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Sioux Falls Man Should Have Left When Ex Told Him to Get Out
A man Sioux Falls Police say is a transient probably should have left his ex-girlfriend's apartment when she told him to leave, but instead he ended up going to jail.
Information Officer Sam Clemens says the man had been visiting the woman around 1:00 a.m. Wednesday in her apartment in the 300 block of North Spring Avenue, but when she asked him to leave, he didn't want to go.
Clemens says the 30-year-old woman was able to get him out of the apartment, but he broke a window and climbed back inside. He says Richard James Sheppard, 31, was in the apartment when police arrived.
Sheppard was arrested for first-degree burglary and resisting arrest.


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- Kimmel: "There seems to be a lot of people upset with me"
- He asked a panel of children how they would resolve the U.S. debt to China
- Child panelist: "Shoot cannons all the way over and kill everyone in China"
- Groups protested, started petition drive against the ABC show
Late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel apologized for airing a clip of a child suggesting that "killing everyone in China" could be a solution to America's debt problem.
"You know, today is a weird day," Kimmel said on Monday's show. "There seems to be a lot of people upset with me, more upset than usual."
Chinese-American groups organized several protests and a petition drive after the October 16 broadcast of ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live."
The offending remark came while Kimmel was talking to a group of children, ages 5 and 6, about the United States government's debt, much of which is held by China.
"America owes China a lot of money, $1.3 trillion," Kimmel told the children. "How should we pay them back?"
"Shoot cannons all the way over and kill everyone in China," one boy said.
"Kill everyone in China? OK, that's an interesting idea," Kimmel said.
He then posed the question: "Should we allow the Chinese to live?"
While one boy said, "No," most of the children said, "Yes."
"If we don't allow them to live, then they'll try to kill us," a girl said.
"Well, this has been an interesting edition of Kid's Table -- The Lord of the Flies edition," Kimmel said as the segment ended.
ABC published an apology Friday, saying the network "would never purposefully broadcast anything to upset the Chinese community, Asian community, anyone of Chinese descent or any community at large."
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Third Annual Foodie Experience at the Hippodrome
The event features the James Beard Award-winning TV personality Andrew Zimmern, host of Travel Channel's hit series "Bizarre Foods." This year, the tasting portion of the event will begin at 3 p.m. and will expand past the walls of the Hippodrome onto Eutaw Street. Baltimore's top restaurants will be joined by Baltimore's top food trucks. Also see: • Pictures: Foodie Experience -- Participating restaurants • Table Talk: 'Bizarre Foods' star headlines third annual Foodie Experience • Event info: Third Annual Foodie Experience
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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...One of the lovelier aspects of summer are those informal family picnics and barbecues that bring young and old together in a stress-free environment that everyone can enjoy. I always want the food for these occasions to be first rate, but I don't want to spend hours preparing it. In my lexicon fussing is a winter affair and I prefer to reserve the difficult and impressive meals for our winter get-togethers. Our family picnic and barbecue meal are simple and while there are generally lots of salads and side dishes, I try to serve just one main dish. That can require some finessing. The youngest at our table does not like spicy foods, so a barbecue necessitates at least two kinds of sauce to keep everyone happy. I found the recipe for this sweet barbecue sauce in Food and Wine magazine and it really is a perfect sauce for small children or adults who do not care for heat. The sauce, which is made from readily available ingredients, can be ready to use for basting in about an hour and it will keep for several days if refrigerated. If you like sweet sauces I think you'll love this one. Here is how this very simple sauce is made.
Sweet Barbecue Sauce...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of Food and Wine magazine
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 large onion, thinly sliced
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 cup ketchup
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
1/2 cup apple juice
3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
2 tablespoons chopped peeled fresh ginger
2 tablespoons unsulfured molasses
Heat oil in a large skillet. Add onion and a pinch of salt. Cover and cook over moderately low heat, stirring occasionally, until richly browned, about 20 minutes. Add butter and melt. Add ketchup, brown sugar, apple juice, lemon juice, ginger and molasses. Simmer over low heat, stirring occasionally, until thickened and reduced to 2 cups, about 25 minutes. Transfer the sauce to a blender and puree. Season with salt.
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|Winnebago County Sheriff's PoliceNews Media Release
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|Information: Narcotic Arrests (Patterson and Wynn)
|Date: 06-10-10
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On Friday June 4, 2010 Deputies of the Winnebago County Sheriff's Department, along with Agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, arrested two Rockford men after an extended narcotic investigation. Charged with Possession with intent to deliver 1-15 grams of Heroin within 1000 feet of a park is Tyrone Patterson 42yrs old(DOB 2-13-68).He is also charged with no FOID card and Resisting an Officer. Bond was set at $250,000.00. Charged with 5 counts of delivery of 1-15 grams of heroin within 1000 feet of a housing project is Jimmy L. Wynn 43yrs old (DOB 11-3-66). He is also charged with Unlawful Use of a Weapon by a Felon. Bond has been set at $500,000.00. The charges against both Patterson and Wynn are merely accusations. They are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court. Photos will be provided. .


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LONG BEACH — Big West Conference men's basketball coaches universally released a sigh of relief earlier this month when it was announced that San Diego State would not be joining the conference after all, choosing instead to remain in the Mountain West.
But when it comes to the mountaintop of Big West regular-season domination, Long Beach State remains a formidable and perennial front-runner to plant the flag.
Coach Dan Monson's first-place 49ers (11-8, 7-1 in conference) added UC Irvine Coach Russell Turner to their list of admirers Saturday after they secured an 81-59 triumph that was still in doubt midway through the second half.
But after junior reserve guard Chris McNealy scored seven straight UCI points to pull the visitors(10-11, 4-4) within 52-46 with 11:37 left, the 49ers closed on a 29-13 run to claim their 21st consecutive conference win at Walter Pyramid.
"They are a good team," Turner said of the two-time-defending Big West regular-season champions, who appear well on their way to a three-peat. "They've got high-level players at every spot. That's one thing that's different about them in our league."
Four 49ers scored in double figures, including senior Larry Ennis, who sank five three-pointers in the second half on his way to a team-high 17 points, after being held scoreless in the opening 20 minutes.
Ennis finished six for nine from the field and four of his three-pointers were at least NBA range.
Dan Jennings, a 6-foot-9 junior transfer from West Virginia, had 14 points on six-of-eight shooting from the field, while adding seven rebounds for the winners.
Keala King, a junior guard who transferred from Arizona State, finished with 10 points, seven rebounds and four assists, while junior Tony Freeland, a DePaul transfer, had a modest five points, three rebounds and three assists.
Long Beach reserves Peter Pappageorge and Kris Gulley, combined for 20 points on five-of-seven shooting from three-point range.
And, oh by the way, UCLA transfer Tyler Lamb will be eligible for the 2014 conference season.
"They scored inside early on us, but when we tried to close down the paint, their shooters stepped up and made shots," Turner said of the 49ers, who have won five straight games against the Anteaters and last lost to UCI at the Pyramid in 2008. "It was like we couldn't stop them, which I hadn't really felt all year against anybody we've played. We've prided ourselves all year on being able to generate stops in tough situations and we couldn't do that down the stretch here tonight."
UCI forward Will Davis was obviously not overshadowed by the 49ers' talent. The 6-foot-8 sophomore had 14 of his team-best 18 points at halftime. He split his team-best 12 rebounds between the offensive and defensive end for his first double-double of the season. He made nine of 12 field-goal attempts and added two steals and one block.
"He's getting better, there's no question," Turner said of Davis.
McNealy had 10 points in 28 minutes, while senior Mike Wilder hit three first-half three-pointers to account for his nine points.
Senior guard Daman Starring, the team's leading scorer coming in at 14.1 per game and who had averaged 16 the previous four games, had three points to tie his season low. He was one for six from the field to go with three assists.
UCI plays host to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Big West Conference
Long Beach State 81, UC Irvine 59
UCI – Davis 18, Folker 6, Wilder 9, Young 8, Starring 3, McNealy 10, Flowers 3, Clifford 2.
3-pt. goals – Wilder 3, Young 2, Flowers 1, McNealy 1.
Fouled out – None.
Technicals – None.
LB St. – Ennis 17, Freeland 5, Jennings 14, King 10, Caffey 7, Pappageorge 11, Culley 9, Richardson 4, Shepherd 2, Djuma 2.
3-pt. goals – Ennis 5, Gulley 3, Pappageorge 2, Caffey 1.
Fouled out – None.
Technicals – None.
Halftime – LB St., 37-32.
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SEATTLE - The state's legal marijuana industry is gasping for help, following the rollout of new tracking software that many growers say doesn't work.
A spokesperson for the state Liquor and Cannabis Board said they got one major malfunction straightened out with Leaf Data Systems and some commerce has resumed. The problems have yet to show up at retail stores where customers would notice, but growers say without a quick fix the impacts will be industry-wide.
"Leaf is having internal glitches, because it's a new system, that are causing things to miss, to not migrate over, so you're getting holes in the data and it's just stifling business," said Dax Colwell, a licensed marijuana grower with Dama in Seattle's South Park neighborhood.
Colwell is beyond frustrated. He hasn't been able to make a cannabis shipment since Thursday, when the Leaf Data Systems tracking software went live.
By law, cannabis transactions must be tracked from seed to sale. Colwell said defects in the new system has left him with inventory backlogs. He can't get his product in for required testing, and he can't sell it to retail stores.
"It's putting businesses at risk and workers at risk and people are (potentially) getting laid off," Colwell said. "We've had discussions, we're trying to work through it, but it's a possibility."
The state Liquor and Cannabis Board said about 80 percent of the complaints coming in deal with five main issues - all of which can be resolved fairly quickly. They are working on patches for other defects. The rest of the problems will just involve people understanding how to operate the new program.
However, a software designer who is certified to work with the state's new tracking program believes the flaws will likely take weeks to clean up.
"I still feel like we've got another four days of ti being really, really rough," said David Busby, owner of the third-party software integrator company WeedTraQR. "I've been telling all of our customers to prepare from February 1 for ten weeks of being uncomfortable. Ten days of very uncomfortable, ten weeks of pretty uncomfortable as all of the other issues get refined."
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A Clinton approach for angrier times
Hillary Clinton has a unique asset if she runs for president — Bill Clinton, who presided over a booming economy and an era of sunny Democratic centrism.
But she also faces a singular challenge: convincing voters who are skeptical of some Wall Street-friendly policies during his tenure that she can connect with their concerns at a time when the wealth gap is massive between the very rich and everyone else.
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After a decade and a half of being tethered to her husband's record, Hillary Clinton established her own political identity as senator and as secretary of state. But a string of questions from interviewers during her book tour about her husband's tenure as president underscores the ongoing issue she will face reconciling their past with her future.
( Also on POLITICO: Hillary Clinton to 'The Daily Show')
On a broad range of issues from tax policy and Wall Street reform to religious rights, more than a dozen senior Democratic strategists and people who have worked with the former first family told POLITICO that Hillary Clinton will have to craft a platform that reflects the party's shift left and populist sentiment across the political spectrum that distrusts entrenched interests and worries about growing wage inequality. Some described this balancing act as one of the most significant issues for the potential presidential candidate.
"This is the most important set of conversations going on right now. We are in a different economic era that requires a different kind of response," said Simon Rosenberg, founder of the New Democrat Network who shaped the economic message for Bill Clinton in the 1992 campaign. "Apple isn't making the same products they were 20 years ago, so you should not expect any Democrat to obey policies that are over 20 years old." Rosenberg added that no one in the Hillary Clinton orbit underestimates the task she faces.
"Their eyes are wide open. No one thinks it's going to be an easy election in the primary or in the general," he said. "Things are very unsettled in American politics right now and no one close to her thinks this would be anything but a very tough race."
The former first lady has embraced her husband's overall record, which includes the fastest jobs and economic growth of the past half-century.
( PHOTOS: Hillary Clinton starts her book tour)
"The 1990s taught us that even in the face of difficult long-term economic trends, it's possible, through smart policies and sound investments, to enjoy broad-based growth and shared prosperity," Clinton said in a speech in May at the New America Foundation, adding, "Yes, a rising tide really did lift all boats."
Her challenge is largely among Democrats, and is far easier if she faces only nominal opposition from her party's liberal base. Bill Clinton's popularity among Democratic voters remains high, and he can be a powerful spokesman in making the case for America's place in the global economy and helping the middle class, an appeal that President Barack Obama has struggled with over the past five years. Obama's team used him repeatedly as a surrogate in 2012, in part as a reminder of a rosy economy that preceded the George W. Bush era.
What's more, Bill Clinton has acknowledged that times have changed on a range of policy issues since he was president. He has even poked fun at himself, as he did throughout the 2012 race, as a member of the 1 percent who should be taxed more.
Bill Clinton's great gift — and his political innovation — was his ability to tack right. Yet his strategy wasn't timeless, and he was a man of his own times. Hillary Clinton doesn't have that option or luxury — the base of her party is much more liberal than her husband's Democratic Party, and it doesn't want DINOs — Democrats in Name Only — any more than tea partyers want RINOs. Obama made pledges to the base that progressives felt disappointed by, and they hope to collect the dues from the next nominee.
( Also on POLITICO: Christie still acting like one to beat)
The test for Democrats in the Clinton era was proving they supported Big Business. Their challenge now is proving they are serious about holding Wall Street accountable. And Clinton, whose gaffes about her own wealth made headlines on her book tour, will need to demonstrate that she can connect with the policies her party cares most about in the lead-up to 2016.
"You would not want to dissociate yourself from the overall results of the Clinton years because obviously it was a very strong economic performance," said Mike McCurry, who served as Bill Clinton's White House press secretary from 1994 to 1998. "But it's a very different time now and it wasn't apparent in the 1990s that you had this growing huge disparity in wealth. That's largely a 21st century phenomenon, and she will need a broad economic vision to deal with it."
Among the possible big-ticket, middle-class friendly items Clinton could champion are infrastructure spending, closing the carried interest loophole that gives a lower tax rate to wealthy private equity executives and expanding trade, according to policy experts.
Some of the policies that more moderate Democrats favor and that Bill Clinton championed — such as more open trade deals with Europe and Asia — are less popular than ever with left-leaning Democrats and their powerful allies in the labor movement. And progressives' unease with Bill Clinton-era policies was on full display last year when the Elizabeth Warren wing of the party killed Obama's attempt to install Larry Summers — who served as Clinton's Treasury secretary and supported Wall Street deregulation — as Federal Reserve chair.
( Also on POLITICO: Hawkish Cheneys prod GOP)
The Democratic Party has also shifted over the past decade on social policy issues, most related to LGBT rights, and Clinton has had to grapple with them during her book tour, sometimes with significant difficulty.
Without a chief messaging strategist guiding her right now, her answers have seemed off-the-cuff and in some cases in direct contrast to her husband's record.
Clinton recently told The Guardian that she and her husband pay "ordinary income tax" rather than lower rates paid by some who are "truly well off." Yet close watchers of economic policy noted that it was Bill Clinton who in 1997 signed into law a measure lowering the top capital gains tax rate paid by some wealthy Americans.
Hillary Clinton also recently criticized the Supreme Court's decision in the Hobby Lobby case in which the justices ruled 5-4 that the craft store chain could cite religious opposition to decline to offer certain contraceptive coverage to employees, calling it a "slippery slope." That's a position the Democratic Party has taken broadly.


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As a former member of the CBS Records band 8084 who has shared stages with Celine Dion, Jon Bon Jovi and Cyndi Lauper (to name a choice few), singer/songwriter Randy Smith certainly exemplifies the oft-recited idiom of "being in the right place at the right time."
When it comes to the curious case of his exploits with '80s glam rocker Aldo Nova, however, the Shelburne Falls native can recall at least two incidents where the polar opposite was the case.
"In addition to being with Aldo, they also both happened in Canada and both involved arrests," he says from his home in Charlotte, N.C. "We were cleared in both cases, but the first involved us attempting to drive a car Aldo's ex-wife had given him across the border, and let's just the say the paperwork wasn't in order. The second was much scarier. We were in Quebec and just played a gig that paid us in cash. So we are out throwing $100 bills around to buy coffees and other stuff, and unbeknownst to us, there is a counterfeiting ring in town. So they see these two long-hairs, come up to us [with] guns out, yelling, and they don't speak English. It took eight hours for our translator to arrive, but once he did, we got it straightened out."
Citing a "180-degree" turn in musical style from his poof-haired past, Smith says he has found fertile sonic soil in softer, acoustically driven fare these days.
He's tapped several colleagues from session days past, including Hall of Fame fiddler Scott Campbell and 8084 alums Gary Spaulding and Roy Brown, to round out the new sound. And if the name of the supporting cast—The Band of Merry Men—smacks of Sherwood Forest, well, that's intentional, too.
"At this point in our lives, it's much more gratifying to give back than try and see how much money we can make," he explains. "So we try to marry our gigs with charity events. We've donated to local battered women's shelters, fire victims, the renovating of Shelburne Falls Memorial Theater, and much more in recent months."
Prior to his Nov. 23 engagement at Greenfield's Arts Block, he says he is attempting to line up free impromptu performances at local homeless shelters to bring some enjoyment to people who might not be able to pay.
"It's both interesting and a little sad, actually," he says of the project. "You'd think it would be easy to set up some free gigs, but the initial response from many is like, 'Okay, so where's the catch?' But we eventually explain it and get it done."
Tix for the Greenfield show are $10 in advance, $12 day of show, and available at http://theartsblock.com.
Staind and delivered: Like many people, Westfield's Jeff Gilmer has taken to eBay in an effort to unload some unused items from the homestead. Unlike most such items, a goodly number of Gilmer's wares have been graced by some fairly notable hands in the music biz. Case in point: a rare vintage maple fretboard/top 1976 Gibson Les Paul he recently listed—while a beauty in its own right—also had the distinction of being plucked on several Staind demos and even the Tormented CD sessions.
"I used to keep a couple of Les Pauls around my studio, the Rock Shop, for guys who had shitty guitars to use during recording," he notes. "So Mike [Mushok, of Staind] used this particular one, as did many area bands back in the day."
While the auction for that piece was closing around press time (topping out just under the $2,000 mark), Gilmer says to keep an eye out for more celeb-linked musical merchandise in future auctions. He sells under the ebay moniker sellmystuff413.
On a more serious and personal note, the Crawler would like to wish a speedy recovery to Gilmer's dad, Alfred, who is home resting and reportedly doing well after a recent heart attack. He's 93 years young.•
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The more time that passes and the more books I read, the more I realize how dangerous the religious right is, and how pointless it is to try to reason with them. You might as well be trying to argue with a brick wall.
The Christian Nationalist movement (also known as Dominionism - which both Bachmann and Perry appear to have some ties to) is a subset of the evangelical community that is highly mobilized, extremely efficient, well financed, and extremely dangerous.
For many who do not know much about them, they are often dismissed as quacks that have no influence, and those who raise the alarm about them are accused (even in the liberal community) of being "alarmist over-reactors."
However... this is one of the most dangerous things about the Christian Nationalist movement.... their chameleon ability to appear harmless and even beneficial. Make no mistake! Those of us who watch them like hawks are NOT alarmists! They are more powerful than most people know, and they often lack any sense of moral decency. They are willing to lie, cheat, threaten, bribe, and even occasionally murder to get their way. They will hide their true motives from the American public with deceptive language, that often they have one message for the public, and another for their own kind.
Knowing how dangerous they are, I wish I knew what to do about them. They are determined to take over the country and forcibly subdue it to biblical law. They are raping and rending the Constitution on their way there.
I have tried using logic, reasoning, and modern scholarship to make them see that what they are doing is wrong in more ways than one. But as I have learned, this is pointless.
Atheists can debate all they want. We can write books or throw books at them. We can point out logical fallacies or laugh at them. We can make youtube videos or send letters. We can flash our degrees at them and demand they recognize that we know what we're talking about.
There is no point to this at all.
Christian Nationalists live in their own parallel universe. And certain aspects of this "universe" make it quite obvious that there is nothing we can say that will convince them that they are wrong.
Michelle Goldberg lays out the immunity that the Christian Nationalist delusion has devastatingly clear in the book "Kingdom Coming."
1. Most of the "warriors for Christ" have been brainwashed from infancy to believe only what their cult tells them to believe. They are denied public education and herded into either homeschooling or special fundamentalist christian schools... where like any cult, they are cut off from the outside world, until their brainwashing is so thorough that there is no escaping it.
2. They are trained to believe that mainstream science and academics are part of a liberal agenda, corrupted by professors and scientists who push an anti-christian religion. They will therefore, refuse to believe any of modern scholarship no matter how stacked the evidence is against them. In fact, the more the evidence is against them, the more they believe that they are the only pious people, the holders of the real truth that is being suppressed by evil anti-christians. There is no way to get through to them... so don't even try.
3. You can't use liberal christians to convince them because they believe mainstream christians are deluded agents of satan.
Basically, nothing we can say will ever get through to them.
However it is absolutely essential that we stop their drive to push christianity on the country by force. My question is... what are we supposed to do? They cannot be reasoned with. They are relentless and enraged. They are well financed and have many "friends in high places" within our government.
What can we do to stop them before it is too late?
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Actually if a Democrat wanted to run they could, and if they won enough primaries over Obama they could indeed be the candidate on the November 2012 ballot. But they also need to be able depending on which states they are in, to get enough signatutures or put up enough money to get on the state ballot.
No a Presidential election, but a senatorial race. Just last year and much in the news.
He could step down like Polk, Buchanan and Hayes did, there is no automation as far as I'm aware of, though it is politically near impossible. Just because I'm "not an American" does not immediately disqualify me for having knowledge regarding US politics... ;)
Arcus, maybe its just whom I choose to be around, but ALL my international friends know more about American politics and issues that a good 75% of the average Americans I encounter.
It may be the fact that we view it from the outside and don't have 24h continual coverage. I can get more news without the clutter of the entertainment segments which now dominates the media landscape. Unfortunately, I still have to sort thru Kim Kardashian news and know who most of the celebs in Scandinavia are..ugh..
I've always been fascinated by politics, have been politically active, and follow a number of high quality US news sources. I spend at least 3-4h per day reading online magazines such FP, The Atlantic, Slate, TNR, NI, in addition to reading FT and the Economist and 4-5 local sources. (Yes, I'm a news junkie.) I also lived in Florida for 4 years...
As a side note: Did you know that Obama had an op-ed in almost every opinion carrying news paper around the world today..?
My first choice for the presidency was Dennis Kucinich. My second was Hillary Clinton. I plan on voting again for President Obama. I think progressives who got annoyed that Obama didn't produce miracles in 2 lousy years and then blew the last election, shot us all in the foot. If you think about the years we've spent flushing ourselves down the toilet, they were asking for instant gratification. 4 more years without any focus on reelction and Obama has a chance to plow forward in the face of the Great-Obstructionist-Party, Special Interest propaganda and NO Campaign Reform.
This is why I am not a member of either party. When people ask me about my party I respond: "I'm in the ME party... population: Me."
LATimes has an article in todays paper that says that formerly apolitical pastors in states like Iowa backed by astute organizers and big donors are working with congregations for the 2012 election. One pastor is quoted as saying that there is a concerted assualt on everything that he and his peers consider sacred and that they are preparing for battle. And the head of the Southern Baptist Convention says there is a congregational 'tea party'.
I'm with Pierre V. This mentality must be exposed to those who think rationally. And the rational must vote.
This is why it is pointless: Heather Henderson video "Circular Reasoning" funny. Length is .54
If you want to understand just how dangerous they are... maybe I should point out how a group of Dominionists rewrote the Pledge of Allegiance (apparently "under god" isn't enough for them) and the fact at the 1994 Reclaiming America for Christ conference, it was former vice president Dan Quayle who led the recitation of the "revised" pledge.
This is their pledge... the masks were off at the convention and you can see for yourselves the vision they have for America:
They recited this "revised" pledge to "the christian flag - a horrible theocratic version of the american flag with a white background, the blue square in the upper left corner, and a GOLD CROSS on the blue square instead of the stars on the American Flag.
"I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands. One Savior, crucified, risen and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe."
With all due respect the Christian pledge has been said when they use the Christian flag which often sits to the left of the front area of Protestant churches with the American flag on the right side. The Christian flag is white with a blue back ground with a red cross where the white stars on the blue background would be on the Stars and stripes. Been done for decades. They also do the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag. Have been to a number of Christian/Protestant churches since I was a kid in the 50's and know this as fact.


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|Edward Snowden during an interview in Hong Kong.
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A Truth Journal: NSA Leak: Russian Hearts Warm To Snowden, Ecuador Fights U.S. Bullying: From Denny: Edward Snowden currently finds himself in the tender care of the Russians, supposedly America's worst enemy. Yet these Russians are warming to him, impressed by his One Man Stand against the strongest world government which they have bitterly resented for decades. While the Russians may also say they think Snowden's quest is probably a losing proposition they secretly hope he succeeds.
There is nothing better than witnessing when the seemingly impossible becomes possible. Remember that One Man Stand of a Chinese student dissident standing in front of a tank during a protest and the tank came to a complete halt just inches in front of him? That was impressive and cheered many human rights activists around the world.
Both of these acts speak to where there is one there is a majority of one. You only have to stand and count for something, especially when it involves being of service to others.


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A trip to Paraguay in 2008 changed the life of Karina Atkinson, a young woman from Glasgow, Scotland, with big ambitions. She fell in love with the country and set up Para La Tierra, an NGO dedicated to the conservation of Reserva Natural Laguna Blanca, the site of a natural lake that lies at the meeting point of three major eco-regions.
In 2012 she won a Rolex Young Laureate award. With support from the Rolex Awards for Enterprise she hopes to realize her plan that within five years, Para La Tierra will become a conservation model than can be repeated elsewhere in Paraguay.
Reserva Natural Laguna Blanca lies at the convergence of three major eco-regions: the Upper Paraná Atlantic Forest and the Cerrado - both globally endangered habitats - and the Bosque Central of Paraguay. The research station in the reserve is the only one in Paraguay that operates all year and Karina and her team are discovering species that no one knew were present in Paraguay, highlighting the need for more scientific research into the region's biodiversity.
A boom in industrial farming has boosted Paraguay's economy but the resulting intensive cattle ranching and soya and eucalyptus farming are threatening the natural environment with no guarantees that local communities will benefit from these changes. For the time being, the creation of the Reserva Natural Laguna Blanca will protect the area from development but when it was first established there was criticism from local people who are no longer allowed to hunt or collect firewood on the reserve.
Community outreach is an important part of the work done by Para La Tierra as they are able to demonstrate to local people that conservation can benefit them. As well as providing employment opportunities, education and community projects get the local community involved in work done on the reserve. The local school has also linked up with a school in Glasgow so students can learn about each other's countries.
With money from the Rolex Award, three poultry houses stocked with chickens have been built in three communities close to the reserve. They provide a source of meat for families to eat or sell, while incubators are used to hatch more chickens. . In the future, it is also hoped that ecotourism to the site will bring financial benefits to the local area.
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The Chargers' first two draft picks in April have both been placed on the top line of the depth charts at their respective positions.
Tackle D.J. Fluker is going to be on the right side of the offensive line and Manti Te'o is going to be manning a post at inside linebacker and they won't be the only guys starting on day one if wide receiver Keenan Allen gets his way. The third-round pick isn't content to bide his time behind Danario Alexander, Malcolm Floyd, Vincent Brown and Eddie Royal. He wants to force the Chargers to vault him over his more experienced competition.
"I want to be a starter. I don't want to watch. I want to be part of the moment. I don't want to watch it," Allen said, via Kevin Acee of U-T San Diego. "I'm a starter. That's what I feel like — I'm a starter. … Great character. Great team play. I'll try to make an impact as soon as I get there. My work ethic is there. I'm determined to be successful."
There's obviously nothing surprising about a player saying he wants to be a starter and Allen's in as good a situation as any to make good on his hopes. The Chargers have a new head coach, a new offensive coordinator and a new offensive scheme that shouldn't be beholden to anyone other than the players that make it work the best. Allen should get chances to prove he's one of those players in camp, which means his future role is very much in his hands.


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They are not the Huxtables. They are divorced. Yet, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton are a beautiful expression of love, parenting and perseverance.
In the face of a tragedy, untold personal stress and worldwide media attention, they have stood together to fight for justice for their son and millions of young boys that look just like him. So many could have and would have cracked under the pressure of losing their child, let alone an ugly national debate on race, guns and politics but Mr. Martin and Ms. Fulton have not.
Mr. Martin and Ms. Fulton allowed us all to be students of the American judiciary system, walking with them step by step in a drawn out investigation and trial for the murder of their 17 year old son that often felt like he – the victim – was on trial. Beyond lessons the public have learned, or relearned about race, politics and courtroom drama from the State vs Zimmerman case, we have also been dutifully instructed on other valuable lessons from Mr. Martin and Ms. Fulton.
1. After a divorce, both parents can play an active role in the care and upbringing of their child(ren). Even in his death, the solidarity shown by Mr. Martin and Ms. Fulton in pursuing peaceful justice for the life of their child that was taken from them provides a blueprint for parents to work together for what is best for their child, always.
2. Black women are not angry. Ms. Fulton has suffered the greatest loss that a woman can have, she has buried a child whose life came from her womb. Under intense media scrutiny in numerous interviews and on the witness stand during the murder the trial for her son, she has not raised her voice nor her fist. Throughout this journey she has maintained dignity and grace.
3. Black men love their sons. Although Mr. Martin and Ms. Fulton were divorced, Trayvon Martin had a relationship with both of his parents. A small detail that can't be overlooked about the night that Trayvon Martin was killed that has nothing to do with the trial or verdict but helps create a backdrop for his story is that he was walking to his father's house. Trayvon's father hadn't divorced his mother and left him forever. Trayvon's father was still present in his life.
Regardless of the stereotypes and media portrayals of Black fathers, Mr. Martin was a Black man who may not have had his son living with him full time, but was still actively involved in raising his Black son. In the months leading up to the trial against George Zimmerman for killing his son Mr. Martin expressed on numerous occasions his fond sentiments about his baby boy. Moments after Zimmerman was found not guilty he took Twitter to say: 'Even though I am broken hearted my faith is unshattered I WILL ALWAYS LOVE MY BABY TRAY.' Black men do love and express that love in a multitude of ways. Mr. Martin proved that fact again.
For years to come the Zimmerman case will be debated, the legacy of Trayvon Martin and what he represents will not be forgotten and hopefully, the lessons of Mr. Martin and Ms. Fulton will also not be lost.


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Seoul, Korean Sŏul, formally Sŏul-t'ŭkpyŏlsi ("Special City of Seoul"), city and capital of South Korea (the Republic of Korea). It is located on the Han River (Han-gang) in the northwestern part of the country, with the city centre some 37 miles (60 km) inland from the Yellow Sea (west). Seoul is the cultural, economic, and political centre of South Korea.
Except for a brief interregnum (1399–1405), Seoul was the capital of Korea from 1394 until the formal division of the country in 1948. The name itself has come to mean "capital" in the Korean language. The city was popularly called Seoul in Korean during both the Chosŏn (Yi) dynasty (1392–1910) and the period of Japanese rule (1910–45), although the official names in those periods were Hansŏng (Hanseong) and Kyŏngsŏng (Gyeongseong), respectively. The city was also popularly and, during most of the 14th century, officially known as Hanyang. Seoul became the official name of the city only with the founding of South Korea in 1948. Area 234 square miles (605 square km). Pop. (2010) 9,794,304.
City site
The area on the Han River that is now occupied by Seoul has been inhabited by humans for thousands of years, and it acquired strategic importance to the various kingdoms that controlled the Korean peninsula and grew to become a city during the early historic period. Seoul was founded as the capital of a unified nation in 1394 by Gen. Yi Sŏng-gye, the founder of the Chosŏn dynasty. The site was a militarily defensible natural redoubt that was also an especially suitable site for a capital city, lying at the centre of the peninsula and adjoining the navigable Han River, one of the peninsula's major rivers flowing into the Yellow Sea. The contact afforded by this riverine site with both inland waterways and coastal sea routes was particularly important to Yi because these were the routes by which grain, taxes, and goods were transported. In addition to the practical advantages, the site was well situated according to p'ungsujirisŏl, the traditional belief in geomancy. The district chosen by Yi remains, more than 600 years later, the centre of Seoul. It is located immediately north of the Han River in the lowland of a topographic basin surrounded by low hills of about 1,000 feet (300 metres) in height. The natural defensive advantages of the basin were reinforced two years after the city's founding by the construction of an 11-mile (18-km) wall along the ridges of the surrounding hills.
Today the remains of the fortifications are a popular attraction. Likewise, the Ch'ŏnggye Stream—a small tributary of the Han that drains the old city centre but was covered over by streets and expressways in the mid-20th century—has been uncovered and restored; once a focus of everyday activities for many residents, it is now a river park and a tourist attraction. The original city district served to contain most of the city's growth until the early 20th century. Although the population had grown to approximately 100,000 by the census of 1429, it had risen to only about 250,000 by the time of the Japanese annexation in 1910, almost five centuries later. The modernization program initiated by the Japanese began the first of several cycles of growth during the 20th century that extended the city limits by successive stages, so that they now contain both banks of the Han River, as well as the banks of several tributary rivers.
The city's boundaries now form a ragged oval about 8 to 12 miles (13 to 20 km) distant from the original site, except to the northwest, where they are indented to approximately half that distance; that northwestern edge lies only about 25 miles (40 km) southeast of the demilitarized zone that divides North and South Korea. Seoul has grown rapidly since the Korean War (1950–53). The present boundary of Seoul is largely that established in 1963 and encompasses an area about twice what it was in 1948. Suburbs have sprung up in the rural areas surrounding the city, and such satellite cities as Sŏngnam (Seongnam), Suwŏn (Suweon), and Inch'ŏn (Incheon) have undergone considerable expansion as the capital has grown.
Since the 1970s the area of Seoul south of the Han River has been extensively developed. Known as Kangnam (Gangnam; "South River"), or "South City"—as opposed to Kangpuk (Gangbuk; "North River"), or "North City," north of the Han—the affluent area contains about half the city's population and, correspondingly, supplies half the local tax income. Kangnam is characterized by high-rise apartment blocks and new office buildings and is traversed by Teheran Street. Kangnam is developing into a second central business district of Seoul and attracts economic activity in such areas as tourism, design and fashion, information technology, and other new technology industries.
A greenbelt around a large part of the city's perimeter, first established in the 1970s, prohibits the further extension of the built-up area. As a result, urban sprawl has extended to places outside the greenbelt, creating new residential areas in suburbs and satellite cities, mainly along the Seoul-Pusan (Busan) expressway to the south and along the Han River to the east and west. A new phenomenon of urbanization began in the mid-1980s: people of the upper middle class began moving to the remote suburbs amid rural landscapes, extending their one-way commutes each day to an hour or more.
Seoul's climate is characterized by a large annual range of temperature. The coldest month, January, has a mean temperature of about 26 °F (−3 °C), and the warmest month, August, has a mean temperature of about 78 °F (25 °C). Yearly precipitation in the city is approximately 54 inches (1,370 mm), with a heavy concentration during the summer months. Air pollution in the basin and in Yŏngdŭng-p'o (Yeongdeungpo), an industrial area in the southwest, just south of the river, has become a serious problem, caused in large part by the increasing number of automobiles and factories. For years the Han was highly polluted, but since the early 1980s pollution levels have been reduced significantly by measures to control the river's water level and by the construction of large-scale sewage treatment facilities.
City layout
Street patterns in the city centre north of the river are basically on a rectangular grid. Streets and buildings stretch out from the sites of the old city wall's four major gates: Bukdaemun ("Great North Gate"), located near the top of Mount Pugak (Bugak) in the northern part of the city; Tongdaemun ("Great East Gate"); Namdaemun ("Great South Gate"), a designated national treasure whose wooden superstructure was destroyed by fire in 2008 (the rebuilt gate was reopened in 2013); and Sŏdaemun ("Great West Gate"). Outward from these gates the city extends toward the neighbourhoods (dong) of Mia and Suyu to the north and Ch'ŏngnyangni to the east, the districts (gu) of Yongsan and Yŏngdŭng-p'o to the south, and Map'o district and Hongje neighbourhood to the west. Main streets, such as Ŭlchi-ro (Euljiro) and Chong-no (Jongno), are oriented east to west, but, toward the foot of the surrounding hills, topographic irregularities have some influence on the pattern. Outside the basin area of the central city, however, there are a number of radiating streets, which are interconnected by a series of concentric circular roads. Many government office buildings are concentrated along Sejong-no, although the National Assembly building is on Yŏŭi (Yeoui) Island; banks, department stores, and other business offices are located along Namdaemun-no and T'aep'yŏng-no (Taepyeongno).
The two parts of Seoul lying on either side of the Han River show its historical development. The old city, sometimes known today as the North City, was founded in 1394, when it was chosen to be the capital of the Chosŏn dynasty. Its central district, inside the four gates, was planned and has a rectangular street pattern. Kyŏngbok (Gyeongbok) Palace, the main palace of the dynasty, stands in the north-central part of the district, while the royal shrine of Chongmyo (Jongmyo) and the Sajikdan (the royal altar) are located to the east and west, respectively. The city outside the four gates and walls developed slowly and to a limited extent until the beginning of the 20th century. In 1934 the Japanese regime introduced a modern but basic city-plan system that affected mainly the Japanese residential areas along the railways. The marked population increase after World War II motivated the city to extend the road system of the city, but the framework of the earlier system remains.
In the mid-1960s a plan was developed to expand and modernize Seoul that included the acquisition of farmland south of the river from neighbouring provinces. However, except for the Yŏngdŭng-p'o district in the southwest, the land south of the Han River remained green until the 1970s. With the strong financial support of the central government, the South City grew to a population of some five million in only one generation.
A shortage of housing has been a chronic problem. Many large-scale apartment blocks have been built, especially along the banks of the Han. In addition, much residential housing has been developed along the suburban fringes of the city. Old-style wooden houses, or hanok, are still found in a few areas of the old city and adjacent to the remains of the city wall.
The population of Seoul when it was established as the capital of the Chosŏn dynasty in the 14th century was about 100,000. It doubled in size by the 17th century, then remained stable until the end of the 19th century. It grew steadily from the beginning of the 20th century and reached 900,000 by the end of World War II (1945). After the war, many Koreans who had been living abroad came back to Korea; the majority of them settled in Seoul, as did millions of refugees from the north during and immediately after the Korean War. By 1960 some 2.5 million people were living in Seoul. With rapid urbanization beginning in the 1970s, the city drew migrants from throughout the country, and the population reached some 10 million in 1990. Since then the population has stagnated; new towns and satellite cities around Seoul have drawn some of the metropolitan area's growth. The population is made up almost entirely of Korean citizens, who are almost all ethnically Korean. Foreign residents constitute a small but appreciable fraction of the populace; they are not concentrated in any particular areas but are distributed across the city.
Manufacturing is one of the top employers in the city. The information technology and electronics industries have been replacing such traditional mainstays as the manufacture of textiles and clothes, machinery, and chemicals. Food processing, beverage production, and publishing and printing are also important.
Finance and other services
The service sector employs the largest proportion of the city's workforce. Major employers include the many multinational and trade corporations whose headquarters are in Seoul, financial and insurance companies, and professional and business service firms. Seoul is the centre of finance for the country. The headquarters of the major stock exchanges and banks are located in the northern and southern downtown districts and on Yŏŭi Island, and the city is host to many annual trade shows.
The two most important traditional shopping areas are the extensive Tongdaemun Market and the smaller Namdaemun Market, located near the downtown of the North City. Comprising numerous individually owned shops, these markets serve not only Seoul but the entire country. There are also large department stores and shopping centres in Kangnam, the downtown South City area.
As the heart of South Korea's political, cultural, and economic life, Seoul with its concentration of amenities and historic sites is the country's primary tourist destination. It is the frequent site of international business meetings and conventions, and the city works with a number of public and private organizations to develop both the business and leisure tourist sectors.
Although Seoul is an ancient city, it has a good road system, because of vast improvements made since the Korean War, notably in the construction of some two dozen bridges across the Han River. A network of highways cross the city east-west along the Han River and north-south around the city centre. A circular road around the city connects it with suburban new towns and satellite cities, providing some relief to the heavy traffic of the inner city. However, road transport facilities have not been able to keep up with the demands of a large and expanding population, resulting in crowded streets and frequent traffic jams.
The city has an extensive subway system, which has alleviated traffic congestion somewhat and has become, with buses and railways, one of the main forms of public transport. The capital is the hub of railway lines connecting it with most provincial cities and ports, including Inch'ŏn and Pusan. Before the Korean War, small vessels navigated the Han River to the port of Seoul, but the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea runs partly through the mouth of the river and has deprived Seoul of its role as a river port. Hence, most goods are transported to and from the city on railways and highways. Kimp'o (Gimpo) Airport, located in the western part of the city and long its only major airport, was joined in 2001 by Inch'ŏn (Incheon) International Airport, about 30 miles (50 km) west-southwest of Seoul.
Administration and society
The government consists of the Seoul Metropolitan Government, which is the executive branch, and the Seoul Metropolitan Council, the legislative body. The administrative structure contains three tiers: si (city), gu (district), and dong (neighbourhood; literally, "village"). The mayor of the metropolitan government and the mayors of the gu are elected to four-year terms. Serving under the mayors at both levels are vice mayors and directors of bureaus, offices, and divisions. The dongs into which each gu is divided provide services to the residents within their administrative areas. The Seoul Metropolitan Council is headed by a chairman and two vice chairmen and includes standing committees, special committees, and a secretariat; it has more than 100 members, who serve four-year terms. Most council members are elected to represent their respective district; 10 other members are elected on the basis of proportional representation.
Municipal services and health
Water and sewage-disposal facilities have been constructed extensively to service most of the built-up areas. Medical facilities are relatively good, and there are many general hospitals and small clinics as well as numerous pharmacists and drugstores. The many doctors of traditional herbal medicine provide a complement to Western medical practice.
Legally, compulsory education applies only to the six-year elementary school, but in reality most elementary school graduates receive a secondary education. About half of South Korea's major universities and research institutes—including Seoul National University, Yonsei University, Sookmyung Women's University, and Ewha Womans University—are located in Seoul.
Cultural life
Seoul is the country's cultural centre. It is the home of the National Academy of Arts, the National Academy of Sciences, and nearly all of the country's learned societies and libraries. The National Classical Music Institute, engaged in the preservation of the traditional court music of Korea and in the training of musicians, is complemented by two Western-style symphony orchestras. In addition, there are a national theatre, an opera, and a number of public and private museums, including the main branch of the National Museum of Korea on the grounds of the Kyŏngbok (Gyeongbok) Palace. The Sejong Center for Performing Arts, to the south of the palace, has facilities for concerts, plays, and exhibitions and is the location of an arts academy.
Surrounded by hills, Seoul has numerous small and large parks. Places of historical interest—including Ch'anggyŏng (Changgyeong), Kyŏngbok, Tŏksu (Deoksu), and Ch'angdŏk (Changdeok) palaces as well as Chong-myo (Jongmyo), the royal ancestral shrine—annually attract large numbers of citizens and tourists; Chong-myo and Ch'angdŏk were designated UNESCO World Heritage sites in 1995 and 1997, respectively. The city also has excellent sports and recreational facilities, notably the Seoul Sports Complex, on the south bank of the Han, which was built for the 1986 Asian Games and the 1988 Summer Olympic Games. Olympic Park, to the east of the Sports Complex, is an expansive green space containing more of the facilities built for the 1988 Olympics as well as a sculpture park, an Olympics museum, the Korean National University of Physical Education, and an earthen fortress from the early Paekche (Baekje) period.
The early period
Archaeological exploration shows evidence of human settlement since about 4000 bce along the Han River in the area now occupied by Seoul. The earliest historical mention of Seoul and the surrounding area dates from the 1st century bce. During the Three Kingdoms period (c. 57 bce–668 ce) of Silla, Koguryŏ (Koguryeo), and Paekche, the area formed a borderland between the three countries, although during the early part of the period it was most closely associated with the kingdom of Paekche. Historical accounts as well as archaeological records indicate that the original site of Paekche's capital, Wiryesŏng (Wiryeseong), was in the northeastern part of present-day Seoul. Shortly thereafter the capital was moved south across the Han River; a number of remains, including earthen walls, dwellings, and tombs, have been uncovered at that site. It was not, however, until King Munjong of Koryŏ built a summer palace in 1068 ce that a fairly large settlement existed on the site of the modern city.
After the formal establishment of Seoul as the capital of the unified Chosŏn state in 1394, construction and growth were very rapid. Construction of the Kyŏngbok Palace began in 1392; it was the residence of the Chosŏn kings from 1395 until 1592. Before residence had even been established, construction of the city's defensive walls had been completed, although so hastily that they had to be reconstructed in 1422. The Tŏksu Palace, construction of which began in the late 15th century, was the residence of the Chosŏn kings from 1593 until 1611. The Ch'angdŏk Palace, begun in 1405, was the residence from 1611 to 1872, when the king moved back into the reconstructed Kyŏngbok Palace (it had been burned by the Japanese in 1592 and was not rebuilt until 1867). Throughout this period Seoul remained the centre of the "Hermit Kingdom," with little contact permitted with the outside world. The opening of Korea to diplomatic contacts with the West in 1876, at a time when the weakening Chosŏn dynasty was unable to control Western influence, led in 1905 to the establishment of a Japanese protectorate over the kingdom.
The contemporary city
A year after Japan's annexation of Korea in 1910, the name of the Seoul area was changed to Kyŏngsŏng (Gyeongseong), and minor changes were made in its boundaries. Seoul served as the centre of Japanese rule, and modern technology was imported. Roads were paved, old gates and walls partly removed, new Western-style buildings built, and streetcars introduced.
After the end of Japanese control in 1945, the name of the city was officially established as Seoul. Seoul came under the direct control of the central government as the Special Free City of Seoul (Sŏul-t'ŭkpyŏljayusi). In 1949 its administrative designation was changed to "Special City of Seoul" (Sŏul-t'ŭkpyŏlsi). The city was left devastated by the Korean War (1950–53), during which the capital was moved temporarily (1951–53) to Pusan (Busan). In 1962 Seoul was placed directly under the control of the prime minister. Out of the postwar rubble rose a modern city of skyscrapers and highways that has become one of the largest metropolises in the world.
City planning in the latter half of the 20th century tended to lag behind the urbanization process and the problems caused by its rapid concentration of population and municipal functions. However, the South Korean economy also grew, and rapidly enough to cover the construction costs and basic needs of the city. Beginning with the Seoul 1988 Summer Olympic Games, the city strove to increase its profile on the world stage. In the meantime, national development plans attempted to control urban sprawl while accommodating international businesses and high-technology industries. The stated goal of these plans was to establish Seoul as a cultural, political, economic, and transportation hub for northeastern Asia.
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South Korea: Settlement patternsSeoul, the political, economic, and cultural centre of the country, is by far the largest city; satellite cities around Seoul—notably Anyang, Sŏngnam, Suwŏn, and Puch'ŏn—also have grown rapidly, forming an extensive conurbation (Greater Seoul) to the south of the city. New towns around Seoul such…
Korea: The establishment of a Confucian stateHanyang (now Seoul) was made the capital. The Confucian ethical system was officially adopted and replaced Buddhism, which had become corrupt. Many Confucian institutions of learning were set up. Chosŏn society was dominated by a hereditary aristocratic class, the
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Lee Myung-Bak…and was elected mayor of Seoul in 2002 and took office that year. His administration focused on improving the livability of the central business district, most notably through an ambitious urban beautification project. This included the restoration of the Ch'ŏnggye (Cheonggye) Stream, a downtown waterway paved over by Hyundai some…
KyŏnggiThe national capital, Seoul, is in the middle of the province, although it has been separated administratively from Kyŏnggi since 1946 as a special city. The provincial capital is Suwŏn.…
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From author Curtis Edmonds.
What I've Learned From One Year of Self-Publishing
I self-published my debut novel, RAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY, one year ago today, on February 17, 2013. That was a mistake.
What I meant to do was launch RAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY on March 1. In order to prepare for that date, I uploaded the Kindle version of RAIN ON MY WEDDING DAY to Amazon on February 17. I wanted to have a page ready to go on Amazon so that people could pre-order the book before the release date. Except that I couldn't figure out how to do that. (You may not be able to; I'm not sure.) So when you look at the Amazon page for my book, it says it was published on February 17, not March 1.
That was one of the many mistakes that I made with RAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY. It wasn't my first mistake, and it wasn't the last one. In the past year as a self-publisher, I have made a lot of mistakes. Some of them have cost me time, and most of them have cost me money in some way.
I read Joe's blog, and other resources, trying to figure out what I needed to do to get my book to market in the best possible way. I still made mistakes. Most of them were well-meaning, I think. I like to think I've learned from them, and I am hoping not to make those same mistakes with my next novel.
In this post, I cover four things I did with RAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY that turned out to be mistakes, and discuss why I am not going to repeat them. (Two quick caveats, though, before I start. First, these were not all of the mistakes that I made, only the ones I am comfortable telling you about. Second, if any of these things sound familiar, but they worked out for you in your career, that's fine. I am just talking about what I think I did wrong with my book.)
MISTAKE NUMBER ONE: I wasted a lot of time before I got RAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY published.
I finished the first draft of RAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY in March of 2011, about two years before I self-published it. I recognized right away that the book needed some work, so I hired a copy editor. Around the same time, I hired another freelance editor that I knew to take a look at it as well. It ended up that I was doing two rounds of revisions on the novel from two different editors at the same time. This was not a good idea.
After I got the novel into shape, I started querying on it. I did my querying slowly, taking my time, researching possible agents. I found an agent early on who asked to see the full manuscript, and I stopped querying at that point. She ended up passing on the book. After that, I went to a writer's conference in New York, met with some agents, and decided that the novel needed more work. I spent the winter of 2011-12 on revisions, and then started querying again. I got a couple of nibbles from other agents, but they passed on it as well.
I eventually hired a developmental editor to help me polish the book. He worked on a couple of chapters, and then decided that he didn't have time to finish, and refunded my money. So I hired another developmental editor who helped me out a great deal. Once I worked through those revisions, I started querying again in the fall of 2012. Again, a couple of agents looked at the full manuscript, but none of them decided to represent me.
I decided to self-publish in January 2013. I hired a cover designer who put out what I still think is a great cover. I hired someone to format the book for me. Six weeks later, RAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY made its debut to an indifferent world.
I made three rather large mistakes here. First, I wasted a lot of time and effort hiring all these different editors. I think I got my money's worth out of all of them, but the entire editing and revision process ended up taking a lot longer than it needed to. Second, I drizzled out the query process for far too long. I basically stopped querying whenever I got a request for a full manuscript. This was not a good idea. And finally, since I was spending all my time on revisions and querying, I wasn't writing anything else. I didn't start on my next book until last summer, and I only finished the first draft in January 2014.
What I've learned: Once I get my first draft polished, I am going to hire one editor, and then query to see if I can interest an agent, and if that doesn't work, I am going to try to get the book ready for publication as quickly as may be. But not too quickly. Why?
MISTAKE NUMBER TWO: I got RAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY published much too quickly.
And yes, before you say anything, before you say one single word, I recognize that this mistake cuts against the previous mistake. I get that. Really. Here's the thing. Once I decided to self-publish--that is to say, once I realized that the very last lingering opportunities to get my book traditionally-published had burned away--I did it in kind of a big rush. I got the cover designed and the book professionally formatted and did everything I could to make the book presentable and desirable. And then I got a little impatient. I put the book up on Amazon without doing anything much to promote it ahead of time. I did a cover reveal on Twitter and mentioned it on Facebook but otherwise didn't let anyone outside of my social media following know that the book was coming out.
This was a mistake, and it showed up in early sales. By which I mean there weren't any sales, or not very many, not at first. Since there weren't any sales, there weren't any reviews, so the few people who looked at the Amazon site didn't know if the book was any good or not. Not to mention BookBub (just to name one example) requires a minimum number of reviews before you can use their service.
Over the last year, over a hundred people have reviewed RAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY on Amazon, and more than half of them gave the book five stars. But it would have been helpful to have at least some of those reviews in place before I launched the book.
What I've learned: This time, I am going to contact the book-bloggers that have reviewed RAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY and let them know that the new book is out, and contact some additional bloggers as well. I am probably going to try to build buzz on Goodreads through a giveaway. I am going to have at least some kind of plan in place for marketing, which I didn't have at all for RAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY.
MISTAKE NUMBER THREE: I didn't put RAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY in the appropriate category on Amazon.
This makes me sound slightly more stupid than I actually am, so let me tell you a little about my novel, first. RAIN ON YOUR WEDDING day is the story of Will Morse, a former NFL player who has had three of his four children die. Will is estranged from his fourth child, who seeks to reconnect with him on the eve of her wedding. He is wracked with pain and anguish and guilt, and spends most of the story in an isolated cabin in North Georgia, brooding over his losses. It is--and I say this as the author, and an advocate for the novel--a bit of a downer.
When I tried to pitch RAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY to agents, I had the idea that it was in the genre of upscale commercial fiction, like The Kite Runner or something. You could call it "book club fiction" if you wanted to. The only problem is that when you list a book on Amazon, you can't list it under the category of "upscale commercial fiction," because it isn't there.
I listed RAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY as women's fiction. I did this because I hoped that women would buy it. (This seems to have been a good decision--the people who have the book listed as "to-read" on Amazon are overwhelmingly female.) I also listed the book as literary fiction, even though it really isn't, because I liked the idea of being a literary fiction writer a lot better than I liked being a women's fiction writer. And in the description, I said that the book was a "modern Southern gothic" novel, which I guess could be a genre if there were other books in that genre, but I don't think that there are.
What I learned: My next novel will be listed firmly within a recognized genre that is going to help me sell books. That gets me into the next mistake.
MISTAKE NUMBER FOUR: Since I didn't realize what genre I was writing, I didn't conform to the basic conventions of that genre.
I read my reviews. I treasure the good ones, and I try to learn from all of them. What I learned was that some of my readers considered RAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY to be a contemporary romance. I never thought of the book that way. I never queried it as a romance novel. I would not have ever imagined myself writing a romance novel. And here I am, and people are calling the novel I spent years on a "romance novel," and I am sort of, well, not horrified by that. (Whatever you think of the "contemporary romance" genre, it sells more books than "modern Southern gothic" does.)
The other thing that some of my reviewers were telling me was that they don't usually read books by male authors featuring male characters. They'd made an exception in my case, and they liked my book. But I came to the conclusion that if these reviewers were somewhat turned off by having a male protagonist in a contemporary romance novel, there were at least some people out there who didn't read the novel because of who I am and who the protagonist is.
I am not criticizing anyone on their reading habits here. People can read what they want, with whatever characters that they want. But if I'm in the business of selling romance novels--and it appears, to my great and unending surprise, that I am in the business of selling romance novels--then I need to do a better job of managing reader expectations.
What I learned: The next novel has a female protagonist. It also means that I am thinking about writing it under a female pen name. I cannot tell you how thrilled I am about this, but if it helps me sell more books, I have to at least consider it.
A BRIEF CONCLUSION: Thanks if you've read this far (and thanks to Joe for letting me post here).
RAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY has not, so far, been a success. I have not quite made back the financial investment I have put into the book, and there is every possibility that I won't. I have given away far more copies than I have sold. If the information in most surveys is correct, I have probably sold about an average number of copies for a self-published novel, which of course is not very many.
I am not happy about this. I am glad that I chose self-publishing over the alternative of leaving RAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY in a drawer somewhere, and I've been very gratified by the great reviews the book has received, but I am unhappy that it didn't sell as well as I thought it might.
But it's only been a year. I hope to have the next book out before too much longer, and that should help sales. Maybe I'll get lucky. All I can do is try to write the best books I can, and do my best to find an audience, and identify the mistakes I have made so far and try not to repeat them. I don't think that's a formula for success, necessarily, but maybe it's a formula for avoiding failure more completely.
Joe sez: I try not to give unsolicited advice when someone guest blogs. If Curtis wanted my opinion, he could have asked for it.
That said, I'll offer some general advice that I believe all new authors can benefit from. If your well-reviewed book isn't selling:
1. Change the cover. You may think you have the greatest cover in the world. And maybe you do. But I've changed covers on some of my titles more than four times. A cover image you like can be greatly enhanced with different font, added blurbs, different framing, etc. If your sales are weak, why settle?
2. Change the price. Try raising it. Try lowering it. Try putting it on sale. Try something.
3. Change the product description. Look at bestselling ebooks, and copy the style they use.
4. Change the category and keywords. This should be a no-brainer. Keep tweaking until you notice a boost.
5. Write more. Nuff said.
6. Don't give up. We all make mistakes. The goal is to learn from them and move on, rather than lament what was (or what currently is). Fix it. Change it. Experiment. Tweak. Evolve. Ebooks are forever. Every title has more than one change at success. In fact, it has many, many chances at success.
As I write this, my horror novel TRAPPED is #49 in the Top 100 Bestsellers thanks to a BookBub. It has gotten 570 reviews, averaging 4 stars.
This book was rejected by the Big 5, but it has cracked the Top 100 four or five times, months apart.
Yesterday, RUN by Blake Crouch was in the Top 100. It has hit this list several times. And THE SEX CLUB by LJ Sellers is also in the Top 100... again. I've lost count of how many times I've seen her Detective Jackson Mysteries in the Top 100.
In the old days, when the only way to reach readers was by tattooing ink onto dead trees, 99% of books sold best shortly after they were released. Then, if the author was lucky, sales would gradually trickle down to the point where it was regularly stocked on a bookstore shelf. If the author was unlucky, the book wasn't stocked anymore and went out of print. If they were REALLY unlucky, the book wasn't stocked anymore, but the publisher claimed it was still in print because the ebook was still available, and the rights never reverted.
These days, you can make a big splash during a book launch, but that isn't the only splash your book can make. Sales look less like a long tail, and more like a heart monitor, spiking every so often.
This is a marathon, not a sprint. A lot can happen during eternity. In fact, EVERYTHING you think of can happen when infinity comes into play.
The trick is to be alive to see it happen to your books. And you can improve your odds by heeding my advice above.


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KDE Presence at LinuxTag 2003
The KDE Project will be present at LinuxTag 2003, the largest Linux and Open Source exhibition in Europe, being held in Karlsruhe, Germany from July 10-13 2003. The KDE Project's primary focus this year will be the latest stable
At the German Ministry for Security in Information Technology booth you can also meet KDE developers presenting the Kroupware Project, which developed a Free Software groupware solution including a KDE Kolab client. The Kolab Server 1.0 is planned to be released officially at LinuxTag.
The free conference program features talks by notable KDE developers Ralf Nolden, Bo Thorsen and Matthias Kalle Dalheimer about KDE, the KDE Kroupware Client and Memory Debugging and Performance Tuning with Valgrind and KCachegrind.
You find the KDE project on booth F29 and the Kroupware presentation on booth C20. Have a lot of fun on LinuxTag 2003!
KDE 3.2 is gonne rock.
By Mark Hannessen at Sun, 2003/07/06 - 5:00am
Hope you will not forget to ask your governmental representatives about EU software patents. The German ministry of justice played an active role in the EU in favour of patent regulation.
By Hein at Sun, 2003/07/06 - 5:00am
Re: Hope
Well thought!
By SPArgh at Sun, 2003/07/06 - 5:00am
Re: Hope
I'd be surprised to hear LinuxTag is in favor of those patent regulation changes. Please remember that on the EU level out of the three sections, Justice, Economy and Art, only the Justice department is in favor of those changes. Unfortunatelly that department is also responsible for it. Judging from the responses I got from our country's representatives in the parliament all of them are well aware of the impact of these possible changes and that the majority of Europe's economy doesn't want them. One member told me that the changes would have been done in 1998 already if there were no resistance, which obviously wasn't the case.
Kontact <-> KDE Kolab Client
It's nice to see Kolab progress. Will any functionality of the KDE Kolab Client be included in Kontact 1.0?
By Anonymous at Mon, 2003/07/07 - 5:00am
Re: Kontact <-> KDE Kolab Client
Re: Kontact <-> KDE Kolab Client
By Anonymous at Tue, 2003/07/08 - 5:00am
Re: Kontact <-> KDE Kolab Client
Afaics, yes.
Re: Kontact <-> KDE Kolab Client
By maurice at Mon, 2004/05/10 - 5:00am
Ugh! Karlsruhe of all places! Couldn't they chose a normal city??
By Jan at Wed, 2003/07/09 - 5:00am
Re: Karlsruhe?
FYI: the people in southern germany forked German quite a while ago. So did the people where I come from. Result: I'll need Kurt or Martin as a babelfish to decode that language :-)
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Constructive Criticism on my ZW plans please
This is my first time trying to organize a ZW. i've read through a few forums and i've had most of my questions answered, so a big thank you to everyone.
1.) I know i want to do it for charity and have read that taking monetary donations could possibly be a hassle with the IRS and taxes and whatnot. So i was thinking a food drive would be better. I think it's awesome people do it for charity by the way!
2.) But i'm also looking to make a bit of money for myself to cover expenses throughout the entire ordeal. i was thinking of making shirts, stickers, and possibly buttons. good idea or bad?
3.) i'm going to start a facebook page (Odessa Zombie Walk) to advertise but also look into getting sponsors such as radio stations to get the word out and make flyers to put up at colleges and stores (if allowed).
4.) I know i'll have to get permits and will have to pay for some things out of pocket. which is why i stated item number 2.
5.) I also like the rules that Zombi made so i'll post that on my page and hand out copies at the walk.
6.) i plan on getting several people to walk amongst the hordes and take pics and video.
7.) i still haven't set up a route, mainly because my town sucks, but i do know i want to do it near park. Maybe my college.
8.) As stated before i want a park or college simply for the space, i plan on making a game that is played either before or after the walk. Have survivors run from the zombies maybe? or perhaps if i get enough sponsors maybe have an obstacle course similar to the runforyourlives.com zombie run.
Can someone please give me feedback. Constructive criticism perhaps? Any ideas for what else we can do besides walk. No need to be gentle... i can take the hate... zombies don't have feelings after all.
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World Tour 2014
28th march - 1st april - Armenia
2nd april - 9th may - Russia
10th may - 12th may - Germany ( Berlin or Dresden )
13th may - 20th may - Holland
21st may - 25th may - Germany (Stuttgart )
26th may - 1st of june - France (Toulouse)
2nd june - 5th of june - France (Paris )
6th june - 10 th june - Germany (Berlin RATHA YATRA)
11th june - 22nd of june - Italy
23rd june - 26th june - Lithuania
27th june - 29th june - Poland ( Warsaw)
30th june -13th july - England
14th july to............... Brasil
If any devotees would like to suggest changes to above mentioned schedule
or invite me for a program please contact me at above email link.
Sripad BV Vana Maharaja was born in the Midnapura district of West Bengal in January, 1959, near the pada tirtha of Caitanya Mahaprabhu called Pichalda mentioned in the Caitanya caritamritam.
Since his boyhood, Maharaja was very attached to Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Nityananda prabhu and worshipped Their lotus feet.
He received his Bachelor degree in Economics from Calcutta University in 1980. His uncle, Bhaktivedanta Madhusudhana Maharaja, who is to this day, temple commander of the Devananda Gaudiya Math inspired him to dedicate his life to the service of Radha and Krishna.
In 1981, Maharaja joined the Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti, and would regularly hear hari katha from Param pujyapada Nitya lila pravistha astotara sri 108 Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Gosvami Maharaja.
Srila Sridhara Maharaja blessed him, and asked maharaja to stay in his temple, but Maharaja was very attached to Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja.
Srila Narayana Maharaja instructed Sripad Vana Maharaja how to enter in vaisnava philosophy,and he would daily give a special class on Jaiva Dharma, Brahma Samita, Bhagavad-gita, the sandharbhas, as well as other vaisnava literature.
Srila Narayana Maharaja gave Sripad Vana Maharaja harinam and after six months, he received diksa from Srila Bhaktivedanta Vamana Gosvami Maharaja, who is currently the President and Acarya of the Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti.
Sripad Vana Maharaja has served Srila B.V. Narayana Maharaja in Mathura since 1982. At the Gaura Purnima festival in the year 2000, Sripad Vana Maharaja was given sannyassa, and is now preaching around the world under the shelter and instructions of Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja.