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We all know times are tough, so we here at HOW HQ are minding how we spend our pennies on advertising and promotion. Here's our new campaign for the 2010 HOW Design Conference in Denver …
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As in "The Best". Famous line from a Seinfeld episode where Mel Torme tells Kramer that he thinks his life is "The Tops".
by Skeeve January 31, 2006
n. Preferred moniker for famous comedian Carrot Top.
You must be missing the fact that Carrot Top is not only the funniest homosapien to ever evolve from the murky waters of our primordial soup, but also that he is so handsome that even (conceded asshole) feels insecure whenever The Top is around.
by jamilreis May 19, 2008
The best of the best. Used to congratulate some one on the way they did something.
-Hellen your the top!
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A 16-year-old Bath youth was hospitalized yesterday afternoon with injuries received when the motorcycle he was riding flipped over on Jacobsburg Road, south of State Road in Bushkill Township.
James I. Peters III of 911 Bushkill Drive was admitted to Easton Hospital for observation and treatment of multiple scrapes. His condition is stable.
State police at Stockertown said Peters was traveling south on Jacobsburg Road at 3:50 p.m. when he lost control of the motorcycle and it flipped over.
He was transported to the hospital in the Bushkill Township ambulance.


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Sunday, August 31, 2014
Kurds Unwilling to Risk Pro-American Alignment by Michael Rubin
There's a false narrative out there that Iraqi Shi'ites are pro-Iranian while Iraqi Kurds are pro-American. The truth for both is actually far more nuanced. Sometimes, it seems, the false narrative is simply the result of who speaks English better and so can interact more easily with American journalists, diplomats, and visiting politicians. English-bias in coverage is well-documented, most brutally from Southeast Asia back in the 1960s and 1970s.
Culturally, Iraqi Kurds—especially in the Sulaymaniyah region—are close to Iran. That doesn't mean they are anti-Western. Iranian culture is rich. Many Kurds would like to take their place among the peoples of the West, just as many Iranians would, if the West would stop throwing life rafts to Iran's repressive regime.
That said, Kurds are realists: They see America waffling on major issues relating to global leadership and they are careful not to put all their eggs in one basket. Some see close ties between Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey, cemented over oil trading, as a sign that Kurds are pro-Western but the Kurds have quietly and consistently also pursued their trade through Iran, even at the cost of busting sanctions.
Germans see the best of their soul in Weimar. Everyone else, on the other hand... A review of Weimar, by Michael H. Kater. An absorbing history about the corruption of a once great artistic centre.
Weimar Michael H. Kater
The legal capital of Thuringia is actually Erfurt, an entrancing town of considerable grandeur. But no one can doubt that its spiritual heart — and perhaps of Germany's idea of itself — is Weimar. Outside Germany, Weimar hardly suggests a town at all. When the Sunday Times once sent A.A.Gill to write about modern-day Germany, he confessed that 'I had no idea that Weimar was a town. I thought it must be a district or piece of paper, the Weimar Republic and all that.'
For Germans, it is the court town that created Goethe and Schiller under the enlightened sponsorship of a great prince; where Wagner found refuge and understanding, and Liszt transformed himself from a shallow virtuoso into a great musical thinker; where the Bauhaus was made possible; where Cranach, Wieland and Busoni also walked. The association with the republic that was formed in a few months of constitutional assembly after the end of the first world war comes second. Primarily, this is the town that represents the best and noblest in the German spirit.Read More at: http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/books-feature/9296622/weimar-by-michael-kater-review/
Why Did British Police Ignore Pakistani Muslim Gangs Abusing 1,400 Rotherham Children? Political Correctness by Roger Scruton
A story of rampant child abuse—ignored and abetted by the police—is emerging out of the British town of Rotherham. Until now, its scale and scope would have been inconceivable in a civilized country. Its origins, however, lie in something quite ordinary: what one Labour MP called "not wanting to rock the multicultural community boat."
Imagine the following case. A fourteen-year old girl is taken into care by the social services unit of the town where she lives, because her parents are drug-addicted, and she has been neglected and is not turning up in school. She is one of many, for that is the way in Britain today. And local government entities—Councils—can be ordered by the courts to stand in for parents of neglected children. The Council places the girl in a home, where she is kept with others under supervision from the social services department. The home is regularly visited by young men who try to entice the girls into their cars, so as to give them drugs and alcohol, and then coerce them into sex.
The girl, who is lonely and uncared for, meets a man outside the home, who promises a trip to the cinema and a party with children of her age. She falls into the trap. After she has been raped by a group of five men she is told that, if she says a word to anyone, she will be taken from the home and beaten. When, after the episode is repeated, she threatens to go to the police, she is taken into the countryside, doused in petrol, and told that she is going to be set alight, unless she promises to tell no one of the ordeal.Read More at: http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerscruton/2014/08/30/why-did-british-police-ignore-pakistani-gangs-raping-rotherham-children-political-correctness/
Did Anita Sarkeesian Fake Death Threats Against Herself? By runsonmagic
Yes, that's right – perfect spelling and punctuation. Does that sound like any angry gamer you know? Plus, these tweets fit exactly under the 140 twitter character limit. Whoever made these planned and typed them out ahead of time. While this still could be the work of a very obsessive stalker, it shows that these tweets were not the work of a rage troll or someone spontaneously going off. This person created a new account just for these tweets rather than ranting from a previous account.
If someone was going to create a false attack on themselves, creating a dummy account would be the obvious way to go. Creating a full online persona would take a long time, and if Anita wanted to ride the publicity of the recent Zoe Quinn story in gaming, and synchronize death threat with the release her latest video release, she wouldn't have time to create fully developed hater.
Anita wants us to believe she just happened to find this account, despite the fact it would be highly unlikely, if not impossible for Anita to have seen these tweets and taken the screencap she took had she not been logged into the account making them only a moment before. The more likely explanation is that Anita made these tweets herself, logged out, and took a screen-cap.
All of the above evidence is based solely on the public information Anita posted. But here at ROK, we have another level of insight – an insight into the psychology of the feminine mind.Read More at: http://www.returnofkings.com/42602/did-anita-sarkeesian-fake-death-threats-against-herself
Why Conservatism Inc. Complained When Ann Coulter Called Out Christian Cowards By Alexander Hart
See also Ann Coulter's reply to her critics Let He Who Is Without Ebola Cast The First Stone
In 1980s film Repo Man, Emilio Estevez's protagonist Otto Maddoxasks his pot smoking parents for a promised $1,000. His mother replies they can no longer help because, "Your father gave all our extra money to the Reverend's telethon; we're sending Bibles to El Salvador."
Otto asks: "Well what about me?" His father responds: "You're on the Honor Roll of the Chariots Of Fire. Same as us, Otto. It was a gift. From all of us jointly."
I thought of this line recently while reading Ann Coulter's much-denounced column criticizing Ebola infected missionary Kent Brantly for going to the Third World instead of helping and evangelizing fellow Americans. After all, though the Good Book commands , "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel," it also says, "For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, 'You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.'"
Prominent conservative Christians responded with the usual vitriolic outrage they use for MargaretSanger or John Tanton—which is mysteriously never deployed against the likes of anti-Christian bigots like gay columnist Dan Savage. The occasionally sensible Jim Treacher called it "absolute horsecrap." [Ann Coulter is wrong about Kent Brantly, Daily Caller, August 7, 2014] Channeling Rick Perry, the always squishy Rod Dreher wrote that anyone with "a heart, or a soul" would "hate" Coulter's column. [Ann Coulter, Dr. Kent Brantly, & Telescopic Philanthropy, American Conservative, August 6, 2014]
Most of Coulter's antagonists focused on the title of the column, which called Brantly an "idiot." However, it was Steve Berman's moderate reaction that truly crystalized how Coulter's critics missed the point. He asked, "How many Americans, in an age of growing hostility to Christians, might see his sacrifice and pick up their own crosses?" [Ann Coulter is great, but I'd rather be like Kent Brantly,RedState, August 7, 2014]Read More at: https://www.vdare.com/articles/why-conservatism-inc-complained-when-ann-coulter-called-out-christian-cowards
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Rap, Thugs, And Bloodstained Hypocrisy of Hollywood's Violence Profiteers By Michelle Malkin
Did you miss Tinseltown's latest political correctness powwow? Preening celebrities showed their solidarity with Ferguson, Mo., at the MTV Video Music Awards show this week. Rapper Common led the convocation, preachifying about the positive impact of hip-hop music on society as a "powerful instrument of social change" and "truth."
Cameras showed drug-addled gangsta rapper Snoop Dogg bowing his head and flashing a peace sign during a "moment of silence" for Ferguson. MTV President Stephen Friedman aired public service announcements plying social justice messages. "It's a call to action to our audience that we have to confront our own bias head-on before we can truly create change," Friedman pontificated.
Spare me the shizzle and hypocri-dizzle.
While these Hollywood do-gooders gnash their Zoom!-brightened teeth over violence in the black community, they turn their Restylane-filled cheeks from the bullet-riddled violence glamorizedby their own industry.
The night before the VMAs, a gunman barged into the 1Oak nightclub in West Hollywood and shot rap mogul Suge Knight six times. He survived.
It wasn't the first time Knight had been targeted for apparent revenge. And it wasn't the first time the VMA party scene had been rattled by violent gunfire. In 2005, Knight was shot at a pre-VMA party in Miami hosted by rapper Kanye West.
Knight, founder of the Death Row Records empire and possessor of a mile-long rap sheet, reportedly refuses to cooperate with L.A. police, who are investigating the roles of the infamous Bloods and Crips rival street gangs in the crime. The Bloods-affiliated Knight's reign of criminal terror has been well documented by law enforcement and rap aficionados. A climax: the still-unsolved shooting deaths of rappers Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, which multiple insiders believe the record executive ordered.Read More at: https://www.vdare.com/articles/rap-thugs-and-bloodstained-hypocrisy-of-hollywoods-violence-profiteers
Americans believe the Department of Justice is motivated mostly by politics BY T. BECKET ADAMS
A growing number of Americans say they believe the U.S. Department of Justice is motivated primarily by political interests and not by the pursuit of the truth, according to a survey from Rasmussen Reports.
The poll, which was conducted on Aug. 26-27 and contains a sampling margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points, found that only 38 percent of U.S. voters hold a favorable opinion of the department headed by Attorney General Eric Holder, while a much larger 53 percent hold an unfavorable opinion.
Further, of these respondents, only nine percent hold a "very favorable" opinion, while 26 percent hold a "very unfavorable" position.
But this is the really unsettling discovery in the survey: "Just 35% think the Justice Department is more concerned with making sure justice is done when it decides to investigate a local crime independent of local police. But 54% think instead that the Justice Department is more concerned with politics when it makes those decisions."
The report, which polled some 1,000 U.S. adults aged 18 and older, also found that at least 36 percent have faith in local justice officials. The poll also found that 20 percent trust the state level of justice over all, while only 23 percent of U.S. voters put their faith in the federal level of the criminal justice system.
The survey's findings signal an obviously unhealthy and unsettling development.
As I have mentioned before, there's something very dangerous about a nation losing faith in its governing institutions, holding on instead to faith in its military and police forces.
Recall that roughly 35 percent of survey respondents in a Gallup poll dated June 5-8 said that they have "quite a lot" of confidence in the military, while 28 percent said they had "quite a lot" in the police. Meanwhile, Congress' approval rating has hit rock bottom, according to Gallup, while the Supreme Court's approval rating has slipped into the low 30s.Read More at: http://washingtonexaminer.com/americans-believe-the-department-of-justice-is-motivated-mostly-by-politics/article/2552604?custom_click=rss
Respect MP George Galloway hit repeatedly around head by attacker who 'called him Hitler' as firebrand politician posed for pictures on street in Notting Hill
- Politician was posing for photos with residents in Notting Hill, west London
- Assailant called him 'Hitler' and shouted comments about the Holocaust
- He was then assaulted and punched repeatedly in the face
- MP was taken to hospital last night but left at 4am with severe bruising
- A 39-year-old man was arrested on suspision of actual bodily harm
- Galloway's spokesman said he has received death threats and hate mail
Outspoken MP George Galloway has left hospital with severe bruising after he was punched repeatedly in the face and called 'Hitler' in a west London street attack, says spokesman.
The Respect MP for Bradford West was posing for pictures in Notting Hill when he was 'leapt on' and assaulted last night by a man yelling comments about the Holocaust.
He has been receiving death threats and hate mail after calling for Bradford to be 'declared an Israel-free zone' three weeks ago, according to his spokesman.
He said: 'George was posing for pictures with people and this guy just attacked him, leapt on him and started punching him and calling him Hitler.
'It appears to be connected with his comments about Israel because the guy was shouting about the Holocaust.
'He has been receiving a huge amount of death threats and hate mail since saying this.'
Read More at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2738230/Attacker-breaks-George-Galloway-s-jaw-street.html
Why Japan's Abe and India's Modi are Asia's new best friends. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in Japan Saturday for a five-day state visit focused on trade and defense ties. India and Japan have mutual concerns about China's rise – but China is also both countries' largest trade partner.
TOKYO — Even by Japan's standards of hospitality, it is hard to recall a time in recent years when the visit of a foreign leader has been so eagerly awaited.
The blossoming economic and diplomatic ties between Tokyo and New Delhi were evident even before India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, leaves Saturday for his first major diplomatic debut: a five-day state visit to Tokyo that will include talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and an audience with the emperor and empress.
In a tweet posted in Japanese and English, Mr. Modi expressed "excitement" over his meeting with Mr. Abe, adding that he "deeply respects his leadership and enjoys a warm relationship with him." Abe reciprocated, tweeting that "India has a special place in my heart."
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The two leaders will need to draw on that personal affinity as Modi arrives in the ancient capital of Kyoto for a visit framed by mutual concern over their unpredictable and increasingly assertive neighbor China. Japan and India face a tricky act balancing their apprehension over China's vigorous territorial claims with their desires to court its huge markets.
Denny's Goes Upscale With $300 Champagne Brunch in NYC By Craig Giammona
Denny's Corp., the restaurant chain known for dishes such as the Grand Slam and Moons Over My Hammy, is opening its first diner in New York City.
The restaurant opens at 5 a.m. today on the ground-floor of a luxury residential building on Nassau Street in lower Manhattan, across from City Hall and just north of Wall Street. The diner will offer a full bar with Prosecco on tap and a $300 brunch for two that includes a bottle of Dom Perignon champagne. The interior will be upmarket as well, with copper-stamped ceilings, wood paneling and leather booths.
Denny's, which started as a California coffee shop in 1953, has been trying to update its image and is working with franchises across the U.S. to modernize restaurants that, in many cases, are more than two decades old, said Malcolm Knapp, a restaurant-industry consultant in New York.
"It's a great PR stunt -- you wouldn't do it almost anywhere else," Knapp said, when asked about the $300 Grand Cru Slam champagne brunch, which also comes with a high-five from the bartender. "It's a little bit more of an affluent audience than their regular audience."
Denny's generated headlines in 2012 when it opened a restaurant inLas Vegas designed by renowned architect James Wines that also featured a wedding chapel. The Spartanburg, South Carolina-based company is drawing on that playbook with its Manhattan debut, meant to showcase the "modern, hip" Denny's, particularly to investors and analysts based in New York, Knapp said.
Read More at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-28/denny-s-goes-upscale-with-300-champagne-brunch-in-nyc.html
Friday, August 29, 2014
The Zionist whore and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power says Russia lied about their military activity in Ukraine. Power is married to the Jewish lawyer Cass Sunstein who is well-known for his former association with the Obama regime.
There is really no reason to believe anything Power says about what is happening in Ukraine. The Obama regime through the Jew Victoria Nuland helped violently overthrow the previously elected Ukraine government to install this Jewish friendly cabal that now runs the country. To say that they were not honest about what happened would be an understatement.
The violent coup was actually sold as a wonderful democratic achievement by the Jewish run media. On the other hand, when the people of Crimea and the people of Eastern Ukraine expressed their wishes to separate from Ukraine through a referendum, the Jewish run media claimed these votes were illegitimate for no specific reason.
If the Obama regime was not honest about what happened previously, why would anyone think that they are being honest about what's happening now?Read More at: http://www.dailyslave.com/zionist-whore-and-u-s-ambassador-to-the-u-n-samantha-power-says-russia-lied-over-military-activity-in-ukraine/
Chicago Crime is Dropping as Concealed Carriers Increase by Eric Reed
In a very expected and unsurprising turn of events, Chicago crime is dropping as concealed carry applications in Illinois rises.
Since Illinois became the 50th state to issue concealed carry permits, Chicago robberies leading to arrests is down 20% from last year, burglaries are down 20%, car thefts are down 26%, and in the first quarter of 2014 homicides were at a 56 year low.
When the Chicago Police Department was asked about these numbers, they declined to make any comment. Of course we all know that they'll say the drop is due to better officer training or improved policing strategies.
Just last month, an 86 year-old Illinois concealed carry permit holder fired his weapon at an armed robber, stopping him dead in his tracks. Police were able to make a successful arrest, and described the 86 year-old man as a model citizen. Police stated he "helped others avoid being victims" at the AT&T store just outside Chicago that the robber targeted.
On a national level, concealed carry permit holders number 11.1 million. That's a 147% increase from seven years ago. Over that period, violent crime including homicides has dropped 22%.Read More at: http://buzzpo.com/chicago-crime-dropping-concealed-carriers-increase/
Ron Paul: Government Had Foreknowledge of 9/11 Terror Attacks. Paul argues U.S. gov't more destructive than Osama Bin Laden.
Former Rep. Ron Paul said he believes the U.S. government had prior knowledge of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and has kept this information hidden in a classified section of the 9/11 Commission report.
Paul, who made the comments during a radio interview last Friday, also argued that the crimes of Osama bin Laden were "minor" compared to the harm the U.S. government has caused since the 2001 attacks.
"I believe that if we ever get the full truth [about 9/11], we'll find out that our government had it in the records exactly what the plans were, or at least close to it," said Paul, during the interview with Money and Markets host Charles Goyette. "You already mentioned that [the U.S. government] had been warned that something was going to happen."
However, Paul said he doubted that Bush administration officials personally helped plot the attacks.
"Does that prove the fact that our president and others actually sat down and laid the plans and did this? I don't think it does," he said.
Paul also said the U.S. government has been more destructive than 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.
"Our own government did more harm to the liberties of the American people than bin Laden did," said Paul. "[Bin Laden] was a monster himself, but that was minor compared to the damage done financially, the people that have died. And here we are, 24 years, and we're still fighting a war in the pretense that had something to do with 9/11."
The former congressman took issue with the term "9/11 truther," arguing that it carried a negative connotation.Read More at: http://freebeacon.com/politics/ron-paul-government-had-foreknowledge-of-911-terror-attacks/
Review: Whit Stillman's TV Show 'The Cosmopolitans' Is A Welcome Drink
The reason to watch Whit Stillman's new TV series "The Cosmopolitans" is not the clever dialogue or the tuneful score. And it's not the show's playfulness or its abundant charm.
The writer-director's four earlier movies, so beloved by cinephiles, offered those.
What's distinctive and especially appealing about the pilot episode of his prospective (less than) half hour TV show is its escapism. Set in present-day Paris among a group of chic American ex-pats looking for love, it offers sophisticated people a fun get-away. Through it, we enter a world of Gallic glamour.
Available for streaming starting today on Amazon, it's something which fans of Stillman's earlier films will love and those unfamiliar with his prior movies but fond of wit and romance will find equally enchanting.
As in his earlier films like "Metropolitan" and "The Last Days of Disco," the writing is not only sharp but quotable. Thus, an ingenue (Carrie MacLemore), who has just met a well-known but older fashion writer (Chloe Sevigny), comments off-handedly to her friends that "you always assume that journalists would be ugly – because of the anger – but she's attractive."Read More at: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanleaf/2014/08/27/review-whit-stillmans-tv-show-the-cosmopolitans-is-a-welcome-drink/
Stuart Schneiderman: Redefining Marriage
From the dawn of human history people have married. Until very recently, they have always married members of the opposite sex.
In truth, the issue of same-sex marriage has never arisen. It's not that the wish has been repressed. It's that no one ever thought of it.
If many people now believe that it is perfectly natural and normal for gays to marry, how come no one ever thought of it before. Isn't there something slightly suspicious about that?
Throughout human history gays have often been subjected to vicious persecution. The situation has been better in some places at some times; worse in other places at other times.
Contemporary thinking has it that gay relationships were reviled because they were not called marriages. Many people believe correctly that we should put an end to such persecution. That same-sex marriage will do it remains to be seen.
Moreover, marriage has always been a universal institution. If you are married here you are considered to be married everywhere you go. Everyone everywhere recognizes you as married. You do not cease to be recognized as married when you cross a border.
The same does not apply to same-sex marriage. Most of the world does not recognize the validity of such unions. The notion that the rest of the world will eventually come around to the enlightened American opinion on the matter seems a bit like wishful thinking.
(It seems roughly equivalent to having a proper name. No matter where you go your name stays the same. It does not even get translated into different languages. One might ask what would happen to your sense of your identity if your name changed in different parts of the world.)
Institutions that are universally recognized are very likely based in something that belongs to nature. They are not merely cultural excrescences, to be changed at will.
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg and Jewish Ethnic Networking by Edmund Connelly
American Whites of European extraction — particularly White males — are being systematically displaced in the very country they built. This surely will not be news to TOO readers. As editor Kevin MacDonald has already pointed out, the appointment of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court is testimony to this trend:
Kagan's arrival on the Supreme Court is a sort of official coming out party for the new elite. It's been there for quite some time, but the Kagan nomination is an in-your-face-demonstration of the power of Jewish ethnic networking at the highest levels of government. And the first thing one notices is that the new elite has no compunctions about nominating someone for the Supreme Court even though she has no real qualifications. So much for the principles of merit and inclusion: Inclusion does not apply to WASPs now that they have been deposed. And the principle of merit can now be safely discarded in favor of ethnic networking. As I noted previously,This is a favorite aspect of contemporary Jewish self-conception — the idea that Jews replaced WASPs because they are smarter and work harder. But this leads to the ultimate irony: Kagan isremarkably unqualified to be a Supreme Court Justice in terms of the usual standards: judicial experience, academic publications, or even courtroom experience. Rather, all the evidence is that Kagan owes her impending confirmation to her Jewish ethnic connections (see also here).The same goes for Jewish over-representation in elite academic institutions —far higherthan can be explained by higher Jewish IQ. Does anyone seriously think that Jewish domination of Hollywood and so much of the other mainstream media (see, e.g., Edmund Connelly's article) is about merit rather than ethnic networking and solidarity?"
In conclusion, MacDonald writes, "Whatever else one can say about the new elite, it certainly does not believe in merit." Allow me to offer a newer case in point — that of Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, who grew up in a Jewish family in Miami. Sandberg's key break was admission to Harvard, despite the fact that her academic background hardly seemed to warrant it. As she admits in her best-selling book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. (New York, Random House, 2013), she was clearly not prepared for the rarified atmosphere of Harvard:
Freshman year of college was a huge shock for me… [M]y professor of political philosophy assigned a five-page paper. I was panicked. Five whole pages! I had only written one paper that length in high school, and it was a year-long project. How could anyone write five pages in just one week? I stayed in every night, plugging away, and based on the time I put in, I should have gotten an A for effort. I got a C. It is virtually impossible to get a C at Harvard if the assignment is turned in. I am not exaggerating — this was the equivalent of a failing grade."
How unprepared was she? Well, in a class called "The Concept of the Hero in Hellenistic Civilization," she hadn't even heard of the two main texts, The Iliadand The Odyssey. Meanwhile, most of her classmates had already read them, and about a third of them had read them in the original Homeric Greek. Yet there sat Miss Sandberg right beside them.Read More at: http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2014/08/facebooks-sheryl-sandberg-and-jewish-networking/#more-24456
Rainbow world: the most colourful places on Earth – in pictures. The world is full of landscapes that are so surreal, and so intensely coloured, that it's hard to believe they really exist. Take a look at some of the strangest, and most vibrant, views in the world, from a pink lake in Senegal to striped rock formations in China.
|Blooming tulip fields in the Netherlands.
|Lake Retba in Senegal – the pink tint is due to the presence of algae called Dunaliella salina.
Read More at: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/aug/27/rainbow-world-the-most-colourful-places-on-earth-in-pictures?CMP=fb_gu
American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant By Ann Scott Tyson
Nearly 13 years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq have produced many stories of heroism and selfless service among American troops. There have also been a few stories of stupidity and even criminality. No stranger story has emerged from the past decade, however, than that of Major James K. Gant, an Army Special Forces officer whose exploits in Afghanistan have been compared to those of T.E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Colonel Kurtz, the renegade Special Forces officer played by Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now (derived from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness).
Repeatedly decorated for heroism and congratulated by his superiors on his pathbreaking work reaching out to the tribes of eastern Afghanistan, Gant was ultimately stripped of his coveted Special Forces tab and kicked out of the Army at a reduced rank after being found guilty of a bevy of offenses. Those included having his reporter-girlfriend, Ann Scott Tyson, of the Washington Post, living with him and his team in a small Afghan village.
In American Spartan, Tyson, who has since left the Post and married Gant, tries to rehabilitate her husband's reputation and indict his superiors for "betraying" him (as the subtitle has it). It is a fascinating and improbable story that she has to tell, and it is to her credit that she does not stint on recounting Gant's many woes and foibles along with his bravery and dedication. If this book were to be made into a movie, Gant should be played by Matthew McConaughey, because he recalls no one as much as "Rust" Cohle, the troubled but brilliant police officer that McConaughey played in HBO'sTrueDetective.
Jim Gant first enlisted in the Army as a private in 1986 and soon became a Green Beret, a member of the U.S. Army Special Forces. He served in the 1991 Gulf War but did not see real combat until the 2003 Iraq War, by which time he had gone to college and become a Special Forces officer. Influenced by Steven Pressfield's popular novel Gates of Fireabout the Battle of Thermopylae, he had become a devotee of Sparta's warrior ethos. "It spoke to me like the Bible," he said of Gates of Fire. As a sign of his newfound enthusiasm, he had the Greek letter lambda, standing for the Spartan homeland of Laconia, tattooed on his left forearm.
Hungary's PM wants to end "liberal immigration policy" and boost European birth rates by Steve Goode
In Ypres, Belgium, the prime ministers of European Union countries gathered to discuss politics.
Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, said in a meeting that during his time in office "The goal is to cease immigration whatsoever,"
"I think the current liberal immigration policy, which is considered obvious and morally based, is hypocritical…"
He said he wanted to EU leaders to acknowledge that immigration is wrong, and Europe's aim should be to cease immigration.
"There were two types of reactions: some envied me because they mustn't say things like that although they'd very much like to. The others disagreed because they've failed to turn around demographic trends with family politics; have kept social tension at bay by subsidizing the jobless; and aren't fazed if the ethnic basis of a nation state is broken,"
PM Orban said it was extremely important for Hungary to remain European, ethnically and culturally, with Christianity as its cornerstone.
He suggested that instead of financing the current immigration policy, EU countries should use that money to make the immigrants' home countries better to live, and additionally, to focus on increasing the birth rate in Europe.
The Hungarian government has been increasing the country's birth rate by offering tax exemption to those who have three kids or more, and also introducing legislation so that mothers can stay home for three years after giving birth.
The Hungarian government also plans to boost birth-rates with a congratulatory card for newly wedded couples.
"If your love for one another becomes the source of a new life, that's the greatest gift to your family. A child is a blessing, and the pledge of survival of the family and our nation." the congratulatory cards say.
Back in May 2014, PM Orban shed light on to why he is trying to increase the birth-rate of Europeans.
"History has proven that civilizations that are not capable of biologically preserving themselves are destined to disappear, Our civilization, Europe is not capable of this today."
Read More at: http://whitegenocideproject.com/hungarys-pm-wants-to-end-liberal-immigration-policy-and-boost-european-birth-rates/
The Israel Lobby Eliminates Another Critic BY PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
The United States, wallowing in arrogance and hubris, pretends to be "the world's sole superpower," the "exceptional and indispensable nation" chosen by history to exercise hegemony over the world. In truth, the US is the two-bit punk puppet of the Israel Lobby. If the Zionist government orders Washington to eat dog excrement, Washington eats it.
Not even the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Military could get the facts acknowledged that Israel's attack on the USS Liberty in 1967, which made casualties of most of the crew, was not a "mistake," but the intentional act of destruction of a US Navy vessel and its crew.
Not even state universities in the hinterlands of America are independent of the Israel Lobby, which can determine tenure and hiring decisions independently of the decisions of faculty and deans.
Thanks to the cowardice and integrity deficit of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign chancellor Phyllis Wise, Professor Steven Salaita is the latest victim of the Israel Lobby. Salaita was a tenured professor at Virginia Tech. He resigned his position to accept a job offered to him by the University of Illinois only to find that the chancellor, with no basis whatsoever in law for her decision, told him that she, and she alone, "revoked" his job offer.
Why did Phyllis Wise allow her university to make a job offer to Steven Salatia that caused him to resign his tenured position at a distinguished academic institution where I once taught in order to accept the Illinois offer and then pull the rug out from under Salatia?
One possible explanation is that Phyllis Wise is a totally irresponsible person devoid of all integrity who is too stupid to comprehend the expensive violation of contract lawsuit that Wise has brought to Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. How does a person so devoid of humanity, integrity, and common sense get appointed to be chancellor of an academic institution? Yes, I know, we can ask the same question about the president of the US and the chairmen of the "banks too big to fail," and the CEOs of American companies who offshore and outsource American jobs to the detriment of the US economy.
Another possible explanation is that Wise was paid money by the Israel Lobby.
Another possible explanation is that the Israel Lobby had its Jewish graduates from Illinois at Urbana-Champaign threaten Wise with the loss of donations.
Only investigation can ascertain which of these explanations, or some other, could be the truth. For now all we have is a gratuitous personal attack on Salatia by Wise.
What did Salatia do that caused the Israel Lobby to force Wise to destroy her reputation along with that of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign? Salatia criticized, as have I and millions of decent people all over the world who have a moral conscience, the Zionist Israelis for their theft and murder of Palestinians. In fact, Salatia is more restrained in his criticism of the Zionist government than many Israelis themselves and the outstanding Israeli newspaper, Haaratz, the voice of conscience in a land without conscience.Read More at: http://www.unz.com/proberts/the-israel-lobby-eliminates-another-critic/
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Problem: By default, Windows 64-bit starts the 64-bit version of wscript.exe (the VBS interpreter). This results in the "800a01ad Active X component can't create object" error message.
Solution: Start the VBS file with the 32-bit version of the Windows Scripting Host.
There are two methods:
(1) Create a batch file that contains the following line:
C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64\wscript.exe yourVBSscript.VBS
This will start the VBS script using the 32-bit version of VBS.
(2) Change the "VBS" file extension permanently to the 32-bit version of wscript.exe:
1. Right-click a *. VBS file, and then click Open With.
2. In the Open With dialog box, click Browse to locate the VBS version that you want: C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64\wscript.exe
3. Select the Always use the selected program to open this kind of file check box.
This article applies to all 64-bit version of Windows (XP, 2003, Vista).


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MLS – Big 5
This week's Big 5 begins on a sad note with news, so let's get to it. 1) Clint Dempsey Out for Season The Seattle Sounders have announced that Clint Dempsey will sit out the remainder of the MLS season as … Continue reading
NWSL Playoffs are Set
It went down to the wire but the NWSL playoff picture finally emerged over the last weekend of the 2016 season with the Western New York Flash defeating the Boston Breakers 4-0 on the road Saturday evening to claim the … Continue reading
Abby Wambach – Forward: A Memoir.
Retired American soccer star Abby Wambach has penned a very readable memoir that simultaneously manages to be both frank in revealing her personal struggles and triumphs while skimming somewhat lightly over the deep subjects that the author raises. Fans looking … Continue reading
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A week ago, just after making his return to MLS with a brief and uneventful shift Landon Donovan said this: "I need to get myself ready to compete in a real way. Bruce and the coaching staff need to know … Continue reading
U.S. WNT Top Netherlands as Anthem Controversy Continues
As the U.S. Women's National Team continued its Olympic Recovery Tour with a 3-1 win over an up and coming Netherlands side, Megan Rapinoe continued with her protest, kneeling during the national anthem Sunday night in Atlanta. Rapinoe had previously … Continue reading
Amid Controversy O'Reilly and USWNT Shine
On a night when the game was more or less beside the point, Rapinoe knelt, Hope stayed away, Heather O'Reilly said goodbye, and oh, by the way, the U.S.A. clobbered Thailand 9-0 in Columbus. The most dramatic action of the … Continue reading
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text: PLYMOUTH -- Several property owners raised questions regarding the proposed creation of a storm-water utility at Monday night's Common Council meeting. If the new utility is approved, city residents and property owners will see a new charge on their utility bills in February. Due to a federally unfunded mandate, the city of Plymouth has to create a storm-water utility. So the funding will come Plymouth residents and property owners. Residents will be charged $2.05 a month for the utility. Property owners will be charged for the square footage of their lot's impervious area, which includes buildings, garages, driveways and parking lots. The rate for those properties is determined by the amount of square footage. Plymouth businessman David Miller said consideration should be given to those who have developments that require the installation of a retention area. "We are required to deal with our storm water," he said. Miller said the city should look into the issue before it creates the utility, because it can be difficult for a government entity to undo something. "This is still in its infancy," Plymouth Mayor Gary Cook said. Jack Greenlee, R-4th District, said this is a win-win for the city. "It's really a benefit to the city to have clean water," Greenlee said. The ordinance creating the storm-water utility and the rate ordinance passed on second reading, both by a 4-1 vote. Chuck Ripley, R-1st District, voted against both. Ripley said the city should be in contact with the Marshall County drainage board through all of this. "I think we need to take a longer look at this," Ripley said. Plymouth resident Wilson Gerrard said the city should hold off implementing the utility until the federal government steps in and tells the city it really has to do so. He said this would save those on a fixed income some money in the time being. Cook reiterated the point that this utility has to be created due to a federally unfunded mandate. "The fines they could impose on us (if we didn't) would overwhelm us," Cook said. Ultimately, this utility will help to monitor storm-water quantity and quality and to ensure that storm-water runoff is as pollutant free as possible as it enters the Yellow River, Public Works Director Rick Gaul said. Staff writer Chris Gautz: firstname.lastname@example.com (574) 936-2921


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Okay, here we go! Now THIS is a healthy dinner, isn't it?!? So many layers of flavor in each bite and you can even make extra to eat all week long. I've been topping everything with the Grilled Watermelon & Eggplant Salad and I even put the avocado sauce on my eggs this morning. I was inspired to make this salad by the fresh vegetables and herbs growing in my own garden. I love the sweet flavor of Japanese eggplant and there is seriously nothing like homegrown tomatoes. And would you believe this was my first time grilling watermelon?!? The fruit stays crunchy but completely changes to a sweet new flavor from the hot grill. It's brilliant!
This salad has grilled fruit and veggies, fresh tomato, spicy peppers, bright herbs and citrus and crunchy pine nuts. Nothin' wrong with that!
And to add even more to this dish, I made a cool and creamy avocado sauce to add healthy fat and to balance the spiciness and acid from the salad.
THIS is lunch AND dinner!
- 2 tilapia fillets
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 4-5 pieces of thinly sliced watermelon
- 1 Japanese eggplant (can also use baby eggplant)
- 1 jalapeno
- 1 golden cayenne (optional, very spicy)
- 1 vine-ripe tomato
- 5-6 leaves of fresh mint, chopped + extra for garnish
- 2 Tbsp pine nuts
- 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp lemon zest
- 1-2 tsp salt
- 1-2 tsp pepper
- 1 ripe avocado
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
- salt and pepper, to taste
- Combine the avocado, sour cream and lemon juice in a food processor and blend until smooth. If you want to make the sauce thinner, add more lemon juice. Add salt and pepper to taste. Place the sauce in squeeze bottle (for presentation) and refrigerate until ready to use. Can be made 3-4 days in advance.
- Heat an indoor or outdoor grill to 350 degrees F (medium-high heat).
- Drizzle the watermelon slices with a thin layer of olive oil then place them on the hot grill. Cook for 2-3 minutes on each side to form dark grill marks. Remove the watermelon from the heat and sprinkle with salt. Cut the watermelon into small pieces and place in a bowl.
- Thinly slice the eggplant (keep the skin on) and combine in a bowl with the jalapeno and golden cayenne. Drizzle with 3-4 tablespoons of olive oil, a heavy sprinkling of salt and pepper and stir to combine. Remember that the olive oil and salt will seep into the eggplant while it cooks so don't be afraid to add a lot.
- Grill the eggplant and peppers at the same time, for 4-5 minutes on each side. The peppers should be blackened an all sides.
- Cut the grilled eggplant into pieces that are similar to the size of the watermelon pieces. Slice the peppers in half, scoop out the seeds then chop into small pieces. Add the eggplant and peppers to the bowl with the watermelon.
- Chop the vine ripe tomato and fresh pint and add to the bowl with the pine nuts. Stir in the lemon juice, lemon zest, salt and pepper and stir to combine. Set the salad aside until ready to use, or refrigerate 1 day in advance.
- Sprinkle both sides of the tilapia with cumin, paprika, salt and pepper then rub the olive oil on both sides of the fish. In your grill pan or in a flat pan, cook the tilapia for 3-4 minutes on each side, until cooked through.
- Place the cooked tilapia on a plate, top with the grilled watermelon & eggplant salad then drizzle with the avocado sauce.
- You can squeeze some fresh lemon juice over the top as well, for some added acid. And it never hurts to sprinkle the fish with some coarse sea salt.


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Holywood golfer Rory McIlroy certainly got golf fans talking last night as he made a late surge on the final day of the US Open in Chambers Bay.
But, it was a case of too little too late as McIlroy failed to take the major title finishing on level par, five shots behind winner Jordan Speith.
McIlroy embarked on a turbo-charged run which saw him hole six birdies in his opening 13 holes, including an incredible 72-foot putt.
That lifted the 2011 US Open champion from four over to two under but his momentum was halted when he missed a 10-foot birdie putt on the 14th and a six-foot par putt on the 15th.
A further bogey followed on the 17th and he finished with a par five at the last.
21-year-old Jordan Speith went on to claim his second major of the year beating Dustin Johnson by a single shot after Johnson three-putted the last from 12 feet.
South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen sank six birdies in his last seven holes as he hit 67 to tie Johnson for second.
Speith said: "I'm in shock but I feel for Dustin. It's cool to be able to have two legs of the grand slam now, and to conquer golf's hardest test - the US Open is conquering the hardest layout in all of golf.
"I didn't have my best stuff ball-striking at all and really grinded over those four or five-footers - that was the difference."
MORE: Rory McIlroy: 26 things we love about the Holywood golfer
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Macau jetfoil passengers tell of 'crash like thunder' that left 87 injured
Passengers describe how they were thrown out of their seats on Macau-bound ferry in accident blamed on floating debris that left 87 injured
Bruised and bloodied passengers recalled their terror yesterday after a mystery accident involving a Macau-bound jetfoil that left 87 injured.
They told of a huge noise "like thunder" as they were thrown out of their seats, with one commenting: "It was like a racing car suddenly hitting a wall."
It was initially thought the vessel, Madeira, may have hit an unknown object in the water. But a spokesman for operator TurboJet said there was no immediately apparent damage to the hull.
A government source later said that as one of the two engines had broken down, it was possible that semi-submerged refuse had been sucked into the engine and jammed it.
Video: Dozens injured in Hong Kong high-speed ferry accident
The accident happened about 15 minutes after the 27-metre jetfoil carrying 105 passengers and 10 crew left the Hong Kong-Macau Ferry Terminal in Sheung Wan at 1am yesterday.
"It was like it suddenly got stuck, sank, bounced up and dropped down," injured mainland tourist Wang Rong said of the accident off Hei Ling Chau.
Wang was wearing a seatbelt but her nose slammed into the seat in front so hard that it bled "like water gushing out from a tap". She needed five stitches.
"I heard huge sounds, like thunder cracking three times. It was so loud my ears almost got hurt. Now I feel like the sounds are still roaring," she said.
Wang's friend Gong Wenzhong said the incident was like "a racing car hitting a wall". He had not fastened his seat belt and was thrown into the air.
"Many people in the boat flew up," he said. "When they fell, they crashed into many seats."
He was hurt slightly around his waist, but his wife, who had fastened her seat belt, lost a front tooth when her head hit the seat in front.
Their group of six, including one Hong Kong resident, had flown from Bangkok on Wednesday and planned to visit Macau for the day before heading back to the mainland. They were treated at Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital in Chai Wan. But when one of them required further observation, the hospital refused to admit her unless the group signed an agreement to pay the HK$47,000 non-resident's deposit.
The woman, who has kidney disease, was found with blood in her urine. But doctors said it was not clear if this was due to the accident. The dispute was solved when Turbojet agreed to cover the costs of their medical treatment and their stay in the city.
"I thought such things could only happen on the mainland," the Hong Kong member of the group, Ng Kam-chiu, said.
"Now I feel Hong Kong is becoming more like the mainland. This is too inhumane."
The vessel was towed back to the terminal, where the injured were picked up by 36 ambulances. The 54 men and 33 women, including nine crew, were treated at six public hospitals.
Two men aged 41 and 55 were in serious condition, 27 were stable and the rest were discharged.
TurboJet said the ferry's speed was normal at 38 to 40 knots.
A police officer said an air and sea search failed to find any object the jetfoil could have hit.
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Charles Wolford, executive producer at Satellite Films in Los Angeles, says he saw business improve in August but he's waiting until next year for the real comeback. "I don't really think things will change much until next year," he says. "The economy is still adjusting from the craziness of the internet boom and it will take awhile before things get back to normal. That will continue to cause agencies to be careful about how and who they're spending their dollars with. " Wolford also thinks the stage is still set for a further thinning of the industry. "It's really competitive out there now," he says. "I think that medium-sized companies will close and what will be left are either small creative shops or the larger production companies with many directors."
One complaint, even among those who are bidding more projects than earlier in the summer, is budget constraints. Clients are greenlighting projects but keeping the purse strings tight. "A lot of people are coming in with great ideas and absolutely no money," says an East Coast director. "But the creatives still want the car to fly through a ring of fire."
Steve Wax, executive producer at Chelsea Pictures, says things picked up in July with a few large projects hitting the marketplace. In August, on the other hand, there were more projects up for grabs but mostly in the low range, from $60,000 to $300,000. "It's a very strange environment," he says. "It feels like a thinly traded stock. With a thinly traded stock, people can't really establish a trend. The whole commercials business is like that."
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Janet Napolitano will step down from her job as Secretary of the Department Homeland Security to become president of the University of California system. According to Katrina Trinko, Napolitano will probably be paid about $600,000 in her new job. Her predecessor made %591,000.
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The key to space settlement is inexpensive, reliable launch from Earth to orbit. The least expensive, and IMHO most exciting, vehicle today is the SpaceX Falcon. The Falcon 9 has flown a couple of times and is priced at about $5,000/kg, which is well below other launch vehicles. The Falcon Heavy is in development and promises to lower costs even more, to as little as $1,500/kg. The Falcon 9 and Heavy are expendable launchers, meaning the vehicle does not survive the launch and a new vehicle must be built for the next payload. If it were possible to use these vehicles over and over, without too much refurbishment between launches, costs could be dramatically lowered.
I just listened to a talk by Elon Musk, the head of SpaceX. He says that analysis and simulation suggest that they can fly the Falcon 9 first stage back to the launch pad and, with a heat shield and aerodynamic exterior, get the upper stage back as well. He also says that it will be difficult and they may fail, but they intend to try. He estimates the reduction in cost at about 100x. That means SpaceX thinks they can get costs down to around $60/kg.
They could easily be wrong, but if they are even in the ballpark this is revolutionary -- and the 1,500 employees at SpaceX are going to try.
Is there something you can do to help? If you are a US voter, yes. Contact your congressional representatives and ask them to insist that the air force buy launch services with a free and open competition.
Background: The air force launches many satellites into orbit. They are proposing a sole source, non-competitive contract with a consortium of Lockheed and Boeing to buy all of their launches through 2018. If this contract goes through, SpaceX, or any other company, would not be allowed to bid. This is in spite of the fact that SpaceX is cheaper and the Falcon vehicles are built entirely in the U.S. whereas one of the vehicles in the sole source contract, the Atlas V, has a Russian-built main engine! In other words, the air force is insisting on buying Russian engines rather than American products!


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Love of craftsmanship, family values stokes Firetainment founder
Inspiration for Firetainment's line of custom fire-pit tables came while CEO Shawn Clark was dining out at a hibachi-style restaurant just days after spotting some beautiful marble table-tops.
"Everyone around me was just having fun at their tables – without having their cell phones out," he recalled. "And I wanted to bring that experience home, and fill a need out there for versatile furniture that promotes family and friends getting together."
With a combination of blue-collar work ethic, child-like enthusiasm and Silicon Valley ingenuity, Clark immediately pursued the goal of creating fire tables with cooking capability. He came up with the name Firetainment that night. Since launching in 2011, the company has seen 40 percent growth year over year. And Clark's mid-meal brainstorm has blossomed into a $2.5 million business with 22 sales reps who oversee placement in 260 patio-lifestyle retail locations nationwide.
Along the way, 33-year-old Clark has established a creative business model that emphasizes American craftsmanship, employee engagement, and top-shelf customer service.
A spark is born
After graduating from high school in Daytona Beach, Florida, Clark worked in restaurants and sold insurance, where he learned to translate his affability into sales. At age 21, he began working for a Central Florida mechanical contracting company that built large industrial steam systems for citrus plants. There, he went from hands-on boilermaker work and welding to project management and sales.
"At that point, I went to managing million-dollar projects and being the youngest guy in the room," Clark said.
At the same time, he and four partners launched, managed, and sold a company that processed used restaurant oil into biofuel. Using equipment discovered at salvage yards, Clark built the operation's quarter-million dollar plant for around $20,000. "That's where I learned business savvy and dealing with people," he said. He worked at his day job, then did oil-truck pickups throughout the night. Clark calls the venture, which turned over 25,000 gallons per month, his "college." The partners sold the company three years ago.
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In the early days, Clark sold the handmade tables at popular Orlando events like wine festivals in local neighborhoods. After an early investor advised focusing on B2B, Firetainment entered the big league by exhibiting at the casual furniture industry's largest trade event in 2012. It was immediately obvious that the company was out of place, he recalls. "These are $100 million companies [that were] unveiling their new products, and we didn't even have our paperwork figured out."
The event proved to be a turning point, nonetheless. Clark met two individuals who would prove crucial to Firetainment's early growth. One was the sister of a host of HGTV shows "Decked Out" and "Disaster Deck," who ordered some tables for the show. Through that connection, Clark was introduced to the prize manager at the long-running, daytime TV game show "The Price is Right," where Firetainment tables are now offered as featured prizes at least once a month.
The second key contact was Kevin Prefontaine, the president and owner of one of the nation's largest outdoor lifestyle/furniture retail chains, based in Indianapolis.
"He sat me down and gave me the industry rundown," Clark said. "Ever since, he's been helping me tailor my program and product as we grow." Prefontaine also introduced him to key players in the business, who say they love the fact that "there's a young guy coming into the industry."
Today Firetainment's product line features custom tables in 12 sizes, three shapes and two heights, with tops fashioned from polished granite or pre-cast concrete, and marine-grade aluminum alloy base enclosures. Each has a patented 12-inch stainless steel burner and a patent-pending, universal cook mount that can be used with a host of accessories, such as a cast-iron griddle.
Building community
As sales took off, Clark focused on ensuring that fabrication was handled by American tradespeople in Orlando, Florida, and at a nearby Sanford studio. The 10,000-square-foot Orlando operation includes both granite and concrete fabrication facilities and houses 10-12 employees. "We build all of our own burners, all of our own base enclosures, and all the metal components are made right there."
Customer service has been a crucial part of Firetainment's success, Clark said. "Our customers are the stores," he explained, so he ensures their 100 percent satisfaction by employing a thorough, if informal, guarantee.
"I don't even hand out warranties. If there's a problem with the product, you pick up the phone and you call me and I will send you a replacement. I want that piece back so that I can analyze it and make sure that this doesn't happen again. If we tell you we're going to ship something on a certain date, we're going to ship on that date. If it doesn't, I'll call you up and I'll give you a discount because we didn't make it happen."
Firetainment's lean manufacturing model also fosters a tight group of skilled fabricators. "These guys are almost artists," he noted, adding that 60 percent came to the company from Bridges of America, a private provider of re-entry programming for offenders, ex-felons and probation populations.
"We bring them in and teach them trade skills and get them outside," Clark said. "They're guys that not only worked with us while they were at [Bridges], but they've stayed once they've gotten out and are [now] operating as awesome humans."
Steve Lewis, production manager for Firetainment, who came to the company from the program, argues that it's Clark who's the standout – particularly when it comes to valuing employees and defying convention.
"He treats us all as family. When someone calls him 'boss,' he'll say, 'Don't call me that. You don't have to call me that,'" Lewis said. "The thing about Shawn is he doesn't have any set rules."
Then again, Lewis explains, nothing is set in their business. "The main challenge is the change, the growth. You constantly have to adapt. You can't get too comfortable," Lewis said. "Once I got comfortable on the saw, it was, "Now you're going to be learning this.' [Clark will] get everybody to work in every area, in case you need to fill in, but he also wants to know what you're best at."
Stoking growth
That type of flexibility among the artisans is essential, Clark said. "We hit these growth points every six to nine months where we have to regroup, redesign the shop, redesign the workflow and make sure that I'm adding the right amount of hands so that our customer service does not falter."
This spring, Firetainment is experiencing yet another period of growth – at the same time Clark has been consumed with traveling, training and seeing customers. But the production line is never far from his thoughts.
"With my background in being a welder-fabricator, I can take and merge five ideas into one piece of equipment and allow one guy to do five persons' jobs." Last month Clark recycled an old shipping container, insulating it and installing an exhaust system to create a sealing and curing room. "I love to build things that no one's ever built."
With a sales goal of $7 million for 2017 and a new focus on retailers west of the Mississippi River, Clark is counting on his growing family of loyal employees to meet the challenges ahead. To elicit new ideas, he created an incentive that pays $500 to anyone who comes up with a new process that gets implemented. It's a win-win arrangement, he explains.
"It makes your job easier and gets everybody focused on [how] we can get to where we're doing $20 million, $30 million, $40 million with the same number of hands."


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CNN's Erin Burnett took only four minutes on October 23 to destroy the Obama administration's claim that the president's budget plan would eliminate $4 trillion in deficit spending over the next decade, a television segment that sent the Obama campaign into damage control mode for the past week.
While the Obama administration followed up with new figures for CNN reporters, Burnett concluded in an October 25 segment that even with the new figures the Obama campaign's math "it still doesn't seem to add up."
Burnett's original October 22 segment noted of a new Obama campaign brochure, that "They put a lot of time and effort into this glossy thing, because three-and-a-half million copies are going to be mailed to swing state households. Millions more are going to be given out door-to-door.… So what new information warranted this big campaign roll-out, just two weeks before election day? Well, nothing really. And the campaign admits as much."
Burnett then used an audio segment of Senior Obama Campaign Advisor David Axelrod, who admitted that Obama's new plan was the same as Obama's old plan. Burnett then went on to deconstruct the Obama deficit claims:
What we've got is a fancy repackaging of the ideas we've heard before.… Here's the problem. Some of these ideas still don't add up. So let's take the core of it: The President's tax and deficit plan. According to the glossy, and I'll read it here, "President Obama's plan reduces the deficit by more than $4 trillion over the next decade." How, you might ask? Well, first, the President includes a trillion dollars in spending cuts already signed into law last year. So those are cuts already on the books, no matter who's in the Oval Office. So, maybe then it's $3 trillion. But next, the President says "The plan makes sure that millionaires aren't paying lower tax rates than many middle class families." Now, to that end, the President plans to let the Bush tax cuts expire for households making above $250,000 a year. According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, that would reduce the deficit by just $829 billion over the next ten years, not even a quarter of the $4 trillion that the President says he's going to guarantee. Now, the President also says he'll get there by cutting corporate loopholes and cutting spending. Of course, he doesn't say what loopholes or what spending. Sound familiar?
Burnett then quoted Obama from the final October 22 Presidential debate, where Obama criticized former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney for doing precisely the same thing:
You say that you're going to pay for it by closing loopholes and deductions, without naming what those loopholes and deductions are. And then somehow you're also going to deal with the deficit that we've already got. The math simply doesn't work.
Burnett, a former Goldman Sachs investment banker and member of the Council on Foreign Relations, also noted that part of Obama's plan to "cut" the deficit involved eliminating war spending that was never planned:
The money spent in Afghanistan and Iraq was largely borrowed, [in] the President's words "put on a credit card." And he even wrote that in his glossy. So how can the President save the money which was borrowed in the first place? And how can he save money that he never intended to spend, since the administration has long said it would end those wars? It doesn't add up.
In sum: While Obama has openly advocated a huge deficit in perpetuity, he has also claimed he would "cut" the deficit by eliminating spending he never intended to ask Congress to appropriate. If Obama's campaign promises on the deficit don't add up, it wouldn't be the first time. Obama's formal fiscal 2013 budget proposal does involve a planned deficit of nearly $1 trillion, with annual deficits amounting to $613 billion when his second term would finish in 2017. Obama's original 2009 budget proposal called for a $512 billion deficit at the end of his first term, even though deficits have exceeded $1 trillion each year of his presidency.
Burnett's October 23 CNN segment drew a quick response from the Obama campaign, which forwarded a 30-page document from Obama's Fiscal 2013 budget proposal to CNN with specifics about what loopholes would be shut. But Burnett reported that Obama's math on cutting the deficit still did not add up:
But does it add up to the President's claim of cutting $4 trillion from the debt? Well, no. The non-partisan CBO analyzed this budget, and I'll quote them, "Over the 2013-2022 period, the cumulative deficit that would result from enacting the President's budget - $6.4 trillion (or 3.2 percent of GDP) — would be $3.5 trillion larger than the cumulative deficit projected under current law." So that's three-and-a-half trillion dollars in new borrowing they have to pay for before they even start the $4 trillion in cuts.
Indeed, because many of the Bush-era and "stimulus" payroll tax cuts would expire at the end of the year under current law, much of the deficit would melt away under these stiff tax increases that would fall heavily on the middle class. If current law is followed, payroll taxes would increase from 5.65 percent of pay to 7.65 percent of wages, and income taxes would increase several thousand dollars on every middle class family. Neither Obama nor Romney have proposed either the tax increases or spending cuts needed to bring the budget into balance during the next four years.
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Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan is a professor in the departments of Human Sciences and Psychology at The Ohio State University and an affiliate of the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy. She received her PhD in developmental psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Schoppe-Sullivan's research is primarily focused on how parents manage their parenting roles and responsibilities together – or coparenting – and the roles of fathers in families. She is particularly interested in the implications of coparenting and father-child relationships for child and family functioning and the development of these relationships across the transition to parenthood. Her research has been funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Science Foundation.
She has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Marriage and Family, Family Relations, Fathering, Parenting: Science and Practice, and the Journal of Family Theory and Review. Schoppe-Sullivan has also received numerous awards recognizing the high quality of her teaching and mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students.
- PhD, Developmental Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003
- MA, Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999
- BA, Psychology, Northwestern University, 1996
Research Interests
- Child Development
- Infancy and early childhood
- Socioemotional development
- Family Systems
- Co-parenting
- Father-child relationships
- Parenting
- Transition to parenthood
- Human Development and Family Studies
- Maternal and Child Health
- Work and Family Studies
Research Summary
My research examines family influences on young children's socioemotional development. Specifically, I have three central areas of interest: (1) coparenting relationships – how effectively adults within the family system coordinate their roles as parents – and the implications of the quality of coparenting relationships for child and family functioning; (2) the roles of fathers in the family system, particularly the roles of fathers within coparenting relationships; and (3) the effects of children's characteristics and behavior on family relationships.
- 2009-Present, Associate Professor, Child Development, Human Development & Family Science, The Ohio State University
- Winter/Spring 2005, Visiting Scholar, University of Notre Dame
- 2003-2009, Assistant Professor, Child Development, Human Development & Family Science, The Ohio State University
- 2001-2002, Fellow, University of Illinois
- 1997-2002, Research/Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois
Professional Service
- 2011-present, Editorial Board, Journal of Family Theory and Review
- 2010-present, Editorial Board, Family Relations
- Theory Construction and Research Methodology workshop chair, 2011
- Reviewer of submissions, 2007, 2009, 2011, and 2013 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting
- Reviewer of submissions, 2008, 2009, and 2010 National Council on Family Relations annual conference
- Ad-Hoc Reviewer: Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Infancy, Infant Mental Health Journal, Journal of Family Issues, Journal of Family Psychology, Journal of Marriage and Family, Parenting: Science and Practice
- 2013 Top Professor in Counseling, Psychology, and Therapy, mastersincounseling.org
- 2013 Top Education Professor in Ohio, Online Schools Ohio
- 2012 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, Ohio State University
- 2011 Distinguished Teaching Award, College of Education and Human Ecology, Ohio State University
- 2008-2014 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- 2008 Siddens Award for Distinguished Faculty Advising of Graduate Students, Ohio State University
- 2008 Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, Ohio State University
- 2006 Dean's Award for Research, College of Human Ecology, Ohio State University
- 2004, 2005, 2010 Ohio Council on Family Relations Professional NCFR Presentation Award
- 2002-2003 Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Illinois
- 2002 Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Instruction by a Graduate Student, University of Illinois
- 1992-96 National Merit Scholarship, Northwestern University
- 1995 Phi Beta Kappa, Northwestern University
Selected Grants
- Schoppe-Sullivan, S. J. (PI). CAREER: Maternal gatekeeping and fathering behavior across the transition to parenthood. National Science Foundation, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences. Dates: 3/1/08-2/28/14. Amount: $399,999. Award Number 0746548.
- Kamp Dush, C. M. (PI), Schoppe-Sullivan, S. J. (PI), Johnson, S. (Co-I), & Christian, L (Co-I). Genetic and environmental contributions to infant socioemotional health and stress responses. Sub-project of the Initiative in Population Research's Population Research Center Grant awarded to The Ohio State University, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Dates: 9/1/10-7/31/12. Amount: $60,147. R24 HD058484.
- Kamp Dush, C. M. (PI), Schoppe-Sullivan, S. J. (PI), & Sayer, L. C. (Co-I). The relationship contexts of fathering behavior across the transition to parenthood in cohabiting and married couples. Sub-project of the Initiative in Population Research's Population Research Center Grant awarded to The Ohio State University, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Dates: 7/1/08-6/30/09. Amount: $74,139. 1 R21 HD047943-01.
- Schoppe-Sullivan, S. J. (PI). Father involvement, coparenting, and child functioning. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Dates: 7/1/05-6/30/08. Amount: $130,147. 1 R03 HD050235.
Selected Publications
- Altenburger, L. E., Schoppe-Sullivan, S. J., Lang, S. N., Bower, D. J., & Kamp Dush, C. M. (2014). Associations between prenatal coparenting behavior and observed coparenting behavior at 9 months postpartum. Journal of Family Psychology, 28, 495-504.
- Kotila, L. E., Schoppe-Sullivan, S. J., & Kamp Dush, C. M. (2014). Boy or girl? Maternal psychological correlates of knowing fetal sex. Personality and Individual Differences, 68, 195-198.
- Lang, S. N., Schoppe-Sullivan, S. J., Kotila, L. E., Feng, X., Kamp Dush, C. M., & Johnson, S. C. (2014). Relations between fathers' and mothers' infant engagement patterns in dual-earner families and toddler competence. Journal of Family Issues, 35, 1107-1127.
- Schoppe-Sullivan, S. J.,Altenburger, L. E., Settle, T. A., Kamp Dush, C. M., Sullivan, J. M., & Bower, D. J. (2014). Expectant fathers' intuitive parenting: Associations with parent characteristics and postpartum positive engagement. Infant Mental Health Journal, 35, 409-421.
- Kotila, L. E. , Schoppe-Sullivan, S. J., & Kamp Dush, C. M. (2013). Time in parenting activities in dual-earner families at the transition to parenthood. Family Relations, 62, 795-807.
- Lang, S. N., Schoppe-Sullivan, S. J., Kamp Dush, C. M., & Kotila, L. E. (2013). Daily parenting engagement among new mothers and fathers: The role of romantic attachment in dual-earner families. Journal of Family Psychology, 27, 862-872.
- Schoppe-Sullivan, S. J., Kotila, L. E., Jia, R., Bower, D. J., & Lang, S. N. (2013). Comparisons of levels and predictors of mothers' and fathers' engagement with their preschool-age children. Early Child Development and Care, 183, 498-514.
- Schoppe-Sullivan, S. J., & Mangelsdorf, S. C. (2013). Parent characteristics and early coparenting behavior at the transition to parenthood.Social Development, 22, 363-383.
- Bartholomew, M. K., Schoppe-Sullivan, S. J., Glassman, M., Kamp Dush, C. M., & Sullivan, J. M. (2012). New parents' Facebook use at the transition to parenthood. Family Relations, 61, 455-469.
- Jia, R., Kotila, L. E., & Schoppe-Sullivan, S. J. (2012). Transactional relations between father involvement and preschoolers' socioemotional adjustment. Journal of Family Psychology, 26, 848-857.
- Jia, R., & Schoppe-Sullivan, S. J. (2011). Relations between coparenting and father involvement in families with preschool-age children.Developmental Psychology, 47, 106-118.
- Kamp Dush, C. M., Kotila, L. E., & Schoppe-Sullivan, S. J. (2011). Predictors of supportive coparenting after relationship dissolution among at-risk parents. Journal of Family Psychology, 25, 356-365.