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There's no BMW content in this post. Absolutley none. Nada. Zip. Turn back now if that offends...
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I spent some time tonight reading history on the Web. Work-related, but obliquely I work for Whirlpool, as a designer at our washing machine factory inn Clyde, Ohio. A recent trip to the Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan had me looking at the antique Thor washing machines till my mind wandered,and then two aisles over I looked at the antique Thor V-twin motorcycles as well. Yes, the same parent company. Both divisions were apparently
going well in the early part of this century.
Anyway, Googling around on the Web using "Thor motorcycle" as the search words, produced some darned interesting stuff. If you're into twisted stories and antique mechanicals, take a look at the URLs below. It's good stuff, if you like stories that twist and turn and interconnect:
The three URLs describe the birth, life, and eventual decline of Thor Moto Cycles, out of Aurora, Illinois.
I'd assumed Thor was just a small-potatoes operation, folding like many others, but the story is a lot more twisted than that.
Just a quick outline, for details the websites make fascinating reading:
Aurora had a foundry, and made castings for engines for the founders of Indian starting around 1901. It appears to have been a joint effort, as eventually a deal was made where Aurora would make engines for Indian, but could sell those same engines to other makers, as long as the royalties were paid to Indian. Aurora was not allowed to make motorycycles themselves, as part of the agreement with Indian.
An example of the cooperation between Indian and Thor:
In 1902, all 137 Indians produced had Aurora-built engines in them. Indian didn't have a foundry of their own Imagine, when Harley was taking baby steps Thor had been building engines for several years.
Then in 1903, Aurora formed Thor Moto Cycle company, but only selling components such as hubs, brakes, and spokes to other makers. In short, you could order your parts, build a frame, slip Thor engine and components in, and you were suddenly a motorcycle company. But Thor didn't yet make a machine with a Thor emblem on it.
It appears that Thor had an increasing market share and presence, with approximately 50% of the motorcycles at industry shows in 1905 being powered by Thor engines, or Thor clones.
Eventually, Thor decided to build entire motorcycles themselves. And their machines were competitive against Harleys and Indians and Excelsiors, winning enduros and other types of races.
There was innovation at Thor, and many components made at Thor were purchased by other makes as OEM equipment. Thor produced major components for Reading Standard, Flying Merkle, Raycyle, Indian, Sears, Cyclone, Henderson, and Harley.
Much of the innovation and race effort at Thor was under the guidance of an engineer by the name of William Ottoway. In 1912, Ottoway left Thor and was recruited by Harley to head up their racing team. The Harley race team brought Harley fame and prestige from 1912-1916.
By around 1916-1919, Thor motorcycle production had stopped. It appears there were still some components for sale, but it's hard to tell exactly what happened from reading the websites. The parent company, now re-named Hurley Mf'g Company, by then was making home appliances (I know them for their washing machines), and continued to do so for several decades after the demise of Thor Moto Cycle.
But the story doesn't end there, not exactly. William Ottoway was still working for Harley after Thor's demise. And so in the late nineteen-teens, under William Ottoway's guidance, and with the help of combustion expert Harry Ricardo, Harley designed and built an 8-valve V-twin race bike. Several, actually, though I didn't see any exact numbers anywhere. None of these were sold to the public, and apparently Harley themselves never thought about the historical significance of the machines, either.
In other words, they didn't save any for themselves, and it was thought all were gone, having passed into private hands eventually and then being scattered to the wind.
Over the years, three have been found, in various places around the world. Extremely rare, and I suspect extremely valuable.
So the V-Rod isn't the first 8-valve Harley, not by a long shot. And that obscure Thor up at the Ford Museum played a not-so-small part in the long Harley story
I especially like the way all the old names in motorcycling were so closely connected, that was a major surprise. I had no idea I was looking at so much history, when I was looking at the Thor motorcycle in the Ford Musuem.
Anyway, that's the twisted tale I came up with tonight, when all I really set out to do was to read about old washing machines and other home appliances
Doug Grosjean
Luckey, Ohio
And yes, I *am* writing a book...
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By the end of her sophomore year, high school tennis player Christina Warren was burned out -- "mentally and physically exhausted," she said. Then a friend of her mother's whose daughter rowed at the University of Virginia suggested that Warren give the sport a try.
"I went to a few practices," she said, "and I haven't picked up a racquet since." Warren liked the competition and camaraderie of rowing, but also knew the sport's major collegiate benefit: the opportunity to earn an athletic scholarship. Rowing for the Sarasota Crew, the Cardinal Mooney student excelled, rising to the top five in the country as a lightweight.
"There's a ridiculous amount of money that goes into collegiate women's rowing," she said. "They basically told me that virtually every girl that goes into rowing gets some sort of scholarship somewhere."
Starting this fall, Warren says, rowing will pay off handsomely for her. Princeton plans to pay $40,000 of the university's annual $55,000 cost.
Sarasota Crew coach Casey Galvanek says she is one of 15 local rowers who have received collegiate offers.
Then there's Chase Rowe, who has his own story of hitting the rowing jackpot. Rowe is a former football player on the Sarasota High junior varsity team whose best friend turned him on to rowing.
"I caught on quite quickly," he said. "Rowing is an underground sport. And I felt there were more opportunities in rowing for a scholarship."
He was right. Two years ago, private Jacksonville University recruited him, and of his $40,000 annual cost, he said, "a great deal of it is covered."
But the financial largess extended to Warren and Rowe is the exception.
According to the NCAA, just 2 percent of the country's high school athletes earn scholarships annually.
And the parents who spend hundreds of dollars -- sometimes thousands -- on equipment, lessons, camps, transportation and private instruction for their sons or daughters are, in many cases, ignorant of how athletic recruiting and scholarships work.
"I tell them, 'Many are chosen, but few are taken,'" says Southeast High head football coach Paul Maechtle.
The mechanics
Colleges and universities award athletic scholarships, which are partially funded through revenue disbursed by the NCAA.
In 2010-11, the NCAA returned 60 percent ($478 million) to Division I conferences and schools.
The NCAA caps the number of scholarships that Division I and Division II institutions can grant, as well as the number in each sport.
Like Ivy League institutions, Division III schools don't award athletic scholarships, but consider sports performance in assessing financial aid.
Football, basketball, women's gymnastics, tennis and volleyball are what the NCAA calls "head-count" sports. That means the NCAA limits the total number of individuals who can receive scholarships, but allows each player to get up to a full scholarship.
So at the Division I level, the NCAA allows up to 85 football players -- ostensibly the entire roster -- to be on full scholarship, which covers an athlete's tuition and fees, room, board and course-related books.
Manatee High junior defensive lineman Demarcus Christmas has already orally committed to play football at Florida State. His scholarship will be a full one, meaning Christmas, as an in-state student, will get about $17,000 in assistance, based on FSU's 2012-13 fee schedule.
Division II schools are allowed to award 36 full-ride scholarships.
Schools in any division aren't required to hit these numbers, or even award scholarships in a particular sport. These are merely caps.
This was the reality confronting Cardinal Mooney lacrosse player Trey LaPorta.
The senior selected Division II Rollins College in Orlando, but his mother was told by Rollins' lacrosse coach that the school, with an annual cost of more than $50,000, didn't offer lacrosse scholarships. This, though the NCAA allows Division II schools to have nearly 11.
"We weren't looking for a lacrosse scholarship," said Carlo LaPorta, Trey's father. "We're using lacrosse as a carrot to drive him to succeed in school."
'Equivalency' sport
Every other collegiate endeavor -- baseball, golf, volleyball, wrestling, water polo -- is known as an "equivalency" sport.
In these, the NCAA limits the total financial aid that a school can offer in a given sport to the equivalent of a set number of full scholarships.
That forces coaches like Gregg Troy, the men's and women's swimming coach at the University of Florida, to slice and dice awards into partial scholarships, often for as little as $2,000.
He is allowed 9.9 swimming scholarships by the NCAA, for a team that can have up to 28 athletes. "You've got to break them up," said Troy, a former Sarasota resident, "just to be successful and to make things work."
Last fall, with no graduating seniors to free up more scholarships, Troy was limited to one-half scholarship.
"It was nothing to work with," he said. "Most of our group had to be patient from the standpoint that they were going to have to pay the first year completely themselves, or maybe look elsewhere."
Sometimes, an athlete competing in an equivalency sport can still earn a coveted full ride. Take Lakewood Ranch's Olivia Ortiz, for example. She'll run crosscountry and track next season for the University of Alabama and get more than $30,000 in financial aid while doing so.
Row, row, row ...
Indeed, with Title IX mandating equal opportunities for female athletes, many women's sports, to compensate for football's large number of scholarships, often offer more than their male counterparts do.
Women's rowing is allowed up to 20, topping every sport but Division I football.
Galvanek, head coach at the Sarasota Crew rowing club, said parents of rowers are acutely aware of this.
"Some parents, that's their mission in joining rowing," he said. Now in his sixth year coaching the Crew, Galvanek said an average of 6.5 of his athletes every year sign with a college or university for rowing.
Warren will be joined at Princeton by Pine View's School's Grant Golub.
Riverview High has five athletes who will be receiving aid. Dale Main is headed to Oklahoma University, Andor Deszi and Jose Colon to Jacksonville University, Andrew Konecny to Georgetown or UCF, and Chloe Swatek to UCF or the University of Charleston in West Virginia.
A college rowing scholarship doesn't come without a cost. The Scullers and Crew have yearly dues; the Crew annually charges $1,950, which covers equipment use, coaches, site fees and uniforms. On trips to regattas outside the state, each rower must pay his or her own transportation, entry fee and food.
While the cost may seem high to some, Galvanek said conversations with former tennis players helped put the price tag into perspective.
"I would typically say, 'Yeah, it's a lot of money,' " he said, "but I've had a lot of families come from tennis and they say, 'Oh, you think you're expensive? That's funny, it costs me $150 for 90 minutes (of private lessons).' That's our dues for the month.
"Things cost what they cost. I don't think anybody is trying to make money off the backs of those kids."
Every athlete has expectations. But to snare that elusive college scholarship, there had better be the accompanying grades, performance, timing, exposure and luck. And even with all that, it's still not a sure thing.
Good jock, good scholarship? The math isn't quite so simple
By the end of her sophomore year, high school tennis player Christina Warren was burned out -- "mentally and physically exhausted," she said. Then a friend of her mother's whose daughter rowed at the University of Virginia suggested that Warren give the sport a try.

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Although digital SLRs are getting better every day, some photographers and shops still opt for a high-end digital camera back. Capable of producing extremely high-resolution photos and very large files, digital camera backs are attached to a medium- or large-format professional film camera. The backs allow the film camera to digitally capture the images, and then saves them onto a computer via a tethered cable or a portable memory card (or are connected wirelessly to the computer, depending on the back).
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They"?re not inexpensive, ranging from $15,000 to $30,000 on average (some shops are now choosing to rent or lease them versus buy);
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Evaluate just how much "firepower"? you need; several companies offer a few different series of backs intended for different uses. Also keep in mind that several digital SLRs now offer10 to17 Mpxl (as well as the added benefit of the 35mm format).
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OCEAN CITY — There may still be some uncertainty to what it will eventually look like after redevelopment, but the Planning and Zoning Commission has a clearer vision to what the 45th street village will not look like in the future.
The plan for the midtown shopping center became a little bit clearer on Tuesday, as the commission voted to rezone the property back to an SC-1 (Shopping Center District) and a LC-1 (Licensed Commercial) and abandon the overlay district zoning that the site had been approved for several years ago.
Avi Sibony, owner of the Sunsations Franchises as well as landowner of the 45th Street Village, had spoken publicly that he was unsure if his 17-story condominium and 12-story hotel project in the back of the shopping center would ever become a reality in today's market.
As a result of Tuesday's decision, the largest building in the 45th Street shopping center will be no higher than eight stories, according to Zoning Administrator Blaine Smith.
Sibony had queried to try to make some changes to the scope of the project over the past few months, most notably in shrinking the two respective towers dramatically but increasing the retail space at the front of the complex.
However, the commission found that the changes he had proposed were "major changes", which would have been a violation of what the property had been approved for when it was granted overlay district status.
Smith said nly minor changes could be done to an approved overlay district site, without having to essentially go back to the beginning and start the entire process again.
"Getting this rezoned back the way that it was prior to the overlay district, will enable Mr. Sibony more design freedom," said Smith, "and he'll be able to do some of the things that I think he will be able to do with the site. He still has to get approved for the site plan, so Tuesday was more of an administrative vote."
Sibony's attorney, Joseph Moore, said that this is the first time that a property that had been approved to be in an overlay district had asked to be changed back to what it was prior.
"There is no risk in approving our request to change the zoning because we still have to get site plan approval," said Moore, "and we can't do a real site plan until we get the proper zoning."
Architect Keith Iott, of Iott Architecture and Engineering, testified that changing the zoning back to SC-1 in parcel 4 and LC-1 in parcels 1,2, and 3 was "much more conducive with the parameters of the neighborhood."
Still, Commission Chair Pam Buckley implored Sibony to transform the plaza into something more aesthetically pleasing than "box retail stores."
"This is a unique piece of property, and an important one at that in the town of Ocean City," said Buckley, "so I think that it deserves to have a nice piece of public art on it. I would hope that something like that is on the site plan when we see it next."
During the last conversation in early January between the two parties, a compromise was reached for the new allocation of retail space.
"I'm just excited that we are going to see retail in the plaza again and retail isn't getting chased over the bridge into West Ocean City," said commissioner and K-Coast Surf Shop co-owner Chris Shanahan.
The official abandonment of the idea to build large towers at 45th Street seemed to be a breath of fresh air for everyone involved.
"What they are going to do on the Bayside make this much easier", said Commissioner Lauren Taylor, "but I think they know our feelings on this property and what we'd like to see, so hopefully, they'll come back with a good site plan."


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The Algalita Marine Research Foundation, the environmental non-profit organization who chartered the oceanic voyage into the floating trash, will be on hand at this week's L.A. Green Drinks. Their work is incredibly valuable for demonstrating an even greater need for retailers and producers to limit the amount of plastic used in packaging goods.
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Move MacArthur Park building to golf course?
Original post made on Jul 24, 2012
Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 9:39 AM
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a resident of Crescent Park
on Jul 24, 2012 at 10:32 am
Here's an idea. Let's stop over-building downtown. Leave the building where it is. We don't need another office building and we don't need another theater.
a resident of Downtown North
on Jul 24, 2012 at 10:55 am
Haven't been to the old Julia Morgan building in several years but I wonder if it's worth "keeping," a.k.a. "moving." Granted she was a great architect and the face that it has stayed with us is remarkable, but this was not her finest building.
a resident of Mountain View
on Jul 24, 2012 at 11:16 am
@Crescent Park Dad:
While I'm not a Palo Alto citizen, I will point out that downtown Palo Alto's office space occupancy is very, very high. The lack of available office space forces companies -- particularly startups -- to consider other cities like Mountain View or Sunnyvale.
As mentioned in an earlier article TheatreWorks is looking for a home base. They currently perform at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (capacity 600) and the smaller Lucie Stern Theater in Palo Alto (capacity ~400).
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Now as a Mountain View resident, I am happy to have ticket tax revenue drop into my city's coffers, but this is not an ideal situation for TheatreWorks.
a resident of Southgate
on Jul 24, 2012 at 11:53 am
@PA Architect. I'm sure you are more knowledgeable than I am regarding what might be Julia Morgan's finest work, but to a layman such as myself, I think that building is certainly worth moving. I think that the interior space is wonderful.
a resident of Charleston Gardens
on Jul 24, 2012 at 12:00 pm
The building is beautiful and belongs where it is. Stop with the building of eyesore buildings and the addition of traffic congestion in that area. Apparently some people didn't learn the lesson of the bubble burst when so many buildings became UNOCCUPIED in not only Palo Alto, but the entire valley. Last thing we need is a multiplex of theater's bringing in more of the thug element with easy escape access to the trains and buses.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Jul 24, 2012 at 12:04 pm
Boy do we ever need a theatre! Our wonderful TheatreWorks has been taking most of their shows to downtown Mountain View (where a person can stroll from dinner to a show and then to drinks afterwards). That venue is overcrowded with arts groups vying for space, and the Lucie Stern theatre is also bursting at the seams, accommodating the PA Players, West Bay Opera and others. Why can't Palo Alto become like Berkeley and San Jose, with a beautiful downtown theatre of its own?
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Jul 24, 2012 at 1:07 pm
I'm sure Stanford would like such prime land to be put to better use than a restaurant. BTW @enough, the proposal is for a performing arts theater and office space, not a movie theater. Being next to the train station, it's a great location for office space (which is at a premium in Palo Alto).
The current building is beautiful, it would be wonderful to preserve it.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jul 24, 2012 at 1:29 pm
> but this was not her finest building.
It was designed for the US Army for soldiers to use as a "day room" (place to spend one's free time) during WWI. When I was in the Army I found myself spending my Sunday afternoons during Basic Training in a building almost board-for-board like this one.
These buildings were never designed to last forever, since most Army/Navy buildings are replaced every 20-30 years anyway. It is a nice example of the period, but nothing that is that exciting as a building.
There is no reason it has to stay in Palo Alto. It could be moved to some other town which has not exhibited such an anti-military mindset.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jul 24, 2012 at 1:42 pm
I love the idea of moving more recreational facilities to that area of Embarcadero Road. However there are two problems.
First big problem is cost. At city expense, we can't afford it.
Second big problem is getting through the traffic to that part of town. From mid afternoon until after 7.00 pm Embarcadero and Oregon bridges over 101 are almost at a standstill. This is only going to make the problems worse.
Were these issues discussed?
a resident of Barron Park
on Jul 24, 2012 at 4:12 pm
If the golf course become the ultimate landing place for the Hostess Building, I sure hope that the site will be "padded up" enough to keep it safe from the regular winter flooding (which is likely to start soon, due to the ongoing global warming. It would be a shame to move it from its current location where it is reasonably flood-safe only to have it damaged or destroyed.
a resident of Barron Park
on Jul 24, 2012 at 9:08 pm
Why Move it??
So some Billionaire can Develop the land?
We will be watching this one...
a resident of South of Midtown
on Jul 25, 2012 at 1:54 am
I love Julia Morgan's architecture, and support the preservation of the MacArthur Park building. Even if, as Wilson said, it was originally constructed to be an evanescent Army building, if we tear all such buildings down after they've served their purpose, then we forget how things were once done, and once looked. (What of the once-substantial Camp Fremont remains in Menlo Park, for example?) All the better if the handful of such buildings that do manage to get preserved are significant architecturally.
That said, I would not oppose moving this building. It currently is lost in the maze of roads, on-off ramps, railroad tracks, and other buildings surrounding it, and does not stand out where it is now. Frankly, I think the restaurant might do better business if it were more easily accessible by major roads (101 and Embarcadero), and it would certainly be easier to visually appreciate the building.
a resident of Midtown
on Jul 25, 2012 at 11:28 am
How many of you remember when they moved all the houses to build Oregon Expressway down to the Baylands near Alviso. They sat there for many years - nobody bought them - then they were bulldozed into obliteration. If you put McArthur Park down near the Bay it too will be obliterated because no one will want it down there.
a resident of Embarcadero Oaks/Leland
on Jul 25, 2012 at 5:19 pm
John Arrilga is a billionaire. When is enough enough? Hasn't he developed enough? Is that what we need-another office building in downtown? And is he going to kick the restaurant out in order do it? That building belongs right where it is now. Perhaps Arrilaga should be encouraged by his son-in-law to retire and smell the roses instead of over-developing our town.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Jul 25, 2012 at 6:40 pm
I could be wrong about this --- but I believe the land where MacArthur park stands is actually Stanford property, not part of CPA.
Arrilaga is not making any money on this. He is donating everything. Stanford provides the land, he does the building. Stanford will own the building, garage and the theater.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Dec 10, 2012 at 9:34 am
This Arrilliga has an agenda, plain and simple. Leave the historic building alone and enhance the surrounding area, not office buildings and a theater, you can do that at the old Varsity building on University. [Portion removed by Palo Alto Online staff.]
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Dodebebop wrote:
Media makes everything seem like a first..
Oh look Kate Middleton had a baby!
Well guess what alot of other women had a baby that day also
lol I was thinking the same thing....I still don't understand the obsession with the royal family. I really don't care how they live their lives but somehow many people seem to think otherwise.
You have to realize that the news plays those bad stories to get ratings and make money. As you said, they aren't exactly lying, but they don't go out of their way all the time to show good stories. It is a fact that there will always be some strong individual taking advantage of a weaker individual somewhere in the world. Just because this fact exists, however, is NOT an excuse to solely focus on the bad things of this life.
Creation is beautiful. God saw everything He made and called it good. There is beautiful scenery to behold and touching stories of kindness between two or more people to be heard. There are new ideas to consider. Works of art to enjoy.
It doesn't hurt to be knowledgeable of the events going on in the world, but if those events start weighing heavily on your heart, it could be time to turn the television off and enjoy some of the beauty in this world. We have to decide for ourselves how much is enough of the negativity we allow in our lives.
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I didnt read all of the post but humans want to have the impression they are doing better then others, they want to think their lives are fulfilling and meaningful as well as have a sense of being successful. So when they see all this negative stuff going on in the world it creates a sense of things could be worse off then what it is.
This is why the media is so successful. If they only aired positive stuff and the great deeds others are doing then we would sit and wonder why cant I go outside and help others instead of sitting here watching anime/posting in forums with my free time and in turn they would no longer continue to watch the news.
However in my opinion the world is far worse then we could even imagine..
^ Sad but true
Sorry, will be back soon
There's a nice balance. But people don't like to focus on the good. They try to inform us of bad things and useless things, but rarely about the good.
Sometimes people dance when they are supposed to sing.
It is way worse,if anything the media makes it look good in comparison
Let's not
Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Syria, Iraq and Darfur, but we are actually living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.
Read: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
For anyone interested in human nature, the material is engrossing.
A narrative has power, even when its hero is a dirty rodent carrying the plague.
The badness in the world is like germs. Even if much of the world is good and people are good (or at least not bad) 90% of the time, once tainted, the entire thing is dirty and contaminated. It'll stop when humans are gone and evil has nothing to manifest itself through.
Conjuring up the past is not remembering; it is replacing.
Trust me, it's much worst than what the media knows.
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The bad stuff sticks out. If we're talking % of the population doing bad stuff, then I would say it's not that bad. Unfortunately, that bad stuff, like tribal warlords/militias raping/murdering with impunity is clumped together in some areas. So some people only ever know that life. Even if a person has some disturbing thoughts I think very few act on them.
Now, if we're talking is it as bad or worse than what a lot of people realize, then I would say yes. Considering the "outrage", rofl, over miley cyrus behavior on stage....Just sayin, most people live in worlds many layers removed from true evil, to the point it's never even heard about.
the world isn't as bad as the news/media makes it seem. its actually much, much worse.
"You only live twice."
No...it's worse.
School is almost here!
I believe that we most focus on the bad, but I think that for every bad thing that happens somewhere there is something good to balance it.
the world is a horrible place but the media also is a place for distortion and lies to occur.
in todays modern world their is always secrets hiding in the background shrouded in darkness.
all secrets come out one day no matter how long or how short the time period is a secret hurts everyone its affects.
its better to come out with it, than to just hide it although in today's world if some secrets were to come out it would probably destroy the world and even if the secrets were kept in the same would occur. global anarchy
yes it is dark but the proof is every where.
male/guy/man/masculine/AWESOME/EPIC/but a failure at life : (
It's a lot worse. The media really does not portray the horror of the world accurately. We do get some bad stories… but we also get "scandals"… celebrities saying offensive things… we get silly left vs right politics which are really of no consequence.
Generally the world portrayed on the media is a fantasy, where the worst thing that really happens is, someone happens to say something offensive… where people get worked up over inane things.
Most of the really bad stuff isn't reported. Ask someone who works in child protective services, the kind of things they see on a daily basis… most of it is never reported.
All that being said, I agree the world is better than it has ever been in the past. But that really isn't saying much.
I don't claim to have the wisdom to generalize a worldly perspective ,but it would seem to me that there must be some good out there because I don't to have blackout curtains up ,wear body armor, or carrying an automatic weapon to watch anime.


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Another week, another MLS Player of the Week award for an LA Galaxy forward.
This time, it was Robbie Keane who was the recepient of the award, which is voted on by the North American Soccer Reporters, after the Irish forward tallied a hat trick in the Galaxy's 4-2 victory over Real Salt Lake. Keane scored three second half goals to lead LA to a victory over the Western Conference leaders. A week earlier, Landon Donovan won the award for his hat trick in LA's 3-3 draw with FC Dallas.
Keane joins Donovan and Mike Magee as the three Galaxy players who have won the award this season.
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1997 GMC Sierra - In Spite
Proving Them Wrong
When Chad Fincher purchased this '97 GMC Sierra in 1999, he had no idea that it would turn into the body-dropped custom that you see now, but after driving it with a static drop for several years, a fender bender damaged the front end and gave him the opportunity he needed to go full-bore with the customization. When Chad decided to build it to debut at SEMA, there were plenty of naysayers that told him he'd never get it done in time. To prove them wrong, Chad employed a team of trusted craftsmen and put his nose to the grindstone to finish the build in time without cutting any corners.
Lowboy Motorsports in Mesa, Arizona, took over the suspension portion of the build, which involved serious frame alteration. The front of the frame was pie cut for clearance and Ride Tech control arms, DJM spindles, and Slam Specilaties RE-7 'bags were installed to allow for the correct camber throughout the suspension's travel. The rear was notched and a KP Components six-link was welded in place before the Slam Specialties bags were plumbed with 1/2-inch stainless steel tubing and 1/2-inch valves.
Two new crossmembers were fabricated, one to mount the gas tank above the frame, and another to mount the 8 1/2-gallon tank and two Viair 480 compressors that feed the 'bags. Lowboy also handled some of the sheetmetal work, as they fabricated inner fenders and the mount for the Optima battery under the hood. The goal of the frame fabrication was to showcase the Chevy and fully lay out on 22-inch Bonspeed Quasar wheels and, as you can see, they were quite successful.
Chad's favorite modification is the body drop, which was performed by his friend, and Truckin' contributor, Kevin Whipps at Whipps Industries. You may remember the channeling tech, as we ran the story a few years ago, but to freshen your memory, with help from Chad, Kevin channeled the cab floor 2 3/4 inches and raised the bed floor to maintain a flat load floor.
From there, the truck was off to Demented Customs in Hobbs, New Mexico. Chad had already installed the Caddy front clip and the front bumper that was sectioned by IF Customs, but there was still a lot of work to be done. Demented shaved the door handles, tailgate handle, and stake pockets, before the entire body was prepped for Dark Toreador Red, a factory Ford color. Next, two layers of flames were sprayed on, one in burgundy, and the other in snow-white pearl.
The paint was gleaming and the graphics were practically leaping off the truck, but Demented wasn't done yet. Turning to the interior, a huge sub enclosure replaced the rear seats and was filled with Kicker zx650.5 and zx1500.1 amps and three 12-inch Kicker L5 subs. Treble and midrange duties are managed by two sets of Kicker KS components in the doors and in the C-pillars. A center console was also fabricated to hold the switches and an Accellevision monitor to match the two monitors in the sub enclosure. Master Craft Upholstery in Hobbs was tasked with wrapping the Escalade seats in tan leather and burgundy suede Katzkin upholstery.
With all of the talented individuals that helped out on the build, it's hard to imagine that anyone would be skeptical of Chad's goal, but no doubt they spurred him on in finishing his GMC. Chad would like to send out thanks to Jaime, Andy, James, and the rest of the guys at Demented Customs, Kevin Whipps, Todd and Justin at Lowboy Motors, Jack and Nadim at ZK Express, Little T, and his family, especially his wife Shelly.


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Veteran will play shortstop for World Series champs in '11
Miguel Tejada will be the new shortstop for the defending World Series champion Giants.
The 36-year-old thought that he missed his best chance to make the playoffs last year when the Padres were eliminated on the last day of the regular season. So when the Giants expressed interest in him, Tejada told his agent to put a deal together.
"This is a team that has a chance to be really good for a long time," Tejada told the San Jose Mercury News. "They already did it last year, and I think it's a team that can repeat. That's why I decided to come here."
Figueroa returns to Astros, eyes starting spot: Nelson Figueroa signed a one-year deal with the Astros.
Figueroa joined the Astros on July 21 from Philadelphia and was 5-3 with a 3.22. He appeared in 18 games, including 10 starts. His role for next season is uncertain.
"I'd love to be in the rotation," Figueroa told the Houston Chronicle. "I feel like I had a good showing last year in a small sample pool."
Jose Lopez brings versatility to Rockies: The Rockies acquired Jose Lopez from the Mariners for Minor Leaguer Chaz Roe. Lopez hit .239 with 10 home runs and 58 RBIs in 2010. He appeared in 142 games at third base but was the starting second baseman in 2009. He can also play shortstop and first base.
"He's a guy we've looked at for a long time," assistant general manager Bill Geivett told MLB.com. "We liked his versatility, and he's a right-handed bat. He also has some power potential. That's a pretty big ballpark in Seattle, and he's played in a division with Oakland and Anaheim, and those parks are not easy to hit the ball out of. We think he can do well at Coors Field."
Lopez is a career .266 hitter with 80 home runs and 431 RBIs in 873 games. In 2009, he hit 25 homers.
Stubbs prefers NL Central ballparks: Drew Stubbs, when recently asked about his favorite ballparks, was diplomatic and stayed in the National League Central.
"The most fun atmosphere is probably Wrigley," Stubbs told MLB.com. "The fans always make it fun, especially in the outfield where it's a non-stop party. St. Louis is also good because they have great fans there, and it's a nice ballpark."
Theriot seeking starting role with Cardinals: Newly acquired Ryan Theriot knows that nothing is guaranteed in St. Louis, but he has every intention of being a starter.
"I expect to play every day," Theriot told the Belleville News Democrat. "I think every player, as a competitor, should go in there with that mindset. I don't want to be that utility player. I want to be out there playing. I can't help a team if I'm sitting on the bench."
Thornton rolls out welcome mat for Dunn: Players on the White Sox are happy that Adam Dunn is bringing his power bat to the South Side.
"He's one of the true characters of baseball," new teammate Matt Thornton told MLB.com. "He's a fun person to be around, keeping things loose. Adam Dunn really is a great addition to any team."
Hawksworth cherished time with Cardinals: Blake Hawksworth, traded earlier this week by the Cardinals to the Dodgers, has no regrets about his time in St. Louis.
"It's exciting, man, but I have mixed emotions for sure," Hawksworth told FoxSportsMidwest.com. "Things can happen quickly. I had a nice talk with [Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak], and I really expressed to him my gratitude in all that he's done for me as a player. I've known him since I was 19. He saw me pitch in junior college and he stuck by me through the injuries. I owe not only him but Tony [La Russa] and all those guys a lot because they were really patient with me, and that means a lot."
Putz hopes to return to White Sox: J.J. Putz is free to sign with any team but says a return to the White Sox interests him.
"They view it as a business, so that's the way I have to look at it," Putz told MLB.com. "But it's no secret I very much enjoyed my time there."
Hinske back for another year in Atlanta: The Braves and veteran Eric Hinske agreed on a one-year deal with a club option on Thursday. There had been speculation that Hinske would be moving on, but both sides were happy to be able to work out a contract for next season.
"I'm happy," Hinske told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "Milwaukee made a big push. I think it kind of boiled down to they weren't willing to give me a two-year deal. Neither was Atlanta, but if neither was going to, my heart was in Atlanta.
"We saw just how valuable he was for our club," general manager Frank Wren said. "Not only is he a guy that's able to come up and get big hits for you late in the game, but you can get him out there occasionally as an everyday player. And he provides valuable leadership in the clubhouse."
Vazquez plans to make his future with Marlins: On Thursday, the Marlins and Javy Vazquez finalized a one-year deal with a no-trade clause. Vazquez knows Marlins manager Edwin Rodriguez, as both are from Puerto Rico and Rodriguez managed Vazquez's younger brother in the Minors.
"The biggest thing when you think of Javier Vazquez is just a true professional on and off the field," Marlins general manager Michael Hill told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. "We know the competitor. We were very comfortable and confident in his ability to get people out."
"I have to do my job and do well for them," Vazquez said. "It would be great for me to have a good year and hopefully to keep pitching with the Marlins in the new stadium."
Takahashi signs two-year deal with Angels: The Angels and Hisanori Takahashi agreed to a two-year contract. Last year with the Mets, Takahashi performed in every role imaginable, from long man to starter to set-up guy to closer.
Manager Mike Scioscia told the Los Angeles Times, that Takahashi "has the ability to pitch anywhere from sixth inning on, and he gives us starting pitching depth, which is important."
Bedard appears on track for a return: The Mariners signed Erik Bedard to a one-year contract, contingent on him making the club out of Spring Training. Bedard has been injured the past three years and did not pitch in the Majors last year.
"All the reports that we've had are that he's ready to go," general manager Jack Zduriencik told the Seattle Times.
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Lt. Jarrod Smith of the Russellville Police Department, who was integral helping the city push to the AWIN system, said the new radio systems will allow the different departments of the City of Russellville to clearly communicate with one another on distinguished channels, increasing the communication port in the event of an emergency. RPD Public Information Officer Drew Latch said the tornado that went through Atkins in February 2008 is a prime example of where the new ports between the departments could be put to good use.
"We had a lot of radio communication issues that now with this new system, will not be there," Latch said. "We can all move to the same multi-agency system on the same radio, and any time you can better communication, you're saving time on emergency response, which in turn can save lives."
The change, Smith said, was made to meet a looming Jan. 1 deadline from an FCC mandate requiring agencies to move from wideband frequencies to narrowband. Smith cited financial benefits to the change to AWIN, including state maintenance of operational assistance and a decrease in cost to maintain the city's previous 14 wideband frequencies.
"Instead of maintaining these 14 disparate radio systems, now we can maintain one system, one type of radio," Smith said. "We don't have to maintain all those FCC licenses for all those different frequencies because now we're operating on one frequency on the state license."
Another benefit to changing from the previous analog system to the digital, which was online Wednesday, is that it will erase "dead spots" officers and city officials have previously had trouble communicating from in the city of Russellville, Smith said.
While he acknowledged that some may be upset that they can't tune in to listen to the police department's radio activity as the department is the only in the city with an encrypted radio system, Smith said the decision to encrypt was a matter a safety.
"We have had operational and communications security issues in the past," he said. "Before now, someone at home or their house could listen to us and know everything that's going on. They could know when we're busy, when we're not busy, when certain things are happening in their neighborhood ... We also have criminals listening to us and coordinating their own activity when we're busy and know we're busy, and that's when they'd commit their crime."
Smith and Latch both cited several instances in which criminals have used scanners within the city to try to avoid or flee from police.
"We've had numerous times when we've had a criminal who's been caught and interviewed in CID, where they've admitted to listening to us on the scanner and then breaking into vehicles and/or businesses while we were busy doing something else," Smith said.
Smith added the system allows for a multi-agency channel where each department can communicate with one another, and while some local law agencies don't yet have encryption software to access RPD's radio, Smith said the separate law agencies will still communicate through 911 dispatch for the time being.
But while the radio communication between RPD officers will no longer be accessible through a home police scanner, Smith said the department's full radio communication is FOI-able from the 911 Dispatch business office. Other departments, including Recreation and Parks, the Russellville Fire Department and others, will still be available through a scanner.
The $1.38 million radio system, that includes all of the city's departments, was approved and funded by the Russellville City Council late last year. The system was online as of Wednesday.
"We're really excited for the change, and want to thank the city council and Mayor [Bill] Eaton for their support," Latch said.


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Discussion in 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' started by WesleysDisciple, Feb 17, 2013.
He refers to them as "mother", "father" and "parents" in Family.
For what it's worth, Ron Moore said in one of his AOL chats that Nog was probably a Federation citizen. Granted, it wasn't on screen, but it's a similar situation to Worf (species that's not a member of the Federation but individual who is serving in Starfleet.
That may be. But the concept of citizenship is a necessary development when you have neighboring polities whose populaces may cross borders and otherwise intermingle -- which is certainly the case for the Star Trek Universe. You have to have some way to define "ours" and "theirs" when you have separate polities; it's inherent to the definition of a polity.
One would think that different priorities are at work today already. Leadership positions in practical life are given more often to strangers than to one's "own" folks: business leaders virtually never emerge from the ranks of the company they are supposed to lead. That's another human "necessity" at work - bitter jealousy, and a strong faith in grass being greener on the other side (even if all other change is frightening)... Outsourcing of leadership is found to be practical and conductive of harmony and confidence in the leaders. Heck, Peru imported a president recently... And never mind the thousands of leaders who have imported themselves to the throne by force.
In "Wolf in the Fold", Argelians readily outsourced their security to Rigel and other foreign worlds, and nothing hinted at these prominent de facto planetary leaders having to assume Argelian citizenship in order to boss around the locals. It's not a case of distribution of labor within the Federation, either, as neither Argelius nor Rigel II was indicated to be a Federation world. And even if it were, we'd still have a clear example of the people of the future just not caring.
The pair of words "Federation citizen" appears often enough in modern Trek, yes. In most cases, the context is one of seeking legal protection (O'Brien in "Tribunal", Bashir in "Inquisition", John Doe in "Transfigurations"). But the context is also one of getting none, as the interstellar "partners" of the UFP demonstrate no respect for the supposed rights associated with UFP citizenship. Then there's the trope of the rebellious colony: UFP citizenship just doesn't appear to be a popular thing to hold, and rather paradoxically the keenest adherents turn out to be the Maquis, when in need...
Not in "Heart of Stone" yet:
Whether you have to get the citizenship before you start serving in Starfleet, we never really learn.
Timo Saloniemi
Of course Worf was a citizen.
Given that he wasn't a "natural-born citizen" I doubt that he was eligible to run for the presidency though.
Are you referring to Alberto Fujimori? He was born in Peru; his parents had emigrated to Peru four years before his birth. He does hold Japanese citizenship through his parents, but he was also born a Peruvian citizen; he wasn't "imported." (Also, he was first elected in 1990; that's hardly "recent.")
I agree, but I suggest the concept of "citizenship" for some alien societies may be no more sophisticated than "same species" or "different species".
Worf had no known living relatives after the attack on Khitomer. So as part of the Rozhenko family, he was a Federation citizen by default. Just as in a US family who adopts a (say) Chinese orphan.
Yet Mr. Moore must be aware that in his own show, Sisko patently stated Nog was not a Federation citizen.
Worf must be a naturalised citizen, and being a Federation citizen per se is not required to serve in Starfleet. Even in some countries in real world, citizens can serve in other nation-states' armed forces. As a Commonwealth country, an Australian can serve in the UK armed forces if s/he opted to.
Mogh was chosen as the "traitor" since the High Council did not expect Worf to be "Klingon" enough to pose a challenge. They essentially thought the House of Mogh was defunct since they presumed Kurn was the son of Lorgh.
My understanding of Worf accepting discommendation is that it was the best compromise available. K'mpec had no civil war to deal with, Duras wouldn't be dishonoured and his family would be in good standing, and Worf would be out of the way and could still resume his Starfleet career.
Maybe anybody born in a Federation member world would be automatically a citizen. That said, as there is a Federation Charter/Bill of Rights (of which Picard cited the "Seventh Guarantee" as being an important part), there must be some provision to determine who is subject to this, and the remedies should it be violated.
I don't disagree, but the Federation is itself comprised of so many different species -- and seems to attract so much immigration from non-Federation worlds -- that it would almost have to develop a legal concept of citizenship that's more sophisticated than that.
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Re: Nog. I see no reason why Nog could not have acquired Federation citizenship some time after entering the Academy -- and I see no reason why Nog couldn't have continued serving in Starfleet without obtaining Federation citizenship, provided the Federation and Ferengi Alliance never became enemies.
Also, I don't think the Federation would require its Presidents to only be natural-born citizens. Too many worlds are likely joining the Federation all the time for that to be practical; you'd have a situation where an entire planet full of potential Federation Presidents would be discriminated against for the highest office for upwards of thirty years after a planet joins the UFP. It seems more rational to me to hypothesize that the Federation Presidency is legally open to any Federation citizen, irrelevant of whether they are natural-born or naturalized citizens.
As long as 50,000 years, if species like the Horta are members of the Federation. The entire Federation could be a distant memory before the first natural-born Horta citizens would be eligible for UFP offices!
Excellent point!
The hypothesis that all Federation citizens who have reached the age of majority for their species are eligible to serve as President seems much more fair to me.
indo, sorry, I should've been more clear, Moore said that in reference to Nog after he graduated from the Academy.
I am pretty sure if the Federation had a natural born citizen requirement, which I am not saying there is, they would apply the natural born citizenship retroactively to all natural born citizens of a newly joined planet. That would keep any, if any, benefits of the natural born citizen requirement and not needlessly discriminate potential Federation Presidents.
A fair hypothesis. Though I don't really see what the point of the natural-born requirement would be in that case; if you're willing to let the citizens of newly-joined worlds into the club, why not just expand it to any adult Federation citizen?
If, say, Worf were to decide he wanted to run for Federation President? I see no reason why someone who has served the Federation for decades, has fought and sacrificed for it, and has proven his loyalty to the Federation time and again, should be denied such an opportunity just because he was born on Qo'noS.
And what if the UFP annexed Qo'noS at some point? Would the locals then become "natural-born" Feds overnight or not?
Would there exist an internal hierarchy within the UFP as the result, with "senior" worlds having a greater claim to governing than "junior" ones?
The "natural-born" claim would seem to be more trouble than worth for an empire that wants to expand yet in a benevolent, egalitarian manner where expansion is through carrot rather than stick.
Timo Saloniemi
A Horta president...that would, literally, rock.
But would Worf have to be a "Federation Citizen" to be a part of the Rozhenko family? Adopting a child from a foreign country doesn't in of itself make the child a American citizen, that's a seperate legal procedure.
You don't have to be an American citizen to be a enlist member of the US Armed Forces. Starfleet might have something similar for it's officer. I didn't get the impression that Ro was anything but Bajorian.
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Kim Kardashian – She looks very much like most curvy women in LA. She just happened to get chopped down by Ray J.
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The chairman of Ferring Pharmaceuticals is giving the Salk Institute for Biological Studies $10 million to use for its top priorities.
$2 million of Frederik Paulsen Jr.'s gift will be added to a research chair honoring his father and another $2 million goes toward creation of a new research chair to be held by Salk scientist Greg Lemke.
The chair will bear the name of artist Françoise Gilot-Salk, the 90-year-old widow of Jonas Salk, and honorary chair of Salk's annual fundraising gala.
A resident of New York and Paris, Gilot-Salk is in town for Saturday's Symphony at Salk gala, where several of her artworks will be on display.
Thanks to an added $1 million challenge grant given by Joan and Irwin Jacobs,the Gilot-Salk chair endowment is being expanded to $3 million.
Paulsen, the Swedish-born pharmaceutical magnate behind the $10 million gift, is a Salk trustee and a bit of a Renaissance man.
He just returned from a trip to the Kuril Islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean where disputed ownership has fueled conflict between Russia and Japan for years. His trip's goal was to defuse tensions between the two nations.
An avid adventurer, Paulsen flew over the Bering Strait in an ultralight plane two years ago. He was part of the Mir expedition in 2007 in which two submersibles were the first to reach the 'true' North Pole on the ocean floor and has made numerous other expeditions. In an effort to preserve the cultural heritage of the Kingdom of Bhutan, Paulsen even purchased a valuable collection of Bhutan weavings from a private party, then donated them to a museum in Bhutan.
As an art collector especially interested in 19th century Northern European artists, Paulsen says he doesn't yet own a painting by Gilot-Salk. But he vows to add one to his collection soon.
Street seen: The In-N-Out Burger outlet in Pacific Beach was the last place Art and Babs Miley expected to see Congressman John Boehner, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Yet that's where the couple was lunching Thursday when a large SUV pulled up. Boehner stepped out, flanked by four security officials, for a fast-food lunch. He was in town for a GOP fundraiser.
Sad news: The 34-year-old son of former Chargers quarterback Dan Fouts, Dominic Daniel Fouts, lost a three-year battle with cancer last week. The University of San Diego graduate was born in San Diego but moved to Sisters, Ore. in 1991 with his family. He later moved to Seattle and taught science in the Seattle school system.
Location, location: Longtime commercial realty business partners Craig Irving and Jason Hughes went their separate ways early last year in a much publicized split into two firms that specialize in representing tenants: The Irving Group and Hughes Marino. But they're together again in one respect.
Directly across the Hughes Marino building, downtown on Front Street, is a giant billboard advertising the services of the rival Irving Group.
Legal action: Local attorney Dick Semerdjian was just sworn in as chairman of the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice section of the 400,000-member American Bar Association at its annual meeting in Chicago.
Creative response: When communications pro Rick Schloss emailed a release from S.D.-based Competitive Edge Research to journalists who had covered the Olympics, he got an automatic no-nonsense response from a reporter for London's Daily Standard: "I'm away this month getting married. Unless you've got a reason why I shouldn't, don't get in touch!"
Sloganeering: Just when you thought you'd heard everything, a tongue-in-cheek presidential campaign to elect "A. Zombie" president launched its cross-country run at San Diego's Westfield Horton Plaza this week with some refreshing campaign rhetoric: A. Zombie on jobs: "I'll strive to increase America's workforce... even if it kills me again," and A. Zombie on health issues: "I am pro-Zombiecare. Don't be caught dead without it."
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Posted by Joseph Sunde in Economics, Religion, Sociology on December 27, 2012
I recently pondered what might come of the global economy if we were to to put God at the forefront of our motives and decision-making. The question came as a reaction to Tim Keller, whose recent book calls on Christians to challenge their views about work. By re-orienting our work to be a "servant" instead of a "lord," Keller argues, we will actually find more fulfillment in the work that we do.
Over at the Acton Institute's PowerBlog, I take things a bit further, noting that our work, in its very essence, puts us in the service of others. To make the point, I rely heavily on Lester DeKoster's Work: The Meaning of Your Life, in which he argues that "work is the form in which we make ourselves useful to others."
As DeKoster explains:
Our working puts us in the service of others; the civilization that work creates puts others in the service of ourselves. Thus, work restores the broken family of humankind… Through work that serves others, we also serve God, and he in exchange weaves the work of others into a culture that makes our work easier and more rewarding…As seed multiplies into a harvest under the wings of the Holy Spirit, so work multiplies into a civilization under the intricate hand of the same Spirit.
If we change our thinking on this, orienting our work first toward God and then toward neighbor, we will experience not only a transformation of our basic spiritual commitments but of civilization at large—social, economic, and spiritual.
Today, we are seeing this truth play out in bold and mysterious ways. If globalization has demonstrated anything, it's the transformational power of expansive human collaboration and cooperation—the transcendent, liberating experience of diverse and interdependent human service. The more freedom and opportunity people have been given to orient their work toward God and neighbor, the more we have seen them rise from poverty in all its forms.
Yet amid such a vivid display, there is still plenty of room for growth. As the winning rhetoric of the recent election demonstrates, our discussions on everything from farm subsidies to auto bailouts to union insulationism to company off-shoring are still plagued by a protectionist ethos that seeks to distort the very essence of work for the mere purposes of personal comfort and self-satisfaction. Instead of asking how we might elevate our work to more accurately and comprehensively meet real and existing human needs, we continue to glorify work as an idol to ourselves.
As Keller and DeKoster remind us, we must fight this temptation with diligence, praying for Read the rest of this entry »


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Make no mistake -- green is everywhere. A basic Internet search for the phrase "go green" returns links to more than 10 million websites, including sites for government agencies, nonprofit organizations, product manufacturers, and news outlets. International corporations, local business owners, celebrities, and political leaders are going green, saturating the media and the marketplace with messages about sustainability and environmental stewardship.
We hear many stories of true impact, while others are better characterized as "green washing." As consumers, educators, and leaders, our job is to know the difference.
The proliferation of green is for a very good reason, even if some claims are overstated. In the midst of an economic crisis, and on the brink of an environmental one, we are armed with a comprehensive understanding of the impact our actions have on the world in which we live and the ways in which we can do better.
Buildings in the U.S. are responsible for 39 percent of CO2 emissions, 40 percent of energy consumption, 13 percent of water consumption, and 15 percent of gross domestic product per year, making green building a source of significant economic and environmental opportunity. Greater building efficiency can meet 85 percent of future U.S. demand for energy, and a national commitment to green building has the potential to generate 2.5 million American jobs.
More important, greening our homes, our schools, and our lifestyles will improve our health and our children's health. As a school leader, you should encourage your district to rethink the way your schools are designed, built, and operated.
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The Manatee County School Board's Citizen Advisory Group narrowed its top 10 candidates for the district's superintendent post to five Tuesday night.
Four women make up the list, including Pam Stewart, of Tallahassee, the former interim education commissioner at the Florida Department of Education; Dr. Constance Jones, an administrator-on-assignment at Gulf Middle in Cape Coral and a finalist for Lee County superintendent in 2011; and Kathryn LeRoy, director of high school programs in Duval County and former chief academic officer there, who was a semi-finalist for that district's superintendent post.
The other candidates are former Marion County Deputy Superintendent Diana Greene and Rick Mills, Minneapolis Public Schools Chief Executive Officer.
After speaking with references and researching the top 10 candidates, group members questioned Stewart's ability to separate the interests of the state with the district, but called her a well-connected statewide star whose services would be scooped up quickly.
Jones was cited as a consensus-builder and strong in the community.
LeRoy handled big budgets and would have earned the Duval County superintendent post if the district hadn't been looking for an outside candidate, group members said.
Greene, whose former bosses called her ready for a top job, and Stewart, once worked together in Marion County and were references for each other's applications.
Mills, formerly of Chicago Public Schools who also holds 30 years of military administration experience, earned high marks from peers, including former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.
Each group member voted for up to five candidates.
The group meets with Florida School Boards Association Executive Director Wayne Blanton on Jan. 30 to finalize the list, and will present five finalists to the school board at a meeting at 9 a.m. Jan. 31 in the district administration building.
Here were the voting results:
Constance Jones, 20 votes
Kathryn LeRoy, 17 votes
Diana Greene, 16 votes
Rick Mills, 16 votes
Pam Stewart, 12 votes


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Lowell hurts right rib cage
Red Sox third baseman injured taking swing in seventh
By T.R. Sullivan / MLB.com
BOSTON -- Third baseman Mike Lowell, who has been battling a strained right hip flexor muscle for more than three months, could quite possibly go on the disabled list with a strained right oblique muscle. Lowell left Tuesday's game after injuring the muscle in his right rib cage during a seventh-inning at-bat in the Red Sox's 19-17 win over the Rangers. Lowell struck out in the at-bat and was replaced on defense in the top of the eighth. "This is kind of uncharted territory for me," Lowell said "I took a couple of swings and on the first one, I felt a little bit of a grab on my side. Then, on the second [swing], I felt something a lot more significant. I have never had this happen to me before. It's just frustrating for me." Lowell will undergo an MRI on Wednesday morning before the Red Sox make an official decision, but there's little doubt he has some issues on the right side of his body. "He's feeling it a little bit," manager Terry Francona said. "Everyone knows how tough he is and he'll play through things. We'll get him checked out in the morning. We're not going to rush into anything because of who he is and how he plays, but we'll get him checked out in the morning and try to get a medical update so we know how to proceed." Lowell missed almost three weeks in April because of a sprained left thumb, but that was the first time he's been on the disabled list since he broke the same thumb in 2003. He has had the hip flexor injury, but has missed just one game because of it, and that was earlier this month against the Royals. "I can't believe ... this hip situation," Lowell said. "I don't really see this as two totally different things. There's too much of a coincidence. It felt weird. I tried to bend over and grab at it and hoped it would go away. But it's gotten progressively worse, so it's frustrating." Lowell was 1-for-4 on Tuesday and is now hitting .198 (23-for-116) with one home run and 13 RBIs in his past 29 games. When he came out, Kevin Youkilis moved over to third base and Sean Casey came in to play first. Both are hitting over .300 and that's the obvious configuration, should Lowell go on the disabled list. "It's definitely bad," Youkilis said. "You don't want one of your key players to be out. But, hopefully, we have some guys that can step in and play. I'll slide over to play third and Sean Casey can play first. So that's a pretty good infield there. "He was on the DL earlier in the year and we had to play a little bit better. ... We're confident that we can play good ball, but its definitely tough to lose a guy like Mike Lowell."
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22,572: The number of laps Mark Martin has run in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Martinsville Speedway, more than at any other track. Martin, who hasn't raced at the .526-mile short track since 2011, will begin his stint as a substitute for injured Denny Hamlin at the paper-clip-shaped speedway on Apr. 7. In 48 starts at Martinsville, Martin has two victories, 12 top fives, 25 top 10s and a career-average finish of 13.3. Hamlin's average finish in 15 races at Martinsville is 8.2, a number helped by the Virginia driver's four victories there.
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Age structure: 0-14 years: 41.53% (male 2,719,248/female 2,674,688)
15-24 years: 18.87% (male 1,226,141/female 1,225,009)
25-54 years: 32.93% (male 2,142,936/female 2,134,064)
55-64 years: 4.09% (male 249,447/female 282,225)
65 years and over: 2.58% (male 138,834/female 195,831) (2016 est.)
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A population pyramid illustrates the age and sex structure of a country's population and may provide insights about political and social stability, as well as economic development. The population is distributed along the horizontal axis, with males shown on the left and females on the right. The male and female populations are broken down into 5-year age groups represented as horizontal bars along the vertical axis, with the youngest age groups at the bottom and the oldest at the top. The shape of the population pyramid gradually evolves over time based on fertility, mortality, and international migration trends.
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I don't know much, if anything, about Buddhism outside of what I've read on Wikipedia, but a friend of mine who went on a Vipassana retreat got me into meditating with him a few weeks ago. I have found the experience of meditating with him to be extremely calming and peaceful overall.
I have pretty awful social anxiety which has had a terrible impact on my life. But I've noticed that when I'm meditating it feels like I'm sort of laying down my burdens for a little while. Instead of getting wrapped up in cycles of self-doubt (and at my worst, self-loathing), it feels like a huge wave of pure relief to spend even a small amount of time doing something simple, just observing the breath at the point of my nostrils and the way that feels, instead of obsessing about me, me, me, how I talk, how I look, etc.
Anyway, I've started reading Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Gunaratana on the recommendation of someone online, and I love how clear and straightforward it is compared to Wikipedia explanations which provide no examples or elucidation. Still, there are bits that I could use some help with, if someone would be kind enough to help. In the book, he says:
This was really important to me, because before this whenever I came across the whole notion of the present-time awareness thing, I was confused about how you could maintain that state while at the same time using memories or planning - stuff you obviously need to do in life.Mindfulness is present time awareness. It takes place in the here and now. It is the observance of what is happening right now, in the present moment. It stays forever in the present, surging perpetually on the crest of the ongoing wave of passing time. If you are remembering your second-grade teacher, that is memory. When you then become aware that you are remembering your second-grade teacher, that is mindfulness. If you then conceptualize the process and say to yourself, "Oh, I am remembering", that is thinking.
Mindfulness is non-egoistic alertness. It takes place without reference to self. With Mindfulness one sees all phenomena without references to concepts like 'me', 'my' or 'mine'. For example, suppose there is pain in your left leg. Ordinary consciousness would say, "I have a pain." Using Mindfulness, one would simply note the sensation as a sensation. One would not tack on that extra concept 'I'. Mindfulness stops one from adding anything to perception, or subtracting anything from it. One does not enhance anything. One does not emphasize anything. One just observes exactly what is there - without distortion.
The thing I'm struggling with is the last sentence of the first paragraph. Is he saying that that mode of thinking is something to be avoided in mindfulness meditation? And if so, why is it incorrect? Is it because of the "I" part involves egotistic alertness he warns against in the second paragraph? Or is it because you're saying something to yourself internally instead of just observing the remembering?
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How to remove Restart/ Shutdown/Suspend Hibernate button- applet from the user's menu.
When I goto logout, I see these other buttons users can run. I want to make sure they cannot restart/shutdown/suspend/hibernate the system.
if you remove that user from power group... he/she wont be able to suspend/hibernate .. not sure how to remove restart and shutdown... try removing the user from the wheel group maybe that might work.
I suppose it depends on what toolkit is handling the priviledges. For example, I'm using PolicyKit. To disable suspend, hibernate, restart and powering off, I edited the files in
for reboot and powering off and
for suspend and hbernate.
Changing the permissions from
under the relevant field totally disables the function to suspend, hibernate etc... but changing it to
Will prompt the user for admin password when the options are selected.
Additional rules may be defined in the rules.d folder under /usr/share/polkit-1 or /etc/polkit-1 though, so those may affect the behaviour as well.
I apologize in advanced if the information may not be useful depending on your system setup. I'm running Arch Linux and referring heavily to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PolicyKit
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Thanks for the feedback. I was looking for how to only display the logout button instead of showing the restart/hibernate/shutdown/suspend.
So far I'm able to restart the workstation.(I read that use would need SUDO rights.)
I'm not using any type of policykit that I know of. Running on Redhat 5.8
The polkit settings depend on whether you're using >107 or <106 since in 107 all the configuration was changed so it was done in javascript (It's a mess, I'll never understand that change, but nevertheless...). The changes YJLee posted may work if you're using 106 or under though.
The program 'xfce-session-logout' displays the normal logout box, so options include modifying the source to this package and recompiling it for your system, or replacing the actual xfce-session-logout with a script that sends the real binary the '-l' parameter which tells xfce-session-logout to logout without displaying any prompt.
That solution is the most hacky (And not recommended, you'll have to keep in mind that if an update happens that updates the xfce4-session-logout binary, this change will be reverted) but it should cover all cases for logging out the normal way in Xfce. This will make it basically impossible to suspend/reboot/shutdown from XFCE though, you'd have to do it through other means such as a terminal.
It should be noted, while these will prevent someone from doing it via the Xfce menu, there isn't much to prevent a user from doing so via terminal or something similar (Or calling the command directly via the terminal). Editing polkit to not allow normal users to poweroff the system is really the best option, but with the new changes to polkit >107 it may be a bit annoying to do.
Hope that helps,
This removes any capability to access a logout/shutdown/restart/sleep option. This may work:
1. Right click on the application menu in your panel. On my setup it's either an Ubuntu symbol or a Mouse.
2. Click Properties
3. Right here you could use a custom menu under Use custom menu file but for now click Edit Menu.
4. Collapse every item in the tree on the left of the window. There should be only one left. In my case it is UbuntuStudio.
5. The right pain at the bottom should have a checkmark for "Log Out". Uncheck it.
Next, we're going to add an ability to log out:
1. Right click on the panel that you want a logout button to be placed.
2. Click Add New Items
3. Click on Action Buttons.
4. Click Add.
5. Click Close.
6. Right click on the Action Button that was just added. For me it is my current login.
7. Click Properties.
8. Under Appearance drop-down-box select Action Buttons.
9. Uncheck what you don't want to be displayed.
10. And also uncheck the "Log Out...". It's the one with dot dot dot. This disables the log out Menu.
11. Check the one "Log Out"
12. Click Close.
Now we're going to remove the Application Menu:
1. Right click on the Application Menu in the panel and select Remove.
Hopefully I didn't leave any steps out, but this is the basic idea.


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text: ParisSurtout 0 Report post Posted September 25, 2010 (edited) It seems that Daniel Anderson is about to be fired as coach of Parramatta. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl...r-1225929346620 The Harlequins desperately need a quality coach. But could they attract Anderson? Could they afford him? Anderson is likely to receive a payout of AU$300,000, which would probably be his asking price fro relocating. The other unemployed but experienced and talented Australian coaches are Ricky Stuart (unlikely to be interested because he is front runner for NSW Blues State of Origin coach), Graham Murray, Steve Folkes, and Michael Hagan. The Quins would be doing well if they could snare any one of those coaches. However any decent coach will be looking at the playing roster. The losses of Louis McCarthy Scarsbrook and Will Sharp are serious blows. So too will be Rob Purdham. Second rower Luke Williamson, who is retiring, has not been replaced (his former Manly team mate Steve Menzies would have been perfect). Full back Ben Jones-Bishop's return to Leeds is another serious loss of playing talent. Danny Orr's departure leaves a lack of cover in the halves. The club is desperately in need of two powerful props, a top backrower, a half, a full back and two wingers. These massive gaps in playing strength will deter any quality coach. The only positive about Harlequins at the moment is the London lifestyle, which puts it ahead of most northern clubs. The incoming coach -- whoever he is -- needs to scour the Championship, France's Elite One, and also the Four Nations, and try to sign a couple of hitherto unknown but talented PNG players. Edited September 26, 2010 by ParisSurtout Share this post Link to post Share on other sites