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2012: Tsunami of Stupidity
Why the latest apocalyptic cult is a silly scam.
The growing harmonic convergence of apocalyptic stupidity that goes under the rubric 2012 or "the Mayan Calendar Prophecy" has not yet reached Y2K proportions. And while it's broken out of the New Agey cult status where it's been fermenting for some years, there are still many in the chattering classes who haven't heard about it. "The end of the world in 2012?" my friend Stanley said. "You mean I have to wait that long?"
The cult around the date Dec. 21, 2012—the supposed apocalyptic final day on something referred to knowingly as "The Mayan 'Long Count' Calendar"—has been the subject of fevered fantasies on the net and the free New Age "magazines" given away at health-food stores. But last week Newsweek gave it serious attention, and there's a metastasizing web of 2012 sites, including at least one anti-2012 site, which has a section devoted to debunking the apparently limitless number of gullible airheads who have become 2012 believers.
Even within the web of believer webs there are bitter mini-schisms already: Some believe that Dec. 21, 2012, will mark the end of the world in some kind of fiery apocalypse, planetary collision, gravitational reversal, black-hole disappearance, spontaneous combustion, or planetary rotational reversal of some sort. Then there are those who believe that the end of the old Mayan calendar will be something to look forward to: a transformational moment in the history of creation that will be all good for earth's peeps—a "harmonic convergence"-type thing. (Remember that from the '80s, when a bunch of planets lining up were supposed to work wonders on Earth?) In 2012, human nature will undergo a rebirth, the beginning of a New Age. (The Age of Aquarius at last! Maybe it's all hype for the revival of Hair.)
And, of course, there's at least one major motion picture of the cataclysm school, Roland Emmerich's 2012, due this November. And, needless to say, the New Age section of your local chain bookstore is bursting with 2012 titles. There's the literate Daniel Pinchbeck's 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. I was an admirer of Pinchbeck's brave first book, Breaking Open the Head, about his search for shamanic experiences, and must admit I'm disappointed that he seems to have reduced all that mystery and wonder to a single number in 2012—although I'm sure that's not how he would put it.
And, finally, there's the frankly exploitive: everything from Beyond 2012 to (I swear) The Complete Idiot's Guide to 2012(a bit redundant). Then there are the "2012 survival kits," a 2012 iPhone app, an "official" 2012 store, and other foolishness—the whole Y2K survivalist huckster aspect of 1999 replicating itself.
It's a harmonic convergence all right, a harmonic convergence of ignorance and superstition—a tsunami of stupidity—worthy of the millennial cults of the 19th century most enjoyably anatomized in Leon Festinger's famous study, When Prophecy Fails, a look at the way end-of-the-world cults grow even stronger after their prophet's end-of-the-world date flies by and the world confoundingly continues to exist. (Festinger's study gave rise to the term "cognitive dissonance.")
In addition to 2012 the date, 2012 as a concept has its harmonic convergence (or maybe cataclysmic convergence) with an ever-widening spectrum of New Age idiocies. It's like a magnet for mindlessness. There's the literal convergence with "Planet X," for instance.
Don't tell me you haven't heard of Planet X? Obviously not, otherwise you'd be aware of the following compilation of Planet X lore I found on a skeptical Web site:
Apparently, Planet X (aka Nibiru) was spotted by astronomers in the early 1980s in the outermost reaches of the solar system. It has been tracked by infrared observatories; seen lurking around in the Kuiper Belt, and now it is speeding right toward us and will enter the inner solar system in 2012. So what does this mean to us? Well, the effects of the approach of Planet X on our planet will be biblical, and what's more, the effects are being felt right now. Millions, even billions of people will die, global warming will increase; earthquakes, drought, famine, wars, social collapse, even killer solar flares will be caused by Nibiru blasting through the core of the solar system. All of this will happen in 2012, and we must begin preparing for our demise right now …
Sounds scientific to me. I hope I have flashlight batteries for when Nibiru comes "blasting through" the solar system. (As far as I can tell from a brief survey of the subject, "Planet X" is an artifact of some infrared anomalies that may or may not have "planetary" reality. Scientists disagree, but few have formed apocalyptic cults around it.) Of course, this summary leaves out the various UFO versions of Planet X (and 2012) theories in which space aliens are going to manifest themselves, maybe hopping off Planet X during a flyby as either Wise Teachers or Sadistic Destroyers.
Spiritual idiocy doesn't afflict only the ignorant, of course. See this recent account of how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the great rationalist detective Sherlock Holmes, got taken in by spiritualists.
Maybe those obsessed with making the world conform to rigid rationalities are the most vulnerable to the shambolic visions of mystics who can "explain" the anomalies and mysteries that elude their "Science of Detection." And, as always, consolation is likely to be a big factor in the swelling of 2012 superstition: The vastness of the cosmic event swiftly approaching (check your iPhone app for exact hours and minutes) will dwarf any petty sorrow and frustrations one experiences between now and then. (Isn't there something too ironic about the possessors of the apex of technological science consulting their Flintstones-era apocalyptic calendar of ignorance on the iPhone, that icon of intellect?)
Whatever the cause, I see a tidal wave of swill poised to overwhelm all media beginning with the November release of the 2012 film. (Possible ad slogan: "Will this be the last Christmas?")
It's hopeless; grit your teeth; it's coming whether you like it or not. And don't be surprised when you find the same people who sneer at creationism start talking about the prescience of the Mayan calendar-makers who, by the way, thought the world was flat and was created 4,000 ago. Some have already tried to correlate the calendar with the end-time prophecies of the Book of Revelation.
So, as a public service, if you do have to be polite to an otherwise rational friend who wonders about the coming 2012 apocalypse, here's a link you should send them: "The Astronomical Insignificance of Maya date 13.0.0" by Vincent H. Malmström, professor emeritus (geography) at Dartmouth College.
It leaves 2012 in shreds. Shreds and patches of pseudoscience starting way back with the Mayan "astronomers" themselves who fiddled with dates and calendrical cycles and logic. Malmström writes: "The world is recorded as having begun on a day numbered 4 in the sacred almanac, and one numbered 8 in the secular calendar which reveals at once that this date [Dec. 21, 2012] was derived from projecting each of the two time counts then in use, backwards in time." In other words, the Maya started from an end date they liked and fiddled with their calculations so that they ended up with different (and nonzero) starting dates.
The Maya have long been a source of mysticism to archaeologists who couldn't grok their language and to Northerners who came down to Central America to seek visions from psychedelic plants like yage (first William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg; later, Pinchbeck) with local shamans. The focus on the Mayan calendar has led to questions of when it really ended—was it Dec. 21, 2012, or some alternate or specific "Time of Troubles"? This is just one of the many unresolved issues that give 2012 a shaky foundation. Some people have wondered why, if the calendar ends on a certain date, you can't just turn the page on your Mayan wall calendar or buy a new stone tablet that starts the next day.
The question has been around since the '20s and '30s, when an archaeologist named John Thompson began writing about the calendar. In the latter part of the last century, the 2012 theory was taken up by Mayan calendar "prophet" José Argüelles (who now believes that UFOs are going to be involved) and then it gradually filtered into the easily excitable cortex of the New Age and of New Age "entrepreneurs"—let's call them—who knew that there was a buck to be made exploiting fear and superstition with a mystical twist.
Professor Malmström gently rubbishes recent western "expert" claims. The whole focus on the date, Dec. 21, 2012, he says, "is only true if one employs the discredited revised version of Thompson's calculation. ... [T]hey [the New Age hucksters] have chosen to disregard Thompson's own admonition against attempting to assign astronomical meaning to dates recorded by the Maya because, he argued, they were not true 'astronomers' but really 'astrologers' instead." He sums up his feelings by saying categorically: "That to suggest this date will have any meaning or importance to anyone but a historian of chronology is to embroider it with significance it was never intended to have." He is fairly harsh on the "shoddy 'research' " by self-proclaimed 2012 experts who have "sought to profit from 'science fiction.' "
It's pretty convincing, and I'd bet anyone who's a 2012 believer a steak dinner on Dec. 22, 2012, that it's all going to go the way of the Hale-Bopp comet (remember that?) and Y2K.
Why is this tsunami of stupidity so irritating to me? I think it has a lot to do with one of the more recent moronic convergences I found on some 2012 site. One that supposedly aligned the Maya's 2012 thing with the Hopi end-times prophecy. The best cultural explanation I found for this flowering of idiocy said that New Age fads like the Hopi prophecy and 2012 are a kind of cultural colonialism in which white people endow the minorities they have wiped out or repressed with mystical powers made more mysterious by their virtual vanishing.
But I have a personal connection to the Hopi prophecy: a sad episode in my past involving the prophecy and the flying-saucer con man who was exploiting it.
It was one of my early reporting junkets for the Village Voice. I had escaped from Taos, N.M., where I had spent a lot of time not interviewing Dennis Hopper at the ranch that D.H. Lawrence had once rented, and I loved the desert and desert hot springs. So I was traveling west, and I remember I stopped at a broken-down filling station while driving through the Hopi Reservation in Arizona and saw a sign for a strange rally. It seemed to be in support of a 101-year-old Hopi "prophet" who was claiming that UFOs were coming soon to fulfill the age-old Hopi prophecy and that everyone should show up to greet them at this rally.
According to a grungy pamphlet tacked to a bulletin board on the gas station's interior wall, the UFOs were signs referred to in the Hopi prophecy. The pamphlet showed this sketchy-looking white guy in a cheap suit next to the alleged 101-year-old Hopi prophet and claimed that Mr. Sketchy was in psychic communication with the UFOs and had confirmed that they were arriving to vindicate Hopi mythology about the end of time. As far as I could tell, the sketchy guy had arrived out of the blue and insinuated himself into the confidence of one of the two most ancient and revered Hopi holy men—let's call him Prophet A—and convinced him he had messages from the ETs saying that they were coming to help him fulfill the Hopi prophecy of the end of time. There's a lot in 2012 literature that tries to connect the Maya calendar to the Hopi prophecy as if one is evidence for the other.
UFOs in the Hopi prophecy? Sure, why not? A lot of people believed UFOs were going to be involved in the Maya calendar apocalypse.
Unfortunately, it turned out there was another 101-year-old Hopi prophet, Prophet B, who wasn't buying the whole UFO business. He expressed skepticism about the sketchy newcomer who was acting as middleman between Hopi Prophet A and the UFOs. A schism, a virtual civil war between the two centenarians, was brewing, dividing the Hopi tribe.
Then ... well, I remember at the end of the couple days I spent in the dusty little town reporting on this story I ended up in the lovely terra-cotta cottage of a refugee from Greenwich Village, an elderly woman who had left New York, where she had danced with Martha Graham, to come to the "highly spiritual" Southwest, where she had been caught up in the Hopi-flying-saucer prophecy and come under the spell of the sketchy UFO middleman, who claimed prophetic powers himself. She believed in the mysticism of love, she told me earnestly, and she thought the sketchy guy was somehow a prophet of love. It also seems he told her that he was a bit short of cash and had to borrow the whole of the poor woman's savings to pay for the rally where the UFOs were going to land and prove everything he said about the prophecy. The aliens had to be given a proper reception. Only they held the rally, and not only did the UFOs not show up; the sketchy guy didn't show up, and he and her savings were in the wind.
The poor woman was trying to keep the faith. I witnessed Festinger-style cognitive dissonance in action. But something more sad and touching, too. Jealous people were plotting against the sketchy guy, he had been telling her. Agents of Prophet B and even the U.S. government. False charges of a shady con man past were being leveled. He might have to leave town for a while, but he'd be back, he assured her. She hoped that would happen before she lost her home and became destitute. But whatever happened, she told me, she still believed in Love and the Spirit of Love that she knew was the essence of the Hopi prophecy.
It reminded me that New Age stupidity isn't always harmless, that it can be a cruel hoax playing a con game with people's hopes and fears. I'll never forgive the sketchy con man who stole that poor woman's money and illusions.
Get real, 2012 people. It's an embarrassingly silly scam. Prepare for cognitive dissonance.
See you on Dec. 22, 2012. I like my steak medium rare.


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COMMERCE CITY Colo. (Tuesday August 11 2009) – Colorado Rapids midfielder Colin Clark has been diagnosed with a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his left knee the club announced today.
Clark suffered the injury in training on Tuesday and will be forced to miss the remainder of the 2009 season.
Surgery to repair the injury is scheduled to take place early next week.
Clark started in 16 games this season playing 1421 minutes and had three goals and a new single season career-high five assists.
He was also a member of the U.S. National Team's CONCACAF Gold Cup roster earning his first-ever cap while playing 76 minutes against Honduras on July 11 2009.

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First down the chute is Norman Douglas' Siren Land, a memoir of Capri and the Sorrentine Peninsula. Two previously read authors, Paul Fussell and Elizabeth Davis, quoted and discussed Douglas, and the library owns the title. I found his prose dense, witty fairly often, even had a couple funny bits. It is more than a travelogue: it is learned and chatty. Emperor Tiberius was the first famous Roman to retire to Capri; his stay is touched on. Douglas includes stories of saints, a single thread of the story of these siren lands. History and biology of the sirens is knocked off in the first couple of chapters, followed by a wandering over the land, a boat ride or two, and an island full of fleas...with gossip, lore, architecture, history, and memorable characters.


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The folks at Firehouse 51 will be fighting more than fires on Season 2 of NBC's "Chicago Fire."
"There's an outside threat to the firehouse—more than one actually. One is physical and one is mental," executive producer Derek Haas said during a Wednesday conference call with reporters.
Chief Wallace Boden (Eamonn Walker) must fight to keep his fire station open in the face of budget cuts, while one of his men is targeted by an arsonist—as in "want-you-dead" targeted. The arsonist storyline allows Haas and his co-exec producer, Michael Brandt, to weave new and exciting fire and rescue calls into the character storylines.
According to Brandt, those fire and rescue scenes are plucked from real-life Chicago calls that their technical advisors, CFD Chief Steve Chifarotis and paramedic Michelle Martinez, have told them about.
"Every week it's something new and crazy when the bells go off, so we have not hurt at all for storylines or for action or escapes," Brandt told me during the same call. "If anything, it's such an abundance of material we have to figure out thematically how do we tie some of these really crazy events and response calls to what's going on storywise."
"These [real] firefighters, if you spend just 24 hours in a house, you will laugh and you will cry in the same 24 hours," he added. "These men and women just run into buildings that rats and roaches are running out of and so we just try to find the best stories."
Here are 10 teases about the new season, culled from the conference call and interviews during my Aug. 20 visit to the show's Chicago set. Watch the videos shot and edited by RedEye freelancer Luis Rodriguez to get a feel for the camaraderie amongst the cast. (If you can't view the videos here, go to my YouTube page.)
"Chicago Fire" begins Season 2 at 9 p.m. CT Tuesday, Sept. 24, on NBC.
Budget cuts
Michelle Forbes joins the cast as Gail McLeod, a consultant with the state fire marshal's office who must evaluate the city's firehouses and recommend which should be closed. Firehouse 51 is on her shortlist.
"She's a woman who believes she's doing the right thing," Haas said of Gail. "She's been given a job to do and she thinks she's helping the city of Chicago by the way she goes about her business."
New firefighters
When another firehouse is shut down, Firehouse 51 gets two new firefighters: Lt. Spellman (John Hoogenakker) and rescue squad member Jeff Clarke (Jeff Hephner). With so many alpha males in the house, the new guys don't immediately fit in. Clarke comes to 51 with "a bit of a mystery behind him," Hephner teased. "In a tight-knit family like this, it's gonna bubble up some trust issues and loyalty issues." Read more and watch a video with Jeff Hephner here.
Mills' future
Disillusioned with his boss, his girl and his job, rookie firefighter Peter Mills (Charlie Barnett) picked up an application for the Chicago P.D. at the end of last season. "I told Michael and Derek that I thought it was, honestly—sorry for my language—but a bitch move," Barnett said, laughing.
Mills will continue to struggle with his feelings about Chief Boden, whom he learned may have had something to do with his father's death years earlier. But, Barnett said, Mills is still a dedicated firefighter. "All the emotional BS that gets in the way starts to diminish because you find yourself in situations relying on those people you may not trust when you're standing around the firehouse," he said.
Mills and Dawson
Mills and Gabriel Dawson (Monica Raymund) broke up last season, but their story isn't over yet. "We're going to see a little bit of the 'Millson' love come back in terms of how they navigate their new relationship in Season 2," Raymund said.
But will they get together?! "You'll have to wait and see," Barnett said. "We brush up against each other a couple times."
Baby plans on hold
Season 1 ended with Renée Royce (guest star Sarah Shahi, who will return) throwing a baby bump into EMT Leslie Shay's (Lauren German) plans to have a baby with her roomie, Lt. Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney). Renee is pregnant with Severide's baby, and he wants to make a relationship with her work, Kinney said. Shay is "pretending she's OK, but she's not really," German said. "I tell him something about Renee and he doesn't want to hear it."
Shay and Dawson
Shay's not having an easy time of it early in Season 2. Not only are her and Severide squabbling, but she has a falling out of sorts with best buds/EMT partner Dawson, too.
"Dawson has her ways of dealing with things and Shay has her ways," German said. "Shay tries to take control and fix the situation and it doesn't quite workout for her so it creates tension in the friendship."
The rift affects their work relationship and friendship, Raymund said, but she hopes things will work out. "I think Shay and Gaby are soulmates in terms of friends. It's kind of like that college buddy you might have from 15 years ago and no matter what, if he calls and needs you, you'll get on a plane. ... We could be really pissed at each other, but I don't think we'll ever stop loving each other."
Severide takes a dive
Kinney became a certified scuba diver in order to film a rescue scene filmed near Lower Wacker Drive in which Severide and the squad dive into the Chicago River. "I think they were just covering the bases in the event that I die so they could say, 'Well it's not our fault. He was certified,'" Kinney joked.
Molly's is in trouble
Dawson, Chris Herrmann (David Eigenberg) and Otis (Yuri Sardarov) opened Molly's bar last season. A fancy new bar across the street is stealing all their customers.
"Otis has to dig in and use his ingenuity to sort of destroy them," Sardarov said, "and he will eventually—without Herrmann's help, because Herrmann's hardly ever any help."
Eigenberg said Herrmann still hasn't solved his financial problems. "Nothing ever goes really well for [him]," the actor said. "The bar is going to have a few issues and [he] won't handle it well ... [He] continues with his screwed-upness."
Cruz in love
Firefighter Cruz (Joe Minoso) won't be able to stay away from Molly's. "It seems that I've taken a liking to Otis' cousin," Minoso said. Fans might remember Zoya (Larisa Polonsky), the Russian bartender whose English was so poor she couldn't understand what patrons were ordering.
Mouch finds a cause
Mouch (Christian Stolte), who didn't seem to get excited about anything but his Japanese girlfriend in Season 1, has aspirations for office. "I'm going to be running for union president," Stolte said.
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SOUTHBOROUGH � The financial Advisory Committee last week discussed transparency in the wake of the recent cemetery controversy, with one member sounding off on selectmen and Public Works Director Karen Galligan.
"I don�t think it�s a process problem that we�ve seen before. I think it�s a personnel problem," Advisory Committee member Kathy Cook said at the group�s June 23 meeting. "I think it�s a Karen Galligan problem, which (should) be addressed."
Cook�s statement came in the midst of a discussion about the recently reversed layoff of longtime Cemetery Supervisor Bridget Gilleney-DeCenzo. Advisory Committee members say they weren�t told about the layoff prior to Town Meeting.
Advisory Committee member John Butler on June 23 asked fellow members for comment on a suggested bylaw that would require department heads to give the committee a more thorough review of their budgets.
Members told Butler they didn�t believe a bylaw was necessary, noting they plan to ask more probing questions in the future.
Cook said she didn�t believe other department heads should be "(asked) to do more work because of something that she (Galligan) did.
"To this date, I still don�t understand this," she said of the layoff. "There was a process in place to deal with this.
"It doesn�t appear the selectmen were part of this process. It appears it was a decision between Karen Galligan and possibly (Town Administrator) Mark Purple. I don�t understand why the selectmen didn�t do what they should have done, which is stop this."
Cook said the problem was one with Galligan that "should be dealt with � and not by us."
Two of the five selectmen � Paul Cimino and Bonnie Phaneuf � were not selectmen during the lead-up to Town Meeting. Three selectmen � Cimino, Chairman Bill Boland and Vice Chairman John Rooney � were present at the June 23 Advisory meeting.
Cimino said Monday he doesn�t believe anything "nefarious" occurred with the layoff. He said he expects the board to be "unequivocal" in requiring more detailed information in the future.
Other selectmen and Galligan didn�t immediately respond to an email seeking comment Monday afternoon. But at�their�June 3 meeting, selectmen voiced confidence in both Galligan and Purple after roughly 200 residents signed a petition asking they be fired.
Selectmen gave Purple a stellar review and a 3.75 percent raise in December. Galligan signed a new three-year contract last August.
Brad Petrishen can be reached at 508-490-7463 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @BPetrishen_MWDN.
Town official critical of selectmen, DPW chief
SOUTHBOROUGH � The financial Advisory Committee last week discussed transparency in the wake of the recent cemetery controversy, with one member sounding off on selectmen and Public Works Director Karen Galligan.


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A year in Israel
Guest Blogger Cathleen Chopra-McGowan is a Fulbright fellow in biblical studies and a recent graduate of Boston College. She will be blogging about her experience as a young adult Catholic studying in Israel for the My Generation blog.
September 10, 2010: A vocation for bridging cultures
How did a young Catholic decide to go to Israel after graduation? Cathleen Chopra-McGowan introduces herself in the first of what will be a series of posts over her year-long adventure studying in Jerusalem.
October 4, 2010: Nothing to worry about? On the way to Israel
As Cathleen Chopra-McGowan packs her bags for Israel, she prepares herself for ordinary life in the midst of violence.
October 26, 2010: A wall runs through it: Jerusalem and the West Bank
Our guest blogger living in Israel has settled in, but the view of the wall separating Jerusalem and the West Bank unsettles her.
November 24, 2010: In search of Mass in Israel
Mass in the Holy Land is comforting to both regulars and travelers who find themselves far from home.
December 20, 2010: Quiet Christmas in the Holy Land
Though life continues like normal in the Holy Land at this time of year, our blogger has found plenty of Christmas spirit in Israel.
January 29, 2011: Seeking good neighbors in Israel
Cathleen Chopra-McGowan reports on the tensions near her home in Israel.
March 26, 2011: No complaints about or during Lent
What is there to complain about in Israel? Nothing this Lent.
April 6, 2011: Bombs in Israel
Violence hits very close to home for our guest blogger in Israel.


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Money talks strikes again. This week Havoc is roaming around the streets looking for a poor sucka who is willing to pierce his dick for some dough. Who would have thought that we would actually find someone willing to participate but of course cash does not hurt. Not only does this guy pierce his dick for money Havoc puts a lil spell on his cock and charms him with her dick magnet. The cock theme continues as we set off to find some females willing to try some corn on the cock. We pay these two cuties to have a corn on the cock eating race out of their boyfriends pants. Onto the main show we are hanging out in a used furniture store strapped with cash and ready for fun. We get these two girls two show off their tits and ass for that mighty green. Next this guy comes in and Julie coax him to tea bag his nuts into some hot oil for some money. What an idiot he actually does it and almost burns his balls off. Tila walks in the store wearing these short shorts and Jmacs blood starts to boil. She is looking to buy some furniture for her and her man. She came into the right place at the right time. Tila is willing to play our game what we don't know is that she is a straight hustler. Before you know it we are flat broke but it is well worth it. Tila is fine as fuck. Her light black complexion to go along with that great ass and pretty face has Jmac dribbling from his dick. Watch how she sucks, fucks and rides Jmacs dick ever so lovely. Wow she can fuck.
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This morning I deleted my Google Plus account.
I'd seen a post or two of people using Google Plus and getting their accounts suspended, but this morning I woke up to this article which compliles a lot of them, and points out a disturbing trend – that if you try to obscure your personal information in G+, you can get banned for it.
And not just banned, but you can lose all Google services.
I didn't really care about G+ – it was interesting, I enjoyed seeing what was going on there, even if it's a little strange to me. (I do not use Facebook, though I have an account. An IRL account, not a Warcraft account.) But I do care about my gmail account, and my youtube channel – I don't think I have all of the source files for those videos anymore, and I'd hate to lose them.
So, since pseudonyms seem to be a risk for one's entire Google account, I deleted G+.
In retrospect I shouldn't have said "I'm leaving because I use a psuedonym and don't want you shutting down my entire google account" in the "why are you leaving?" form, but … hey. I did. Whoops.
It's pretty sad when you start feeling afraid of a company which promises to do no evil.
Am reconsidering my relationship with google now, which makes me a little sad. They're a good company with some great products… but I don't like companies who scare me with their policy decisions.
I'm not trying to lead a crusade against them. Lots of people will no doubt have no problems with staying on G+, and I'm really fine with that. But my separation of Cyn/not-Cyn needs to hold, and I'm not going to use it in public with my real name.


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The Bedford Museum and Genealogical Library continues to honor Confederate History Month by featuring houses in Bedford County that played a role in the War Between the States.
You've got to hand it to Governor Bob McDonnell; he knows how to put his finger in the wind and discern the prevailing political direction, even when it runs counter to his ultraconservative instincts.
I wonder if this is politically motivated?
Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported (Page B1 of the Apr. 6 edition) that Toyota faces a $16.4 million fine in the United States. According to this news article, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood is seeking the fine, accusing Toyota of knowingly hiding a problem with sticky gas pedals from U. S. regulators. This is the maximum fine allowed under U. S. law and vastly exceeds the previous record of $1 million.
Bedford County escaped the worst of budget cuts for the school system when the General Assembly restored millions of dollars that were proposed to be eliminated from the state funding for the 2010-2011 school year.
That meant fewer jobs had to be eliminated and no schools had to be closed. That certainly helped ease the pain that could have been felt next year. Instead of losing 124 jobs, the school system will only eliminate half of those. Most of those spots will be handled through attrition and through a retirement incentive, but not all of them.
Perriello reflects voters
Though he has received significant bad press locally, notably in letters to the editor by ultra-conservatives, Representative Tom Perriello accurately reflects the sum and substance of voters of the 5th District who put him in office. Two issues stand out as targets for criticism: energy and health care.
One of my greatest privileges in Congress is serving on the House Veterans Affairs Committee and its Health Subcommittee, where I am committed to ensuring quality health coverage for those who have served our country. With rumors and misunderstandings continuing to spread about health insurance reform, I want to clear up any confusion regarding how health reform will affect veterans and military personnel.
The Bedford Museum and Genealogical Library celebrates Confederate History Month with a series of stories about Bedford County locations that played a role in the War Between the States.
This week we feature the home "Fancy Farm." The following appears in the book "The Peaks of Otter, Life and Times" by Peter Viemeister:
Political fallout from the health care battle is still being recorded, even as many Americans are beginning to realize the justice and the decency of universal health care.
I hope everyone saw the picture on the front page of the March 27 Roanoke Times. Hundreds of people were lined up to take advantage of an annual dental care clinic that's offered free. There they were, the uninsured in full view, getting up early, probably before dawn, to stand in line for the care that they can't afford.
Now that ObamaCare has been signed into law, we are stuck with the same sort of socialist monstrosity that is contributing to the slow suffocation of Europe's economies.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
There are two things you can count on in the United States: Decency always triumphs in our public policies in the end; conservatives fight it every step of the way.
So it's been in the long battle over health care reform, finally signed into law after the courageous efforts of President Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and one great American who wasn't here to see the fruits of his life-long labor, Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts.
"I think this is a reasonable budget." — District 4 school board member Gary Hostutler
Mr. Hostutler is absolutely correct. The budget the county school board adopted is a reasonable budget. It's not perfect, but it is reasonable.
Thanks for
keeping schools open
I would like to say thanks to our Board of Supervisors and School Board members for keeping our schools open for the future of all our children, and staff.
I know this was a tough decision for all of them. Our schools are very important to us and our community.
Also a big thanks to everybody from Thaxton and Body Camp for all the time spent working together as a community.
Nancy Walker
President Barack Obama: "...At a time when the pundits said it was no longer possible, we rose above the weight of our politics ... we proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges. We proved that this government -- a government of the people and by the people -- still works for the people.
"...Today's vote answers the prayers of every American who has hoped deeply for something to be done about a health care system that works for insurance companies, but not for ordinary people.
Keep schools open
As a citizen of Bedford County and a resident of the Body Camp Community, I believe there are more options than closing schools.
To mention a few: 1) Stop allowing maintenance employees who are not on call 24 hours to drive school board vehicles home. Stopping this would free up vehicle up vehicle and gas funds that can be used elsewhere. 2) Start cutting salaries from the top down, beginning with Central Office personnel. 3) Stop running activity buses.
In recent weeks, I have heard from dozens of Virginians regarding the 2010 Census. The U.S. Constitution requires that every ten years the government take a census to count the population. Many Virginians have already received their 2010 Census questionnaire in the mail, and I encourage you to take a few minutes to respond.
Gulf War illness, previously called Gulf War Syndrome, is a controversial diagnosis, and some have questioned whether it really exists.
During the 2009 campaign for governor, many of us on the Democratic side tried to warn people that voting for Ken Cuccinelli for attorney general would be a great mistake.
The state senator had a paper trail record as an extreme right-winger who had demonstrated his great desire to pursue his ideological fantasies down whatever yellow brick road he could take.
Congressman Tom Perriello looks vulnerable this fall, a heartwarming thought for area conservatives.
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Former Eagles cornerback Asante Samuel, now playing for the 6-0 Falcons, took to Twitter to offer his opinion of Andy Reid firing defensive coordinator Juan Castillo.
Samuel, never at a loss for words, will face his former team next Sunday when the Eagles travel to Atlanta to take on the Falcons.
Sometimes you have to blame yourself. You can't try and always point the figure at someone else— Asante Samuel (@pick_six22) October 16, 2012
I'm just saying... Aint no decline over here #riseup— Asante Samuel (@pick_six22) October 16, 2012


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kevin Spacey's Emmy-nominated Netflix series "House of Cards" had British beginnings.
So it's no surprise the actor walked the red carpet Saturday at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts pre-Emmy tea in Los Angeles. He says the show's nine nominations are a sign the entertainment industry is learning how to better cater to audiences.
Other American versions of British shows were on stars' minds too. "Breaking Bad" star Dean Norris says the original British version of "The Office" is one of his "favorite shows of all time." And actor Reid Scott of "Veep" says he really loves the BBC's show "Sherlock Holmes."
So what will be the next British import to find fame in America? Even "Downton Abbey" creator Julian Fellowes says he doesn't know.
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CANBERRA, Australia, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- An Australian federal worker was awarded worker's compensation for an injury she sustained while having motel room sex on a work trip.
The woman, who works for a federal agency, suffered injuries to her nose and mouth when a glass light fitting above the motel room bed fell while she was having sexual intercourse in New South Wales in November 2007, The Sydney Morning Herald reported Monday.
Workplace health insurer Comcare had appealed the woman's worker's comp claim, saying the injury had nothing to do with the woman's job, but the Federal Court sided with the woman, who argued the her employer was responsible for her for the duration of the trip.
"If the applicant had been injured while playing a game of cards in her motel room she would be entitled to compensation even though it could not be said that her employer induced or encouraged her to engage in such an activity," the judges said.
A Comcare spokesman said the company is deciding whether to appeal to the High Court.
"The issue is a significant one. Workers need to be clear about their entitlements and employers should have an understanding of their responsibilities and how to support their staff," he said.


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Creator/Writer TIM SEELEY, Cover Artist JENNY FRISON and… both CASSIE HACK and VLAD will be here in person! Hack/Slash: My First Maniac #1 comes out on June 9th so you can rest assured we'll have plenty of copies on hand for this event.
So bring you camera and dress-up yourself if you want… but be warned, if your costume is TOO realistic, Cassie just may have to put you down.
We'll also have representatives from Venom Energy on hand distributing samples of Venom; just what every slasher-hunter needs to keep their energy up during a hard-fought battle with vicious psychopaths.
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Defender Greg White was named to the 2012 Big South All-Conference first team.
Liberty defender Greg White has been named to the 2012 Big South men's soccer all-conference first team, the league announced this evening. Three other Flames were selected to the all-conference second team.
Selected by the conference's head coaches, White garnered his first career all-conference honor, while forward Kyle Breitmeyer, defender Uriah Bentick and midfielder Richard Nyarko received second team recognition.
In addition, Bentick was also named by the conference's sports information directors to the Big South men's soccer All-Academic team. Liberty freshman defender Tim Harbison was selected to the Big South All-Freshman team.
A two-time Liberty team captain, White was named to the all-conference team for the first time. The redshirt senior has played every minute during the 2012 season for the Flames. He has scored two goals, while anchoring the Flames' defensive unit, which has played a key role in Liberty's nine-game unbeaten streak (6-0-3).
White has started every game of his Flames career. He enters Liberty's Big South Quarterfinal match, Tuesday, having started 75 consecutive games. In 2009 and 2011, White was named to the Big South All-Tournament team.
Breitmeyer, Liberty's leading scorer, was selected to his first all-conference team. The junior is enjoying his best offensive season as a Flame, leading Liberty with seven goals and 15 points. Five of his goals have come during Big South play.
Bentick was named to the all-conference squad for the third consecutive year. The senior was selected to the first team in 2010 and 2011. The defender has been a fixture on a Liberty defensive unit, which has played a key role in Liberty's unbeaten streak. He has scored one goal and recorded a team-leading three assists this season. In addition, the sport management major earned inclusion on the Big South All-Academic squad.
Nyarko caps his senior year by being voted to an all-conference team for the first time. A reliable defender, he has returned from injury to play in 10 games, with three starts.
Harbison has recorded three assists in his first collegiate season. The freshman has started all 17 games as defender/midfielder for the Flames.
Coastal Carolina forward Ashton Bennett was named the 2012 Big South Conference Men's Soccer Attacking Player of the Year, while his head coach, Shaun Docking, was selected as the Big South Coach of the Year. Coastal Carolina's Kjartan Sigurdsson was voted the league's Defensive Player of the Year, while High Point's goalkeeper Kody Palmer was named the conference Freshman of the Year. Shawn Sloan was named Big South Conference Men's Soccer Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Bennett, Docking and Sloan each repeated their honors from 2011.
The 2012 Big South Championship gets underway tomorrow night on the campuses on the higher seeds. Defending champion Liberty, the No. 3 seed, will host No. 6 Winthrop at Osborne Stadium. Match time is scheduled for 6 p.m.
2012 BIG SOUTH MEN'S SOCCER HONORS First Team All-Conference F – Ashton Bennett, Coastal Carolina F – Ricky Garbanzo, Coastal Carolina F – Mamadee Nypon, High Point MF – Pedro Ribero, Coastal Carolina MF – Mitchell Cardenas, Campbell MF – Shawn Sloan, High Point MF – Justin Portillo, Coastal Carolina D – Fejiro Okiomah, High Point D - Kjartan Sigurdsson, Coastal Carolina D – Greg White, Liberty D – Travis Golden, Campbell GK – Ryan Taylor, Radford At Large – Bernardo Ulmo, Radford, MF
Second Team All-Conference F – Jhuvon Francis, Campbell F – Kyle Breitmeyer, Liberty F – Alex Isern, Winthrop MF – Dario Redondo, Radford MF – Adam Sewell, High Point MF – Shane Malcolm, High Point MF – Richard Nyarko, Liberty D – Uriah Bentick, Liberty D – Henrik Robstad, Coastal Carolina D – Jon Ole Reinhardsen, Gardner-Webb D – Uchenna Uzo, Coastal Carolina GK – Ethan Hall, Campbell At Large – Federico Bertele, Coastal Carolina, GK
All-Freshman Team Jhamie Hyde, Coastal Carolina - D Jamie Summers, Radford - D Kody Palmer, High Point - GK Isaiah Page, Campbell - MF Tim Harbison, Liberty - D Austin Yearwood, High Point - D Magnus Thorsson, Winthrop - MF Jannik Eckenrode, Radford – MF/F Tevin Skyers, Coastal Carolina - F Lyssean Thomas, Gardner-Webb - MF Matt Manter, Presbyterian College - F
Attacking Player of the Year Ashton Bennett, Coastal Carolina
Freshman of the Year Kody Palmer, High Point
Defensive Player of the Year Kjartan Sigurdsson, Coatsal Carolina
Coach of the Year Shaun Docking, Coastal Carolina
All-Academic Shawn Sloan, High Point Ryan Taylor, Radford Alex Isern, Winthrop Matthew "Scooter" Oliver, Campbell Bobby Castro, UNC Asheville Newt Turk, Presbyterian College Henrick Robstad, Coastal Carolina Chris Davis, Gardner-Webb Uriah Bentick, Liberty Devin Pierce, Longwood Kyle Farmer, VMI
Scholar-Athlete of the Year Shawn Sloan, High Point
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Codorníu Cuvée Barcelona – A Special Sparkle for Christmas and New Year:
There's nothing quite like a glass of sparkling wine to bring a sense of occasion to the day. This year Codorníu, one of the most famous Cava houses in Spain, has launched a special edition Cava, Codorníu Cuvée Barcelona 1872.
Cava is made using the same method as champagne. But, as it comes from the Penedés region, near Barcelona, the grapes used to make a traditional cava sparkling wine are indigenous Spanish – Macabeo, Xarel•lo and Parellada. The first sparkling wine made this way was created in 1872 by Josep Raventós Fatjó, from the Codorníu. Reason enough to celebrate.
That's just what Cordoníu have done, with the introduction of Cuvée Barcelona 1872. For this cava, they have used some of the same techniques from half a century ago. A system of layers (capas) were used to control the fermentation temperature of the musts. And when necessary fresh must was added to lower the temperature. This process was strictly managed to help improve the texture of the sparkling wine. In those days all of this happened in cement tanks covered with ceramic tiles or in large wooden kegs.
Today these materials are still used, but in conjunction with stainless steel vats, to add aromas and flavours to the base wine and subsequently to the final cava. Once the final blend of the base wines has been defined, the wine is bottled and racked while the second fermentation takes place followed by a period of ageing in contact with the lees of the yeasts. The wine spends at least 9 months in the winery. That is enough time to attain a balance between the fruity character, coming from the grapes, a richer expression contributed by the lees and the best possible 'fizz'.
A special sparkling wine deserves a special bottle – and Codorníu Cuvée Barcelona comes presented in a beautiful bottle inspired by the typical stained glass windows of modernist Barcelona.
The perfect way to celebrate this Christmas and New Year, Codorníu Cuvée Barcelona is available at Tesco, Sainsbury's and Waitrose stores across the UK, RRP £12.99. I've also got one bottle to give away to a lucky London-Unattached reader.
All you need to do is to let me know in the comments below what are the three traditional grapes used to make Cava.
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blover27 wrote:Is low fat ok? That's what we have been using...
There is a lot of evidence that the good stuff in milk is actually in the cream. Of course, if the milk is pasturized and homogonized you ruin all of that. I believe it is Stonyfield that has the 'cream layer' on it, correct? Get that one.
I make my own yogurt from raw milk, but Stonyfield and Brown Cow are as good as it gets if you don't make your own!


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Hey Randy. How's it hanging, you old dog?
Absolutely love SOD's Toxicity! I just can't believe they don't do stuff like that anymore! I listened to Serj solo record and it's not great! But yeah, Toxicity is ace !
Ah nothing important, just pointless yapping. Thanks!
The message I was referring to is not a spam, but I just don't want anything to do with it. It's still there by the way, the id of it is 131899.
Hooray ! My favourite veggie plate is back ... that is the Randy that I <3
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Hola bro'ha, how's it going? Thank you so much for the birthday message - didn't see it before now. Cool! Nice to see that someone remembered/bothered to post, since I'm not the most active user here anymore!
It's okay. lol. A little slow.
I'll be spending all weekend with Brandy as my mother is out whoring around with some guy in Cedar Falls until Monday.
Tonight we'll spend the night alone at my place since mom wants me to look after the dog and if I take him to their house, he'll just ruin their carpet like he's ruined ours.
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This project manager is heading development of the forward-looking 'NEWSKY' aviation communications system
By Roland Detsch and Dorothee Bürkle
Frank Schreckenbach is currently working on a project at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) to allow air passengers to surf the Internet while the pilot is simultaneously downloading to the onboard computer the latest weather information for his approach – while complying with all the safety regulations applying in the aviation industry. However, anyone who wants to network the sky must not just be a researcher – they must also manage their project internationally. Frank Schreckenbach can do both: he is a scientist and an internationally certified project manager.
The job is rather like an elaborate piece of choreography: each day innumerable machines take off and land – mostly without a problem – in the crowded skies above the major airports of the world. There is, however, a conspicuous contrast between the high-tech world of modern aviation and the tangle of commands in the crackling ether that give this world its necessary order. While the passengers in modern aircraft have long been used to surfing the 'net via WLAN, GSM or UMTS, the pilots above the clouds are still largely dependent, as they were half a century ago, on analogue voice radio.
"Unbelievable at first glance," says Frank Schreckenbach, "but to date it has not been possible to guarantee that vital exchanges of information between the cockpit and the tower are not lost in the confusion of emails and Internet downloads, or are only transmitted after long delays. The necessarily high safety standards in aviation mean that pilots must still rely on voice radio." The days of this antiquated technology are numbered. 'NEWSKY' is the name of the project that aims to significantly modernise communication in modern civil aviation over the next ten years. NEWSKY stands for Networking the Sky for Aeronautical Communications. The objective of the project, funded by the European Commission, is to combine various technical innovations in the field of ground, satellite and aircraft communication. In this way a global aeronautical communications network is to be developed based on Internet technologies.
The lead management in such a 'networking of the sky' lies with Frank Schreckenbach from the DLR Institute of Communication and Navigation in Oberpfaffenhofen. To realise this project, an international consortium was formed in 2007, which includes Thales Alenia Space, QinetiQ, Frequentis, Triagnosys, the German Air Traffic Control service (Deutsche Flugsicherung; DFS) and the University of Salzburg.
Internationally recognised project management certificate
At first glance, the blond, casually dressed 32-year-old does not suggest someone bearing the responsibility of a project manager. "But I'm no exception here. DLR is known for quickly entrusting leading positions to promising new blood," Frank Schreckenbach says. He is supported in his task by an in-house mentoring programme. Furthermore, Frank Schreckenbach is the first member of the DLR staff whose qualification and ability as a manager has been acknowledged by the internationally recognised Project Management Professional (PMP) certificate from the world-leading Project Management Institute.
From mobile phones to aircraft
Before Schreckenbach started working at DLR two-and-a-half years ago, directly after gaining his doctorate, he had already looked around at a variety of industries. He undertook work placements, for example, with the large groups BMW and Infineon, with a small IT start-up, as well as with the Institut des Sciences Nucléaires (ISN) in Grenoble, France. Grenoble is also where Frank Schreckenbach was born in 1976 and spent his childhood before moving to Munich with his parents at the age of 15.
Frank Schreckenbach never found mathematics and physics difficult, but initially he was more interested in sport and music. Two metres tall, his interests include basketball, skiing and mountain biking, hobbies he still pursues today. He also played Bach on the flute until he started to build himself a speaker for his electric guitar. Gradually his technical interests began to predominate, something he no doubt inherited from his physics-teaching father. So, in 1997, Frank Schreckenbach enrolled at Munich Technical University (Technischen Universität München; TUM) to study electrical engineering, with communications technology as his main subject. Here it was the small details in electrical engineering that attracted him in particular. For a long time he had a soft spot for mobile communications, with their promising future, and wrote his diploma and doctoral dissertations at TUM about new mobile phone technologies. Then he swapped mobile phones for aircraft and took on a management position in the field of aircraft communication at the DLR Institute of Communication and Navigation in Oberpfaffenhofen.
Communicative skills
But it does not end with the technical know-how. With his confident attitude and knowledge of foreign languages – Frank Schreckenbach grew up bilingual in German and French, speaks fluent English and has a basic knowledge of Spanish – he was the ideal project manager for NEWSKY. After all, one of the main tasks of the job is to maintain contact with partners, companies and competitors abroad, to take the results of the work to international standardisation bodies, or to present them to an international audience: such as at the Air Traffic Control Exhibition and Conference, an international aviation safety trade fair in Amsterdam. There, Schreckenbach with his team and project partners presented the system in public for the first time. The researchers gave a realistic demonstration of how communication using NEWSKY might look to the pilot in the cockpit and the air traffic controller on the ground during a transatlantic flight and how ground-based and satellite-based data links can be used in a common network. "We had a very positive response", he said happily. "The pilots, as the greatest beneficiaries, see the whole thing positively in any case. But the air traffic controllers and even the airlines, which tend to be the most sceptical because mandatory introduction involves high investment costs for them, were also impressed."
Optimistic future
Asked about his plans for the future, the NEWSKY manager talks in first place about the step-by-step development of the system until it is market ready. He is already raring to go with the successor project. He sees the new technologies conquering the cockpit by way of the cabin, as it were, where they can be tested that one extra time for soundness.
As well as his project management work, Schreckenbach also holds a lectureship at MTU. "Fortunately we don't have standard working days," Frank Schreckenbach says. And since he is married to an industrial designer who is also completely absorbed in her work, there are no work-related stresses to speak of in his private life.


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The Greasy Chopper
|The Greasy Chopper
GTA Vice City
GTA Vice City Stories
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|Downtown, Vice City
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|Vice City Bikers
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Alloy Wheels of Steel
Messing with the Man
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The Greasy Chopper is a bar featured in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. It is located Downtown, directly opposite of Howlin' Petes Biker Emporium. It is the base of operations for the Bikers gang led by Mitch Baker, and the starting point for most of Baker's missions for Tommy Vercetti. Baker frequents the bar, as do Cougar and Zeppelin.
At least one Angel motorcycle is parked outside the bar. In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, an armor pick-up can be found on the roof. The interior of the bar is not accessible to the player except through modifications, cheats, and glitches. Despite this, the inside is quite detailed; the walls are covered with license plates, stickers, and flags. There are also several pinball machines, a few pool tables, a jukebox, and a stage with musical instruments on it.
- To see how to enter the Greasy Chopper and Howlin' Pete's Biker Emporium with a trainer, see this video.
- To see how to enter the Greasy Chopper through a glitch, see this video.
- To see how to look inside and see the interior of the Greasy Chopper without entering the bar, see this video


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The Real Story Is Everywhere In China Where They're Not Making Apple Stuff
Public radio's popular This American Life episode* about abuses in the Foxconn factories that make Apple products has been retracted on the grounds of the "significant fabrications" it apparently contained. That's an embarassing moment for TAL, but even if the coverage had been fully accurate—or even in the cases where reporting on Apple's supply chain is spotless—I still think there's a deeply problematic solipsism in most of this reporting. Apple makes lots of stuff that lots of Americans own and therefore it's possible to make people feel a kind of psychic chain of guilt when they hear about bad conditions in the factories building the components. But this is a bit like the South By Southwest human hotspots problem, what Apple stands accused of is complicity in the misery of Chinese workers but its real crime often seems to be exposing our delicate western sensibilities to the misery.
You don't read articles about working conditions in factories making socks destined for export to Kazakhstan, and you don't read articles about working conditions on the rice farms that people eagerly leave to go toil in the sock factory. That rice and those socks are invisible to us and so too are the workers. What we need to see and hear about are bad conditions wherever they may be, not just the ones that provide the appealing news hook. When you read something bad about a Foxconn factory and then see that thousands of people line up for the chance of a job at one of them, that really ought to make you wonder. What were those guys doing the day before they decided to stand in line? How did that look? If you want to understand the depths of poverty that exist in the world, you can't just look under the streetlamp.
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EVENT DATE: Jan 31, 2013
UPDATE: This fundraiser was a success! The Free High School purchased a bus in late January, and it will make a huge difference in the students' lives. Thank you so much to everyone who supported this great cause!
Random Acts' supporters have helped us change lives all over the world and now we have an opportunity to once again make an impact in a big way.
The Free High School of San Juan del Sur needs a bus when classes begin again next February – without one students are forced to make a two day journey by unreliable public transportation. This bus will make an immediate and tangible difference in their lives.
The project is going to cost around $25,000 to $30,000. $10,000 of that has already been pledged by the American Jewish World Service, an international organization, and $10,000 has been pledged by Random Acts. We're reaching out to our supporters and asking you to help raise the last $5,000 to make this project possible.
One fantastic feature of this project is that it will be self-sustaining. Because the bus will only be needed to transport students one day a week, the school will be able to rent out the bus on other days. This income will help support the project; paying for gas and bus maintenance.
About the school:
The Free High School, a grassroots non-profit organization, provides access to adolescents and adults who are excluded from regular high schools: women with children, anyone over eighteen, people who work all week, and those who live far from daily high schools.
The Vice-Minister of Education in Nicaragua calls the school a model for the nation.
The programs include classrooms in 10 villages, reaching out to 150 rural students, many of them subsistence farmers. It includes the Saturday School, and the Technical High School. In addition to the required subjects, the school teaches computer skills, critical thinking, gender equality, women's and human rights, public health, sex ed and family planning, respect for women, environmental responsibility, and self-esteem.
Because Nicaragua rivals Haiti as the poorest country in the western hemisphere, programs reducing hopelessness and opening the door to economic opportunity are especially vital. The Free High School teaches the value of community outreach, and helps produce the valuable workers, active citizens, and socially-minded leaders that Nicaragua desperately needs.
The Bus:
In the photos you can see two examples of buses the Free High School is considering purchasing. The total amount that they are trying to raise - $30,000 - will not only buy the bus but pay for taxes, regestration, and create a seed fund for maintenance.
The Team: $5,051 TOTAL RAISED SO FARJOIN THE TEAM
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The 13th amendment to the United States Constitution, which abolished slavery, was passed by the House of Representatives on January 31, 1865. It had already been passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864. This is a list of the Senators and how they voted. It is noted that the Republican Senators who voted against the amendment did not disagree with it, but rather, felt it was not necessary. Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, so the dissenters were going against their party's position. The Gazette & Courier was the newspaper in Greenfield, Massachusetts, from July 20, 1841 until June 24, 1932. Before 1841 the newspaper's name changed quite frequently, with Gazette a frequent part of the title.
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Anybody heard anything about a national energy policy here of late? Seems only yesterday we were coping with natural gas bills resembling the national debt and gasoline/diesel prices that were stratospheric, and California and other states were enduring rolling blackouts and facing financial insolvency because of energy costs.
Gloom and doom on every hand. How soon we forget.
Going into this winter, natural gas prices are back in their normal range. I bought gasoline a few days ago in a nearby town for 95.9 cents a gallon, the lights are burning brightly in California and the West (most hotels have even removed their ludicrous per-day energy surcharges), and nobody's complaining much about energy costs.
Energy policy? What energy policy? Hey, we've got a war to wage in Afghanistan and anthrax to battle here at home and a Congress that, after a flurry of post-9/11 buddy-buddy bipartisanship, now is back to its regular routine of internecine sniping and grandstanding.
Our friends at OPEC, meanwhile, are muttering and moaning because low oil prices are cutting into their regal lifestyles, so they're talking cuts in output to "stabilize" the price and keep their royal coffers full.
Here in the United States, our energy company friends are muttering and moaning because lower prices for oil, gasoline, and natural gas are forcing (?) them to abandon exploration and drilling for new supplies. (Things are so bad, in fact, the administration's proposing to "help" Chevron, Texaco, Enron, and a host of other big corporations with billions of dollars in retroactive tax relief. How's that for sympathy?)
Alternative energy development? Hey, who needs it, when Messrs. Exxon, Citgo, et al are charging us a buck or less per gallon at the corner convenience store? Why worry about working toward energy self-sufficiency when the pumps are full and near $2 a gallon a few months ago is only a hazy memory?
For 30 years now, going back to the gasoline shortages and long lines of the '70s, this country has been dealing with a feast-and-famine scenario for the energy that is the cornerstone of our economy and our lifestyle.
OPEC tightens the spigots, prices go stratospheric, there is widespread hand-wringing about our dependence on foreign oil, much ado is made over reducing that dependence through new energy sources and new exploration, and there is a fervor throughout the land to show the energy barons that now, finally, this time, at last, for real, we mean business. Honestly. Cross our hearts. No kiddin'.
But just when it appears something will in fact be done toward increasing domestic energy supplies, getting serious about alternative sources, and making a long-term commitment toward reducing our dependence on foreign oil — well, miraculously, prices go down. OPEC magnanimously increases supply, refineries begin humming, and once again thoughts of a national energy policy fade like the Cheshire cat.
Only the cat's grin is left. And the cat is OPEC and the energy industry. They've seen it all before. They know they have only to wait; that we in the United States have a short memory, and that as long as they toss us a sop of energy "bargains" from time to time, we'll moan and groan and pay their price the rest of the time.
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Greeley's charter schools: Are they really better for our kids?
September 5, 2013
Which does a better job educating Greeley's children: charter schools or traditional schools?
That question is like asking how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll pop. Everyone has a different answer.
Colorado lawmakers say a combination of standardized test scores, academic growth of students from year to year, how fast at-risk students close the gap with their more affluent peers and how well schools do in preparing high school students for college or the workforce are the best tools to determine that.
Greeley-Evans School District 6 officials agree. In fact, they point to those benchmarks over the past few years to tout improvements in student achievement at traditional schools and, at the same time, point out declines among Greeley's charter schools.
There is work that needs to be done, there are students who need more time and more effort and teachers will need to adjust to that.
— Nancy Devine, chief academic officer for Greeley-Evans School District 6
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Charter school officials, however, say there is much, much more to educating a student than test scores. And while none said they educate students better than traditional schools, they all said their curriculums are more aggressive and their expectations much higher, resulting in slower growth but higher outcomes than traditional Greeley schools.
University Schools, for example, saw declines in the Transitional Colorado Assessment Program scores in 15 of 27 areas for the 2012-13 school year, including a complete tanking by its sophomore class.
However, Principal Holly Sample said that same sophomore class had an average score higher than the national average and many of the highest individual scores in the nation on the PLAN test, an ACT product that tells students one year removed from taking the college entrance exam what they can expect to score on the ACT.
"If those would have come back bad, too, I really would have worried," she said. "Instead it shows me we really have to work better on getting our high schoolers to buy into taking the TCAP."
Sample said it was clear which test the group put more weight on.
"They know the ACT directly impacts their college futures," she said.
Pat Gilliam , director of the Union Colony Charter school system, which saw significant declines in both TCAP and ACT test scores this year, said his school had to add remediation classes in math and reading to get new middle schoolers coming from traditional schools caught up.
"We were asking them to move into a program they were not prepared for," he said. "That is why we opened the elementary school. We believe it will stabilize the secondary program because they will be able to meet those expectations."
District 6 Superintendent Ranelle Lang , on the other hand, said the declines at the charter schools are because of a misalignment of curriculum to state standards.
Regardless, with the exception of Union Colony Elementary, which opened last year and specifically targeted at-risk students, the numbers are clear — more affluent District 6 residents appear to favor charter schools for their children.
Proof is in free and reduced lunch enrollment at the schools. University exceeds all other charters, at about 25 percent. None of the traditional schools are below 34 percent.
Last year, 4,448 of the district's 19,821 students were in four charter schools or 22 percent. With the expansions of University, Union Colony and Frontier Academy elementary this year, the numbers are near 5,000 — one-quarter of the total district enrollment, with more than 2,500 still on waiting lists.
In fact, Greeley has the largest per-capita charter school population of any school district in Colorado.
If Greeley's charter schools were their own district, they would be the 32nd largest school district of 183 in Colorado. They would be the second largest school district in Weld County. Projections for 2013-14 are that 97,000 students statewide will be in more than 200 charter schools, 13 percent of the total K-12 enrollment. Greeley's four charter schools educate 5 percent of that.
A fifth charter school — which will target English language learners — has applied for admission into the district and would take another 600-plus students out of the traditional system in 2014.
Past and present District 6 board members say the numbers don't add up. Charter schools should mirror the district's demographics. However, charter school advocates are quick to point out that the law says they are designed to provide educational variety to parents, not meet demographic quotas. In fact, the law explicitly says schools districts are not allowed to impose any such type of quota, and they are all vastly different from each other.
They also say it's not the demographics of their school that bothers the district, but the money attached to the students. They believe the district is more frustrated that with each new charter school that opens, per-pupil funding for that many more children is taken away.
Ron Eberhard , who was on the founding board of directors for University Schools when it became a charter school in the late 1990s and continued in that role for more than a decade, said it has never been about the kids or the demographics but about the bottom line. He said he doesn't understand why the school district is concerned about losing per-pupil funding to the charter schools because if all the charter schools closed tomorrow, the school district would have to spend those same dollars on educating those same 5,000 students.
"It has always been that way," Eberhard said. "When (former superintendent Tony) Pariso was here, he came to us at the beginning and said the district had to have University become a charter because they didn't have the ability to take all our kids (when the University of Northern Colorado ceased funding the school, which was then a private, laboratory school on its campus). For the last 10 years, in all my discussions and times when we met with District 6, it was never what we are doing for the kids but where the money was going or what it was going to cost."
District officials do not like to discuss the charter schools because they have no oversight of them.
But one thing is for sure. As long as they have existed, the relationship between the district and the charter schools has been rocky.
Charter school proponents have said the district "dummied-down" its graduation requirements to improve its graduation rates, they accuse board members of "drinking the Kool-Aid" — inferring they believe everything Lang tells them — and that they "rubber stamp" her policies, meaning they don't question her motives or intent.
Traditional school proponents say charter schools "counsel out" students with behavior-issues after the official count day, making traditional schools educate them, yet keep the state funding. They say charters "cherry pick" their students so they have only the "best and brightest;" and that they "underperform their demographics," meaning the children they teach should be the easiest to teach, but the scores don't reflect it when comparing schools with similar demographics to those of the charters.
Although Frontier has always "out performed" its demographics — and all other Greeley-Evans schools, including the other charter schools — administrators there still don't like the references made to the demographics of the school.
Rebecca Dougherty , principal at Frontier Academy elementary school, said it doesn't send the right message to students in the traditional schools when district officials say the "best and the brightest" are attending charter schools.
"That actually is very offensive," she said.
Paul Kirkpatrick , University middle school principal, agreed.
"If we only enrolled the best and the brightest, our TCAP scores would be through the roof," he said.
The tension generally heats up in the fall when the TCAP scores, growth models and performance framework assignments are announced.
This year was no different.
While the traditional schools improved by more than they had in as long as anyone can remember, the charter schools all combined declined in more areas than they improved — and they all have different views on why that is — or even why it matters.
All but one have changing demographics, expanded enrollment and other factors to point to for the drop.
West Ridge Academy, however, which fell in 17 of 20 tested areas, is the only school whose officials will not explain what is going wrong, failing to return all phone calls from The Tribune. West Ridge has hired an outside consulting firm to figure out what caused the decline, which in some cases was by more than 50 percentage points.
Even four of the district's most affluent elementary schools — Christa McAulliffe, Shawsheen, Monfort and Scott — which traditionally score well, have begun to struggle over the past few years.
So what is causing Greeley's more affluent schools, with students that should be much easier to educate, to struggle while the poorer and higher English language learner enrollment schools are pulling up their scores?
Everyone says it's the change to Greeley's overall demographics.
"McAulliffe, for example, will continue to do work to figure out how they best meet the needs of more students that are coming to them learning the English language," said Nancy Devine , chief academic officer for District 6, about the more affluent traditional schools' achievement. "More students are coming to them who are facing the effects of poverty. There is work that needs to be done, there are students who need more time and more effort and teachers will need to adjust to that."
But what district officials figured out a few years ago, the charter schools are just now beginning to work on.
"The reality of it is the demographics," Gilliam said. "But the TCAP is one measure. It is not the end all for us. And we only compare that to stay ahead of the district and the state and make sure we are on track with Frontier and University scores, because those are really our measure. Their demographics are more like our own."


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Full-service SoC design foundry expands ARM portfolio with volume licenses for end-to-end system solutions
HSINCHU, TAIWAN AND CAMBRIDGE, UK – Sept. 20, 2007 – Global Unichip Corp. (GUC) (TWO:3443) and ARM [(LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY)] today announced that GUC has licensed ARM® Physical IP, Fabric IP, the RealView® Development Suite and CoreSight™ on-chip debug and trace technology to support its customers' design activities worldwide. GUC, a member of the ARM Connected Community, is a dedicated full-service SoC design foundry which provides advanced silicon solutions through a close partnership with TSMC. Based in Taiwan, GUC has a global customer base throughout Asia, North America and Europe.
"The reliability of the ARM architecture and the broad support available in the ARM Connected Community has made ARM the preferred choice for IC design solutions," said Jim Lai, president and chief operating officer, GUC. "Through our new volume license of ARM Physical IP, Fabric IP, RealView Development Suite and CoreSight on-chip debug and trace technology, we will be able to bring even greater value to customers looking for total system solutions for complex SoC designs."
By expanding its current ARM technology portfolio, which includes the ARM7TDMI®, ARM926EJ™, ARM922T™ and ARM946E™ processors, GUC will also be able to make ARM physical design, system design and development tools available to its customers in volume and accelerate time-to-market.
"Global Unichip is helping its customers transform the SoC design process by making it easier than ever to bring innovative ARM Powered® products to market," said Simon Segars, EVP and general manager, ARM Physical IP Division. "By taking advantage of ARM Physical IP, Fabric IP and the RealView Development Suite, GUC customers will have more options in differentiating and maximizing the efficiency of their low-power SoC designs."
About Global Unichip Corp.
Global Unichip Corp. (GUC), a dedicated full service SoC (System on Chip) Design Foundry based in Taiwan, was founded in 1998. GUC provides total solutions from silicon-proven IP to complex time-to-market SoC turnkey services. GUC is committed to providing the most advanced and the best price-performance silicon solutions through close partnership with TSMC, GUC major shareholder, and other key packaging and testing power houses. With state of the art EDA tools, advanced methodologies, and experienced technical team, GUC ensures the highest quality and lowest risks to achieve first silicon success. GUC has established a global customer base throughout Greater China, Japan, Korea, North America, and Europe. Its track-record in complex SoC designs has brought benefits to customers in time to revenue at the lowest risk.
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ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. ARM's comprehensive product offering includes 16/32-bit RISC microprocessors, data engines, graphics processors, digital libraries, embedded memories, peripherals, software and development tools, as well as analog functions and high-speed connectivity products. Combined with the company's broad Partner community, they provide a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for leading electronics companies. More information on ARM is available at http://www.arm.com.
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The best action thriller of the year.
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You sit there, and the action assaults you, and using words to re-create it would be futile. What actually happens to Jason Bourne is essentially immaterial. What matters is that SOMETHING must happen, so he can run away from it or toward it.
This is the most satisfying thriller of the year, capping the Bourne trilogy.
Audiences will eat it up: This is a postmillennial spy-action movie pitched to a large international audience. You hardly need subtitles.
A spectacular windup toy of a thriller -- a contraption made by an artist.
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Excellent, smart spy thriller for mature teens and up.
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Parents need to know that The Bourne Ultimatum features wall-to-wall action, much of it violent, causing repeated, bloody injuries to Bourne. The film includes car chases and crashes, explosions, fights, falls from great heights, smashes through windows, and murders (hand-to-hand, by gunfire), as well as images of dead bodies. The plot involves high tech surveillance and a dastardly, secret CIA program, and the hero comes to distrust his (U.S.) government (that said, Senate hearings at film's end lead to arrests of "rogue agents"). Language includes "s--t," "damn," and "hell."
Messages: Mixed messages. Government is portrayed as corrupt and manipulative, and the main character battles against it in order to live a free life. On the other hand, the fight scenes are what makes the Bourne movies so watchable, so while the ideals of righteousness and purity are celebrated, so is violence.
Role models: Bourne is singularly moral-minded, though he hasn't always been that way; CIA agents and other killers are deadly, calculating, and cold.
Violence: Bourne first appears limping and being chased aboard a moving train; he jumps off, finds a hospital, trails blood everywhere, washes his bloody hands, self-injects a needle full of painkiller, hits one officer and holds his gun on another. Flashbacks throughout show young Bourne's torture (hooded figures, waterboarding, frantic camerawork and dissolves), refer to his girlfriend's murder ("shot in the head"). Scene in morgue shows corpse. Violent acts -- shown in chaotic camerawork and editing -- include explosions (preceded by bomb-making), punching, kicking, flipping, leaping, falling, crashing through a window, car-crashing and -screeching, shooting (by snipers and face-to-face), bone-breaking, stabbing.
Sex: In subjective flashbacks, Bourne tenderly kisses Maria (his dead girlfriend), once underwater, as she floats away.
Language: Several uses of "s--t" and "damn," repeated uses of "hell" in frustration (e.g., "What the hell's going on here?").
Consumerism: Vespa motorbike.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: In flashbacks, Bourne and another man appear to be sedated.
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Q. Our granddaughter is engaged to be married. She is a cradle Catholic and her fiancé is a Protestant who is planning on coming into the Church next year. However, they are planning a destination wedding before he comes into the Church. The wedding will be taking place in the Dominican Republic with a Catholic priest performing the ceremony on the beach. I wondered if this is something the Church approves of.
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A. Here is a reply from Father Francis Hoffman, J.C.D.:
If a Catholic priest performs the wedding ceremony on the beach, I would assume that the priest has valid permission to do so from the local bishop. If you have any doubt, ask to see a copy of the written permission. Ordinarily, such permission is not granted to priests by their bishops in the United States.
It is far better for a couple to exchange their vows in a Catholic Church in front of the altar of sacrifice and the crucifix — both vivid reminders of what it takes to remain faithful in marriage: sacrifice.
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