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Derek Mackay's 'shambolic' Budget today continues to unravel with a series of damning revelations:
- Analysis reveals the SNP has cut enterprise budgets by more than 40 per cent since 2009/10.
- Mr Mackay has admitted in a letter that councils could slash funding for integrated health and social care boards by up to £80million.
- The leader of the Labour/SNP coalition in Edinburgh has branded the Budget the 'worst revenue settlement since devolution'.
The Labour leader of Edinburgh Council, which is run by a Labour/SNP coalition, said the capital has been dealt 'the worst revenue settlement since devolution'.
In an online blog, Councillor Andrew Burns wrote: "Rarely in my near 18 years as a local councillor have I seen so much spin and manipulation of figures, as that which I've witnessed in the last 72 hours."
He added: "I cannot welcome a general revenue grant settlement for Edinburgh that sees the funding received from the Scottish Government being reduced, this year compared to last, by some £37million.
"I understand that it's a choice the Scottish Government is entitled to make - but what's particularly galling is that other choices were available, which would have negated the need for any year-on-year revenue reduction.
"At the council, we'll simply get on trying to ensure we deliver services to the very best of our ability, within the finances that are available to us - but please spare me any further spin as sadly - my measured conclusion is clear - for the City of Edinburgh Council, this is currently the worst revenue settlement from the Scottish Government since the onset of devolution in 1999."
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said: "The SNP's Budget includes a £327million cut for the valued services that our councils deliver, like schools and care for the elderly.
"Behind that figure is the devastating reality that services used by everybody will suffer as a result. These are cuts that will hit everybody, but particularly hurt the most vulnerable.
"It is a budget the Tories would be proud of. It is a shambolic mess that continues to unravel. Labour cannot and will not stand back while public services are subjected to more brutal SNP cuts."
A new briefing prepared for the Scottish Parliament's economy committee reveals a cut to Scottish Enterprise of more than £120 million from 2009-10 to this year's draft budget – a reduction of 41 per cent.
The new analysis follows the publication of the draft budget for 2017-18, which will see Scottish Enterprise funding cut by 33 per cent in a single financial year.
Labour economy spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said: "These are utterly damning figures that show just how badly the SNP has failed on economic development after a decade in office.
"Slashing the enterprise budget demonstrates how narrow and short-sighted the Nationalists' vision for Scotland is. Cutting budgets may save money year-on-year but Scotland loses out in the long term with stalled growth and lower productivity.
"The SNP's management of Scotland's economy is under the microscope now more than ever – and we are seeing the results: a £15 billion deficit and missed targets on growth, exports and research and development. This all boils back to a failure to invest in our economy properly."
In an extraordinary letter to the president of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA), David O'Neill, Mr Mackay suggests councils could cut funding to Integration Joint Boards (IJBs) by up to £80million.
The letter suggests local authorities could transfer money back to their main spending lines. The Scottish Government is handing IJBs £107million, but if councils take back £80million it would mean there is significantly less money to spend on social care.
Labour social care spokesman Colin Smyth said: "This is an extraordinary letter that confirms from Derek Mackay himself that his budget underfunds councils.
"Derek Mackay knows he hasn't given local services the settlement they need – but his suggestion they cut funding to integration joint boards is simply staggering. Social care is already in crisis, it needs more investment, not less.
"This looks like a political manoeuvre to blame councils for cuts to social care – despite the brutal £327million cut Derek Mackay has handed out.
"The only way to ensure social care is properly funded is to stop the cuts by using the new powers of the Scottish Parliament to invest."
Councillor Andrew Burns went on to say: "...to be clear, I really don't care much what those in the Holyrood legislature (it's called that, because that's what people who work there are supposed to do - legislate) argue one way or the other ... what I care about, as a Council Leader, is trying to ensure we deliver services locally to the very best of our ability and to do so within the finances that are available to us.
"I think it's also fair to say that I'm not exactly someone who can very easily be categorised as unnecessarily, politically-tribal in my outlook ... epitomised by my current Leadership of the only two-Party Labour/SNP Coalition across the whole of Scottish Local Government.
"But, tragically, the undeniable conclusion that I've regrettably come to is that, for the City of Edinburgh Council, this is the worst revenue settlement from the Scottish Government since the onset of devolution in 1999.
"...And this is all against a backdrop of the Scottish Government actually receiving, year-on-year, more revenue this year than last, from the Westminster Government."


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TORONTO — His club has been the subject of many a rumour since he became general manager. This one turned Alex Anthopoulos livid.
Anthopoulos angrily denied an online report claiming his Toronto Blue Jays made a pre-draft financial deal with right-hander Tyler Beede, their top pick in the June 6 amateur draft. A second report said Beede would sign with Toronto for "about" US$3-million.
"It's ridiculous," Anthopoulos said Wednesday. "It's a joke. I'm amazed at all the false rumours about everything. I'm just sick of reading lies and rumours that people make up about us all the time. I've had enough of it."Beede, a Massachusetts high-school pitcher, has signed a letter of intent to pitch for Vanderbilt University. Baseball America ranked him the 35th-best prospect available. Toronto took him with the 21st pick.
Pre-draft deals, which are illegal, occasionally do occur. For example, a prospect worthy of a top-10 pick might scare off high-drafting clubs with a steep bonus demand so he can "slide" to a preferred lower-drafting club with whom he has made a deal.
Beede was not expected to go as high as he did in the draft. In effect, he "slid up" to the Jays, making a pre-draft deal appear illogical.
Unlike a team with a top-10 draft pick, a club that picks 21st has no certainty about which players will be available when its turn comes.
On Tuesday, Kevin Goldstein of Baseball Prospectus tweeted: "Lots of industry rumors that the Blue Jays had a pre-draft deal done with 1st round pick Tyler Beede. Against the rules; but always happens."
On Sunday, ESPN's Keith Law tweeted that Beede is "going to sign, about $3 million." Law did not mention a pre-draft deal.
"Why would someone have a pre-draft deal to pick someone 21st overall in the draft? I'd like someone to explain it to me," Anthopoulos said.
Major League Baseball's recommended bonus for the 21st pick is US$1.332-million. Many clubs exceed MLB's "slot" money, and the Jays will certainly do so with Beede, as they did with a number of their picks in 2010.
Pitcher Deck McGuire, their top pick last year, signed for US$2-million, US$209,000 over slot. Their highest bonus, US$2.4-million, went to Ricky Romero in 2005.
Beede told reporters in a post-draft conference call that he would withdraw his commitment to Vanderbilt if the Jays met his price. Asked if negotiations with Beede have begun, Anthopoulos refused to comment as a matter of club policy.
The GM said he is upset with rumours that focus on the Jays. Last winter, he recalled, unsourced reports claimed Toronto had made offers to a number of free agents and were close to deals.
"Then there were press conferences and comments where people found out that we never even had negotiations or dialogue," he said.
He said "99%" of the rumours about the Jays have been false.
"It's the way it is today. It seems to be our organization, one way or the other," he said.
Update: On Thursday, Law tweeted: "I'm getting credit for @Kevin_Goldstein's scoop on Tyler Beede possibly having a predraft deal. I heard the same but he wrote it first." When one of his followers asked whether had a reliable source or was simply speculating, Law replied: "I would NEVER write something like that w/o reliable sourcing."
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The Breaklites Learned the Rules and Know How to Bend Them
The Breaklites "I ♥ America" Album Release Party – Saturday, January 11, 9pm, Jazzbones (with Mr. Melanin, Perry Porter, and The Fame Riot)
"The American system is the most ingenious system of control in world history. With a country so rich in natural resources, talent, and labor power the system can afford to distribute just enough wealth to just enough people to limit discontent to a troublesome minority. It is a country so powerful, so big, so pleasing to so many of its citizens that it can afford to give freedom of dissent to the small number who are not pleased. There is no system of control with more openings, apertures, leeways, flexibilities, rewards for the chosen, winning tickets in lotteries. There is none that disperses its controls more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the school, the mass media–none more successful in mollifying opposition with reforms, isolating people from one another, creating patriotic loyalty." – Howard Zinn
"I will fuck hella pandas." – John McRae
No one could ask for more from a hip-hop ensemble than what The Breaklites offer. With two MCs, a DJ, and a multi-instrumentalist producer, they kick out thrilling live shows and records. They're young, fashionable, and eager, but they have the professionalism and discipline of veterans. Their productivity is undeniable, having completed five record projects and three tours since 2010.
They released their sixth record, I ♥ America, this week. It's an adroit, well-assembled record — polished and physical, doused with sarcasm and lit to blaze with raucous, move-thyself rhythm. And, in keeping with the precedent set by the previous two records, it contains no sampled musical material.
"We make different music than we used to now that we don't use samples," said MC Cruel. "I mean, this record doesn't sound like hip-hop to me, really, other than the rapping. It's not the boom-bap shit I used to like. To me, it sounds electronic."
Producer John McRae added, "Well, it's not just party music, though. A lot of it is darker."
Indeed, there is something darker going on, something not so easily categorizable. There is weary social consciousness in the lyrics, and a broad range of musical influences in the beats, from funk to rock to R&B.
The Breaklites do not present themselves as a complex, self-serious act. They emanate a let-loose, good-times vibe that belies their musicianship and the host of tricks in their playbook. McRae's opening guitar lead on the title track, for example, is downright poignant, and wouldn't sound out of place on a Death Cab for Cutie song. Then, before the reverb is quite fully faded, MC's Cruel and Alex Schelhammer start lobbing dirtbombs of mockery at American consumerist culture, as if they came in on the heels of War Pigs.
The dynamic structures of the songs are not accidents. "The way we structure our songs is driven by our live performances," said The Mayor, the group's DJ. For The Breaklites, concerts are crucial. On stage, their charisma and versatility are on full display.
In keeping with their commitment to live performance, The Breaklites have learned the value of presenting heady ideas in clever, engaging ways, taking time to hone arrangements that eschew traditional hip-hop song formats. They wanted to put out a record that riffs on regrettable elements of U.S. culture ("I wanted to offend every idiot who can't read between the lines," said McRae), while keeping their audience entertained.
The album release concert for I ♥ America is this Saturday, at Jazzbones on 6th Avenue (ticket details here), with Mr. Melanin* (100% Post Defiance-approved DJ), Perry Porter (the damn-fucking-good MC behind the new record "Kings Only"), and The Fame Riot.
The decision to play Tacoma, rather than Seattle, was deliberate. The Breaklites want to participate in a supportive Tacoma musical community, though it has been difficult to make connections. "We want to play shows with other people," The Mayor said, "We want to share audiences and get different kinds of people together." They even played a stint of shows with hardcore punk and metal bands at the now-defunct Redroom.
As Alex Schelhammer put it, "Tacoma is a city full of hardworking motherfuckers who work their asses off all day, and when they get home, they just want to kick back and have a beer. It's hard to convince them to go out to a show, to go do something with art — unless it's nice outside. But people need to get out, otherwise, they're starving themselves in a way. Like a panda that won't fuck to save its species."
"But all that to say, we're doing fine here," said Cruel. "We're finding our way. We fuck with pandas."
From across the room, McRae echoed, "I will fuck hella pandas."
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Angelina Jolie Breaks Down In Tears Thinking About Brad Pitt Having More Custody
Angelina Jolie's world revolves around her six kids, so it's tough any time they're apart. The actress still breaks down in tears thinking about her ex Brad Pitt having more custody of them in the future, we've EXCLUSIVELY learned. Find out why!
Brad Pitt, 53, and Angelina Jolie, 42, are reportedly in a better place with each other in the wake of their Sept. 2016 split. Even so, she's still coming to terms with the reality of not having her children around all the time — given how things can change with their custody agreement. "Angelina's not at all comfortable with the idea of being separated from her kids, just talking about it can make her cry," a source close to the By The Sea actress tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. "It's hard for her to imagine Brad taking them all overseas without her, she would not like it if the shoe was on the other foot. There's a huge double standard but she doesn't see it that way."
Brad has been spending as much time as possible repairing his relationship with their precious kids Maddox, 15; Pax, 13; Zahara, 12; Shiloh, 11; and 8-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne. Luckily, Angelina reportedly moved into an epic abode just two miles away from Brad's home, which gives him the opportunity to see his kids more often. The family, sans Brad, was spotted jetting out of LAX for Father's Day and they were all smiles while together.
As we previously reported, "He's not complaining, but he had planned to spend some time with them for Father's Day," a source close to Brad told HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. "He was working on his place to make it special for them, adding a new skateboard ramp. He saw Angie's 100 foot water slide and wanted to make his place special for them as well. Although their relationship has improved, communication is a struggle at times."
To get their family back on track, Brad's taking extra measures. "The kids don't love therapy, but they know that Brad has to do it," an OK! magazine insider claims. "[Therapy's] allowed them to get a better sense of his issues and come to terms with what went wrong in their parents' marriage. Brad has firmly but gently explained that no matter how much he loves their mother, they are not getting back together. He doesn't want them to have false hopes."
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Once again, Nintendo has revealed its best selling Amiibos by region during its investor meeting.
The company also announced that global amiibo shipments have now reached 31 million, as per slides released on its investor site today. Around 9.9 million of those shipped in the last quarter.
The breakdown by country is as follows, as translated by Cheesemeister3k:
1. Girl (Splatoon) 2. Squid 3. Boy (Splatoon) 4. Mario 5. Classic Mario 6. Modern Mario 7. Isabelle 8. Kirby 9. Green Yarn Yoshi 10. Digby
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1. Link 2. Bowser 3. Toon Link 4. Mewtwo 5. Sonic 6. Pikachu 7. Classic Mario 8. Pac-Man 9. Mega Man 10. Ganon
1. Classic Mario 2. Link 3. Squid 4. Green Yarn Yoshi 5. Mario 6. Smash Mario 7. Pikachu 8. Boy 9. Toad 10. Girl
During the meeting, Nintendo also outlined details of its upcoming My Nintendo loyalty program, starting March. Of its much discussed NX console, Nintendo only said "we have nothing to announce about the... NX today".


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I called this category Resources but it's really Miscellaneous That Doesn't Fit Anywhere Else. Enjoy.
Well, YouTube doesn't make it easy. The link to your feed is no longer in your YouTube channel page. But you can still get to it.
WordPress generates RSS feeds for just about anything. Typically you can find the RSS feed for a site at:
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You can get a feed for all the comments at:
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Feed Creator You have to have a bit of HTML knowledge for this one.
Feed43 is a freemium service with free and reasonably-priced annual plans
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TwitRSS is a free service that converts your Twitter stream into an RSS feed.
There's also a Google Script that also converts your Twitter stream into RSS.
If you can self-host PHP scripts (which is almost everybody) you can get RSS-Bridge and covert any number of social media streams into RSS feeds.
Really terrific piece on Creating RSS Feeds from Twitter for prospecting from the good folks over at Social Media Examiner.
Reddit has a subreddit on RSS that gets a post every few days. Worth a look, anyway.
When all's said and done, you need to check your RSS feed to see if it's well-formed, and has all the elements in the right places. My favorite place for that is FeedValidator.org. It's free and easy to use. You just put in the url of your RSS feed and it either give you an OK, or tells you what's wrong with it. It hasn't been updated since 2009, but not much has changed in the standards since then. I hightly recommend it.
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Discussion in 'GBAtemp & Scene News' started by granville, Oct 30, 2009.
herm baby
My Baby 2???Theres a sequel? People should prevent teenage pregnancy, not promote it.
Please look on the positive side, this game could act as a babysitting simulator, train anybody before having real children. Don't think it's promoting teenage pregnancy.
no it's promoting 3+ pregnancy
you're totally right
~whistles~ i ACTUALLY feel like playing this, No sarcasm, i love kids, want some of my own, It'll let me FEEL like i have one and there for my parents wont kill me for getting my girlfriend pregnant XD
i'd rather get settled (thru marriage) before child cuz child is a lock to the marriage
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For the past few months, there has been great speculation over whether or not Baby Girl has begun talking or not…
I documented our wonderings on the blog in January (She Speaks?) and February (She Speaks? Part 2) with the first definite word appearing on our Surrey Staycation when Baby Girl met the 'doggies'.
Well I am very excited to say that we are now 100% sure Baby Girl has started talking.
The couple of weeks leading up to her first birthday saw Baby Girl's vocabulary suddenly flourish. And within the space of only a few weeks, we suddenly have a whole plethora of random words. We're classing these as words based on two things: one, the correct sounds and two, the correct context. There's a few that have either/or which I mention further on, but these are the first definite words:
- all done
- uh oh!
- oh dear
- Daddy
- doggie
- Upsy Daisy
- Daisy Do
- Kak, kak ('quack, quack' – as in, the duck noise)
- tea (when pointing to Mama's mug – I realise this gives away how much tea I must drink for this to be a first word!)
I'm trying not to take it personally that 'Mama' doesn't feature yet. She knows who I am; if you say, 'Let's find Mama,' she goes off looking for me. But the closest we've come is that when something is wrong, she babbles 'mamamamama'. I guess I should take solace in the fact that perhaps this is her seeking me out when she needs comfort?
We also have the correct intonation for 'peek-a-boo' but completely the wrong sounds. She disappears behind the coffee table & reappears with a big smile saying, 'ah hoh!' with the same intonation I use for 'peek-a-boo'. (Basically, high-pitched.) So I'm taking this as a word based on the theory I spoke of in She Speaks? Part 2 about intonation vs. sounds.
Baby Girl also has a few set phrases of sounds that she repeats regularly… but I'm yet to figure out what they mean.
And she very firmly has the hang of shaking her head for 'no'.
But for any readers who aren't parents forced to watch the joys of In The Night Garden; Upsy Daisy is a crazy haired, dancing, badly singing character from Baby Girl's favourite TV programme. Upsy Daisy's key phrase is, "Upsy Daisy, Daisy Do". And whenever she comes on the screen, Baby Girl says, 'Uhsee Dayee' and when Upsy Daisy says 'Daisy Do,' Baby Girl dutifully repeats it. It's very cute.
The week before her first birthday, Baby Girl also took her first steps. I stripped her off on the changing table as always before her bath and popped her on the floor. She's now standing unaided and was waiting for me to give her my hand so we could walk to the bath together as always. I turned around and said, "to the bath!" and before I could give her my hand, she just walked off! Baby Girl was as shocked as me; after three steps she looked up utterly surprised and slowly lowered herself to crawling position.
This has happened a handful more times since, but we haven't seen the sudden increase in ability the way we have with her speech. Apparently this is very common as babies subconsciously choose a development path, master that, then come back to complete the other one. In this instance, Baby Girl has chosen talking.
This theory makes a lot of sense to me, especially if you look at how quickly Baby Girl's bestie Baby E and bestie boy G, progressed from one or two steps to toddling happily round the room.
To be honest, I expected Baby Girl to be slow to walk. The fact she took any steps before her first birthday was a win! She was just six months when she started crawling and had real incentive to do so: if she didn't figure out crawling, she didn't go anywhere. Where as with walking, she has an alternative way to get around, where's the incentive?
It makes absolute sense, then, that Baby Girl has focussed her efforts on communicating and is only wobbling one or two steps from the coffee table to me (or as is more the case, the iPad!). And I can feel everyone who knows me reading this rolling their eyes saying, "shock horror, she's a chatterbox like her Mama…"


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Developer plans 'tiny house' village in York
The northern end of York Village is going to look a lot different next summer than it does today, as a "tiny house" village of shops and apartments is planned to transform what is now a wooded lot.
Bagel Basket owner Sean Mitchell can now move forward with this dream, four years in the making, after voters last week approved a zoning amendment that extends the York Village Center Overlay District to include his land next door to the popular eatery.
"I've been thinking about this for a long time, and I think it will make a very nice addition to the village," said Mitchell.
Four years ago, Mitchell bought the property next door, which at the time included a vacant house.


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Traditional attitudes towards the making of sculpture are of primary importance to John Mills.
Hammersmih School of Art 1947-1954
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Royal College of Art 1956-1960
Part-time and full-time teaching in the UK and USA 1958-1977
Stopped teaching in 1977 to practice sculpture full-time and continue to do so. I have concentrated on exhibitions and commissions on an international basis. Principle commissions include the monument to 'The Women of World War II', Whitehall, London, unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II in 2005. My most recent exhibition was a retrospective at The Gibberd Gallery, Harlow in Essex during the summer of 2011.
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Em 30/12/58 Pelé e Coutinho jogaram juntos pela primeira vez. 56 anos depois, a maior dupla de todos os tempo tem um novo desafio!
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A 74-year-old being discharged from the hospital isn't generally a newsworthy incident. However, when that individual is Edson Arantes do Nascimento (better known as Pele), it gets global coverage.
The former Santos and New York Cosmos star had been hospitalized after undergoing hemodialysis due to the effects of a severe urinary tract infection. Rumors quickly spread that the soccer legend was on death's door, but the septuagenarian was released with a clean bill of health early this week.
While exiting the hospital, Pele spoke briefly with assembled reporters, and joked that he could now focus on preparing for the upcoming Olympic games. There is no truth, however, to the rumors that he also quipped that Maradona probably couldn't have handled the infection as well, and would have cheated to regain his health.
To further demonstrate his renewed vitality, Pele then took part in Santos-promoted event that pitted him against fellow former club star Coutinho in a FIFA 15 battle. The fact that neither individual had any idea how to play the game only added further hilarity to the situation.


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An update on BET's "two-hour backdoor comedy pilot/original movie" starring Daniel Dwayne Simmons, aka Diggy Simmons (son of Joseph "Rev. Run" Simmons), executive produced by Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil.
A quick recap… Set in New York, four young people are struggling to relaunch their rising-star blog. They're thrilled when finally given a real shot by the owner of a trendy magazine, only to learn they've been scammed.
The potential scripted series would reportedly have an Entourage vibe to it, with Allen Maldonado (as Diggy's character's best friend Manny), Teyana Taylor (as Diggy's character's ex-GF), Chris Brew (as Dot, a tech geek, and childhood friend), Bria Murphy (as Manny's girlfriend), and Stephanie Charles (as Sheri, Dot's ex-girlfriend), all co-starring.
Skip ahead to recent Facebook posts on the Akil Productions page, stating that the project is aptly titled The Start Up.
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Outbeat Now! – July 22, 2012
This month on Outbeat Now! we are joined by Lenny Broberg, who is long time community activist, former "Mr. Leather International" and current member of the San Francisco Police Department. In his spare time, Lenny hosts the San Francisco Pride Parade on KOFY TV 20 and most recently hosted the GLAAD auction fundraiser in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York. Lenny told us about what motivates him to be involved and why it's important to find a cause you are passionate about and to be involved in your community. On the Outbeat Youth segment, Greg Miraglia talks with Campus Pride's executive director, Shane Windmeyer about how as an LGBT freshman to prepare for the first day of school on a new campus. This show also is the first in a series to be presented over the next school year we are calling the Outbeat Youth Campus Pride National Voices In Action Spotlight Series. You can learn more about this special series at www.outbeatyouth.com.


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Punch Drunk Cabaret is all about rockabilly beats mixed with outlaw country and steam punk swing—delivered with all the energy of AC/DC. Get a feel for their music in their latest video Two Brown Bottles of Beer on their website.
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After Shea Looijen and Kristi M. Uhles' previous Kickstarter project,The Reliquary Collection
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Looijen and Uhles formed Bibelot Games earlier this year and have been designing games for as long as the two can remember. Their original pouch sketches and other designs for the games go back more than a decade.
The two say The Midnight Collection features eight new games in easy-to-travel leather pouches that when unwrapped double as a game boards.
"The gameplay runs the gamut from intense strategy games that take a long time to master to casual party games that can be picked up in a couple minutes," write Looijen and Uhles.
And while their games range in skill and strategy, they all maintain a level of campy humor that keeps everything lighthearted.
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All the game pieces are made from laser-cut marble and walnut with unique symbols and designs. Looijen and Uhles plan to sell their collections on Amazon in early 2013 and promise they have plenty more in the works.To help fund their current project, check out the Bibelot Games Kickstarter page.


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If you have your Summer holiday planned and your camera is included in those plans, then there are plenty of things to think about before you leave home.
The more obvious, but often most overlooked, are things like battery chargers, don't forget to pack them and also pack a travel plug for them if you are leaving the country. Mains leads - for lap tops and your phone.
Memory cards, formatted and ready to go. Charge your batteries before you leave home to and put a fresh one in your camera a long with a fresh memory card so if you need to quickly grab your camera and capture a moment you are ready for action.
When I travel, I take my lap top as it means I can upload my images whilst I am away and I also take an external hard drive too - secondary back up - ensures images are safe even if something happens to either the laptop or the external drive.
By having the laptop with me it also means I can review what I have photographed as I go along.
I know you're on holiday, but it's worth getting up early and going out with your camera - for two reasons - firstly to miss the hustle and bustle of having other tourists around - and if you are in an area with a market getting stall holders setting up in morning light can be beautiful, and the other reason that no matter where you are the morning light is stunning, whether you are in a city, beach or other location, it is worth getting up early even on one morning of you holiday if that's all you can manage.
If you are going to a location for the first time, Google it - do your homework and find out where the best spots are, what time the sun rises and sets, tide times - you don't want to get caught on the rocks trying to grab that fabulous shot when the tide is coming in at you quicker than you can get off the rocks. There are some great guide books out there too to help you, Lonely Planet and Footprint guides all keep their books very well up to date with hints and tips of where to stay and great places to go in any destination world wide.
They will also give you an idea about what weather to expect at different times of the year and if you are going to see wildlife then the best time of year to see different activities in different locations - the migration in East Africa for example or penguins hatching in Antarctica.
When you are at your chosen location, try to find new viewpoints, so if you are at a market for example - is there a rooftop cafe around that you could have easy access to that will give you an aerial view of what's happening in the market square, if you then also get close up shots of the products and some interesting shots around the market these aerial style shots can help to complete the story of the place you have visited, giving the person viewing the images a really good overall view of where you have been.
And if you are fortunate enough to be going to the Caribbean or Maldives then don't forget the polariser filter for the sky and water. Whilst you may think having such beautiful skies and sea can make it easy to get a great shot, you need to get the composition of the image right or it will be just another blue sky with blue water.
This shot above was taken in the Maldives at dusk with a slower shutter speed to get a soft motion across the water.The shot below was taken with the camera in the water so that I could get the raindrops actually hitting the top of the pool and capture the splash.
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Author: Vuk PerovićPlace: MontenegroDate: 21 June 2011
During qualifications for the European Football Championship which will be held next year in Poland and Ukraine, the national football team of Montenegro still have not lost a single game. The match against Bulgaria on 4 June in Podgorica ended in a 1-1 draw and kept Montenegro in the running for the greatest championship on the continent. They currently share first place in their qualifying group with England. The top two teams from each group qualify.
Author: Vuk Perović Place: MontenegroDate: 20 April 2011
In Montenegro, the dream of winning the Women's Champions League in handball is decades old. Unfortunately, this year the players of the Budućnost women's handball team were denied it when they thought they almost had it in their grasp. In the semi-finals of this prestigious competition, their dreams were shattered in the two matches they played against the Norwegian team Larvik on 09 and 17 April.
Author: Vuk PerovićPlace: MontenegroDate: 30 October 2009
Although the World Football Championship will probably be the biggest sports event in 2010, sports fans in Montenegro are far more eager about the upcoming European Water Polo Championship. The success Montenegro's national team and water polo clubs have achieved in recent years has ranked this sport as the country's absolute favourite.
Author: Marko VesovićPlace: MontenegroDate: 03 March, 2009The history of organised sport in Montenegro dates back to the 19th century. Back then, tennis, football and golf were the most popular sports, but skating, skiing, cycling and horse racing had also their supporters. By the beginning of the 20th century, the first sport clubs had already been founded. In 1908 Montenegro received an official invitation from the British King Edward VIII to participate at the Olympic Games in London. Unfortunately, it was not a member of the International Olympic Committee, so it was ineligible to participate.
Inva Mula, born in Tirana, Albania in 1963, is one of the leading sopranos of her generation. Famous to filmgoers as the voice featured in the Diva Dance in Luc Besson's Fifth Element, she has performed to great acclaim across the world, and is a regular performer at La Scala in Milan. Her album Il bel sogno is performed with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Ivo Lipanović and features famous arias by Puccini, Gounod, Massenet and Verdi.
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The One World Human Rights Festival will take place in Pristina from 12-16 December. Its aim is to promote human rights, freedoms, and democracy, but also to feature meaningful debates on issues like human rights, civil society, foreign policy, environmental policy, etc.
The Tirana International FIlm Festival (TIFF) is the first international cinema festival of its kind in Albania and will be held from 5-10 December
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We noted yesterday that the county's proposed boycott of Arizona would have at least one detractor: Supervisor Mike Antonovich. He didn't disappoint observers Thursday when he issued a press release calling the idea "stupid."
"As elected officials, we take an oath to uphold the federal and state constitutions," he stated. "To boycott a state for enforcing our federal laws is in direct violation of that oath. The propaganda by both the media and others is intentionally misleading because Arizona's law mirrors federal law."
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The county's 5th District Republican appears to support Arizona's controversial law, to say the least. The legislation, which goes into effect in July, encourages police to check in the immigration status of people of suspicious national origin whom they detain or arrest.
Mirroring the city of L.A.'s boycott, the county proposal, put forth by Supervisor Gloria Molina, would ban most county travel to Arizona and cut off future business with the state.
"This knee jerk reaction to support law breakers at the expense of law-abiding legal immigrants and other residents is irresponsible," Antonovich states. "A divestment and a boycott is a disingenuous show of perceived political correctness that will only backfire and will shoot us in the heart -- not in the foot."
Antonovich, by the way, fancies himself a cowboy, with one of his official images capturing him atop a horse, hat-on-head. Shhhhh. Nobody tell him that the cowboy milieu -- el rodeo and all -- originated ... south of the border.


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L.A. - When the Dead Rise
Rosie Garza
Born: Rosarito, Mexico – 1992
Age: 22
Former Profession: Barista
Rosie met Luther at the Starbucks where they both worked. They have been going out for three months before the Zombie Apocalypse. Her cousin Jose is the only family member that knew she was dating Luther.
Rosie, Jose, and Luther survived their initial zombie attack by fleeing after Marcela was killed. They hid out in Rich's auto garage until they were rescued by Max, who helped them flee L.A. in his Toyota SUV.


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For the Foodie Friday potluck today, I feel like South of the Border, but pardon my lack of authenticity. I only wish to capture the flavors of the area.
You are welcome to come and join me.
Wash your hands, pull up a chair, and let's get eatin'!
Thanks, Michael Lee for hosting this awesome potlucks!!! Honestly, where do you the find the time?
First the appetizer... How about some quesadillas with bacon and green onions?
Alright... Before we dive into the rest of the meal, let's clean our palette with some freshly picked blackberries- from the thornless bushes.
There... Our palette's ready for more. How about some... Taco Beef Soup?
Done? How did you like it? I'm glad you enjoyed it. Now let's dive into... Some fresh tacos you make yourself (you washed your hands, right?)
That was truly delicious! I had two myself. How about dessert? Let's go to Hawaii, ok? I'm craving for some macadamia nuts and good chocolate. How about these?
Well? How was everything? Do you still have room in those pants? I hope I didn't make you eat too much. Thank you for coming!!! I'm glad you came to see me! :-D
Til next Friday then... I know you have other goodies to check out at Gollum's. That's where I'm headed! Let's go together... :-D


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PETRONAS has strengthened its LNG market presence in China with the successful conclusion of a contract extension with privately held JOVO Group recently.
JOVO owns and operates the Dongguan LNG terminal based in Guangdong, South China.
The contract extension will ensure an increase of LNG supply to JOVO up until at least 2023 as the company seeks to expand its downstream market to meet end-users demand in China, PETRONAS said on Thursday.
The contract was signed by Ahmad Adly Alias, VP of LNG Marketing & Trading, Upstream Petronas, and Zhang Jiangguo, President and CEO of JOVO Group.
JOVO received its first imported LNG from PETRONAS on September 17, 2013, making it the first private company to import LNG cargo to China.
Earlier this month, JOVO Group signed long term LNG offtake agreement with SCT&E LNG.
Guandong province has one of the highest capacities of coal-burning power, and Chinese leadership is now looking to curb its coal consumption by adopting clean burning energy alternatives, such as natural gas in the form of LNG.
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Kristin Russell knows one thing–her stepdad is awesome. She wrote on YouTube: "My first memories of him are playing barbies with me and reading to me. He coached every softball team I was on and came to every Karate tournament. He never had to do any of that. He gave up this awesome car to spend the money on marrying my mom. I saved up some money from my deployment and have been trying to figure out for a few yearsRead more


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About ECU'92
Study Association Economie Combinatie Utrecht 1992 (ECU'92) was founded on March 24th 1992. The founding was initiated by the launch of an economics project by the faculties of social sciences and geography of the Utrecht University in that year. As of 2003 ECU'92 is the Study Association for all the students of the Utrecht University School of Economics (U.S.E.) and all other students who are doing Economics courses (e.g. minor students).
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Dustin Evan Johnson, son of Shane Johnson and Shanna Toft-Johnson of Craig, was born at 6:46 p.m. March 18, 2006. He weighed 6 pounds and 12 ounces, and was 19.75 inches long. His siblings are Cody, Hunter and Sierra. His grandparents are Alice and Steve Toft of Fort Worth, Texas; Cindy and Jim Wall of Craig; and Donna Johnson of Newalla, Okla.


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People are upset because Eddie Huang's upcoming sitcom "Fresh Off the Boat" uses the term "chink."Huang uses it because it was used against him to show how racism affects people.
It's this whole bullshit of "no one's racist! Let's not use these words because no one uses them anymore." Bullshit. The sitcom is based on his life and it was used against him. Where was the uproar when Chris Rock used the word "nigger" in his stand-up to talk about the power of that word? No one was up in arms.
Then again, my stalker uses the word "gook" which hasn't been used in common vernacular since, what? Vietnam? The word "gook" though, it sounds like someone trying way too hard to sound hard and racist.
That's just an aside though. Anyway. I'm using Huang's memoir Fresh off the Boat in my global immigration studies course this fall. I mean, if we actually own up to racism and the institutionalization of it then we can talk about it in a frank matter. It exists. It still exists. It doesn't need to be that way, and maybe it won't be that way, but that day isn't now. We don't live in a post-racial society, and I don't think we'll ever be in one. We don't live in a post-queer society (I refuse to say post-gay because gay denotes something specific) just because of same sex marriage being passed. But we need to talk about it to insure progress.
Just some strung together thoughts before I go to bed. What do you think about this whole mess?


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|05 Jun 2015
Windows 7 won't install SP1
I'm having problems installing SP1 on windows 7 professional.Each time I try it fails, and so I have followed the Update Posting Instructions:
1 SURT - I downloaded this, ran it to completion and no problems.
2 SFC Scan - I ran this and again no problems reported
3 Error Codes - See attached
4 Log Collection - I followed the instructions on this, but the resultant CBS.zip file is 22.7 MB and won't upload as it is bigger than 8 MB
Any assistance would be most welcome please.
|My System Specs
|06 Jun 2015
Delete the older CBSPersist files from the zip archive until the resulting file is less than 8MB, and post it then
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|06 Jun 2015
Thanks NoelDP, files attached.
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|06 Jun 2015
There are no problems in either SFC or CheckSUR logs.
I can't see anything informative in the background CBS data
Open Event Viewer
click on the Windows logs entry in the left pane to expand it.
Now click on the Application entry - wait while it loads.
Click on 'File' in the menu bar and select Save...
Save the file as Appevt.evtx
Repeat for the System log
then zip both, and upload them.
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|06 Jun 2015
Here are the files Noel, thanks.
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|07 Jun 2015
Outlook really objects to your Kaspersky add-on!
I hate to say it, but the only reliable way of fixing this error code seems to be a repair install of Windows
Do you have access to a Retail or System Builder Windows Home Premium with SP1 disk?
If so, follow the instructions here...
Repair Install
|My System Specs
|10 Jun 2015
Thanks again for that Noel, and apologies for the tardy response.
I'd fiddled with various things on the comp. and tried another update. It got to 99% install, and then failed, so no change there.
I don't mind doing a repair install, but have a problem in as much as I only have access to a Win7 64bit Professional Retail disk including SP1. However, I have come up against a brick wall trying to get a copy of an ISO copy without SP1, as Digital River etc. no longer supply them. Do you have any suggestions, as to an alternative course?
BTW this is for my laptop and not my listed m/c.
Also I note that you refer to the Kaspersky/Office 'objection', does anything need to be done about that?
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|14 Jun 2015
Hi again Noel, I just wondered if you had managed to have any further thoughts on this?
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|14 Jun 2015
I always thought that you could do an Upgrade/Repair install with an SP1 disk whether or not the current install had SP1 installed or not - it's worth a try anyhow, as it would only bomb out gracefully if it's not going to work.
I'd certainly uninstall Kaspersky prior to attempting a repair anyhow - you can reinstall it afterwards (which may fix the Outlook problem.)
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|14 Jun 2015
Hi again Noel; I've just tried it again, and it's clearly saying that to do a repair install then you need to be running within an SP1 installation.
Do you have any other ideas other than a clean reinstall?
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If you shoot with a micro four thirds camera, you're no stranger to crop factor. You sacrifice a big, beefy full frame sensor camera for the conveniently small and sleek design of a MFT. Sure, it's nice to be able to quickly stow your camera on a crowded airplane or when the weather takes a turn for the worst. But if you're a minimalist traveller like myself, it's absolutely necessary. Other than the kit lens that generally comes with the camera (usually with a max aperture of f3.5), our tiny MFT sensors don't leave us many options for grabbing that wide shot in a low light situation.
This is where the Panasonic 15mm f1.7 steps in, the Panasonic micro four thirds lenses equivalent to 30mm on a full frame rig. Here is a low light test video I shot with my Panasonic G7 and the Panasonic 15mm f1.7 at the night market in our current hood, Chiang Mai, Thailand:
Now this is not a full review of this lens. I haven't used it long enough to write up a true and accurate account of it's capabilities. But what I can tell you is that the Panasonic 15mm f1.7 is a BEAST in low light, especially at this price point.
I managed to capture all of those low light shots between 400 – 1600 ISO on my Panasonic G7. Even at the higher end of the ISO spectrum the image noise was very minimal, if even at all noticeable. The stills I took were sharp as a tack, and had virtually zero chromatic aberration even in the most high contrast areas.
It's small size, yet huge versatility has earned the Panasonic 15mm f1.7 a special place in my camera bag, no matter what the occasion.


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Movie critics
Movie critics ought to be drug out into the street, and shot in public. In the face.
I mean, what's their point? Do we really need 'professional journalists' to tell us if a movie is worth seeing? Don't we have an opinion and a way to voice it these days?
So people get paid to review movies. Sounds like a sweet cushy job to me. And yet somehow it isn't, given some of the bitter, unbalanced or even downright stupid remarks some of these critics make.
It's one of the reasons I loathe Rotten Tomatoes with a passion.
Let's take the Tron Legacy review as an example. It got a rating of 50%, which is pretty bad by itself. But some of the comments by the 'Top Critics'… /facepalm.
Yes, because a guy looking for his long lost dad doesn't add a human touch. Because a dad, sacrificing himself for his son doesn't add a human touch. Because people fighting for what they think is right doesn't add a human touch.
The same thing I said above could be said here, but in addition he also manages to diss the original Tron while he's at it, a cult classics among geeks. And no people, only liking Big Bang Theory does not make you a geek.
This one, working for USA Today, really takes the cake and was my main reason for writing this post. I cannot recall someone talking so much crap in so few words.
The movie "The Social Network" is a soap series rendition on the starting days of Facebook, loosely based on the story of a disgruntled person who felt screwed over by founder Mark Zuckerberg. It's fake, it's lame and the only reason people watched it is because anything associated with Facebook is big at the moment.
It's not thought provoking in any way, nor does it teach us anything about the virtual realm. It's gossip celebrity news in movie form.
Tron on the other hand is about the real virtual realm, advances in computer science, artificial intelligence manifesting itself and the possible ramifications that spring from that. It's Science Fiction as it should be, thought provoking, intelligent and exploring the possible future.
Humanity, I pity thee. And to think these people actually make money writing this kind of crap.


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To read or not to read
By Gail Binkly
"Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord. . . . That was the year I came to the class at the start of the new semester and found only one student to sign up for Drama from Aeschylus to O'Neill. You see? How like a beautiful statue of ice it was, melting in the sun. I remember the newspapers dying like huge moths. No one wanted them back. No one missed them." - Ray Bradbury "Fahrenheit 451"
Everyone knows that Bradbury's famous science-fiction novel is about book-burning, but what few realize (since few nowadays have actually read the story) is that, in the futuristic world depicted in his tale, the government's incendiary program to destroy the written word is hardly necessary. Only a handful of lonely souls still want to read books.
The rest are content to have their brains filled with the vapid chattering of characters who speak to them from the walls of their living rooms in a type of "surroundsound" television.
Those lucky citizens who can afford to purchase the service for all four walls are able, in effect, to live within their own TVs, even interacting with the fictional characters in snatches of insipid dialogue.
At one point this scenario probably sounded far-fetched, but clearly the future is here. We are becoming a nation just as vacuous as the denizens of "Fahrenheit 451," and we're doing it willingly.
Fewer than half of the adults in America now read any literature at all, according to a new report by the N a t i o n a l Endowment of the Arts. The report is based on a 2002 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts conducted by the Census Bureau.
By "literature" the surveyors do not necessarily mean Great Literature – Dickens, Twain, Dostoevsky. No, reading just a single romance novel ("His hot hands fumbled with the strings of her bursting bodice") in a year would qualify the respondent as reading literature, but most Americans evidently can't bring themselves to work their gray matter even that hard.
More than 17,000 persons were interviewed for the survey, and just 46.7 percent reported reading literature in the preceding year. Only a marginal number more – 56.65 percent – read a book of any kind, whether a nonfiction political screed or a cookbook. The numbers are down by 10 percentage points from 20 years ago.
Even sadder, the steepest decline (28 percentage points) occurred among young adults. Coming generations, though expert at playing computer games, are less literate and less educated than their predecessors.
Does any of this matter? Perhaps not, if our primary purpose in life is to have sex, eat and go shopping. Television certainly provides enough information to help kids acquire the skills needed for those activities. And one can certainly make it through life without reading a single word of Shakespeare or, for that matter, John Grisham. Many people do. You're far more likely today to find a home without a book in it than a home without a TV.
Some people argue that our enthusiasm for electronic media over books and magazines merely represents a harmless transition from one type of information to another – like moving from an oral culture to a written one.
But bookworms like me believe there will be enormous consequences, mostly negative, if our society largely abandons the habit of reading.
As others have pointed out, watching TV and movies is a passive act. Viewers are supplied with every sound and sight, leaving little to their imagination. Slumped on sofas with soda and chips, they boredly switch from channel to channel, demanding to be entertained. Books, on the other hand, require active concentration. They encourage a longer attention span and greater complexity of thought.
There's another unfortunate side effect of electronic entertainment media that is rarely noted: The fact that they are so visual foments a culture that favors appearance over reality, superficiality over depth.
The heroes of literature do not have to be good-looking. We accept them because we are given glimpses into their souls. But stars of the screen must be flawless in appearance, and soon we start believing we ought to be as well. Instead of valuing people for their inner beauty, we focus on glowing white teeth, wrinkle- free foreheads and flat bellies. In our celebrity culture, looking young forever is our highest aspiration and an extreme makeover is the greatest gift one could receive.
As we stop reading books, as newspapers shorten and simplify their articles until they are shorter and simpler than kindergarten stories, as even dumbeddown magazines such as Reader's Digest and TV Guide shorten their articles in a desperate effort to get the heavy-browed populace to read, we become a citizenry of silly sheep.
How can non-readers possibly be informed voters, when all their ideas about complex issues come from 30-second TV ads offering untruths, half-truths and gross oversimplifications? People know more about Paris Hilton than they do about the presidential candidates, and thus our leaders are chosen not by their ideas, but by their "charisma."
Computers offer a wealth of information, but they are no substitute for books. Clicking here and there, hopping from web site to web site, does not lend itself to continuity of thought. If we forgo "War and Peace" for Windows and "The Iliad" for the Internet, we'll be gaining little and losing a lot.
Gail Binkly is an avid reader who also loves cult TV shows but believes they should be viewed in small doses.


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You might know Darel Handley as emcee for the past five years of the every-Thursday-morning East County Rally & Ride, as well as a previous recipient of a PSAR Community Service award for his support of several military-related charities. But, did you know that he was a consultant on the 1990 motion picture, "The Hunt for Red October," staring Alec Baldwin, Sean Connery and James Earl Jones? Based on a Tom Clancy novel, the movie follows a CIA analyst, a covert group of U.S. Naval officers and Russia's best submarine captain in their newest sub who violates orders and heads for America.
Handley was a natural choice to assist the producers, cast and crew on technical collaboration. During his 30-year career in the U.S. Navy, Handley was assigned to six submarines and once spent 91 straight days submerged. "There is no night or day on a sub, it's a sterile environment without lots of germs from outside air so no one catches a cold, and your only clue about the time of day is the menu in the chow hall," he said. "I never had a problem with the feeling of confinement or claustrophobia because living on a sub was just part of my job," he said.
Handley retired from the Navy in 2002 as a Master Chief, giving him and wife Linda – also a retired Naval Master Chief -- more time to enjoy the great outdoors at favorite hunting and fishing spots in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. Then, a few years after leaving the Navy, he escorted some friends on a sub tour at Naval Base Point Loma. "It was a strange feeling to be back on board because I didn't remember everything being so small," Handley recalled.
His Naval career gave him opportunities to meet famous people, including U.S. presidents -- both George H.W. Bush the 41st and George W. Bush the 43rd – as well as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Tiger Woods and Larry Bird. "The moment you meet these famous people, you can tell they are different from other people. They are wired differently, plus they have a huge ability to focus and concentrate," Handley said.
The Lakeside resident started selling real estate in 2003. His real estate career has included a focus on training. He owned a company that offered training classes for realtors for a few years. He also has overseen training for Pacific Sotheby's International Realty's 16 offices in San Diego.
Handley grew up in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. His dad directed Boy Scout camps throughout the state, giving young Darel the opportunity to spend every summer hiking, fishing and experiencing the archery and rifle range, as well as learning knot-tying and other outdoor skills. Darel's 86-year-old mother still lives at Fond du Lac, Wis.
Darel and Linda, married for 27 years, have three children and four grandchildren, and the newest grandson was born in early May. Linda stays busy as a consultant for a defense contractor, involved in inspecting Navy ships.
"I am living an extremely fortunate life," said Darel. "I've learned a positive outlook on life is the only way to live. Plus, I like people. Heck, I even like people whom I disagree with politically.
"And, I especially love PSAR because this organization understands customer service and what it means to be agent-focused. We have a very talented leadership team, a dedicated staff and we know how to have a good time having fun."
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So now you're noticing that there is a rot at the core of our democracy? Where the hell were you in 1985 when St. Ronald Reagan was selling arms to Iran in order to fund his illegal war in Nicaragua? Where the hell were you in 1964 when Lyndon Johnson was fabricating us into the mudpit of Vietnam with his Tonkin Gulf lies? Where the hell were you in 2003 when
W, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Powell were spouting transparent falsehoods about Iraqi involvement in the 9/11 attacks and their non-existent, completely imaginary, and contradicted by actual observed facts reported by international monitors Weapons of Mass Destruction?
Nowhere, you complicit pricks. You disgust me.
Yes, I give H.W. a pass (though he's also guilty in the Iran/Contra thing) because we actually have a national interest in maintaining stable borders however arbitrarily drawn unless changed through negotiation. It's the only level that mitigates LBJ, doesn't excuse, mitigates.
So the latest Pundit Promoted Paean to Centrist Complicity and Fierce Fecklessness is this abomination by Jonathan Rauch and Benjamin Wittes in the March issue of The Atlantic. They basically admit in the sub head that their object as Conservatives is to save Republicans from themselves.
Boycott the Republican Party
We have both spent our professional careers strenuously avoiding partisanship in our writing and thinking. We have both done work that is, in different ways, ideologically eclectic, and that has—over a long period of time—cast us as not merely nonpartisans but antipartisans. Temperamentally, we agree with the late Christopher Hitchens: Partisanship makes you stupid. We are the kind of voters who political scientists say barely exist—true independents who scour candidates' records in order to base our votes on individual merit, not party brand.
This, then, is the article we thought we would never write: a frank statement that a certain form of partisanship is now a moral necessity. The Republican Party, as an institution, has become a danger to the rule of law and the integrity of our democracy. The problem is not just Donald Trump; it's the larger political apparatus that made a conscious decision to enable him. In a two-party system, nonpartisanship works only if both parties are consistent democratic actors. If one of them is not predictably so, the space for nonpartisans evaporates. We're thus driven to believe that the best hope of defending the country from Trump's Republican enablers, and of saving the Republican Party from itself, is to do as Toren Beasley did: vote mindlessly and mechanically against Republicans at every opportunity, until the party either rights itself or implodes (very preferably the former).
We are not motivated by the belief that Republican policies are wrongheaded. We agree with many traditional GOP positions.
We're proposing something different. We're suggesting that in today's situation, people should vote a straight Democratic ticket even if they are not partisan, and despite their policy views. They should vote against Republicans in a spirit that is, if you will, prepartisan and prepolitical. Their attitude should be: The rule of law is a threshold value in American politics, and a party that endangers this value disqualifies itself, period. In other words, under certain peculiar and deeply regrettable circumstances, sophisticated, independent-minded voters need to act as if they were dumb-ass partisans.
I could stop right there. They've admitted they're Conservatives, have no problem at all with their reverse Robin Hood economic policies, and basically exposed their elitist Neo Liberal position that Voters are Idiots and Democracy itself a Chore and a Bore.
But it continues.
For us, this represents a counsel of desperation. So allow us to step back and explain what drove us to what we call oppositional partisanship.
To avoid misunderstanding, here are some things we are not saying. First, although we worry about extremism in the GOP, that is not a reason to boycott the party. We agree with political analysts who say that the Republicans veered off-center earlier and more sharply than the Democrats — but recently the Democrats have made up for lost time by moving rapidly leftward. In any case, under normal circumstances our response to radicalization within a party would be to support sane people within that party.
Nor is our oppositional partisanship motivated by the belief that Republican policies are wrongheaded. Republicans are a variegated bunch, and we agree with many traditional GOP positions. One of us has spent the past several years arguing that counterterrorism authorities should be granted robust powers, defending detentions at Guantánamo Bay, and supporting the confirmations of any number of conservative judges and justices whose nominations enraged liberals. The other is a Burkean conservative with libertarian tendencies and a long history of activism against left-wing intolerance. And even if we did consistently reject Republican policy positions, that would not be sufficient basis to boycott the entire party — just to oppose the bad ideas advanced by it.
One more nonreason for our stance: that we are horrified by the president. To be sure, we are horrified by much that Trump has said and done. But many members of his party are likewise horrified. Republicans such as Senators John McCain and Bob Corker and Jeff Flake and Ben Sasse, as well as former Governors Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush, have spoken out and conducted themselves with integrity. Abandoning an entire party means abandoning many brave and honorable people. We would not do that based simply on rot at the top.
So why have we come to regard the GOP as an institutional danger? In a nutshell, it has proved unable or unwilling (mostly unwilling) to block assaults by Trump and his base on the rule of law. Those assaults, were they to be normalized, would pose existential, not incidental, threats to American democracy.
Future generations of scholars will scrutinize the many weird ways that Trump has twisted the GOP. For present purposes, however, let's focus on the party's failure to restrain the president from two unforgivable sins. The first is his attempt to erode the independence of the justice system. This includes Trump's sinister interactions with his law-enforcement apparatus: his demands for criminal investigations of his political opponents, his pressuring of law-enforcement leaders on investigative matters, his frank efforts to interfere with investigations that implicate his personal interests, and his threats against the individuals who run the Justice Department. It also includes his attacks on federal judges, his pardon of a sheriff convicted of defying a court's order to enforce constitutional rights, his belief that he gets to decide on Twitter who is guilty of what crimes, and his view that the justice system exists to effectuate his will. Some Republicans have clucked disapprovingly at various of Trump's acts. But in each case, many other Republicans have cheered, and the party, as a party, has quickly moved on. A party that behaves this way is not functioning as a democratic actor.
The second unforgivable sin is Trump's encouragement of a foreign adversary's interference in U.S. electoral processes. Leave aside the question of whether Trump's cooperation with the Russians violated the law. He at least tacitly collaborated with a foreign-intelligence operation against his country — sometimes in full public view. This started during the campaign, when he called upon the Russians to steal and release his opponent's emails, and has continued during his presidency, as he equivocates on whether foreign intervention occurred and smears intelligence professionals who stand by the facts. Meanwhile, the Republican Party has confirmed his nominees, doggedly pursued its agenda on tax reform and health care, and attacked — of course — Hillary Clinton.
You know, which they do not disagree with. Just the consorting with Russians and slandering the FBI (which deserves some slander- CoIntelPro) bit.
Even now, erosion is visible. Republican partisans and policy makers routinely accept insults to constitutional norms that, under Barack Obama, they would have condemned as outrageous. When Trump tweeted about taking "NBC and the Networks" off the air ("Network news has become so partisan, distorted and fake that licenses must be challenged and, if appropriate, revoked"), congressional Republicans were quick to repudiate … left-wing media bias. In a poll by the Cato Institute, almost two-thirds of Republican respondents agreed with the president that journalists are "an enemy of the American people." How much damage can Trump do in the next three years? We don't know, but we see no grounds to be complacent.
Oh, I get it. You think Trump is threatening your Phoney Balony jobs. Too bad you overpaid twits.
The optimistic outcome depends to some degree on precisely the sort of oppositional partisanship we are prescribing. For Trump to be restrained going forward, key congressional enablers will need to lose their seats in the midterm elections to people who will use legislation and oversight to push back against the administration. Without such electoral losses, the picture looks decidedly grimmer.
Finally, we might not be talking about just three more years. Trump could get reelected; incumbent presidents usually do. In any event, he is likely, at a minimum, to be renominated for the presidency.
That's because Trump has won the heart of the Republican base. He may be unpopular with the public at large, but among Republicans, nothing he and his supporters said or did during his first year in office drove his Gallup approval ratings significantly below 80 percent. Forced to choose between their support for Trump and their suspicion of Russia, conservatives went with Trump. Forced to choose between their support for Trump and their insistence that character matters, evangelicals went with Trump.
It's Trump's party now; or, perhaps more to the point, it's Trumpism's party, because a portion of the base seems eager to out-Trump Trump. In last year's special election to fill a vacant U.S. Senate seat in Alabama, Republican primary voters defied the president himself by nominating a candidate who was openly contemptuous of the rule of law — and many stuck with him when he was credibly alleged to have been a child molester. After initially balking, the Republican Party threw its institutional support behind him too. In Virginia, pressure from the base drove a previously sensible Republican gubernatorial candidate into the fever swamps. Faced with the choice between soul-killing accommodation and futile resistance, many Republican politicians who renounce Trumpism are fleeing the party or exiting politics altogether. Of those who remain, many are fighting for their political lives against a nihilistic insurgency.
So we arrive at a syllogism:
- The GOP has become the party of Trumpism.
- Trumpism is a threat to democratic values and the rule of law.
- The Republican Party is a threat to democratic values and the rule of law.
If the syllogism holds, then the most-important tasks in U.S. politics right now are to change the Republicans' trajectory and to deprive them of power in the meantime. In our two-party system, the surest way to accomplish these things is to support the other party, in every race from president to dogcatcher. The goal is to make the Republican Party answerable at every level, exacting a political price so stinging as to force the party back into the democratic fold.
The off-year elections in November showed that this is possible. Democrats flooded polling places, desperate to "resist." Independents added their voice. Even some Republicans abandoned their party. One Virginia Republican, explaining why he had just voted for Democrats in every race, told The Washington Post, "I've been with the Republicans my whole life, but what the party has been doing is appalling." Trump's base stayed loyal but was overwhelmed by other voters. A few more spankings like that will give anti-Trump Republicans a fighting chance to regain influence within their party.
We understand why Republicans, even moderate ones, are reluctant to cross party lines. Party, today, is identity. But in the through-the-looking-glass era of Donald Trump, the best thing Republicans can do for their party is vote against it.
We understand, too, the many imperfections of the Democratic Party. Its left is extreme, its center is confused, and it has its share of bad apples. But the Democratic Party is not a threat to our democratic order. That is why we are rising above our independent predilections and behaving like dumb-ass partisans. It's why we hope many smart people will do the same.
They're a pair of assholes.
Basically they're just as racist, bigoted, and misogynous as any Trump supporter, but they think he's bad for the GOP brand and that interferes with their goal to steal more from the Poor and give it to the wealthiest .01%.
But they are right. The Republican Party is hopelessly in thrall to Trump and the only choice is to fire them all.
That's right, all.
Democrats need to do the same, but not because our incumbents are too Left or Liberal. They are not Left or Liberal enough. To fail to advance policies supported by 60, 70, 80% majorities of the population is a combination of cowardice and graft.