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President of Jewish Community of Rome: the White race doesn't exist, to say it does is "ignorant."
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Africans Deported from Israel "Appear" in Rome
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Leonardo da Vinci, Salvator Mundi: Divine Proportion of The Golden Ratio & More
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Carolyn Emerick talks pagan folk culture and ethnonationalism with Tara's alt-right panel
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America: Making The World Safe for Hypocrisy
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Silk Road News: The World's Future MEGAPROJECTS (2017-2040's)
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More Than A Thousand Illegal Immigrants Reach Europe In First Week Of 2018
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Germany: 300,000 Invader "Family Visas" Issued
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Snyder's lessons applied to reality now: universalized liberalism tyrannizing over ethnonationalism
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A crisis in the custody suite – seventh (and final) part
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"Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom": Norman Finkelstein on the Many Lies Perpetuated About Gaza
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Spencer: My conception of the ethnostate is imperialist - true ethno nationalism is a zero sum game.
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200,000 Salvadorans May Be Forced to Leave the U.S. As Trump Ends Immigration Protection
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Discovery of the Ancient Aratta Civilization of Ukraine, Older than Sumeria
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She was found in Finsbury Park just 500 yards from her home.
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Showcase: Arguing WN against virulent bracketry & why 'Americanism', 'exceptionalism' is ineffective
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Trump sought to parlay loss into media empire, Bannon warned win would spotlight Russian laundering
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Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer of Jewish Descent on Both Sides of His Family, His Mom Says
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Stuxnet, the most sophisticated piece of malware ever seen, devised for just one specific target.
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A crisis in the custody suite – the sixth and penultimate part
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Iran protest, organic grievances real, but tactless Trump endorsement abets reactionary entrenchment
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US Navy Information Dominance Warfare: the question is…
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Gas Under Gaza
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Chinese slur 'White Left' as Cultural Marxist shows Jewish power, influence, aversion to White Left
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Egyptian "Migrant" Terror Attack in Pennsylvania
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A crisis in the custody suite – part five
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Goyim!?! It's an easy way to say 'non-Jew.' That's your Christmas present I guess.
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Hermeneutic construction of Putin and Trump's character, positions and relation:
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Hindu women forced to convert to Islam while mass graves of their Hindu men discovered in Rakhine
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Nimrod - The Sceen Play by DanielS & Majorityrights
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A crisis in the custody suite – part 4
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Who could have believed that Martha Stewart was this disgusting?
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Swedes Take To Streets in Protest upon being told to stay inside after series of rapes
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A crisis in the custody suite – part 3
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Majorityrights Central > Category: Social liberalism
Fail: on this one, your erudition yields an F-
In minute 2:18 - 2:21:18 of a discussion with TRS, Greg Johnson proposes to do away with the idea that John Locke's notion of civil individual rights is a key fundament of U.S. politics and suggests that it is only portrayed as such by Jewish interests.
First and foremost, Greg is ignoring the fact that it is in the group interests of Whites to criticize this notion for basically the same reasons that Jews have - especially for its bias against their capacity for group discrimination.
Johnson argues that Calvinism and Republicanism, in the latter case in particular, by way of reading Montesquieu, were exponentially more important to the founders. Maybe they were, but that doesn't translate to what became important in the life of ordinary everyday Americans for over 100 years.
Are people concerned with The Republic? Well, of course not very much in any practical sense. You can set aside the bit about Montesquieu being more influential by a factor of a hundred. This is a case of an erudite man pulling rank to the detriment not only of the truth, but of important utility.
To look at Locke's notion of individual rights as set against and problematizing group organization is the best way to critique the foundations of America in terms of what has left racial defense susceptible. This is what makes racial defense extremely difficult, because it de-legitimizes group organization.
Given individual rights as the characteristic and definitive law of the land, when people raise concerns about how borders and boundaries are to be maintained, i.e., when people do try to tarry with these strictures, at best they tend to render crazy propositions (disingenuous or naive) that not only will the markets take care of themselves by the magic hand, but boundaries and borders around groups will be taken care of by the magic hand as well. In a word, Locke's empirical objectivism is a force of liberalism that is available for easy exploitation - by Jewish interests, liberals and other later day objectivists, be they Austrian School or other form of objectivist.
Nobody around here is saying that Jewish interests would not have taken advantage of The Constitution's empirical basis. Nobody should be naive enough, however, to believe that just because Jews reject it for its troubling of group organization and discrimination, that we should not problematize it on that basis as well, in order to discriminate on behalf of ourselves.
Greg is being that naive and asking us to be that naive when he tries to pull rank and suggest that Montesquieu is more influential by a factor of a hundred. Well, maybe he was to the founders. But ask Americans, including politicians, what matters to them when push comes to shove - for the past hundred years or so, what matters to them? Montesquieu, Calvin or their Lockeatine rights?
Part two of Kumiko Oumae's critical examination of Matt Parrott's Christian traditionalism.
Subjects covered included: Global baptism, Christian universalism, homosexuality, Africa and the population question, Syria.
58 mins, 52.6 MB
Summary: A two-part critical examination, conducted by Kumiko Oumae, of many areas of Matt Parrott's Christian traditionalism, from Matt's faith fundamentals as an Orthodox Christian traditionalist and nationalist - in that order - to Matt's views on freemasonry, the relationship of Judaism to Christianity, the pagan past, how religion renews, global baptism, Christian universalism, homosexuality, Africa and the population question, and Syria.
Can I just say, from a personal perspective, that I thought the interview was a success, notwithstanding any hostilities which may have existed prior to it (and since). Kumiko was very well prepped and she did a great job of maintaining a high tempo of relevant and close questioning, to which Matt responded generously.
My thanks to you both.
This is part one: The fundamentals of Matt's Orthodox Christian traditionalism examined, Freemasonry, Judaism and Christianity, the making of religions.
1 hr 22 mins, 75 MB.
"There is no such thing as society"
In that act of being mistaken, anyway - let's leave a way out for people understandably reacting to the Jewish misrepresentation of the terms, "left" and "post modernity".
Internal Relation and Emergence
You don't have to take a position which places your people (praxis) as the central gauge. You can go on like a right wing fool for Jews and place a "quest for truth, facts and universal foundations" (and "inequality" even?) above all - even wreck your own people in that "noble quest;" but you'd be an unnecessary fool, a dupe for Jews and Jewish thinking in so doing. You don't have to put our people at the center - but you can, as factual verification and reality checking are available in an instant if you are not dealing with reality; whereas the principles upholding our people took many centuries to create and are much more precious and difficult to reconstruct, if ever they can be. It isn't necessary to place facts at the center - people are born of facts and if afforded correct principles, proper agency and accountability, our people will come to continually adjust their interests with the facts. Hence, the right's whole arbitrary-making quest for facts and episodic verification at the expense of principled interest in our people is the height of folly.
Chasing mere facts and perfect verification away from "faith" in our people will tend to take them into runaway, beyond our people's systemic interests - as opposed to taking the White post modern turn into its facilitation of the preservation and reconstruction of our people - where the facts are ensconced in the sufficiently deep emergent reality of our people's systemic history to afford re-framing at their authentic place in relation to our human ecological system.
Right and Altright reactionary fan club - scavenging the wreckage of continued reaction.
The right, "alternative right", those in their orbit, lay in wait as vultures for things like GW's latest surprise: as I stepped aside from a discussion of British politics, he applied the theoretical wrecking ball again to "THE left" and "post modernity" at their behest (he isn't so lame as to have to do it for himself); ill-prepared for the surprise in that context, I put up a threadbare defense against what I've come to see as a part of GW's autobiography - "champion of the right, universal foundational unifier against the left's class divisiveness."
GW - working class hero who sees their classification as a critical problem of imposed nationalist division.
If you are coming here, like myself, chances are that you appreciate GW's ability - you delight as he wields a scalpel on behalf of White/ethno-national sovereignty, more often a wrecking ball to the pretenses of academia and scholarship that are working against it.
We value this, want him to continue, want him to be satisfied with his part and his contributions.
What follows here is going to show little appreciation for that, which is abundant and shows forth in spontaneity for the surfeit of his intelligence - often yielding indispensable flourishes and insights that I myself cherish. This piece is rather an ungrateful piece in that regard, given that he has stood by me as I set about chartering a new platform for Majorityrights; and I sent scurrying many who had deep appreciation and respect for him as well; but it is neither for myself nor "his own good" that I proceed not feeling particularly guilty about that - nor is the matter of face saving a pressing matter for either of us - the sake is proper theoretical grounds, which is always my central motivation. Still this will appear rather like a hit piece - as it takes aim, focuses on the clumsier props of GW's worldview, philosophical underpinnings and aspirations - not on better sides and ideas, which will emerge cybernetically in balance of fact.
If you are coming here, you probably appreciate and identify with GW's rogue path: as a completely disaffected outsider to the academic fray, he early on rejected the nonsense coming out of there, particularly from fields dealing with social issues. And you delight along with him as he continues to apply the wrecking ball to their cherished liberal ruses under cover of "The left", their wish to open important borders and boundaries, to bring down individual merit, to drag others down into primitive individual and group failure - instinctively, you sense him taking down liberal bullies who are smug enough to insulate themselves from the consequences of the unsupportable concepts of social "justice" that they wield against those native White populations least responsible for others problems, most likely to suffer from liberalism and least likely to gain from the applications known as "The Left" - applications which can recognize just about any collective unionization of interests except one kind - White. Certainly a (((coincidence))).
Most people who've come here, myself included, have also experienced mystification over GW's not being satisfied with that. You have been at least temporarily mystified as he evades into the arbitrary recesses ever available by the empirical philosophy that underpins modernity; and as he continually applies its wrecking ball, secure in the faith that it will leave in its wake only that which is fine and good; a wrecking ball summarily dismissing scholarship, conceptual tools and principles that others set forth to guide social action.
I have been stunned as he sends the wrecking ball my way as well, summarily dismissing even carefully culled and profoundly warranted philosophical ideas, eminently useful conceptual tools and important rhetorical positions that I have geared to his same White ethno-nationalist interests; while his modernist philosophy willy-nilly casts me into the role of the "lefty academic" foil in key moments.
I am no longer mystified by this.
A reactionary position is mostly retreating (evading) and attacking - whatever looks like an enemy or Trojan horse - but for its instability, it is susceptible to chase after the red cape.
An early contentious streak in the autobiography over-reinforced by circumstance, ability and admirers.
GW is wonderful, we love GW, but like the rest of us, he is not perfect. There is a residual strain of contentiousness in his autobiography that stems from his early disaffection and precocious disregard of liberal prescriptions coming from academia. It's a part of his autobiography that he takes a great deal of pride-in. It is also socially confirmed enough so that he continues to chase its red cape known as "THE left;" and keeps applying the modernist wrecking ball to any concepts the tiniest bit speculative in circumscribing social interests; or adopting any terms also used by liberal "left" academics - even if used in different ways, he will understand it in THE left way that he is familiar with - and summarily dismiss it as such or apply the wrecking ball.
Unlike most people disaffected of liberal academia, he is not of the working class sort content to shake his fist at academic pomposity, to find solace in a beer and the pragmatism of his working class buddies, allowing the union misrepresentatives to negotiate his interest with their fellow liberals of academic background; nor is he content to join in with the White collar and middle class who typically denounce the worst of academic socialists as unrealistic, while they go along with the liberal anti racism of the academe, signaling their one-upness to the lower classes by denouncing as backward superstition whatever defensively racist discrimination they might even require.
He does share a few things in common with the typical middle class perspective however. Naturally, he has a bias toward viewing his success in positivist terms, as having come about from his gray matter and personal initiative, not because he derived any benefit from artificially imposed social bounds against competition and to circumscribe cooperation.
Though he can relate to the working class "xenophobia", he maintains that their maintenance of who they are among a collective "we" (i.e., particular native European nationals) and their choice of whom to intermarry with (same particular native European national) is something that should and can emerge naturally from their genetics - an identity that will emerge naturally, provided they do not have liberal, Fabian and Marxist ideas imposed upon them; the last thing GW wants is to impose another artifice upon them, one which he believes could divide them against their upwardly mobile English brethren, and in turn, divide the middle class even more against them. I.e., the "left" and "right" is normally taken as an economic divider and unifier of class, not a racial nationalist one as I am proposing. The middle class, as much as any, might be reluctant to 'get it' and not identify with a "White left," in which case we would be back to the divisive issue, not the uniting issue that both GW and I seek - we may not agree on terminology but we do agree on native nationalism.
Thatcherite obectivism a means for personal advancement and foundational unification of nationalism.
In fact, GW is a native nationalist, deeply offended by the class system which has long hampered English unity. Thus, he is not content to disavow the worst of liberal and Marxist academics, writing-them-off as the idiots that they are, while leaving the working class to the fate that liberalism will bring to them, and, if left unabated, to all of us eventually. Like a few, more ambitious among us, he set about to get things right, to open a platform for White nationalists, even before it was quite the immanent practical necessity that it is now.
He aspires to identify the ontological connection between all English classes which, if unfettered by artificial constructs, would have them acting as native nationalists in loyal unanimity to their interests.
In that regard, Margaret Thatcher represented to him a liberating moment from the incredibly burdensome artifices of liberal, Fabian and Marxist Left union delimitations and by contrast an opportunity to unite as nationalists on natural positivist grounds.
Normal first reaction that doesn't take Post Modern turn as it fails to see liberalism flying under left colors.
Indeed, most anybody of this ambition, myself included, who cares about our race and its ethnonational species, starts out in reaction to the absurd, contradictory and destructive liberal rhetoric coming out of academia and reaches to grab hold white knuckle to foundational truths, particularly scientific fact, which cannot be bamboozled by the rhetoric of liberal sophistry (which we later come to recognize as more often than not, Jewish in original motive). And we do grab hold white knuckle - that is to say, scientistically, in rigid over and misapplication of hardish science to the social realm, as we cannot trust the social realm, its rhetorical caprice if not deception - its ongoing disordering effects that apparently threaten to rupture social order anew with every agentive individual. Coming from a non-Jewish, Christian cultural perspective, where our bias starts, if not Jesus, we first liken ourselves to Plato and then modern scientists seeking to gird and found our place and our people's place, whereas "they" are Pharisees and sophists, wielding the sheer rhetoric that we are going to debunk with our pure, native ability and motives. In a word, we are going to do science against their dishonest bias against us - they are indeed being deceptive and biased on behalf of unfair people; we see it as our objective to establish universal foundational truth that will be unassailable to this sophistry.
That is the normal first reaction of a White person who cares about themself and our people - it was mine and it was GW's - a nascent White nationalist in response not only to the anti-White discourse coming out of the university, but in response to the very frame of the discourse - that is to say, taking on the frame [Jewish and liberal social stuff and lies versus White science and truth] - against accusations of privilege, racism and exploitation, we sought pure innocence in truth beyond social tumult and disingenuous rhetorical re framing. We (understandably) acted with absolute revulsion to anything like social concern and accountability - why should we be accountable to ever more alien imposition? - itself neither offering nor asking for an account sufficient to maintain our EGI - and where our people are eerily unconcerned or antagonistic to our people as well, we are only more compelled to take on the task ourselves - to pursue pure warrant. Our first reaction to the liberal chimera called "THE left" is: "I" noble servant of postulates - theorems - axioms - upon universal foundational truth."
Beyond our people's relative social interests even, we must save ourselves from the lies of "The left" (never minding that their first lie is that they represent our left) and found our moral/ontological basis where Jews, other tribalists and our selfish liberals, who only care about themselves, can never again manipulate it. We hold white knuckle, rigidly, in reaction to Jewish sophistry.
History will show that our people who pursued and secured sovereignty, health and well being found a philosophy advanced of that - competent and able to secure their social interests. They'd taken the White Post Modern turn from this reactionary position.
For reasons unfolding here, including reasons of his personal autobiography, GW has yet to appreciate and take the post modern turn.
Personal ability and interpersonal circumstances have facilitated his carrying-on in a typical first philosophical position of an amateur outsider in regard to academia - the epistemological blunder of "they are just sophists who provide nothing but nonsense while 'I' and my pure thoughts in relation to 'theory' am going to set the world aright" - an epistemological error in the relation of knower to known that is born in reaction and puerile hubris, carried on by being strong, smart enough to persist long after most people would shrink back from the signs of its limitations; going further uncorrected as it has been endorsed by "no enemies to the right" (a dubious principle, if there ever was one); it has grown into a surprisingly big and audacious ego wielded as a wrecking ball against "post modern philosophy." We are supposed to rest assured on his faith that in the aftermath of wreckage, that the emergent qualities of his mind are all that is required besides the occasional foil to play off of in order to clarify and carry the modernist program forward to unshakeable, universal, foundational truth - unassailable to any social reconstruction. Never mind that we are already willing to agree upon most of the fundamental rules that he would seek - our agency is not necessary if it is going to suggest anything like planned social construction of systemic defense. No, that's all impure stuff to be cast aside; and by contrast of true Platonic form, if you are freed from that ignorance and come to know the good he will secure, you will do that good.
He is not satisfied to simply negotiate, reason-things-out and reach an understanding among his people, he is not even particularly concerned that it won't be a damn bit of good if people can't understand his philosophical yield - he wants to secure that good on ontological foundations beyond praxis - beyond the capacity for manipulation. Most sophomores abandon this, their freshmen objective, as not only obsolete philosophy, but in fact, come to recognize it as destructive philosophy - a destruction which GW continues, with tremendous faith, without need of Aristotelian compass, that tremendous confidence to persevere where Wittgenstein failed.
The boomer generation - libertarianism and egocentrism.
The likes of Bowery and GW will be slower, if ever, to make the turn in direction, not because they are stupid, of course, quite to the contrary, but because they have the mental horsepower necessary to keep patching and operating the antiquated and obsolete technology that is modernity; and stem predilection both motivates them and enables them to do that; they are more self sufficient, less immediately reliant on the social (why carry others weight?); more confirmed by females by being reliable as such (concentrating on how to do things, not stepping on the toes of females by asking questions of social control - as long as you are at one end of the competition you are OK - liberal or the right wing end); confirmed by non academic workers in their more pragmatic concerns; and confirmed by right wingers in their penchant for anti-social theory beyond social manipulation - exactly, they are also slow to take the turn, of course, because they have an understandable lack of trust in liberal-social narratives; this unwillingness to suspend disbelief may be increased inasmuch as they have benefited as baby boomers, less harried for their identity in the parts of their life-span experienced prior to the culture of critique and in their personal initiatives after its reprieve - in Bowery's case, with aspects of the objectivism behind Ron Paul's libertarian "revolution"; and in GW's case, during the Thatcher years (Thatcher's initial backers having discovered her reading Wittgenstein's cousin, Hayek, who obliviously carried forward upon the Tractatus) - years of brief, partial liberation from liberal-left union fetters - "there is no such thing as society" - in either case, a false friend facilitated as false opposition - viz., an expression of steered objectivism derived of Austrian schools beginning with Wittgenstein.
The title is a projection of objectivism. Subtitle: look who else is reading it.
What is confirmed to me - in a roundabout way, when GW dons his powdered wig, grabs a quill pen, does his best John Locke or whatever voice serves, and says oh, "that's just Aristotle and his rhetoric," "all of the good ideas are coming from the right", "based in nature, none of this praxis stuff", says that he "never loses an argument against academics", etc., then continually re-applies radical skepticism of the empiricists and their forerunners - is that he is showing an ego driven and confirmed desire to carry-on the "pure" modernist project; viz., in his ontology project and his destruction of everything in its path, even treating Aristotle and William James as utter morons, GW is revealing a vain desire to do something all alone, like a combination of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico Philosphicus and Heidegger's Being & Time: "The world is everything that is the case" meets "the worldhood of the world" - without the post modern implications of the latter. All that is required is the emergent qualities of his mind to set the world's ontology aright - it will be "unassailable" by liberal, social, "left" rhetoric.
His reaction, confirmation and penchant for empirical verification against Jewish rhetoric has apparently caused him to disregard the post modern turn that was occuring also in Heidegger's philosphy, albeit in Heidegger's case, in that somewhat rigid, German way (which I find endearing).
GW appreciates Heidegger, so why does he not move forward from 1927 and why does he retreat to 1921 and the Tractatus? That he consders "OF being" the better starting point than Heidegger's "There Being" provides a clue to ego centrism and Cartesian anxiiety - he not only proposes the reconstruction of the Cartesian starting point, "Of being", but proposes it as an exclusive position, not even taking hermeneutc turns with Heidegger's non-Cartesan starting point, "There being."
"Unassailably" proclaiming that "The world is everything that is the case"
Whereas Wittgenstein himself was forced to yield-to, if not recognize the necessity of, the post modern turn - so much so that he was embarrassed by his effort at a complete ontology in The Tractatus Logico Philosophicus - having proclaimed its logic "unassailable" at once upon completion, he later repudiated it, even took to referring to its author as if a different person.
The Motivation for Post Modernity
Part of the craze for "post modernity" is that people (correctly) sense that modernity is destroying their differences, their traditions, their ways of life, their people and their very lives. And yet they frequently found traditional societies destructive as well. Therefore they were happy to have not only backing of cross cultural studies, vouching that different ways of life are valid, but also some confirmation from the very foundational math and science which modernity pursued to an apex that finally turned back on itself.
Kurt Gödel had demonstrated that a theory of any complexity could not be both complete and unambiguous.
Neils Bohr had priorly announced that there is no instrument fine enough to resolve the wave/particle distinction.
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle elaborating from that was subtler still - that the observer is engaged in interaction and has reflexive effects upon that which he observes.
Confirmation of Aritstotle's Praxis and suggestion that it should be the radical basis of assessment, not pure objective facts.
These findings confirmed Aristotle's premises as set forth in Nichomachean Ethics - on the nature of Praxis - people are in reflexive relation, mostly requiring a degree of practical judgement as they are less predictable than the theoretical causality which the hard sciences pursue. It also would suggest placing praxis more in the center than theory - i.e., a socially based perspective where people are the arbiter, as opposed to "I think therefore I am" in relation to mere, indisputable facts and non-interactive third person behavioral units; a pursuit even outstripping the subject ultimately in favor of fixed theoretical facts - the Cartesian relation (pursued non-relation, as it were) of knower to known.
Vico was first to take the hermeneutic turn against Descartes, to bring ideas into historical context, the relation of knower to known into the social world of praxis
A relation knower to known other than the Cartesian model is required by modernity's recognized failures and impervious destruction.
Those who care about people, who see the destruction of Descarte's "relation" of knower to known, understand the wisdom of Aristotle, and realize that Vico - Descartes' first major critic - was in fact, proposing the taking of theoria into praxis: i.e., correctly placing people and praxis at the center of his world view. He was setting forth the historical, hermeneutic world view, the post modern world view. And, in turn, those who understand Heidegger will see that he was following in that same direction, which may be called "existential" and which is centered in praxis - the social world.
The White Post Modern turn is, of course, the best and most moral perspective for advocating people - Whites especially - Jews don't want that and so they fool the uneducated masses and most of the educated masses as well by reinterpreting the terms by which people - viz., White people, might understand this - and they get them to react against didactic misrepresentation. That is, they are getting them to react in aversion to what is good and healthy in racial advocacy by having made it didactic in misrepresentation - e.g., the highly sensible Post Modern is presented as "dada" (whereas I have secured its sensible form in White Post Modernity).
Bowery and GW were impelled on, for the didacticism of the (((liberal-left - contradiction of terms))) and for the (((misrepresentation))) that was this false opposition and its false promise to liberate us from The left, among other reasons. Objectivism, the neoliberalism and libertarianism of the Austrian school of economics, Thatcherism, is merely a false opposition that (((they))) set up against "(((The Left)))." It is a product of late modernity, derived of the Vienna School of Logical Positivism, which in turn was derived of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico Philosophicus.
Again, that was Wittgenstein's attempt to set-out a comprehensive and "unassailable" ontology - "The world is everything that is the case." He would later say that the Tractatus was "not a very good book", lest he be mistaken for one not recognizing that those who had taken the post modern turn had left this philosophical quest behind. Nevertheless, the Austrian school of logical positivism founded upon the Tractatus lived on through his cousin Hayek (who Thatcher was discovered dutifully reading); it was then taken up by von Mises et. al, who would conveniently and explicitly adopt this no-account modernist program against any one of subsequent generations who was the least bit reflective, who had any social complaints about how they and their people had been left without social capital after this generation of egocentric locusts devoured all social capital in their path. Waiting generations of right wing reactionaries, ensconced in their well protected Internet bubbles, were ready to look up to these libertarians for their lack of social concern, conveniently blaming the socially conscientious of prior generations for the problems - "The Left", where not "hippies", were the ones asleep at the wheel and leading us over a cliff, "but not the objectivists" and not (((The YKW))).
One-up intransigence of boomers meets generation Internet bubble for a right-wing cocktail, silencing socially conscientious voices between.
Because of GW's unwillingness to trust anybody but himself, he takes recourse in the one aspect of the post modern turn where his first person account of all the world's foundations might be claimed - emergentism. He has a problem, however, when I say that the world still interacts. He has to take recourse to the absurdly arbitrary claim that "life doesn't interact."
Emergentism, in fact, is one of the key contributing factors to the post modern turn - it challenges the reductionism and fixedness of the modernist ontology project in an important sense - the emergent whole being greater than the sum of its parts means that significant referents are changeable in complex systems, thus qualifying Bowery's criticism - "there is either a referent or there is not" - as this charge must yield to the fact that facts can be re-framed as they emerge physically, as they are designated by individuals and as they emerge in social consensus. And yes, what emerges still interacts in a myriad of ways.
Gen Xer's were a bit late for the ride
"There is no such thing as society"
Their lack of faith in the social narratives as they are applied by YKW is understandable, the faith they show in the guiding principle of modernity to leave only what is fine and true in the wake of their wrecking ball is not. There comes a time to suspend disbelief. To draw a hypothetical boundary around our people is as good a time and place as any. "Wise men see lines and they draw them" - William Blake. And its not so hypothetical.
Perhaps because their boomer generation was early in line and they were intelligent enough to position themselves by means of objectivism for a deck chair on the higher end of a sinking Titanic, they can take some solace in writing-off those who might be going under first, if it does go down, as hazards of nature, having not acted "naturally" in EGI - Bowery in particular, being motivated by an affinity for the individuality of northern Europeans, abandoned ship (MR, anyway) when Dr. Lister and I began raising criticisms of "individualism über alles" and raising social concerns against that.
In fact, for this reason, Bowery issued an ultimatum ("either him or Lister") which defaulted to Graham's more social side, upon which Bowery expressed his "revulsion" for Majorityrights.
Abraham Anon
Kumiko was telling me about her disgust with Hillary and the YKW's wars, citing an egregious collateral damage to schools and education: this will obstruct solutions to the root of social problems and exacerbate social problems from the root as the schools and formative educational years of vast demographics are being destroyed. She is enraged by the damage this will do to personal and social skills. She asks what can be done?
I suggest a new variant of the 12 step meetings. Why? Because when people have been that damaged and obstructed by an interpersonal problem - such as Islamic abuse - it will be primarily these people who have sufficient understanding; they will have sufficient concern; it will be a necessity for them to take the time and show patience; to articulate the difficulties in full significance of the impact to them and society; and to search for solutions.
People who have not gone through this will generally not have sufficient understanding of the difficulties of getting through it, even if they did have inclination and take time from their faster track to a good life to put up with the wild and frustrating expressions that result from traumatic experiences and pervasive abuse.
The "victims" themselves will carry most of the load - by "sharing their hope, strength and inspiration" indispensable coping skills will find their way among them. But that doesn't mean that people coming from a background undergirded by normal philosophy and interpersonal relations shouldn't interact with them; in fact, that is one of the first differences I would make from the 12 Step programs - to have intermittent interaction from people from healthy backgrounds so that they can model normalcy for them and share normal skills. To make sure that bad thinking doesn't keep circulating and gets directed out before long.
So, there could be Visitors Meetings and Skilled Workshop Meetings to go along with the usual kinds of 12 Step meetings -
Speaker Meetings, in which one person tells the story of their struggle with the problem.
Step Meetings, in which one of the Steps is focused-on, with each person in the group having a chance to discuss their take and experience with that step.
The next change that I would propose is putting into question whether 12 should be the number of steps; of course it has pagan origin and has been hijacked by Abrahamism, but perhaps another number should be proposed to make the break more clear.
Of course the content of the steps should be significantly different as well. I will only sketch-in what they might look like. Suggestions from others are more than welcome.
One of the excellent features of the 12 step program idea is that one is not excluded for lacking skills or for not contributing dues. All that is required is a belief that you have a problem with the stated issue of the meeting group and that you comply with a few of its basic guidelines. There are no leaders. You agree to not expose the identity of those who go to meetings and to not gossip about them to people outside the group. You agree enough with the 12 steps (rather, we'll go with 14 steps, why not?) to allow them to provide coherence; and, except for speaker meetings, you allow a chance for each person who wants to talk.
Ok. There are probably some things that I'm forgetting but that's enough to start. Let me have a stab at how the steps might read:
The 14 Steps of Abraham-Anon
1. Came to understand that I had a problem with Abrahamism and that I could not handle it alone.
2. Came to identify positive attributes of my distinct race and my share in these positive attributes. Affirmed these daily to provide faith in mine and my people's worth as opposed to the Abrahamic god.
3. Conducted a fearless and searching personal inventory in order to purge its memes which may harm myself, my people, and in order to make amends to anyone who I have harmed in the name of Abrahamism or because I was inappropriately directing my response to it.
4. Came to understand the truth of how harmful Abrahamism is.
5. Came to understand Abrahamism is not a necessary evil nor a relative cultural preference; there are other "gods" and better ways.
6. Came to understand that its practice and promotion must be rejected by our people.
7. Came to understand that its perpetrators can and must be punished - ranging from denunciation, to social ostracism, to denationalization, to severe personal punishment in some cases.
8. Came to believe in the priceless gift of serenity to be found in the faith that my race, my place within it, and our interests are being looked after by the best and greater part of my people; by myself included.
9. Came to believe not only in the reality of distinct kinds of people, but also their right to preserve their differences.
10. Came to believe in the DNA Nation and international ethno-nationalism (genetic and territorial bounds); as the means to such maintenance of distinct peoples; their quantities and qualities of genetic inventory; their habitats through national territorial delimitations; qualitative and quantitative foreign enclave delimitations.
11. Came to believe that the Abrahamic religion and the Abrahamic man is already an imperialist hybrid and therefore his fate and place is the subject of our discretion.
12. Came to believe that Abrahamism can and should be destroyed once and for all.
13. Came to believe facilitating that destruction to be our prerogative as the people who are willing and capable of respecting racial differences, their right to be preserved in ethno-states, among the DNA Nation; and knowing that there is no avoiding the issue of morals - that every society will have some things that are legitimate, some things prohibited and some things obligated - will seek moral orders based on the Silver Rule as opposed to The Golden Rule.
14. Came to understand that the homeostasis of our ethnostates are contingent upon having the decency and wisdom to respect an option for sacred and devotional enclaves for those preferring strict monogamy (e.g., they want to choose carefully enough, devote themselves to that important choice; and/or concentrate on their endeavors otherwise, not chasing around for partners); and that those wanting to protect more liberal personal prerogatives must assent to that sacrosanct option and to strict national borders of citizenship - paradigmatic conservatism.
Way down in the profound gears of ship's engine room, we were given the shaft: YKW misdirection of "left" as our enemy as opposed to potential utility of a White Left - unionization of Whites against liberalism come by any means, Jews or otherwise.
Andrew Joyce demonstrates that as opposed to "the left", the more descriptive and useful term for what our enemies are prescribing for us - viz. liberalism - can be used with perfect coherence. He even alludes to the profound significance of it by article's end - likening the matter of our course as directed by Jewish interests and their liberal minions to an issue way down in the engine-room of the ship - the implicit matter of "liberalism" as the prescription of the enemy as opposed to "leftism" as our key affliction - like a gear being controlled by YKW way down there, on a level normally taken for granted, about which we normally suspend disbelief, but where a very fundamental change in bias needs to occur for the sake of our racial solidarity and defense.
We had previously observed Tobias Langdon (at TOO) making this transformation and now Joyce is doing it too - a very good move.
UK politics - US politics - liberalism - Obama - Judaism - Christianity - Islam - Orlando - Cox - Rigby - immigration - EU - Bataclan - Brexit
We know what Merkel, her policies on immigration and Islam are worth. Obama's support for "remain" is clear, and his immigration policies and stance regarding Islam are coherent with Merkel as well.
Inasmuch as EU membership reflects America's propositional notion of nationhood, immigration, citizenship and Visa policy, to "remain" is either to allow yourselves as native British to be murdered or to be compelled to a suicide mission at the behest of ruthless elites who have no concern for your genetic inheritance.
US President Obama on the Jo Cox assassination: he condemns the act but not the religions and those who impose immigrants upon European peoples; nor the genocide it entails for the native British. On the contrary, he telephoned Cox's husband to express condolences and released a statement praising her commitment and service…
For what Obama is worth: Did Obama call the family of Lee Rigby? In that event, did he so much as implicate Islam, the responsibility of migrants and those, including the other Abrahamic religions, which impose migration upon the UK?
Did Obama recognize the necessity for moratorium on immigration, repatriation, criminalization of Islam - an ememy political action group dedicated to sedition and insurrectionist overthrow of non-Muslim governments? Would his backers recognize our need to overcome liberal imposition of non-natives upon Europeans, whether upon us as native nationals or in diaspora? Would he care? Quite the opposite:
That was to call for opening the floodgates which would genocide European peoples.
And the walls of Rotherham, the walls between adult Muslims and under aged girls in the UK?
Britain needs to Brexit, and watch out for what the YKW, their objectivist dupes and sell outs will do by means of their proxy, The US, whether with Hillary or Trump in the Presidency; they will try to have us follow the agenda for which Obama acted as just another conduit. For them we can die: through subjection to, or by fighting, the cataclysm they've imposed.
UK politics - US politics - liberalism - Obama - Judaism - Christianity - Islam - Orlando - Cox - Rigby - immigration - EU - Bataclan - Brexit
This is not a call to passivity, but rather to make sure that we are not used by the YKW and objectivist sell-outs for the fact that we are not well sorted and coordinated - for the fact that our enemy list is not complete; and for the fact that our friend and in-group list is not sufficiently organized and coordinated.
Brexit and in-gathering of European peoples is a necessary first step to proper sorting. Clearly we have to do it for ourselves. We cannot rely on the US, a propositional nation, to facilitate our sorting requirements - even if Trump is the lesser of evils and supports Brexit, is he really capable of deviating sufficiently from Jewish interests? Let him help if he will, but don't trust him to do it for us - certainly not when it comes to drawing the lines of us - them - friends and enemies.
Our enemies, such as former French President, Sarkozy, in 2008, and Merkel in 2016, obligate the native Europeans to breed themselves out of existence with non-Whites.
In Israel, our enemies are quite intent to see that immigration is controlled at their border.:
The three sitting members are:
The President nominates Supreme Court candidates - when confirmed, they occupy one of the most powerful positions in the world.
Scalia's passing has left one Supreme Court vacancy of the 9 seats. At least two other, but perhaps three more Justices, are likely to change during the next Presidential term.
These facts give the next President a great deal of influence to determine the direction of 9 of the most powerful people in the world - it can swing the court to a more thoroughly liberal direction not known since the Warren court; or it can take a more "conservative tone" - although really, The Constitution binds the court to liberalism in the form of civil individual rights as opposed to group rights. (((The media))) and neo-liberals frame the discourse of Supreme Court Justice selection as representing an important choice between liberalism and "conservatism."
However, there are still some significant decisions even though the overall discourse is liberal.
At (((NPR))), (((Jeffrey Rosen))) discusses the (((first Jewish Supreme Court Justice))), (((Brandeis))), and the importance of the coming Presidential election on the make-up of the Supreme Court - as many as 4 of the 9 seats can change in the next Presidential term.
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Last year Russellville won the 7A/6A-Central Conference championship and went into the Class 6A state tournament as the No. 1 seed, but couldn't bring home the gold.
"Taking state is always a team's goal," Lady Cyclones head coach Harley Sisson said. "But we go against very good schools. You have to play hard and you can't let teams slip through your hand. We play a 22-game schedule with two tournaments. Hopefully, we can get back to the state tournament and pick up what we left hanging last year."
The Lady Cyclones only graduated one senior last year, but that's not to say there won't be several changes to the lineup. Senior Sommer Purtscher will move from third base to shortstop. Kayla Sisco will move to third, and sophomore Haley Frost will take over on second base.
"Ashley Pizzolato, a move-in, will play first base for us," Sisson said. "Diana Hale will play left field, Zoey Adkins will play at center field, and at right field we'll have senior Brooks Laffoon."
Standout sophomore pitcher Andrea Kindrick will reprise her role in the circle. Kindrick struck out 179 batters last year as a freshman.
"She's stronger and faster this year than she was last year," Sisson said. "She's also the complete package. She's a hitter and pitcher. Of course, they've all been working very hard."
Sisson said run production was his biggest concern prior to the season opener Monday.
"When we have girls in scoring positions, we have to score," he said. "We won a lot of our ballgames by one point last year. Our defense was exceptional. Our pitching was great. We would just like a larger cushion than that."
The Lady Cyclones welcome Mickey DuVall to the team as an assistant coach. Sisson said DuVall's aid is an invaluable asset to the team.
"He'll be my first base coach," Sisson said. "With him and my fifth-year volunteer, Walt Perks, I've got two very good assistants."
DuVall elaborated on Sisson's preconference scheduling plan.
"I call it 'Murder Row,' " said DuVall, who is also the radio broadcaster for RHS football and basketball games. "Three of the first four teams we play have a chance to win the 7A state championship. I told coach we might start out 1-3 the first week. He said he didn't care. We'd have a lot of questions answered and we'd be grounded."
The Lady Cyclones kick off "Murder Row" at 4 p.m. Monday against Van Buren at Hickey Park.
Baseball: Talented Cyclones work toward tradition
Russellville baseball head coach Matt Long has high hopes for the Cyclones baseball team this year.
RHS won the 6A-Central Conference championship last year and made it to the 6A state tournament semifinals on a 23-win season, but Long said it was the quality of the senior class that would give the Cyclones an edge this year.
"They're a bunch that rises to the top," he said. "They a class of quality young men. Our talent is good enough to compete for another conference championship, that's for sure."
The Cyclones return two starters, Hayden Hipps and Mitch Mullen, as well as several others who saw a lot of time on the diamond. Juniors Jordan Barnes and Cody Underhill will step up to contribute to the team. Long was quick to point out that while the players are young, they're by no means without merit.
"I'm not losing any sleep over it," he said. "A lot of the kids we are going to call on this year are kids that have competed in some high-level baseball games in the summer time. I don't want to compare us to last year because obviously we graduated a bunch of great players, but I think we have talent returning that is comparable to the talent that we had before. The simplest way to put it: The talent is here, it's just not as experienced."
Russellville has been known for its power in the past, but Long said things would be different this year.
"We'll have a higher average this year. We'll have guys that'll get on base a lot more and steal bases," he said. "Our strength is defense and I think our speed will be an asset."
Sophomores Mark Moyer, Garrett Freeman and Tyler Allen will be expected to step into roles on the field. Mullen will reprise his role on the pitcher's mound, and juniors Austin Robinson and Jacob Barker will be key.
"Cody Campbell will be back after not getting to play last year due to football injury," Long said. "He's going to be a huge asset. Also, junior Andrew Elam will be back after missing a season due to injury.
"We have a lot of questions to fill. I'm excited to get started because I'm looking forward to seeing our seniors go out in style. They're good athletes and great kids. I'm excited for them to get out there and show what they can do."
The Cyclones open their season against Van Buren at 4:30 p.m. at M.J. Hickey Park.

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Three Santa Clarita Valley sheriff's deputies were tied up directing traffic at the intersection of Bouquet and Soledad canyon roads for several hours today after the signals there malfunctioned and turned to blinking red.
"This is a major nightmare for us," one Sheriff's Department official said. Because of the intersection's complexity, it takes three deputies to direct traffic there, he said.
The signals went on the blink around 10 a.m. and were repaired several hours later.


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The British Army played a decisive role in the creation of the nation state of Great Britain, as we recognise it today. Our Army is not called the Royal Army (unlike the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force) because, after a historic struggle between Parliament and monarchy, the British Army has always been answerable to Parliament and the British people. If you live in Britain today, the actions of the British Army have affected the culture, traditions, government and laws of the society you live in, and, on a global scale, are continuing to do so today.
Well before the last battle was fought by our Army on British soil, British trade interests developed globally, first in India and the American colonies, and then, after the loss of America, across the rest of the world. Her global interests brought Britain into direct conflict with France, whose ideological revolution and the imperial ambitions of Napoleon threatened the peace and independence of much of Europe. Concerned to maintain a 'balance of power' among the nations of Europe so that her trade interests could continue uninterrupted, the British Army was instrumental in overcoming tyranny and establishing peace in the continent.
Later in the 19th century British trade interest inched into imperial design. With the Army, British culture, traditions, language and values were exported across the globe, and global influences were brought back to Britain.
As the world descended into two catastrophic world wars Britain and many of the countries associated politically, militarily or culturally with her fought for their shared values. Their victory in world war assured the independence of our own and many other nations. Wherever you are from, the actions of the British Army - and the many nations who have fought within it - have helped to shape the world we live in today.
Today, the British Army is operational in over 80 countries across the globe, and its actions continue to impact the world now and into the future.
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Our permanent galleries tell the ordinary and extraordinary stories of the men and women who have served in Britain's armies across the globe, and how they have helped shape the world today.
Admission is free.
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"Paired with exquisitely tasteful yet distinctive pianist Cedar Walton
Shaw suavely navigates a program of standards laced with a few surprises that bespeak his adventurous taste in songs
. Think of a lighter-voiced, more bluesy and less mannered Al Jarreau, and you'll have some idea of what Shaw sounds like
. Any fan of singing in general and jazz singing in particular will find an hour of solid musical enjoyment."Boston Herald
"The vocal find of the decade."Time Out, London


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When you think of Carrie, I'm sure you picture her covered in blood. It's one of the most memorable scenes in classic horror movie history. The Kimberly Peirce remake of Carrie had its first poster released, and it doesn't skimp on blood. Chloë Grace Moretz is playing the role of Carrie in this remake of the famous Stephen King story. She's a teenage girl trying to fit in at high school while getting picked on, as well as dealing with the worst mother ever, all while developing telekinetic powers that she can't really control.
Julianne Moore is portraying the mother from hell, and the movie releases March 15, 2013. A trailer was screened at NYCC, and as soon as one is released, we'll have it up.
You can follow Movies and Culture Editor Lance Liebl on Twitter @Lance_GZ. He likes talking sports, video games, and the stupidity of celebrities. Email at firstname.lastname@example.com


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HARRISON - The Russellville Lady Cyclones fell into a hole early and were not able to climb out as the Huntsville Lady Eagles defeated the Lady Cyclones 52-25 Tuesday in the first game of the Pizza Hut-Lendel Thomas Ozark Basketball Classic.
Stacey Owens made a free throw three minutes into the game for Russellville's first point to cut the Lady Eagle lead to four, 5-1. However, Huntsville (9-2) kept the points coming and extended its lead to 17-1 before Emily Miles scored on a layin at the 7:31 mark in the first half.
But the Lady Cyclones (3-6) started behind even before the opening tipoff.
"We just weren't ready to play today," Russellville coach Matt Kordsmeier said. "Our players have to be ready when they step out on the court, but we just didn't have them ready to go."
The loss moves the Lady Cyclones into a matchup today at 1:30 p.m. against, Mena, which lost to Mountain Home game. Huntsville advanced to play Mountain Home.
Huntsville drained four three-pointers in the first half en rout to a 30-10 lead at halftime.
"We had some opportunities early, but couldn't get the shots to go in," Kordsmeier said. "They (Lady Eagles) shot the ball very well. We just didn't shoot well and turned the ball over too much."
Russellville never got any closer than 18 in the second half. Keisha Patton made good on a layup at the 13:12 mark in the second half to cut the score down to 32-14.
Huntsville finished the game with a 14-6 run, behind nine points from Whitney Burgess. The Lady Cyclones did, however, shoot better in the second half but could not overcome the large lead.
Kordsmeier hopes the loss sparks a turnaround for Russellville as it heads into the second day of play today.
"We've got to get everybody mentally prepared to play basketball," the Lady Cyclone coach said. "We've got to come out more ready, and hopefully we'll shoot the ball better and play better defense."
Owens led Russellville in the first half with six of the 10 points, including a three-pointer, but 10 first-half points by Nikki Earles and eight by Maggie Williams kept the Lady Eagles ahead comfortably.
Emily Miles led the Lady Cyclones in scoring with eight points. Owens finished with six, all in the first half, and Patton and Jillian Jacimore both added five each.
Burgess finished with a game-hihg 14 points to lead Huntsville. Earles and Williams each chipped in with 10 points apiece.


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"The rail industry markets remain resilient in spite of the challenges of the global economy," said the company. "Many tender activities are on the horizon, such as metros in India, commuter trains in the U.K., locomotives in Germany and high speed coaches in the U.S."
During the second quarter of 2012, Bombardier Transportation reported $2.9 billion of new orders.
"The group confirmed its leadership in North America with the signature of a contract for 410 rail cars with the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART), valued at $897 million, as well as for 300 subway cars with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to be delivered to New York City Transit, valued at $599 million" said Bombardier.
"The framework agreements and options represent a good potential for new orders as illustrated by the order for an additional 39 FLEXITY Berlin trams from a framework agreement for a maximum of 206 vehicles. Bombardier Transportation also received an order for 210 double-deck commuter train cars for the RER, the Greater Paris commuter network, of which Bombardier's share is valued at $417 million."
Bombardier Transportation's revenue totaled $1.9 billion for the quarter ended June 30, compared to $2.7 billion for the same period last fiscal year. EBIT was $118 million, compared with $191 million last fiscal year, translating into an EBIT margin of 6.2% versus 7.2% last fiscal year. Free cash flow usage amounted to $78 million for the second quarter ended June 30, 2012, compared with a usage of $473 million for the same period last fiscal year. The order backlog totaled $31.7 billion as at June 30, 2012, compared with $31.9 billion as at December 31, 2011 due to the weakening of most foreign currencies versus the U.S. dollar.


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Heading to the Fort
Day 3 in Ft. Myers
-The big news around Ft. Myers today is the big showdown tonight in Tampa as the Red Sox take on the Yankees. It's hard to believe how much publicity and media attention a pre-season game between these two teams receives.
-Yesterday the Red Sox hit four straight home runs against former Boston reliever Brandon Lyon..Mike James, T.J. Large and Jose Vaquedano made relief appearances for Boston.
-A Papelbon pitched for Portland in yesterday's exhibition game against New Britain. Up close, it's very fun to watch a submarine style pitcher. Papelbon has the opposite repituar of his older brother.
According to Boston.com, Jon Lester is scheduled to pitch at a minor league game this afternoon in Ft. Myers…I'll keep you posted throughout the day.


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An Augusta lawyer surrendered to authorities Tuesday morning on a felony charge in connection with a lost diamond ring.
Alexia Dawn Davis, 31, surrendered at the Columbia County Detention Center on a charge of theft of lost or mislaid property, according to Columbia County sheriff's Capt. Steve Morris. Davis was booked into jail Tuesday morning and released after posting a $2,500 bond, Morris said.
Davis, an attorney in the Office of the Public Defender in Augusta, is accused of not returning a diamond ring she found in the parking lot of Cracker Barrel restaurant Feb. 7.
Jane G. Prater, 62, of Thomson, reported the ring missing Feb. 12. She told deputies that she lost the ring, worth about $10,500, in the parking lot about 7 p.m. Feb. 7. A server at the restaurant said a woman who was with Davis went inside and asked what to do if she found a ring.
"(The) woman opted not to leave it with Cracker Barrel with the manager in control of lost and found and made a comment that it would be reported to the Richmond County Sheriff's Office," Morris said. "And it never was."
Morris published surveillance video from the restaurant in hopes of identifying the woman Feb. 19. The same day, nearly two weeks after the ring was lost, Davis took the ring to Richmond County authorities.
A warrant was issued for Davis for theft of lost or mislaid property. The charge is a felony because the ring is worth more than $1,500, Morris said. He said that by law, when "a person comes into control of property that they know to be lost or mislaid, they must take reasonable measures to restore the property to its owner."
"That did not occur in this case," Morris said.
Katherine Mason, the public defender for the Augusta Judicial Circuit, said she's not allowed to comment on personnel matters.
Tanya Jeffords, one of four attorneys representing Davis, released a statement on behalf of her client Tuesday:
"No matter what shadow the Sheriff and the District Attorney's office tries to cast upon Ms. Davis' impeccable reputation and her motives, the legal fact is that she did not appropriate the ring for her own use, which is the crime this statute is intending to cover. When she learned who the owner was through the postings online from the Sheriff's office, she promptly turned it in. She knew it was valuable but she had neither sold it nor wore the ring as if it was hers."
Paula Frederick, the general counsel for the Georgia Bar Association, said no disciplinary action will be taken against Davis unless she is convicted.
"If she is convicted of a crime, that is a violation of the rules of professional conduct," said Frederick, who does not know the details of Davis' case.
Frederick said that if Davis is convicted, the bar association will ask the Georgia Supreme Court, which has the authority to discipline lawyers, for an "appropriate discipline." If Davis is convicted of a felony, Frederick said, the bar association would likely ask for Davis to be disbarred.


text: Leaving next Saturday for a six week tour of Japan. We start on foot in Kyoto for a couple of days, and pick up rental bikes in Okayama (southern Honshu) several days later. From there we will head north for the entire length of the island, zigzagging through the Japanese Alps and hooking up with the MotoQuest Hokkaido tour on August 4. After Hokkaido, we will take another week getting back to Okayama. I haven't done one of these tour postings before, so I hope I will have the discipline to add regular updates and photos. Here is my mount-


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Rare Find: Admiral Forbes explanation for refusing to sign Admiral Byng's death warrant.
Royal Navy Officer Admiral John Byng was born on 29th October 1704 and was controversially executed by gun fire on 14th March 1757 on the quarterdeck of his former flagship, 'Monarch' for failing to "do his utmost" to prevent Minorca falling to the French following the Battle of Minorca.
Admiral Byng's harsh sentence was opposed by many, including Admiral Forbes who refused to sign his death warrant.
The Society is pleased to have a written explanation by Admiral Forbes explaining his reasons for not signing the death warrant of Admiral Byng. This document can be found in the 'Herbert' Special Collection.
Professional genealogists Geoff Swinfield has kindly transcribed this 253 year old document for ease of understanding.
Adml Forbes's reasons for not signing Adml Byng's
Dead Warrant.
It may be thought great presumption
in me to differ from so great Authority as that of the
Twelve Judges but when a man is call'd upon to sign
his name to an act, which is to give Authority for the
shedding of blood, He ought to be guided by his Conscience,
& not by the Opinion of other men.
In the Case before us, it
is not The merit of Adml Byng that I consider whether
he deserves Death or not, is not a Question for me to decide; but whether, or not, his Life can be taken away by the Sentence pronounc'd upon him by the Court Martial, and
after having so clearly explain'd their motives for pronouncing such a Sentence, is the point alone has imploy'd my most serious attention.
The 12th Art. of War, upon
wch Adml Byng's Sentence is grounded, Says ___ According to
my understanding of its meaning, "That every person who
shall in time of action withdraw, or keep back, or not
come into fight, or who shall not do his utmost &
through Motive's of Cowardice, Negligence, or Disaffection,
shall suffer Death. The Court Martial does, in Express
Words, acquit Adml Byng of Cowardice & Disaffection, & does
not name the word negligence. ____ Adml Byng does not, as I
conceive, fall under the letter, or description of the 12th Art of
War _____ It my be said, that negligence is implied, the(n)
word is not nam'd, otherwise the Ct Martial wou'd not
have brought his offence under the 12th Art of War, having
acquitted him of Cowardice, & Disaffection.
But it must be acknowledg'd,
that the negligence imply'd cannot be wilfull negligence;
for wilfull negligence in Adml Byng's situation must proceed
either from Cowardice, or Disaffection, & he is expressly acquited
of both these crimes, besides crimes wch are imply'd only
& are not nam'd may indeed justify suspicion, &
private opinion, but cannot satisfy the Conscience in a case
of Blood.
Adml Byng's fate was reffer'd to a Court Martial
his Life & Death was left to their opinions; The Ct Martial
condemn him to Death, because as they expressly say they
were under a necessity of doing so by reason of the letter of the
law; the severity of wch they complain of, because it
admits of no mitigation. ________ The Ct Marl expressly say,
that the prisoner, they do, in the most earnest manner, recommend
him to his Majts mercy; it is then evident, that in the
opinion, and Consciences of the Judges, he was not deserving of
The Question then is, shall the opinion, or necessities
of the Ct Marl determine Adml Byng's fate. If it shou'd be
the latter, he will be Executed contrary to the intentions, & the
meaning of the Judges; who, to do justice, do most earnestly
recommend him for mercy; and if it shou'd be the former, his Life
is not forfeited. His Judges declare he is not deserving of Death;
but mistaking either the meaning of the Law, or the nature of
his offence, they bring him under an Article of War, which
according to their own description of his offence he does not
I conceive fall under; and then they condemn him to death,
because, as they say, the law admits of no mitigation. Can
a Man's life be taken away by such a Sentence. I wou'd not
willingly be understood, & have it believ'd, that I Judge of
Adml Byng's deserts; that was the business of the Ct Marl; & it is
my Duty only to Act according to my conscience; which,
after deliberate consideration, & assisted by the best lights that
a poor understanding is capable of attaining, it remains
still in doubt; and therefore I cannot consent to Sign a
warrant, Whereby the Sentence of the Ct Marl may be carried
into execution; for I cannot help thinking, that however
criminal Adml Byng may be, his life is not forfeited
by that Sentence. I don't mean to find fault in the
least with the Opinion of other men; all I endeavour
at, is to give reasons for my own; and all I desire, or
wish is, that my meaning may not be misunderstood.
I do not pretend to Judge of Adml Byng's desert nor to
give my opinion of the propriety of the Act.
Admiral Byng Admiral Forbes


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7/30/2012 2:53pm, #1
"Antagonisticathlon 2" with the Bartitsu Club of Chicago
The Bartitsu Club of Chicago recently ran its second Antagonisticathlon martial arts obstacle course event at Forteza Fitness and Martial Arts, a full-time Western martial arts studio in the Ravenswood neighborhood.
Because the BCC doesn't have a grading or ranking system, the Antagonisticathlon offers a fun, challenging way to test Bartitsu skill development and fitness. Participants represent Victorian-era adventurers running a gauntlet of hooligans and assassins in the mean streets of London.
The third Antagonisticathlon will be held as part of the Bartitsu School of Arms two-day seminar in September.Check out the Bullshido.net Western Martial Arts Forum for all things Western, martial and arty.
Bartitsu: the Gentlemanly Art of Self Defence (est. 1899)


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Prosecutors had asked Judge Wendell Griffen to reconsider his decision to not push back the retrial for Josh Hastings, who's charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of 15-year-old Bobby Moore III.
In the motion to reconsider, prosecutors say two "essential" witnesses, including their accident reconstruction expert, will be unavailable to testify at Hastings' retrial, set to begin Sept. 16.
At a hearing Monday, Griffen again denied the request for the delay.
Hastings will be tried again on a manslaughter charge after a jury deadlocked in June.


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rear drive oil wicking at 1200 miles gt 650
rear drive oil wicking at 1200 miles gt 650
Isn't the rubber cap on top of the final drive covering a vent, maybe just over serviced
another pic - source and credit in pic
same here no word
Going up to the dealer this Saturday, if the weather cooperates at all, to look at colors.
87 K75S, bought new, now sold
07 K1200GT Bought new, now traded in
Wife was really attracted to the platinum bronze, they have one on the floor with the top case already added, plus the charger pigtail and scuff guard, so getting that one. Didn't bring camera.
87 K75S, bought new, now sold
07 K1200GT Bought new, now traded in
The clear plastic film to keep you from scuffing up the paint in the step-through area. Like this
I'm unsure what film they used and if they just do it like shown in the link for every bike? I would think they would at least make up a set of templates so they don't have to go through that every time. They said they also did the fuel door.
Am glad they had one with the trunk already on it so I don't even have to think about getting that done. It's (the top case) a little smaller than I had imagined. Going TO work I have to bring a sort of soft-sided brief case (I call it a brief-bag), just to carry work stuff in. I drive a intercity bus, so thinks like log book, a few manuals and maps, couple screwdrivers, glasses, cell phone, junk like that, I am not gone on overnights, so not all that much but I like to be prepared. And also a lunch box, I have used a minimate cooler, big enough for a 6 pack I think (no I don't drink my lunch, LOL), but that size, but I can get something else if I need to. But I am thinking the breif-bag might fit under the seat if I keep some of the junk cleared out (per my wife, LOL), and the lunch box I think will fit in the top case. Whae I am AT work, typically just need to store my helmet and jacket, and again I think this will work fine as well. The helmet I tried to stow under the seat back when I did my roadtest in October and my full face Shoei did fit under the seat, although the last inch or so before latching did seem to be a bit of a push, but it did latch. So thinking the helmet might fit better in the top case and the jacket (armored), I feel confident will go under the seat just fine.
Am really looking forward to spring and riding this, I think it will be a very good "fit" for the riding I do now.
87 K75S, bought new, now sold
07 K1200GT Bought new, now traded in
They do have the top case liner, I would really like to see more of that. The sort of thing that might work better for my brief-bag, depending on how much is added to it for storing small items. Isn't there a few different aftermarket places that make stuff up, more or less "to order" to fit in top cases and saddlebags??
Just looked around, the one company I was thinking of is Kathy's
87 K75S, bought new, now sold
07 K1200GT Bought new, now traded in
The BMW top case liner is pretty nice actually. But I tend to use the underseat storage for bigger & heavier things - it will hold my 17" MacBook pro along with a jacket, etc. without difficulty.
there is also a google + community with 75+ members that puts out info as well. It has been slow as well. for myself, I have been to busy and out of town alot. I will be posting on my dyno results and several other items soon on a sport model. either it will pickup with the weather, or less with the weather, depending on how much people get out and ride. I just pushed past 600 today.
I now have 3 keys, one in the safe at home one under the the bike and one on my everyday key ring
A bad day on the C650 GT scooter is better than the best day at work


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>> It's no secret that Waris Ahluwalia is into craftsmanship. The jewelry in his House of Waris line has always been made using traditional techniques, with everything — right down to the chains on the pendants — fashioned completely by hand. It should come as no surprise then, that Ahluwalia's debut scarf collection employs that same dedication to history and artisanal techniques. Superfine cashmere is hand-loomed and hand-embroidered in a precise honeycomb "Kundun" pattern, handwoven silks and gauzy silk-cotton are batik-dyed, block-printed, hand-dyed, or silk-screened, and hems are all neatly finished by hand. It's not just the attention to detail or the heirloom fabrics that make this new collection of scarves so appealing, however — it's also the gorgeous color combinations and striking graphic patterns. Though meant to be unisex (or, as Waris says, "We don't believe in unisex, just more sex"), it's easy to imagine these pretty prints and super-soft fabrics evolving into a collection of dresses, skirts, and blouses. Waris's next project, perhaps? It's a suggestion the designer seems to have heard before, but if it's in the works, he's not talking. When pressed, his answer is a shrug, a wry smile, and a quiet: "I hope not."
Click through the slideshow for an up-close look at the first season of House of Waris scarves, available online now at Barneys.com, as well as at Barneys New York, Beverly Hills, Dover Street Market, and Colette. Plus, a look at the House of Waris Fall 2011 jewelry.


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Descalso offers Carpenter tutorial on playing second
By Jenifer Langosch / MLB.com
JUPITER, Fla. -- The Cardinals had just wrapped up an exercise in bunt defenses on Tuesday morning when Daniel Descalso summoned Matt Carpenter his way. While other players scattered to other fields for other work, Descalso began his tutorial.
Offering instruction, Descalso said later, is something he perceives to be an obligation, even if Carpenter is the one eyeing Descalso's second-base job. Perhaps surprisingly to some, Descalso doesn't see the two circumstances as mutually exclusive.
"I don't know if they're going to name him the second baseman or if I'm going to win it, but at some point this year, I'm sure he will be out there at second base," Descalso said. "And if he's out there, he needs to know what to do. He needs to help us at second base. I feel like it's part of my responsibility to get him prepared. If he doesn't know something, I feel like that's on me."
Descalso went on to describe how the same courtesy was shown him when he was jockeying for playing time with Skip Schumaker, most recently as last Spring Training.
"He helped me from day one," Descalso said of Schumaker, who is with the Dodgers. "He didn't have to do that. We played the same spot and were always competing. But he did that for me. So why shouldn't I do that for Matt?"
Most of Carpenter's tutorial at second has come with third-base/infield coach Jose Oquendo, who has been focused on the technical parts of playing the position. Meanwhile, Descalso has chimed in with advice that hits on the mental preparation and awareness of the position.
"Stuff as simple as getting with the shortstop and figuring out who has the bag on the steal, that's something you have to do each pitch, not just once an at-bat," Descalso explained. "It's stuff that I take for granted, but that he just doesn't know from not being over there. A question comes up and he might think it's a stupid question, but we talk about it and hopefully he learns from it."
Cards unsure when Furcal will see spring action
JUPITER, Fla. -- Though Grapefruit League play begins this weekend, the Cardinals have not determined when shortstop Rafael Furcal will see his first game action.
Furcal, as manager Mike Matheny described it, "still hasn't let it go yet" on his throws. Furcal arrived at Spring Training confident in the strength of his elbow, but there are checkpoints he has to pass before he can feel fully in the clear. To this point, Furcal appears to be throwing at about 75-80 percent effort.
"It's probably going to take some time," Matheny said. "I'm not wanting to push him until he's ready. I think that would make him go backwards. Until he's ready, we have a bunch of guys we need to see."
Despite the slowed schedule, Furcal is expected to be ready for Opening Day, Matheny said. Furcal saw limited game action early last spring, too, as he was working to get back into shape after having an appendectomy. Though his spring results weren't impressive, he got off to a hot start once the regular season opened.
Furcal continues to participate in most of the team's defensive drills. When it comes time to throw, he'll either hold the ball or throw it at less-than-max effort.
First live BP in the books for all pitchers
JUPITER, Fla. -- By the end of the day Tuesday, all 27 pitchers in the Cardinals' big league camp had thrown their first session of live batting practice. Those sessions covered four days, with Adam Wainwright and Joe Kelly highlighting the group of seven pitchers who faced hitters on Tuesday.
The significance in all this isn't so much that pitchers are throwing to hitters -- that's a normal part of a pitcher's progression each spring -- but that the Cardinals have not had to slow any of their pitchers down due to injuries or not being deemed ready to increase workload.
"It shows the guys really came prepared," manager Mike Matheny said. "For the most part, I think it's been a great team effort with nutrition guys, strength and conditioning guys and our medical team to make sure to put these guys in a position to where they can go out and do what they've been doing."
Some of the Cards' pitchers will throw a second session of live batting practice before making their first game appearance. Others will just continue to throw on the side and see their next hitters in Grapefruit League games.
Matheny said that he plans to announce his pitching plans for the weekend's slate of Grapefruit League games on Wednesday.
Prospect Swagerty moves closer to returning
JUPTER, Fla. -- Just days before he is set to participate in the Cardinals' early Minor League camp, Jordan Swagerty reached one of the final checkpoints in his recovery from elbow surgery, which kept him off the field for the entire 2012 season.
After taking his rehab program to Jupiter last summer to work under the supervision of the Cardinals, Swagerty continued that work in Arizona over the offseason. That's where he was on Monday when, for the first time since the 2011 season, Swagerty pitched to hitters.
"Right now, the medical guys are telling us that he should be good to go," said farm director John Vuch. "Obviously when he shows up, we'll take a look at him first hand. The one good thing is we do have some luxury that if he isn't 100 percent, we don't have to rush him to be ready. But we don't expect any delay."
Swagerty's elbow began to bother him about this time last year, when he was in Major League camp as a non-roster player. He stopped throwing for precautionary reasons, and it was eventually determined that Swagerty would need to undergo two procedures, including Tommy John surgery, to correct the problem.
While visiting St. Louis for Winter Warm-Up last month, Swagerty said that his arm was responding well to his increasing workload. Swagerty enters 2013 as the Cardinals' 15th-best prospect, according to MLB.com.
Vuch said that the organization has Swagerty pegged to return to a starting role, though those plans could change if the medical staff feels fewer innings would be better for the right-hander. By pitching as a starter, Swagerty will have a more consistent schedule.
In 2011, Swagerty made a combined 12 starts and 24 relief appearances in stops at three Minor League levels. He ended that year in Double-A Springfield, where he allowed three earned runs on eight hits in 9 1/3 innings.
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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|Melissa Jensen
Maybe I live on Mars!...But here goes!... 1.I agree with the manager 2.We can cut blocks at that speed if you want crap. 3.20 blocks an hr is a good rate...[.If they are all large blocks..no levels, no extras..you can do 40.or more....] If doing 4 levels per slide...40 in unrealistic in an hr. When training a new person...I do not care how long it takes them to cut..If what they produce is quality.....As there confidence builds so does number of blocks being cut.. ----- Original Message ----- From:
To: "Histonet (E-mail)" Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 8:35 AM Subject: Re: COMPETENCY vs PRODUCTIVITY > > Hi, > > Competency is about being effective, i.e being able to perform an activity > successfully to set quality standards. > Productivity is about efficiency, ie being able to perform an acceptable > amount in a given unit of time. > > Your boss is nearer the mark in this one. > > Cheers > > Steve > > > > "Soto, Roxanne" > > .org> cc: > Subject: COMPETENCY vs PRODUCTIVITY > 14/11/2002 22:54 > > > > > > > I know that this subject has been brought many times before, but I really > need some advice. I had to develop competencies at my organization because > the techs have not had to be in several years, nor have they been help > accountable for anything. To come up with an objective number for > embedding > and microtomy, I watched them for several days and timed them all. I came > up with a "lab average" and to be competent they had to be within 70% of > the > lab average. For example, the lab average for microtomy was 84 slides per > hour and to be competent they had to cut 59 slides per hour with less than > a > 2% error rate (error rate is based on depth and wrinkles, etc.). I have > several employees that are well below that number. They think that I am > being unrealistic in my expectations of them. My manager and I disagree on > what competent means. He feels that I am asking for productivity and not > competency, I think they are one in the same. He feels that to be > competent > that have to show they know how to do their job, I told him to be competent > they have to be productive. He asked me today if there were any articles > about productivity standards in histology. So is there such a thing? > Now I have other things on my competency as well, such as, accessioning, > frozens, special stains, processing, microwave processing, etc. My next > question is, what do you do if you have a tech that doesn't pass the > competency? I have been told that I have to re-train them, even if they > have been a tech for 30 years. How does your organization handle this? > On the down side of this, is my techs. They don't care about the > competencies because even if they are not competent, nothing will happen to > them, so they don't care. One tech can come in and bust there butt and > they > will get the same benefits and raise as a tech that comes in and does > absolutely nothing. I have been trying to change this since I got here, > but > until I have documentation to back me up, I am stuck. > You advice would be greatly appreciated. > Roxanne > > > > > > > Privileged/Confidential information may be contained in this message. The > information contained in this message is intended only for the use of the > recipient(s) named above and their co-workers who are working on the same > matter. > > The recipient of this information is prohibited from disclosing the > information to any other party unless this disclosure has been authorized > in > advance. > > If you are not intended recipient of this message or any agent responsible > for delivery of the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby > notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or action taken in > reliance on the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. You > should > immediately destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply > E-Mail. > > Please advise immediately if you or your employer does not consent to > Internet E-Mail for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other > information in this message that do not relate to the official business of > the firm shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. > > > > > > > >


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Next year's budgets for the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office and Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department are getting squeezed, but the City Council Finance Committee on Friday agreed to credit JSO with $10.5 million it saved due officer pay cuts earlier this year.
While the full council must also approve the deal -- expected later this month -- this is the concession Sheriff John Rutherford says he needed to avoid officer layoffs and closing a successful substance-abuse program for prisoners known as the Matrix House.
"Obviously, we are very pleased that we are going to be able to maintain the 95 police officers on the street and also the Community Transition Center, where a great drug treatment program is being run," Rutherford said after the vote.
The additional money isn't enough to avoid layoffs of community service officers and civilian employees like dispatchers and nurses. JSO will also cut traffic operations for special events and Jaguars games.
The city had budgeted spending that $10.5 million elsewhere.
"We need those dollars for the entire operations that we are trying to do," said Ronnie Belton, Jacksonville's chief financial officer.
The chairman of the Finance Committee also felt like the sheriff was coming out ahead at the expense of others.
"The sheriff has some allies on the council. If he asked for $10 million or $40 million, he is going to get votes from certain people on the council," Chairman John Crescimbeni said. "I am disappointed that my colleagues don't recognize that we are taking all of our savings from all of the other departments and giving them all to the sheriff to offset his pension cost. We are going to cut library employees to pay police officers' pension cost, and I don't think that is right."
Another agency that's having to make big changes to save money in next year's budget is Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department, and its chief say those changes could affect residents.
Fire Chief Marty Senterfitt explained to council members Friday how he plans save $6.7 million, mostly by increasing revenues from fees charged for its services.
One change will be to increase fire inspections for businesses from once every eight years to yearly.
Businesses are required to pay for that inspection, which can run from $45 to $250 depending on the size. It will bring in about $1.7 million to the city.
"Certain businesses require a one-year inspection," Senterfitt said. "Our process is, we want to inspect all businesses every year. We believe that is the right thing to do for safety across the board. So business inspections every year."
The Fire Department is also looking to increase ambulance runs. In the past, it has refused to transport some patients. There have been concerns about that, even legal action taken. But it's also proven to be a profitable measure for the department.
With nearly 5,800 ambulance runs a month, the Fire Department would charge each patient about $300. That could work out to more than $5 million a year.
"We have not transported when we should," Senterfitt said. "What I required as director of fire chief is we will follow medical protocol and we will transport when appropriate. And they can refuse transport. They always have the right to refuse transport."
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Family man Snell honors "heritage" in WBC
Ian Snell has always been a favorite player of mine. Since his time in the minors, throwing a no-hitter in Indy, I've followed the young guns progress. After his breakout season in '07 Snell-Mania has swept me off of my feet. Last season I went as far as to purchase a Snell jersey. Wearing it proudly to each game I love when 45 takes the mound.
This college kid is not the only one representing Snell. The 27 year old himself has been overjoyed at the opportunity presented to him through the World Baseball Classic.
In this article by FOX sport's Ken Rosenthal, Snell is described as a warm hearted man who strives off family pride. I admire Snell for his strong desire to win and criticisms of the Pittsburgh front office. He is also very admirable in his background story. He's been very intriguing to me in the past. I've viewed him as a unique individual partly because I coul not for the life of me figure out his ethnicity. I commend Snell for his desire to pitch in the WBC and dedicate his accomplishments to his family.
As Puerto Rico moves on in the tournament I'm looking for Snell to provide more quality starts for the team. Hopefully, upon his return to Pittsburgh we will see the same desire, heart and integrity.


text: I recently rescued two lionhead bunny brothers from my local animal shelter that were scheduled to be euthanized. I got them neutered (it's been about 2-3 weeks now), but for some reason, they are still spraying urine everywhere! They were living in a fairly large x-pen set up which they settled nicely in with a large potty box filled with hay, toys, etc. But I noticed the other day that they sprayed urine all over my carpets (and I don't mean a little)! It's taken me a couple of days to get the stains out. I moved them into a large Marchioro in the meantime while I come up with a new strategy. Right now, space is limited since I have a large 2-story Leith cage and 2 x-pen set ups in the bunny room. I may have to design some type of barrier I can put at the bottom sides of the x-pen to catch the excess urine. I think they are around 6mos to a year old. I've rescued and fostered bunnies for a long time but this is the first time I've encountered this problem. How long before the spraying dies down? Other than that, they are the cutest, most lovable snuggle bunnies you've ever seen! Their names are Coco and Cappuccino (they are my new avatar).


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Far as team players, I have to again disagree. Marbury is branded selfish because he is always the best player on his team. Meaning he takes all the criticism when things fail. And usually had to shoulder the scoring load. Everyone forgets when he played with good talent (phx) he helped them win 53 games. No one was calling him selfish Steph then. And for the life of me... can someone super intelligent ( Metro the best poster on Knicksonline.com maybe ) Tell me how a man who avg 20 and 8 his whole career just about can be labeled selfish? 8 dimes a year would be a career year for most pg's in the league, Steph does this year in and out off the bus. Does anyone remember that ultra talented team he played on in NJ? On top of that, he more than any other player on the team last year sacrificed his game for the betterment of the team. And it kills me even more as a Knick fan being that it's Walt Clyde and Steph 1 and 2 in Knick history at pg. And it's not even close. Fans act like we have this great pg heritage to gauge Steph's play on lol... NY'ers. But this is an opinion forum.
Q-rich has always been a good team guy, even with the Clips, but especially phx. Then he comes here and has to change his game around, and does without an issue. Possibly our best all around player besides Steph. Again, opinion forum.
Zach was a one man gang in Portland and they were garbage for years, so he will unfairly get the ballhogging, selfish teammate label simply for being the crown jewel of a franchise devoid of such. Though, not one coach ever calls him a selfish teammate during practice, and say he works harder than anyone. Even in Portland. It's personal baggage that scares most. But we are talking ON THE FLOOR, correct? I say give him a shot here before we gauge his play somewhere in a diff system. Opinion forum.
Curry needed the most improvement last year, and made the most on the team. By far. Can't call him an individual or team player based off of one pretty good season. He looked like a first year player from college a lot last year. Bad out of double teams, rare hustle on d and lacked fire on the boards for a man his size. But ran the floor well, took on the role of being "the go to guy* for the first time in his career. If he improves on the defensive end, sky is the limit for this team. But I would at best have a wait and see for him. He is the most important player on the team. Opinion forum.
Crawford is the biggest enigma. If he plays how he did from dec on all season, he will be a flat out star. Finally learned to harness the and1 mentality and play within the system. You are going off of his career worth of blunders. But life in all walks is what have you done lately. Last we saw him, he was playing very, very well. And within the team game. But who knows with him. I'm personally an optimist by nature. Plus it's my team, so I hope his play was from becoming level headed, and not some fluke. Jury is out on Him, Curry and Zach.
Opinion forum.