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Campaign finance reform is the issue of the hour for End Citizens United, and there are many people who will not learn about reform of the campaign finance laws until they run into End Citizens United, and this article explains how the PAC is using its influence online to help educate the public. There is quite a lot for the public to learn, and everyone who wishes to learn may look over their social media feed today.
#1: They Are Raising Money
End Citizens United is fundraising to ensure that they may grow their membership, and they wish to have more money to help push forward their agenda. They wish to raise their money fairly, and they will use it to ensure that they may reach the public properly. They will continue to raise money as much as possible, and they will search for a number of ways to share their fundraising goals with the public.
#2: They Have a Strong Social Media Presence
The social media presence of End Citizens United is quite robust, and it is used to release new information about campaign finance reform every day. They share stories about many places where money is corrupting Washington, and they often call out the politicians who are playing with the most cash. They will push to ensure that they are not unheard, and they will teach the public one follower at a time.
#3; What Must change?
The laws on campaign finance must change if there is to be a change in how people campaign for office. The federal laws on the books must be altered to help the public have free and fair elections, and the goal of End Citizens United is to change the laws that are now running. They will continue to look for politicians who are willing to sponsor bills of this type, and they will continue to create pressure on other lawmakers who must vote on these rules.
The End Citizens United goal is to ensure that Citizens United ends at the same time that campaign finance law has changed. They are willing to use their considerable might and fundraising for this singular purpose, and they will continue to ask lawmakers to make a change for the good of the country. Each year will bring the country closer to a new battery of laws that will govern how someone may raise money to run for public office.


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coolcat Friday Jul 4 06:28 PM
July 5, 2008: Sloth Bear Pet
DanaC Friday Jul 4 07:45 PM
Quite a sad story really. I heard about this on the news a little while ago. He rescued it as an orphaned cub or something, took it home and hand reared it, partly because it was an orphaned cub and partly as something to help his daughter get over her mother's death. Now he's facing prosecution and the bear has been taken away from what is essentially its loved and loving family. One of those occasions when the law, though necessary, is a blunt instrument.
spudcon Friday Jul 4 10:35 PM
So, are sloth bears good to eat?
xoxoxoBruce Friday Jul 4 10:47 PM
For those that can't/won't link...
spudcon Saturday Jul 5 08:15 AM
First, the guy in the picture looks thoroughly pissed off. Second, snip "Ram Singh Munda had given life to the hopeless cub by bottle-feeding her curtailing his daughterís food out of sheer compassion and had adopted her and given her the name and had given her the comfort she so badly was in need of then to survive." - Does that really say he stopped feeding his daughter to feed the bear?
Sundae Saturday Jul 5 09:39 AM
She probably wasn't as cute as the bear.
xoxoxoBruce Saturday Jul 5 09:57 AM
There are two pictures of her at the link.
Sundae Saturday Jul 5 10:03 AM
Damn. Another fine theory shot down in flames.
xoxoxoBruce Saturday Jul 5 10:04 AM
Hey, in one she's in a cage. Work with it.
busterb Saturday Jul 5 01:30 PM
Does he have pants, on? The bear looks like in the high mile??
Imigo Jones Saturday Jul 5 02:04 PM
The Bear Dancer (pic)
Sundae Saturday Jul 5 02:18 PM
- When I caught Gerald in '68, he was completely wild
Cloud Saturday Jul 5 02:57 PM
oh, dear. I'm afraid I had a rather severe reaction to "Mr. Green Jeans, Dancing Bear, and Captain Kangaroo."
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How to cycle three or more pumps and fans
Cycling motors on and off could be a way to meet demand; minimize starts, stops, and run time; and equalize run time between motors using a scheme.
Many systems have parallel motors that perform the same function, and should cycle on and off based on demand. Goals for these systems usually include:
- Keep up with demand
- Minimize the number of motors running to keep up with demand
- Minimize the number of starts and stops
- Keep the run time and number of starts roughly equal between all the motors in a group
- Allow operators to prioritize motors
- Fail-over appropriately
- Keep the logic as simple as possible.
What is the best way to accomplish these goals? For two motors, a simple alternating or lead/lag logic will work fine. But things can rapidly get more complicated with three or more.
Conditions required to declare a motor available to start/stop automatically
A fundamental component in the logic for these systems is determining if each motor is available to start automatically ("in program"), if it is available to stop automatically, or neither. There should be "available to auto-start" and "available to auto-stop" bits in your controller for each motor. Conditions required to declare a motor available to start automatically might include:
- Motor is not commanded to run
- In software auto/prog-mode
- Physical hand/off/auto (HOA) switch in auto
- Not out of service or red-tagged
- Not faulted
- Motor overload and overtemp contacts OK
- Start permissives all made
- Run interlocks all made
Conditions required to declare a motor available to stop automatically might include:
- Motor is commanded to run
- In software auto/prog-mode
- Physical HOA switch in auto
There should also be bits for "any motor available to auto-start" and "any motor available to auto-stop."
Accumulate time available
Using the available bits above, each motor should have a "time available to auto-start" and "time available to auto-stop" register. The motor that has been off the longest (while available to auto-start) will have the highest "time available to auto-start." The motor that has been running the longest (while available to auto-stop) will have the highest "time available to auto-stop." These registers are in addition to—and must be separate and independent from—the typical run-time and starts accumulators that every motor should have.
Triggering changes in demand
When logic indicates more demand than the currently running number of motors can handle, this should trigger a one-shot to auto-start another motor, followed by an "auto-restart delay"—a period of time in which no additional motors will be auto-started, but would not prevent manual starts. That time might be 10 seconds or 30 minutes depending on the nature of the system.
When the one-shot "motor start needed" is raised, the system should start the motor with the largest "time available to auto-start." Depending on the kind of programming, this action may also need to include an unlatching of the "motor start needed" bit to prevent multiple available motors from starting on the same trigger event.
Likewise, when demand falls to the point that a "motor stop needed" occurs, the system should stop the motor with the largest "time available to auto-stop", and then wait a period of time before auto-stopping any other motors.
Superior control
This scheme will minimize starts and stops for each motor, and even out run time while meeting system demand and better controlling the process. For example, many systems have a collection of level float switches in a sump. A high level shuts off all pumps, a low level demands one pump to start, and a low-low level demands two or more pumps to start.
But in the scheme I describe here, the low-low float is not needed for control, although it might be desirable for independent alarming. When the level drops below the low-level float, it starts a pump. If it's still below the low-level float when the restart time expires, it starts another pump. If multiple pumps are running when it reaches the high level, it will only stop one at a time. So if your demand is at 1½ pumps' worth of flow, this scheme will keep the level between low and high, always running one or two pumps, and alternating through all available pumps to even out run time.
Now that we've covered the basics, let's discuss some options and other potential optimizations.
What should trigger starts and stops?
If the motors are at constant speed and there is no modulating valve, it's simple: trigger a motor start when a process variable (PV) goes too far one way, and a stop when it goes too far the other way. This could be generated from floats, other switches, or adjustable settings compared to a measurement from a transmitter. Most systems benefit from a short debounce timer so that the condition must remain for 2 to 10 seconds before it will cause a motor to start or stop.
You may also want high-high and low-low triggers, which would start or stop all available motors; however, I've found properly tuned systems (with well-placed trigger points and properly adjusted restart delays) generally do not need those.
Trigger starts and stops from a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) loop
When a system involves a PID loop (controlling motor speed, modulating valves and/or dampers), things get more complicated. The operator should set a single setpoint that the loop will attempt to hold. In this case, using start/stop trigger points based on the PID's PV is undesirable because that means the PID loop has already lost control—and has been out of control for some time. Instead, trigger starts and stops based on the output of the loop.
For example, you might trigger a start if the output gets to 80% demand to a valve, or 55 Hz demand to motor speeds. Then, configure an auto-stop well above zero—perhaps 20% demand to a valve or 40 Hz to motor speeds. Special care must be taken with motor speeds to make sure the auto-stop output limit is high enough that the pumps are still at a significant flow rate.
Some pumps might not move any liquid at all even at 50 Hz if pumping against significant back-pressure. In such situations, if a flow meter is available, you can trigger auto-pump-stops from multiple causes: either PID loop output low or per-pump flow too low will initiate an auto-stop.
Tip: If you're having trouble with your loop tuning working well with a certain number of motors running, but then it doesn't do well with a different number running, use adaptive gain control to make the loop more responsive with fewer motors running, and less responsive with more. See my blog posts on basic loop tuning, advance PID loop methods, and controlling multiple PVs with a single output for more details.
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"The government wouldn't allow a company to sell a genetic test unless it worked, right?" Not necessarily, writes Gail Javitt, Director of Law and Policy at the Genetics and Public Policy Center, in the July 2006 issue of the journal Fertility and Sterility.
Despite media reports revealing significant problems with a controversial test to determine fetal sex, and recommendations from several federal task forces about the need to develop safe and effective regulations for genetic testing, the traditional federal regulatory bodies fail to offer adequate assurance that direct-to-consumer genetic tests are safe, accurate, or pertinent to health-care decision making.
Beyond the ethical implications of tests for fetal gender, Javitt argues that the uncertainty regarding the accuracy and clinical validity of the test "should have set off warning bells among federal regulators."
While the company that produces the test claims that the FDA cannot regulate the product because it is not used for medical diagnosis, Javitt asserts that there are justifiable legal foundations for the government to oversee fetal gender tests, but that the government's lack of action on fetal gender tests is part of a broader failure to regulate genetic testing generally.
"Lax oversight of genetic testing is not new, nor has it gone unnoticed," the paper notes, stating that government officials have discussed the need for improved oversight of genetic testing for more than a decade.
Javitt asks, "How many Baby Gender Mentors—and the associated anxiety, unwarranted medical procedures, and potential adverse consequences—will it take to provoke action on genetic testing?" The current regulatory framework creates an environment that may result in a loss of public trust in the ability of DNA research to improve health, she warns, and it may tarnish the reputation of good genetic testing actors through association with bad actors. Without better regulation, the promise of genetic testing to produce "personalized medicine" may not be fully realized, she adds.
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Javitt G. "Pink or Blue? The Need for Genetic Test Regulation Is Black and White." Fertility and Sterility (2006) 86 (1): 13-15.
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SACRAMENTO – The California Legislative Black Caucus (CLBC) in a statement today condemned the comments made by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in the Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (Fisher II) U.S. Supreme Court case and has called for his recusal:
"It is disturbing to us as a Caucus that Justice Scalia, who sits on the bench of the highest court in this land, would pronounce and endorse racist ideas from the bench that disturbingly resemble too closely rhetoric that was used to justify segregated schools that led to separate and unequal school systems, which the US Supreme Court ruled in 1954 was unconstitutional," stated Assemblymember Reginald Jones-Sawyer, Sr., Chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus.
"The track record of the outstanding accomplishments of African Americans in top tiered schools not only as students but professors is too numerous to list, but does make us wonder as a Caucus if Justice Scalia realizes that not only is his inflammatory statement inaccurate but cannot have the support of the top tiered schools he seems to be defending, who are proud to list the accomplishments of their African Americans alumni. For example, we wonder if Justice Scalia's Alma Mater, Harvard Law School, thinks that their other alumnus Barack Obama, would have been better off going to a slower track school, instead of graduating and becoming President of the United States?"
Justice Scalia, you need to recuse yourself from the case and issue an apology to every African American, who has graduated from a top tiered school, from as far back as to the 1840s, when the first African American graduated from Yale University.


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Harrow County Volume 6: Hedge Magic
Released by: Dark Horse Comics
Released on: October 11th, 2017.
Written by: Cullen Bunn
Illustrated by: Tyler Crook
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It's late at night, Emmy is poking about the barn using a lantern to light her way. When she comes across a calf she's named Shaky she can't help but notice that the poor thing is trembling. Unsure of what has frightened the animal, she continues to look around. Some odd noises indicate that she might not be alone in there, and this is confirmed when she finds her creature friend Priscilla hiding in the rafters. When Emmy asks her why she was hiding Priscilla tells her that the humans have hired a 'hunter' to run her off.
Emmy requests that Priscilla show her what she's talking about, but before they can do that she needs to grab something from inside the house. Priscilla waits outside with the lantern, and once Emmy returns they rush over to the Mefford Bros grain silo. There's no one about but when they head inside they find bear traps set about with strange inscriptions carved into them. When they head outside again, all the other haints from around the woods are waiting there, and the skinless boy tells Emmy that they too believe they are being hunted. They draw her into the woods where one of their own has been murdered, but Priscilla notes that the victim was cruel, would pluck babies from their cribs.
Emmy starts to wonder if Kammi has anything to do with this but this conversation is cut short when Priscilla hears a scream and runs deeper into the woods. There they find her brothers caught in yet another set of snap traps. They set out to free them, but them Emmy realizes that these creatures were right all along – they're not alone, and they have been watched.
Bernice sits in old Lady Lovey's humble home as the crone lectures her about the evils of the haints in the area. Bernice had defended Emmy to the old woman in the past, but this time it's a bit different. Bernice tells Lovey that Emmy's different, she's not like the woman Lovey squared off against – Hester – but Lovey makes her promise that she'll protect all of Harrow County from the haints. And if that means one day having to stand against Emmy, so be it.
Later that night when Bernice finds Emmy out in the woods the conversation is tense. Bernice accuses her of forgetting about the people she had promised to help and tells her that basically she's picking up her slack. She tells her that people in town aren't coming to her for help anymore because they're scared of the haints that Emmy seems to be getting closer to every day. Emmy insists they are harmless but Bernice tells her that the haints she knows about aren't the only ones around.
The two girls go for a walk at Bernice's insistence, where she tells Emmy of a bird like thing that has been active in the area that was a ruthless hunter, feeding on pets and livestock. No one told Emmy about this, but they did tell Bernice, who intends to do something about it. Bernice tells her of other things that the haints have done, how a goblin took three of her cousin's fingers, how Priscilla and the others will eventually turn nasty. Bernice leads her further into the woods towards an old cabin. The skin in Emmy's handbag protests as does Priscilla, but she heads in with Bernice to what first seems to just be an empty old house. When Bernice insists Emmy look through a specific keyhole, however, she then sees things differently – there's a 'keyhole ghost' inside, a spirit that's been trapped in there so long that the only way to see it is to peer through the keyhole of the door it can't get past.
The only way to see what the ghost wants is to look through the keyhole from the opposite side. Bernice doesn't need to do this, Lovey told her this ghost was dangerous and that's good enough for her. Emmy, however, takes a look and is horrified by what she sees. She agrees to help Bernice put a stop to the ghost's activity, but it won't be easy.
Issue #23 starts off in a rundown old cemetery where a handful of people are listening to the town preacher eulogize Lady Lovey. The preacher asks the attendees why they're here – Lovey scared people, she was not beloved by the townsfolk. He speculates, out loud, that they're there to make sure he buries her properly… so that she doesn't come back. He says that they won't ever truly be rid of her as long as she is mourned. Some of those in attendance look at Bernice, knowingly.
With the funeral over, one man even spits on Lovey's grave. Bernice sees this and opens her mouth, she wants the people to know the truth, that they were wrong about Lady Lovey. No one except for Emmy listens to her. As the crowd heads out of the cemetery, a woman screams – behind them are snakes, scores of them, and they're moving quickly. Those snakes that Lovey kept in the mason jars in her basement, as a way of protecting the people, they're free now that she's passed and these cottonmouths are nasty, servants of the death witch Hester Beck. Emmy tries to cast them out but her powers don't work on them. Bernice gets physical, grabbing them and kicking them and trying her damnedest to get rid of the fowl things.
Just then, a horde of dragonflies arrives. In Harrow County dragonflies are referred to as 'snake doctors' because if you see a dragonfly then it's a sure sign that a snake is nearby. Emmy is able to summon all of the dragonflies out of the woods nearby and send them away – the snakes have no choice but to follow. It's a temporary fix but it's better than nothing. Bernice knows that the snakes will be back with Lovey gone. Lovey was trying to protect the townsfolk from the haints and from Emmy herself – the tension between these two possibly former friends is pretty thick.
Bernice, suspicious that her one time best friend had something to do with Lovey's death, heads through the woods to her late mentor's rundown cabin. When she arrives she finds a few of the older townsfolk there to pay their respects. Not everyone thought Lovey was a witch after all. Nearby in the woods, Emmy talks to the haints, she wants to know the truth about what happened to Lovey while Bernice enters the old home and finds a woman waiting for her.
Emmy's out in the brush with a few of her haint friends when the rain comes down and the lighting strikes. Bernice is with her, it's not going well. Frogs are flying all over the place and when one of them hits Emmy's hand, it burns like acid. Bernice tells her that she brought this upon herself, Emmy just wants to talk things over. One of the haints tries to help by eating a frog, but you can't eat poison without repercussions. Emmy knows she's strong enough to use her powers to stop Bernice dead in her tracks right now, but they are – were? – best friends. She doesn't want to do that.
The haints, encroach on Bernice but Emmy calls them off and her familiar, the skinless boy, helps her. One of the haints – Priscilla – reminds Emmy that she promised to protect them, and that Bernice has been hunting and killing them but Emmy makes it clear that she will not let friends hurt each other.
The creatures scurry off into the forest and the dark night, giving Emmy and Bernice a chance to cool down. Emmy makes it clear that she won't fight Bernice, who responds in kind by running off into the night without saying a word. Emmy things someone has tricked Bernice into thinking that she's done something she hasn't, something awful. Shortly after, Emmy goes after Bernice but on the way a force that she cannot see assails her, and before she knows it she's in the middle of a circle of stones, each one adorned with a drop of her own blood. Emmy realizes that by using her own blood against her Bernice was able to cause her harm, the same blood she spilled when the two of them met the Key Hole Ghost. Bernice appears and confesses to this, and also accuses Emmy or one of her haints of murdering Lovey, her mentor. Bernice tells Emmy to leave, and then Lovey appears…
A plague of frogs that burn to the touch, a battle between witches, a visit from someone who comes from beyond the grave and a great twist ending that might in hindsight seem inevitable but which still packs a punch – this issue delivers. Not that every issue of Harrow County doesn't deliver, because so far they all have, but Bunn's writing has done such a great job of building up character development and backstory and twisting and turning the different plot threads that exist in this story that, well, they're all working together at this point. The end result is a rich world rooted in folk stories and legend, a story rooted in the south, in small towns, the kind you hear about those old empty houses on the outskirts of town, where that weird old lady used to live all by herself. Like stories handed down to elementary school kids from the middle school kids who heard it from the high school kids who heard it from the college kids who obviously experienced it firsthand (or heard it from their parents), this stuff just gets under your skin. This issue won't be kind to new readers, it's not a good jumping on point, but for those who have stuck with Harrow County for a while, well, it doesn't get much better than this. Add to the insanely good writing the equally insanely good artwork from Tyler Crook and it is, quite frankly, shocking that more people aren't raving about this book. And a lot of people are, quite rightly, raving about this book, because it's that damn good.
In addition to reprinting issues 21 – 24, this collected edition also contains six pages of Tyler Crook's sketches with commentary from Crook detailing what we're seeing and putting it into context. There's also a Harrow County Bestiary in which we get an illustration and accompanying text piece detailing the origins of four different creatures featured in the story – the skinless boy, the tattered skin, woodland ghosts and last but not least, goblins.


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I will be there on Saturday, May 2nd, lollygagging and having tattooist Billy Von Boening (of Mad Dog Tattoo) touch up my arms and chest.
My buddy Petrina, co-owner/body piercer of Nothing Sacred Tattoo and seen hiding her face in the below photo, invited me to Tiger Rose's Santa Maria show.
I will be there on Sunday, May 3rd, lollygagging some more and having tattooist Thom Godfrey (co-owner of Nothing Sacred Tattoo) tattoo me. I have never been to Santa Maria or met very many of the artists at this show and am looking forward to this!
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Every protected area, at any given time, has something valuable to offer to others. We can take a snapshot of where each is at and learn fronn it. Lessons may be about a specific management activity. such as monitoring or zoning, or about an encompassing approach such as co-management. This booklet presents four such snapshots, which will be described and analyzed in some depth in the pages that follow. The four sites selected below were chosen by the WCPA Project Steering Committee to illustrate c four particular themes of management practice but there are certainly others that would be equally valid.
The reports on the four sites are presented below as case studies, wherever possible attempting to show their re\evance to the wider European context. But of course, every protected area has to define its own practices that are adapted to the local context. Management practices have to adapt to changing times and circumstances ("adaptive management"). Most protected areas managers will be familiar with the phrase "Learn by doing" and will prefer to develop their management approaches by practical experience rather than reading books and pamphlets. Nevertheless there is value in documenting the experience of protected areas that could be considered seminal on certain topics as a stimulus to debate and thought.
The broad lesson is that there is only one overall recommendation: take on an adaptive management attitude, be responsive and flexible, and learn by doing.
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Heres a list of my favourite sayings found and compiled from various sources, films and books, said that rockabilly way!
Baby – Cute girl, term of address for either sex
Back seat bingo – Necking in a car
Bad news – Depressing person
Bash – Great party
Bit – An act
Blast – A good time
Boss – Great
Bread – Money
Bug – to bother someone
Burn rubber – To accelerate hard and fast (hot-rodders)
Cat – A hip person (Beats)
Cherry – Originally, an unaltered car. Later, anything attractive (hot-rodders, originally)
Classy chassis – Great body
Cloud 9 – Really happy
Clyde – Term of address, usually for a normal person (Beats)
Cook, cookin' – Doing it well
Cool – Indefinable quality that makes something or someone extraordinary
Cool it – Relax, settle down
Crazy – good thing
Cream – Originally, to dent a car. Later, to badly damage (hot-rodders, originally)
Cruisin' for a bruisin' – Looking for trouble
Daddy-O – Term of address (beatnick)
Dibs – A claim – as in "got dibs" on that seat
Dig – To understand; to approve
Drag – (greaser) A short car race; (beatnick) A bore
Eyeball – Look around
Fast – Someone who was sexually active
Fire Up – Start your engine (greaser)
Flat out – Fast as you can
Flick – A movie
Flip – To get excited – "He's gonna flip when he hears the news."
Floor it – Push the accelerator to the floor (greaser)
Get Bent! – Disparaging remark as in "drop dead"
Get with it – Understand
Gig – Work, job (beatnick)
Go ape – Get very excited
Goof – Someone who makes mistakes
Goose it – Accelerate the car fully (greaser)
Greaser – A guy with tons of grease in his hair, which later came to describe an entire group of people.
Grody – Sloppy, messy or dirty
Hang – As in "hang out" which means to do very little
Haul ass – Drive very fast (hot-rodders)
Heat – Police (beatnick)
Hep – With it, cool. Someone who knows the situation.
Hip – Someone who is cool, in the know. Very good.
Horn – Telephone
Kick – A fun or good thing; Also, a fad
Kill – To really impress
Knuckle sandwich – A fist in the face
Kookie – Nuts, in the nicest possible way
Later, also later, gator – Goodbye. See ya later, alligator. Response: in a while crocodile.
Lay a patch – To accelerate so hard that you leave a patch of rubber on the road.
Lay on – To give (beatnick)
Made in the shade – Success guaranteed
Make out – A kissing session
Make the scene – To attend an event or activity
Meanwhile, back at the ranch – Usually used to get a storyteller back on track.
Most – A in "the most" – high praise usually of the opposite sex
Nerd – Geek
Nod – Drift off to sleep
No sweat – No problem
Nowhere – Opposite of cool. Nowheresville was a boring, bad place to be. (beatnick)
Odd ball – Someone a bit off the norm
Off the line – Start of a drag race (greaser)
Pad – Home
Party pooper – No fun at all
Peepers – Glasses
Pound – Beat up
Punch it – Step on the gas (greaser)
Put down – To say bad things about someone
Rag Top – A convertible car
Real gone – in love. Also unstable.
Righto – Okay
Rock – A diamond
Rocket – A car (greaser)
Rod – A car (greaser)
Royal shaft – Badly or unfairly treated
Scream – Go fast
Screamer – A hot rod
Shot down – Failed
Sides – Vinyl records
Sing – To tattle or inform on someone (beatnick)
Sounds – Music
Souped up – A car modified to go fast
Spaz – Someone who is uncoordinated. A clutz.
Split – Leave
Square – A regular, normal person. A conformist.
Stacked – A woman with large er, ah…you know, up top!
That's close – Something wrong or not true
Think Fast – Usually said right before someone threw something at you
Threads – Clothes
Tight – Good friends
Total – To completely destroy, most often in reference to a car
Unreal – Exceptional
Wet rag – Someone who's just no fun
What's buzzin, cuzzin – What's new?
What's you tale, nightingale – What's the story?
Wheelie – Left the car's front wheels off the ground by fast acceleration


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Myth of arctic meltdown: Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7million square kilometres MORE than 2 years ago…despite Al Gore's prediction it would be ICE-FREE by now
The speech by former US Vice-President Al Gore was apocalyptic. 'The North Polar ice cap is falling off a cliff,' he said. 'It could be completely gone in summer in as little as seven years. Seven years from now.'
Those comments came in 2007 as Mr Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for his campaigning on climate change.
But seven years after his warning, The Mail on Sunday can reveal that, far from vanishing, the Arctic ice cap has expanded for the second year in succession – with a surge, depending on how you measure it, of between 43 and 63 per cent since 2012.


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Do not make the same mistake as me, travelling with someone who you call 'friend'
I travelled with a friend, I came back alone.
I was really a fool, such a person is not meant to be friends with in the first place. I have known, but I did not give it a second thought despite he being an outcast and blacklisted during my army days. Such a personality, sad to say would be a life long thing.
I have decided to share this, showing unglam pictures of myself with injuries, something I would not like doing. To make this known so that people would not follow in my footsteps, going on a trip with a 'friend'.
The last day of my 4 days 3 nights trip in Bangkok. We woke up about 10am, realizing the alarm we had set rang an hour ago. The blame was on me, as usual. I was already so sick of his bullshits, whines and complains. I ignored. On the very first day of the trip itself, I felt like leaving, go my own way, enjoy chilling in some cafes, exploring more food options. I am a very high tolerance person myself. This time, I wish he would just go away, far away.
Every moment hearing his criticisms and looking down upon non local university (Kaplan, Uni Sim) graduates since he is from a local university (scholarship), going for a Phd scholarship. Seriously? I myself am a poly graduate only. I felt sad for him. So what if you are a Phd? Can money and phd certs buy true friendships? My time have been wasted. Money definitely can't buy time. We have to make our way back to Platinum Fashion Mall just because he claimed that the singlet he bought was not symmetrical. Wasted an hour just to find the outlet since the mall is HUGE (a shopping heaven). I even have to tolerate sleeping with the air-con at 25 degrees celsius because he claimed that he had asthma (cannot too cold) and his bullshit reasoning of every shopping centre air con temperature is at 25 degrees celsius too. 3 nights and I tolerated too.
Sorry about the side-track. I guessed he must have felt the same about me? He was agitated when I walked into the toilet with my slippers on? This was when his first punch flew towards me on my face. I was a little startled since he was this one who initiated it. His punches continue while I defended a little. I thought to myself, this isn't working and decided to switch to offence mode too.
The look on his face which I took glances of, he was clearly not in the right state of mind. He merely wanted revenge, wanted to hit me just to gain satisfaction and pleasure. He mentioned before, those who offended him, he will never forget. I have no clue on how to handle such situation. I hope someone had taught me how.
I had no time to think, but to continue with the wrestle since he kept advancing towards me. I am not sure how long the fight lasts. He almost tore my hair, bite me a couple of times. Symptoms of a mad man. At one point, we had grabbed and immobilize each other. At the count of 3 we stopped.
I suddenly had cramps. I guess it must be gastric since I had not eaten yet. I tried to clam him down, calm his berserk mood, aggression, madness but to no avail. We rested for about 2 minutes to catch our breath. I wanted medicine for gastric badly.
I sat on the floor, he suddenly took off his sports shoes and swung it mercilessly across my face several times. A hard weapon. By then the cut across my nose started bleeding. My spectacle was smashed and distorted. He continued his attacks and I was almost knocked out by then.
He finally stopped to enter the toilet. I used my remaining energy to grab the hotel phone and pressed the 0 button. "Please come up" was what I heard myself saying and the rest of the sentence, I knew was inaudible. He saw me called.
Within 2 minutes the door bell rang, I limped my way towards the door with blood over my face from the cut on my nose and lips. The hotel staff was shocked when he saw me. He rushed out while I fell back onto the floor. He arrived back with more staffs. I kept mumbling the word 'doctor' to the staffs while I heard my 'friend' say "just give him medicine, don't need go to the doctor!". They ignored him, lifted me and rushed me down the lobby and straight into a cab.
I was dazed and could hardly move my body. I was sent into a private hospital and some procedures started. I felt needles entering my left wrist as well as my right wrist. Another needle entered my right arm. My left ear was in pain as some clamp was around my neck. My nose hurt badly as well with the oxygen mask over my face. I clenched my teeth a couple of time and could feel some crunch which left me in dilemma at first. Only to realize that my bottom teeth had chipped off slightly. After some needles, I had x-ray to scan for broken bones. I was terrified that my nose was broken, having scars and marks.
The picture was taken by the staff. Thank You.
I still couldn't move my body but I was conscious. My 'friend' walked in. He was the last person I wanted to see. Not even in hell. The first thing he said to the hotel staffs was "why you all bring him to the hospital, just give him medicine can already". He started accusing them for being 'extra'.
The next thing he did? He started telling the staffs that we were 'normal fighting' and nothing serious. Seriously??? I was assaulted by you and you have the cheek to say that we were just fighting?? I was too weak to even argue back at that moment.
I was asked if a police report should be made, which meant that our parents had to fly over to settle this issue. It was just too inconvenient for my poor mum as she must have been really anxious, being updated by the staffs of my condition.
I laid on the bed, motionless but conscious. I refused to even talk to him. Next, he started telling the nurses to inform the doctor to edit the report, saying that I fell down, so that I could claim insurance. I already knew he did not want to pay any part of my medical fees right from the start as he had already stated.
The time ticked by, my flight was TR 2109, and would be departing around 8.00pm that very day. I did not have enough cash on hand as well as cards to pay my bill in order to check out and catch my flight. Same for my 'friend'. The staff told him to stay but he walked off, after stating to meet at Vic3 hotel to collect our luggage at 5.00pm in order to catch the flight. I was left lying there.
The nurses attended to me, the hospital's officer in charge of foreigners aided me, the hotel's staffs were there, as well as the hotel's assistant director of sales to make sure I was aright. Strangers who I do not know were present, showing compassion and concern. While my 'friend' went off to have his meal since he announced that he was hungry and did not want to waste any of his precious time waiting for me. I was regretful to know such a person.
The payment part took much time to settle. The bill was close to 26,000 Thai Baht and I was left with only 6,000. No cards to pay either. I called my mum but credit cards could not be used. Bank transfer needed about 3 days to process and I could not leave without paying. I started calling my friends in Singapore. I was so thankful that they were so willing to transfer the money for me after hearing my situation. They were indeed real friends, instead of the one who walked away.
In the end, my payment was settled by Bae, an officer from the hospital. He trusted me and I will definitely not break anyone's trust. The procedures were quick and I managed to leave the hospital around 5.05pm with some medications as well.
Bae brought me back to the hotel. I reached the hotel seeing my 'friend' waiting there. His only concern was to catch the flight. I was already over immune to his behaviour by then. He left to take the train while the hotel staffs helped me to hail a cab. I was left with 1500 Thai Baht in my wallet. After double checking that 1000 was more than enough to pay for the cab, I gave 500 to the hotel staffs as tips.
We were almost late. After the passport custom, he ran off ahead. The distance was extremely far to reach E10, our flight departure point. I have never seen an asthma person with such stamina before, even during our wrestle.
It was about 2 hours of plane ride. I have no intention to speak to him. He was a stranger. I had plasters over my arms. I wore a hat that I bought to hide my injuries all over my face. I teared. I had to use my fingers to remove droplets by droplets as I held on. My nose was too swollen and numb to be felt. All I felt was pain.
About 11.00pm, I touched down. Changi Airport terminal 2, head spinning from fatigue, and partly from the assault. Thankfully the trip was over, I have tolerated and suffered enough. I met up with my mum. We had supper. For me, it was breakfast, lunch and dinner at Toast Box.
I called back to thank Bae.
As for the medical documents, I will upload in future.
Please be aware of who you are travelling with. He know he won't get arrested overseas. I hope no one else would follow my footsteps unless you are ready to make a police report overseas or to file a lawsuit.
This is the person who did this to me.
Bao tou by: Alvin


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Audi has prepared a really tuned up Audi Q5 called the Audi Q5 custom concept, what handy timing for them to showcase this car right after the launch of the Q5 in Malaysia. Lucky owners with deep pockets even after shelling out RM300k or more for the SUV can head on right to shops like Next Level Customz with photos of this new Q5 concept in hand.
But the Audi Q5 custom concept is really more than just a Q5 with an aggressive bodykit. Under the hood is the supercharged 3.0 TFSI V6 from the Audi S4, but tuned up from the standard levels of 333 horses and 440Nm of torque up to 408 PS between 6k to 7k rpm and 500Nm of torque from 3k rpm up to 5.5k rpm.
0 to 100km/h in this body takes only 4.4 seconds. If a future new RS4 is ever going to dump its delicious-sounding V8 for a supercharged V6, expect this kind of power levels. In fact we could actually be looking at a future Q5-S if Audi wants to take it up a notch, but there is no plans for a GLK AMG or X3-M so far. Power is channeled to all wheels via quattro and a quick-shifting 7-speed S-tronic twin clutch transmission.
The aesthetic modifications have also widened the modded Q5's track by 90mm and ride height lowered by 60mm. Those wheels that look like 7 spokes of steel stained with blood are 21 inches in size.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Nearly 200 workers at a Kansas City, Missouri, manufacturing facility are picketing on Monday after the company they worked for locked them out due to a labor dispute.
The contract between Milbank Manufacturing and United Steelworkers Local 13 expired at midnight, and after two weeks of negotiations the two sides failed to reach an agreement leading to the lockout.
The company builds and sells utility boxes called "meter sockets" that go on houses and businesses, and are in the process of building thousands of the boxes to be shipped to the East Coast to help rebuild following Superstorm Sandy.
The sticking points between the company and the union concern salary increases, health benefits and absenteeism.
Milbank CEO Lavon Winkler says that last week, nearly 25 percent of the workers didn't show up to work - and while he says he hates to lockout workers at this time of year, he says that it has always been company policy when it comes to an expiring union contract.
"I feel bad for those folks," said Winkler. "I don't like the fact that here we have the holiday coming upon us, you know, Thanksgiving and Christmas right around the corner. They'd like to be working, we'd like them to be working, we just need to come to an agreement."
United Steelworkers Local 13 president Bob Hill says that health care was a major issue in the negotiations.
"They want to take 25 percent of our gross wages for health care, no one can afford it. We can't afford it, no one can," said Hill.
Both sides say that they want to come to an agreement soon. More meetings with federal mediators are scheduled for Monday afternoon.


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Janice Arnold-Jones (R)
Janice Arnold-Jones was born in Fort Bragg, N.C., and grew up the daughter of an Air Force officer. After her father died on active duty while she was in high school, she and her mother moved to Albuquerque, where she still resides.
Arnold-Jones earned a bachelor's from the University of New Mexico, then spent 20 years as a military wife in a variety of postings.
She is a senior executive with EnergySolutions, an international nuclear services company, and has worked as a conservative radio talk show host.
She was elected to the New Mexico House in 2002.
Arnold-Jones and her husband, John Jones, a retired Navy commander, have two adult children.
Janice Arnold-Jones is a former four-term state representative and a senior executive with EnergySolutions, an international nuclear services company. She was unopposed in the 2012 Republican primary for New Mexico's 1st District U.S. House seat.
She won a seat in the New Mexico House in 2002, serving until 2010, when she made an unsuccessful bid for the Republican nomination for governor.
As a state representative, Arnold-Jones helped secure funding for the Albuquerque Veterans' Memorial.
She served on two legislative committees, Taxation and Revenue, and Voters and Elections. Her interim committee assignments included the Blue Ribbon Tax Commission, Election Reform Task Force, Revenue Stabilization and Tax Policy, Information Technology and Oversight, and New Mexico Finance Authority Oversight.
Arnold-Jones says her knowledge of energy issues makes her uniquely qualified to represent New Mexico's interests in Congress _ especially the critical missions of Sandia National Laboratories and Kirtland Air Force Base.
She says on her campaign website that her "top priority is enabling job creation and turning our economy around." She calls for balancing the federal budget and simplifying taxes, and she believes that every piece of legislation _ except for the budget _ should be limited to a single issue.
Arnold-Jones says she believes that "life is sacred from conception to natural death" and that "marriage between a man and a woman is the best foundation for strong families."
U.S. Representative - NM1
Albuquerque, NM
Fort Bragg, NC


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Set in a coffee shop, eight friends test-drive remarks that they would make if they were asked to be the guest speaker at a Canadian Citizenship ceremony. They themselves represent both newcomers and long-established Canadians. Rather than obsess over host community obligations, each speaker unapologetically outlines what he or she thinks newcomers themselves need to understand about settling here.
Spoiler alert: to conclude, the reader is asked "What would you say?" as the next guest speaker.
Robin Higham has spent many years abroad as a Canadian diplomat in Africa, Asia, Europe and the US. Viewing Canada through the eyes of others, he has always been fascinated by the contrast between how we appear from abroad and how we feel about ourselves. He has convened several Canada-EU conferences which explore the many implications of the arrival among us of culturally and ethnically diverse immigrant newcomers. Since retiring from the Foreign Service, Robin has been attached to the University of Ottawa as Senior Fellow. He is a Partner-Director of Invenire.
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Just at the end of the 19th century (1896, I believe) Andrew White published his well-known book, A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom. This book created quite a stir when it appeared as it dealt with topics like evolution, science versus religion, and so on. Looking back at it now it seems like an interesting intellectual or philosophical discourse on the resistance of religion to science that was, at that time, an interesting but not vital practical matter. That is no longer the case. This is a problem that at the moment has an extremely vital, urgent, practical, life and death importance.
When this fine book first appeared there was no particular threat to either the environment or human life. That is no longer the case. We are now faced with a real possibility of human extinction, mostly from global warming but also from nuclear and other technology gone wild, to say nothing of human greed and denial. Far from a merely interesting intellectual or philosophical question this has now become a crisis than demands an answer and a solution, a situation that may well demand some changes to our cherished rights of free speech and intellectual freedom.
You will have noticed that we have people in important positions of power who still deny the fact of global warming, ignoring the fact that some 97% of all world scientists agree there is such a problem and that it is, at least in part, due to human activity. That is, they deny the scientific evidence, the scientific fact that global warming is occurring, and argue that it is merely a myth, cannot be real, and in extreme instances pass legislation to prevent even further study of it. It is difficult to believe these anti global warming proponents can actually believe this but apparently at least some of them do. No doubt some are motivated by the money they receive from corporations opposed to action on this vital topic, but some cite religious beliefs having to do with "only God can change the climate," and so on. These people are trying to kill us. This is not a case of "two sides to every argument," as there are no two equal sides to this particular argument. Scientific facts are not merely an opinion, they are, in fact, facts, there are no equivalent "facts" on the other side, only "facts" based on opinion.
This problem seems to break down into two factions, those who believe in science and those who do not. While this is not necessarily a distinction between Democrats and Republicans it does appear to correlate somewhat. You may have noticed the controversy over the recent TV program "Cosmos," where the religious right demands equal time for more "balance." There is no balance. Science is not merely a difference of opinion about evolution and creationism. Evolution is a scientific fact, not merely an opinion, just as gravity is a fact, electricity is a fact, the planet earth is round and not flat is a fact, the earth revolves around the sun is a fact, and so on. Creationism is not factual, has no evidence, and is based upon biblical (non) authority. It is a matter of faith having nothing whatsoever to do with fact.
Thus we have a situation in which there are no two opposing views of reality. There are the facts of science and the opinions of those who would deny science. To allow those who deny science to have any credence whatever would be to adopt suicidal behaviors potentially destroying us all. So what do you do in a society that allows unlimited free speech and unlimited religious opinion no matter how foolish and destructive it may be, a society in which the media seem to believe that both sides should get equal footage? Perhaps if our citizens were better educated…but no, that costs money, money that is needed for more weapons and ammunition, more killing, more trying to rule the world. Religious fundamentalism, especially in high places, threatens to destroy us all. Hallelujah.
"People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction."


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DR. IBRAHIM MARTIN Version: "West African advanced fee" or "419" Email Scam
This is another version of the Nigerian email scam, now being sent out by "DR. IBRAHIM MARTIN."
Read more about the history of this scam.
union Bank Of Nig. Plc
Union House Marina
Lagos State
REPLY TO: (email@example.com )
Dear Sir,
I sincerely write to seek your co-operation and trust
to enable my colleagues and I carry out an urgent
business opportunity in my department. I work with the
Union Bank of Nigeria PLC, currently I am the senior
manager of bills and exchange at the foreign
remittance department of my bank. I have an urgent and confidential
business proposal for you. On June 6, 1998, an Australian oil
consultant/contractor with via National Petroleum cooperation
(NNPC) Mr. Ali B. Ashraf made a numbered time (fixed) deposit for twelve calenderer
month valued at US$51,000,000.00(fifty _one Million US Dollars) in my
branch. On maturity, I sent a routine notification tohis forwarded
address but got no reply after months we send a reminder and finally we
discovered from his contract employee (Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation)
that MR. Ali B. Ashrafdied from an automobile accident. On further
investigation, it was clear that he died without making a WILL.
All attempts by the Australian to trace his next of kin were fruitless.
I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr. Ali B. Ashraf did
not declare any next of kin or relations in all his official documents
including his deposit document in my bank. The total sum
US$51,000,000.00 is still in my bank as dormant acct.
No one will ever come forward to claim it.
According to Nigerian banking law, after five years, the money
will revert to the ownership of the Nigerian Government. If the account
owner is certified death and nobody comes forward to claim it. This is the
situation , and my proposal is that I am looking for aforeigner who will stand
in as the beneficiary/next of kin. This is simple. All you have to do is to
immediately send me the details of a bank account anywhere in the
world for me to arrange the proper money transfer document. The money will then
be transferred into the account for us to share in the ratio of 60% for
me 30% for you while the remaining 10% will be set aside for expenses
incurred with here and there. There is no risk involved. I am using my position
and connection in the bank here to do all the document work for the
transaction. We shall employ the services of an attorney to draft the
will and obtain all necessary documents and letter of administration in
yourfavor for the transfer. This transaction is risk free guaranteed. If
you are interested, , I will send to you the text of the application
that you will send to the Union Bank authority for an approval to
submit your claims.
Send your reply through mydirect and private email
address ( firstname.lastname@example.com ) indicate your direct
Fax and telephone numbers for effective communication
that this transaction needs. Do not reply through the
union bank email address because it belongs to the
senior staffs for public use.
Please note that you are not to appear in person, as
every thing regarding this project will be strictly on
documentations and every banking documents needed for
this transaction will be taken care of by my self.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Yours Faithfully


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Are you really going to make that blue corn tortilla soup you got in that going-away gift basket?
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On what is reportedly Rahm Emanuel's last day as White House chief of staff, the Council of Economic advisers presented him with their going-away gift.
Austan Goolsbee, President Obama's recently installed Office of Management and Budget chief, presented Emanuel with the gift saying, I talked to the policy team and we wanted to give you a going-away present -- something to show how we feel about you but also shows we understand your new possibilities.
Neighbors were so supportive, they threw him a going-away party.
Then, on the final day of my service at the White House (Jan. 30, 1998), Rahm showed up -- to my surprise -- at my going-away reception, hosted by President and Mrs. Clinton in the historic Diplomatic Reception Room on the ground floor of the residence.
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So far, cable networks heavy on sports programming are breaking the most new ground in creative sponsorships, but even A&E Television Networks is getting into the act with its first-ever product placement deal, involving Ford Motor Co.'s Jaguar and the History Channel this summer. The A&E cable channel also is exploring ways to bring sponsors into its "Biography" series.
Some industry observers have suggested that advertisers and networks are scrambling to integrate commercial messages into programming to blunt the effect of sophisticated replay devices, like TiVo, that allow consumers to skip over commercials more easily. But cable TV programmers hotly dispute that notion.
"People have had the ability to skip over commercials for years with videocassette players, but people haven't changed their viewing habits and behavior because of that," says Roger Williams, president-CEO of Outdoor Life Network.
Nevertheless, a growing number of cable networks are aggressively exploring ways of integrating sponsors' messages directly into programming as part of more complex media packages that also include-naturally-traditional 30-second commercials.
"We started approaching advertisers with ideas for more creative approaches for using sponsors' messages in our programming, and now advertisers are coming to us with ideas," says Guy Sousa, exec VP of News Corp.'s Fox Sports Net.
Since Fox launched "Best Damn Sports Show, Period" last summer, the program has become a laboratory for new sponsorship efforts, including converting the talk show's studio into a lemonade stand to promote Mark Anthony Brands' Mike's Hard Lemonade, with hosts Tom Arnold and Chris Rose inserting mentions of the malternative beverage in their sports banter. A similar deal turned the set into a Quizno's sandwich shop.
In another product promotion within the program, Levi Strauss & Co.'s Dockers pants were described on the show as "stainproof" and used as comedy material in the talk show. The Dockers jokes may have appeared to be spontaneous, but they actually were part of a media buy, says Mr. Sousa.
"We're integrating brand names into the show, but we make sure that whatever product we're talking about works with the show and enhances the entertainment, instead of blatantly touting products," he says.
Advertisers opting for in-program sponsorship appearances agree to let go of control over how brand names will be used in the freewheeling program. "It's a bit of a risk, and not all advertisers are willing to do it," says Mr. Sousa.
The cable TV industry has been bolder than the broadcast networks in pioneering new sponsorship formats within programming, and will likely open the doors to more network flexibility with product placement, says Laura Caraccioli-Davis, VP-director of Bcom3 Group's Starcom Entertainment, Chicago.
"But product placement carries its own risks," she warns, "and if viewers begin to doubt the integrity of a network because of gratuitous uses of product placement, it will be hard to backpedal."
Cable networks insist their product placement capers are rigorously aligned with their programming standards to ensure entertainment value and integrity.
"Everything we do is handled by producers, and they will reject an idea that doesn't make the show genuinely more entertaining," says Fox Sports Net's Mr. Sousa.
Viewers' demands for more information about sports equipment led to Outdoor Life Network's latest product placement program, says John West, the network's senior VP-advertising sales. Trek Bicycle Corp. next month will sponsor a 30-minute program about its bikes, ridden by 2001 Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, as part of an overall media buy surrounding the three-week race, to be covered by OLN.
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Also, this year for the first time OLN is allowing advertisers to sponsor commercial-free, 30-minute segments of the Tour de France. Ford's Lincoln brand will sponsor 36 hours of commercial-free coverage. In return, the carmaker will receive in-program mentions and on-screen plugs. Lincoln also is traveling new roads on the broadcast side through a deal with General Electric Co.'s NBC. Lincoln cars will be featured on-stage during concert segments on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno."
Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN is experimenting with new roles for sponsors too, says Ed Erhardt, president of customer marketing and sales for ESPN/ABC Sports.
"Advertisers and agencies want to weave themselves into programming in a variety of ways, and advertisers are taking a bigger role in driving this," he says. Examples include "The Life," a behind-scenes ESPN show sponsored by Coca-Cola Co.'s Sprite and which has included product placement.
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8.572174 - MESSIAEN, O.: Poemes pour Mi / Les offrandes oubliees / Un sourire (Schwanewilms, Lyon National Orchestra, Markl)
Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
Olivier Messiaen was born on 10 December 1908 in Avignon into a literary family. His father was an eminent translator of English literature and his mother, Cécile Sauvage, was a published poet. Messiaen displayed a precocious musical talent from an early age, being accepted by the time he was eleven into the Paris Conservatoire, where he studied piano, composition and organ. After graduation he served as organist at the Église de la Trinité in Paris from 1931 until his death, and his own contribution to the organ repertoire is arguably greater than that of any other composer since Bach.
In 1932 Messiaen married the violinist Claire Delbos and they had a son five years later. During World War II, he was captured while serving as a medical auxiliary and held as a prisoner of war at Görlitz in Silesia. It was there that he wrote one of his most famous works, the Quatuor pour le fin de temps Quartet for the End of Time), which was given its first performance in the camp by four of the prisoners. After his release in 1941 Messiaen returned to Paris and took up a Professorship at the Conservatoire. Towards the end of the war his wife developed mental health problems following an operation. Her condition worsened steadily and she was eventually hospitalised until her death in 1959.
Messiaen had been fascinated by birdsong since adolescence; he once described birds as 'probably the greatest musicians to inhabit our planet'. In 1953 he began travelling around France, meticulously notating different birdsong and using it in his music. By the 1960s, as his growing international reputation was taking him further afield, including to Japan, Iran, Argentina and Australia, he extended concert trips to further his birdsong research, often accompanied by his second wife, the pianist Yvonne Loriod, whom he had married in 1961.
The late 1960s and 1970s were dominated by a series of monumental works which embodied the ideas and phenomena that inspired him most: the oratorio La transfiguration de notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ (1965–69) and the opera Saint François d'Assise (1975–83) were acts of devotion to his Roman Catholic faith, and the orchestral work Des canyons aux étoiles…(1971–74) was inspired by birdsong as well as the colours and majesty of the Bryce Canyon in Utah, which he visited in 1972. Messiaen retired from teaching in 1978, but continued composing until shortly before his death.
Messiaen lived and worked at a time when Western composers were rejecting many of the styles that had evolved over the previous three centuries and inventing new ones. Although Messiaen himself was a musical innovator, he stood aside from his contemporaries, as his music was born of a deep religious faith and a wonder of nature, in an age when secularism and detachment were much more in vogue. As a teacher he was a major influence on a new generation of groundbreaking composers, including Boulez and Stockhausen, but whereas these composers aimed to break totally free from tradition, Messiaen's sound world always has a shimmering beauty that seems to be the natural successor to the ravishing harmonies of early twentieth-century French composers, such as Debussy, who had first awakened his own passion for music.
In 1936 Messiaen and Claire Delbos spent the summer in their newly built house in Petichet in the French Alps. This was where Messiaen felt most at home and Poèmes pour Mi was the first of many works that he wrote here. Mi (the French word for the musical note E—the pitch of a violin's highest open string) was Messiaen's pet name for Claire, and this setting of nine poems by the composer himself is essentially a set of love-songs to her.
Poèmes pour Mi is not a romantic or sentimental expression of love; instead it is imbued with a deeply personal sense of mystery and spirituality, portraying human love as inextricably connected to the love of God and of nature. In Action de grâces, Messiaen thanks God for the gift of nature and of his beloved. Le paysage paints an idyllic picture of the lakes and countryside around Petichet. The opening words of La maison, 'we will leave this house', refer to human mortality; though comforted by love and faith, Messiaen's portrayal of death is a gentle, transcendent one. The mood darkens in Épouvante, with a terrifying vision of the pain of lost memories. This song is particularly poignant in the context of the amnesia and mental illness which were to plague Claire's life from the mid-1940s. In L'épouse, Messiaen compares the union between man and wife to the union between Christ and the Church. Ta voix describes the voice of the beloved as like a bird awakening in springtime, bringing pleasure to God. In Les deux guerriers the couple are warriors, fighting darkness and evil in their march towards God. Le collier revels in sensuousness as the necklace of the title is described as the lover's morning embrace. The cycle ends with Prière exaucée (Answered Prayer), a joyous giving of thanks for God, for human love and for nature.
Poèmes pour Mi had its première in Paris on 28 April 1937 in its original version for voice and piano. It was performed by Messiaen's favourite soprano, Marcelle Bunlet, accompanied by the composer. The orchestral version heard on this recording, which Messiaen made in 1937, took longer to catch on, and was not performed in its entirety until 1949.
Messiaen wrote Les offrandes oubliées (The Forgotten Offerings), his first published orchestral work, in the summer of 1930, just after completing his studies at the Paris Conservatoire. Its première six months later attracted much press attention; the critic Guy Chastel remarked in Les Amitiés (1931) on the bold originality of the music, noting that such sustained, emotional music inspired by religious faith was refreshingly unusual on the contemporary music scene.
The work is subtitled 'a symphonic meditation' and is split into three parts: two extremely slow sections flanking a violent, ferocious one. In a short poem at the front of the score, Messiaen describes the slow, sad opening as a depiction of Christ's sacrifice on the Cross; in the middle section, he likens man's 'breathless, frenzied, ceaseless descent into sin' to a descent into the grave; and the ending, marked 'with great pity, and great love', represents the Eucharist, and reminds us of Christ's love for mankind.
Un sourire (A Smile) was Messiaen's response to a commission from the Polish conductor Marek Janowski to write an orchestral piece 'in the spirit of Mozart' to be given its première on 5 December 1991, the bicentenary of Mozart's death. In his short homage Messiaen does not attempt to make any stylistic allusions to Mozart; the musical language is very much his own, with slow sections of mystical chords alternating with brittle, rhythmic passages based on birdsong. Messiaen explained that he was instead paying tribute to Mozart's attitude to life: despite the many hardships Mozart suffered '…he always smiled. In his music and in his life. So I too tried to smile, and I composed Un sourire, a piece lasting nine minutes…which I hope…smiles!'.
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To The Colombian Woman I Don't Know
she's old
and rotting quickly,
each wrinkle on
her silvery black face
tells tales of years
stacked upon years,
tears piled on tears
joy and pain
toil and bitter rain
but behind her dark
Colombian folds
drooped eye bags
ash-gray prickly hair
shriveled lips crumbled
upon sour memories
and heavenly aged thoughts,
I see a beautiful woman I don't know
happy to wake and dress
and brush her brittle grays
a smile on rustic lips
as she drapes faded pearls
over slumped shoulders
adorning her leathery brown neck
with jewels just like
rich white women wear up north.
©Wilson Santos
*I took this photo of this beautiful woman while on vacation in Colombia in 2013. She inspired this poem.
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I have been spending an awful lot of time lately listening to Bruce Springsteen's Tunnel Of Love. And by "awful lot" I kind of mean any. But it's all for a good cause, which is to
get that piece of crap out of the way give my writer self an opportunity to understand why, exactly, I never liked the record. Am I getting any closer to the truth? Yes, I think so. But it's not really a surprise: it's the music. I just don't like it. But this isn't really what I want to talk about.
In some of the comments coming in, and in the topics I've seen floating around the Springsteen fan boards, a very good point has been made. Listeners have said that sometimes your ideas about a piece of music can change over time. The idea is this. That maybe the album didn't resonate with you when it came out, but over the years your life experience changes you…and you look at the music and the stories being told in a different light. With regard to Tunnel of Love, many people related that they'd had no issues in the relationship department at the time, but then later on a breakup made them see just what Bruce was getting at.
Since this particular phenomenon never happened to me (and I went through a king-hell, disgusting, lying, cheating, Oh gawd I want to kill everybody-style breakup), it got me to wondering if there are any albums in my collection that have gone through this transformation. I used to hate it, but now I love it? Can I make that statement apply?
Uhm…I'm not sure that I can. There are definitely artists that went from the minus to plus category in my head: Boz Scaggs and John Mellencamp come to mind. While (secretly) loving "Lido Suffle," I professed my hatred of "Lowdown" and "Georgia." Years later, I came to my senses. Similarly, I really did hate "Jack and Diane," but Mellencamp's songwriting goodness won me over. And then there's David Bowie and Peter Gabriel. Bowie? I grew up with all of Bowie's hits on the radio but never bought an album. Peter Gabriel got lumped in with early Genesis as something that just left me cold. Then I heard a song (wish I could remember what it was) and went out and bought all of his solo material…which I now never listen to. I guess these changes of heart (or ears) are not permanent.
But albums? That's a tough one.
The closest I've come is probably Radiohead's OK Computer. It was the first Radiohead album I bought, picked up on the strength of a lot of press and one particular radio interview with Terry Gross. Thom Yorke seemed like quite an interesting fellow, so I decided to see what all the fuss was about. And fuss there was. By the time I launched into the first listen, I'd read so much hype about the record that it didnt' stand a chance — there are people out there who consider this record to be among the top ten rock albums of all time. Look, I can take that sort of hyperbole, but of all time? Couple that with the idea that the band were somehow pioneering and/or groundbreaking and what you ended up with was me proclaiming Radiohead to be nothing more than low-rent King Crimson.
Since that record came out, Radiohead took a left turn of sorts. Both Kid A and Amnesiac took on a kind of otherworldly quality that really drew me in. This made me go back and give OK Computer another listen. The music is full of the kind of layering that really gets my attention. Lots of people have written about the lyrics and the album's theme and structure. These things are of lesser importance to me because the music always comes first. To my ears, that's where Radiohead shines. Long-form melodies, sonic oddities that make perfect sense, and tension & release song dynamics that give the music a difficult to categorize edge.
So there. I've admitted to enjoying OK Computer. Do you have an album you used to hate?
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German central bank: strong domestic growth in Q2
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's central bank says recent data indicate the country's economy, Europe's biggest, "expanded strongly" in the second quarter following a weak start to the year.
The Bundesbank said in its monthly report Monday that it believes industry and construction made significant contributions to growth in the April-June period. The economy grew by 0.1 percent in the first quarter, weighed down by a long winter that hit sectors such as construction and the financial crisis among the 17 European Union countries that use the euro.
The Bundesbank didn't give a specific prediction for second-quarter growth.
German economic activity could help push the eurozone out of a recession that has lasted since the final quarter of 2011. The eurozone economy shrank 0.2 percent in the first quarter.
For Germany, economist Holger Schmieding at Berenberg Bank predicts growth of 0.8 percent from the previous quarter, saying the country is benefiting from the easing in the eurozone crisis.
The region's financial turmoil has subsided since the European Central Bank in September 2012 offered to buy the government bonds of indebted countries such as Spain and Italy. That lowered their borrowing costs and defused fears of a disastrous government default.
Schmieding said Germany was tied to the eurozone's fate since it makes big-ticket items such as industrial machinery and autos that it exports to fellow European countries.
"Whether or not companies and households at home or abroad buy these big-ticket items reflects their level of confidence in the future," he wrote in a research note. "That helps to explain why the German business cycle is driven so much by the escalation or the easing of tensions in the eurozone, despite Germany's underlying fundamental strength."
Official data for the second quarter are due on Aug. 14.


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Can turkeys get killed when they fight? — William Johnson, Miami, Fla.
Excellent question. We put it to the expert, Lovett E. Williams Jr., one of the country's top turkey biologists. Here's his response.
Disputes between turkeys are usually resolved without serious fighting, and even when fighting occurs, it's usually brief. Injuries are common, however. Hunters typically find spur wounds on gobblers taken during spring. However, prolonged battles and death from fighting occur. My colleague David Austin once saw a young gobbler killed by a blow to the head when the jake became too closely involved in a fight between adult gobblers. I heard the fighting sounds from my blind almost ⅛ mile away.
An autopsy of the dead bird by a poultry pathologist revealed that the cause of death was a large embolism of a blood vessel pressing against the spinal cord.