether preventative war was a strategy America should undertake. There were people in the Pentagon who argued the morality
of and the political necessity of preventative war, that is to say, we should
attack the Soviet Union now before they have the capacity to launch a
retaliatory strike that would undo as a nation, and it was a serious debate.
One of the great political and moral victories of that era,
I would say, is when the American government decided I think on moral
grounds preventative war is unacceptable.
The United States of America does not do that.
The reason I point to that is because the same debate now
is going on in the Pentagon.
Preventative war is the question when we're dealing with we
think of Iraq, Iran, North Korea, the so-called Axis of Evil.
What is President Bush proposing when he considers an
action against those nations? He's talking about preventative war, that is, we initiate the
strike, we initiate the conflict.
A generation ago, America decided that this country doesn't
do that. And I believe that inside the Pentagon today there are
people still saying that: this country doesn't do that.
MOYERS: There's a lot of argument and a lot of
advocacy in Washington right now for those... that preventative war. They say that these three countries are dictatorships,
they're openly hostile to U.S. interests, they are actively developing weapons of mass
destruction and the means to develop... deliver them. They've all spilled American blood and they all harbor and
support international terrorism.
Now, do you think those are grounds for action against
those three countries?
CARROLL: Well, you could have said the same things about
Joseph Stalin's regime and the regime that succeeded him, Nikita Kruschev's, there's no
question about the evil those regimes were capable of. We saw it. We know what kind of a threat they were.
There was a time when this country could have in fact taken
actions against the Soviet Union without at least, so the general said, without
suffering a strike against the mainland of the United States.
We didn't do it. What we did was we found other ways of dealing with the
Soviet Union.
The theory of containment, diplomacy, alas a ferocious arms race
which I believe was misbegotten.
But nevertheless, we found nonviolent political diplomatic
responses that ultimately, over a long haul, one of the great tributes we have
to pay that generation is the patience that enabled the demise of the Soviet
Union without a war.
Let's remember that the great political assumption of our
youth was that the contest with the Soviet Union could only end with a war.
Inexorable totalitarianism it would never dismantle itself on its own accord.
Guess what? It did.
The Soviet Union self-destructed in response to pressures
from the West.
Why can't we learn from that?
MOYERS: Let me read you something you wrote.
Quote: There is wisdom to be claimed from the life span of
the Pentagon, for in these decades assumptions of absolute American virtue have
been stripped from us.
How is that?
CARROLL: Well, the Pentagon is the temple of the heroes who
successfully led the resistance against Hitler and Stalin but it's also the
place from which the most devastating American mistakes have been made,
especially Vietnam but not only Vietnam, a misbegotten war in Central and Latin
America, a terribly misguided uncritical pursuit of an overwhelming arms race
that the world has really been lucky to survive.
No one knows the, I would argue, no one knows the limits of
Pentagon power better than men and women inside this debate in the Pentagon
One of the interesting things is when political power is
wielded in America, the people who have served in the military tend to be much
more humble in its wielding.
President Eisenhower stood against generals on the question
of the development of nuclear... and use of nuclear weapons.
And who is the so-called dove in the present
It's the general. It's the man who has exercised authority on a battle
ground: Colin Powell.
The man who is now... I mean, it must make him wonder who
he is in the morning... on the far left of America's inner circle
political debate.
MOYERS: We do seem to be marching in lockstep. The consensus in the country, the cheerleading press in
Washington and other places.
We seem to be marching in lockstep right now. It seems to me, Jim Carroll, that absolute American virtue
has never been more emphatically asserted than it is right now.
CARROLL: It's true, which is a very alarming development. It's understandable. It's human. We accepted... we didn't accept.
We took a blow as a nation on September 11.
MOYERS: You call it a diabolical act.
CARROLL: It is a diabolical act. It's one of the most savage crimes in history.
That assault on civilian life at that level. We're all stunned still. But at a basic level what was it? It was a profound humiliation.
It was an experience of humiliation unlike anything America
has experienced perhaps since Pearl Harbor but even Pearl Harbor we didn't see
it on television. We didn't relive it again and again. And we didn't assume our status as the indispensable nation
at that point.
This blow to our self as a people has left us reeling. One of the manifestations of our trauma is the ease with
which we have fallen back into a very self-justifying and I would say
self-righteous tendency to divide the world, as President Bush says, between us and them.
It's consoling and it helps us to see the world that way,
but alas politically and in the real situation of what is in the world today,
that's another formula for disaster.
MOYERS: But when it comes to the ability of a
Saddam Hussein to develop weapons of mass destruction, when it comes to the
spirit of terrorism which I think is legitimate... a legitimate concern, I mean,
we are the indispensable nation; are we not?
Who is going to do it? Not Ireland, not France, not Switzerland.
CARROLL: Well actually I think that's wrong because the
threat of terrorism is transnational.
The only way to respond to terrorism is in coalition with
other nations. The C.I.A. Director described what the threat of Al-Qaeda
is today. I mean, our war, let's face it, that was going to
decapitate Al-Qaeda didn't do it.
We didn't even capture or kill Osama bin Laden apparently.
MOYERS: But the root base of terrorism in
Afghanistan, the Taliban, has been destroyed not with a coalition but one could
say with unilateral American military action.
And some people argue and I think I might be one of
them that it would have would have taken too long to put a coalition together
to try to do that.
Was there any way to bring pressure against a hostile power
structure like the Taliban in Afghanistan without inflicting suffering on the
civilians caught in the cross fire?
CARROLL: Well that's a question that we'll never be able to
answer now.
I argued in the weeks after September 11, and I believe I would argue still, that we would have been much better off to shape our response
to that horrendous event, September 11, in terms of the language of... and the
culture of law rather than the culture of war.
We went to....
MOYERS: The Taliban ignored the law.
CARROLL: Well, the Taliban was a lawless regime. Absolutely. It's not the only one in the world.
And if we think that we can respond to anarchic regimes by
going to war with them, we've condemned ourselves and the future of the planet
to an endless succession of terrible conflict.
When you say to people in... who are in the middle of this world conflict, you choose
them or you choose us, it's inevitable that many of the people who could choose
us if the question were put differently are going to choose them.
That's happening now according to news reports recently
among the elite, for example, of Saudi Arabia.
What does it tell us? That middle class, privileged people in Saudi Arabia in
overwhelming numbers apparently think well of Osama bin Laden.
It tells us not that they're demons. It tells that if they're given the choice between the
United States of America pursuing power with overwhelming force and someone who
is standing up and defying it, they're going to choose against the United States.
MOYERS: George W. Bush would say they're harboring
terrorism and that they are planting themselves against the civilized world.
CARROLL: It's true and it's interesting how selective our
overwhelming force is.
We won't use force against Saudi Arabia, and I think you
could make the case that the terrorist assaults of September 11 were as rooted
in Saudi culture as they were in Afghan culture, and we don't do that.
Why? Obviously because we need Saudi oil. I'm not going to get into the endless discussion about oil,
but that's a factor here.
When our interests dictate it, we're prepared to use
diplomatic and political pressure, which you can bet we're putting on Saudi
Arabia today.
My argument is, that's the kind of pressure we should have
used in Afghanistan.
MOYERS: See, I would disagree with you.
I support the strategic aims of this war, and I don't
think it's a misguided mission they're on in Afghanistan.
CARROLL: We can't evaluate the war in Afghanistan, Bill.
You and I may disagree on it at this moment, but one of the
things we have to understand is we have set in motion a momentum that is going
to roll on.
If India and Pakistan go to war with each other, as well
they might, with disastrous consequences for those two nations and the globe,
will we still be so confident that our policy of "dead or alive,"
"us or them" which licensed that war was the right thing?
MOYERS: Thank you very much.
CARROLL: Thank you.
MOYERS: We celebrate this month the 100th birthday
of the poet Langston Hughes.
Whether it was the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s or the
civil rights movement of the '60s, Langston Hughes turned the American black
experience into stories that can transform the reader.
An appreciation now from Harlem by NPR's Vertamae
VERTAMAE GROSVENOR: Langston Hughes loved Harlem, he lived in
In his first book, published during the Harlem Renaissance,
THE WEARY BLUES, he wrote about Harlem.
LANGSTON HUGHES: The emotions in a number of my poems are the
emotions of the Harlem people.
GROSVENOR: Langston Hughes did not like long
novels, the cold weather, the opera AIDA, the card game bridge or the
taste of parsnips.
He did like short novels, hot weather, the opera TRISTAN,the poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, jazz and lyrical lines, and he wrote them: "life for
me ain't been no crystal stair."
"the sweet flypaper of life."
"crumbs from the tables of joy."
When he was the new kid at a high school in a small
Illinois town, a boy in class nominated him to be class poet.
HUGHES: Almost all American white people at that time
seemed to think that all Negroes could sing and dance and that all of us had a
sense of rhythm.
So I came to the conclusion that maybe poetry, rhythm,
color, me a Negro, that little boy had thought he must have some rhythm to give
a poem, and maybe that's why I was elected the class poet.
At any rate, I'm glad that I was.
GROSVENOR: I grew up on Langston Hughes' poetry and
so did my children, but I was wonderfully surprised when among my
granddaughter's school papers I found a Langston Hughes poem in Spanish.
"Charlotte," I said "do you know that in 15
minutes while riding on a train, he wrote one of his most famous poems and he
was only 18?"
"my soul has grown deep like the rivers."
HUGHES: "ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers."
GROSVENOR: Langston Hughes found poetry in ordinary
places and ordinary people.
He made finding poetry everywhere seem deceptively simple.
MOYERS: Watching FRONTLINE last night FRONTLINE is our premier documentary series, as PBS
fans know so well watching FRONTLINE last night I was struck by
the thought that Enron might still be around if instead of trading in energy and
politics they had stuck with core Wall Street values: enduring demand, enduring
Some big brands in American capitalism are, in fact,
reaping huge profits from those core values you might say hard-core values,
as Peter Boyer reports in this excerpt from FRONTLINE.
PETER BOYER: Pornography is the high-tech boom that
didn't go bust.
Before the digital age, there were only so many ways to
sell a dirty picture. Technology transformed the business.
BILL ASHER, PRESIDENT, VIVID ENTERTAINMENT GROUP: We distribute those movies on video, VHS, DVD;
we have internet sites; television channels.
Our international business is growing in 30-some countries
with all the different products.
BOYER: The new technology allowed pornography
to break through into the mainstream and into association with some of the
biggest brand names in American business.
This is the main control room at DirecTV, the satellite
distribution service.
This is how pornography is channeled into millions of
American homes.
ASHER: So we know what's called a buy rate, which is that
for every million homes you're in in any given month we'll know how many times
someone bought a movie.
Generally our buy rates were between 10%-20%.
BOYER: And how many million homes were you
ASHER: We're in 40 million cumulatively.
BOYER: That's four million homes every month
paying to view a Vivid Video.
That's good for Vivid Video, and it's good for General
Motors, which owns DirecTV.
AT&T is the biggest American company that has
accommodated itself to the pornography boom.
For AT&T, porn distribution is great business, but you
might not know it from reading the company's annual report.
There is no mention of adult material nor how much it
contributes to the company's bottom line, but it's no secret to Wall Street.
DENNIS MCALPINE, WALL STREET ANALYST: If you look at how much money is coming in from
adult remember, there's virtually no cost to AT&T for carrying it and if
he's generating $10 million, $20 million a month, that's virtually all found
money going into the bottom line.
So it can be a significant amount. $20 million times 12 months, that's... That's a lot of
TAPE: You want to pay $52 for 4,300.
I got you, baby.
BOYER: Pornography's new acceptability in
corporate America has made it an amenity in many of the nation's hotel chains.
MCALPINE: The hotel needs to provide television as an
amenity to the consumer.
If it's a businessman, he probably wants to see adult.
So this is a way of keeping that consumer happy.
MARK GROSSMAN, VICE PRESIDENT HILTON HOTELS CORP: It's an offering much like in a hotel, there will be bars that serve alcohol.
And that's not to say that we condone drinking or that we
should judge people whether or not they want to drink alcohol, but it is there
as a convenience. It is there as an offering for guests who wish to do it,
for guests who wish to watch this material.
BOYER: The major chains Hilton, Westin,
and Marriott all offer porn in their rooms delivered to the hotel by one of
two major distribution companies, LodgeNet or OnCommand Video.
Some analysts say these movies make more money for the
hotel chains than all the alcohol and snacks in the minibar.
MCALPINE: So the 5% or the 10% of revenue that the hotel
chain gets, that's pure profit to him because they have no cost; they didn't put
in the wiring system, they didn't supply the programming.
BOYER: It's a happy alliance for both sides of
the business equation: for the mainstream companies, easy money; for the porn
industry, a protective layer of legitimacy.
ASHER: The mainstream companies help legitimize what
we're doing.
They tell America that, by definition, if this company,
this large company that you respect is distributing this, obviously there's
demand for it.
I think that is what has helped us is that in the past it
was always, people talk about, "how big is the adult industry?"
And people would say, "oh, it's huge," but I
think that the average person said, "well, that's a lot of hype." There really isn't that much interest in this
product," or, "it's a very small segment of people who really buy this
product." I think once they start hearing large companies are
distributing it, they start to realize, "there must be demand for this. This must be normal. I shouldn't feel odd because I enjoy it."
MOYERS: Katie Roiphe has thought about these
things. (Read more about Porn in the U.S.A.)
She stirred a storm with her first book, THE MORNING AFTER: SEX, FEAR AND FEMINISM.
Now she's written a novel, called STILL SHE HAUNTS ME, based on Lewis Carroll's fascination with the young girl who
figured in the inspiration for ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
Katie Roiphe earned her doctorate in literature at
Princeton University.
Does it surprise you that Fortune 500 companies have added
pornography to the goods and services that they offer us?
KATIE ROIPHE: It doesn't really surprise me.
I mean you just look at the Victoria Secret ads on TV.
I think there's definitely, it seems that it's everywhere.
MOYERS: Sex is everywhere, but is there a
distinction in your mind between sex and pornography?
ROIPHE: Well, I think there definitely is.
But I don't really find the idea of businessmen in their
hotels rooms watching pornography that much, you know, that alarming.
I think that, is it really more soul deadening for them to
watch a pornographic movie at night rather than DIE HARD 3 or whatever else
they'd be watching?
I'm not sure why it's considered so dangerous.
MOYERS: Once upon a time community standards sort
of protected the innocent from this stuff.
Now it comes to us from everywhere, from the internet, from
cable, from the video store, from movies.
What happens for our protection of children when there are
no community standards anymore?
ROIPHE: Well, I think that parents can regulate, block out
their televisions.
I know my ten-year-old nephew was recently complaining to
me that his mother had done just that.
I think that it really has to be in the hands of the
individual just because the idea of regulating speech is too dangerous.
To me the alternative is much worse, the idea that you
would say this is not acceptable speech and this is.
I feel like we're too close to that moment in time when
Nabokov's LOLITA couldn't find a publisher in America because of the
obscenity laws.
MOYERS: I once asked the historian Henry Steele Commager if he thought
censorship could work in a situation like this.
He said censorship never works.
I said what's the alternative?
He said we need an alternative strategy of affirmation. Society has to offer different alternatives to this.
I find American society becoming so coarse and so vulgar if
you will, in your face, there's almost no place anybody can flee to make
ROIPHE: Except maybe you're giving pornography more power
when you make it so forbidden.
Maybe if you can walk into any Howard Johnson's and see this
kind of, you know, badly acted pornographic movie on television, it becomes less
powerful and less taboo and less sort of titillating to people.
Somebody like Larry Flynt, probably the worst nightmare
that he can imagine is for pornography to be so easily available.
MOYERS: Many of the feminists were very unhappy
with you when your first book, THE MORNING AFTER came out, because they said you
were buying into a system they had been trying to fight, a system that does
reduce women to objects and maintains the superiority of male domination.
ROIPHE: Yes, and when I wrote that book back in '93 it was definitely
a big issue especially surrounding the pornography, the idea of protecting
women. The idea that in some way there was something harmful to women about
these images of pornography in our culture.
And I found that and did write in my book that this is somehow
insulting to women and condescending to women.
And I don't think that women need to be protected from male
sexuality in quite the way the '70s feminists would have us believe.
The men are just as objectified as the women are. Both of them present this kind of almost absurd vision of
But I don't necessarily think that women come out of it any
worse than men do.
MOYERS: HBO, which runs some of the best
documentaries on television, documentaries I greatly admire, has explicit sex
programming, not pornography but explicit sex programming.
It gets better ratings than most of the cultural and
political shows. What do you think about that?
ROIPHE: It's depressing.
I mean, I think, you know, to me what's alarming about it
is the banality of these images. I don't think it's dangerous.
I think it's squalid and depressing to think of that lonely
person at home on Saturday night watching HBO, Real Sex or Go-Go Dancers or
whatever the show is they're watching.
To me that's what it's about. It's not about danger. I think that's giving these images too much credit frankly.
MOYERS: I once did an interview with the critic Cleanth Brooks and he
talked about pornography as one of the bastard muses. That it just concentrates on one aspect of the human being at
the expense of the total personality.
ROIPHE:Well, Susan Sontag also wrote an essay THE PORNOGRAPHIC IMAGINATION about how economical the form is, the same type of thing.
I have to admit I am not a big fan of pornography, but I do
see that there could be a fascination with it, because it does pare out all aspects. It's an obsessive medium and there's something about that obsession that I think, you
know, is very human.
MOYERS: Many, many women really despise you for
those views. I mean I've read the attacks on you. What do you think about those attacks?
ROIPHE: Well, that is true.
I remember being called the Clarence Thomas of women in
NEWSWEEK once.
But I, you know, I say what I think, and I've been honest.
I think that the culture has actually changed a lot since I
wrote my first book.
A lot of the ideas....
MOYERS: How so?
ROIPHE: ...that people were so shocked by in my first book
namely that we shouldn't constantly portray women as victims to the male sexual
threat, that idea has become very mainstream.
And my point that you can take the obsession with sexual harassment too far has
become accepted by the larger culture.
If you look at the Clinton scandal that was to me the
logical conclusion of this feminist idea, you know, co-opted by the Republicans
that the personal is political, that anything that goes on in someone's private
life is relevant to, you know, politics, to the world.
I think the entire country showed... reacted against that
idea and said, you know what?
We don't want to hear about this.
MOYERS: It concerns me more that Kenneth Lay is
meeting secretly with the Vice President than it concerned me that President
Clinton was meeting with secretly with Monica Lewinsky. There's more of public policy at stake in that it seems to
me. The Conservatives would disagree with both of us.
ROIPHE: Well I think the country agrees with you in that,
you know, I think the country....
MOYERS: I'm sure glad to hear that.
ROIPHE: The country clearly showed that in the end the
contents of the Starr Report ended up hurting the Republicans, you know, more
than the Democrats, ended up hurting Ken Starr more than it hurt Clinton.
MOYERS: Did you read the Starr Report.
ROIPHE: I did, and I have to say the Starr Report was probably a much more pornographic document
than your average issue of HUSTLER or PLAYBOY.
MOYERS: In the meantime, does pornography lead to
unacceptable behavior on the part of the people who see it?
ROIPHE: That's a premise that feminists have long tried to
say, that pornography causes men to go out and rape women and attack them.
I frankly think that's ridiculous.
I think the idea is very condescending to people that you
think they see something on TV and they imitate it or they see a picture and
they imitate it.
I think, frankly, if that were true pornography would be the
least of our problems. That seeing somebody blow up a building and then going and
blowing up a building is a lot more of a big deal than some of the pornography
we're talking about in these sad hotel rooms. To me, I don't really buy that
MOYERS: Thank you, Katie Roiphe, for helping us
think about all this.
ROIPHE: Thank you.
MOYERS: And now a look at stories coming up on NPR
BOB EDWARDS: I'm Bob Edwards.
Monday on MORNING EDITION from NPR News: the hidden
history of the Lincoln memorial, one of the most famous landmarks in the Capitol
began with a political battle.
The debates were endless over Lincoln's role as emancipator
to whether he should sit or stand.
That's Monday on MORNING EDITION.
You can find your local public radio station by logging on
to the web site: npr.org.
MOYERS: That's it for NOW.
Join us again next week to continue the conversation.
I'm Bill Moyers.


text:
We are looking for a razor sharp marketing & social media gurus to join our team of nightlife professionals. If you have a passion for dance music, event production, and creating unforgettable experiences, then this is for you!
At Foundation Nightclub, we strive to foster a culture of collaborative innovation. As an intern you will often be working in a team setting with leadership as well as your peers, but don't be afraid to make your voice heard! At the end of your time with us, we hope you walk away feeling as though you left your mark on the company. The program aims to assist you in building a broad set of skills and prepare you for future leadership roles managing multiple, complex tasks related to the fields of marketing and business development.
There are 2 positions available:
Digital Marketing Intern – (15-20 hours a week.)
What you'll be doing:
- Coordinate, schedule, and execute Foundation's Social Media Strategy under the guidance of the Marketing Director.
- Research music and write content for Facebook, Twitter, and other networks.
- Write content and craft messaging for emailer, website and other media.
- Brainstorm & help coordinate outreach programs.
- Research new avenues of marketing according to industry trends.
- Prep show announces and maintain website.
- Live-tweet & Instagram events.
- Learn and apply best practices for SEO.
- Perform other duties as requested.
Marketing & Business Development Intern – (15-20 hours a week.)
What you'll be doing:
- Engaging with marketing team on a regular basis to brainstorm ideas for new and innovative marketing campaigns.
- Research market activity and investigate how to target new customer opportunities.
- Assist with designing and executing sales and marketing campaigns.
- Support the development of new and innovative marketing collateral.
- Research, identify, and negotiate partnerships with businesses that can enhance Foundation's customer base.
- Assist in marketing and public relations projects with outside vendors/partners.
- Maintain good business relations through professionalism in all functions of customer service.
- Perform other duties as requested.
Ideal Candidates:
- Be a rising junior, senior, recent college graduate, or graduate student.
- Business, Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, or Communications major.
- We are looking for dependable candidates with media savvy and superb writing skills.
- Must have excellent verbal communication skills & technological skills.
- Advanced knowledge of social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Google+ preferred.
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
- Passion for electronic dance music and news surrounding the industry.
- Own a laptop and smartphone. (Mac & iOS Preferred.)
- While we work in a party environment, candidates must be proactive, responsible, able to act appropriately with our high profile artists and uphold strict policy of non-disclosure.
This is a 6 month unpaid internship. All internships are part-time (10-15 hours a week) and flexible between the hours of 10am-7pm. Interns must be able to report to the USC Events office by Century Link Field a minimum of 2 times a week. Other work can be completed from flexible locations. This internship holds the option for renewal or hire at the end of the 6 months.
- School credit as arranged through school internship program.
- Receive written or verbal recommendation/referral upon completion of internship.
- Access and guest list privileges to all Foundation shows.
- Bar tab privileges.
- Tickets to USC Events standalone shows.
- A wealth of knowledge and experience to further your career.
The Next Step:
Email your resume and a writing sample to [email protected]. Include any links to social networking sites you feel appropriate (Blog, Facebook, Twitter, etc.). Please remember to indicate your preferred internship in the email subject line.
Digital Marketing Intern writing sample:
You may choose 2 of the 3 suggestions below as your writing sample:
1. Write a few paragraphs about the dance music experience at USC/Foundation shows. (100-200 words.)
2. Write 3 Tweets promoting any upcoming nights at Foundation.
3. Write 2 Facebook updates promoting any upcoming nights at Foundation.
Marketing & Business Development Intern writing sample:
You may choose 2 of the 3 suggestions below as your writing sample:
1. Write 1-2 paragraphs about the dance music experience at USC/Foundation shows.
2. Write one paragraph on how you think brands can increase the connection with dance music fans.
3. Brainstorm 1 or 2 innovative marketing campaigns on how a Nightclub can increase the reach of their customer base to attract newer EDM fans. Write 1-2 paragraphs on your ideas.


text:
Click Here to see details about this years camps!
YFC Camp's Mission
We exist to create an outdoor environment that invites God to transform the lives of young people through shared experiences, outdoor challenges, and times of solitude that draw students to the heart of God within the context of authentic relationships and memorable learning experiences.
Our vision is to provide an excellent experience through which Jesus Christ would forever alter the life of every young person who comes to camp - that they, in turn would be driven to alter the lives of those around them for Christ.
YFC Camp's Vision
This "life altering" is accomplished when students come into relationship with God for the first time, when staff is strengthened and renewed in their ministries, through pure and right relationships among staff and students, when people serve one another, when we enjoy the creation God has made for us to play in, when people fall deeper in love with God and His ways, through laughter, through tears, through renewed commitments, by repenting from sin, by forgiving one another, and by the silent recognition of the Maker of the mountains.
Core values are the very thread of why something exists. They are what drives any organization. They are what you live and die for. They are the cause for everything that you will do. They are the glue that holds together an organization as it grows, decentralizes, diversifies and expands in a changing culture. Value comes out of personal passion. Core values address "who we are," not "where we are going."
YFC Camp's Core Values
- We are about Jesus Christ and teaching His message
- We are about unifying the YFC body under a common vision
- We are about evangelism to lost people
- We are about experiencing God's creation
- We are about solitude and letting God speak
- We are about follow-up
- We are about building relationships
- We are about developing future leaders for ministry
- We are about being relevant in a changing youth culture
- We are about changing lives
- We are about intentional community building
- We are about diversity among students and staff


text:
Arti, 35
Product Manager
I've served in the U.S. Army.
I am a daughter of Indian immigrants. And I've been asked "what terrorist country are you from" while walking down the street with my family.
That accusation cut so deep for me.
I served in this country's military! Isn't that the definition of a patriot? Someone that is willing to put country before family? And because of the way I look, my family looks, we get called out as "un-American"?
Words matter.
What Donald Trump says matters. It matters to our generation, to the next, and to every generation after that. And the divides that are being sown in this election season will take lifetimes to sew back together.
I'm with her because the next president has the almost impossible job of uniting the country again behind a shared vision.
United we stand, and divided we fall. Hillary is the only one that can do it.
In some ways,
this campaign has brought out the best in many of us, because we're coming together, and using our voices to rise up against hate.
The most beautiful thing about the military
was that the minute you put that uniform on, it didn't matter where you came from or what your background was. As long as you were willing to put that uniform on and pay that ultimate sacrifice, you were part of a family.
Saying that you back Hillary
opens up a Pandora's box of questions and negative comments that makes you feel like not saying anything at all.
There is not a single man that has had to take the insults,
comments, attacks against her character, her intelligence, her experience, and her stamina — no one has ever taken this much heat in a political campaign and survived.
The fact that Hillary's still standing,
that she still wants to go out and fight, that she still puts that suit on and says "let's do this"? It is awe-inspiring. And it should lift everyone up — not just women, but men too, to move beyond the baseless comments that you'll receive in your career and keep on fighting for what you believe in.
Too many people have fought so hard
for your right to vote in this election. I don't even care who you vote for. But if you say that your vote doesn't matter, that "who cares who wins", then you are the one that will lose your voice. And there are so many people who don't have a voice — children, immigrants, refugees — so use your vote to make their voices heard.


text:
Pokemon Go Pokemon GO is the first great game within the Pokemon franchise to finally land on Android.And it's here by the hands of Niantic —the developers of Ingress— with a title that's managed to combine all the original magic …Read More »
Real Steel World Robot Boxing Hack Unlimited Gold,Coins & More..
Real Steel World Robot Boxing Real Steel World Robot Boxing is a fighting game,in the style of Tekken and Dead or Alive,where you control robots from the movie Real Steel.There are three buttons for the actions that you can perform …Read More »
KiK Account Hack – How To Hack Someone KiK Account
Hey Friends if you are looking for kik hack tool than you are at right place, today I am going to share amazing software tricks to hack someone kik account,username, messenger or anything which you say.This amazing kik Account hack …Read More »
Borderlands 2 Generator – Unlock all Features – PC / PS3 / XBOX 360
About Borderlands 2 Borderlands 2 is an action role-playing first-person shooter video game, developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games on September 18, 2012. It is the second game in the Borderlands series and the sequel to 2009's …Read More »
NinjaKiwi Coins Generator – How to get Unlimited NinjaKiwi Coins
About NinjaKiwi Ninja Kiwi is a developer of free online games.Their web site, which can be found at www[dot]ninjakiwi[dot]com, hosts their games, as well as a number of games from other developers.Ninja Kiwi is a mobile and online video game …Read More »
Deezer Premium Generator How to get free Deezer Premium Codes
Deezer Premium Generator Most of us like Deezer provides the services that due to the fact that most of us enjoy music wherever and whenever we want. This is the main reason this post was created which is to provide …Read More »
Pinterest Followers Generator – Get Thousand of Pinterest Followers
Pinterest Followers Generator On this post I am going to share to you the best ways on getting REAL Pinterest Followers.Getting pinterest followers will not only get your pins famous but will greatly help you with your business associated with …Read More »
Instagram Followers Generator – Get Hundreds of Followers
Are you Instagram user? Are you wonder how to get more followers? Imagine millions of people seeing your pictures everyday.That's what you're looking for We want to present you the newest Generator tool to Instagram. Our Instagram Followers Generator can …Read More »
Rocksmith Key Generator get free Rocksmith 2014 Edition Keys – PC / Xbox 360 / PS3
Rocksmith 2014 is a music video game produced by Ubisoft. It is a replacement to the 2011 rhythm video game Rocksmith rather than a sequel. The game's main focus is the feature that allows players to plug in virtually any …Read More »
Aeria Points Generator how to get free Aeria Games points Working
Aeria Games is one of the best online game publishers, too bad their games are so hang up on the annoying Aeria Points dependency. We thought it would be nice to fulfill the growing number of hack requests, therefore we …Read More »


text:
Mrs. AdamBy Kathleen Norris
I have lately come to the conclusion that I am Eve,
alias Mrs. Adam. You know, there is no account
of her death in the Bible, and why am I not Eve?
Emily Dickinson in a letter,
12 January, 1846
Wake up,
you'll need your wits about you.
This is not a dream,
but a woman who loves you, speaking.
She was there
when you cried out;
she brushed the terror away.
She knew
when it was time to sin.
You were wise
to let her handle it,
and leave that place.
We couldn't speak at first
for the bitter knowledge,
the sweet taste of memory
on our tongues.
Listen, it's time.
You were chosen too,
to put the world together.
Kathleen Norris, "Mrs. Adam" from Poetry 156 (April 1990). Used by permission of the author.
Source: The Poetry Anthology 1912-2002 (2002)


text:
Arabic Minor (ARBC)
This minor introduces the field of Arabic studies, and offers training in the Arabic language and in the close reading of texts— including poetry, literature, philosophy, theoretical writings, essays, and film—with attention to problems of translation, the history of disciplines, and the formation of institutions. It teaches students to read cultural objects, practices, texts, and institutions as active sites of translation, negotiation, contestation, and invention.
Committee in Charge
- Jeffrey Sacks, PhD., Director, Comparative Literature/Arabic
- Ayman Ramadan, M.A., Arabic
Minor Requirements
- Lower Division Requirements (language proficiency)
- ARBC 001, 002, 003, and 004
- Upper Division Requirements (16 units)
- Twelve upper-division units in Arabic Literature and Culture from ARLC 120, ARLC/CPLT/MEIS 151, ARLC/CPLT 152, ARLC/CPLT/MEIS/RLST 156, ARLC/CPLT 154/PHIL 128, ARLC/CPLT/MEIS/RLST 158, ARLC/CPLT/MEIS/RLST 157
- Four upper-division units from CPLT 110 or a related upper-division course


text:
Other teams probably could have offered Radim Vrbata $10 million over two years. What the Vancouver Canucks had that the competition didn't was the chance to play with Daniel and Henrik Sedin.
So when general manager Jim Benning suggested it, Vrbata took it as another reason to sign with the Canucks.
"He was saying that they were looking for somebody to play with Sedins and that they think I could be the guy," Vrbata said on a conference call Thursday. "I feel like with the way they play and the way they see the game, it's something that would probably suit my game. Yeah, it was real interesting to have that chance."
It'll be up to coach Willie Desjardins to form the lines, Benning said, but it was part of the plan to give Vrbata an opportunity with the Sedins. Benning likes that Vrbata can read plays and jump into holes.
Vrbata, who had 20 goals and 31 assists in his final season with the defensive-minded Arizona Coyotes, will be counted on to produce more if he's Vancouver's top-line right-winger. He doesn't mind that pressure.
"If you play with players like Sedins, you know that you will get your chances," Vrbata said. "When I think about the way they play, that kind of suits my game, I think. They like lots of give-and-go's and they like to get open for each other. I think that's something that I like to do, too."
The addition of Vrbata could push Alex Burrows out of that spot. The 33-year-old who had been a regular linemate with the Sedins since 2010 had just five goals and 10 assists in 49 games this past season.
Benning sees Burrows as the second-line right-winger alongside centre Nick Bonino—acquired from the Anaheim Ducks in the Ryan Kesler trade—and either Zack Kassian or Jannik Hansen.
"We want to have balance amongst our four lines. We want to have scoring, we want to have scoring depth," Benning said. "Now we have depth at the forward positions where every line can contribute in the scoring, and that's one of the things that we set out to do."
Signing Vrbata could be the last major move in unrestricted free agency this summer for the Canucks, who got veteran goaltender Ryan Miller on Tuesday for $18 million over three years.
"For the most part we're done," Benning said. "We wanted to address a couple things to make our team a complete team going into this next season, and I think we've done that. … We're going to probably go into the season with this team and we're going to see where we stand and go from there."
Vrbata fit on that checklist because the Canucks wanted to add a scorer. Benning said there were some possibilities on Day One, but when they didn't materialize, the 33-year-old Czech became a priority.
"For us, he plays a 200-foot game," Benning said. "He plays in all three zones and he's got real good hockey sense and hands to finish. He's going to help us on our power play."
And in the shootout. Vrbata had five goals on 12 attempts last season.
But it's the goals he could help produce alongside the Sedins that made Vrbata particularly attractive to the Canucks, and vice-versa. Vrbata understands he might not spend 80 games with Daniel and Henrik but doesn't sound like he'd complain about doing that.
"I'm a big, big believer in chemistry and kind of synergy," Vrbata said. "I feel like when you have chemistry with somebody, that helps so much in today's league where sometimes it's so tight and if you can really trust and gain advantage by knowing the guys you're on a line (with)."
Notes—The Canucks lost Mike Santorelli in free agency after the centre signed a US$1.5-million, one-year deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Benning said Vrbata got the nod over Santorelli because he has been a more consistent scorer over a longer period of time. … Benning confirmed on a conference call with reporters that Travis Green would be back as coach of the Canucks' AHL affiliate, the Utica Comets.
Follow @SWhyno on Twitter