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EDEN PRAIRIE, MN – The second quarter brought with it revenue growth of 24.8 percent for Life Time Fitness, the Eden Prairie, MN-based fitness club that went public last year. Revenue grew to $95.6 million from $76.6 million during the same period last year. Net income during the quarter grew 42.7 percent to $10.3 million, or $0.28 per diluted share on 36.2 million shares.
"Our second quarter financial results demonstrate our continued focus and execution on our fundamental growth strategies, including new center growth , membership ramps and increasing in-center revenue," said Bahram Akradi, Life Time Fitness chairman and chief executive officer. During the quarter, the company opened two new facilities. Three additional center openeing are planned for the second half of the year.
Total memberships grew 20.8 percent to more than 335,000, driven primarily by the ramp at centers opened in 2004 and new center and presale activities at six locations since the beginning of 2005, said Akradi.
Total revenue per membership average $294 in the second quarter, up 4.3 percent from the prior-year period. Total in-center revenue per membership averaged $75 in the second quarter, up 10.6 percent from the prior-year period.


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Best Kids Parties: Ballerina
Name: Stella, 3
Location: Chicago, IL
I was thrilled how this ballerina party turned out for my 3 year old daughter Stella's birthday. It was a party full of relatively simple, inexpensive DIY decor projects that made for a big impact. Handmade ballet slippers, crepe paper roses, and a tutu birthday cake were the stars of the show (in addition to the little ballerina herself, of course!). Here are the party details:
The ribbon wall was as simple as stapling a mix of ribbons and crepe paper streamers to some twine and hanging on the wall. The ballet slippers were made from a paper template by Etsy seller Piggy Bank Parties. They turned out so cute but are time consuming to make (it took me a good 30 minutes of cutting and taping per pair). So if you plan on making these, make sure to give yourself plenty of time prior to the party!
These crepe paper flowers were also time consuming (about an hour a piece), but they were really fun to make and turned out gorgeous! The best part is my daughter now has them displayed as a keepsake in her room. Her middle name is Rose, so incorporating the roses into the party gave it a little personal touch.
Thanks, Haeley! Readers, you can find step-by-step tutorials for the ribbon wall, crepe paper roses, and ballerina cake on Haeley's blog, Design Improvised.
(Images: Haeley Giambalvo)


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Some things in Rome never change. These include the hordes of tourists cramming St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Museums (or so my tour guide friends tell me), the slow but steady increase in professional and academic activity as the month of October approaches, and political drama involving Silvio Berlusconi. I could also add the lack of economic growth and generally dire prospects for the future, unless, that is, you're catering to the aforementioned tourists. But somehow Rome still manages to survive.He knows that Catholic's on the left are excited because they think they've found a kindred spirit in Pope Francis.
Another reliable occurrence is that a papal interview will create a stir, especially when the Pope wades into matters concerning human sexuality. This goes double for Pope Francis, whose interview was simultaneously released in La Civiltà Cattolica and other Jesuit publications around the world, including America magazine, on September 19. Since then, I've heard from friends asking me for my thoughts about what he had to say, especially regarding those who are "obsessed" with abortion, contraception and homosexuality. I've also been asked how to interpret some of his statements on the less alluring but equally important topic of economics, in particular those made during his September 22 visit to the Italian island of Sardinia. The Catholic left couldn't be happier, or so it appears.Pope Francis definitely connects with the common people in ways John Paul and Benedict didn't.
But first some general impressions on the overwhelmingly positive reception of Pope Francis these past six months. Talking with ordinary Romans, from the barman to the dry cleaner to the taxi driver, it's obvious that Francis has reached the hearts of people in his diocese in ways that Benedict XVI (certainly) and John Paul II (perhaps) never did. No doubt some of this is due to Francis's eschewing of some of the more monarchical trappings of the papacy and his homespun ways of addressing the crowds. He can talk about God, the sacrament of confession, and the devil in ways that people understand, clearly showing a more pastoral than intellectual approach compared to his immediate predecessors. While unfair to Pope Benedict as a world-class theologian who expressed himself in extraordinarily lucid ways, the "new style" seems necessary when speaking to the unchurched, a number that has been growing for the past several decades in North America and Europe. Whether this popular enthusiasm will result in people practicing the faith more regularly and attempting to live more Christian lives is another question.He doesn't think the Pope comments put him at odds with established church teaching though apparently he's open to re-examining the situation of divorced and re-married Catholics.
In fact, it's this connection between practicing the faith, i.e. following the rules of the Church regarding, for instance, Sunday mass attendance and especially sexual morality, and living a Christian life that seems to have some people perplexed about Pope Francis's remarks. On the one hand, he criticizes a "self-referential" and "small-minded" Church, by which he seems to mean one that overemphasizes its own rules at the expense of charity and mercy. On the other hand, Francis calls himself a "son of the Church" who has neither the desire nor the ability to change Church teaching on fundamental matters. (The one area he has said he's willing to explore is the situation of divorced and re-married Catholics, one that John Paul II and Benedict XVI also said may be re-examined.)
This apparent division between the "spirit" and the "law" of Christian life is indeed a common but serious one that has most likely contributed to the decline in Church attendance and general practice of the faith. If I think I can skip Sunday mass for no good reason and still be "ok" with God, why should I make the effort to go in the first place? One hour a week for God becomes too burdensome and, from there, it's probably one or two steps to cohabitation, contraception, etc. and before I know it, I've joined the ranks of the non-practicing and am on the verge of being unable to explain why I call myself Catholic at all. But, hey, I'm sure God will understand, won't He? Rather than create a mess by opposing "spirit" and "law," we ought to be looking for ways to integrate them.His message change from his predecessors seems to be more one of emphasis though his statement's on issues abortion have caused concern among some Catholic pro-life advocates.
Much of the controversy over the Pope's interview reminds me of several Gospel passages, where Jesus is criticized by the Pharisees for healing people on the Sabbath, dining with sinners, not condemning the adulteress, and so on, and especially of the parable of the prodigal son and the elder brother who's upset that his father never threw a feast for him. In all these cases, Jesus emphasizes mercy over justice in order to draw us closer to Him instead of remaining attached to our prideful selves. God's justice would rightly condemn us all, while His mercy offers us a chance at salvation if we're humble enough to seek it. But in no way does Jesus say that justice is useless or unnecessary.He doesn't seem to be an economic conservative though that really hasn't be a moniker of past popes. They really haven't gotten into economic theory. Pope Francis experience of capitalism is the crony capitalism of Argentina.
As Pope Francis keeps reminding us, mercy is at the heart of Christ's message, yet mercy can't exist without, nor can it negate, justice. There's no sense in forgiving someone for something that's not wrong. And if there's no objective measure of right and wrong, don't we live under the "dictatorship of relativism"? (Yes, that is Pope Francis, not just Pope Benedict, talking.) So while some dissidents may think Francis wants to get rid of all those hard-to-keep, outdated rules of Christian morality and thereby eliminate the concept of sin as such, I'd still bet that he is on the side of "go and sin no more." Janet Smith points out that Pope Francis may have unfairly caricatured those who have dedicated their lives to fighting abortion and other deeply unjust, damaging practices in order to bring others to Christ, while underestimating the timidity of many pastors and bishops on these issues. This is unfortunate and calls for clarification and action from the Holy Father. But our real outrage should be directed to others who seek to turn Church teaching on its head.
Church teaching is clear when it comes to non-negotiable issues such as abortion. On prudential matters such as the best way to create jobs, faithful Catholics can and often do disagree. So when the Pope told workers in Cagliari the indignity of unemployment "is the result of a global decision, of an economic system which leads to this tragedy; an economic system centered on an idol called 'money,'" we may respectfully raise a few basic economic questions. There's no question that money is actually an idol for far too many of the rich and powerful, with disastrous consequences for themselves and the poor who are striving to improve their living conditions. These are primarily the rich who hoard their money and capital for themselves, a.k.a. misers. But how about the rich and powerful who want to invest in new but unproven ventures? If we want jobs for the poor so that they can have the dignity of work, how can we do this without investments of money and capital? Don't the poor need capital and therefore capitalists just as much, if not more, than the idle rich? As other popes have said, exclusion from the global economy is the main cause of poverty in the modern world, so what we actually need is more, not less, business.I suspect the ultimate outcome of his comments, his posture on the issues and his actions means a public repositioning of the church in the public mind without any change in substance on any major issues. In the long run, that will make true liberals more concerned.
Pope Francis undoubtedly believes what he says about the indignity of work and the idolatry of money. Being more familiar with Argentina than anywhere else, he has seen first-hand what "crony capitalist" arrangements that lock out competition, and hence new opportunities that could benefit the poor, look like. An economic system not based on money and capital would have to be based on something else, such as a barter or feudal economy. These alternatives may or may not claim to place "human beings at the center," but one thing they do not do is offer the poor the same chance to become non-poor and even wealthy. Instead of blaming the instrument of money, I would prefer encouraging Christian capitalists and businesspeople to do their jobs well because by doing so, they make possible the kinds of jobs that Pope Francis wants for the people of Cagliari and beyond.
In the context of speaking about his authoritarian tendencies as provincial general of the Jesuits, Pope Francis admitted he "has never been a right-winger." If by right-winger, he means forcing others to do what he says in the name of social justice, he's describing a Peronista, which no sane person should want to be. Outside of Latin America, however, there's another kind of "right-winger" who promotes economic freedom while also believing that Catholic teaching, moral and otherwise, is true. I should know because I am one. Perhaps the confusion has to do with how one understands the admittedly complicated relationship between human freedom, political order, and God's plan for each and every one of us. Maybe political terminology dating from the French Revolution is the problem. Or can't Catholics be truly liberal, after all?


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Chinese Brush
First, there is the Chinese brush. Though similar to the brush used for watercolor painting in the West, it has a finer tip suitable for dealing with a wide range of subjects and for producing the variations in line required by different styles. Since the materials used for calligraphy and painting are essentially the same, developments in calligraphic styles and techniques can also be used in painting.
Brush Techniques and Strokes
The ancients used the expression yu pi yu mo(to have brush, to have ink). These show the significance of the meaning for the two terms pi(brush) and mo(ink).
The brush techniques so much emphasized in Chinese painting include not only line drawing but also the stylized expressions of shade and texture (cunfa) and the dotting methods(dianfa) used mainly to differentiate trees and plants and also for simple embellishment.
The brush strokes give the painting rhythm and beauty and depict the subject's outward and inner qualities. At the same time, they reveal the individuality and style of the painter himself.
Type of Painting Brushes
Hsieh chao pi: Crab claw brush, large and small sizes
Hua jan pi: brush for painting flowers
Lan yu chu pi: brush for painting orchids and bamboo
Brushes used for writing:T'u hao pi: rabbit's hair brush
Hu ying pi: Hunan sheep's hair brush
Chinese Ink
Second, there is the ink. Ink has been used in calligraphy and painting for over two thousand years. When the ink cake is ground on the painter's stone slab with fresh water, ink of various consistencies can be prepared depending on the amount of water used. Thick ink is very deep and glossy when applied to paper or silk. Thin ink appears lively and translucent. As a result, in ink-and-wash paintings it is possible to use ink alone to create a rhythmic balance between brightness and darkness, and density and lightness, and to create an impression of the subject's texture, weight and coloring.
Paper and Silk
Third, there is paper or silk. Chinese painting may be done either on Chinese paper or silk. Chinese Paper.
The original paper(around 100 AD.)was made from many different materials including pulp, old fishing nets and bark. Modern paper is often machine made. It is classed in degrees of weight and amount of size used. The paper is very absorbent and the amount of size in it will dictate the quantity of ink used for strokes on the paper. Different paper produce different results; some are rough and absorb ink quickly like a sponge, others have a smooth surface which resists ink. Chinese paper is usually known as rice paper in English.
Chinese Silk
Before painting on silk, the silk should be treated with alum and glue before use. This method makes silk less absorbent than paper. Brushstroke is best shown on paper. Because of this reason and the paper's variety of texture and finish, paper quickly became favored by artists and calligraphers.
Chinese Color
Fourth, there are the colors. There are differences in the use of color between Chinese painting and modern western painting. Chinese painting aim is not to express the various shades of color of the subject in relation to a fixed source of light, but to express the characteristics of the different subjects.
For example, the adding of traces of brown or green to rocks, trees, leaves, grass and moss in a painting is used to reinforce the feeling of a particular season or state of the weather.
Composition and Space
Fifth, there are composition and space. Since the creative requirements of Chinese painting do not demand strict adherence to reality or to a particular angle of view or source of light, the painter has complete freedom in terms of artistic conception, structural composition and method of expression. To give prominence to the main subject, it is quite permissible to omit the background entirely and simply leave it blank. At the same time, since the sizes and shapes of the spaces in the painting are different, the very absence of content can itself create rhythm and variety. Sometimes the variety and balance created in this way is further enriched by the addition of inscriptions in the empty space.
Chinese landscape painters'aim is to depict the familiar mountains and rivers of China from the perspective of nature as a whole and on the basis of their understanding of the laws of nature. In artistic conception and structural composition, most landscape paintings create the impression that the scene is viewed from high in the air, as if seen through the eyes of a bird.
With flower-and-bird paintings, sometimes a single flower hangs as if suspended in space, or the flowers and plants of different seasons appear together. Explained by one of the Ming painters, Wang Fu(1362-1416), as "likeness through unlikeness" and Qi Baishi(1863-1957) as "subtlety of a good painting lies in its being alike and yet unlike the subject" Chinese painters attach great importance to reality, science, space and time and yet manage to disregard them at the same time. The laws of these things must come second to the requirements of artistic creation and should not become shackles that bind artistic expression.
Seal and Calligraphy
One of the distinctive characteristics of
Chinese painting is the use of inscriptions in poetry of calligraphy and of
special seals as part of the painting itself. This was a major contribution
made by scholar painters. Its significance lies in its ability to express the
theme and artistic conception of the painting more clearly and deeply while, at
the same time, giving great insight into the artist's individuality, emotions
and views on art and life. In ink-and-wash paintings, the bright red seal adds
a final touch of beauty. When preparing the inscription and seal, therefore,
the Chinese painter, in addition to considering their content, has always given
great thought to the placement, length and dimensions of the inscription and
the position of the seal on the painting.
The simplest inscription consists of the artist's name and the date. Sometimes the inscription could include the occasion for the painting and the name of the person for whom the painting was done. It could be about the subject and style of the painting. Quite often the artist might include a piece of poetry or a literary allusion. These are all followed by the artist's own seal.
The seals can be carved in stone. It can contain a name, poetical saying, a design or symbol which has a connection with the painting. The seals are pressed into a pot or tin of cinnebar paste, a scarlet red color, and are impressed onto the painting. The paste contains mercuric oxide, ground silk and oils. It required a careful stamp as it is rather permanent. When using red seal on a monochrome painting, it is said to be "adding the eye to the dragon".


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MONTREAL >> If this was the last time Saku Koivu laces up his skates in Montreal, it was exactly the way he imagined it.
The former Canadiens captain, who played 13 years with the club before signing with Anaheim in 2009, received a standing ovation from the Bell Centre crowd after Montreal's 4-1 victory over the Ducks on Thursday night.
"It was emotional," Koivu said. "I had the whole building behind me. It was nice. A big thank you for that. I felt great before the game. And obviously at the end, that was amazing."
Koivu hasn't announced his retirement, but there's speculation the 38-year-old will retire at the end of the season.
If that's the case, Koivu won't skate again in the city he captained for a decade.
"It's overwhelming to be there, to get that reaction from the fans. It just shows how passionate they are, and shows their appreciation.
"You don't know how to react. You want to keep the focus on the game. And moments like that, it's not easy. The emotions get the most out of you."
This wasn't Koivu's first return to Montreal since he left the city that drafted him in the first round in 1993. In January 2011, he beat his old team 4-3.
On Thursday, the Ducks struggled against the Canadiens.
Montreal was up 2-0 at the end of the first period on goals by Michael Bournival and Tomas Plekanec.
The Ducks came out firing in the second but couldn't beat Carey Price, who made 31 saves.
"We didn't let up," captain Brian Gionta said. "We knew they were going to have a push. We absorbed it and kept the momentum.
"Big part is to continue to play our game and not open up. When the other team presses, you have to make sure you stick with your game plan."
Gionta and Rene Bourque also scored for the Habs.
Patrick Maroon scored for Anaheim.
After pressure by the Canadiens to start the game, Bournival scored his second of the season to put the Habs ahead 1-0 at 11:39 of the first period.
Bournival tipped a blue-line shot from Nathan Beaulieu past Anaheim goalie Jonas Hiller. The assist was Beaulieu's first point in his fourth game this season.
Canadiens coach Michel Therrien praised Bournival.
"The more he plays, the more confidence we have in his play," Therrien said. "He's creating good plays with his intensity and his speed. He skates really well. He competes.
"It's fun to see a young player, as the season goes on, even if it's early in the season, who's making good decision and playing with a lot of confidence."
Plekanec added to the Canadiens' lead five minutes later. Bournival intercepted a missed clearance from Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf in the Anaheim zone and passed the puck over to a wide-open Plekanec, who scored his fifth of the season.
"When you respect the system, good things happen," Bournival said of the team's second goal. "I was well-positioned in my forechecking. We'll definitely take a goal like that."
Two quick penalties to Mathieu Perreault and Cam Fowler midway through the second period were costly for Anaheim. Gionta struck early into the 5-on-3 advantage, tapping in the rebound after a Plekanec shot from behind the net rolled off Hiller's arm.
Maroon spoiled Price's shutout bid at 8:58 of the third, firing a wrist shot off the post and in past a sprawling Price to make it 3-1.
Bourque added Montreal's fourth of the night at 12:39. Fresh out of the penalty box, Bourque darted toward the net, took a pass from Plekanec and fired a backhand past Hiller.
Hiller made 21 saves.
Teemu Selanne, another NHL veteran, also played what could be his last game in Montreal.
The 43-year-old — the oldest active player in the NHL — is retiring at the end of the season and was kept off the score sheet.


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Treasury releases first HAFA and second-lien modification numbers
Another 27,000 homeowners began participating in Treasury Department initiatives in February to promote short sales and second-lien modifications. Workouts through the Home Affordable Modification Program stayed relatively flat again in February from the prior month with 26,147 permanent modifications started. Participating mortgage servicers have started 633,754 permanent modifications since the program launched in March 2009. New permanent HAMP modifications averaged 28,000 over the last six months. But under HAMP, the Treasury started the Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives program in April 2010. Through it, servicers, investors and the borrowers themselves are given incentives to pursue a short sale if a HAMP modification in unattainable. Through February, servicers started 10,488 agreements with homeowners and completed 4,488 short sales under HAFA. In December, the Congressional Oversight Panel found the Treasury spent roughly $4.3 million on HAFA incentives. The top-four banks committed to the Second Lien Modification Program, or 2MP, in April 2010. Fannie Mae directed its servicers to begin participation in the program in January 2011. Through February, mortgage servicers provided 16,951 second-lien modifications through 2MP through February, according to the Treasury. "The latest data underscore the importance of continuing our efforts to help families stay in their homes," said acting Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability Tim Massad. "We are also working hard to implement additional programs to assist families in the hardest-hit states. We will continue these efforts so that we help more Americans remain in their homes and help our nation recover from this crisis." The Treasury's report comes two days after the House of Representatives, led by Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee, voted to end HAMP two years before it was scheduled to. The 633,000 permanent modifications started will end up falling well short of 3 million or 4 million goal set by the Obama administration when the program began. Late in 2010, the Congressional Oversight Panel estimated that the program would avert 800,000 foreclosures at most. While many lawmakers and overseers believe the program has underwhelmed at best, HAFA is seen differently. Chris Hanson, of the Chris Hanson Law firm, a specialist in short sales, said these transactions coupled with REO sales represent half of the California market. The Treasury in its long defense of HAMP said it set the stage for more modifications and created a backbone around which proprietary programs could be designed. The same could be said for HAFA and short sales. A panel at the Mortgage Bankers Association servicing conference in February said HAFA will bring faster and cleaner short sales and as a result fewer foreclosures. "We need to get these short sales done in a timely fashion. A short sale today is a lot better than it was six months ago," said Abel Fregoso, vice president and national field short sale manager for Wells Fargo (WFC). Write to Jon Prior. Follow him on Twitter @JonAPrior.


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Dillon outduels NASCAR Camping World Truck Series heavyweights
With a two-tire call on a late-race pit stop, Austin Dillon stole Friday night's Fast Five 225 Camping World Truck Series race at Chicagoland Speedway from Kevin Harvick, who had dominated the event until the last round of stops.
Dillon won his second race of the season and the fourth of his career. Harvick came home second, almost five seconds back. Nelson Piquet Jr., Parker Kligerman and Kyle Busch completed the top five.
"This is the biggest win of my career, I think," Dillon, 21, said in victory lane. "I ran up there, racing with Kyle and Harvick. Harvick was great all night, but (crew chief Danny) Stockman made the call at the end to put us out on two tires.
"He knows when I get out front it's like smelling blood for a shark. When we got out there, we could just take off. The team—they kept gaining spots every time we came on pit road. I love coming on pit road when they're like that. It's awesome."
Dillon moved up two spots in the series standings to second and trimmed 11th-place finisher James Buescher's lead to three points. Johnny Sauter, who finished sixth, is six points back in third.
Harvick had led 99 laps by the time he came to pit road for his final stop on Lap 129 of 150.
Harvick took four tires, a decision necessitated by a vibration Harvick's truck picked up during a green-flag run of 42 laps. That decision allowed Busch (who pitted on Lap 130 and took two tires) and Dillon (who came to pit road on Lap 131) to cycle out ahead of Harvick.
As Busch and Harvick battled for the second position, Dillon began to pull away, opening a lead of more than 4.7 seconds over Harvick with seven laps left.
"That definitely dictated a four-tire call," Harvick said of the vibration. "On the caution before (on Lap 84) we didn't take any tires, so we had about 22 more laps on our tires. When you have a vibration like that, you want to win the race, but in the big picture—and the even bigger picture on Sunday (in the first Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup race)—we don't need to blow a tire and have something happen.
"So when it got to the point of shaking bad enough to where I knew something was changing, I just came in and changed four tires. I knew at that point, they (Dillon and Busch) were going to do the opposite, but we had to change four."


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First board - need help
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 3:50 pm
Hello everyone. Yesterday I finished the rocker table. I'd like to create my first board, but I have a few concerns. First is about the rocker and concave. Board size is 140X45cm. I was planning 7mm concave and 2.7 cm of rocker at the tips (Is that enough). Should I go with a continuous rocker or center to leave flat? I would chose this second option, but I do not know how much of flat surface to leave, and where to start to bend the rocker?The other thing is the core thickness, 6mm thick plywood laminated with glass and epoxy, with carbon reinforcement. Is this too thin???
(P.S. Sorry for bad english)
(P.S. Sorry for bad english)


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The Space Between the Notes
Feb 17 2013
"Music is the space between the notes." ~ Claude Debussy
Everyone is so busy these days. We fill our lives with things that take us from here to there in minutes, when even just fifty years ago it might have taken us hours or days to do something. The infrequent times I get to work on my music are the times I get to exercise a different part of my brain. I'm in the middle of getting two songs produced with a professional named Ron Wikso. I'm learning a ton about the process, and he has been patiently explaining it to me.
The phrase "between the notes" has come to my mind often these last few weeks as I've found myself with a little more time to work on my songs, but I struggle with enjoying the space…the temporary lull in some of the noise…because there are so many other pressing daily life details that need to be attended to with the kids, job stuff, house stuff, etc.
I think that not only in "music," but also in life the most poignant moments can lay in the space in between the noise of our daily lives. The times when things in our lives are on pause (or change dramatically) while we wait for the next great refrain or chorus to start are often ignored, because we are waiting for the "silence" in one part of the symphony of our lives to end and the activity/music to begin. Unlike an already written sheet of music, we don't know if the next refrain in our lives will be a joyous beat, a steady (a.k.a. boring) rhythm, a pleasant melody, or the background music from a horror movie. We don't know, yet we often live in the anxiety and can't enjoy the space…the space to explore other options or even to take a nap!
True learning, profound connection, and great discoveries have been known to happen in the space between thoughts, yet most of us are afraid of that space. We don't often choose the space or if it chooses us, we don't know what to do with it. It has been proven that meditation has many benefits when you can stop the thinking and sit still in silence, but it's not easy. "I think therefore I am" could have easily been said "I am therefore I think, play, laugh, feel, love, etc."
The more we are able to quiet our thoughts and live in that space, the more peace we seem to achieve and the more positive impact we have on those around us. The challenging nature of that endeavor mixed with the constant flux of our lives is why I believe there are very few gurus and prophets in this world. Most of them are men who did not have kids or had someone else taking care of their kids. Many of them also did not want or need money and were fine with sitting under a tree or in a cave meditating most of the time. If I had no kids, I might try that life for a while. 🙂
May the space between the notes in your music or the choruses of your lives become great defining points in the stories you tell. I already know I'll be a grandma or teacher with the best First World "war" stories based on the space between the notes of my life…Author: Aruni | Filed under: FYI, networking, random stuff, working mother | Tags: claude debussy, i am therfore I think, i think therfore i am, music, ron wikso, song writing, space between the notes, this too shall pass | Comments Off on The Space Between the Notes


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JeJu Love Land is a "whimsical erotic sculpture park" on an island in South Korea. It's been around for years, but we hadn't heard of it until Laughing Squid brought it to our attention.
Not safe for prude workplaces. [Image via Stari4ek]
Jeju is a volcanic island off the southern coast of South Korea. It has 600,000 inhabitants. As the warmest beach vacation spot in South Korea, it is sometimes known as "Honeymoon Isle." [Image via Hoainiemthanh]
In 2006, Der Spiegel called Jeju Love Land a "salacious Disneyland."
"Love Land" is a theme park, about the size of two soccer fields, located in the north of Cheju Island. And it's crammed with soft porn memorabilia—statues, photographs and sculptures that seem like something halfway between a post-modern version of those temple phalluses and a Jeff Koons installation—just more trashy, if that's possible.
Apparently Love Land has been around for a while. In the late '80s Simon Winchester went there and noted that some hotels on the island employed "professional icebreakers." [Butts via LonelyBob, penis via Stari4ek]
You have to be 20 years old to enter Love Land. [Image via Stari4ek]
I keep expecting Tom Cruise to show up in a mask. [Image via SuzyQuzy]
This looks torturous. [Create Sean]
Der Spiegel writer Matthias Streitz concludes,
[N]one of this is proof of an unusually open or relaxed attitude to sex. The opposite is true. A few thoroughly rule-governed exceptions apart, the things that are shown and imagined in Love Land are kept under cover elsewhere in South Korea. In this sense, the theme park is not unlike Asian porn mags or fertility rites: It's a small isle of freedom in an ocean of taboos.


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James then attended medical school at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City, earning his medical degree in 2006. He stayed at Cornell for his residency training, which he completed in 2012. From there, James went to Charleston for a fellowship in Urologic Oncology. He joined the Yale Department of Urology in July 2013 and is now based primarily in Greenwich.
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Indian Muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak)
Range Description:
Southern Red Muntjac, as defined here, occupy part of
the Thai–Malay peninsula and occurs on the main islands of the Greater Sundas
(Borneo, Java, Bali and Sumatra) and on various small islands (Chasen 1940;
Groves 2003; Meijaard 2003). On Sumatra, it is not geographically limited to
southern and eastern parts of the island despite various statements that it is
(R.J. Timmins pers. comm. 2008). Taking the northern limit on the peninsula as
the Isthmus of Kra (see Taxonomy), M. muntjak (as here defined) is assumed to
inhabit southern Thailand and might be found to occur in southernmost
Myanmar. It is now extinct in Singapore (Baker and Lim 2008).
Countries: Native:
Brunei Darussalam; Indonesia; Malaysia; Thailand
Regionally extinct:
Recent camera-trap studies on all main occupied
landmasses show this to be a common species. The following is only a part
collation of existing studies. In Sumatra, muntjacs (not identified to species
but presumed, given the habitats and altitudes, to be largely or entirely M.
muntjak) were camera-trapped very commonly in Bukit Barisan Selatan National
Park and around Gunung Leuser (van Schaik and Griffiths 1996; O'Brien et al.
2003). In Thailand, Red Muntjacs were recorded at over 40% of camera-trap
locations in Kaeng Krachan National Park, a site that may contain either M.
vaginalis or M. muntjak or both. Abundance did not vary with proximity to
villages, even though a variety of hunting methods occurs on site (Ngoprasert et
al. 2007). In West Malaysia, Red Muntjacs were commonly camera-trapped, at a
high proportion of camera-sites, in Taman Negara, where densities were estimated
at 3.2–4.05 per km² (Kawanishi and Sunquist 2004), were found to be ubiquitous
and common at all nine potential Tiger Panthera tigris areas surveyed by Lynam
et al. (2007), and were common in the Jerangau Forest Reserve, an area of
secondary forest some of which was being logged at the time of study and where
hunting was heavy enough to have eradicated (or reduced to very low densities)
species such as Sambar Cervus unicolor (Azlan 2006). During a study of the
mammals of West Malaysia's virgin jungle reserves, they were found in 13 of 14
sites (seven virgin jungle reserves and seven adjacent logged areas), a much
greater spread of occurrence than for most other mammals (Laidlaw 2000). In Java
muntjacs have "persisted in many areas where there is some forest cover"
(Whitten et al. 1996), were camera-trapped commonly in Ujung Kulon National Park
(van Schaik and Griffiths 1996) and Gunung Halimun National Park (Suyanto 2003),
and were studied in Baluran National Park (East Java) in the 1990s by Tyson
(2007); the latter study found densities of 23–25 animals per km² in the park's
mosaic of open woodland, grassland, scrub at under 300 m asl during the dry
season. These densities (considerably above those from Taman Negara) may be
inflated by daily or seasonal movements of animals coming down to the coastal
waterholes. The Baluran population may have benefited from a particular
combination of seral processes including the growth of the exotic Acacia
nilotica. Muntjacs remain locally very common on Bali (Oka 1998). Determining
population status in Borneo is more difficult because of the difficulties of
separation from M. atherodes, but it is clearly at least fairly common
(Heydon 1994; for further discussion see Habitat and Ecology).
Population Trend: Decreasing
Habitat and Ecology:
Southern Red Muntjac are associated with forest, but occur
widely even in heavily degraded forest and, in areas adjacent to forest, in
plantations of coffee, rubber, sugarcane, cassava, coconut, and teak (Oka 1998;
Laidlaw 2000; Azlan 2006; G. Semiadi pers. comm. 2008). However, its ability to
survive in landscape-level stands of teak is probably dependent upon the
retention of fringes of secondary growth along streams, gullies and other such
features (M. Tyson pers. comm. 2008) and this may be so for the other plantation
species, too. Peak densities are probably not in pristine forest: in east Java,
secondary forest with gallery forest mosaic seems to hold higher densities, and
this muntjac may also benefit even from agricultural conversion at forest edges
(M. Tyson pers. comm. 2008). Muntjac (presumed to be largely or entirely M.
muntjak) abundance was higher in areas within 1 km of the protected area
boundary than in the interior of Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, Sumatra
(although this pattern was only weakly statistically significant), suggesting an
association with edge, broken and secondary habitats (O'Brien et al. 2003). In
contrast, an avoidance of the edge of the Taman Negara protected area in
Malaysia was suspected by Kawanishi and Sunquist (2004). In Danum Valley (Sabah,
Borneo), an area with negligible hunting, M. muntjak strongly increased in
densities after logging (Heydon 1994; Davies et al. 2001); a weaker increase was
found by Duff et al. (1984). In the Sarawak Planted Forests, Bintulu Division,
Sarawak, muntjacs (partly this species) are among the commonest species
camera-trapped in young acacia plantations (under four years old) and have been
seen browsing on young acacia shoots. Footprints are common in the adjacent
newly planted areas and forest fragments (Belden Giman pers. comm. 2008).
However, this area contains a substantial proportion of natural, if somewhat
degraded, forest, which in theory might be found to be necessary for populations
in the highly altered habitats. Information on the species in landscape-scale
plantations, remote from even secondary forest, has not been traced. Most of its
range is dominated by evergreen vegetation, but it readily uses deciduous
forests and mosaics of grassland, scrub, and forest (e.g. on Java; Tyson 2007);
on Bali and Java, M. muntjak routinely uses woodland savanna as a feeding ground
(Oka 1998; S. Hedges pers. comm. 2008). This muntjac has a wide
altitudinal range. In Java, S. Hedges (pers. comm. 2008) has seen them over
0–800 m. In Sumatra, it occurs widely in the lowlands and the second species
there, M. montanus, seems to be montane; whether M. muntjak ascends to
the highest forests is yet unclear (R.J. Timmins pers. comm. 2008, based on
examination of specimens). On Borneo, Red Muntjac lives up to at least 1,000 m
asl on the Usun Apau plateau (Payne et al. 1985), who stated that "available
data suggests that [M. atherodes] predominates over the Red Muntjac in low hill
ranges and coastal regions", but Meijaard and Sheil (2008) pointed out that
still "no robust quantitative data exist to support this [pattern]". Red Muntjac
is scarcer than M. atherodes in Sungai Wain forest, Kalimantan, which spans
30–150 m asl (G.M. Fredriksson pers. comm. 2008), in the Sarawak Planted
Forests, Bintulu Division, a mix of acacia plantation and natural forest (Belden
et al. 2007; Belden Giman pers. comm. 2008), and (slightly so) in the Ulu Segama
area of Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, which lies mostly at about 300 m
asl (Siew Te Wong pers. comm. 2008). In Borneo, muntjacs were frequently seen,
suspected to comprise roughly equal numbers of Red and Yellow, in the Batang Ai
National Park, Sarawak, which lies mostly at 100–760 m asl (Meredith 1995). The
diet is mostly fruits, buds, tender leaves, flowers, herbs and young grass
(Kitchener et al. 1990; Oka 1998). In Taman Negara, Malaysia, camera-trapping
showed Red Muntjac to be mostly diurnal (Kawanishi and Sunquist 2004) whereas in
Gunung Leuser, Sumatra, it was classed as cathemeral (i.e., sporadic and random
intervals of activity during the day or night) (van Schaik and Griffiths 1996)
and this is true for East Java (S. Hedges pers. comm. 2008); there may be some
variation between localities in balance of day and night activity. It is a
mostly solitary species that is capable of breeding through the year, and has
been stated to be territorial (Kitchener et al. 1990; Oka 1998). However, Tyson
(2007) found no evidence of territoriality in radio-collared female muntjacs of
Baluran National Park, Java, although range overlap declined in the rainy season
compared with the dry season. Nor was there evidence of males using exclusive
ranges in any season, or any clear evidence of territorial defence. As in the
case of M. vaginalis, occasional sightings of small groups probably refer to
mating pairs, or to females with offspring (Oka 1998), or to loose aggregations
at abundant food resources (M. Tyson pers. comm. 2008).
Systems: Terrestrial
Major Threat(s):
Habitat encroachment and hunting are both widespread in the
Sundaic region. Indeed, they are often associated and all Borneo's ungulates
suffer from the increased hunting that often accompanies logging (Bennett and
Dahaban 1995, Bennett and Gumal 2001), such that hunting to local extinction is
the chief detrimental effect of logging on ungulates in Sarawak (Bennett and
Gumal 2001). This conclusion probably is applicable across the Sundaic region.
Southern Red Muntjac are widely hunted across its range (e.g. Bennett et al.
2000; Linkie et al. 2003; S. Hedges pers. comm. 2008, based on unpubl. data,
East Java, 1991–2002); it is the most sought-after wild meat in Peninsular
Malaysia (Kawanishi and Sunquist 2004) and is among the most preferred in
Indonesia, although Sambar is the preferred species at least in East Kalimantan
(Semiadi et al. 2004; Semiadi 2005). However, there is no strong evidence that
either hunting or habitat disruption are actually threats to the survival of
populations except in the case of islands such as Singapore, where it is now
extinct (Baker and Lim 2008). Peak densities are not in pristine forest (see
Habitat and Ecology), and in Danum Valley (Sabah, Borneo), an area with
negligible hunting, M. muntjak strongly increased in densities after logging
(Heydon 1994; Davies et al. 2001); a weaker increase was found by Duff et al.
(1984). Hence, even quite severe habitat disruption can increase ecological
carrying capacity for this muntjac, at least temporarily. In an area with heavy
hunting, recorded densities of muntjacs (presumed M. muntjak) were twice
as high in areas with low than with high human population density within 10 km
of the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, Sumatra, but this difference was not
statistically significant (O'Brien et al. 2003). Poaching pressure in
Kerinci-Seblat National Park, Sumatra, among snared ungulates was greatest for
muntjac as assessed by the diameter of the cable. Snaring is locally very high
in the protected area, e.g. 51 snares (mostly of size suitable for muntjac) were
found in 1 km² (Linkie et al. 2003), although it is much less intense than in
areas of Indochina supporting the related M. vaginalis (J. Holden pers. comm.
2008). Data are too sparse to determine whether this hunting is driving
declines. Habitat loss is also severe including within parts of the park (Linkie
et al. 2003), and is an increasing phenomenon in Java (S. Hedges pers. comm.
Muntjacs are widely and heavily hunted on Borneo for meat, skins, and as a source of traditional remedies (Bennett et al. 2000; Mohd Azlan J. pers. comm. 2008; Belden Giman pers. comm. 2008; G.M. Fredriksson pers. comm. 2008; A.C. Sebastian pers. comm. 2008; Siew Te Wong pers. comm. 2008). Traditionally, hunting used traps, dogs and spears, and blowpipes. Hunters in remote parts of the interior still use these methods, but most animals now die by gunfire. Sarawak held 60,000 legally registered shotguns while Sabah held almost 13,000 in the mid 1990s (Bennett et al. 2000). Methods used in Indonesia include guns and spotlights along logging roads, snaring, and dogs (G.M. Fredriksson pers. comm. 2008; S. Hedges pers. comm. 2008). The combination of dogs and guns may be particularly efficient (Belden Giman pers. comm. 2008). Snaring is still very heavy outside well-secured areas, but shotguns remain the even bigger problem (Bennett et al. 2000; J. Mohd Azlan pers. comm. 2008; Siew Te Wong pers. comm. 2008). Unaccompanied packs of stray or even perhaps feral dogs are also likely to be a threat, particularly in forest isolates close to urban areas (e.g. Similajau National Park; J.W. Duckworth pers. comm. 2008). It is unlikely that hunters make any distinction between the two Bornean muntjac species directly, although it is plausible that M. muntjak is under lower hunting pressure than is M. atherodes reflecting its purported predominance in the hills and mountains (although there is little empirical evidence to support this), whereas most of the logging concessions currently lie in the lowlands. Some ethnic groups, at least the Punan, have traditional beliefs against eating muntjac meat (Belden Giman pers. comm. 2008), but over most of (at least) Malaysian Borneo, "in general, everyone will hunt and eat anything" (Bennett et al. 2000). Much hunting is for the market rather than local use, so there is a limitless demand. Bennett and Gumal (2001) profiled the hunting of ungulates in Sarawak in the mid 1990s thus: muntjacs (along with Bearded Hog Sus barbatus and Sambar Rusa unicolor) are heavily shot for wild meat trade across Sarawak, and these ungulates are the species most sought by the restaurants. Wild meat is widely sold in towns, villages, restaurants and logging camps throughout Sarawak; 250 sales outlets were estimated across the state in 1996, with an annual trade worth 3.75 million USD. Along the Rejang river alone, in the mid 1980s, 250 muntjacs were sold per year (Caldecott 1988). The market for meat is great and probably expanding. There were, then, no controls on commercial hunting of non-protected species (including muntjacs). The Master Plan for Wildlife in Sarawak (Wildlife Conservation Society and Sarawak Forest Department 1996) introduced a strict ban on all wildlife trade, shotgun ownership and cartridge sales in the late 1990s (Bennett and Gumal 2001). Substantial numbers of muntjacs are, nevertheless, still killed in the state, as they are elsewhere in Borneo.
Bennett et al. (2000) considered the effects of this onslaught upon muntjacs (not distinguished to species) through a lengthy hunting study in February 1993 to June 1995, in both Bornean states of Malaysia (Sarawak and Sabah), each with eight study areas. Muntjacs constituted only 3–10% of animals killed, but index counts of signs show an inverse relationship between sign index and hunting pressure so strong that the latter over-rode the effects of habitat variables in determining their densities. Hunting was so ubiquitous, even in protected areas, that in the two states, only one site (part of Danum Valley, Sabah) could be found as a control, where there was primary forest but negligible hunting levels. They concluded that "the only single factor offering any effective protection for [quarry species of] wildlife is difficulty of access"; whether animals are protected or non-protected species, inside or outside protected areas, had no significant restraint on hunting levels. In the interim, much forest has been lost and muntjac populations in the smaller and more isolated areas that remain must now be more vulnerable to local extinctions.
Conservation Actions:
Southern Red Muntjac is found in many protected areas throughout its range (GMA Indonesia Workshop). It is a protected game species in West Malaysia under the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972, meaning that it can be hunted only with a license and only outside protected areas (Kawanishi and Sunquist 2004). Indonesian forestry law protects all species of muntjac. Species protection laws relating to ungulates in many areas of Sumatra have not been widely publicized. A significant percentage of Sumatra's forests are protected, but protected areas and the authorities responsible for conservation of catchment forests are often under-funded and almost all are grossly understaffed so that there is little ranger presence in the field. Where there are field ranger teams, these focus generally on flagship species such as Asian Elephant Elephas maximus, Sumatran Rhinoceros Dicerorhinus sumatrensis or Tiger Panthera tigris, although Tiger protection rangers do also conduct ungulate protection activities and in 2007 three hunters arrested in the national park with two muntjacs carcasses received custodial sentences at Kerinci district court (D. Martyr pers. comm. 2008). Much of Java's remaining forest is officially protected. Heavy hunting with shotguns was found to be a severe problem for larger mammals and birds across Sarawak and the need for its control (of guns and of sale of ammunition, with firm legal underpinnings) was recognised in the Master Plan for Wildlife in Sarawak (Wildlife Conservation Society and Sarawak Forest Department 1996). As everywhere, people devise ways for circumventing the controls (illegal trade in bullets and locally made shot-guns, called bekakok, which have no administrative or legal paper-trail) and strong enforcement is required for the foreseeable future. There seem to be no species-specific conservation measures in need of implementation, above turning existing laws on protected areas and protected wildlife into reality, with a particular focus on eradicating wildlife trade.


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Hyperrealist Kit King has created an extraordinary body of work filled with realistic rendering of intense portraiture. This Ontario based artist possesses an unbelievable skill in painting, which she used to create her larger than life images of emotionally charged faces. She does not merely recreate a person's face in her paintings, but adds a focus on the moment behind the still image on what the person expresses. Many of her subjects look tormented, as their eyes appear weary, stunned, or bloodshot. The lighting King uses in her work adds a force of drama, drawing you into the transfixed gaze of the subject. She aims to spark your attention and capture a transient moment in time where one might feel the sting of these emotions.
The texture is as palpable as the complexity that is often found in the eyes of her subjects. We can almost feel the tangibly wet eyes in Kit King's paintings as well as the smoothness of the skin. Even the make up in her paintings seem to be flaking right off the canvas. Her husband Oda King also being a talented artist, she often collaborates with him on several of her paintings. Kit King explains the intentions behind her concentrated skill and focus.
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Infamous 'Hiccup Girl' Goes on Trial for Murder
The renowned 'Hiccup Girl' has a whole new set of problems to deal with these days.
Jennifer Mee, who gained national attention in 2007 after developing a condition of chronic hiccupping, is now facing murder charges in Florida.
Mee, 22, has been charged with murdering Shannon Griffin, also 22. She's accused of shooting him when two of her friends robbed him after she promised him marijuana.
A co-defendant in the case has been sentenced to life in prison, while another co-defendant has yet to go to trial.
Mee's hiccups are still prevalent and were on display when she appeared in court earlier this week. Her lawyer, John Trevena, says Mee suffers from Tourette's Syndrome, which can cause hiccups, a fact that he plans to bring up during the trial.
It won't be used as a direct cause for what occurred but it might help explain her errors in judgment and her often thoughtless response to law enforcement."
Trevena says Mee also suffers from schizophrenia. Mee has been in jail since her arrest in the case in 2010 and has been treated with the anti-psychotic drug thorazine, which, Trevena claims, "controls the hiccups."
If convicted, Mee could be sentenced to life in prison.
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For so long, the man loomed larger than life; those words – the title of this post – sound way too small.
Social philosopher, political critic, agent provocateur, contrarian par excellence: a man who spoke his mind freely, refused to suffer fools gladly, and brought the full weight of his intellect into the formation of his convictions, behind which he stood until the end. Christopher Hitchens succumbed to esophageal cancer just two days ago. He was 62 years old.
Wikipedia is cruel. No sooner had Vanity Fair released the details of his death than verbs were changed to past tense and a new date was appended to his photograph: a flourish of finality that may have even borne a trace of satisfaction. We are all of us slain by time.
What can one say about the man? He never shied from an argument. When, after a long and colourful career as commentator on the major political events of his time (during which he was most famous for having moved from the left into the neoconservative camp), he reinvented himself as a horseman of the apocalypse. After writing God is Not Great, Hitchens went on a tour of America's bible belt, engaging priests and politicians, evangelists and scholars in debate after scathing debate. It is fair to say that in the game of words, Hitchens was better armed than his opponents. I never saw him falter.
Unlike most people, Hitchens never tired of insulting those whom he despised, even after they were dead. When Jerry Falwell died (a man whom Hitchens labelled a "little toad", a "faith-based fraud"), he quipped that if he'd only been given an enema first, they could have buried him in a matchbox. While the world mourned Princess Di, Hitchens declared her a childish degenerate, whose sordid relationships and reckless behaviour got her killed. Most famously, if only because he dedicated his The Missionary Position to her, he indicted Mother Teresa as a fanatic, a friend of poverty, a fundamentalist and a fraud.
Let us therefore not spare Hitchens in his own passing. Anything for him but tired platitudes. He was rude, he was self-righteous, he was conceited. He made racist jokes, smoked cigarettes by the carton, believed women incapable of being funny, and was never without a glass of scotch. He was erudite and exceedingly eloquent. An opinionated and highly-gifted raconteur, he was born to be a public speaker, a scholar who spoke truth to power, and in many ways a genius. He was witty, he was forceful, and he was proud. Most importantly, about so many of the issues to which he lent his tongue and his pen, he was right.
Israeli poet, Yehuda Amichai, composed a variation on the El Male Rachamim (אל מלא רחמים, "God full of mercy"): a prayer, traditionally recited at Jewish funerals. Whether it is perfectly or imperfectly suited to the passing of Christopher Hitchens, I leave up to you. My faulty translation does not in any way reflect the beauty and the cleverness of the original.
אל מלא רחמים
אל מלא רחמים
אלמלא האל מלא רחמים
היו הרחמים בעולם ולא רק בו
אני, שקטפתי פרחים בהר
והסתכלתי אל כל העמקים
אני, שהבאתי גוויות מן הגבעות
יודע לספר שהעולם ריק מרחמים
אני שהייתי מלך המלח ליד הים
שעמדתי בלי החלטה מול חלוני
שספרתי צעדי מלאכים
שלבי הרים משקלות כאב
בתחרויות הנוראות
אני שמשתמש רק בחלק קטן
מן המילים במלון
אני, שמוכרח לפתור חידות בעל כורחי
יודע כי אלמלא האל מלא רחמים
היו הרחמים בעולם
ולא רק בו
God, Full of Mercy
God full of mercy,
If only God were not full of mercy,
There would be mercy in the world and not just in him.
I, who plucked flowers on the mountain,
Who gazed out over all of the valleys,
I, who brought corpses from the hilltops,
I can tell you that the world is void of mercy.
I, who was the king of salt beside the sea,
Who stood against my will before my window,
Who counted the footsteps of angels,
Whose heart lifted weights of anguish
In dreadful contests.
I, who use but a tiny portion
Of the words in the dictionary.
I, who am forced to decipher riddles,
I know that if only God were not full of mercy
There would be mercy in the world
And not just in him.
To a man who declared himself, not an atheist but an anti-theist, a man who believed the very notion of God to be inherently evil, who never despaired of the fact that death was to be nothing more nor less than what the naked logic dictates – a man for whom the very notion of a "deathbed confession" would be a slanderous insult – I wish him, in the strictly etymological sense,
Requiescat In Pace
ינוח בשלום על משכבו
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Afghan
president on Saturday approved a new
law governing next year's presidential
and provincial elections, an important
step toward a smooth transition of
power in 2014 and the final withdrawal
of all remaining foreign combat forces
from the country.
Hamid Karzai's office said he signed a
decree endorsing the law, which defines
the legal framework for the elections
and which was approved by parliament
earlier this week.
The law is supported by Afghanistan's
international sponsors and Karzai's
approval was widely expected. Foreign
donors have made holding free and
transparent elections a key requirement
for their continued funding.
In early July, representatives from 40
countries reaffirmed pledges of $16
billion in support for Afghanistan, but
cited the approval of two new election
laws as a condition.
Last week, Karzai approved another law
defining the role and structure of the
country's electoral watchdog and
election commission. The two laws had
been debated in parliament for months
and were finally given the green light
by a joint commission made up of
Afghanistan's upper and lower house.
The balloting for a new president and
council members for Afghanistan's 34
provinces will be held April 5. Under
the new law, candidates have to submit
nominations for the presidential
election on Sept. 16.
Karzai, whose second five-year term
ends next year, cannot seek a third term
under the law. There have been worries
that he could delay the laws, either to
postpone the election in order to extend
his term in office, or to have the polls
on his own terms.
The European Union's ambassador to
Afghanistan, Vygaudas Usackas, said the
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future into their own hands.
"I am confident that President Karzai as
a statesman of his nation will do
everything possible to ensure a peaceful
transfer of power in 2014 through
inclusive and transparent elections,"
said Usackas, who had strongly lobbied
both Karzai and the parliament to
approve the legislation.
Karzai, who has the power to reject
legislation, has expressed no interest in
a third term, insisting he wants to retire
after the elections. But it still remains
unclear if he may seek to promote his
own candidate, including a brother who
is active in politics.
"We are encouraged by the adoption of
the law," said Nader Nadery, founder
and chairman of the Fair and Free
Elections Foundation of Afghanistan, a
local watchdog.
Nadery said the new law "is going to
provide a better base than the previous
legal structure" in place during the 2009
presidential elections.
Karzai's re-election was marred by
widespread allegations of corruption,
vote tampering and election fraud. He
denied the charges but the acrimonious
aftermath tainted his relationship with
the West and the United States.
The U.S. was one of Karzai's most vocal
critics and has been dealing with the
aftermath of the 2009 vote to this day.
Much of Karzai's bitterness and testy
relations with America is thought to
stem from his expressed belief that
Washington somehow sought to
engineer his loss in the polls.
Afghanistan's international financial
and military backers have said a smooth
transition during the presidential
election is necessary to ensure the
country's stability once all foreign
combat troops leave by the end of 2014.
NATO handed over the lead for security
around the country to Afghan forces last
June, as part of a phased withdrawal of
foreign troops over the next year and a
The handover paved the way for the
departure of coalition forces —
currently numbering about 100,000
troops from 48 countries, including
66,000 Americans.
By the end of the year, the NATO forces
will be halved. At the end of 2014, all
combat troops will have left and will be
replaced, if approved by the Afghan
government, by a much smaller force
that will only train and advise the
But violence has not abated around the
country and the Taliban and other
insurgents, emboldened by the
withdrawal, have increased attacks
against Afghan security forces,
especially in places where coalition
forces have already withdrawn.
A wave of bombings late Friday in
southern Afghanistan killed 15 people,
including six members of the country's
security services, said Omar Zwak, a
spokesman for the governor of Helmand
The most deadly of the attacks was
when five members of the Afghan
intelligence service and a policeman
died when their vehicle hit a roadside
bomb in the Sangin district, Zwak said
on Saturday. Deputy head of Sangin's
intelligence service was among those
killed in the explosion.
Helmand police spokesman Shamim
Noorzia said three other bombings
killed six civilians and two police
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Utah's Medicaid overhaul has hit a snag.
The state's Office of the Inspector General is pressing to delay contract negotiations with four managed care groups that, starting in January 2013, will oversee care for 70 percent of the 252,000 Utahns on Medicaid. The experiment is intended to boost the quality of care and save taxpayers $770 million over seven years.
Whether those gains are realized rests on the strength of agreements struck with Intermountain Healthcare, University of Utah Health Sciences, Molina and IASIS, argued Inspector General Lee Wyckoff in an Aug. 2 memo to the state Department of Health.
"At this time," said Wyckoff, those agreements "lack proper controls."
The memo, obtained through a public records request, suggests putting contracts on hold until health officials:
• Perform a financial analysis of what the state expects to reap from its $600 million investment.
• Set a timeline for implementing the so-called "Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)" and a back-up plan if goals aren't met.
• Come up with adequate measures to judge performance.
• And define "a clear mechanism" for the Inspector General to recoup misspent funds.
Wyckoff has no authority to stop the contracts, though his concerns are shared by Ron Bigelow, Executive Director of the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget. Bigelow met with health officials on Wednesday and gave them the go-ahead to release draft contracts to the managed care plans for review.
The documents are merely a starting point for five months of negotiation, said Utah Medicaid Director Michael Hales, stressing his willingness to work with Wyckoff to resolve problems. The contracts will be fine-tuned, and if endorsed by all parties, take effect Jan. 1, 2013.
Backed by health industry chieftains and unanimously approved by the Legislature, the Medicaid overhaul was pitched as a way to preserve Utah's low-income health safety net, which is set to explode in size under federal health reform.
It envisions steering Medicaid patients into ACOs, managed care networks that would be paid lump monthly sums per patient. If an ACO spends more than allotted for care and prescription drugs, it absorbs the loss. If it spends less, it gets a share of the leftovers similar to old HMOs of the '90s.
"We're devising a system where fraud, waste and abuse is less likely to occur," said Rep. Dean Sanpei, R-Provo, explaining there will no longer be an incentive for providers to order unnecessary tests or to overcharge for their services.
One of the sponsors of legislation to create the ACOs, Sanpei is also Vice President for Strategic Planning and Development for Intermountain Healthcare. Speaking Thursday as a policy maker, and not on behalf of Intermountain, he stressed the urgency of "building a better mousetrap."
In the past, the only way to curb Medicaid spending was to pare benefits or cut provider reimbursement, Sanpei said. "We said there's got to be a better way to control costs without compromising quality and access to care."
The savings come from limiting inflation; funding for the ACO's can't grow faster than the state's budget.
To guard against ACOs going over budget and rationing care, which happened with HMOs, the Health Department the authority to fine them and withhold future funding.
But consumer advocates say quality measures in place aren't strong enough. "They're either the same measures we have now, which are meaningless, or they're left to the ACO's to develop in isolation," making it impossible to compare one ACO with another, said Judi Hilman, Executive Director of the Utah Health Policy Project.
Of special worry to the Inspector General is the risk of ACOs gaming the system.
Though paid flat, up front rates, ACOs that wind up with older, sicker patients will be paid more than those with younger, healthier patients. So, to get more money, providers need only raise the severity of patient diagnoses the equivalent of overbilling, only there are no bills for the Inspector General to review.
"That's a valid concern," said Dunnigan. "[Wyckoff] needs to have the ability to audit the plans and recover money for the state."
For now the plan is to have the ACOs police and recover overpayments from their own providers. "Then they'll settle with us," said Hales.
An alternative would be to set up a system for the Inspector General to impose fines.
"It remains a sticking point," said Dunnigan.
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Rihanna Walks Out of Interview After Being Asked About Her Love Life
Rihanna makes headlines as much for her personal life as she does for her work, if not more — but that doesn't mean she likes it. When an interviewer on an Australian morning show asked the 'We Found Love' a relatively innocuous question, the singer abruptly got up and walked out.
In Sydney to promote her upcoming film, 'Battleship,' Rihanna was relatively warm and open at first. She admitted that she wasn't feeling well the night before and was more than happy to gush about her aliens-in-the-ocean flick, as well as potentially portraying Whitney Houston. However, things got ugly fast when host Natalie Barr asked RiRi about the rumors regarding her love life.
The show pointed out (not during the interview) that Rihanna's ex — and possible current hookup — Chris Brown was also in Australia, and Barr asked Rihanna, "You talked recently about how difficult it is finding love in general. How frustrating is it when you're linked to another Hollywood star even if you've barely met them?" This was a pretty softball question and didn't delve into any specifics. It sounded like the journo was merely asking Rihanna more so about the difficulties that come with superstardom — but then again, it could have been an indirect way of addressing the Ashton Kutcher rumors. So what did Rihanna say?
With a slight eye roll, scowl and suck of her teeth, Rihanna replied curtly, "Very frustrating." She smirked and added, "Almost as frustrating as being asked about it." Barr then asked, "You don't like going there?" Rihanna answered with a question of her own: "I mean, what's the point?" Yikes!
Barr replied, "Well, people are interested in you because you're a big star." Rihanna remained unmoved and a bit snide. "They are! They're interested in a lot of things that don't matter or shouldn't matter."
The interview ended right there. While we don't see footage of RiRi walking out, the show revealed that that's what went down. Barr revealed that in film press tours, "They manage those interviews. If you ask nice questions about the movie, that's fine, but if you venture into personal territory, they don't like it." Fair enough, but if Barr knew that going in, why would she bother?
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Almost everything about these sites is fake," said David Vladeck, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. "The weight loss results, the so-called investigations, the reporters, the consumer testimonials, and the attempt to portray an objective, journalistic endeavor."
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- This winter made it especially tough on homeowners to find places to put all that snow. We got to a point where many were shoveling it into piles higher than their heads, or maybe even onto their neighbor's property. Department of Public Works Assistant Street Superintendent Tony Gilman saw plenty of that this year."This is a recurring problem," Gilman said. "It happens often. But with the amount of snow we had, I would say the complaints this year have doubled or tripled. Occationally we'll get someone really upset, but most people are really decent about it. They just want to know how they can correct it." Correcting that problem should be even clearer now. The Public Works committee added language to the city ordinance. Now, it says homeowners can only put snow specifically on their property. It also reinforces that snow cannot block views for traffic or sidewalks. Gilman thinks these changes should be nothing new for most people."Be courteous to them," Gilman said. "If you put it out, don't put it on their property and then they have to clean it up. I try to get the neighbors to work together. Luckily, they do a pretty good job and we don't have to get involved."If you're caught breaking this ordinance, you could get slapped with a $50 fine. If crews have to come clear the snow, you'll be charged a minimum fee of $193.85.
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European Commission
Brussels, 10 September 2013
Statement by Commissioner Michel Barnier on the endorsement by the European Parliament of the political agreement on new European rules for market abuse
I welcome the political agreement with Council on the Market Abuse Regulation that Parliament has endorsed today, which will establish tougher rules to better prevent, detect and punish market abuse. With this agreement, the European Parliament has made a decisive contribution to the fight against insider dealing and market manipulation.
I would particularly like to thank the rapporteur Arlene McCarthy (see EP press release) and all the shadow rapporteurs, and to acknowledge the hard work of the Irish Presidency that made this agreement possible and the great contribution of the Polish, Danish and Cypriot Presidencies to this positive outcome.
With the agreement, the rules will be extended to capture abuse on the electronic trading platforms that have proliferated in recent years. Abusive strategies through high frequency trading will be clearly prohibited. Those who manipulate benchmarks such as LIBOR will be guilty of market abuse and face tough fines. Market abuse occurring across both commodity and related derivative markets will be prohibited, and cooperation between financial and commodity regulators will be reinforced.
Furthermore, the deterrent effect of the legislation will be far greater than today, with the possibility of fines at least up to three times the profit made from market abuse, or at least 15% of turnover for companies. Member-States could decide to go beyond this minimum.
The explicit link between several key elements of the Market Abuse Regulation and our MIFID 2 proposals requires the alignment of these initiatives. At the same time, along with my colleague Viviane Reding, I look forward to working with the Lithuanian Presidency and the European Parliament to conclude a trilogue agreement on the Directive on criminal sanctions for market abuse, so that the package can enter into force, along with the MIFID 2 proposals, once those negotiations have been successfully concluded.
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