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Ceremony To Mark Start Of School Project
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Two Farewells Mark Graduation
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2,000 Signatures Needed For Budget Vote
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Building Official Has Maintenance Authority, Ruling Says
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Health Unit To Offer Senior Screenings
T-shirt Sale Aiding Visit Of Olympians
Tax Revaluation Could Be Delayed
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School Board Chairman Looks To Sell Building, End Tax Trouble
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Funding Still Needed For World Games Athletes
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Pto Gives $3,000 To Help School Library
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School Panel Seeks Part Of Grant Money
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Burlington Group To Explore Senior Housing
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School Board Ends Early Dismissals
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Redistricting Plan Draws Ire
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Leave The Town Green Alone
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Governor Gets Better Marks With Public
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Schools Plan New Look For Mathematics Classes
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Mentors Helping City Students Through University Of Hartford
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Voters Approve Funds For 180-day School Year
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Vernon Joining Multicultural School Effort
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School Board Trims Budget By $297,000
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China: Rapid Development, Population Pressures
Injuries Don't Stop Her Game
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A Dart, A Heart
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Clerk's Race Would Be First In 16 Years
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Judge Given More Time To Review Sheff Case
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Trial Date Scheduled For Trooper In Crash
Why Not A Skateboard Park?
Man Gets Three-year Prison Term
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Budgets Go Down For The Third Time In Region 13, Region 17
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Directors Clear Work On Veterans' Cemetery
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School Administration Organization At Issue
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Stafford Board To Pick Interim Superintendent
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Residents Fight Plan To Widen Kelly Road
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Residents, Officials Welcome New Chief
Some In East Windsor Leery Of Digging Plan
By CINDY RODRIGUEZ; Courant Staff Writer
Holocaust Exhibit At Community Center
When Rude Is The Rule, Politeness Counts Against Politicians
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A Proposal To Enhance Learning
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Protestors To Rally Against U.s. Embargo On Cuba
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West Indian Festival Set For August Splash
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New Britain's Housing Agency Pays Its Bills
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Residents Hear About Pollution Study
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Town Hopes To Get Money From Tax Delinquent
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Agencies Cooperate For Middlesex Youth Program
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Judge Removes Himself From Fleet Bank Suit
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Fire Officials Add Obstacle To Wal-mart Plan
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Legislature's Name Game
Merger Of Nursing Groups Expands Services
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Would-be Buyer Arrested
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Two Laid-off Workers Suing Town
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Cheney Issues Diplomas
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Graduates Say Goodbye To High School
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School Board To Request Additional Money To Cover Deficit, Restore Cuts
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Mildred V. Moquin
Kohn. George Kohn
Man Who Traded Car For Drugs Avoids Jail
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Council Rejects Alarm Ordinance
By GERALD JACOBS; Courant Staff Writer
After 50 Years, Adult Education Having A Ball
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Woman's Olympian Kindness, Dedication Missed
By LAWRENCE STRAUSS; Courant Staff Writer
Wilfred Pelletier
Man To Sue Police For Harassment
Young Detective Named Officer Of The Year
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Huge Deal For Pratt From Korea Airline
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Nba Player To Visit Basketball Camp
Benefits Received Illegally, Police Say
Mixed Results In Bristol Grant Program
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Genetic Testing: Progress, Ethical Questions
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Woman Charged With Selling Drugs
New Hartford Board Moves Ahead To Hire Interim Schools Chief
By JESSE LEAVENWORTH; Courant Staff Writer
35-lot Subdivision Proposed In Wallingford
By AMY ASH NIXON; Courant Staff Writer
West Hartford Fire News
Myers. Charles V. Myers
Housing Authority To Get Money For Renovations
By CHRISTINE DEMPSEY; Courant Staff Writer
Pupils Shower Special Olympics In Pennies
By COURTNEY ANDERSON; Courant Correspondent
Federal Affirmative Action Decision Gets Wait-and-see Reaction
By DAVID LIGHTMAN; Washington Bureau Chief Courant Staff Writer Jon Lender contributed to this report.
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Goodrich. Hazel M. Goodrich
Man Pleads Guilty To Weapon And Drug Charges
By JOSEPH A. O'BRIEN JR.; Courant Staff Writer
Population Pressures, Cultural Stigma Limit Lives Of Mentally Retarded People
By LENNIE MAGIDA; Courant Correspondent
Berlin Police News
New Appointee To Bring Energy, Determination To School Board
By DAVID DALEY; Courant Correspondent
Gadfly Announces Bid For City School Board
By RICK GREEN; Courant Staff Writer
Mcnamara Says He Will Enter Mayoral Race
By LISA CHEDEKEL; Courant Staff Writer
Boeing 777 Customers
Police Logs
258 Graduate From Cheshire High School
By GARY LIBOW; Courant Staff Writer
Three Graduates Share The Top Spot
By TINA A. BROWN; Courant Staff Writer
Planning And Zoning Commission Puts Off Decision On Shooting Range
By SANDY LOUEY; Courant Staff Writer
Renewal Of Independence For The Hartford Receives Warm Greeting In City
By ANDREW JULIEN; Courant Staff Writer Staff writers William Hathaway, Jon Lender, Mike McIntire, Dee Segel and Pat Seremet contributed to this story.
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Clinton To Attend Special Olympics
By KATHLEEN MEGAN; Courant Staff Writer
Court Dispositions
Exchange Club Holds New Officer Dinner
Federal Authorities Investigate Police Activities In Colchester
By TRACY GORDON FOX; Courant Staff Writer
Sheriff Linked Reappointments, Payment Of Dues, Witness Testifies
By THOMAS D. WILLIAMS; Courant Staff Writer
Lennon. Mary E. (king) Lennon
Policeman Suspended From Duty Without Pay During Investigation
By STAN SIMPSON; Courant Staff Writer
`Bells Are Ringing' Auditions Set This Week
Judge Upholds $1.87 Million Jury Award In Drunken-driving Case
By JOSEPH A. O'BRIEN JR.; Courant Staff Writer
Torrington Police News
Giant Condo Complex, Small Town Unto Itself, Celebrates 25th Year
By KATHLEEN GORMAN; Courant Staff Writer
Would-be Purchaser Of College Is Arrested On Fugitive Charge
By ANNE M. HAMILTON; Courant Staff Writer
Fuessenich Defense Takes Aim At State
By DAVID OWENS; Courant Staff Writer
Johnson. Maryl (carkin) Johnson
Civil Rights Suit Filed In Killing Of Latin King
By MARK PAZNIOKAS; Courant Staff Writer
Canton Seniors Reminded Of School's Nurturing
By BRIAN M. TROTTA; Courant Correspondent
Environmental Teams End Cleanup At Mill
Farmington Woods: A Town Unto Itself?
By KATHLEEN GORMAN; Courant Staff Writer
Tracking The Hartford Through History
Schaffman. Molly (hirshleifer) Schaffman,
Enfield Hosts Ceremonies For Graduates Of Dare
By M.J. SMITH; Courant Columnist
Mocarsky. Edmund George Mocarsky
Michael R. Colwick
Lebanon Graduation List
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Southington Police News
Silent Boss Just Watching
By JACK O'CONNELL; Courant Staff Writer
Moving Up
Yankees Put One Together
By JACK O'CONNELL; Courant Staff Writer
Pena Released
By PAUL DOYLE; Courant Staff Writer
Evans Led By Sawyer
By Staff reports
Women's World Soccer Championship
By JERRY TRECKER; Courant Staff Writer
Five Commit To Play In Gho
By BRUCE BERLET; Courant Staff Writer
Side Lines
Lilly Leads U.s. Victory
By JERRY TRECKER; Courant Staff Writer
Ravens Start It With 5-0 Victory, But Rock Cats Finish It, 12-1
By CHERYL ROSENBERG; Courant Staff Writer Staff report included
Flyers Vs. Devils
Mattice Leads Simsbury To Win
By Staff reports
Dellostritto Among Four Gho Qualifiers
By GEORGE SMITH; Courant Staff Writer
Maringola, Mckee Lead Southington
By Staff reports
Everyone Is On Magic's Case
By ALAN GREENBERG; Courant Sports Columnist
Mikullitz, Miller Lead S. Windsor
By Staff reports
No Sooner Said Than Done: Red Sox Win
By PAUL DOYLE; Courant Staff Writer
Passarella Nearly Perfect
By ROBERTO GONZALEZ; Courant Staff Writer
Seney Takes First-day Decathlon Lead
By DAVID HEUSCHKEL; Courant Staff Writer
Dalesio's First Hole-in-one Ends Match
By TOM YANTZ; Courant Staff Writer
After Scare, Greenwell Ok
By PAUL DOYLE; Courant Staff Writer
It's Official: Peckham, Cheevers Won't Be Back
By MARK PUKALO; Courant Staff Writer
Hevesy's Homer Helps District Iii Hold On
By GARY A. BUNKO; Courant Staff Writer
Fermi Pitcher White Signs With Atlanta
By KEVIN F. HAYES; Courant Staff Writer
Jaycee-courant League Grows To 49 Teams
Phoenix May Act To Form Alliance
By KENNETH R. GOSSELIN; Courant Staff Writer
Iae Clinches Jet Engine Order
By From staff reports
Itt Stock Surges On Breakup News
By STEPHEN M. WILLIAMS; Courant Staff Writer
Trade Trip To Mexico Pronounced A Success
By JON LENDER; Courant Staff Writer
When Man On Job Becomes A Woman
By ANDREW JULIEN; Courant Columnist
People's To Open 45 Branches In Supermarkets
By KENNETH R. GOSSELIN; Courant Staff Writer Courant Staff Writer Dee Segel contributed to this story.
Nu Chairman To Take Post At Yale School Of Forestry
By From staff reports
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Zonker's Creator Reflects On Twain
By FRANK RIZZO; Courant Staff Writer
A Musical Feast
By LINDA GIUCA; Courant Food Editor
The Courant's New Crossword Has Some Readers Puzzled
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`Ladies Who Lunch' Recalled At Museum
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Mystic Aquarium Benefit Will Have A Deep-sea Flavor
Hearty Vegetarian Flavors Married With Pasta
By LINDA GIUCA; Courant Food Editor
Nitty-gritty Clothes For Real People
By DONNA LARCEN; Courant Staff Writer
Mad Hatter Revived In Chester
By DEBORAH HORNBLOW
A Hartford Politician Refuses To Be Shunted Aside
By Don Noel; The Courant's political columnist.
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NEW YORK --Singer Jon Bon Jovi made a bride's dream a reality over the weekend when the rocker showed up to walk her down the aisle at her Las Vegas wedding.
Branka Delic had launched an online petition at bonjoviwalkmedowntheaisle.com, calling for the rocker to be there on her big day. Her effort clearly paid off.
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Charlie Sheen's Anger Management Sitcom Coming to a TV Near You
He's back. This summer. Really.
Buckle up and get your vomit bags ready! Charlie Sheen's sitcom Anger Management, based on the movie Anger Management, is actually getting made. FX has ordered ten episodes of the series to premiere in summer 2012, with Sheen playing "an anger management therapist, who may need more counseling than his patients." You don't say! According to the press release — which, surprise surprise, makes no mention of Sheen's infamous breakdown/flameout/national media spectacular — "Sheen will retain a significant ownership stake in the series," meaning the warlock Adonis, or whatever he called himself oh those seven months ago, stands to make some bank off the deal if it's a hit. (Though this may also indicate he's not getting paid anything like his old salary up front.) Based on the stellar ratings for the first episode of the Sheen-less Two and a Half Men (which airs in reruns on FX already), folks are still at least a little bit interested in the whole Sheen situation. Whether that translates into interest in an entire season, well, we'll see. Unfortunately. Meanwhile, FX is taking steps to ensure its carefully cultivated Quality Comedy brand isn't tarnished: We hear Anger Management will not get the "FX Original Series" banner, and that the deal for the show was done outside of the usual creative development process. Instead, FX considers this a strict acquisition, much like those Men repeats it already airs. The downside: If the first ten episodes perform well, FX will immediately greenlight 90 more half-hours. The horror.


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Want to surf anonymously? Perfect privacy on the World Wide Web is not possible, but it is possible to achieve a level of obfuscation that will prevent all but the most determined entities from tracking your Internet travels.
One way to obtain obfuscation comes from using a network called "Tor," which is short for "The Onion Router." Tor was originally designed by the US Naval Research Laboratory. Then it became a project of the Electronic Freedom Foundation. Now it's sponsored by a non-profit organization called "The Tor Project."
Onion routing relies on volunteers distributed throughout the world who donate server time to the Tor network. An important concept in Tor is that an Internet message is routed through the network in such a way that each server provides an anonymous outgoing connection. The next node in the network, therefore, does not know from which other node the packets (message) originated. Traffic within in the network is encrypted in transit. It's only turned back into "clear text" at the point of departure, which is called the "exit node."
The image below shows a user, a network of servers, and the path, or "virtual circuit" that the user's request for a web page goes through. The connections between the servers, in green, can also be thought of as "tunnels."
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It's called onion routing because the levels are like the layers of an onion. A message may originate on the surface layer. Imagine it going to the next layer as one might peel an onion. Each lower layer is not aware of where the message came from. Unless it's an exit layer, the traffic that passes through stays secret and encrypted.
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Traffic Analysis
Traffic analysis is a form of surveillance. It happens when an entity (an ISP, backbone provider, or government agency) performs "deep packet inspection." A packet, in Internet terms, consists of a header and a body. The header describes where the packet is bound and the body contains your content – parts of a web page or an email. The header contains information about the data's size, destination, and timing. Even if the data is encrypted, the header allows the inspectors to infer who is talking to whom over a public network. (1)
Tor works by hiding you among the many other users of the network. Interestingly, the more people who participate in Tor, the better the privacy becomes.
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Using Tor in Windows
Tor for Windows comes in a bundle that includes a special, Tor-enabled version of Firefox. If you already use Firefox, it is still worth downloading the bundle rather than Tor by itself because it allows you to have one browser for regular surfing and another browser for hiding your tracks.
The downloaded file will extract to a folder called "Tor Browser." In that folder will be an .exe file called "Start Tor Browser."
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Clicking this causes the Vidalia Control Panel to appear. It showed a green progress bar labeled "Retrieving network status."
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Vidalia promptly fussed about another instance of Firefox running (yes, and with about nine tabs open that contain pages I'm consulting for this article) and advised me to close that other instance. Hmm. Bookmark all in a new folder . . . Tor then exited when I clicked the notification dialog.
Okay. Start it again. Vidalia found the network much more quickly the second time, and I noticed a green onion icon in the system tray. A few seconds later, Firefox (the portable version) opened, and after a while, a page loaded that said, "Congratulations. You are using Tor."
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Hey, I'm surfing anonymously. Requests that I type into my browser are going to some anonymous server in the Tor network and being bounced around the world (who knows) before ending up at the web server – which thinks I'm coming in from somewhere else.
Well, I don't know if I'd really call it "surfing." It's more like wading in the surf . . . or molasses. This is very slow. It took a little over eight minutes to load brighthub.com.
Back in the Vidalia Control Panel, I clicked "View the Network."
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Soon after, I clicked "Help." The help file informed me, "The network viewer lets you see relays in the Tor network and where your traffic is going." No wonder it's not quick. From the yellow trace on the map, I can see that my traffic crossed the Atlantic Ocean eight to ten times.
Of course, all I'm really doing at this point is surfing. To really get the best use from the Tor network, I'd need to set up my email and Instant Messaging clients to connect through Tor. And then there's the host of applications on this machine that are constantly checking back with their mothership.
This is just the surface. True anonymity would require a lot of work.
Next we'll look at those "anonymizer" websites. Do they work as well as Tor, and are they faster?
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SOURCE: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Rallying Call Issued to Global Businesses to Join the Growing Ranks of Companies Backing Enhanced Reporting Drive
The IIRC's blueprint, released for consultation today, is intended to encourage a more cohesive approach to corporate reporting with a focus on how an organisation creates value in the short, medium and long term. The aim is also to enhance accountability and stewardship, and support integrated thinking and decision-making in the wake of traditional business models becoming increasingly obsolete. Companies are being urged to make sure they present more integrated information on how their strategy and critical decisions are made to underpin a higher level of investor confidence and trust, and put them in the best possible shape for the next decade.
Evidence suggests that a poorly defined and explained business model has adverse consequences. A PwC experiment with a small group of investors showed how their valuations are influenced by a company's reporting. 80% of investors recommended 'sell' when they didn't have any quantified non-financial information, but most recommended 'buy' when presented with more integrated information.
The majority (77%) of FTSE 350 companies report on their 'business model' and just over half of those companies provide insightful detail, a PwC analysis for its Building Public Trust activities found. However, only 8 out of 100 clearly connect their business model with their strategy, risks or other areas.
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ASUS has introduced a new 15.6 inch Lamborghini laptop, known as ASUS Automobili Lamborghini VX7 and now the VX7 is available in UK market. Powered by Intel Core i7 2630QM processor with 3GB GDDR5 VRAM NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 460M GPU, Intel HM65 Express Chipset and 8GB DDR3 1333 MHz SDRAM, this premium notebook offer style, great multimedia, gaming and multitasking performance. You can get the Automobili Lamborghini VX7 laptop in Micro Anvika and Amazon UK with starting price at £2,000 and you can choose your favorite colors in orange and black carbon fiber.
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Once again this year, Arooga's is partnering with the Feel Your Boobies Foundation on a breast cancer awareness promotion in October. Arooga's, along with ACE Distributors, Wilsbach Distributors & Kirchner's Beverage is proud to support their mission of promoting proactive breast health to young women. Remember, 100% of all shirt purchases support Feel Your Boobies College Outreach Program.
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Finding housing in Bangkok
I get requests sometimes from people who are moving here and want help in finding housing. Here is some advice:
The best way to find condos is to google 'condos in bangkok'. You can ask a few friends whom you already know, to recommend any places they have lived in or know of someone who has a nice place already - but it is hard for them to help you if they have no idea on your budget requirements or personal preferences, or they are not in the business of real estate.
Another suggestion is to post your help and suggestions request on the InterNations Bangkok Forum thread, under the heading, 'Housing'. We have a few members who are professionals in helping others find housing, but some of them take a commission. Just google some places, and contact them yourself, you'll be fine.
You can stay in a cheap hotel for a few days when you first get here, until you have been able to view the apartments. Some people stay in a hotel a few days, stay in a service apartment two months, then finally find their long term rental or purchase. Don't sweat it too much, there are plenty of spaces at all different ranges in prices. And you can always move at the end of your lease.
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Every Wednesday, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
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Cost: $30.00
Awana starts September 13! Awana is a children's ministry for children ages 3 to 6th grade. It meets every Wednesday night from 6:30PM to 8:00PM during the school year. New children are welcome anytime! You can register here.
Awana helps them memorize Scripture. We teach the Awana material from a gospel-centered, Reformed perspective.
The cost of Awana is $30 per child with a maximum of $90 per family. You can pay when you attend.


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This sheet includes 25 make up brush stickers, which are perfect for your planner!Size: Approximately .36" W x .59" HThis sticker set was designed by me, printed from my home computer on removable matte sticker paper, and cut with my die cut machine. No cut will be 100% perfect, but I try my best to make sure that I come close to it. Feel free to message me if you have any questions! :)
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Lip Kit by Kylie will help you get Kylie Jenner-inspired lips
Kylie Jenner has inspired a new lip trend, but this time we can actually get behind it.
Because unlike the dangerous sucking-on-a-shot-glass thing, this lip trick won't do anything except lighten your wallet while giving you a sexy pout.
Well, if you can get your hands on it, that is.
More: Covering your armpits in glitter is a trend now
The 18-year-old announced the release of the Lip Kit by Kylie over the weekend. The collection includes three colors — lighter nudes Dolce K and Candy K, and True Brown — a lipstick that's a "one swipe color that glides across lips and dries down to a powdery-soft, matte finish" and a lip liner.
The colors really do look gorgeous, but you'll have to wait because the entire stock was sold out in minutes, maybe even seconds.
More: The 10 Korean beauty brands women are obsessing over
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And if you're just dying to get your lips on some Kylie-approved lipstick? Enterprising fans are already selling the kits on eBay for over $100, up from the original price of $29.


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Morisot did it for Manet. Monet did it for Renoir. Bazille did it for Monet. Renoir did it for Bazille. In fact, most of the Impressionists did it for one another, seemingly all the time.
Just what were they doing? Posing. Perhaps more than any other group of artists, the Impressionists painted one another. It could be argued that they needed each other; many of them were close to broke, especially at the start of their careers, and they couldn't afford models. But it also might be the case that one of the revolutions of the Impressionist period was the elevation of the "Everyman." No longer was portraiture restricted to depictions of the aristocracy or famous figures throughout history. A painting of Monet's mistress, for example, could be as grandly scaled as the finest society portrait.
In Frédéric Bazille's 1867 portrait of a mid-20s Renoir, the young artist sits in a rather rakish pose on a chair, his knees casually pulled up to his chest, his hands loosely folded together. His pose suggests the stereotypically relaxed and freewheeling artist, but his clothes could measure up to those of any man of society. At this time, Paris was the style capital for women's fashion, but men's wear was dictated by London. Colors were muted, clothes were sober, and what determined "fashionability" was not elaborate trimming but instead a fine cut and perfect fit. Renoir is even wearing boots with elastic inserts—a 19th-century innovation that enabled men and women to put their boots on without hassling with closures—much as we wear today. Because men's clothing was fairly conventional and existed on a small spectrum, the way that a man could express himself (especially in a static portrait) was in his attitude and how he carried himself.
Now we don't know if Bazille posed Renoir or if Renoir situated himself, but what we have to infer is that it would have been exceptionally uncomfortable to sit like this for an extended period of time. And that's friendship, folks.
Image Credit: Frédéric Bazille. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1867. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, on deposit to the Musée Fabre, Montpellier, DL 1970 3.


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Tales of Majipoor
- Letto da: Stefan Rudnicki
- Durata: 11 ore e 36 min
- Versione integrale
- Data di pubblicazione: 07 05 2013
- Lingua: Inglese
- Editore: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Sintesi dell'editore
Seven stories of Majipoor from science fiction grand master Robert Silverberg
Hailed as "one of the most fully realized worlds of modern science fiction" (Booklist>), Majipoor is a planet unlike any other, with countless untold stories. Now, available for the first time in one volume, Silverberg presents seven tales that chronicle thousands of years of Majipoor's history, from the arrival of the settlers of Old Earth to the expansion of vast cities to the extraordinary life of Lord Valentine. Within these stories lie the secrets of Majipoor - a wondrous world of incredible imagination.
© Asberg, Ltd. (P)2013 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
"When Silverberg is at the top of his form, no one is better." (George R. R. Martin, number-one New York Times best-selling author, praise for Robert Silverberg and the novels of Majipoor)
"An imaginative fusion of action, sorcery, and science fiction." (New York Times Book Review, praise for Robert Silverberg and the novels of Majipoor)
"Majipoor is probably the finest creation of Silverberg's powerful imagination." (Booklist, praise for Robert Silverberg and the novels of Majipoor)


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17-18th June 2014, Olympia National, London
Enterprise Apps Conference & Event: Enterprise Apps World will be a two day show that will look at all the implication of going mobile in the workplace, and how enterprise apps can help. With BYOD an increasing challenge in terms of privacy, security and manageability BYOD is set to be a big theme of the show as CIOs struggle with the challenges that a move from a previously strongly controlled, locked down IT environment to one where they often have limited, if any, control or knowledge of. Management of this environment can be a tough enough job since the mobile user may be using anything from a corporate owned device, a BYOD device or a smartphone or tablet personal to the user and therefore completely out of the knowledge field of the CIO. The building of enterprise apps store is increasingly a focus for businesses looking to regain this level of control. Couple this with the challenge of building enterprise applications that work cohesively across such a range of varying devices, environments and operating systems and it's no surprise that a show like Enterprise Apps World is needed to make sense of it all.


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Some of you may have noticed that I've gone on a sort of hiatus. While it's true that I'm far behind on posts, the hiatus was completely unintentional. It was one of those things where I kept putting off updates due to work, other obligations, and the general busyness that seems to define my life at this time of year. However, I did NOT refrain from going to shows during all this, so the result is an enormous backlog of unposted shows going all the way back to late September. Yep, that's almost three months, and those who know me well will have an idea of how many shows I attended during that time.
So here's the deal:
I'm going to re-label the unintentional hiatus as an intentional one, and pick up from here. I may do a big post with photos from some of the past shows, but I might not. We'll see. :)
At any rate, regular updates will resume shortly. Thanks for your patience and for sticking with me. :)
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Knight and ACD are true innovators in the insurance sector we look forward to working together to power some exciting growth. - Ernie Bray, CEO of ACD
Carlsbad,CA (PRWEB) January 30, 2014
ACD today announced that the Knight Insurance Group (Knight) has selected ACD's AutoLink technology to manage and streamline the company's national physical damage appraisal process.
Knight is a specialty insurance group underwriting superior program business throughout the United States. Knight's insurers include KnightBrook Insurance Company, Knight Specialty Insurance Company, and Knight Re. Knight focuses on well-managed niche programs with an emphasis on commercial auto, general liability, financial guaranty, and other specialty areas. A.M. Best rates Knight A-.
"The Knight Insurance Group has emphasized the efficient use of technology to make our claims processes streamlined and more oriented to providing excellent customer service. We are, therefore, extremely pleased to be partnering with an award winning technology provider that gives our staff an immense amount of information at their fingertips," said Eric Jarvis, President of KnightBrook. "Their ability to reduce cycle times, drill down data, and increase customer satisfaction is vitally important to our company."
"It's a great honor to work with a fantastic organization such as the Knight Insurance Group. In 2013, both of our companies were ranked on Inc. Magazine's list of Fastest Growing Private Companies in America which is very exciting," said Ernie Bray, CEO of ACD. "Knight and ACD are true innovators in the insurance sector we look forward to working together to power some exciting growth."
ACD was recently recognized for the 4th straight year on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 of North America. Deloitte's Fast 500 focuses on companies combining technological innovation, entrepreneurship and rapid growth. Additionally, ACD ranked for a 5th year on Inc. Magazine's Inc. 5000 and was named to the Red Herring 100 of the Americas. ACD recently celebrated its 10th year anniversary in 2013 as a leader in claims technology and services to the property & casualty industry.
ACD creates revolutionary technology and combines it with the finest claims services available. From innovative technology such as AutoLink, PropertyLink and SubroLink to auto & property damage appraisal services, ACD is defining the future of claims technology and the speed of claims processing. The firm has processed over $1.5 billion dollars in assessed damages, servicing over 225 insurers including 11 of the Top 25 national carriers. For more information, visit ACD at http://www.acdcorp.com.


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The Iowa Valley/Marshalltown Community College campus did not sustain any damage during the July 19 tornado. Our campus and offices are open from 8 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday, as usual. The Orpheum Theater Center is substantially damaged and will be closed until further notice; most upcoming events have been relocated (see OrpheumCenter.com for details). Orpheum offices are temporarily relocated to the MCC Faust Student Union.
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i LOVE Christmas and Thanksgiving!!!
YES i do i do;)
the food, music, the company,celebrating Jesus birth
all of it just puts me on cloud nine.
I've been working on some pretty things for Christmas and
i am so excited to see the end result of it all..
So with me
being a hermit working on gifts and on the computer lately
I've been slacking on working out...just a little:)
I love to be active and get at least some exercise in my day
i am a strong believer in WALKS!
Yep so good for you and no equipment needed just
bundle up and head out the door
A couple a miles get that Vitamin D i need and my heart is happy:)
Now I know what its like to have babies at home and
no time for heading out the door to workout at all and that it can be tough. Videos are awesome in that season of life when the kids are babies still or your just plain to busy
i have and still use my Denise Austin Pilates for beginners Dvd
on those days with so little time
even doing a few of the moves on these videos 3-4 times
a week gives you great results!
This Dvd literally gave me my waist back no joke!
After having twins and my baby girl if your a mom you know exactly what i am talking about!!
So you can check it out on you tube or Hulu has some of her
other pilates/yoga videos you can watch and do
them for FREE :D
So why all this talk of working out hmmm well
i don't really know... it was just on my
mind this morning on my walk.
We all need encouragement to take care of ourselves
mind,body and spirit..all of it needs our attention
and caring for our bodies can be tough sometimes
but i know God wants us too :D
and with thanksgiving&Christmas around
the corner all that yummy food...i think i just needed reminding myself!!
So here i sit here listening to Bing singing White Christmas& Blogging,
this time could only be more sweeter with snow:)
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THANK YOU!!! I can never have too much Matthew Dear
Really nice Matthew, i enjoyed it. Specially realizing you opening it with one of my favorite tracks! i m spreading this everywhere
blessed edit of notorious b.i.g.!!!
This is some seriously funky shit. Spot on.
WWWOOOOWWW! incredible show is no more than thank you for such a great night .. thank you Tim and thanks Matthew!
love it. nice job. I've tried using a similar Traktor setup... not for me (yet). :)
also, for those that don't know, Rush Hour is releasing a huge 4LP of Virgo Four. Make sure you don't miss it!
nice show!
that shake shakir track is actually the space dimension controller remix btw
keep up the good work, tim et al
The Notorious D.E.A.R
This is great. Such a good mix. This will be on heavy rotation for a long while.
It's the best musically environmental sounds and melodies Shuttle with a deep touch that makes it unique. New music for a new era
Man....that was so wonderfull! Thank you Tim and Matthew for such a superb show.
Cheers Scott
thank you so much for sharing !
Love it! One of the greatest beats in space jams - and that says a lot!
didn't know your voice was so deep until now...nice sets, matthew.
Look at Matt Dear getting all deep and shit. Shiiiiiiet.
that soul clap mix of tiefschwarz reminds me of older audion stuff, pretty cool
great mix, enjoyed it defenetly. one little corection - track no.6: it's not just anthony "shake" shakir's - detroit state of mind, it's Space Dimension Controller Remix. not very important, but "i'm just saying" ;-))
Every track is a huge jam. Love the simplicity of his setup too.
great show! i need the Notoriious BIG edit - i dream a 12" !
Matthew should finally release officer please and the world is fly :-) where are still waiting for this great tunes....


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Gossip Girl Recap Recap: A Diamond in the Rough
Commenters' attraction/repulsion to Dan's greasy slick-back debut was split relatively evenly.
We were led into the episode with promising black-and-white photos glorifying the high-end glamor of UES society and Frank Ocean's voice to lull us along. Then we all were smacked in the face by our first dose of reality: a scene of Blair getting fashion advice from Lonely Boy-turned-Greaser who also felt the need to pollute our minds with unwelcome, second rate sexual innuendos. Other notable scenes: Serena served pancakes; DHumps published a glorifying chapter of arch-nemesis/idol Chuck; Dorota, uncharacteristically, spilled the beans about Blair's engagement ring lucky charm; Serena gasped and flailed when she saw a diamond; Sage, the show's little monster, tried to ruin lives at Cotillion — and she succeeded by ruining ours (That Muppet hair sex video has, unfortunately, been seared into our brains).
Commenters made choice remarks about golden-boy Nate's "third coming out," Dan's futile attempts to become Chuck's doppelgänger (the commenters' attraction/repulsion to the greasy slick-back debut was split relatively evenly), and Blair's ever-satisfying Humphrey slap. The lingering questions: Will Chuck and Blair ever finish their goals (meaning finally get back together?) and will Steven and his daughter leave the UES for good? Those are the last glimmers of hope we're all holding onto. Until next week, here's the recap of the recap.
Realer Than Serena's Men Being "Life Rafts"
- Serena letting out a huge belch in the closing moments of the episode while Frank Ocean plays in the background, plus a million points because it is hilarious and clearly switching from berries to proper food is taking its toll.—POLLYROCKETT
- Backless and braless Ivy cannot bring out one iota of lust in Rufus's face. Botox aside, plus 5 for the sad reality of it all. Now THIS, on the other hand ... —ISLANDIA
- Chuck and the Oddly Sexy Demand of Drinking An Entire Glass of Scotch. Plus 30 just because. –14A
- Lily: "You're just ... you're still so young." +20 for the fact that she can't remember how old her daughter is.—MARLASINGER
- When Chuck walks up to Blair and Dan, Blair immediately hands her glass over to Dan. Once a cater waiter, always a cater waiter. Accurate. Plus 50—FEED_THE_DUCKS
- Blair to Dan: "I'd rather be alone than with you." THANK YOU. Plus one million.—SEA7
- Besides the video/cheating revelation, the only thing that Dan did that actually got Blair's attention was NOT including her in Chuck's chapter of his expose. +5.—ANUNKINDRAVENBASS
- So Serena is willing to give Dan the sex eyes at the end after he spent the last year calling her all forms of whores and stupid and spent all season one and two basically telling her that she wasn't good enough for him. Plus 10 because it is Serena and she wears desperation like perfume so any man is better than nothing even one who clearly does not like her and is in love with Blair.—RAHEAST
- Plus 2 for me taking my engagement ring off before my shower today (which in over a year I've never done), concerned that my conditioner would dull the diamond. I am really going to miss Blair's life lessons.—PURPLEANDGREEN
- Serena calls her dalliance with the older man who banged her mom her "first healthy relationship". Sounds about right. +15--APATHYONMYSIDE
- Chuck in a bowtie= billionnaire, dashing, playboy, Chuck Bass, really. Dan in a bowtie= cater waiter. +50--LIMOSANDSCHEMES
- Georgina speaks five languages and I bet one of those is parseltongue. Plus 6.—BRANDIE_LARUE
- +5 for Nate finally realizing his true career aspiration: professional cotillion escort.—CAITLINGILBS
- At Nate's first Cotillion, he finally slept with his high school girlfriend and all he remembers is Carter Baizen. +4 because real. And all I remember is seeing Chuck Bass as a human being for the first time. +10 for memories. —JJOVANA3
- "is that you vibrating??" +100 Oh, Chuck it ... just do it already!–BOWTIESANDHEADBANDS
- Lily forgives Bart for faking his death because he only committed white collar crime. Plus 3—BROOKLYN_FOR_LIFE
- "That's why I ran away" Serena says to Steven in the same conversation where she tries to convince him she's old enough to get married to the man her mother's age. +8 Oh Serena—SOURCHERRY9
- Serena tries to throw all shade off her for the sex tape. Accurate. Maybe reality just can't penetrate through all that hair to reach her mind. +1 –BETCHPLZ
- Plus 10 for Rufus' face when he found out Charlie was rich - you could just see him gleefully planning out an elaborate shopping spree involving waffles, guitars, and lots of Cartier necklaces.—WHOWANTSWAFFLES
- Serena should know that any son of Reverend Camden could not stay with someone who has a public sex tape. +1—MACARONSANDSCOTCH
- Sage has minions. Plus 1."I never really thought about it, but once I saw that ring I literally got butterflies!" Serena doesn't know the meaning of literally. Plus 2.—ELENAELENA
- What really makes this episode for me is that we may be getting rid of both Steven and Sage at once. NJBC! NJBC! +2--GUMDROPCOOKIES
- Sage annoys me about as much as Vanessa did, so, of course it makes total sense that she shares Vanessa's ability to overhear things from half a mile away. Plus 5.—MIA811
- Sage's rookie mistake was adorable: You're supposed to just stare at the breakfast berries, not actually taste them. +5—PIECEOFBASS
- When Chuck tells Nate he has a good point about looking into his father's personal accounts, Nate blinks, proud of his good idea and secretly beaming from Chuck's praise. Typical pretty boy. Plus three.—BETABLAIR
Faker Than Blair's Terrible Fashion Taste in this Episode
- Chuck, I understand you are on a mission and all. But there was a pool table behind you and Blair. A POOL TABLE. What the hell is wrong with you??? YOU TAP THAT. Minus 50.—STILETTO33
- "We all come into this world naked and alone. Looks like S is leaving it that way too" – WTF Gossip Girl, did you just write a suicide note for Serena? So morbid. -5—HATINONTHECLUB
- Why does everyone think ChIvy is blonde? She is clearly a redhead. Minus 5—ASHLEYH2
- Sage's dress was so ugly and ill-fitting. Blair Waldorf would never allow that monstrosity to carry her name. -100. Also, Sage walks and dances with the grace of a drunk elephant. No points, just noting.—MIMI52000
- -50 to myself for thinking that the Dan/Serena scene at the end was cute, despite how much I hate Dan.—FRECKLES929
- Chuck may not have slept with Serena, but he did get rapey over some grilled cheese once. No points.—BOHEMIENNE
- Dan and Serena are going to sit down to three different kinds of pie at the end of the episode, really?!? We all know that Serena only picks at deserts and nibbles at berries and Dan doesn't look like he's eaten at all ... possibly since least season. -20. Someone feed Penn Badgley, stat.
- Dan's hair seems to be getting oilier and oilier from the sheer venom that he's secreting, yes? It was almost as heinous as the S5 hairdo -50 for his repeated follicle failings.—SHARKSWEATERVEST
- If Chuck is going for Greek tragedy, he needs to go full-on Oedipus. Or at least the UES version and bang his step-mother. No points until someone loses an eye. –MOCKINGBIRD
- What the hell just happened?! Blair went from scheming against Serena, to wanting to be in her wedding, to calling quits on their friendship. Lily went from loving Chuck and wanting to fix things with her "family" to accepting that Bart's a criminal who is shutting out Chuck to save his own ass. Dan went from being back in love with Blair to being back in love with Serena, apparently because a sex tape was leaked. Nate made an intelligent decision. I know the writers have to wrap everything up in a few short episodes, but — damn! I've got whiplash. It hurts me to say it, but I'm glad there's only five more episodes of this mess to sit through. Minus 10—VINCE1178
- Also, minus 25 for Dan' smirk after getting a number from one of the debs. She's 17! Who does he think he is, Nate?--SUZYQUE
- Chuck to Dan: "Should I be concerned about this level of obsession?" (referring to Dan's chapter about Chuck) -- YES, because clearly Dan is trying to copy Chuck's style with the slicked back hair and crummy suit. -10 for Humphrey, because he is only the poor Blair's version of Chuck, and we all know Blair doesn't do poor.—VULTUREREADER4
- Badass Bart Bass conned by a woman stupid enough to share an afghan with Rufus? Nope. -40—GINSOAKEDCECE
- Like Bart Bass would know what cologne Chuck wears. That's like expecting Lily to know how old Serena is! –5—SHEBANGS
- Serena cooks. Nate cooks numbers. Minus 50 each.—KANGAROOTATTOO
- -50 for any scene with Rufus and Ivy making out and burning my eyeballs. I actually said 'ewwww' loudly. Hell, it made my dog leave the room.—LSUSARAH
- -10 for Georgina falling for Sage's "bump into you and steal your phone" trick. Wasn't she the INVENTOR of that move? Get it together, G!—MATTC016
- Ivy has clearly graduated from the Bart Bass school of Sticking Your Head Obviously Out of a Car like a Labradoodle While Stalking. Minus 20—FEED_THE_DUCKS
- Serena: "You can tell me if you don't like my cooking." -5 Serena, cook? Puh-leeze. Girlfriend's knowledge of kitchen chemistry extends about as far as knowing which pills react best with booze.—CATCHMESOMEBASS
- No way no how would some teenage girl outsmart the great Georgina Sparks! Minus one password protected phone—XRAYCHICKEN
- The set up for a Dan-Serena endgame is weak. A shitty sex tape leaks, reminding S of the humiliation suffered during Dan's utter rejection of her, destroys her relationship and impending engagement, and she wants to get a burger and fries with him? Minus only 1 if it means that Sage and Seventh Heaven are gone for good.—JSTARKS
- Speaking of fashion, Ivy's braless top was ridiculous. Thank you GG for making us terrified of tarantulas AND reptiles. -5—NIKOLE0602


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The suicide of Greece
However, most useful, so far, is the prescient chapter on Greece and the European Union project, Of Modern Hellenes in Europe, which attributes deep roots to the difficulty modern Greece has had, particularly in the realms of Law and the State – and which has now reached crisis point – in adapting to European core systems and values. Gourgouris writes:
'For Greek society's relation to law has never quite shown favor to the notion of "public interest", which is the cornerstone of liberalism's social vision and which is predicated on the significations of "honesty" (in the "free market") and "virtue" (in civil society). Although the text of the law (like most of the Greek social institutions that were constitutionally drafted under the prompting of the vision of a "modern" State) reflects the positivist spirit prevalent in Europe during the nineteenth century, the practice of law, as the aggregate of mediations throughout the history of social relations in the region, is quite another matter. There, one finds the heritage of an amalgam of legal practices that reached its culmination in the extremely complex system prevailing during the Ottoman rule of the entire Eastern Mediterranean region: namely, the cohabitation of a range of legal practices, from Islamic law… to the remnants of Byzantine law… to the various overlapping customary laws that in fact formed the backbone of social practices for centuries. The positivist European legal vision (primarily French and German) was essentially imported into Greece upon Independence in order to dissolve precisely this polymorphous development, in order to streamline the State's regulation and social practices. This may have given a nominal hypostasis to the State (which was anyway the "purpose" of the importation), but it has not altered Greek society's symbolic cohesion in terms of its reciprocal negotiation with the institution of law, and would not do so unless socially instituted.'
Clearly, in these terms, what we're witnessing now in Greece is a final attempt by the European core to convince Greece to conform to its bureaucratic and legal practices, something that Greece has always said it is willing to do, to institute itself, but never managed to achieve and, in my view, won't achieve now either.
If anyone's interested, there is a lecture here by Gourgouris, called Democracy, a Tragic Regime, which develops themes in Castoriadis regarding the Athenian polis, Sophocles, hubris, self-limitation and so on. An interesting point is made about the inherent tendency of democracies to destroy themselves, to commit suicide, and it struck me that, indeed, what we're witnessing now is Greece committing suicide.
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John, several Greek scholars have much to say about this issue such as Contogeorge, Ifestos, Ziakas and even Yannaras. Of course, they are isolated.
In English, and I think I have said this before, I'd recommend Necessary Nation by Jusdanis. A very good book. Also, Anthony D Smith from Cambridge is decent.
I have read bits of Gourgaris. Very boring. It is ironic that he himself is using Western European tools to analyse Greek nationalism.
- 5 May 2010 at 00:58
- John Akritas said...
I reckon Gourgouris and similar Greek thinkers have gained a lot of traction in Greek intellectual life recently – you will remember our debate on the Castoriadis blog – and all the shenanigans at the ministry of education are a reflection of this. Ultimately, this attack on the 'nation' is just as damaging to Greece as the debt crisis – the two are, of course, related. I've been looking for a cheap copy of Jusdanis for a while, but the title of his book is apt. The nation-state might not be the perfect or ideal form of human or national organisation, but, for the moment and for the last few centuries, it is 'necessary' and has to be made to work.
The other point is to note how Turkey went through a similar desire to 'modernise' through copying Europe, and did so with Mustafa Kemal's iron fist and without abandoning nationalism; whereas Greece's political elite reckoned and still reckon that 'modernisation' means ditching what it perceives as 'nationalism', which they regard as a remnant of that part of Greece which is not European. Konstantinos Karamanlis' consistent attempts to dump Cyprus are only explicable in this context.
- 5 May 2010 at 13:11
John, you can read the first chapter of Jusdanis's book at the Princeton University website.
To say that anti-national intellectuals hold key positions in Greece and/or influence discourse is an understatement. They pretty much dominate.
What Greece needs is another dose of Venizelism. He attempted to modernise with nationalism. Although economics was not his strong suit the economy developed strongly in his first years.
I agree with almost everything Anonymous wrote.
- 6 May 2010 at 00:56
Hermes, with which "anonymous" do you mostly agree, the first one?
The lack of political statemanship is egregious. Political traitors, of marxist and leftist orientation flourish, and floruished since 1974, after the fall of the nationalist government. [The same "nationalist" government that put America's interests first lol]
... or the second one?
The last part of the XX century was characterized by strict democratic dogma ethos, which continues to this day in spite of the aberrations and disasters befalling it. [Democratic dogma? Not fascist trans-national corporations, whose reach have no boundaries? You work for British Petroleum?]
- 6 May 2010 at 03:29
lastGreek, unfortunately we Greeks often bring in foreigners to solve our internal problems and then we complain about foreign interference. The Persians, Romans, Bulgars, Turks, British, Russians and Americans have all been invited in by Greeks. The Left is just as guilty as the Right.
Modern forms of democracy (parties, civic society, media) do not work in Greece. We are too volatile, do not trust each other and have long memories.
- 6 May 2010 at 05:25
- John Akritas said...
LG is right. Greece's problem is not too much democracy, but a lack of it – a lack of control and self-control, checks, balances, accountability, civil society, rule of law, equality before the law, capacity to change, meritocracy and so on. Greece never built a democratic system after 1974, it built mafias, oligarchies, chaos and permissiveness. And as for the suggestion that the junta were 'nationalists' or 'patriotic' this is just a joke. Their rhetoric might have contained some form of perverse, narrow-minded 'nationalism', but the reality is that they were first-degree traitors, more responsible than anyone for the perverse post-1974 system and the disaster Greece is now facing.
- 6 May 2010 at 12:57
- Dr. Gourgouris said...
Greeks have lived the "good life" for far too long. It's like a family who's been living on credit cards for too long and now, they can't even make the minimum payments. So someone else has to bail them out (EU, IMF.) It it pleasant? Of course not, but they who bail you out also set the terms. That's how life works...What's the alternative? As to what took place yesterday in the streets of my beloved Athens: it's a complete Greek tragedy! Actually having 120,000 people protesting peacefully is part of having a democracy. Having 100 "hooded known-unknowns" take advantage of the protest to create more chaos, destruction and ultimately kill three innocent workers is NOT democracy! If they guilty parties are ever brought to justice, they should be hung in Syndagma Square for all to see! Enough is enough...how many more innocent must perish? As for the corrupt political officials of PASOK & New Democracy (they're different sides of the same coin) and the elitist bankers who havew raped the middle and lower classes for years, their time is up too! They deserve the same fate as those killers!
- 6 May 2010 at 23:57
- John Akritas said...
Did all Greeks live the 'good life', or was it just a small proportion, and is it this small proportion who are being asked to cough up now or those Greeks on small pensions and low salaries who never cheated and fiddled in the first place? And the alternative is not to pay back those who leant you the money in the first place. It might not be a good alternative, but it is an alternative. As for identifying the koukoulophori, the political class and their buddies in the banks/media, etc, as Greece's worst enemies – I agree – as long as you include KKE/Syriza and the trade unions. Karatzaferis riled the KKE the other day by accusing them of re-enacting their 'antartiko' (civil war rebellion) although it's fair to say that KKE is just doing what Marxists-Leninists do and the Greek state should have been able to marginalise and make insignificant the communists, rather than let them run riot – often literally.
- 7 May 2010 at 00:57
KKE and SYRIZA do not even honour the Greek Constitution. How can a party be in parliament, let alone control the streets, when it does not honour the paper that binds us all.
Gourgaris is just a product of the post '74 system. The Leftist parties are just as much to blame for the current impasse as the bankers.
- 7 May 2010 at 05:09
I agree that we must get out of the eurozone. This is the first step towards real freedom. It will be painful initially. Greek debt will have to be redenominated into drachma, easy money will become scarce, people will lose jobs and we will become a pariah state in the international Anglo-Judaic press. However, it will force us to stand on our two feet. Eventually, we will build industry, we will not have to consult our so called "friends" about dealing with the Mongols, we will kick out the immigrants, we will not build new mosques, we will maintain our religious symbols whereever we like, we will build an education system that is Helleno-centric, we will once again produce poets and writers and write for the ethnos, we we will become really free.
- 8 May 2010 at 04:53
Modern Greece summarised in two words or less. :)
Hermes, only technological advancemnet is going to save the Greeks (or any small country, for that matter). For this, the Greeks have to put a premium on education. Do you see this happening? All I see today is a nation of wannabe entertainers (pornstars a la Julia). What's worse, what few great scientists, engineers, and other professionals the country has left will be lost to other countries like the United States as they welcome them with open arms. Two of the world's greatest physicists are Greek born and raised... and both are nicely ensconced in North America. Surprise, surprise.
Look... Greece is a small country with a small population. It does not have the luxury of inertia and STUPIDITY like the United States. So what if 50%, let's say, of Americans are as dumb as a doorknob. That still leaves at least 50%--150 million people!--that are not; in other words, 15 times! the pop. of Greece.
Just how dumb are Americans? Well, here's a youtube clip on the Miss Teen USA 2007 pageant where Miss South Carolina answers a question on why at least a fifth of Americans can't locate the US on a map:
- 9 May 2010 at 01:14
Wow! What a difference a weekend makes--a trillion dollars!
Just saying... not that it really matters for Greece--she's still up shit river without a paddle or crew. (Hey! It's metaphor Monday.)
- 10 May 2010 at 21:24
There are rumours that with Erdogan's visit to Greece next week, who will be accompanied by a large number of Turkish businessmen, Alpha Bank and Emporiki Bank will be acquired by Turkish banks with the support of PASOK.
The theory of Neo-Ottomanism, which is an important talking point in Helleno-centric circles in Greece, is gathering strength. Of course, the US government has tacitly supported this move i.e. witness Obama's supine speech in the Turkish parliament last year and US State Department announcements.
- 11 May 2010 at 02:06
Greece stand on it's own two feet ?!!? For the last 30 years Greeks have built nothing of their own accord. Every single brick has an EU funding stamp on it. The draxma is a point of no return. We can sit in our armchair and make calls, but what if they are wrong. Can anybody think of scenarios where Greece looses out outright. There are so many scenarios. Developing our industry ?!? How are we to compete with the EU protected industry on the one hand and the low payed everywhere else. With our technological might ? It takes 30 years to establish a foundation. Who Greece ?
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Amy is the dark, short-haired gal ('Lori') in the movie. At :23.5, she is having her breasts kissed and sucked for ~30 sec. by the sleazy main guy. Then at :52.25, Amy does one of the guards. This, the better of the two, shows her very large breasts and areola close-up and well-lit, as well as a brief glimpse of bush. Unfortunately, she's usually covering all the good parts!, so a scene with more potential holds at a 2*.
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3-4.5 scenes. Best scene w/ guard in hallway. Topless exposing her very large DD+ boobs and bottomsless exposing brief full frontal. Last scene is > SPOILER < her dead in pool floating face down w/ butt exposed. I only wish she did more movies as she looks like a better , naturally busty Carrie Ann Moss.
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Amy's exposure could've been GREAT, but instead, it was rather tame and disappointing. She has FANTASTIC tits, but in her first two scenes, she only gives us a few so-so looks at them, as well as a quick shot of bush. We also get a lovely, but brief full frontal glimpse at her in the showers, and a rather unappealing shot when she's floating in the pool. Not bad, but it could've been SO much better.
2 scenes as Test Subject
Since her name is never said in the movie, I have to guess this actress is Nicole (based on other reviewers' comments in other movies). In my opinion, she is the sexiest gal in this movie. She plays one of the captured test subject girls. At :24.25-.25.5, Nicole strips in the medical room revealing her awesome and large breasts, ass and bush as she gets on the gerney and then runs back and forth in the room. Great views and very hot girl! At :27.75, she has a 2 min. sex scene (drugged, dreamlike) where she walks across a sand dune in a scantily clad, see-through outfit. As she reaches the guy, she then pulls down her top revealing her breasts, then her ass. Her breasts are shown close-up during a few shots, including one where the guy is biting her nipple. wow! Too bad she's only had bit parts in this and other movies!
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At :04.5, Carrie is playing an actress that is doing a sex scene when she walks off the set unable to go through with it. Before she does, however, her top is taken off revealing her smallish breasts that the guy kisses – 1*. At :17.5, Carrie has sex at night in the desert with Nick. The lighting is poor and the length of shots too short, but you can make out a brief bush shot and several shots of her breasts – 2*. At :45, Heather is seen in a 2.25 min. drugged dream scene where she's a dominatrix. You can see her breasts dangling through her chains and as the guy kisses her nipple; also, there's a close-up shot of her pubic area…around both sides of her black leather bottoms, you can see her dark pubes close-up as the guy unzips her outfit and has sex (through the zipper? OUCH) – 2*. At :54.75 Carrie has a 30 sec. full frontal scene (dark coming out of the shower) and again at :56 (naked by the pool). At 1:00, Carrie has her best scene where in a drugged dream, she's a female Indian who has sex on a blanket with a cowboy. Several close-up shots of her breasts with her under him, seated on top of him and then bending all the way back on him. Not terribly erotic, but I'd give it a 3* (arguably) because of the lighting and extended close-up views. I don't find her terribly attractive but someone else might.
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Carrie shows all kinds of skin in this film, but honestly, I wasn't too impressed. She has a decent face, but she was way too thin and small-chested for my liking. However, she does display much of what she has to offer, including numerous looks at her breasts, a few shots of bush, and slight glimpses of her butt. Not bad, but not great.
4 scenes
At :09.25, Missy has a 1.25 min. daydream sex scene with a guy in the desert by a cactus. She reveals her large breasts and areola, as well as the side of her ass and top of her bush in the scene. While she does a horrible grinding job, her breasts are terrific, full and very sexy. At :35.5, Missy does a long and fantastic Roman pool sex scene while supposedly drugged. She takes off her toga revealing her wonderfully large breasts, mohawk bush, ass—mostly from a distance—while a blonde girl watches her kiss a guy. The distant shots give way to close-ups of her ass and several great breast close-ups from different angles! Probably the best nude scene of the movie. At :54.75 Missy has a 30 sec. full frontal scene (dark coming out of the shower) and again at :56 (naked by the pool). Missy has wonderful breasts and a shapely figure which helps offset the bad dialogue and acting.
whole film
Missy Browning is absolutely splendid in this movie. Her superb curvy body is shown off in several scenes, the best of which is a very sexy Roman bath scene. Actually, this whole movie has great nudity, with several stunning actresses displayed. Lots of full frontal.
Several GREAT scenes
The best exposure in this movie is courtesy of Missy. In particular, two sex scenes stand out when we get a bit of ass, a few shots of bush, and all kinds of views of her amazing tits. She also gives us a quick full frontal in the showers, and a brief breast shot by the pool, but they don't compare to the sex scenes. It's definitely worth checking this movie out to see her incredible body.
simply unbelievable!
Don't miss this hot babe. She does full frontal nude sex scenes in the unrated version that will just make you sweat! Her extra full breasts with large rosy nipples and thin figure are first displayed in an desert mirage sex dream. Then, later in the movie there is another long sex scene in a pool. Another brief scene, poorly lit in the shower room, has her again completely nude. One of the other women held captive is also really good looking who appears in the desert sex scene - but she just compare to Missy!