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The View From Asia
Fleeing Rohingyas and the looming humanitarian crisis
Commentators in the region draw attention to the plight of thousands of persecuted, homeless Rohingyas fleeing Myanmar and the humanitarian crisis it could pose for the region. Here are excerpts from three views
Indonesia is the last hope for Rohingyas
John Coyne, The Jakarta Post, Indonesia
The security situation for 1.3 million Muslim Rohingyas living in Myanmar is becoming increasingly untenable.
If this situation deteriorates much further, Asean can expect to face a mass migration crisis before the year is out.
Unfortunately for the Rohingyas, the window of opportunity to prevent this humanitarian crisis is rapidly closing.
Put simply, if Jakarta doesn't respond soon, it will be too late.
If this crisis can't be averted through careful diplomacy, the flow of refugees from Myanmar is likely to rapidly reach a magnitude that will overwhelm the region's capacity to respond.
For 25 years, the maritime border security situation in South-east Asia has been relatively stable. Asean's geographic isolation from the Middle East, Africa and South America has served to insulate it from the mass migration crises in Europe and North America.
Early last year, almost 25,000 Rohingyas took to boats to escape persecution from Myanmar's Buddhist government. This mass migration flow caused a crisis across Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.
Over the last month, the situation for the Rohingyas has once more entered a state of rapid and deadly decline.
The Myanmar government alleges that on Oct 9, an insurgent Rohingya group launched coordinated ground assaults against several border guard posts, killing nine police officers and five soldiers.
Since the attacks, the Myanmar government has deployed large numbers of police and military forces to the Rakhine state.
According to official Myanmar reporting, 69 suspected insurgents and 17 security force personnel have been killed since the attacks began.
It is alleged by international advocates that Myanmar's government forces have shot scores of people, raped women, burnt houses and stores and looted property across Rakhine state.
These attacks have universally targeted the Muslim Rohingya minority.
Various non-government organisations have reported that in excess of 30,000 Rohingyas are now displaced by the violence.
Bangladeshi officials are already reporting that the number of Rohingyas attempting to cross the border from Myanmar by land and sea is rising by the day.
With an estimated population of 1.3 million Rohingyas in Myanmar, the potential for a mass migration crisis in the region is clear.
The United Nations, while well intentioned, has had little impact on the situation on the ground.
With US President-elect Donald Trump's imminent ascendancy to the Oval Office, American engagement in the Asia-Pacific is on pause and its future uncertain. The strained relations between Myanmar and China ensures that Beijing is unlikely to intervene. Australia's long commitment to the Middle East and the war on terrorism have seen it walk away from the Mekong states.
If the crisis is to be averted, help will need to come from within the Asean region. However, Asean moves far too slowly to be a real option.
As the world's most populous Muslim nation, Indonesia has a religious and regional obligation to come to the aid of the Rohingyas. Indonesia needs to lobby for Myanmar to halt its security operations in Rakhine state as soon as possible. If Indonesia doesn't act soon to end the persecution of the Rohingyas, the region may face a humanitarian crisis that stretches from Rakhine state to the archipelago's shores.
Relentless persecution
Editorial, The Statesman, India
The irony is cruel. The persecution of the Rohingyas has intensified in Myanmar with the change of guard - from the junta to a democratic dispensation under Ms Aung San Suu Kyi.
The democratic world had expected quite the contrary, if not a distinct measure of improvement in the condition of the stateless minorities of Rakhine province.
The latest offensive by the Myanmar military is strangely of a piece with Ms Suu Kyi's silence on the issue ahead of the momentous transition early this year. No less deafening must be her muted response at this juncture.
Now that she is in power, though not as president, there can be no compelling reason to almost tacitly condone the offensive.
The plot thickens as satellite images have revealed the destruction of no fewer than 820 homes in the three weeks of this month. In the net, the Rohingyas have been displaced further still in the course of what has been packaged as a "counter-insurgency operation".
Human rights are at stake, as must be the purportedly democratic government's credibility.
It becomes imperative for Myanmar to stop the offensive and no less crucial to grant citizenship to the Rohingyas, who have lived in Rakhine for generations.
Protecting refugees
Shamsul Bari, The Daily Star, Bangladesh
Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly in September, our Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina spoke of the need to protect the rights of refugees and migrants globally and said that the world must reach a consensus on shared responsibility and inclusiveness to address the crisis.
As a retiree from the UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, her words were music to my ears. My 23 years of service with the UNHCR gave me the opportunity to deal with the plight of refugees around the world.
I have always felt that, among all the nations of the world, we would perhaps be most protective of refugees because of our history. In fact, going beyond our recent experience of being refugees ourselves, we have had a long tradition of giving shelter to refugees from all over India and beyond.
In more recent years, we have also given shelter to many hapless refugees from our neighbouring country, Myanmar. They have come and gone back in large numbers in the last four decades.
In more recent years, as the sociopolitical situation in their places of origin in Myanmar deteriorated, more refugees have tried to enter our country.
Alas, our hospitality appears to be drying up. In the last two years, our border guards have pushed back so many of these refugees that many of them, trying to go to more distant shores, have perished at sea.
We are doing so even today. Reports in our news media in the last few days tell us how much our border officials are once again engaged in turning back many harried asylum seekers from Myanmar.
I know how refugees feel when they are not allowed to enter or disembark in the country of their arrival.
My experience between 1978 and the early 1990s, with the movement of over two million Vietnamese boat people in the waters of South-east Asia, reminds me of the inhuman suffering they had to endure before many of them perished at sea or were finally able to land in a neighbouring country.
I acknowledge that the host population in refugee-receiving countries suffers a great deal due to the presence of a large alien population among them.
We should remember, however, that we too imposed a similar burden on our hosts in India. That was resolved even though many in India had feared that the refugees would never return to Bangladesh.
Similarly, over 500,000 Myanmar refugees have returned to their country over the last three decades.
As human beings, we owe it to all other human beings to be given an opportunity to find humane solutions to their problems, however impossible they may appear at a given time.
- The View From Asia is a weekly compilation of articles from The Straits Times' media partner Asia News Network, a grouping of 21 newspapers. For more, see www.asianews.network.


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Patroklos is a playable character in Warriors: Legends of Troy. He is one of the Myrmidones and Achilles's extraordinary friend from the battlefront. Both men are bonded together by their distinct enjoyment for war and victory.
Role in GameEdit
Since the start of the Trojan War, Patroklos fights by Achilles' side. He is the warrior's closest friend. They fight countless battles together whilst claiming Trojan ground for the Greeks. Early within the war, Patroklos clashed blades with Hektor while gathering Trojans to be slaves for the Greeks. Failing in his mission, he orders the Greek troops under his command to temporarily withdraw.
When Achilles retracts into solitude, Patroklos follows him. However, once the Greeks are on the verge of defeat, Patroklos decides to take his friend's armor and fight in Achilles' stead. He wishes to instill courage into his comrades by fighting in Achilles' image while respecting his friend's wish to remain idle. His friend doesn't protest the choice but only warns him to not cross the river. However, Patroklos disobeys these wishes to push the Trojans further back. He encounters Hektor, who mistakes him for Achilles due to his attire. During their duel, Patroklos momentarily gains the upper hand. Before he can deal the fatal blow, Apollo intervenes on the prince's behalf and Hektor uses the opportunity to kill Patroklos. The news of his death infuriates Achilles to once again enter the fray.
After Achilles avenges his death, he lays Patroklos' ashes in a golden urn. The same urn is later used for Achilles' remains, and their ashes are burned together.
- "Your brother hides behind your valor, prince. You defend a man without honor."
- "Tell me, Achilles, can your mother see our fates?"
- "Depends on what you choose to believe in."
- "You sound like an oracle. Words with no answers."
- "Depends on the question."
- ~~Patroklos and Achilles
|Quick Attack •
|Focused Attacks/Finisher •
|Fury •
|Stun Attack
- , : Jumps for a diagonal slash.
- , , : Jumps forward and cuts with an overhead slash.
- , , , : Rushes to the front a few paces before Patroklos performs a circular slash.
- , , , , : Runs forward with sword at his side. He then smashes it into his foe.
- , , , , , : Three wide horizontal slashes. Turns for a hopping diagonal slash. As he lands, Patroklos slices once to the side before he finishes with a turning slash.
- Dashing : Wide slash to the right.
- : Overhead diagonal slice.
- , : Overhead slice and a slash to his opponent's side.
- , , : Dropping slash, side slice, and lunging stab forward.
- , : Two swings with shield arm.
- , : Swings his shield into foes.
- , , : Wider shield bash.
- , , , : Short dash before he swings his shield. Patroklos emits a stunning shockwave during the animation, which lowers the guard of foes in its range.
- , , , , : Running tackle. Patroklos emits a stunning shockwave during the animation.
- Finishers
Finishers can be performed by weakening a foe's guard or health. When the button for a Focused Attack flashes on a target, approach them from a different angle to see another Finisher.
- Front - Runs sword through opponent's chest.
- Front - Pierces sword through his enemy's face. As he dislodges his sword, he swings his shield arm to hit opponents. As he does so, Patroklos emits a stunning shockwave.
- Rear - Stabs a foe's back, his sword completely impaling through their chest.
- Downed Enemies - Looms over toppled enemy and stabs their face with his sword.
- Mid-Range - Uses his shield to lift his stunned foe off the ground. He balances them on top of his shield to drop them behind him. As they crash on their backs, Patroklos stabs his sword through their face.
- Mid-Range - Running jump kick.
Fighting StyleEdit
For his lone entry in the game's story mode, Patroklos deliberately mimics Achilles' attacks with a few minor differences. In order to use his own attacks, players need to use Patroklos in the extra modes. Even so, his unique style shares many complementary traits with his friend's actions. While he may not have as much power or defense as Achilles, Patroklos strikes with better speed and slightly longer range.
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- intransitive v. To engage in flight, especially:
- intransitive v. To move through the air by means of wings or winglike parts.
- intransitive v. To travel by air: We flew to Dallas.
- intransitive v. To operate an aircraft or spacecraft.
- intransitive v. To rise in or be carried through the air by the wind: a kite flying above the playground.
- intransitive v. To float or flap in the air: pennants flying from the masthead.
- intransitive v. To move or be sent through the air with great speed: bullets flying in every direction; a plate that flew from my hands when I stumbled.
- intransitive v. To move with great speed; rush or dart: The children flew down the hall. Rumors were flying during their absence.
- intransitive v. To flee; escape.
- intransitive v. To hasten; spring: flew to her students' defense.
- intransitive v. To pass by swiftly: a vacation flying by; youth that is soon flown.
- intransitive v. To be dissipated; vanish: Their small inheritance was quickly flown.
- intransitive v. Baseball To hit a fly ball.
- intransitive v. To undergo an explosive reaction; burst: The dropped plate flew into pieces. The motorist flew into a rage.
- intransitive v. Informal To gain acceptance or approval; go over: "However sophisticated the reasoning, this particular notion may not fly" ( New York Times).
- transitive v. To cause to fly or float in the air: fly a kite; fly a flag.
- transitive v. Nautical To operate under (a particular flag): a tanker that flies the Liberian flag.
- transitive v. To pilot (an aircraft or a spacecraft).
- transitive v. To carry or transport in an aircraft or a spacecraft: fly emergency supplies to a stricken area.
- transitive v. To pass over or through in flight: flew the coastal route in record time.
- transitive v. To perform in a spacecraft or an aircraft: flew six missions into space.
- transitive v. To flee or run from: fly a place in panic.
- transitive v. To avoid; shun: fly temptation.
- n. The act of flying; flight.
- n. A fold of cloth that covers a fastening of a garment, especially one on the front of trousers.
- n. The fastening or opening covered by such a fold.
- n. A flap that covers an entrance or forms a rooflike extension for a tent or the canopy of a vehicle.
- n. A flyleaf.
- n. Baseball A fly ball.
- n. The span of a flag from the staff to the outer edge.
- n. The outer edge of a flag.
- n. A flywheel.
- n. The area directly over the stage of a theater, containing overhead lights, drop curtains, and equipment for raising and lowering sets.
- n. Chiefly British A one-horse carriage, especially one for hire.
- fly at To attack fiercely; assault: The dogs flew at each other's throats.
- idiom fly high To be elated: They were flying high after their first child was born.
- idiom fly off the handle Informal To become suddenly enraged: flew off the handle when the train was finally canceled.
- idiom let fly To shoot, hurl, or release: The troops let fly a volley of gunfire.
- idiom let fly To lash out; assault: The mayor let fly with an angry attack on her critics.
- idiom on the fly On the run; in a hurry: took lunch on the fly.
- idiom on the fly While in the air; in flight: caught the ball on the fly.
- n. Any of numerous two-winged insects of the order Diptera, especially any of the family Muscidae, which includes the housefly.
- n. Any of various other flying insects, such as the caddis fly.
- n. A fishing lure simulating a fly, made by attaching materials such as feathers, tinsel, and colored thread to a fishhook.
- idiom fly in the ointment A detrimental circumstance or detail; a drawback.
- adj. Chiefly British Mentally alert; sharp.
- adj. Slang Fashionable; stylish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp, smart (in a mental sense).
- adj. Well dressed, smart in appearance.
- adj. Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.
- n. Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings, also called true flies.
- n. Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
- n. Any similar, but unrelated insect such as dragonfly or butterfly.
- n. A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
- n. A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
- v. To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
- v. (archaic) (poetic) To flee, to escape.
- v. To cause to fly (travel by air or the like): to transport via air or the like.
- v. (colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
- v. To travel very fast.
- n. The action of flying; flight.
- n. An act of flying.
- n. A fly ball.
- n. A type of small, fast carriage.
- n. A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
- n. A strip of material hiding the zipper, buttons etc. at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, or underpants.
- n. The free edge of a flag.
- n. The horizontal length of a flag.
- n. butterfly a form of swimming
- n. Exercises that evolve wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders
- v. To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Knowing; wide awake; fully understanding another's meaning.
- n.
- n. Any winged insect; esp., one with transparent wings.
- n. Any dipterous insect; See diptera, and Illust. in Append.
- n. A hook dressed in imitation of a fly, -- used for fishing.
- n. A familiar spirit; a witch's attendant.
- n. A parasite.
- n. A kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse.
- n. The length of an extended flag from its staff; sometimes, the length from the "union" to the extreme end.
- n. The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
- n. That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
- n.
- n. Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
- n. A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below).
- n. The piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
- n. The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
- n. A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
- n.
- n. Formerly, the person who took the printed sheets from the press.
- n. A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power to a power printing press for doing the same work.
- n. The outer canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn over the ridgepole, but so extended as to touch the roof of the tent at no other place.
- n. One of the upper screens of a stage in a theater.
- n. The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons.
- n. A batted ball that flies to a considerable distance, usually high in the air; also, the flight of a ball so struck. Also called fly ball.
- n. Waste cotton.
- intransitive v. To move in or pass through the air with wings, as a bird.
- intransitive v. To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse.
- intransitive v. To float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag.
- intransitive v. To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly
- intransitive v. To run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee. See Note under Flee.
- intransitive v. To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly; -- usually with a qualifying word
- transitive v. To cause to fly or to float in the air, as a bird, a kite, a flag, etc.
- transitive v. To fly or flee from; to shun; to avoid.
- transitive v. To hunt with a hawk.
- transitive v. To manage (an aircraft) in flight.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To move through the air by the aid of wings, as birds.
- To pass or move in air by the force of wind or any other impulse: as, clouds fly before the wind; a ball flies from a cannon, an arrow from a bow; the explosion made the gravel fly.
- To rise, spring, shoot, or be cast in air, as smoke, sparks, or other light objects.
- To move or pass with swiftness or alacrity; go rapidly or at full speed; rush; dart: as, to fly to the relief of a distressed friend; the ship flies before the wind; recriminations flew about.
- To depart suddenly or swiftly; take flight; escape; flee: as, the rogue has flown; his fortune will soon fly.
- To part suddenly or with violence; burst or be rent into fragments or shreds: as, the bottle flew into a thousand pieces; the sail flew in tatters.
- To flutter; wave or play, as a flag in the wind.
- To be evanescent; fade; disappear: said of colors: as, that color is sure to fly when the fabric is washed.
- To hunt with a falcon; hawk.
- To resist; set at defiance; oppose with violence; act in direct opposition to.
- To revolt.
- To evaporate or volatilize.
- To break out in anger, uproar, or license.
- To assail; abuse.
- Nautical, to let go suddenly: as, let fly the sheets.
- To cause to move through or float in the air: as, to fly carrier-pigeons; to fly a flag or a kite.
- To attack by the flight of a falcon or hawk; fly at.
- To flee from; shun; avoid as by flight; get away from: as, to fly the sight of one we hate.
- To convey in a fly.
- To travel by a fly.
- Knowing; wide-awake; quick to take one's meaning or intention: as, a fly young man.
- n. The act of flying, or passing through the air; flight.
- n. A state of flying: in the phrase on the fly (which see, below).
- n. Something having a rapid or flying motion, or some relation to such motion.
- n. plural In a theater, the large space above the proscenium, extending over the whole of the stage, and including the borders, border-lights, many ropes, cleats, and pulleys, the beams to which these are attached, and the fly-galleries on either side from which the borders and drop-scenes are handled.
- n. A piece of canvas drawn over the ridge-pole of a tent, doubling the thickness of the roof, but not in contact with it except at the ridge-pole.
- n. The flap or door of a tent.
- n. A strip of material sewed to a garment, but differing from a flounce in being drawn straight without gathering, and usually serving some purpose other than mere ornament.
- n. In cotton-spinning, waste cotton.
- n. The hinged board which covers the keys of a piano or an organ when not in use
- n. In popular language, a flying insect of any common kind.
- n. In entomology, a two-winged insect; any one of the order Diptera, and especially of the family Muscidæ: commonly used with a qualifying or specific term: as, the house-fly, Musca domestica. See the compounded words.
- n. A fish-hook dressed with silk, tinsel, feathers, or other material, so as to resemble a fly or other insect, and used by anglers to entice fish.
- n. A familiar spirit: apparently a cant term with those who pretended to deal in magic and similar impostures.
- n. Figuratively, an insignificant thing; a thing of no value.
- n. Pl. flys (flīz). A kind of quick-running carriage; a light vehicle for passengers; a hackney-coach.
- n. An ephemerid; a shad-fly, May-fly, or day-fly. (See also cabbage-fly, forest-fly, hand-fly, radish-fly, robber-fly, saw-fly, stretcher-fly, etc.)
- n. See vly.
- n.
- n. Nautical, an old-fashioned name for the compass-card.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth
- v. move quickly or suddenly
- n. (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air
- v. cause to fly or float
- v. travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft
- v. operate an airplane
- v. be dispersed or disseminated
- v. pass away rapidly
- n. fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect
- v. travel in an airplane
- v. hit a fly
- v. transport by aeroplane
- adj. (British informal) not to be deceived or hoodwinked
- v. display in the air or cause to float
- v. run away quickly
- n. two-winged insects characterized by active flight
- v. change quickly from one emotional state to another
- v. travel through the air; be airborne
- v. decrease rapidly and disappear
- n. flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
You take the strand of gut on which the next fly you purpose affixing is dressed, and laying it along the main line, _taking care to have the hook lying in the reverse direction from the tail fly_, you tie it into the line a yard from the fly already attached.
And I was so happy, so wonderfully happy, that a great big something rose within me, and I felt so -- so queer, as if I could fly, and fly, and _fly_!
I show up and I hate to use the term fly by the seat of my pants.
And just when you're thinking that you really understand the term fly-over country, you drive into something like Bartlesville and wonder what else you've been speeding past.
Controlling the fly is always of utmost importance.
What type of tippet should I use for steel head when I fly fish
Don't worry about where the fly is at ... it will come along with the line.
With a Mercury bead at the hook eye and a single strand of Flashabou across the back of the hook shank, the fly is a very close match to the natural.
And then there are plenty who would contend that the number one gamefish to be caught on a fly is the tarpon.
Also it hasn't brought us any closer to figuring out why a fly is a fly and a mouse is a mouse.
During most drifts, you approximate where the fly is and strike gently whenever you see a rise in the general vicinity.
"Little fly
thy summer's play...."
The Lord in His wisdom made the fly
And then forgot to tell us why.
- Ogden Nash, 'The Fly'.
A horse-drawn public coach or delivery wagon, especially one let out for hire. Also a light, covered vehicle, such as a single-horse carriage used for non-business purposes.
"The most vociferous of the invaders of the Doral were probably no more than self-seekers and stoned demagogues, but there were more perilous infiltrations into the ranks of the non-delegates. The Yippies smelled a grand jury and more conspiracy trials in the offing and clammed up, but the vets, the most persuasive antiwar group in the country, were not so fly."
- 'The Big Tease', Germaine Greer in Harper's Monthly Magazine, Oct 1972.
In an odd way, that sounds lovely.
In medical intensive care units, to fly means to be able to withstand removal of a breathng tube more or less permanently. I.e., "Ms Bucket just t-pieced for three hours and her lungs sound clear, should we extubate?" "Yeah, I think she'll fly."


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While SharePoint is typically used as an internal or external document management program, it also can be used as a customer-facing website. Rotary International, the largest privately-funded nonprofit organization, has achieved great success with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.
The Implementation
Rotary's website, www.rotary.org, was initially developed with static HTML pages. The site suffered from slow performance and was rarely updated with fresh content, due to the hassle of doing so. Additionally, Rotary had plans for a more robust members-only section of the site that the old site was impeding on.
"Our old website was on a single server using static HTML pages, running on just a small Linux box. It wasn't very interactive--wasn't very dynamic. If you've seen the old static HTML pages, it provided basic information but it was starting to look a big aged," said Jeremy Contin, manager of the information department for Rotary International. "The organization decided it was time to investigate into new possibilities. We wanted the site to provide better services and build it up to the point where we could start providing specialized information to our members."
One of the other reasons Rotary selected SharePoint was because Microsoft had close integration with F5, the provider of the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager 3400, the load balancing tool that Rotary is using now.
"One of the things that helped with the decision in choosing SharePoint was the close integration with F5 and Microsoft. Both sides were willing to work together to ensure we got the best performance possible," Contin said.
Why SharePoint?
Rotary is hosted in nine different languages, and SharePoint greatly increases the efficiency of getting all the translations posted on the site. "We can write an article, hand it over to our translators, and pull some translations directly to the website when they're done with it," Contin said.
Granted, transforming SharePoint into a multi-purpose, clean-cut website was a challenge. The main struggles for Rotary were learning the system and getting the design to a point where it wasn't obvious that SharePoint was used. Altogether, the process from deciding to use SharePoint to implementing the site took 6–9 months.
"It wasn't the easiest time in the world to customize SharePoint. When you look at the site, it looks nothing at all like the default SharePoint. And that was part of our goal--we didn't want you to go on the site and know it was SharePoint right away," Contin said. "So we spent a lot of time manipulating the system. The other problem early on was performance. It took a lot of time to get it tuned so that it moved this quickly. There's always bugs in code the first time around, no matter how hard you try. It took us awhile to resolve all those things."
Successful Implementation
Since implementing the site, Rotary has freed up server processing usage by as much as 20 percent. But of course, many of the benefits of the new site cannot be quantified in numbers: happier customers, less stress for employees, easier management of content and administering of the site, and the peace of mind that the site is prepared to move forward as Rotary does, rather than holding back the organization's goals.
"In general our customer base has been happy with the new site. They like the fact that it's running quicker and that it's updated with new content quicker," Contin said. "The site is pretty up on the new technology even though it doesn't look like it. It's not very flashy, but it works."
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Victoria's Florentines are deliciously decadent with their glossy tempered chocolate coating and sticky honey caramel, and they're gluten-free, too.
These chewy Italian biscuits are impressively showy, but deceptively easy to make. Perfect for an afternoon lift or as indulgent petits fours served with coffee after dinner. These biscuits work wonderfully with different fruits and nuts to suit all occasions and moods - dried cranberries instead of cherries make a lovely festive change at Christmas or a hint of simnel spices with extra chocolate chips makes for a wonderfully indulgent Easter treat. Versatile and sophisticated, these innocent-looking treats are highly addictive.
Florentines are relatively easy to make gluten-free as they already contain very little flour. If you want to make standard wheaty treats, simply follow the recipe below, making a direct swap from rice to plain flour. I always include the addition of finely chopped stem ginger, as the gently warming spice acts as a delicious foil for the nursery sweetness of the biscuits and the bitterness of the dark chocolate coating.
On last night's Bake Off, there was a lot of talk of these biscuits needing to be "crisp". Now, far be it for me to disagree with Mary Berry, but this was a little misleading. Florentines should still retain a little chew and not be out and out crunchy: that is part of their charm. They're not brandy snaps after all. The laciness is found mostly at the edges and, although they should certainly not be bendy, too much of a snap means the Florentines are over-baked.
I personally favour a modern approach to the chocolate decoration. The classic wavy pattern on the back looks rather old-fashioned to my relatively young eyes and I prefer a simple blanket of tempered chocolate. I don't want to spoil the cleanness of the sheen with the interruption of fork tines. Also, it means you end up with a less heavily coated biscuit, which makes them a little less sickly.
You can be forgiven for assuming that the most intimidating component to these biscuits is the tempered chocolate. Believe me when I say that there are a lot of things in life to be scared of, but tempering chocolate isn't one of them. Tempering is simply the controlled melting of chocolate to ensure it has an even shine and a lovely snap when it sets. This is most easily achieved by the seeding method.
Simply melt two-thirds of your chopped chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a pan of barely simmering water until it reaches 45˚C. A plastic bowl is always useful for chocolate work, as any leftovers, which have set in the bowl, can be snapped out and reused by pushing the sides of the bowl together. You can also melt the chocolate in the microwave. Once the chocolate has reached 45˚C, gradually add the remaining chocolate and stir until the chocolate cools to 27˚C. At this stage, sit the bowl back on the saucepan of hot water (keep the gas off, the residual heat from it having boiled will be hot enough) and stir and reheat until the chocolate reaches 31˚C. You have just tempered your chocolate. See, that wasn't too hard, was it?
These are taken from my second book, Deliciously Vintage, but if you want to get a little more adventurous with Florentines, please let me direct you to my third book, Baking Mash-Up, which features a recipe for Florentarts – a mash-up of a Florentine and a chocolate tart.
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"Since it is in the series of Modern Marvels, I expect, at the beginning, to see the technology building the ball parks. It is, however, not what contents in this film. The main theme is the evolution of the ball parks from 19th century to the present. Of course, it is good to know why a ball park shapes like that, why is it situated at the outskirt of the city, and why it moves back to the heart of the city. Through the film, I just feel it misses something, perhaps many. For example, memorable moments, HOFers or teams with that park are worthy of mentioning.
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I suggest you send someone to get it and avoid the headaches!
I had the same question about shipping. I am planning on flying to the West coast from the Chicago area to inspect a few vehicles. I am opposed to the idea of buying after only looking at pictures. I wasn't sure if I would fly out, inspect, negotiate, purchase, arrange seperate transport for the vehicle and fly back or drive back. I'll take my wife along and make a mini-vacation of it.
Who dares wins.
Go get it yourself. In this business you can always use a small vacation.
forget shipping it send someone to drive it back, need a driver to do so i be happy to do it
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how much do shipping companies charge to ship a bus ballpark? i sold my bus to someone out of the country and they want me to give them a price on delivering the bus to a port on the east coast 600 miles away. i want to charge somewhere in between my expenses and what shipping companies might charge. i figure they are more likely to use me if im cheaper than shipping companies since they are out of the country and don't have many options.
You're LQQKING at $2350.00 Ouch! just drive it yourself.......we all need a little vacation.
I ended up hiring somebody to drive it as at that time I didn't have my CDL, nor the time to be gone for a few days. It was the 7.3L Ford turbo diesel with 47000 miles on it so it should be reliable right? Well turns out the thing had been sitting in a parking lot in vegas for 1.5 years and everything from tires to air bags to wiring had dry rotted. Ford had done an "inspection" and gave it a clean bill of health. Something ended up going wrong just about every state between NV and NC and the 30 hr trip ended up taking 9 days. If you don't feel like driving a vehicle yourself and want to hire a person to do it I highly recommend the guy I used, his name is Chris 760-596-9239 after all the BS he had to go through he didn't even want extra pay but of course I insisted on paying him some extra. He has his own insurance and tags.


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2 carrots - peeled, minced
2 stalks celery - minced
2 cloves garlic - minced
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Lucky us, we saw Baltimore based rap group Rapdragons at the Bohemian Cafe on North Charles Street. You can download their songs for FREE .
4 Reasons Why We're Down With Rapdragons
- Clever Titles: "Natural Born Chillers" hints at a use of chillwave samples while referencing the film Natural Born Killers (one of our favorites!).
- Sample Selection: Anything from Toro y Moi, Neon Inidan, to the Reading Rainbow theme song can be part of their charming rhythmic backdrop.
- Lyrical Gymnastics: The heat of Rapdragons' performance comes from their burning hot rhymes, spitting fire like actual dragons. and tons of energy.
- Deep Shit: Sometimes, we don't know what the hell Rapdragons are talking about and just know it's some "deep shit"; but their are lines we can understand. These include:
- "I'm a natural born chiller it got me out my element. But I still don't give a fuck so I guess I remain celibate "
- "Lets keep it cool my baby, take off them other thangs. Oh yeah, you're killing me girl gotta call you hunger games."
- "Mama I'm sorry I don't want to make you cry but i feel like I'm with you every time I get high"
Other than sounding AMAZING live (clarity of a mp3 with personality of a live recording), these guys put on a great show. Greg grabbed his nuts, Rick poured beer on his face and there was plenty of hair-flailing/head-banging from the two of them. Needless to say we were impressed by our first Rapdragons show and can't wait to see them again.
Afterwards, we took some photos of stuff at the Bohemian Cafe, our friends, some people who photo bombed us, and were given free cupcakes and chips by the workers of the cafe! It was a pretty rad night.
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David Brooks comes in for a lot of heavy weather from conservatives for supposedly going native at the New York Times, and especially his early fondness for Obama, but let's not go too far overboard here: he just said he liked the crease in Obama's pants, and didn't go all leg-tingly like Chris Matthews. And if you follow him closely, you'll have noted that he stopped saying much about Obama quite a while ago. I think Brooks's relative silence about Obama must sting at the White House, which courted him assiduously during the first term.
In any case, there's another side of Brooks that is really more meaningful and should be considered by all fair-minded readers. You can catch a glimpse of it in his column earlier this week, "The Subtle Sensations of Faith." There's a lot in here and it is hard to make a short excerpt that captures it, but perhaps this paragraph is a useful jumping off point for further thoughts:
The process of faith, of bringing moments of intense inward understanding into the ballyhoo of life, seems to involve a lot of reading and talking — as people try to make sense of who God is and how holiness should be lived out. Even if you tell people you are merely writing a column on faith, they begin recommending books to you by the dozen. Religion may begin with experiences beyond reason, but faith relies on reason.
Brooks has been reading and thinking on a lot of serious theological books for quite a while now. Our mutual friend Michael Cromartie pointed me to a column of Brooks's from ten years ago on the prominent evangelical thinker John Stott, entitled "Who Is John Stott?" Turns out on Mike's recommendation Brooks went and read nearly all of Stott's well-regarded books. And offered this thought:
When you read Stott, you encounter first a tone of voice. Tom Wolfe once noticed that at a certain moment all airline pilots came to speak like Chuck Yeager. The parallel is inexact, but over the years I've heard hundreds of evangelicals who sound like Stott.
It is a voice that is friendly, courteous and natural. It is humble and self-critical, but also confident, joyful and optimistic. Stott's mission is to pierce through all the encrustations and share direct contact with Jesus. Stott says that the central message of the gospel is not the teachings of Jesus, but Jesus himself, the human/divine figure. He is always bringing people back to the concrete reality of Jesus' life and sacrifice. . .
Politicians, especially Democrats, are now trying harder to appeal to people of faith. But people of faith are not just another interest group, like gun owners. You have to begin by understanding the faith. And you can't understand this rising global movement if you don't meet its authentic representatives.
Now, if you have a spare half-hour over the next couple of days (or podcast download capabilities), you should hear David's more recent broad-gauge thoughts, which he gave at a speech to a group of evangelical philanthropists, called "The Gathering," in Florida about three months ago. You can read a transcript of his remarks here, but I think it is much better to hear David deliver this talk, which you can do by clicking the button at the bottom of this blog post by The Gathering's Fred Smith. But here's one sample from the text, where, in discussing the "walls" people of faith sometimes put up around themselves, he has this very interesting passage:
And the final wall is this wall of intellectual insecurity. I teach at Yale. We are not nice to each other. We brutally attack each other. We are not good Christians.
But out of that comes a hardened appreciation of truth. And sometimes we are brutal to each other because we are brutal in pursuit of the truth and we don't take…we take our ideas very seriously and we're sometimes willing to hurt each other because the ideas are so serious. Sometimes we veer on the side of just nastiness. Sometimes in my experience in Bible Study, the desire to be nice, the desire to be affirming, softens all discussion. So the jewel of truth is not hardened. Vague words and ethereal words are tolerated because nobody wants to be too offensive.
If you read the transcript or listen to the whole talk, you won't find a hint of politics anywhere in it. Yet somehow Brooks was attacked by the Left for giving this talk anyway, in an article in The Daily Beast. In September The Daily Beast published an attack on The Gathering describing it as a "billion-dollar-a-year right-wing conspiracy you never heard of." Among other complaints in the article was Brooks's forthcoming appearance at the group's annual meeting:
Well, there are two possibilities. One, Brooks knows a bit about the underlying politics of The Gathering but doesn't care, which is to say he's on board with that political agenda to the extent he's willing to lend his reputation to the event. Two, he's relatively clueless. He's been conned. Which would raise questions about his political acumen.
Now, no one can listen to Brooks's talk and not be embarrassed for the completely tone-deaf, off-base hackery of The Daily Beast article. (In typical Rolling Stone-style shoddiness, its author, Jay Michaelson, never contacted any of the targets of his piece for a comment. It's just a pure hit piece.)
Most of the philanthropic focus of The Gathering is for things like missions, soup kitchens, literacy programs—in other words, traditional Christian charities. Michaelson conducts a complete "guilt-by-association" piece that wanders off to the common ties between specific attendees and other organizations that engage more directly in political activity. But so what? Meanwhile, I wonder how much similar charitable giving the editors and staff of The Daily Beast can claim? I'd be willing to bet it's close to zero.
John Avlon, the editor of The Daily Beast, was supposed to attend the same conclave that I attended in October on how to reduce political polarization, but he had to cancel. Good thing he cancelled, as I was looking forward to asking him very directly how he dared to speak of reducing political polarization when he publishes mendacious hit pieces like Michaelson's.
On the other hand, I can count as a Christmas blessing never reading The Daily Beast again, or thinking I might miss something useful or important.


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Stuttgart/Germany, 4 December 2006—The MAHLE Group, headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany announced today that it has entered into a stock and asset purchase agreement with Dana Corporation for the acquisition of Dana's engine hard parts business.
The agreement includes the acquisition of all worldwide units of Dana's engine hard parts business by MAHLE, including the Clevite® aftermarket organization. In connection with the transaction, the parties will enter into ancillary agreements including an agreement granting MAHLE exclusive distribution rights to Dana's retained Victor Reinz® branded products in the independent aftermarket in the US and Canada.
The engine hard parts business of Dana consists of 39 locations in 10 countries with approximately 5,000 employees. The business had sales of approximately $670 million in 2005. The main products of the engine hard parts business are piston rings, engine bearings, cylinder liners and camshafts manufactured and sold under the Perfect Circle®, Clevite®, and Glacier Vandervell™ brands.
As Dana Corp. is a debtor in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case pending before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, closing of the transaction is subject to the approval at that Bankruptcy Court. As a standard part of the bankruptcy process, Dana will allow other parties to make competitive bids for the engine hard parts business and there may be an auction at which Dana, MAHLE and any such other bidders will participate. Closing of the transaction is also subject to government regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions. It is anticipated the conditions to closing, including Bankruptcy Court approval, will be satisfied in time to close the transaction in the 1st Quarter 2007.
Prof. Dr. Heinz K. Junker, CEO of MAHLE Group Management Board, explained, "The acquisition of Dana's engine hard parts business would complement our worldwide market position particularly in the areas of piston rings and engine bearings, as well as in the aftermarket for engine parts. As Dana Corporation has not considered the engine hard parts business as one of its core business segments for some time, it will be a major task to integrate the Dana locations into the existing MAHLE production network by appropriate restructuring measures, in order to facilitate all necessary synergy effects for the future."
The MAHLE Group is a globally leading manufacturer of components and systems for the combustion engine and engine peripherals—from piston systems, cylinder components, valve train systems via air management systems up to liquid management systems. With currently approximately 37,500 employees in more than 80 production locations and in seven research and development centers, MAHLE expects in 2006 a sales of approximately 4.3 billion EUR and ranges, therefore, among the 30 largest suppliers of the automotive industry worldwide.
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This shirt craft by Lana Red Studio will allow you to clean out your closets and redesign pieces that previously lay dormant -- such as those pieces that you bought long ago and swore that you'd wear them one day. That day has now arrived and it will make both your stylish side and your cash-saving side rejoice with glee.
That crispy white shirt that you've worn only a couple of times can now be transformed into a casual yet pulled-together garment. For those who don't have a white button up, nab one from your boyfriend and hope he doesn't notice it's missing. Show off your legs and your ability to craft new clothing items out of old ones.
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Issues of race and fairness remain the nation's unfinished business. For four years the US Supreme Court has been reexamining venerable voting rights laws from the 1960s - questioning whether the issue of race should still play a role in the creation of minority congressional voting districts.
Today, the high court wrestles with racial redistricting laws yet again, trying to clarify its recent rulings that have often divided and confused both the court and the larger society. A case out of Georgia, one of two the court hears today, may help the justices find some clarity. Yet whether the court can find a practical solution to claims of racial bias made by both whites and blacks is unclear.
Some justices argue for a racially "color blind" system. Others feel race is still an important factor in creating voting districts, but object to the often bizarre and impractical shape of the new districts.
Under the Voting Rights Act of 1964, states with a history of racial prejudice must allow minority citizens equal protection at the ballot box. The Department of Justice is responsible for ensuring that states comply in creating districts that match the proportion of minorities in the state.
The question today is whether a district court in Georgia complied with the Voting Rights Act when it recently eliminated two "majority minority" districts in the state. The two districts, the Second and 11th, had been created by the state legislature after the 1990 census - in order to comply with the federal civil rights law. That increased the number of racial districts in Georgia to three out of 11.
But after the Supreme Court ruled in 1995 (Miller v. Johnson) that the new 11th District occupied by Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D), had not been created properly - a district court ruled that Georgia only needed to have one majority minority congressional seat. The plaintiffs before the US Supreme Court today say at least one more district is required. (Representative McKinney, an African-American, was reelected in November in a redrawn district that is now majority white.)
The recent history of reconsidering race has not been simple. Four years ago the high court ruled in a cloudy but important decision written by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, (Shaw v. Reno) that the shape of the often spidery racial districts, whose boundaries may be the width of a highway in some Southern states, must be more "compact." The next year, a deeply split (5 to 4) court in the Miller case changed its rationale on redistricting, finding that race could not be a "predominant, overriding" factor in creating districts. Last term in Bush v. Vera the court began the process of spelling out what "predominant" meant; yet in a concurrance to her own opinion Justice O'Connor said race could be a predominant factor, so long as the shape of the district is not bizarre, but compact.
The fact that the court is still trekking through perceived legal swampland on racial redistricting has caused Justice David Souter, in a dissent last term joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to say the entire four-year enterprise has been conceptually flawed.
A "failure to provide a practical standard for distinguishing between the lawful and unlawful use of race," Justice Souter wrote, has resulted in "inevitable confusion."
The solution harder-line conservatives like Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas desire is simply to rule race out of the equation entirely. Deborah La Fetra of the conservative Pacific Legal Foundation, who filed a brief on behalf of Georgia, agrees.
"It is appalling to believe that skin color determines how people think," she says. Moderate conservatives on the court, however, do not advocate such measures.
The voting rights case is another example, court watchers say, of a current term that is shaping up to be one of the more interesting and dynamic in recent years.
Last Friday, the court agreed to hear what could be a landmark case determining the status of free speech in cyberspace. The case, Reno v. ACLU, will determine whether the Communication Decency Act of Congress, passed last term to keep certain language and images off the Internet, is constitutional.
In recent years, the court took a shrinking number of cases, many of them technical only - leading some scholars to feel the court too quickly "ducked" hard issues. This year, whether by design or circumstance, the high court is dealing with a greater number of major high profile cases.
"This is the most important docket since the 1991 term and the Casey decision [affirming a woman's right to choose an abortion]," says David O'Brien, who publishes a court review in Charlottesville, Va. "Look at the 'right to die' case. Some of us are calling this the term of the decade."
In coming months, the court will take up cases on gun control, doctor-assisted suicide, religious freedom, and government aid for parochial schools. Justices will also hear the Paula Jones case, deciding whether President Clinton has immunity from civil suits while in office.


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I had such a fun time watching the Golden Globes last night with a new group of friends. We enjoyed critiquing the dresses and just about everything else. I thought Tina and Amy's opening monologue got off to a slow start but their joke about George and Amal really hit the mark. I made a ballot and took a few risks on my favorites and tried to play it safe on the rest. Turns out I'm halfway decent at predicting the movie categories but downright awful at the television ones. I couldn't be happier about the success for Jane the Virgin and its star, Gina Rodriguez. She deserves every good thing that is coming her way. If you haven't already stated watching it, you must!
Now, on to the gowns!
Yellow was a big trend last night. Leslie Mann, Naomi Watts, and Jenna Dewan Tatum all chose strapless yellow gowns. Jenna's is my favorite of the bunch, and I love her hair and makeup.
There were other colorful dresses last night, too. Gwyneth Paltrow missed the red carpet, but I loved seeing her fun pink dress as a presenter. Amy Adams' ice blue gown made her eyes look unreal! And the details on Allison Williams' dress are so fun.
This dress isn't my favorite, but I had to include it because, Gina!
Katherine Heigl looked better than she has in ages. Are you watching her new show? I love it.
Only Emma Stone could rock a jumpsuit on the red carpet!
Reese Witherspoon and Diane Kruger both wore silvery sheaths, but don't ask me to choose one because I can't.
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The above sentiment is often heard from patrons at craft shows and occasionally impolite folks commenting on a crafter or artist's social media page. A local garden artist recently had this happen to her on her Facebook page. Mary of Garden Whimsies by Mary makes garden art, known as whimsies, using upcycled dishes, vases, knick knacks, and the like. While the majority of the comments on her creations are very complimentary, she also receives occasional requests to share the type of adhesive she uses, and some even are so bold as to tell her that they could easily make whimsies too. Some were actually pretty rude about it.
This is a topic that is not new but still warrants discussion. Let's use Mary's Garden Whimsies as an example. Here is one currently for sale in her Etsy Shop:
Let's first play devil's advocate and say that yes, anyone can glue these 5 objects together. Now, let's consider it a little more thoroughly:
- I would have to research adhesives to determine which is best for china and glass
- I would need to ensure that all pieces were assembled in such a way to prevent the piece from being lopsided and/or tipping over
- I would have to source the actual pieces which would likely involve a few trips to thrift stores to make the piece economical enough to make myself
- I would need to have the talent for combining different pieces in an attractive and visually pleasing way
- Since the vases are hollow, I would need to take great care to not leave any gaps in the adhesive, otherwise moisture could get inside the piece and create a mold issue
And these are only the factors I am aware of as a person who has never made such an item. I am sure there are many other factors involved in making a piece like this.
As a seller of handmade goods and an avid crafter myself, this topic is not new to me. I often see items for sale that I could easily make myself. However, the key is politeness. I know that it is extremely rude to say such a statement in front of the maker. And even if I can make the item myself, I may buy it anyway. Why?
For the same reason many of us eat at restaurants. While we can cook a meal, we just don't want to at that time. We would prefer to pay for the convenience of having another person make the meal (or other item) for us. We might also appreciate the unique style that maker brings to the item that we might not have. We are not just buying a meal or a product; we are buying convenience.
Just like Mary, I am very transparent about how my products are made. My specialty is korker ribbon hair accessories. I learned to make them by finding tutorials via my friend Google. Obviously, anyone can use Google and learn to make the same item, and that's OK with me. My customers are those who prefer not to make their own and prefer to purchase them from me. In fact, since I purchase ribbon in bulk, the cost of my bows isn't much more than what it would cost the average person to purchase the materials at their local craft store.
So, stating dismissively that you could make an item that someone put a lot of effort and love into is really oversimplifying it. And it's also very rude to say to that person.


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What I hate about the US the most is that they somehow think their lives are more important then the lives in a different country and they over exaggerate EVERYTHING, they're still bitching about 11/9, yes it is 11/9 learn to use dates properly and make even 5 deaths seems like a god damn catastrophe.
Then there is the gun law bullshit ''oh no government takes over, oh no criminals don't follow the law'' right, it works in a shit ton of countries but for you it's all of a sudden different, seems legit.
And then finally it's them invading other countries while calling other countries terrorists, hypocritical much.
Of course not every country hates america. But America does suck. America is not as safe as Japan. Japan does not allow guns and has an EXTREMELY low death rates from guns. And you could walk in Japan all by your self since there are a lot of people always walking on the streets and there has only been one or two kidnapings. America is the complete opposite, because we are all able to have guns and shoot at people whenever we want. And there are high risks when walking alone in America, unless you live in a busy street that have streets crowded with people. America also has a very high murder rate too.


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There comes a time when we heed a certain call, when the world must come together as one.
For USA for Africa, the organization behind ''We Are the World,'' that time came five years ago this spring.
And went.
All told, the organization raised $60 million for hunger relief, chiefly from the sale of merchandise surrounding ''We Are the World,'' which became the bestselling single in history.