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A few months ago, a whole bunch of blog owners got an email on behalf of Rhonda Shear's company about trying some products for review. I was actually really excited — there have been several great reviews of the Aah Bra as a sleep bra in the comments here, and I was eager to try out the flagship product of the Rhonda Shear empire. Rhonda Shear has sold 25 million Aah Bras, which isn't too shabby.
It's really hard to not like Rhonda Shear and her company. She has a great online presence and a wonderful sense of humor. She is also clearly great at promoting her stuff and running a company. That said, this is the first time I've seen lots of lingerie bloggers review the same company around the same time, and the Aah Bra (and this company in general) brought up some pretty extreme reactions.
I will also preface this review by saying that I don't own a tv and pretty much only watch commercial free shows, so I wasn't familiar with how this bra was advertised. I haven't seen any infomercials or seen Rhonda on HSN, so I came into the products with a fairly fresh eye. I had seen Rhonda Shear products carried by various boutiques that I respect like Dollhouse Bettie, which made me think they must have something good going for them.
I received a mix of samples that included The "Aah Generation" Bra with Removable Pad (which I did remove), The "Cheeky" Lace Panty and the "Sweet Nothings" Short Kimono. All of my samples were size medium. My regular bra size is 32J, and I'm a size 12 or so in dresses.
We'll start with the one everyone wants to hear about, which is the Aah Bra itself. The version I received had pads that would have worked on someone in a smaller cup size but were mostly glorified nipple covers on me. I took them out. The band was decently tight on me and stretched to encompass all of my breast tissue, which is no small feat with my bra size.
I didn't go into this review believing that this bra would be an out of the house option, but I've been searching for a sleep bra and thought that this might do the trick. For me, it does. This bra won't give you a ton of lift or separation, but it's great for lounging around the house or making sleeping on your stomach easier. I even wore it out to walk the dog once and it wasn't bad, although I wouldn't try that on a regular basis. Even better, it's cheap and washable! I've worn mine to sleep in a lot and it's still in good shape despite repeated trips through the washer and dryer. This bra won't rock your world as a substitute for a great fitting underwire bra, but if you're looking for something cheap and easy to make sleeping more comfortable this is definitely worth picking up.
The Cheeky Panties are a basic tanga style lace panty, but they were comfortable and fit well. Hipster cut panties usually don't work for me as I have the narrowest hips on the planet, but these felt comfortable and were flirty and fun. That said, I'd be more likely to recommend the bra than these because of the price. At $22 a pair, you can do much better in terms of style and fabric quality by hitting up an independent designer on Etsy.
The big surprise of this sample set was the Sweet Nothings Kimono. Mine was in the strawberry color, which is shockingly pink but not enough to make me think of Pepto Bismol. The fabric is almost like a thick spandex, with lace trim running down the sleeves. I'm the proud owner of lots of robes, but I don't wear them as much as I would like to due to dangers like spilled coffee, Didy jumping into my lap when I'm half awake, etc. This robe is cute and comfortable, and can survive anything and wash beautifully. As a result, this is my new go to robe for the mornings. I can play piano, make tea, do dishes, or play with Didy in it. When it gets dirty or I spill something on it, 15 minutes with some lingerie soap in warm water makes all of the gross stuff disappear. It's perfect for those of us who want to look nice without risking ruining an expensive or difficult to clean item.
What do you think of Rhonda Shear products? Have you tried the Aah Bra? Let me know in the comments.


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Consumers want unlimited access to the content they want whenever and wherever they want it.
Former FCC Chairman Mark S. Fowler, a longtime champion of free-market solutions, unfortunately misses the fundamental point about the FCC's incentive auctions: Spectrum won't move from broadcasting to wireless broadband unless consenting businesses believe there is a "win-win" deal, which should provide presumptive proof that consumers and society also stand to benefit ("The FCC Is Redistributing Spectrum, Not Freeing It," op-ed, Jan. 24).
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Asia Buys into VW-Brand Cars as European, U.S. Markets Continue to Weaken
BERLIN—Strong growth in China lifted sales of Volkswagen AG's namesake cars by nearly 4% in the first half of the year, but sales were weak in its home European markets and continued to erode sharply in the U.S. and South America.
For the first time in the company's history, Volkswagen sold more than 3 million VW-brand cars world-wide in the six months to the end of June, an increase of 3.8% from a year earlier. The company sold 3.07 million cars world-wide in the first half of 2014 compared with 2.95 million last year....


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A bomb attack targeting Shi'ite worshippers at a mosque in Yemen's capital has killed at least 25 people and wounded dozens during prayers for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, medics say.
Thursday's (local time) blast happened in the Balili mosque where Houthi Shi'ite rebels who control Sanaa go to pray, according to witnesses.
Witnesses reported after a first blast inside the mosque, a suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt at the entrance as worshippers rushed outside.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Sanaa has been shaken by a string of bombings by the Islamic State jihadist group in recent months targeting Shi'ites.
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Surprising International news!
- We are BIG in Sweden. We've been downloaded 5 times!!! Thank you to all our Swedish fans! Other countries include Singapore, Germany, Canada, and China. We're glad to have all of our listeners, no matter where they come from.
Blue Collar Prepping
- Anything a bandana can do, a shemagh can do: http://survivalcache.com/30-uses-for-a-bandana/
- You can get them for 10 dollars or less on Amazon, usually with free shipping: http://tinyurl.com/BluecollarShemagh
- Tying technique #1: http://youtu.be/gxMsz8kWb-U
- Tying technique #2: http://youtu.be/8jH_Fn62I-U
- Tying technique #3 (Erin's favorite): http://youtu.be/tfp_GnY8b0E
- Breathe through your mouth to reduce fogging of glasses.
- Put on a ballcap before tying shemagh.
- Stick with tactical colors; olive drab, foliage green and coyote tan are all good choices.
Felons Behaving Badly
- 2 Officers, 10-Year Old Girl Shot In N. Charlotte – http://feedly.com/e/pyv63d5k
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- Brownell's Range Bag and flashlight: http://smallestminority.blogspot.com/2014/08/more-rendezvous-stuff.html
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- http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/enactedlegislation/statutes/html/bysection/chapter_14/gs_14-79.1.html
- http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/statutes/statutelookup.pl?statute=14-159.7
- Adam – Self Defense Immunity – http://law.justia.com/codes/tennessee/2010/title-39/chapter-17/part-13/39-17-1322/
Al Arma
- Battle of Pavia, Feb 1525. The end of the reign of knighthood and firearms become of age. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pavia
- No Duty To Retreat – Richard Maxwell Brown – http://www.amazon.com/No-Duty-Retreat-Violence-American/dp/0806126183
Fun With Headlines
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Stuff that grinds my gears
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This is a great one from Joyce with a slower lifting speed (Marthe counts). You have time to change weights between exercises.
Length: 30 min.
You do 4 rounds of giant sets (3 exercises) for biceps, shoulders, triceps. Joyce uses the full pyramid system 12/10/8/10/12 reps, then move on to the next three exercises, and so on. If you're time crunched, push skip when she's finished with the heaviest weight. That way you'll jump to the start of the next round, doing pyramid up only in all 4 rounds.
simultaneous Bicep curl
Side delt raise
double arm kickback
Concentration bicep curl
Upright row
Single arm french press
Hammer curl
Pee wee lateral
double arm french press
aternating bicep curl
Alternating shoulder press
alternating tricep kickback
Perhaps I'll sub the simultaneous bicep curls with W presses (Slim Series style), and do the single arm french presses in supine position (a bell in each hand). Upright row will be subbed with L-flyes (a bell in each hand). Pee wee lateral will be subbed with Exercise 4 from this link: http://familydoctor.org/265.xml My shoulders will like this much more!
Rotation tip:
One could alternate full versions and time crunched versions of the Just Joyce titles, thus maintaining a two-day split and shorter workout time, but still reaping the benefits of doing the full pyramid this way:
Day 1: Just Arms (full) + Just Bra-Roll (time crunch)
Day 2: Just Thighs (full) + Just Butt (time chrunch)
the next two days are REVERSE:
Day 3: Just Arms (time crunch) + Just Bra-Roll (full)
Day 4: Just Thighs (time crunch) + Just Butt (full)
Day 5: See Day 1
Day 6: See Day 2
The next week you would start out working the lower body instead of upper body, keeping upper and lower body in balance.
So you alternate full and time crunch versions of the titles, thus maintaining a two-day split and shorter workout time, but still reaping the benefits of doing the full pyramid.
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April 1 2005
Others have already posted comprehensive breakdowns of this workout so I will just add my impressions. Overall, I liked this video. It was exactly what I was expecting it to be. I have used Joyce's workouts in the past but shied away from her stuff after having some customer service issues. I had been curious to try her newer stuff and was delighted when I learned I could order some of the workouts elsewhere. I got this dvd and one other from New Idea Fitness and had a very good ordering experience.
Onto the workout, it is the typical bare bones no-frills strength work Joyce is known for. There are 4 sets each containing 3 exercises: one each for biceps, shoulders and triceps. You do a full pyramid, so 12 reps for each exercise with the lightest weight, 10 each with the middle, 8 each with the heaviest, then back down again with the middle and lightest again. I felt nicely worked out by the end of it.
This is the type of training my body responds best to. I know I will get a lot of use out of this routine and am quite happy with the purchase.
This is a full pyramid workout which has been fully broken down by another reviewer, so I'll just make some comments.
The exercises are classics. The lifting speed is slow for Joyce, and moderate in general. She gives no resting in between sets, so keep the dumbbells close! You only need dumbbells and a chair for this workout. It is a non-choreographed, gym style workout, with negligable music (standard fare for Joyce workouts.)
I like that you can vary the length of the workout - either do the full pyramid (up and down) which goes about 30 minutes, or you can pyramid up by skipping to the next chapter after each superset. Or, you can do full pyramid and skip an entire superset - there are a lot of options.
Joyce works you hard - she does biceps, triceps and shoulders. A nice thing about this workout is, she ends with alternating arm exercises (one-arm at a time), which allows you to still go heavy even though the muscles are fatiqued from the previous exercises (which are done with both arms together.)
This is an efficient workout, and good for time-crunched days, or can be used as a longer upper body workout (although, chest and back are not worked.)
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Joyce is her usual self! Martha counts while Joyce talks to us. Her form isn't great, but the exercises are basic and I don't need to look for form.
The 2 previous reviews covered everything quite well. So, for more info, I'd have to compare this tape to another VF favorite: Cory's Get Hard Arms & Shoulders. I have to admit, I like Joyce arm tape more. It is quicker and you can stop after 2 rounds and still feel it, for even less time. I felt some of Cory's moves were faster than Joyce at times and Joyce gave more rest time, which I never felt like I had enough in Cory's GHAS tape.
This is a great add on tape or great upper workout if short on time. I may not keep the companion Bra Roll Boobs, but instead have substituted Joyce's Fast Forward day one which is chest & back & abs for a more complete workout. The Just Joyce set didn't include abs, so this substitue has been helping me fit it all in.
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The Department of History is part of Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
Browsing History Books by Call Number
Although some older books are perhaps classified in the Dewey Decimal Classification System, most Syracuse University Libraries print resources are classified in and physically arranged according to the alpha-numeric Library of Congress (LC) Classification System.
The LC system has allocated Class "C" to Auxiliary Sciences of History (which include Biography); Class "D" to World History; and Classes "E" and "F" to the History of the Americas.
"C" and "D" call numbers are assigned to History holdings that are shelved both in the Reference Collection and in the general and oversize stacks on the 2nd floor of Bird Library. "E" and "F" call numbers are assigned to the American History holdings that are shelved in the Reference Collection on the 2nd floor of Bird Library and in the general and oversize stacks on the 3rd floor of Bird Library.
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The Simpsons Quotes: "The Devil Wears Nada"Eric Hochberger at . Comments
After taking off the last month for the World Series and the Family Guy live-action special, The Simpsons returned last night with its episode, "The Devil Wears Nada," which was meant to coincide with Marge Simpson's Playboy spread.
During the episode, Marge posed for a calendar and ended up in much more provactive pictures than she thought. However, the photos got her all the attention from the town, but none from Homer.
That's because Homer was busy following Carl around as his new assistant. All in all it made for some great Simpsons quotes. Here are some of our favorites from the episode:
Lenny: I'm gonna miss Ted, he was a good supervisor
Carl: Definitely hands off. He didn't mind if we punched out late
Homer: And he didn't mind that we made a few changes to the soda machine...mmm... beer | permalink
Bart: Stop dragging me! When I get older I'm gonna drag you around and buy you clothes.
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Marge: You two are going out? I thought I told you the Flanderers were coming over for dinner.
Lisa: I'm having a tea party at Jamie's.
Bart: And I'm having a stink bomb party at the house next to Jamie's... no connection. | permalink
Rod: We thought you were gonna die.
Tod: And then Uncle Kevin would have to raise us.
Rod: And his funny friend, David.
Ned Flanders: Oh I'd put rocks in your pocket and walk you out to sea for before I'd let that happen. | permalink
Ned: I'm not thinking straight, why did I have that wine cooler last month? | permalink
Homer [about Marge and Ned having an affair]: My wife and my worst friend. Could it be? | permalink
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January the 1st, 2017. It's that time again where we promise ourselves that THIS year we will rise to do something healthy, empowering or life-changing. The first day of a new year is a perfect time for starting something new, right? The thing is, about 30 days from now is usually where we fall and abandon our grandiose resolution.
What happened? Did you make a New Year's suggestion instead of a vow? You've heard that old saying by W.C. Fields: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it."
But we don't quit, do we? We have hope. Hope that THIS year will be different. THIS year we're going to follow through. THIS year, however, just repeats itself over and over again.
Here's another quote - can you guess who wrote this one?
"Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill."
Believe it or not, the same man who said we should quit if we don't succeed, W.C. Fields! Confused, or brilliant?
What's your attitude when you set your New Year's resolution? You're excited and eager to succeed! What happens to your attitude when you experience your first failure toward that goal? Do you quit? Do you get back up and keep going? Do you feel like a failure or think it's not worth it, or you can't do it?
If I stopped every time I failed at something, I would not have become the successful failure I am today. Often, success comes from failure.
In December of 2007, three of my friends and I were sitting at the bar for happy hour at our neighborhood Mexican cantina, as we often did. Our financial contribution to the alcohol inventory was apparently so significant that the manager begged us not to do what we were about to do. We challenged each other that on Jan. 1 we were all going to quit drinking for 30 days.
Two days went by, and we lost the first one. Three weeks approached, and there went the second one. Thirty days later, there was myself and one other still going strong. About eight weeks later, we lost the third one. Jan. 1, 2017 will be the date that I haven't had a drink since Jan. 1, 2008. It was not an easy promise I made to myself and, in the daily process for the first 10 months, I swore I would have a drink that day! But I always said to myself, tomorrow. If I still feel the same way tomorrow, I will have a drink. Thank goodness today has a tomorrow. My advice to you is that if you can make it for 30 days, you've gotten over the most difficult hump. After that, it's all attitude. Besides, if you quit now, you have to start counting all over again! Who has time for that? It's YOUR move!
Corley Roberts, ACSM-HFS, MHA, CPHQ, is an Exercise Physiologist, published author, public speaker, health care professional and founder and CEO of MyFitScript. MyFitScript has been featured on Medscape Inc., CBS Healthwatch, Business and Health Magazine and the American Academy of Family Physicians. Visit www.myfitscript.com for exercise education and programs, or contact Corley at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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June 24, 1917-Jan. 6, 2007
Ruth Ingram Creech, 89, of 113 N. Martin Road, Goldsboro, formerly of Princeton, died Saturday morning at Wayne Memorial Hospital. She was the daughter of the late Needham Bud and Rosa Woodard Ingram. She was the widow of Daniel Webster Creech. She was also preceded in death by her sister, Ruby Ingram West, her husband, Charles Sr., and a nephew, Charles Worth West Jr. Funeral service will be conducted at 7 p.m. Monday evening at Casey Funeral Home, with the Rev. Rose Hicks officiating. The committal service will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at Princeton Cemetery.
She is survived by her brothers, Ralph K. Ingram and his wife, Marion, of Raleigh, and Raymond W. Ingram and his wife, Sue, of Milford, N.J.
Among the survivors are three generations of nieces and nephews, with a special niece and nephew-in-law, Rosa and Al Thompson of Goldsboro, and a great-nephew, Alan W. Hines.
Although flowers are welcome, the family suggests memorial contributions be made to Ebenezer Church, 3859 U.S. 70 West, Goldsboro, N.C. 27530.
The family will receive friends starting at 6 p.m. Monday and immediately following the funeral service.
The family is being served by Casey Funeral Home in Princeton.
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And so we march onward toward a world we will not recognize and will not enjoy much at all.
Durban failed: Relax, everyone
The United Nations Organisation's COP17 climate conference has finished - and if you're a concerned energy user in IT manufacturing, an investor, or simply taxpayer, there shouldn't be anything the draft agreement to worry you. Not any more than you have to worry about already. The two-week long gathering of 15,000 was …
Great for the environment...
Those 15,000 return flight to Cape Town/Joburg and the 15,000 transfers across South Africa must have benefited the environment greatly...
Ok, can you suggest a better way to host an international conference? Don't suggest teleconfrencing, it just doesn't work that well.
Also, 15000 individuals is a tiny fraction of the amount of people in the air at any one time.
"Don't suggest teleconfrencing, it just doesn't work that well..."
Since Durban was an exercise in futility, I can't believe that teleconferencing would have done any worse...
...just one little thing wrong with that report
We all know the benefits to be derived in terms of quality of life from emitting burning fossil fuels and emitting CO2 - it is what humans have done since the dawn of time. But Orlowski's report assumes that CO2 emissions have no downside: here Orlowski is unlikely to find science or history as allies: It looks pretty much like the planet is warming at 3-ish °C/century and in around 100 years our children may well not look so kindly on our choices. Just like free market economics and indebtedness wrecked the real economy - so free market environmental policy is unlikely to benefit our real environment.
Because as we have seen with communism, the alternative worked so well. But you carry on believing your fairy tales of doom and gloom, while those of us living in the real world will stick to facts.
With govts world-wide claiming and enforcing monopolies of money definition and creation (and using fiat currencies), the degree of indebtedness, led by those govt themselves, is the creation of the antithesis of a free market. Furthermore, the heavy-handed and expensive govt financial, environmental, labor, trade, etc., there is no such thing in the real world as a free market economic environment.
Blaming the economic crises (yes, plural) on the free market shows ignorance, ideological blindness, or stupidity (or some combination of those).
"..But Orlowski's report assumes that CO2 emissions have no downside.."
That's true. CO2 emissions CANNOT warm the Earth since the Earth is cooling at the same time as the emissions are rising.
What they do is provide food for plants. Human emissions are so small that they don't really have much of an effect, but if they were big enough, helping plants grow is the major effect they would have.
All the science now shows that the 'CO2-driven warming hypothesis' is utterly false.
Durban Failed:...
...be very concerned everyone.
Only the terminally stupid believe that contiuing to exploit finite resources as though they're infinite and polluting our atmosphere as though we can manage without it is a reason to relax.
I don't expect balance from El Reg regarding climate change etc. so i'll try to add it in the comments.
We can't live on a dead Earth, so trying to find a way to avoid killing it is a vital aim. Flawed and frustratingly slow though the political process is, it's the only process we have.
We are currently in overshoot. The next stage is collapse, and arguably this is happening in many parts of the world as water and land resources disappear rendering large populations destitute.
Get your head out of your arse and wake up!
Because plant food is killing the planet!
I agree...
...that we should take care of the planet. However I don't agree that lying for worthy reasons is the way to do it. Man Made Global Warming is a lie being used by environmentalists to save the planet. Most people involved may not realize it's a lie or may not care to look too hard because they are invested in the plan to save the planet from actual pollution.
However there are a core of scientists who are actively spinning this to save the planet and suit the political requirements to keep this thing moving.
As the genuine environmentalists discover the lie they will distance themselves from it so it will run out of steam naturally.
If you watch any nature program on TV, they all have a bit about global warming. Often this seems to have been added as an after thought but in many cases the whole program is a vehicle to get the climate change message across.
The people against the idea that man made CO2 can change the climate seem to think that any sort of weather modification is impossible. Looking at a clear blue sky many people can see that it's no longer as blue as it used to be but seems to be a bit more milky than years ago. None of the Global Warmists seem to have commented that this is due to CO2, why the missed opportunity?
I remember...
...hearing this rant in the 1960s. It was completely false then, and it's false now.
What is it with these loons who keep on claiming we have finite resources? Have they never heard of Julian Simon, who made the eco-loons of the 1970s look so stupid?
The next stage is collapse? It's always the NEXT stage - conveniently just beyond the horizon. It never comes - we have been waiting for it for over half a century now. And you know what? We now have far more people on the Earth than the doom mongers in the 1960s ever imagined, and we have food and materials enough for them - and many times their number. We will soon be hauling the masses of China and Africa into the consumption equivalent of middle-class Europe during the 1960s - that is the future of humanity.
I'll tell you what would kill all life on Earth. One of the streams at Durban was pushing for the total removal of all the atmospheric gases it deemed 'evil'. They wanted to drop CO2 levels down to 210 ppm. That would kill enough plants to eradicate all animal life on earth and leave only lichen....
I hate to be the one to break the news, but ....
"..looking at a clear blue sky many people can see that it's no longer as blue as it used to be but seems to be a bit more milky than years ago...."
That's not the sky changing.
It's you getting cataracts....
Glasses, because you need to see an optician...
Durban worthwhile?
What I want to know is, did everyone enjoy the beach? Durbs is a great place for true carbon-neutral living if being a beach bum is your thing.
and how much did this waste ?
Anyone done the sums on how much extra (so-called) carbon did this conference waste over the normal background usage of the attendees ? The flights, the over-wasteful hotels and restaurants, etc. etc. ?
This is almost as good as the amount of wood wasted in burning for "biomass" power stations.
I bet that every hotel, restaurant and car, not to mention the venue itself was heavily airconditioned.
I also bet they were all chauffeured around in individual limousines, probably with some hand wave towards some nonsensical "carbon offset" scam to make it all seem acceptable.
A bigger bunch of hypocrites you won't find.
@Gota Jam
Rather than accusing them of being hypocrites, what do you suggest that they do?
Start by explaining how an international conference can work without international travel.
We don't need International Conferences, achieved sod all and going nowhere fast.
The developing nations are not going to let their people suffer or starve for the ideals of those in the developed world. They can and do rightly point the finger and say 'Get your own house in order first'.
There is no politician in the developed world, except perhaps ours, who is going to say to its' electorate' You go back to the dark ages while others can get to the standard we already have'.
Get Real.
Just like the death of communism we are now in the throws of the death of capitalism, simply because it is unsustainable, and it will take a brave politician to accelerate that process in their own country by introducing more economic hurdles.
When the farmer in Peru growing the beans for Tesco sees his children starving no amount of capital on the planet will encourage him to sell them to anyone. Currencies and economies will fail, riots start over food and water and the welfare of the planet will probably go to hell.
Sound familiar, try applying some logic.
But there is growth outside of BRICS
It was only 7,000 going to the conferences, now 15,000 fly in and eat, drink and live in style at tax payer's expense. Qatar should be able to grow this to 20,000, and as everyone knows, the more people at a meeting, the less chance of agreement, so lots of conferences needed going forward until we get agreement or the earth cooks.
Fastest is rarely best
"the fastest way of alleviating human suffering. "
Unrestricted financial dealings are the fastest way to make a profit. For a few years.
Unrestricted industrial development is the fastest way of alleviating human suffering. For a few decades, if you're lucky.
Then someone has to clean up the mess.
Tell that to the hundreds of millions who can't turn on a tap and have a glass of clean water.
"While they're busy talking about saving the world, the BRICS nations are actually creating a new one."
The trouble is, of course, that BRICS is not creating a new world. They have to live in this one.
Still, I'm not worried; I'm 51, I don't have any children and I live in a northern country. It wont get really bad until after I'm dead. It's the kids now being born in BRICS that will have to put up with the mass starvations.
Thanks, Andrew
I've been following the sorry tale of COP-17 - two weeks of taxpayer-funded self indulgence beside the equatorial sea for the 15,000 or so so attendees - for the past two weeks, mainly via the 'official' channel of the BBC and then via the blogosphere. The BBC have been, and sadly remain, completely biased in their reporting of this event. There is no suggestion at all, in any of their coverage, of 'wealth transfer' and the entire jamboree (or attempted robbery, as I prefer to call it) has been lauded by The Biased Broadcasting Corporation as a 'triumph' and a 'significant new deal', as well as indulging in meaningless bombast such as 'saving tomorrow for today'...at which point, on the verge of vomiting, I had to stop reading.
Now that the attendees - mainly unelected NGOs and eco alarmists - have all racked up their Air Miles quite nicely, they can get back to lecturing the rest of us on how sinful our way of life is, whilst smarting, no doubt, from the fact their attempted heist went so badly wrong. That's going to put a few annual financial projections out at the WWF, Friends of the Earth, Oxford, et al, lol.
Thanks for this valuable summary of COP-17, Andrew. I knew I could trust El Reg to take a more impartial and critical view of this meaningless party by the sea. The fact that you are practically alone amongst news outlets to refer to the more outrageous proposals seriously being put forward by these unelected NGOs (hoping for them to be enshrined in law) speaks volumes for your integrity as a journalist - sadly, very many of your colleagues and peers in the MSM have failed abysmally to report the facts of Durban. Who here, for instance, has any idea that there was a serious attempt to at the 'Conference of the Parties' to have a World Climate Court created?
If you've been following the coverage on the BBC you will not have heard one mention of it at all.
Ah, it's all political.
New Climate change treaty? Nope.
Funding? Nope.
Economic growth restrictions? Nope.
Trade rules? Nope.
Load of wankwords advertising a free bunfight next year? Ah, yes. We can agree on that.
Anyone know what the point was?
Yes, the point was that load of of wankers still having a job and getting another taxpayer-funded junket to a remote place so they can tell us to quit generating carbon. #callmecynical
Everywhere is remote to somewhere on the planet.
Put the talks in a travelodge at Heathrow, the total distance traveled would still be pretty much the same, hence they are moved around from year to year.
Was this ever going to go anywhere?
What's great is that the attendees burned a lot of fossil fuels to get to and from Durban, so they could sit around and discuss how to reduce the amount of fossil fuels that get burned. They couldn't possibly have discussed the matters over a telephone or even this new-fangled internet thingy. Nope. They had to burn large quantities of jet fuel to get 15,000 of them in the same physical place so they could achieve... nothing.
Nothing has been achieved. Nothing was ever going to be achieved. I'll even tell you why. I've got more chance of getting Samantha Fox into my bed than anyone has of getting certain countries to reduce their fossil fuel usage. The 'certain' countries I refer to are the BRIC and the USA. Why are they important? Oh, that's right. They're the ones who use massive amounts of fossil fuels.
Sure it's possible to get agreements without including the countries I mentioned, but that'd be like thinking that if I don't stop at the pub on Friday, it's going to put the pub out of business. They may notice, or may not. But I somehow doubt it.
The JeffyPooh Protocol
Instead of making promises that can't be kept, simply make it into a contest.
Each country **does what it can** (cost-efficiently), and then they have a huge awards ceremony every few years where they hand out trophies, certificates, and oversized cheques with billions of dollars of reward money in all sorts of categories and sub-categories.
Changes the whole thing into a contest of positive mindset.
This is Africa
The outcome sounds very African... stay in the best hotels, eat and drink like kings and sit around and agree to agree... on more meetings.. where delegates will stay in the best hotels, eat and drink like kings and sit around and agree to agree once again...
What if its a hoax
And we created a better world all for nothing?
There is nothing to stop you from spending you money on this hoax.
"Durban failed: Relax, everyone"
.......except if your live in South Africa, or any other country disappearing to the sea.
Then get angry at the selfish/greedy western b stards.
Pray tell...
What has been the sea level rise off ZA in the last (say) 20 years. About the same as the disappearing Maldives at a guess...
Sea levels always rise
All over the world there are buildings under the sea, some 100 feet, some 400 feet. Water just keeps on rising. But strangely the Maldives stay above water. Is this because the float? No, but almost. The islands actually grow taller every year.
Throw the UN out
They are not in your interest when they have Agenda 21
I deliver more
with a greater degree of success using far fewer resources.
We send Chris Hune and is clunkiest around the world at great expense, to agree nothing except to have another meeting. If that had been me, I would make them pay their expenses and the fire them.
Huhne returns waving paper 'No CO2 emissions in our time'
Meanwhile as S Africa India and China are burning all the coal they can find, suddenly global warming seems to have stopped anyway.
Is there anything that politicians can be relied upon to be, except wrong, or two faced hypocrites?
actually we flog it
SA does burn a lot of coal, but the best coal we export so that others can burn it... in excess of 60 million tons a year.
Lord Monkton Para
I heard Lord Monkton say on the Alex Jones radio show that they would not let him in so he went up in an aircraft and parashooted into the conference.
Here we go
"conference attendees have simply agreed to carry on attending climate conferences"
And that is the alpha and omega of it.
I think what was meant is...
even with laudable aims (whether or not you think AGW is real) these conferences are at best expensive gestures where nothing happens and at worst scams enriching the money-men and major corporates such as the carbon trading schemes, though mostly they are just a waste of taxpayer money, either at the time or with regard to new policies.
We can relax because they haven't done anything more stupid than waste conference costs.
If the conferences actually achieved something, it might be worth considering what we can do.
Greed is natural in all of us, but the West has gone further, preaching that there is nothing but the material, that life is brief and you should make the most of it and that there is no judgement at the end of life. Then we seem to be surprised that people do whatever makes them happy/rich right now without regard to the future or anyone else.
As the mid-winter festival has changed from celebrating the arrival of a god who offers eternal life, to an alchoholic haze apparently designed to blot out all conciousness or memory of life, you have to wonder how many people really think life on earth is worthwhile, regardless of what they may say.
Re: I think what was meant is...
Hemlocks all round, then
Durban Failed
Please when reporting use a descriptive title. I live in Durban and assumed I was about to read information on how my home town failed. Not how the climate control conference outcome was a failure.
For those of you pissing and moaning about how those bad "western" societies are ruining the world.... piss off!
You don't have any viable solution to the world-wide problems you describe; you certainly would NOT be happy going back to live cave-man style with NOTHING but a stick to your name and good luck hunting there, chucklehead.
There are NO massive solutions which will readily resolve the problems you insist are there; and i'm not willing to totally give up what little I have to have it routed to some third world so they can keep doing their same-old.
Is witch-burning carbon neutral?
"Is witch-burning carbon neutral?"
No the burning of sulfur and wood is awfully carbon-y and needs to be offset with investments in the Soilent Green carbon-redux fund.
"I don't expect balance from El Reg regarding climate change"
Well said.
Though, I also agree that the BBC also seems to be more one-sided than usual in this area.
There is the argument however, that professional groupings like The Royal Society, and their American counterpart, have both stuck their reputations - all that they have - on the line and said that they agree with the theory of man made climate change. They could have just happily just sat on the fence.
Anyhoo, I steer clear of the painful and thankless "who is right or wrong on global warming" gig, preferring instead the Greg Craven (Google him!) approach. That's to ignoring who might be right, and thinking 'what if the problem exists, yet we did nothing?'. The answer is, slowed economic growth and catalysed the growth of at least one amazingly efficient technologies.
Yes, some will need to fly to get some kind of agreement as body language is important, and what hotel/food they had is red herring heresay, so why not just limit these gigs to less than 1000 people?
"Durban Failed" ???
I'll have you know. Durban passed with flying colours. The conference was hosted with professional skill and much hard labour (I was there...labouring hard)
Maybe the conference failed?
But Durban gets an "A+".
Just because 15000 people holding a conference about something that has never been static to begin with couldn't make up their minds...That's not Durban's fault.
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You can't make this shit up. Izzy Paskowitz's autobiography, Scratching The Horizon: A Surfing Life, is the sort of story that's so crazy and bizarre it has to be true. It's the sort of tale that could only come from decades spent living like a windblown seed. Some of it is incredible. Some of it is horrible. But it's a true roller coaster ride through and through — a shocking and unpredictable adventure that would probably be terrifying if you actually cared how it turned out. But it's not so much that Izzy didn't care. He just possessed a sort of blind faith that most people will never understand.
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Co-author Dan Paisner writes that Galarraga and Joyce knew exactly what was steaming toward them. He alternates chapters between the two men's first-person voices.
Venezuela-born Galarraga, who signed with the Montreal Expos for only $3,500, remembers retiring the Indians in order in the eighth inning with a 1-0 lead. He left the field telling himself, "I am not thinking so much about keeping it close. I am not thinking anymore about the win or the shutout. I am not even thinking about a no-hitter. I am thinking only about the perfect game."
Joyce, the blue-collar son of Toledo Jeep factory workers, was working at first base. With two out in the ninth and Cleveland's Jason Donald batting, he says, "Deep down I know the play is coming to me. And I know it's going to be close."
It wasn't close. Donald was clearly out, but Joyce called him safe to ruin Galarraga's date with history.
I interviewed Donald, and he was astonished. He figured the umpire would call him out even if he was safe. Who messes with history after 26 straight outs?
Joyce's description of what took place in the umpire's locker room after the game is revealing. He describes the terrible feeling that overcame him as he watched the replay, and breaking down as he told reporters that he'd "kicked the play." Finally, he asks Detroit GM Dave Dombrowski if he could talk to Galarraga. The pitcher hugs and forgives him.
Believe me, these are rare occurrences in an umpire's locker room.
The best part of "Nobody's Perfect" is reading Galarraga's story. Roughly 28 percent of the players in the big leagues are from Latin America, but the language barrier often prevents English-speakers from learning much more than their statistics.
Here, we sense his deep knowledge of his craft, and his worry about staying in the major leagues. Going into the game against the Indians, the hitter he feared most was Shin-Soo Choo. During the game, it became infielder Donald because he was as "hungry" as Galarraga to prove he belonged.
Then the flow of the game took over.
"One-two-three, one-two-three," says Galarraga, referring to how quickly the innings flew by. "I am keeping the dance going. I am keeping the rhythm."
The dance ended when Joyce called Donald safe. Galarraga had his foot on first base when he took the throw from teammate Miguel Cabrera on Donald's grounder. He knew Donald was out. He knew he had thrown the 21st perfect game in history. The only person who didn't was Joyce.
All Galarraga did was smile and walk back to the mound as his teammates charged Joyce. When play resumed, Galarraga retired Trevor Crowe for the final out in a 3-0 victory. The game took 1 hour and 44 minutes. "Nobody's Perfect" reads almost as fast.
Paul Hoynes covers Major League Baseball for The Plain Dealer.
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An Amazon.com "Top Twenty" best-seller
An Amazon.com #1 best-seller
(okay, so this was in the Bargain Books category, but Gilbert's fans are cheap, cheap, cheap...)
May 13, 2011
By PETER KEEPNEWS
By Gilbert Gottfried
Illustrated. 272 pp. St. Martin's Press. $24.99.
In comedy, the saying goes, timing is everything. The publication of Gilbert Gottfried's first book, which is kind of a memoir but not really, comes little more than a month after Gottfried made news by tweeting jokes about the Japanese earthquake and tsunami so tasteless that they cost him the longest-lasting and perhaps most lucrative job of his career: providing the duck's voice in those omnipresent Aflac commercials. He quickly apologized, but the damage was done.
Or was it? If it's true that there's no such thing as bad publicity, then the attention Gottfried got for making offensive jokes and being fired can only help sell copies of "Rubber Balls and Liquor." And since much of the book is devoted to Gottfried's various career disasters, then at the very least this latest misstep has given him great material for his next book.
"Rubber Balls and Liquor" — the odd title is explained at the end of the book — is, among other things, a lesson in survival. As a young comic, Gottfried survived being a "Saturday Night Live" cast member in what is widely regarded as the show's worst season. A decade later, he survived a barrage of criticism after joking about masturbation at the 1991 Emmy Awards. His deadpan accounts of these and other professional low points are some of the funniest parts of the book.
And make no mistake about it: although Gottfried has enjoyed success as everything from the voice of the parrot in "Aladdin" to the teller of a graphically unprintable story in the acclaimed documentary "The Aristocrats," he has had more than his share of professional low points. Some of them were surely devastating at the time. But in the grand tradition of self-deprecating comedy, he plays them, often brilliantly, for laughs.
"Rubber Balls and Liquor" is for fans. I can't imagine it will find much of an audience among those who know Gottfried only as a comedian with an annoying voice who occasionally gets into very public trouble. He unquestionably is that, but for some of us he is a whole lot more: a thoroughly original performer, with an inventive mind to match his oddball delivery. His humor is located somewhere between the borscht belt and the theater of the absurd, in a strange netherworld where invading aliens ask questions about Ben Gazzara, where Tony Curtis and Gavin MacLeod have surrealistic conversations about doughnuts (Gottfried is a preternaturally gifted impressionist), and where an expression like "I was literally gone" can be the jumping-off point for a frantic comedic riff that threatens to go on forever. If you are a devotee, you will be eager to see how well his humor translates to the printed page, and you won't be disappointed: there are dead spots, and sometimes he tries a little too hard, but over all it translates well.
You will be disappointed if you expect much insight into Gilbert Gottfried the person, but why would you? Gottfried's comedy has always been more about getting laughs than getting real. The same is true of his book.
He seems more or less on the level when talking about his life in show business, while what few details he offers about his personal life come off as, shall we say, less than trustworthy. As he explains it, most of his stories are true, "except for the ones that aren't."
I mostly believe his wonderful account of seeing Wayne Newton perform in Las Vegas. I don't believe that his father owned a hardware store called Gilbert's Father's Hardware Store. I definitely don't believe that his father was ever a Nazi. And while his tales of sexual inadequacy and frustration have the ring of comedic, if not literal, truth, you have to read carefully to learn that he is married — by my count he mentions his wife exactly twice, and the second mention is a thank-you on the last page.
In other words, the story of a man equally well known for doing cartoon voices and making sick jokes is, unsurprisingly, not your average celebrity tell-all. It is also not to be taken seriously — except, of course, when it is.
Peter Keepnews is an editor at The Times.
... a New York Times best-seller, from Ohio's Governor-elect
"If questioning certainties is an art, John Kasich has mastered it..."
-- Elie Wiesel
"This is the best sea story ever; the saga of being the first son of the legendary ocean explorer, Jacques Cousteau -- a boy thrust into history-making adventures in the unknown depths of the sea, and, while discovering the nature of the world, finding the human side of his father, deep respect for his mother, and a place in the world for himself."
-- Sylvia A. Earle, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence
"The Daymond John 'brand' is all about being out in front and going your own way. In THE BRAND WITHIN, he gets readers thinking about what it means to succeed in business and in life. One thing about Daymond, he takes charge, and here he puts his own spin on our consumer culture and challenges us to change things up."
-- Mark Burnett, television producer
... a New York Times best-seller
"Revealing, candid, and full of surprises, Mika Brzezinski's compelling memoir tells the story of a woman, a wife, and a mother at the top of her game who never stops questioning the choices she has had to make to be true to her own high standard." -- Tina Brown, founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast
... a New York Times best-seller
"The Trump Card is appealing, grounded, smart, and has a sense of humor. Ivanka Trump proves that believing in yourself and working hard never go out of style."
-- Anna Wintour
... a New York Times best-seller
"Serena has dredged deeply into her emotions and those of the First Family of tennis-hopes and fears, aches and triumphs-to craft an exceptional memoir. Ascending from nowhere to the top of the world, she has run an exciting zig-zag course transforming darkest days into bright victories on her way to the International Tennis Hall of Fame."
-- Bud Collins
AND HERE'S A BRAND-NEW BIT OF FAINT PRAISE FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (August 19, 2012)
"... a better-than-average entry in the genre of the co-written sports memoir..." John Jeremiah Sullivan
"When most former major leaguers write memoirs, you wonder why they bothered; with Ron Darling - Yale graduate, former New York Met and Oakland A, and current Mets broadcaster - you wonder why it took him so long. What other former athlete could write a sentence like this even with assistance from a professional writer (Daniel Paisner): 'This right here (his legendary college pitching duel against St. Johns star Frank Viola) was one of the great epiphanies for me as a competitive athlete, only it took a while for it to resonate.' Most former pitchers can't resonate even with help..."
-- Allen Barra, San Francisco Chronicle "Best Baseball Books of 2009"
"Met fans already know Ron Darling as one of the game's most insightful commentators, but this is a book for all of Baseball Nation to cherish. Just as artfully as he once changed speeds, Darling moves adeptly between his own experience on the mound and his probing analysis of the art and psychology of pitching to offer us a rare glimpse inside the world of the loneliest man on the field. The result is the pitching equivalent of Ted Williams' 'The Science of Hitting.'"
–Jonathan Mahler, author of "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is Burning"
"Darling's little gem of a book immediately takes its place alongside 'Ball Four' and 'Moneyball' as a classic, and the best account ever of the way pitchers think."
–Joseph J. Ellis, author of "American Creation"
The harrowing story of survival and hope, set in a web of sewer tunnels beneath the streets of Lvov, Poland during the Holocaust...
"Every so often a Holocaust memoir comes along that transcends the breathless survivor narratives and is recognized as a classic of its kind, such as Elie Wiesel's 'Night' or Primo Levi's 'Survival in Auschwitz.' 'The Girl in the Green Sweater,' a first-person account by Krystyna Chiger, a retired 73-year-old dentist, written with Daniel Paisner, a professional ghostwriter, could possibly become such a book..."
-- Netty C. Gross, The Jerusalem Report
"Despite the substantial number of Holocaust memoirs that have been published, 'The Girl in the Green Sweater' manages to touch us in an unexpected way, revealing highs and lows in man's capacity for evil, as well as his capacity to love life and other human beings. Through the eyes of the child that Krystyna Chiger was in Lvov, Poland in 1939, we see the whole moral universe."
-- Naomi Ragen, author of "The Saturday Wife"
"Congresswoman DeGette provides an explosive, first-hand account of how the right-wing has manipulated public policy on issues ranging from choice, reproduction, and stem cell research for pure political gain. Her compilation of experiences from inside the halls of Congress reveal how sound-science and scientific evidence have been ignored for far too long. Everyone should read Congresswoman DeGette's book and learn from it."
-- Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
"Mark McEwen's CHANGE IN THE WEATHER is a heartwarming tale of triumph against overwhelming odds. For anyone who has suffered a stroke or knows someone who has, Mark's words will make them laugh and cry, but mostly will give them hope."
-- George H.W. Bush, 41st President of the United States
"Mark McEwen is one of America's great communicators. Read this book and you'll learn about the adventures of morning television, but you'll also find out how love and hard work brought a man who almost died back to life."
-- Harry Smith, anchor of "The Early Show" on CBS
"In the 1984 Orange Bowl, Boston College's Doug Flutie threw a last-second 48-yard Hail Mary pass to Gerard Phelan that stunned viewers and gave the Eagles a 47-45 victory over the University of Miami Hurricanes. Fans still talk about that game, about that pass, about the talent, determination, and bit of luck that inspired sports lovers everywhere to believe anything is possible if you work and dream hard enough.
"Twenty-two years later, another athlete had a similarly life-changing experience. For Jason McElwain - dubbed J-Mac by his teammates - it happened not during a nationally televised college football game, but on the Rochester, N.Y., Greece Athena High School basketball court in front of wildly cheering schoolmates, teammates, friends, and family. Those four minutes - detailed in McElwain's 'The Game of My Life' - catapulted him to national stardom.
"And those four minutes also challenged our view of what children with autism can accomplish with supportive teachers and the love of a devoted family and loyal friends.
"Caught by team cameras, the video of McElwain's amazing achievement - 20 points scored in the final four minutes of the team's last regular-season game, including a school-record six 3-pointers - has been viewed more than 300,000 times on YouTube; it also ran on ESPN and the national evening news. McElwain won a 2006 ESPY Award for "Best Sports Moment," beating Kobe Bryant and the George Mason University men's basketball team. The game made him so popular he even had Peyton Manning's number in his cellphone directory...
"For thousands of parents of children with autism, reading 'The Game of My Life' is a window into your child's world. Recounting his memories of growing up with autism, as a child who didn't speak until he was 5 years old, he talks about idolizing his older brother and making friends with neighborhood children. As he discovers sports, we see a young man with exceptional drive and persistence emerge...
"But it was the game of basketball that became the center of McElwain's world. Although he practiced shooting hoops every day, and all summer long, he never made the cut on either the high school junior varsity or varsity teams. Instead, he was named the team manager. And he embraced the position.
"As the final game of his senior year approached, the coach offered McElwain the possibility that he would get to play for a few minutes. With four minutes left in the game, and their team ahead, 59-31, coach Jim Johnson said, 'Jason, you're in,' and the rest is history. McElwain's account of those four minutes will make you feel every moment of his excitement and joy...
"Co-author Daniel Paisner has added context to McElwain's story by including comments from his family, therapists, coaches, and teammates. We see his struggles with autism from their point of view. But it is McElwain's words of determination that resonate through the book. 'Stay focused,' he says to the players during every game and every practice.
"Flutie, who has an autistic son, may have identified with McElwain's shining moment on many levels. 'His story is an inspiration for all parents and provides hope for those facing a diagnosis of autism,' the former quarterback says in a quote on the jacket of 'The Game of My Life.'"
-- Leah P. Baily, Boston Globe
(some of these books go back to the invention of movable type, but what the hell...)
Paisner's second "first" novel... the story of an aging Hollywood icon who stages his own death, and the hack obituary writer hired to complete his presumably posthumous memoirs..."A cult favorite" (Kirkus Reviews)
"The author, a prolific ghostwriter (his string of credits includes books cowritten with George Pataki, Willard Scott, and Anthony Quinn), published his first novel, 'Obit', in 2000. It featured Axel Pimletz, an obituary writer for a Boston newspaper. Paisner's second novel, also starring the hapless Pimletz, is altogether a superior piece of work. Where 'Obit' was lumbered with a clumsy mystery plot, this one is a breezy comedy that moves at a brisk pace. Terence Wood, a famous actor, apparently has died, and after Pimletz's lengthy obituary is published, Pimletz is approached for an even bigger assignment: writing Wood's memoirs. How does a minimally talented obit writer produce the memoirs of an actor about whom he barely knows anything? And what will happen when he - and the world - discovers that the actor is not dead? Paisner has polished and expanded all the good things in his first novel and jettisoned all the things that didn't work. If there is anyone who could write a good novel about a ghostwriter, it's a ghostwriter, and this novel is just a whole lot of fun. Here's a book that, with enough word of mouth, has the makings of a cult favorite.
-- David Pitt, Booklist (starred review)
The winners of the 2006 Quill Book Awards were announced Tuesday, October 10, 2006 during a star-studded gala at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, hosted by NBC News' Lester Holt. It was a who's who of authors and best-selling publishers as awards were handed out in 20 categories. The winners were chosen by the public, who cast their votes online.
The Quills' highest honor, Book of the Year, was awarded to "Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings," by Tyler Perry, published by Riverhead Books.
The most anticipated award of the evening, in the Best Sports Book category, went to Holly Robinson Peete and Daniel Paisner for "Get Your Own Damn Beer, I'm Watching the Game!" -- a guide to professional football that somehow beat out nominated entries from noted Pulitzer Prize winners David Halberstam and David Maraniss.
"Go figure," Paisner told reporters, when informed of his award while enjoying the pre-season rates at Gstaad.
The author had retained famed ceremony-stealer Sacheen Littlefeather to accept the award on his behalf. "She's good at this sort of thing," he said. "Me, I'd be too nervous, meeting Roger Moore and that Bond girl, and making a speech in front of all those people. And besides, that line people always say, about how it's an honor just to be nominated. No way I could deliver that with a straight face. Sacheen, though, she's got the routine down. She's a real pro's pro."
The black-tie audience at the 2006 Quill ceremonies enjoyed performances by American Idol's Fantasia, comedian Lewis Black and the Tony Award-winning cast of Broadway's "Avenue Q." Celebrity presenters included Donald Trump, Stanley Tucci, Harry Connick, Jr., Suzanne Somers, Rhea Perlman, Dana Delany and other notables from the world of letters.


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MODESTO — The Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department bomb squad responded to a suspicious package at the county jail in Modesto on Wednesday morning.
The bomb techs found a backpack and determined it was safe.
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A Russian security researcher going by the name 'Dark Purple' has designed a USB stick that can send 220 Volts when plugged into a USB socket. If this of course happens on a PC or Laptop it will obviously nuke the motherboard, but the same damage will also be done to any other device that has a USB port such as a TV.
The only solution is to remove all USB ports on PCs and Laptops and revert back to using a PS2 Keyboard and Mouse :-)
You can watch the video below
On a separate note, with cloud storage now being so readily available, using USB drives on a network shouldn't be that necessary any more. They generally get corrupted, they get lost, they can contain viruses and all sorts of software nastiness and are just a pain in general. This is especially the case if you work in a school and students are constantly just removing the devices without saving their work first, leading to lost work.


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Don Imus Slips a Great Anti-War Folk-Rock Song onto Fox-TV: KMAG YOYO!
From the WTF Department, here's something from Fox TV's Don Imus Show last December.
Hayes Carll is a young country singer from Texas with a fantastic surreal song about an 18-year-old soldier in Afghanistan that is up there with the best of Dylan, with elliptical lyrics like Desolation Row you never get tired of reaching for to figure out.
It's called KMAG YOYO, which in military argot means "Kiss My Ass Guys. You're On Your Own." (This version is the one broadcast on Sirius Radio, because the lyrics are easier to hear. If you want the Fox Imus show performance, which has more of a live feel to it, it's here.)
Is it Antiwar? No question. But better than that, it's pro living, breathing life and it really jumps. Check it out!
Instead of being brainwashed by General Caldwell's PsyOps Team, our Senators should be duct-taped into chairs and made to listen to this song over and over for eight hours.
Here are the lyrics, in case the great instrumental work of the band obscures some of the words:
Well, daddy joined the Air Force
Said, it was a good source
Danger, love, and money, but it
only led to divorce
Ended up in Abilene
Working at a Dairy Queen
Put me in the Army on the
day that I turned seventeen
Here I am standin' in the
desert with a gun
Thought of going AWOL but I'm
too afraid to run
So I got myself a new plan
Stealin' from the Taliban
Make a little money turning
poppies into heroin
Sergeant didn't like it so they
put me in a hole
I said, "It's easy shootin' when they
don't know where to go."
Threw me on a lily pad
Sent me home to NORAD.
I knew I'd be in trouble but I
didn't think it be this bad.
Stranger wearin' all black
Met me on the tarmac
Told him I was sorry but
I ain't ever going back
He said, you ain't in trouble son
Learn to fight without a gun
Got a new assignment now, you're
working for the Pentagon
Gonna take a trip, wouldn't
tell me what it's for
Gotta serve your country, gonna
help us win the war
MIT, Ph.D.'s,
night and day, they're testing me
Ain't what I was thinking but I'm
being all that I can be
I ain't no genius but I
knew it wasn't right
Eating uppers in the morning
and LSD at night
Send me off to deep space
Help 'em win the arms race
Ola me, oh mighty, but this


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GAYLA 38 on July 16-23, 2016 at Ferry Beach (www.ferrybeach.org)
For gay or bisexual men, fighting to make our way in the "straight man's world" can sometimes be a very lonely and often perilous journey. GAYLA is a gathering for adult, gay men, single or partnered, and for adult bi-sexual, questioning or gay-friendly men.
Our annual gathering of men takes place at the Ferry Beach Park Association conference center in Saco, Maine. GAYLA offers an all-inclusive, affordable vacation alternative, a beautiful, simple, nurturing space for self-exploration, self-expression, relaxation and community building that could potentially change your life. A wide variety of optional activities allows the GAYLA attendee to customize a week that meets individual needs.
Men seeking GAYLA are learning there is no ready-made role model or single template for us to follow as we strive to make progress in our life-long journey toward becoming the best gay or bi-sexual man we can possibly be--spiritually, sexually, emotionally, and physically. In an effort to be successful and safe in our quest, many thoughtful men have realized that we can maximize our personal, as well as collective growth, by forming a community or a brotherhood expressly designed to provide mutual support, nurturance, acceptance, friendship, loving, and mentoring of one another.


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Conservancy's Salon Movie Night Thursday March 20th, 7:30pm in the Mary Jefferies resource room at the Root Seller.
From the award-winning director of On The Line comes the unconventional documentary Kitturiaq. The film unflinchingly follows two men on a 620 km wilderness canoe journey through the vast, remote tundra of the Labrador Plateau - a little-known region of the Canadian North.
Seen from the perspective of Malina - a mosquito who joins them on the journey - the film brings the viewer intimately into the experience of the expedition. Though the conditions are at times difficult and bludgeoning, the film evokes a joy that is found when the modern world is left behind and an ancient, wild place is embraced. Inuit and Innu people who have lived in this land for thousands of years share their ways with the two adventurers, grounding the journey in history and culture while also alluding to the challenges modern pressures exert on their traditional lifestyles.
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