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CRUISE SHIP CONFESSION: Top Fox News Executive Admits Lying On-Air About Obama
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In newly uncovered audio, a Fox News executive boasts that he lied repeatedly during the closing days of the 2008 presidential campaign when he speculated on-air "about whether Barack Obama really advocated socialism."
Speaking in 2009 onboard a pricey Mediterranean cruise sponsored by a right-wing college, Fox Washington managing editor Bill Sammon described his attempts the previous year to link Obama to "socialism" as "mischievous speculation." Sammon, who is also a Fox News vice president, acknowledged that "privately" he had believed that the socialism allegation was "rather far-fetched."
"Last year, candidate Barack Obama stood on a sidewalk in Toledo, Ohio, and first let it slip to Joe the Plumber that he wanted to quote, 'spread the wealth around,' " said Sammon. "At that time, I have to admit, that I went on TV on Fox News and publicly engaged in what I guess was some rather mischievous speculation about whether Barack Obama really advocated socialism, a premise that privately I found rather far-fetched."
Indeed, in the weeks leading up to the 2008 election, Sammon used his Fox position to engage in a campaign to tie Obama to "Marxists" and "socialism." A Media Matters review found that Sammon - then the network's Washington deputy managing editor - repeatedly linked Obama's "spread the wealth around" remark to socialism during his October 2008 Fox appearances.
Sammon's "mischief" wasn't limited to his on-air appearances. As Media Matters reported, Sammon also pushed Fox News colleagues to play the socialism card. On October 27, 2008, Sammon sent an email to staffers highlighting what he described as "Obama's references to socialism, liberalism, Marxism and Marxists" in his 1995 autobiography Dreams From My Father. Shortly after sending the email, Sammon appeared on two Fox News programs to discuss his research and also wrote a FoxNews.com piece about Obama's "affinity to Marxists."
On October 14, 2008, Sammon said that Obama's "spread the wealth around" remark "is red meat when you're talking to conservatives and you start talking about 'spread the wealth around.' That is tantamount to socialism."
Sammon repeated the "tantamount to socialism" line later that day, stating: "That's anathema to conservatives. That's the same as saying, 'Spread the misery around.' That's basically tantamount to socialism. And that bothers a lot of people. So I think if McCain is going to have any chance of moving ahead, he's got to turn this economic discussion from something that's been hurting him for the last couple weeks to something that can help him by focusing on what to do about the economy in the future."
On October 21, 2008, Sammon appeared on Greta Van Susteren's show, where he referred to Bill Ayers "talking about being a Marxist." Sammon then said, "I have read Barack Obama's books pretty carefully, and he in his own words talks about being drawn to Marxists. ... Now all this stuff's coming out about whether he's a socialist. I don't know why anyone is surprised by it, because if you read his own words and his sort of, you know, orientation coming up as a liberal through college and as a young man, it's not a huge shock."
On October 25, 2008, Sammon said: "As soon as I heard Barack Obama say, and it's gone on almost two weeks ago - two weeks ago -- 'spread the wealth around,' I mean, the red flag went up. I mean, that's just code - and I knew that conservatives would say, 'That is exactly code for income redistribution which is tantamount to socialism.' And I talked about this for several days right after it happened. And the McCain campaign has now picked up this socialism word on their own, and they're running with it."
"I think some of these substantive issues, such as, you know, higher taxes, are we going to head more towards a socialistic government, could play in McCain's favor," Sammon said on October 27, 2008, after Fox aired a clip of Obama responding to McCain's accusations of socialism.
"I do think that when you start talking about 'spread the wealth around,' which is what Barack Obama said to Joe the Plumber, and now this new radio thing that came up today where he talks about redistributing the wealth, you know, those two things together are tantamount to socialism to conservatives," Sammon added later in the October 27 interview. "That's red meat. That'll fire up the conservative base, who had been a little bit dispirited."
Sammon went on to say that Obama "was drawn to Marxists, he was drawn to liberals, he was drawn to socialists by his own admission as a young man, so I think even though he postures as a moderate now as a presidential candidate, I think his heart is really towards the hard left, and we may see whether that comes out as he governs, if in fact he wins."
During an October 28, 2008, appearance on Fox & Friends, Sammon again said Obama "was drawn to Marxist and socialists as a young man" before adding, "Now, let's be clear. I mean people had political ideologies in college that they don't necessarily have later in life, but I do think it indicates that he may be a little bit more liberal than he presents himself."
Later in the interview, Sammon said that "there certainly is a consistency there when you look at the people he was drawn to going to socialist conferences, hanging out with Marxist professors, going to see Stokely Carmichael, even after he got out of college, for inspiration. The former Black Panther. And then you look later at life, where his association with Bill Ayers, the radical. You look at his association with the Reverend Wright. It does make you wonder whether indeed some of his leanings in his college days still carry through today, only are a little bit more fuzzed up because he's a politician who's running for high office. And I think it's worth examining."
Sammon made his startling admission during an August 2, 2009, speech onboard a 12-day cruise sponsored by Hillsdale College. Conservative writers Walter Williams, Paul Johnson, and Victor Davis Hanson also gave lectures. A Hillsdale newsletter states that "in addition to giving lectures, guest speakers also hosted private dinners for invited guests, and joined in the daytime excursions and camaraderie with their fellow 136 Hillsdale friends and nine Hillsdale staff."
A brochure for the cruise promised attendees a "great opportunity to gather and discuss history and ideas with noted scholars and like-minded friends of Hillsdale." Cabin rates ranged from $11,800 to $37,600 per couple.
The National Review has described Hillsdale as "a citadel of American conservatism," and the conservative Young America's Foundation has listed Hillsdale as one of the top conservative colleges in the country. Hillsdale President Larry Arnn, Sean Hannity, and Mark Levin have issued fundraising appeals touting the college's conservative credentials. Rush Limbaugh has also done on-air radio advertisements for Hillsdale.
During his cruise speech, Sammon said that while he found his own socialism speculation "far-fetched" in October 2008, it was actually proven correct during the first months of Obama's presidency.
"Now imagine my surprise when this year, I witness President Barack Obama standing in the cross hall of the White House and having taken over the American car industry, look into the camera, and announce to the nation essentially, that he would personally vouch for the warranty on your car's muffler," Sammon said on the cruise. "All of a sudden, the debate over whether America was heading for socialism seemed anything but far-fetched."
In a later portion of his speech, Sammon said:
Better yet, people are now surprised that we suddenly gotten serious about the debate over whether America is headed for socialism? I mean, come on. Americans were well aware all throughout the campaign that Barack Obama had chosen to spend 20 years of his adult life at a church that required its congregants to embrace economic parity and disavow the pursuit of middle-classness. OK? Barack Obama admitted that for much of his life he has been drawn to Marxists. I mean for crying out loud, he stood on that sidewalk in Toledo and said to Joe the Plumber, on camera, that he wanted to spread the wealth around. So there shouldn't be a lot of surprise here.
Media Matters obtained audio of Sammon's remarks by purchasing it through Hillsdale College.
Update: The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz has a response from Sammon about his 2009 remarks:
In an interview, Sammon says his reference to "mischevious speculation" was "my probably inartful way of saying, 'Can you believe how far this thing has come?'" The socialism question indeed "struck me as a far-fetched idea" in 2008. "I considered it kind of a remarkable notion that we would even be having the conversation." He doesn't regret repeatedly raising it on the air because, Sammon says, "it was a main point of discussion on all the channels, in all the media"--and by 2009 he was "astonished by how the needle had moved."
Sammon notes that in the same talk on the cruise, he pointed out that George W. Bush had his own stimulus package and had spent half the TARP bailout money: "I was talking about both sides being big spenders." (True; he also told the cruise guests that "when it comes to spending money, Obama makes Bush look like a piker.")
From Sammon's August 2, 2009, Hillsdale College cruise speech:
SAMMON: It is so nice to be back with my Hillsdale friends again, although I have to say that when I arrived last week, the very first person I encountered was James Carville, my old friend James Carville -- made me wonder whether I had boarded the wrong boat. James assured me that he had not known in advance that this was going to be the Hillsdale cruise, which then made me wonder, I wonder if his lovely and talented wife Mary Matalin, who by the way published one of my books, and who affectionately refers to her husband as Serpenthead, I wondered whether Mary had mischievously arranged for James to come on this ship, maybe mingle with some of you Hillsdale people in hopes of saving his ideological soul. Mary, if you're out there, good luck with that one.
You know, speaking of mischief, last year, candidate Barack Obama stood on a sidewalk in Toledo, Ohio, and first let it slip to Joe the Plumber that he wanted to quote, "spread the wealth around." At that time, I have to admit, that I went on TV on Fox News and publicly engaged in what I guess was some rather mischievous speculation about whether Barack Obama really advocated socialism, a premise that privately I found rather far-fetched.
Now imagine my surprise when this year, I witness President Barack Obama standing in the cross hall of the White House and having taken over the American car industry, look into the camera, and announce to the nation essentially, that he would personally vouch for the warranty on your car's muffler. All of a sudden, the debate over whether America was heading for socialism seemed anything but far-fetched. In fact, when you consider the massive expenditures of your tax dollars on such programs as TARP, and stimulus, and in fairness, our pres -- our former president George W. Bush had his own stimulus package towards the end of his administration -- nobody remembers that -- and he also spent the first half of the TARP money.
So we went from a big government conservative to a big government liberal. Although I will say that when it comes to spending money, Obama makes Bush look like a piker. When you consider that those expenditures of money by this administration, which by the way will quadruple the deficit from this year to next year, for the next fiscal year, starts October 1, the deficit will quadruple and when you consider the sweeping expansion of government regulation over such sectors as the finance industry including caps on executive compensation. When you consider the Obama administration's concerted effort to nationalize health care, which of course accounts for a sixth of our economy, and when you consider the Obama administration's concerted effort to impose a cap and trade regime which will profoundly reorder the rest of our economy and mandate massive transfers of wealth. When you consider all of those things and more like them, the debate over whether America is headed for socialism seems all too real, especially to those who still believe in capitalism.
And consider this final thought. When it comes to government spending as a percentage of gross domestic product, the United States has now surpassed Sweden.
SAMMON: In 2008, obviously, he was elected the nation's first black president, a historic achievement. But did so in part by presenting himself as a moderate. In 2009, at least during the first six months of his term, he has instead demonstrated that he is actually quite liberal, quite an ideologue, and quite an ambitious leftist.
Oh, yeah, I mean he made a few overtures to the political opposition. He, you know, had an off-the-record dinner with Charles Krauthammer and some other conservative columnists. He invited a few Republican lawmakers over to the White House for some social events, but you know, those invitations have been quietly discontinued. You don't hear much about that anymore. And the truth of the matter is that the golden era of post-partisanship that Barack Obama was supposed to usher in really ended before it ever started.
And the only thing that should surprise us about that is that we are surprised at all. I mean, it's not like America couldn't see this one coming. Remember, Barack Obama, long before he was elected president, was ranked the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate by the National Journal, a non-partisan magazine. He was given a 95 percent liberal rating by the left-wing group Americans for Democratic Reform. He was on record in his own memoirs as saying, quote, "the arguments of liberals are more often grounded in reason and fact," end quote. And now people are surprised that he's turned out to be a liberal president?
Better yet, people are now surprised that we suddenly gotten serious about the debate over whether America is headed for socialism? I mean, come on. Americans were well aware all throughout the campaign that Barack Obama had chosen to spend 20 years of his adult life at a church that required its congregants to embrace economic parity and disavow the pursuit of middle-classness. OK? Barack Obama admitted that for much of his life he has been drawn to Marxists. I mean for crying out loud, he stood on that sidewalk in Toledo and said to Joe the Plumber, on camera, that he wanted to spread the wealth around. So there shouldn't be a lot of surprise here.
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Christmas Eve vs. Christmas Morning – When Do You Open Presents [POLL]
It's a tradition that dates back to your parents and it's handed down from generation to generation and can change over time too but not everyone does the same thing when it comes to opening Christmas presents. The question came up at a party over the weekend and some people were quite rigid in their Christmas routine.
Some people have the tradition in which they open one gift on Christmas Eve and it would be their Christmas pajamas so when they wake on Christmas morning they'll be wearing their Christmas pajamas. Others opened gifts on Christmas Eve so that the tree would be pretty much empty underneath it so there would be plenty of room for Santa to leave a ton of presents. While others wait until Christmas morning to unwrap all the gifts, including what Santa Claus brought them.
I know that with many families are split these days it's hard to keep a tradition going and many try their best to stick to it for sentimental reasons which is great.

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DIY: custom canvases for the nursery
In a rare moment of motivation, I decided to make some artwork for the new nursery. I had seen projects similar to this all over Pinterest so I decided to give it a shot. I was pleasantly surprised to find it was a quick and easy endeavor. They have since been hung in the nursery, one over each crib. I'll post some photos of the room real soon.
In the meantime, here's how this little project came together.
I started out with two blank canvases (18″ x 24″), some acrylic craft paint and 2 inch vinyl adhesive letters.
I painted each canvas in a light coat of paint.
Starting at the edge, I affixed the letters to each canvas.
Then I gave each canvas another coat of paint in the corresponding color.
After allowing them a few days to dry, I slowly peeled off the letters…and here they are. Super easy and super cute!


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Press Release
The King Center Imaging Project Goes Live
Story Highlights
- Thousands of never-before-seen documents will be accessible online at www.thekingcenter.org/archive
JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE: JPM), working in partnership with AT&T Business Solutions and EMC, along with The King Center, today unveiled The King Center Imaging Project's website, www.thekingcenter.org/archive - will go live on Monday, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The King Center Imaging Project is a digitization effort to preserve and make publicly available the tens of thousands of documents from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other key figures and organizations from the Civil Rights Movement housed at The King Center. As of Monday, January 16, this unprecedented effort is now showcased on The King Center's website, which was completely redesigned by JPMorgan Chase.
JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE: JPM), working in partnership with AT&T Business Solutions and EMC, along with The King Center, today unveiled The King Center Imaging Project's website, www.thekingcenter.org/archive - will go live on Monday, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The King Center Imaging Project is a digitization effort to preserve and make publicly available the tens of thousands of documents from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other key figures and organizations from the Civil Rights Movement housed at The King Center. As of Monday, January 16, this unprecedented effort is now showcased on The King Center's website, which was completely redesigned by JPMorgan Chase.
The King Center Imaging Project pairs JPMorgan Chase's technology expertise with The King Center Archive to preserve and share Dr. King's works in a new more accessible way. JPMorgan Chase, through its Technology for Social Good program, committed its technology expertise to digitize more than one million pieces of history related to Dr. King. AT&T and EMC Corporation donated advisory support as well as technology solutions and services, including AT&T's Synaptic Storage as a Service, powered by EMC Atmos® cloud-enabled storage. This on-demand storage service enables The King Center to store, manage and make available unprecedented online global access to its digitized archive from any location, anytime, using any Web-enabled device.
Over the past 9 months, JPMorgan Chase built a team of over 200 individuals to execute the Project. The team consisted of imaging and archival experts, U.S. military veterans from The Veterans Curation Program, students from Morehouse and Spelman Colleges (the alma maters of the King Family), Kennesaw State University and Emory University, Civil Rights Scholars, as well volunteers from JPMorgan Chase. Project members focused on digitizing close to 200,000 documents associated with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King's most famous speeches and correspondence, such as his I Have a Dream speech, Letter from Birmingham Jail, and his Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, can now be viewed around the world at any given moment.
"Our valued relationship with JPMorgan Chase and their innovative Technology for Social Good program is helping to preserve and extend my father's important message to sustain the momentum of nonviolent social change around the world," said Martin Luther King, III, President, The King Center.
"It's important for JPMorgan Chase to support Dr. King's legacy because of the important values he committed his life to promoting, such as equality, equal opportunity, and quality education for all. People like Dr. Martin Luther King are what made America what it is today. The values he espoused are the values that JPMorgan Chase also tries to stand for around the world," said Jamie Dimon, Chairman & CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
"Dr. King was a tireless champion of equality and inclusiveness. We are proud and honored to contribute our technologies and know-how to bring his legacy to life for the digital, connected world of today and tomorrow," said John T. Stankey, President & CEO, AT&T Business Solutions.
"EMC is proud to be a Philanthropic Technology Provider to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Center's digital archiving project. By digitizing Dr. King's words on human dignity, equality and non-violence, future generations will have greater chances to be inspired by his courage and appreciate the ways he shaped our history and society," said Joe Tucci, Chairman & CEO, EMC.
This innovative project includes the creation of a global educational website based on a comprehensive collection of Dr. King's papers and other audio-visual materials. Along with Dr. King's documents, the Project also includes originals from other key figures and groups involved in the Civil Rights movement. The website, for the first time, makes historical materials such as Dr. King's speeches, sermons and correspondence, readily available to anyone across the world with access to the internet.
For more information about what JPMorgan Chase is doing to support and celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, please visit www.jpmorganchase.com/mlk.
About JPMorgan Chase & Co.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.3 trillion and operations in more than 60 countries. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management and private equity. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com.
About The King Center
Established in 1968 by Coretta Scott King, The King Center is the official, living memorial dedicated to advancing the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Through various programs and partnerships, it strives to educate the world about his life and teachings, inspire new generations to further his work, and strengthen causes and change-makers continuing his efforts today. The King Center is located in Atlanta, Georgia.
About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is a premier communications holding company and one of the most honored companies in the world. Its subsidiaries and affiliates — AT&T operating companies — are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array of network resources that includes the nation's fastest mobile broadband network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet, voice and cloud-based services. A leader in mobile broadband and emerging 4G capabilities, AT&T also offers the best wireless coverage worldwide of any U.S. carrier, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verse® and AT&T | DIRECTV brands. The company's suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world. In domestic markets, AT&T Advertising Solutions and AT&T Interactive are known for their leadership in local search and advertising.
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EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.


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2007 saw the launch of my new icon family, Chalkwork, and various excitement about Apple's new iPhone. Then I merged the two obsesssions. Also in 2007, I learned how to wrangle colour profiles, got frustrated at over-packaging, wrote about anti-aliasing icons, and marvelled over motion type.
The "Fountain" style you see now graced this site all year.


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A crash involving a lorry and a bike in Hayfield left a cyclist with serious injuries on Saturday morning.
The collision, between a blue MAN 7.5-tonne lorry and a 55-year-old man riding a yellow bike, occurred at about 9.30am on the A624.
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Texas lawmakers reacted sharply to a report that a hacker gained access to confidential emails and other electronic correspondence between members of the Bush family and friends.
A spokesman for former President George H.W. Bush confirmed that authorities have begun an investigation. In Washington, U.S. Secret Service spokesman George Ogilvie told the Houston Chronicle today that an open ended investigation was underway by the federal agency responsible for protecting former presidents as well as the incumbent.
"We are investigating the incident," Ogilvie said. "Beyond that I can't get into anything else."
According to the Smoking Gun website, the unidentified hacker was able to compromise emails, telephone numbers and home addresses for dozens of Bush family members — including both former presidents. The correspondence included a code to get past the security gate at one of the former presidents' homes, according to the website.
The hacker also acquired photographs sent by former President George W. Bush to his sister of paintings the 43rd president had been working on, including self-portraits, the website reported.
Here is delegation reaction compiled by Stewart Powell, Rick Dunham and Joanna Raines:
Rep. Randy Weber, R-Alvin:
"Hacking has become a serious problem. Unfortunately, there are those who mean ill will to decent, honest, hardworking Americans. My heart goes out to the Bush family over this invasion of their privacy. One of the things we first learned in Congress is that there are millions of attempts each year to hack into the Federal Government's computers.
"The sad truth is that America has enemies all over the world and we need to remain diligent at every level, including Cyber Security. I only wish the current administration understood this as well as the seriousness of the situation. As a member of the Space, Science and Technology Committee, I pledge to work hard toward keeping America safe and on the cutting edge of technology so that we can get America working again, all the while remaining diligent for our safety at every level."


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Summit 24-Inch 3.72 Cu. Ft. Outdoor Rated Compact Freezer With Ice Maker - Stainless Steel / Black Cabinet - SPFF51OSSSTBIM
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23 Rural South Dakota Hospitals Receive Funding
PIERRE - Twenty-three hospitals in rural South Dakota will receive more than $278,000 in funding for projects to improve patient access, reduce medication errors, reduce hospital readmissions and improve operations.
The money comes from the federal Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program.
The funding amounts to each hospital range from $6,325 to $15,000.
In order to be eligible for the funding, hospitals must be Medicare-certified as critical access. There are 38 critical access hospitals in South Dakota.
Over the past 12 years, rural hospitals in South Dakota have received more than $4 million in awards through the program.
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GRAHAM � The leadership of the Alamance County Board of Commissioners isn�t likely to change much, if interviews with commissioners this week are any indication.
The board will select its next chair and vice-chair at a meeting on Monday.
Commissioner Tom Manning has served as chair during the past year, while Commissioner Bill Lashley has served as vice-chair. Manning and Lashley said this week they would be open to serving again in their current positions.
Lashley said on Tuesday he plans to support Manning as chair. Lashley said his second choice, if Manning decided not to serve again as chair, would be Commissioner Linda Massey. Massey served as chair from 2008 to 2011.
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I am getting ready to start a pretty serious SoY (Revised) campaign soon and I want to get it right the first time if possible (before now I have only played).
1) Species abilities/secrets/keys that are mandatory do not cost advances, right?
2) Buying something that costs more than one advance still only counts as one advance in a row, right?
3) Starting with 5 advances, how talented is such a character? Will they be more like noobs, average, heroic or super-heroic. I want the characters to start out fully capable. So that the game is not about whether or not Fred CAN jump the gorge, but whether or not he wants to, based on what is on the other side, see what I mean?
4) Any other tricks/traps I should look out for?
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Re: Clarifications
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January 29, 2008, 11:41:10 AM »
Mandatory stuff *does* cost advances. Them's the breaks. You're right about buying something that costs more than one advance, though.
With 5 advances, you'll be plenty capable, but not heroic. As far as whether Fred can jump the gorge, the easiest way to handle that is for it not to come up. Don't roll to see if they can.
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January 29, 2008, 12:04:27 PM »
Thanks for the lightning fast response.
Um, how fast does it spin out of control, if I want to bump the advances up a little. is 7 more like it or 11 or 20 or? Basically, I want the players to be able to either make a char that is REALLY good at one thing or average at most things. I guess I am a little intimidated by the loooong list of Abilities.
Yeah, I know, don't put a gorge their if you want them on the other side. I was just trying to make an example of what I want the game to be about (the consequences of the PCs actions, not the possibility of the PCs actions succeeding).
Oh, and
5) When you get bonus dice and roll them, do you HAVE to take the 3 highest? In other words can you elect to take a slightly lower die? The reason I ask is for Transcendence. I am thinking of just ditching Transcendence all together, but before I do, I am trying to understand the urgency...
Thanks again!
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January 29, 2008, 12:08:35 PM »
7 is way more like it. Seriously, you'll be good, and remember, all characters can use all open abilities at Unskilled, which means they have a really decent chance of success. I would stay at 5 - they'll get 2 advances an adventure if you let them.
Yes, you absolutely have to take the 3 highest dice. If you don't want to transcend, don't get a Grand Master level ability, or choose the Secret of the Bodhisattva.
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January 30, 2008, 01:13:18 AM »
5 Advances is clearly what you need, when you realize how the game works. It'll make for characters who are either excellent in one thing or very adaptable to different situations. More significantly, it leaves some room for natural growth, which is a crucial part of the game - the intent is not for the characters to start finished, they need to be able to grow and change via the experience mechanics for TSoY to have a point to begin with.
To understand Abilities, realize that there isn't a character with more than six or so Abilities above Unskilled. Anything more is pure waste, as the game is intented to work by allowing players great leeway in choosing their Abilities for a situation. Specifically, you as the SG do not choose which Abilities a character needs to use in a specific situation - you do not put in a gorge and call for a Jumping (V) check! Instead, you put in the gorge, and the player, if he wants to, may describe how his character tries to surmount the obstacle. Most likely he will use something he already knows well, and that's exactly how the game is supposed to go; you don't punish players for not having some marginal Ability nobody would want, you let character nature be expressed by the choice of Ability players bring into situations.
(Remember that Abilities are to be group-defined when necessary! The list of Abilities in the book, especially the generic list, is just a list of examples, not definitive. If a player wants his character to have
Games of Chance (I)
, say, and it works for the setting or the character's culture, then he should have that Ability. So you never know what Abilities characters might actually have.)
I can't stress the above point enough when it comes to TSoY procedure - the SG never needs to know or care about the Abilities characters have. In some other games the GM can't put in a wild horse encounter if he doesn't know how the riding rules in the game work, but in this game that's exactly what he does - he puts in some wild horses because that fits his sense of a good encounter, and then it's up to the characters to maybe have or not have suitable Abilities for dealing with wild horses. Whether a given Ability is "suitable" is judged in a case-per-case basis, the SG does not need to have a premade list of which Abilities are suitable and which are not. If the group considers a given Ability suitable for a given situation, then it is.
When you think about the implications of that procedural point for character generation, you will probably notice that a given fictional super-hero doesn't actually have dozens and dozens of high Abilities in TSoY terms. In GURPS (to pick an arbitrary traditional game) your character is forced to have high Abilities any which way simply because if the GM should call for a specific skill check, the character will fail in a most ignominious manner if he hasn't developed that skill. In TSoY a character will do just fine if he has something for violent situations, something for social situations, a little bit for romance, a dash of analytical Ability... in practice the game plays to its strengths when a barbarian character kills the diplomat instead of talking with him
because that's how he can win
; the assumed weakness of the character is not a weakness when the player can freely choose how he acts, it's a part of the nature of the character - this character solves diplomatical situations with steel because he doesn't have a diplomatical Ability! If you give player enough Advances to raise all Abilities sky-high this character definition disappears, which makes the game not only duller, but it also causes it to choke in dice - when characters have lots of Abilities it can also take a lot of time to work out all support checks when the character is making an Ability check. If you want characters to be equally capable in everything, you should rather give them
Advances instead of more. Simpler that way.
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January 30, 2008, 03:40:12 AM »
I need a canned response for times like this. It might say:
Eero knows TSOY better than I do. Thanks, Eero, for your excellent response.
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January 30, 2008, 07:28:27 AM »
Also, players are more likely to buy additional secrets and keys from those extra advances.
And if you stick with 5 XP = 1 advance, your protagonists will grow at a steady pace. I do use 10-advance-protagonists for convention games, though.
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January 30, 2008, 08:34:02 AM »
OK, hold on. You guys are focusing on my throw away example way too much.
When I read TSOY, I see full-on awesome. But, there are 3 pools, dozens of abilities (and the ability to add more spontaneously), lots of keys, lots of secrets and sub-abilities under secrets (like spells, zu words, etc.). I want to bring on the awesome. I don't know if my campaign will run long enough for people to gradually develop awesome characters. I want them to have enough advances so that they can try interesting combos and not worry, that they are wasting advances on stuff they NEED for the story or their character to be the way they like it.
To use a traditional system as an example, in my Exalted campaign I gave my players 700 XP at chargen so that they could face Mask of Winters as equals and have a realistic chance of winning. They said they wanted epic play and I delivered. This time, I don't want to go that big. But I still don't want to dangle the coolness of the system out in front of the players like a carrot in front of a donkey. This is a great system and I don't want them to discover that a month after we start, lol
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January 30, 2008, 08:37:01 AM »
We can't convince you that starting characters are awesome if you don't want to be convinced. Here's my advice:
- Start people with 5 advances, and have the advance ratio be 5 XP = 1 advance. Don't forget about Key Scenes, and use them liberally. Have people always have two choices for their next advance on their character sheet, so as to speed play and give them goals.
- Or, do whatever you like and let us know how it goes.
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January 30, 2008, 08:44:55 AM »
Thanks for your honesty Clinton.
But I think my lame example got us side-tracked. My real question was, how fast do advances get out of hand? In other words does the game become unplayable when the chars hit 10 advances, 20, 50 or? At what point does the game become boring because nothing is a challenge anymore? As you guessed, I am probably going to pump up the advances a little. but I am afraid to over-do it. Does that make more sense?
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January 30, 2008, 08:55:23 AM »
A tremendous amount of the fun of TSOY comes from character growth. This growth is rapid, which means you don't have to wait for it. If characters start with Master level abilities and more than, say, 3 or 4 secrets, they are already near the end of their story. Starting with more than 10 advances is a recipe for a very short, and probably very boring, game.
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January 30, 2008, 09:24:59 AM »
Thanks Clinton. Not just for your lightning fast replies, but for making a truly awesome game!
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January 30, 2008, 09:59:52 AM »
Perhaps I wasn't as clear as I should on a key point of how TSoY works:
character advancement in TSoY is not linear!
I like to use the example of simple Khalean warrior against an ancient Maldorian Three-corner wizard, in a battle for death. Even if the former has just ten Advances while the latter has fifty, mechanically the two are probably most even, assuming that both have one Ability at Grandmaster level! The single most powerful advantage a character can have in TSoY is ability advantage against an opponent; it's such an advantage that if the above Khalean warrior actually had the advantage in those terms against the wizard, I would bet my money on the warrior almost any time (although the wizard
probably triumph in ten parallel conflicts in the same time-frame with other opponents if he really had 50 Advantages). Characters do
need to get deep into the Advance structures to be "cool" in TSoY, and they definitely do not need that to be efficient! The single mechanically most powerful attack combination in TSoY, despite dozens of fans creating all kinds of deep Secret constructions, remains the combination of
Secret of Mighty Blow
and a high Vigor Pool. Advances simply are not there for the purpose of faciliating specific adventure types like experience levels do in D&D; their purpose is to reflect thematically important changes in who a character is, and their purpose is to give breadth to a character, and their purpose is to take the character to a higher competence level exactly twice during the campaign, but there is no pressing need for a character to gain xp just for the player to enjoy the game. (In D&D, for those who don't know, you can't have a meaningful adventure with a ghost in it before the characters reach 4th level or so, to pick an arbitrary example.) A player with an Advance to spend always has pretty much five different options for how to use the Advance:
Improve the highest Ability (or save to do so) on the way to dominance and Transcendence.
Buy something nifty (Abilities, Secrets, Pool) to either describe or prescribe a shift in the nature of the character.
Invest in a Key to mold the reward environment for the character; ultimately this tends to lead in a shift in the themes of the character's story.
Save the Advance for later, to spend it when the conditions are more alluring.
As you can see, this list does not recognize spending a zillion Advances to gain powerz; the best a character can do with a lot of Advances is to gain a lot of history, options and breadth;
this is not the same as having raw power.
Alternatively, the character can improve an Ability, but that can only be done at most four times per Ability before hitting the ceiling and being ready for Transcendence.
Also, an important point: all those Secrets are not intented to be gained! If there are ten Secrets "for ratkin" in the book, that doesn't mean that a character needs to catch them all to be a real, archetypal ratkin. All Secrets are already exceptional! The reason we produce so much crunch here at the forums is not that a typical character will have dozens of Secrets, it's because we want to have lots of nuance and choice for when a character is advancing himself
in a real game
, not on paper.
That being said, Clinton is right (as if that needs to be said of the man who wrote the game) that characters who have 10 Advances and distribute them in a typical manner are near the end of their story and are very competent. I probably couldn't think of anything meaningful to do with 10 Advances apart from taking a couple of Abilities to Master level. However, you could also intentionally distribute the Advances in other ways, perhaps helped by what I like to call "hyper-deep" Advance sinks, the foremost example of which is Three-corner magic. If a player intentionally distributes his Secrets into deep Advance sinks he might go on for a long ways. This is mostly theoretical, note; practical play has caused characters to develop in this way so rarely that it might not as well happen, although this
relevant when you're creating powerful NPCs (who can't transcend, and therefore might go on for a long while).
The above point is mostly relevant for when you start a game and want to start characters with a plenty of Advances, as seems to be the case now. To give you a sense of the scale of speculation and difference in setting when this becomes the case, check out these threads:
In this thread
, we have an urban fantasy campaign converted from Mortal Coil; characters are pretty much demigods on Exalted power-level. We discuss, among other things, how characters with dozens of Advances are successfully created, and whether such is necessary.
This other thread
has a player wondering about high power-level play, which is also relevant here. I suggest that high power-level can be a matter of a single Advance correctly placed, and we also note how in TSoY power-level is always a matter of leverage more than mere mechanical bonuses; beginning characters have the ability to triumph against demi-gods in this system, barring qualitative barriers.
Either of those threads might contain something relevant for your current doubts, so I suggest you check them out. Let us know if anything rings a bell, we can expand upon this stuff if we can just figure out where your uncertainty comes from; I'm pretty sure that you're thinking of messing with the character creation system because you've learned to do so from other games that dangle coolness like a carrot in front of the players just before snatching it away. It's understandable that you wouldn't trust in the designer if he told you that this game doesn't do that, considering how often designers lie about these things.
Finally: if you absolutely
to play a campaign of high-powered TSoY that ends in Transcendence in 1-3 sessions for any given character, create the character like this:
Determine who the character
and who he
used to be
. Who he used to be is called the
first culture
, who he is now is called the
second culture
. Instead of culture you can have a race or culture-independent magical discipline or what have you.
Distribute 21 points in Pools.
Set the Innate Abilities at Master, Adept and Competent.
Set one Ability at Grandmaster, two at Master, three at Adept and four at Competent. Of the three highest Abilities, one needs to be of the first culture, one of the second culture. The same for the three Abilities at Adept. For the four Competent Abilities, determine them randomly.
Choose one Secret for the character from his first culture and one from the second culture. Then give him one Secret that has nothing to do with either.
Choose one Key for the character.
Distribute five additional Advances for the character any way you wish.
Tell the other players a short vignette of how your character came to be who he is. Most likely he's pretty important in Near, considering his Ability.
This is the best I can do, I don't know if it actually works very well. Might work swimmingly well for all I know, at least if the characters are smart and avoid Transcending in the first scene. Most likely it'd take experience with the system to build characters for this, though, as a beginner player is likely to be unable to use those high Pools efficiently. (Note that I don't see why you'd want to use the above chargen principles if you want to avoid Transcendence; in that sense I see your requirements here as deeply and confusingly contradictory: how and why should we at the same time hike up the power-level but also remove Transcendence? That's like starting all D&D characters at 10th level but also giving all orcs 10x as many hit points.)
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No problem, Dave!
So, I was thinking at lunch. Here's a note you can do whatever with. The reason I chose 5 advances for beginning characters instead of a larger number is that it only takes 7 to take an ability from Adept (which your character should have one of) to Grand Master. No one should start the game with a Grand Master ability. Even if you use more (and again, I think you shouldn't, but you know your group better than I), make sure no one starts with a Grand Master ability.
(Again, man, Eero. I cross-posted with you. Your post was
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January 30, 2008, 10:56:37 AM »
I am definitely taking transcendence out of the picture. I don't understand the point of it and it seems like it is this pitfall that can undermine making grandmaster characters (And I can sorta see why grandmaster is a deal breaker, but I am not as worried about it with this group).
I do remember the mortal coil thread. And I guess that is not my goal. I just see all those secrets and think, people should be able to sample those and pick the ones they like, and not have to save their advances until they can get a cool toy.
I've never found character advancement to be interesting or fun. To me, its just a treadmill that leads you to where you started, because your NPCs typically scale to meet your new advanced level of ability. So, generally before I start a campaign, I try and figure out where the fun is in the game and make sure people can do that on the first session. To use D&D as an example, I would never start a game below lvl 3 and probably would start at lvl 5, at that level there is enough different stuff you can do with the character that they can be unique (lets face it all lvl 1 Magic users are pretty much the same) and can face most challenges as a group.
My aim is not to make new secrets or abilities to make the game my own. But to make sure that most players can have a char with about 2 keys, and enough secrets that their char is unique and fun (I really don't care too much about abilities to be honest). I look at Zu and 3-corner magic and realize that if we want a magic user, 5 advances is almost a slap in the face, I mean it take 4 words to say "tiger" in Zu (and I realize that there is probably not a need to say "tiger" specifically, but it is a good example)...
The point about 7 advances is well taken. Although I wonder if its not a non-issue without transcendence.
The story I want to kick off will probably be one of political conflict on the border between two super powers. There will be wilds to explore, power to gain, but mostly it will be about how the players want to interact with this political struggle. Can they manufacture a rebirth of Maldor, can they guide the rise of the Ammeni away from their sadistic culture? Can they come to a 3rd option that is better for all parties involved? I dunno, but I bet it will be fun to find out. And I don't want that to be eclipsed by nagging questions about I need 3 more advances before I can be any good at Zu magic, etc.
Does that make sense? I guess I don't want anyone to look at this thread and think I am some kinda crazy grognard bent on some power fantasy. I just want the game to be about Near, its a great setting and I wanna jump in feet first, you know?
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The Department of Public Health Sciences (PHS) at Penn State Hershey has announced that its Master of Public Health (MPH) program was granted accreditation by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) for a five-year term, the maximum possible for a new program, extending to July 1, 2019.
CEPH is the national accrediting body for schools and programs of public health. This vote by CEPH to approve accreditation status was the final step in the process that began in fall 2011 when the MPH program enrolled its first cohort of students.
"Having CEPH accreditation gives us formal and objective national recognition for the high quality of training that we are committed to providing our students as the next generation of public health practitioners," said Roger Anderson, director of the Master of Public Health program.
The current two-year MPH program offers training in the applications of epidemiology and biostatistics, and builds skills related to the analysis and implementation of health care delivery models and systems, health economics and public health policy. The College of Medicine plans to expand the program by implementing a joint MD/MPH program slated to begin in the fall of 2015. In addition, work is underway to offer doctoral degree programs in public health.
"This is a major accomplishment for PHS and the College of Medicine," said PHS Department Chair Vern Chinchilli. "It reflects many years of hard work and dedication by all of us, faculty, staff, students and community stakeholders, who have supported and in various ways contributed to the program's success and to the accreditation process." The Penn State Hershey program is the currently the only CEPH-accredited MPH program based in central Pennsylvania, and is served by full-time faculty from the College of Medicine. Recent program graduates have been hired by local, regional and national public health agencies, while others have gone on to pursue doctoral training in public health.
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In the category of enough is enough: What on God�s green Earth is the International Olympic Committee thinking by removing wrestling from the games?
To the editor:
In the category of enough is enough: What on God�s green Earth is the International Olympic Committee thinking by removing wrestling from the games?
I guess these new-age, modern era, Euro-trash, feel-good, lets�-go-for-TV-ratings, so-called executives who couldn�t locate a juiced athlete with a bottle of human growth hormones in their possession � haven�t done any research into the original Greek games to note that wrestling was one of the lynchpin sports of the original games.
I have been disgusted with the modern Olympic Games for a long time. Too many events where winners are determined by so-called style points, instead of what the ancient Greeks cherished: �stronger, faster, higher,� I don�t think the ancient Greeks had events such as synchronized swimming, snowboarding or ice dancing, just to name a few.
How are events to be showcased in the Olympics chosen? I don�t know but can venture a guess that these decisions are a symptom of the sports disease in which everybody gets a trophy just for showing up. Everybody gets to play, no matter how inane or specialized the event.
Come on � ice dancing? Really?
The Greeks believed in running faster and farther � sprinting and distance running; out-distancing your opponent in discus, shot put and javelin; and beating the crap out of your opponent in wrestling and all combat-related events.
There I intimated it � events were combat related and not like today�s softer, kinder, gentler games. So it really isn�t a surprise that a violent sport such as wrestling is eliminated. Just wait � boxing will be next.
As for me, the only Olympic sport on ice should be ice hockey. And while I�m at it, they should bring back barrel jumping; at least the winner was decided by who could jump the most barrels � landing style points be damned.
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Apricot-raspberry jam and a giveaway!/
Giveaway time! It has been far too long since I have thanked you all for reading, so here we go. THANK YOU! I appreciate every eye that peruses my little blog, and one set of eyes will be randomly chosen to receive these cute silicone measuring bowls!
Full and half measurements are included in each bowl and the set includes 5 total bowls: 1/4 cup, 1/2 cup, 1 cup, 1 1/2 cups and 2 cups. They are dishwasher and microwave safe, and they make prep-work super easy. Aren't they fun?!
To enter the giveaway, leave a comment on this post saying anything at all! Tell me what color socks you are wearing or what song you have in your head today or what your favorite kind of jam is.
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Giveaway closes February 14th at midnight.
I have a recipe to share today, as well! Thanks to the cooking challenge I just completed, I learned that making jam really isn't so scary. In fact, it's as easy as pie! Except, pie isn't easy.
Since becoming a jam-making fanatic, we have jam all over our fridge. I'm not the only person in this house who loves having jars of jam bumping into the milk container and the butter and the celery and the blueberries. Every one of my family members eats my jam, and that is saying a lot. It is just about the only food that we all love. I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as my family and I do!
In a large saucepan, combine:
8 to 9 apricots, seeded and cut into small pieces
2 cups raspberries
2 cups sugar
Stir, smashing the raspberries with the back of your spoon. Let the mixture sit at room temperature for 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
Add 2 tablespoons of fresh lemon juice to the pan and bring the mixture to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat to medium and simmer for 20 minutes.
Divide the jam between 3 pint-size jars. Close the jars and allow the jam to cool. Store in the refrigerator for up to 3 months.
Thanks again for reading, everyone!
Apricot-Raspberry Jam
Apricots and raspberries are the PERFEFCT marriage for the most delicious jam!
Contributed by Megan Porta from pipandebby.com.
Published Feb 06, 2012
Serves: Three pint-sized jars
Total time: 1 hr, 30 mins (plus cooling)
- 8 to 9 apricots, seeded and cut into small pieces
- 2 cups raspberries
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- In a large saucepan, combine apricots, raspberries and sugar. Stir, smashing the raspberries witht the back of a spoon. Let sit for 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
- Add lemon juice and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to medium and simmer for 20 minutes.
- Divide the jam between three pint-sized jars. Close jars and allow to cool. Store in refrigerator for up to 3 months.


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The Pāli Canon is the literary, intellectual, and spiritual foundation of Theravāda Buddhism. According to the Theravādin tradition, the teachings of the historical Buddha were transmitted in the classical Indian language of Pāli. Shortly after the Buddha's passing his original teachings were codified into what is traditionally referred to as the Tipiṭaka (Three Baskets), or more universally as the Pāli Canon. Initially transmitted orally, the canon was later preserved in the textual form as we now have it.
The canon is divided into three sections—Sutta, Vinaya, and Abhidhamma—with each division employing a specific mode of teaching suited to particular audiences. The Sutta division is comprised of discourses that illuminate the full spectrum of the Buddhist path, and is addressed to both lay and monastic practitioners; the Vinaya section details all aspects of Buddhist monastic discipline; and the Abhidhamma (higher-Dhamma) is a systematic philosophical and psychological presentation of the teachings which provides in-depth analyses of mind, metaphysics, and the Buddhist path.
The Sutta division is further subdivided into five collections (nikāyas): The Long Discourses of the Buddha (Dīgha Nikāya), The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Majjhima Nikāya), The Connected Discourses of the Buddha (Saṃyutta Nikāya), The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha (Aṅguttara Nikāya), and The Small Collection (Kuddaka Nikāya).
Bhikkhu Bodhi's anthology, In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pāli Canon, contains foundational teachings taken directly from the Sutta collection of the Pāli Canon. This volume, being organized in a progressive manner "from the simple to the difficult, from the elementary to the profound," makes it well-suited for those looking for an accessable introduction to the Theravādin scriptural corpus, as well as being a valuable resource for those familiar with the Pāli Canon but wanting a more structured presentation of the materials.
Click below to read unabridged suttas selected from the Pāli Canon:
- Mahāparinibbāna Sutta (The Great Passing, The Long Discourses of the Buddha, Sutta 16)
- Sāmaññaphala Sutta (The Fruits of the Homeless Life, The Long Discourses of the Buddha, Sutta 2)
- Sigālaka Sutta (To Sigālaka: Advice to Lay People, The Long Discourses of the Buddha, Sutta 31)
- Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta (The Foundations of Mindfulness,The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, Sutta 10)
- Ānāpānasati Sutta (Mindfulness of Breathing, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, Sutta 118)
- Madhupiṇḍika Sutta (The Honeyball, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, Sutta 18)
- Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (Setting in Motion the Wheel of Dhamma, The Connected Discourses of the Buddha, Sutta 56.11)
- Nidāhasaṃyitta Suttas 1 and 2 (Dependent Origination and Analysis of Dependent Origination, The Connected Discourses of the Buddha, Suttas 12.1-2)


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Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
Post Your Thoughts!
i fell in love with GB in "PS, I Love You". i'd never seen him before that. then when i learned he was in Tomb Raider with AJ, i had to see it. i absolutely loved it…GB was sooo hot! was very envious of AJ in kissing scenes. i'm a bigger fan than ever now.
This is my third favorite Action/Historical movie that Gerard has made. I initially watched this movie because I saw the first Tombraider and I am huge fan of Angelina Jolie and I didn't know that Gerard was in it. I also didn't know that Ciaran Hinds who I knew from Veronica Guerin, and Djimon Hounsou who I knew from Gladiator and Amistad were in this movie so that was a very cool, fun surprise to find that three of my favorites were in this movie. This movie is a barrel of fun and the performances by all were fabulous. Gerard made what could have been a two-dimensional character of the rogue mercenary ex-soldier into a three-dimensional, complex, somewhat sympathetic character who at the end takes the inevitable step toward his own destruction. Angelina Jolie is a fantastic actress and Gerard more than held his own and the two of them were dynamite together. I also give Gerard total credit for doing that stunt where they had to dive off the cliff and be lowered on the rope gizmo. I personally would never have done that my stunt double would have done that 'cause I am too chicken, no shame in my game. LOL 🙂 😉 Much respect. 🙂
This movie introduced me to gerry. Loved the character pick for Terry Sheridan. Nobody could have played it better. Jolie and Butler has great chemistry on film. Would like to see them do another film.
this was the film which got me into gerry world so to speak. i enjoyed the first tombraider film so i knew i would enjoy this one too, but this one was better thanks to gerry and being much more action in it , and obviously, gerry is much better to look at than that bond man. he was a naughty boy and you didnt know which way he would turn until the end, i did feel sorry at the end when lara shot him, but he was just a greedy man, and he was prepared to shoot her, so there it is. very exciting and entertaining action film and thoroughly recommended. the chemistry between these two was great and they looked like they had a lot of fun. the two kissing sketches were very sexy and i think should be down on the list of best kisses in a film
LOVED GB in this… hated Jolie's character for killing him!!!! (so I pretended he wasn't dead and went on to enjoy life on the run)


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When writer-producer Adam F. Goldberg set out to cast the 11-year-old lead in his autobiographical sitcom, "The Goldbergs," he wanted a Fred Savage-type kid: Real, slightly awkward, the exact opposite of the stereotypical, oh-so-precocious child actor.
Instead, he encountered LA kid after LA kid, each with a patina of early experience and a slickness that comes from living so close to show business. Their jokes turned too perfectly, their exits were too framed and their movements too robotic, Goldberg said.
Call it the "Disney kid" problem.
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a day at the CDC
the CDC has a public space & face. the public space includes a gallery space for a permanent and rotating exhibit. we had to go through an extensive security check that included a x-ray scan and physical search of our vehicle that was worth every bit of the inconvenience. the current visiting exhibit is from the National Holocaust Museum; Deadly Medicine tracks the 20th century Eugenics movement across the world and how it was used during the Nazi years. amazing stuff; i was not aware how large the movement was across the planet.
the permanent exhibit is about the history of the CDC. some of the artifacts include: an iron lung, tools for collecting small pox virus, level 5 'blue suits', and a lounging 6 foot mosquito called Betty. a tour group was getting a chance to put on the hazard suits, I am so jealous. I propose a nList field trip! they do a Disease Camp for High Schoolers, maybe we can talk them into a college-level course.
they have a giftshop (which I am already planning some suggestions for new products), i was able to get some goodies including a plush cold virus for my 7 month old cousin.


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Thursday, July 27, 2006
Pickoff Moves, Lunchtime Edition
Jon Weisman Makes The Case For The Dodgers As SellersAt Sports Illustrated.
UTK On BartWill Carroll says that
This could be something of a cascade injury, but the problem is that Colon has so many separate problems, there's no way to tell what injury led to this. The best-case scenario is that the altered mechanics led to the elbow irritation; the worst case is that something tore. We'll know more soon.
How Do You Feel About Your Ballpark?Sports Illustrated wants to know.
Trade Deadline Heavy Breathing
- Nate Silver thinks about who means what to each of the contending teams, and figures that Bobby Abreu, Carlos Lee, and Alfonso Soriano are the top three guys to be had this trade deadline; he likes Lee in particular for the Angels, but from Abreu (+1.48 wins) to Lee (+1.31 wins) to Soriano (+0.99 wins), none of these players will make a significant difference in the outcome of the season.
- For those interested, I did a trade rumor roundup over at LAist yesterday, but didn't manage to work it in here. Until now.
- Jim Bowden is asking for top prospects and lots of them in the latest news from the Soriano trade; the most recent asking price is one from column A of John Lackey, Ervin Santana, or Jered Weaver, and one from column B of Howie Kendrick or Brandon Wood.
"We know the price that we need to have from clubs," Bowden said. "The price doesn't change. The price today is the same price it's going to be at the deadline. We don't have to trade anybody."He must like draft picks, then.
Doubled Down: Padres 10, Dodgers 3Not only is this the worst 13-game stretch in Los Angeles history, it also marks the Dodgers descent with a thunk solidly into last place, seven and a half games out and eight games under .500. But what sort of surprised me was how many double plays the Dodgers got and still managed to lose: they collected five, one, improbably, on a lineout to Olmedo Saenz. The last time the Dodgers had five double plays, they won a 4-3 decision against the Reds on May 28, 1998, at home. Brad Penny, the only remaining Dodger starter with even a ghost of a chance at respectability, got tagged with the loss, further demoralizing everyone within earshot.
The frustration got to Penny, who laid into Kenny Lofton over his fielding adventures that eventually cost the Dodgers the lead, and delighting the Padres in the opposing dugout.
The loss made for a bad timing if you happened to be Frank McCourt, because he had scheduled a conference call yesterday. While I didn't tune in, the Dodger Thoughts reaction (starting around post 400-450) seemed to be generally negative, post 520 in particular, in response to Frank McCourt's waffling over the Vlad non-signing:
I will merely say that McCourt's answer was probably as cowardly as any ever given to any question in the history of mankind. Frank appears to talk a good game when he's getting profiled in the glossy magazine, but it's a different story when he's actually asked to do it.ESPN Box • Recap
I tried to be patient with him, but my patience with him, just from a personal standpoint, and without regard to his baseball philosophy (which remains in question), is up.
If you can't even summon the courage to defend not signing the [2004] American League [MVP] two years later, you have a problem.
It would take a lot of guts to defend not signing Vlad. Not so much to defend Beltre
But still, it's never the money that cripples a team. It's the years. If they don't trade Soriano, offering him arbitration is a total no-brainer.
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Persimmon seeds, wooly worms, and such
One of my daughter's supervisors at work is a fruit and nut grower as well as a veterinarian. Keely tells me that he has been reading the persimmon seeds lately -- that is, cutting the seeds in half and looking at the shape of the divider between the two parts of the kernel. He says that this year, the persimmon seeds have knives in them. That means that this winter will be cold and icy, with cutting winds, according to Kentucky folklore.
If the persimmon seeds had forks inside them, that would foretell a mild winter, and if they had spoons, we should expect a lot of snow to shovel. (Or so it is said.)
Supposedly, nature gives various warnings of a bad winter. Have you noticed any of these lately?
- Ant hills built extra high
- Squirrels gathering nuts early
- Squirrels burying their nuts extra deep
- Squirrels building their nests low in the trees
- Unusually bushy squirrel tails
- The north side of a beaver dam more covered with sticks than the south side.
- Hoot owls calling night after night
- Wide black bands on the woolly worms
- Solid black woolly worms
- Cattle digging the ground and facing north day after day
- Hickory nuts with heavy shells
- Pine cones opening earlier than usual
- Tough apple skins
- Thick onion skins
I'm hoping for a somewhat harder winter than we had last year. I hope we get enough rain and snow to replenish the water table, and I hope we have at least one good cold snap to kill some of the insects and bacteria. I don't want any ice storms, though. I hope the knives in the persimmon seeds are right about the cold but wrong about the ice!
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If you liked this list, you might also enjoy Weather Lore: A Collection of Proverbs, Sayings, and Rules Concerning the Weather by Richard Inwards, a past president of the Royal Meteorological Society. published in London, 1898. It contains weather wisdoms from around the world, including the United States.


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Ruth Hogben
Ruth Hogben is a filmmaker based in London. She assisted Nick Knight between 2005 - February 2009, both as his first photographic assistant and editor of his fashion film projects. Hogben has continued to collaborate with Knight on numerous films for SHOWstudio as well as creating films with creatives such as Gareth Pugh, Rick Owens, Katie Grand and KT Shillingford and for brands such as Louis Vuitton, Barneys, Mac Cosmetics and Selfridges. Her work was recently screened at the ICA, part of the 2009 Birds Eye View film festival, ASVOFF 2009 and Fash/On Film Festival London 2012.
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I was dancing while I was editing - just having a real party! This film was great fun to do.
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Fashion Film Award in collaboration with QIC Global Real Estate
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Ohlara necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 69 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
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I am a natural healer and spiritual teacher of 25 yrs. I use many healing modalities in my work and help people to reclaim their soul essence and reconnect to their creativity.
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