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The Cato group advocating taking a page from Lenin to dismantle (er, I mean privatize) Social Security is even more eyebrow raising. What is especially fascinating about it is the era (early 80's) and how it proposes accomplishing it: employing the FIRE economy giants to form a coalition that would "educate" people about the "evils" of the program so that they can collect a buck for themselves. I noted one part where it suggests not angering the elderly, due to their voting power, by letting them stay on the program if they're on it. I can see a lot of the Ryan plan in the paper....which just goes to show how long some of these plans are worked on. Definitely long term thinking.
Those are the types of benefits and complications of legal marriage. Not what part of what genital goes where.
This year will be interesting though, since no politicians are allowed to speak during the ceremonies.
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What really bothers me about the 9/11 attacks is that they should have never happened. I remember watching a program and some guy was talking about how he and others that help with national security by monitoring threats had known about an Al Qaeda plot lead by Osama Bin Laden, and they specifically knew that they wanted to hijack planes and fly them into the World Trade Center buildings, as well as hijack other planes and fly them into other targets. This man knew about these attacks almost exactly 2 months before the 9/11 attacks happened and he notified top authorities in the government, Bush administration officials, and he tried to come into contact with president Bush, and government officials were blowing him off and telling him to, essentially, 'shut up and stop causing a ruckus', and never let him contact the president. He was telling these things on camera and you could tell he was frustrated as he told these things. And some people on the right have the nerve to blame president Clinton for 9/11 for never hunting down Osama Bin Laden...
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The really noteworthy thing however is that Romney's attacks are demonstrably factually untrue. He went on air criticizing Obama before he actually SAID ANYTHING AT ALL. Romney based the attacks on a twitter message (!) sent out by someone at the Cairo embassy.
The Romney campaign is now so desperate in their efforts that they're now not only fabricating and spreading lies (remember the famous "we won't have fact-checkers dictate how to run our campaign" statement?), they started bashing Obama based on something which they invented themselves.
Let me speak frankly:
Dear Americans. If you elect these rotten pieces of human garbage regardless of all this, you deserve whatever catastrophe will unquestionably follow. Please spare the world this ordeal. Thank you.
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Actualy, some think than Romney's reaction might get him even more backlash.
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Right now the story is that an Arabic-dub made few days ago found it's way to some Egyptian Hosts who aired on their network to fan the flame for this incident. The idiots behind the movie went on overdrive to promote this crap at around this time as US nears its election. Apparently one of the biggest promoter of the movie is Terry Jones. The guy who made it supposed to be an Israeli-American who goes by the name of Sam Bacile. Israel says they can't ID the man from their citizen database, so they think he is using an alias or just another home-grown idiot like Terry Jones who incited other idiots. They were looking for a reaction. Well, they succeeded. Unfortunately, people who has nothing to do with any of this paid the ultimate price.
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Holy shit. This morning I was thinking "Why would a Jewish person in America make this anti-Islam movie and promote it heavily? Now thanks to him, some people died and some more will likely die from it". But yeah, okay, now it is definitely most likely that some white, Christian guy made the film. That he tried to make it look like a Jewish person made it and caused unrest in the middle east...just so bad. It is all very bad. I can't believe some of the people in my country. The people who made the film deserve all the suffering that'll ever come their way; for creating and promoting something they knew would lead to deaths, all the while trying to frame Jewish people. Some anti-Semitic, Islamiphobe jerkwad better pay for this!
If you think about it, many people in the middle east probably think a native of Israel made the film and the facts won't get sorted out for so many of them for some time, so there is a good chance that their could be terrorist attacks in Israel as a direct result of this film and the misconception of who made it. Yeah, let the people who made that film and promoted it suffer!
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I'll wait to see who actually made the film, but knowing how some of the Christian fundamentalists in my country are (such as Terry Jones), I wouldn't be surprised if it was a Christian fundamentalist who made the film.
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I don't care *what* anyone says about *any* religion. There is simply no justification at all for responding with violence. The only result is that I end up "respecting" that religion even less and think it more deserving of the spotlight of analysis. People who care about their religion, whatever it may be, need to step up to the plate and stop these hooligans, wingnuts, and wastes of protein.
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The BBC suggests that this assault and murder is possibly a terrorist act by a young Libyan Islamist group, Ansar al-Sharia. ABC Today, meanwhile, quoted a Washington Institute academic who blamed Salafists (which he might have considered Ansar al-Sharia as one) and suggested that it was planned before the provocative film trailer was even released. That this incident occurred "in time" for the 9/11 date thus may be of no coincidence. The same article noted that the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood -- the ruling party of Egypt's new democracy -- belatedly condemned the violence but refused to back down on the planned protests over the films in Egypt. Egypt's Morsi had earlier called for the US to punish the filmmakers, but this was before the Benghazi incident. He has yet to release any statements regarding the incident itself. He will have to negotiate the narrow line between dangerously insulting the USA so early in his international career and alienating the extremists within his own party.
Time, however, considered the film a key catalyst of the crisis. Naturally, neither "side" have the right impression of each other; apparently quite a few of the protestors believed that the American government had something to do with the film itself.
The President demanded justice. Libya's leaders were quick to apologize, condemn the attack and promised to deliver, though "we expect the rest of the world to help us face this cowardly acts." In other words, with Libya's own government divided and Benghazi formerly a center of the revolution, justice will be difficult.
This will be an important test in regards to American-Middle Eastern relations in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. In truth, many feared and expected this kind of incident to flare up; some dismissed the very legitimacy of the Arab Spring during the heights of the revolutions and urged repression in favor of pro-US military dictators, and they will say we told you so. I, however, think differently. Justice must be done, Islamist extremists must be marginalized, but democracy must move forward in the Middle East and the USA must not become an enemy force, a force of repression, it must not capitulate to its own extremists such as the ones which made this film if future generations are to have hope for a new kind of relationship that is fundamentally different from today's blind hatreds. I trust the President to handle this correctly and lay the seeds of peace.
I care not for the filmmakers or what they have to say, their hate has led to murder but murder they did not commit. And to pay tribute to hate with hate in turn is precisely why such an attack occurred.
In any case, this is the official statement from Secretary of State Clinton: "a small and savage group, not the country and the people of Libya."
...Mr. Romney can shut the fuck up.
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@Irenicus: So it looks like things are jumbled up. We don't know to which degree this controversial film has affected the incident in Libya, if at all. I'm still mad at the people who made and promoted the film, though. It will probably lead to the death of innocents, nonetheless.
Annnd...of course, if people are killed by angry Muslims because of the controversial film, the angry Muslims are never to be let off the hook. It always angers me when Muslims kill when their religion is insulted, Mohammed is insulted, or a Qu'ran is damaged or desecrated. They look like the biggest babies in the world when they kill over insults. You know what people usually do when their religion or the central person of their religion is disrespected? They deal with it and move on! If the Torah or Bible is burnt, Jews and Christians don't like that, but they don't gather together in angry mobs and murder people over it. And mean, my God, those people need to get a grip, put on their 'big boy pants', deal with things, and drop it and move on right away. Insulting Islam and Mohammed and damaging or desecrating Qu'rans is disrespectful, but killing people in reaction to those things is just some serious injustice.
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I've got a grandfathered, unlimited data plan. AT&T says it will throttle LTE users after they hit 5 GB, and if my usage pattern doesn't change in the next 3 weeks, I'm likely to hit that wall. We'll see then just what throttled AT&T LTE feels like.
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- The Founder's Constitution is the online version of a five-volume text on the historical context of the U.S.Constitution. It has primary materials from the Founding Fathers, including letters sent amongst themselves, records of debates or meetings, and contemporary law cases. I especially relied on the materials found in the sections, "Rights," "Republican Government,""Right of Revolution,""Popular Basis of Political Authority," "Equality," "Property," and "Epilogue: Securing the Republic."
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"Taking their growth and others' pain, it's not inconceivable to see them cracking into higher ground in the foreseeable future," said NPD music and movies industry analyst Russ Crupnick.
But Apple still have a long way to go before being a true giant in terms of sales. By year's end, we expect to see only 5 percent of all music sales coming from online sources, with roughly 3.5% of that belonging to Apple. That means that traditional brick and mortar businesses, alongside Internet businesses like Amazon who sell CDs online, are still effectively running the show.
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Never play hide-and-seek in a haunted house. Isn't that one of those motherisms handed down at the same time as "Look both ways before crossing the street" and "Don't swim after eating"?
But kids will be kids, especially in the movies. And even though the house looks vaguely Amityville-ish, a "Let's sneak into the old morgue" moment or two turns up in The Haunting in Connecticut, an Amityville Horror variation "based on the true story."
In 1987, a struggling extended family is dealing with one member's cancer. Matt (Kyle Gallner) is the teenage son knocking on death's door. Only an experimental program at a hospital across state lines gives him any hope. But Mom (Virginia Madsen) won't put him through those long road trips. She rents a big house, a former mortuary, that she gets a deal on. Dad (Martin Donovan) is still in the doghouse over his drinking days, so it's her call.
What does Matt do when he tours the ancient funeral home? He moves his mattress to the basement. When you're close to death, you know no fear. But that thesis gets a serious workout from the get-go as the boy begins to hallucinate: He sees dead people. It's as if he's a participant in the séances he sees these dead folk carrying out.
Nobody but Matt sees the apparitions. So when the other kids (Amanda Crew plays a cousin they've taken in) move in, they don't know anything's wrong. Matt is sick and getting sicker. His treatment, which will end if he tells the doctors he is seeing things, is making him see things, or so everybody believes.
If you've seen any of the Amity ville Horror movies, you know the arc of the story. Nobody believes in ghosts but one guy. There's a holy man (Elias Koteas) who senses the evil in the house but whose warnings might not be enough. Then one bang-up night all hell breaks loose.
These movies live and die on their "gotcha" moments, and Haunting has a few dandies — a dark presence glimpsed in a mirror or in flashes of light in total darkness. Director Peter Cornwell did the creepy clay-animated Ward 13 short that was a film-festival favorite in 2004. It is glimpsed, on TV, in this 1987-set thriller. The writers, "true story" or not, were plainly recycling Amityville story structure. So credit editor Tom Elkins with the scares that work.
And the cast. As with The Last House on the Left, this latest film fright sinks or swims with the actors. Gallner makes a very convincing boy about to die; Madsen is his properly stricken mom; and Donovan, an under-used leading man, plays the stressed, guilt-ridden dad well.
The title is The Haunting in Connecticut, not The Stabbing or Hatcheting or Butchering With a Machete, so it won't appeal to the hard-core gore crowd. But it has plenty of creep-you-out potential for kids just discovering big-screen horror. For grown-ups, here's another reason to hunt and hunt for an honest real estate agent before making that big decision about where to live.


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announces the auction of an exceptional selection of Pop Art masterpieces at its Post-War and Contemporary Sale on November 8, 2011. The constellation of major works to be offered will include stars such as Roy Lichtenstein's I Can See the Whole Room and There's Nobody in It!, Andy Warhol's Silver Liz and Four Campbell's Soup Cans and Gerhard Richter's Frau Niepenberg. Works by all three of these artists have previously set world auction records at Christie's, a leader in Pop Art sales.
Pop Art speaks to the global market as exciting and visually stunning stimulation. Christie's is putting together one of the great iconic groupings of work by Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and Gerhard Richter from the nineteen-sixties, declared Brett Gorvy, Chairman and International Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art.
I Can See the Whole Room and There's Nobody in It!, one of the earliest and most important of Lichtenstein's Pop Art pictures, is estimated at $35,000,000 to $45,000,000. Formerly in the collection of the legendary Emily and Burton Tremaine, this picture has been exhibited and published widely, in part because it so perfectly encapsulates the wisdom and wit of Lichtenstein's greatest works, investigating the concepts and processes of painting through the use of popular imagery.
Painted in 1961, I Can See the Whole Room and There's Nobody in It! depicts a man's face peering through a speakeasy-style peephole into the realm of the viewer. Dating from the same year as Lichtenstein's first true comic-strip painting, Look Mickey, the work conveys the excitement of a moment of great discovery, when the artist found he could explore the deep formal possibilities and paradoxes of modern abstraction through the surface play of the print media. Lichtenstein based this painting on a picture by William Overgard for the comic strip Steve Roper, an appropriation of which Overgard became aware when I Can See the Whole Room and There's Nobody in It! was featured in one of the earliest and most important exhibitions of Pop Art, Six Painters and the Object, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1963. On that occasion, Overgard wrote to TIME magazine, saying that it was, Very flattering I think? In the years since, the work has come to be seen as an essential cornerstone in the history of Pop Art.
Andy Warhol's pictures of Campbell's Soup Cans are among the indisputable icons of the twentieth century. Dating from 1962, Four Campbell's Soup Cans is a unique, hand-painted picture that predates the use of the silkscreen process that would revolutionize Warhol"s output later the same year (estimate $7,000,000-10,000,000). Of the sixty or so pictures of soup cans that Warhol created during the early 1960s, many of which are now in museum collections, a large number were made using processes that allowed for the repetition of the image. However, Four Campbell's Soup Cans forms part of a separate group of works that were based on photographs taken by Warhol's friend Edward Wallowitch. Within that limited group, only two pictures aside from Four Campbell's Soup Cans showed multiple cans, making this work all the rarer.
To create Four Campbell's Soup Cans, Warhol projected Wallowitch's photograph and then carefully rendered it in paint. He banished any sense of shade or shadow, creating a fascinating tension between the clearly photographic origin of the work and the flat fields of color of both the background and the red labels. In a work that was still hand-painted, he wryly undermined the cult of the brushstroke that had fuelled so much of Modernism.
The Silver Liz paintings that Andy Warhol made in the summer of 1963 are among the defining icons of his oeuvre. Representing the culmination of several series of portraits of Elizabeth Taylor made in the early 1960s, these definitive icons of an icon rank among the most resonant, enduring and unforgettable pictorial statements of his art (estimate $16,000,000 to $18,000,000).
Of all the stars that Andy Warhol knew and painted, he seems to have held Elizabeth Taylor in especially high regard, seeing her throughout his life as the absolute epitome of glamour. When later in his life Warhol met Taylor, growing to become friends with her in the late 1970s and '80s, he was famously heard to quip that if there was an afterlife, he would like to be reincarnated as a big ring on her finger. She was included in his pantheon of death and disaster of the early 1960s because of her recent brush with death, when suffering from pneumonia she had to undergo an emergency tracheotomy. As Warhol later explained, he also did movie stars - Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Troy Donahue - during my death" period (because)... Marilyn Monroe died then. I felt that Elizabeth Taylor was going to die too, after her operation. His return to her image in the Silver Liz of the summer of 1963 marked a distinct contrast to these earlier, more morbid and biographically orientated images. I started (the first portraits of Taylor) a long time ago Warhol told an interviewer in the autumn of 1963, when she was so sick and everybody thought she was going to die. Now I"m doing them all over, putting bright colors on her lips and eyes.
The choice of color for the background was obvious. Not only was silver symbolic of the silver screen, but in the summer of 1963 silver was also the color of the moment. Silver was the future, it was spacy, Warhol remembered. The astronauts wore silver suits, Shepherd, Grissom and Glenn had already been up in them, and their equipment was silver too. It was in 1963 that Warhol sported silver hair, and when his studio first became the Silver Factory.
Frau Niepenberg, painted in 1965, is one of the most dramatic and deliberately enigmatic works from the increasingly ambiguous series of photo-paintings that Gerhard Richter made throughout the mid-1960s (estimate $7,000,000 to $10,000,000). Painted in the last months of 1965, it is one of a series of fictitious, even misleading images drawn from photographic sources that Richter constructed with meticulous and mock-mechanical precision.
One of Richter"s ambitions in simulating photography in his work was to claim for painting the same sense of authority, authenticity and objectivity that is implicit in a photograph. I"m not trying to imitate a photograph, Richter famously said of his 1960s photo-paintings, I"m trying to make one, recognizing that, although a photograph gives a far from true picture of reality, it does have fascinating pictorial qualities of its own qualities that he believed could benefit the very different nature of painting. I was able to see... (the photograph) ...as a picture which conveyed a different aspect to me, without all those conventional criteria which I formerly attached to art. There was no style, no composition, no judgment. It liberated me from personal experience. There was nothing but a pure picture.
I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant, he continued. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or craftsmanlike but technological, smooth and perfect. I blur things to make all the parts a closer fit. Perhaps I also blur out of the excess of unimportant information. The faux-mechanical nature of Richter"s blurring was, he has said, something that may have derived from the inspiration of American Pop artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol.
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Good idea re this thread, and thanks for all your thoughts.
Judging by the poll results, it's save to say this will definately continue in future.
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Judging by the poll results, it's save to say this will definately continue in future.
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Ha, Ive just noticed my vote in the poll is for failure. I could have sworn I voted the other way. At least I thought I did.
Count mine as a vote for success with the comments made in my previous post.
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Although I'm new here I'd say it has worked well.
worked real well.
Definitely a success on the whole. At times it was annoying to go into a separate subforum simply to cover all of the ongoing cricket, but this concept prevented CC from being clogged up. Furthermore, it organized posts successfully and made sure no one got lost in a sea of posts in a single Ashes thread. The idea to split up the five tests was good in some ways (well organized posts) but it wasn't exactly a resounding success.
Of course it was a success. I didn't clog up Cricket Chat and look how many threads we've had in here....
Definitely a good thing. My only gripe is that the most recently used threads didn't appear on the homepage of CW though, so I had to click a few extra times to find the Ashes stuff. Being terminally lazy, this was an issue for me.
I think the situation would have been fascinating if we could only have thought of the concept prior to 2005. Because the truth of the matter is that there would be all sorts of threads in addition to the posts in the *Official* series thread in a sub-forum for said series.
One thing I'd suggest - I'm sure I'm not the first - would it not be better to have -insert series- forum as a CC-internal subforum rather than a CC-external subforum (I'll expand on that if no-one's got a clue what I mean there)
EDIT: aha, Pete's just said the same thing in the post below the one I just quoted from...
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Sen. Jerry Moran held his 1,000th town hall meeting and pancake feed last week at the Marion Community Center Ballroom.
The meeting was well attended by county leaders from County Commissioner Dan Holub, mayors Mary Olson of Marion and Delores Dalke of Hillsboro, Tabor College President Jules Glanzer, State Rep. John Barker and his wife, along with residents from Salina to Junction City, as well as Marion County.
Moran spoke about his history and reason for becoming a senator, and reason for having his first town hall meeting in Marion.
"The editor of your newspaper, Bill Meyer, brought me here and took me under his wing," Moran said.
Eighteen years and 1,000 meetings later, residents of Marion County once again brought up their issues, thank yous, and grievances to Moran.
Several Marion-Florence High School students also attended the meeting. Government and social studies teacher Jeff McMillin brought 11 students ranging from freshmen to seniors to help prepare them for next semester's government classes.
"We're getting ready to transition into government next semester, and I thought the event would familiarize them with the democratic process and give them an opportunity to meet a state representative," McMillin said.
McMillin said he thought most students left the town hall feeling pretty confused, but he thought the knowledge will be invaluable to them as they study government.
"They really enjoyed the pancakes," he said. "They said they enjoyed the discussion, but some of the issues facing Congress currently confuse them, same with the procedures."
Freshman Phoebe Hett said she liked Moran's talk and found it very informative.
Moran said because he spends his weeks in Washington D.C., and weekends and breaks in Kansas, he has time to conduct town hall meetings all over the state and get out and talk to people about issues that affect them.
"Washington will change the way you think," he said. "It will kind of mess you up. That's why I travel back and forth from Kansas to D.C. every week.
"I think it's important to get constituent input. I think that's how democracy should work. I base a lot of my D.C. decision on talks like these," he said. "So give me your questions, complaints, marching orders, instructions."
Several residents asked questions about the Affordable Care Act, immigration, and government shutdowns.
Barker asked Moran what the recent changes in senate rules — regarding filibusters of presidential appointments — would do to the decision making process in Washington. Peggy Blackman, Marion Reservoir Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy coordinator, said she wanted to bring to Moran's attention how important the Clean Water Bill 319 was in her efforts to solve the reservoir's blue-green algae problem.
"Message received," Moran said.
Deanna Klenda of Marion gave Moran her brother's bracelet. Her brother is currently listed as MIA from the Vietnam war. Efforts to look for her brother's remains were scheduled to take place this year, but due to the government shutdown, they were pushed back until next year.
"It's become much more difficult in D.C.," he said.
"We still have a great way of life and if we don't protect it we could lose it," Moran said. "We're creating a huge problem for younger generations."
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Thank you for your interest in Catholic University's 2018 International Human Rights Summer Law Program in Rome. I hope that our website answers any questions you may have about the program, and that you will feel free to contact me or any of the program staff if you have any additional questions as you consider participating in our program.
This program was founded in 2010 and offered for the first time in 2011. It is an exciting opportunity to explore essential questions of human rights law in a beautiful city that has played a central role in religion, history, art and culture for millennia. Rome is a perfect setting for considering some of the most pressing legal and moral questions of our times!
Throughout history, some of the most profound questions facing each generation have revolved around questions of human rights -- and their correlative responsibilities. The nature of these rights, their source, and their scope are among the most important questions of the social order. Sadly, both historically and in our present time, there is no shortage of examples of the violation of human rights and disrespect for human dignity, particularly with respect to those who are the most vulnerable. Fortunately, however, it has also been my observation that there are many willing to dedicate their professional careers, talents and energy to the preservation of and protection of human rights and dignity in our fragile world.
This is a task that, in a particular way, falls to lawyers whose special training and knowledge allows them to work in and with the institutions and legal authorities that can protect, promote and clearly articulate fundamental human rights. It is also a task that lies very close to the heart of the mission of Catholic University's Columbus School of Law, which includes a core commitment to the ideals of the dignity of each human person; respect for the inviability of all human life; justice rooted in the common good; the recognition and protection of human rights as gifts of the Creator; care for the poor, the neglected, and the vulnerable; and the obligation of love for one another.
Whether your long-term interest lies in a career in human rights law, or whether you seek the opportunity to study these questions for the first time, I hope to see you in Rome next summer!
Professor Lucia A. Silecchia
Director, International Human Rights Summer Law Program in Rome
The Catholic University of America


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Gareth Bale hat-trick helps Tottenham to a 4-0 Premier League win over Aston Villa
Gareth Bale's stunning second-half hat-trick helped Tottenham to cruise to a 4-0 victory against Aston Villa.
Last Updated: 26/12/12 11:14pm
Despite dominating the opening 45 minutes, it took until the 57th minute before Jermain Defoe opened the scoring for Spurs.
Wales international Bale then took over with three goals in just 23 minutes to lift the north Londoners back into fourth position in the Premier League after their fifth win in their last seven.
Villa, meanwhile, set an unwanted record of their own having now conceded 12 goals in just two matches and they remain in 16th position.
Spurs went close early on when Bale saw a curling effort from outside the box kept out by a fine diving save from Brad Guzan, who was in inspirational form for the hosts in the first half.
Emmanuel Adebayor then nodded a Bale corner goalwards, with Guzan just managing to hold on to the ball.
Villa threatened towards the end of the half as Matthew Lowton delivered a ball that the sliding Brett Holman could not finish at the far post.
There were some encouraging signs for the home side in the opening minutes after the restart, albeit with Lowton ballooning a shot off-target and Christian Benteke being flagged offside as he brought a fine save out of Hugo Lloris.
The Villa fans' mood soon darkened as Spurs went ahead in the 57th minute when Defoe nut-megged Guzan to register his 14th goal of the season after a sumptuous through-ball by Kyle Naughton.
Bale then stole the show, netting in the 61st, 73rd and 84th minutes to take his own tally for the campaign to 10.
He took his first calmly following a counter-attack which he finished off by rounding Guzan and prodding home from close range.
It took a further 12 minutes for Bale to grab another goal and effectively end the game as a contest, the Welshman collecting Aaron Lennon's pass in the box and dispatching it into the bottom corner.
He then completed his treble with six minutes of normal time remaining, sending the ball into the roof of the net from substitute Gylfi Sigurdsson's delightful tee-up.


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Felicia White of Hillsboro is on a mission: to teach her children about gardening.
"I want them to learn that they can grow what they eat," she said.
White is just one of the homeschooling mothers across the nation who plans to plant a garden this year to fulfill science subject requirements. While there is still snow on the ground, White believes it is important to get a garden started early, in order to extend the growing season. Last week, White bought all the supplies she thought she needed — soil, seeds and a watering can — but she forgot one important element: pots.
She didn't know what she was going to do. Her children were excited to plant their gardens — and she was determined that she was going to make that happen. She looked for flower pots, but couldn't find any that she was interested in. That's when it came to her: they could start their plants in eggshells. So she ventured out to Carlsons' Grocery in Marion where they had an ample supply of eggs available.
"It's a perfect solution," she said. "This way I don't need to buy pots. Plus my kids will learn to be resourceful. You don't always have the money to do projects like this, but that doesn't mean that you can't do what you want to do. You just have to figure out how to do it in a more cost-efficient way."
White said she considered purchasing the cheaper, commercial grade eggs. But, in the end, she decided to go with the farm fresh eggs, knowing that they would be more durable — something that she knew would come in handy.
"My kids are 6 and 7," she said. "They're not very patient and they break things easily. Commercial-grade eggs would probably work for this project if I was doing it with 20-year-olds, but even then, it might not work. Also, the eggs are usually older, which causes them to break more easily. Usually farmers make sure their chickens have access to more grit, which builds up a hen's calcium count, which in turn makes the egg shells harder."
The mother bought four dozen eggs for the project, hoping to be able to start at least 36 different plants, including tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots and lettuce.
"I bought the seeds online," she said. "I'm hoping that we'll get them going and that they'll be far enough along that we can put them in the ground by April. It'll be a good experience for the kids. They'll learn all about what it takes for a plant to grow."
White said she plans to give each of her children a plot of land. They'll plant the plants from their starter gardens, and wait for them to grow. She said that each day the children will be expected to maintain their plants, until harvest time.
"They can water and weed all of the plants," she said. "It shouldn't take them too long each day. Then, when they're ready, we'll harvest all the vegetables when they're ripe for the picking. There's nothing better than getting to eat fresh produce straight from your own garden."


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Everyone has had blisters at one time or another. You can probably remember what they look like, but let's talk about that in case you don't.
The area where blisters usually form is usually red and raised. Then a small bubble forms which is usually filled with liquid. After some time, that liquid is going to discharge and the blister is going to scab. Usually, after the scab is gone, you'll see no scars or anything that will remind you of the blister.
Now, of course, different blisters look a little differently. For instance, when you have a cold sore, it may seem that you get one big blister, but in fact, that big bump that usually burns and itches is formed by lots of tiny little bubbles packed close to each other.
Again, if you have a blister that comes from getting burnt, you'll see that it's a little bigger, more white and a lot firmer than a regular blister. All of the blisters usually have some kind of a watery looking substance inside them that will sooner or later discharge, unless it gets absorbed.
Most of the small blisters don't leave scars, but obviously, if you mess with it too much and try to pop it or pick it, you might end up with a little scarry souvenir that will not go away on it's own.
Most scars that come from blisters do pale away, but they never actually disappear. The reason you don't see them after a few months is that they absorb a little pigment and look a lot like your skin.
How do you treat blisters?
Well, again, it depends on the blister itself. Some of them you can treat with toothpaste (the cold sore blisters) and other blisters will require professional care (for instance the ones you get after you spill water on yourself).
It's generally a good idea not to cover your blisters with anything. The more air they get, the easier they will heal. Some of the less dangerous ones you can treat with mixtures that are readily available at a local drug store or with band aids that will help them to heal.
Whatever you do, if your blister looks a bit more scarry than what you usually see (like when it's super big for some reason) make sure that someone takes a serious look at it.
Again, if you don't take care of your blisters properly, you'll get scars and you'll have to deal with them for the rest of your life. Not worth it, if you ask me.
Blisters are not very fun to deal with. Generally speaking, if you wait them out, you'll be just fine, but if you pop them, then you can expect scars. Use the tips from this article to learn how to spot and treat a blister.


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Putting Corporate Tax Dodging on the Table
As the Super Congress eyes trillions in budget cuts that will undermine the quality of life for most Americans, here's a stunning fact to contemplate: Twenty-five hugely profitable U.S. companies paid their CEOs more last year than they paid Uncle Sam in taxes.
That's the key finding of a new Institute for Policy Studies report, Massive CEO Rewards for Tax Dodging, which I co-authored.
The report has been a catalyst to getting more people engaged in street heat and grassroots lobbying to press Congress to stop abuses. After reviewing the report, US Representative Elijah Cummings called for Congressional oversight hearings into excessive compensation and aggressive tax avoidance.
These artful dodgers include the CEOs of Verizon, Boeing, Honeywell, General Electric, International Paper, Prudential, eBay, Bank of New York Mellon, Ford, Motorola, Dow Chemical, and Stanley Black and Decker. Their average annual compensation totaled $16.7 million, well above last year's average of $10.8 million for the CEOs of S&P 500 companies.
Instead of paying their fair share, these companies spent millions lobbying for additional tax breaks and loopholes. Twenty of the 25 companies spent more lobbying Congress last year than they paid the IRS in federal corporate taxes. General Electric invested $41.8 million in lobbying and got $3.3 billion in tax refunds. Boeing spent $20 million on lobbying and got a $35 billion contract from the U.S. government, while paying a paltry $13 million in U.S. taxes for a company with $4.3 billion in U.S. income last year.
Eighteen of the 25 companies aggressively use off shore tax havens to shift profits around the globe to avoid U.S. taxes. These 18 companies together had 556 subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands, Singapore, Ireland, and other havens. The offshore scam works like this: companies pretend their profits are earned in low-tax or no-tax jurisdictions—and then feign losses from their U.S. operations at tax time.
Whatever happened to corporate civic leadership? A previous generation of CEOs would have been ashamed to be compensated so lavishly while their companies abandoned responsibility for paying their fair share. They would have been embarrassed to go year after year contributing little or nothing to the public investments that make the United States a vibrant business environment.
Here are a few examples of these champion tax-dodgers:
- Chesapeake Energy paid its CEO Aubrey McClendon $21 million last year but paid zero federal corporate income tax in 2010. Chesapeake is fracking the tax code, drilling it for every possible subsidy it can extract — while lobbying to preserve antiquated tax breaks for oil and gas industry.
- Online retailer eBay paid its CEO John Donahoe $21.4 million last year while collecting a federal tax refund of $131 million. eBay's 31 subsidiaries in Switzerland, Singapore, and seven other tax havens facilitate its efforts to move money around the planet as a tax-dodging strategy.
- Insurance brokerage giant Marsh & McLennan paid its CEO Brian Duperrault $14 million yet collected a $90 million tax refund from Uncle Sam. The company has 105 subsidiaries in 20 off shore tax havens, including 25 in Bermuda—a favorite locale for insurance companies seeking to avoid both taxes and regulation.
These super-moocher companies happily benefit from the privileges and advantages of doing business in the United States. If a competitor tries to steal their product or idea, these corporations rush to the U.S court system and law enforcement agencies for remedies and justice. The U.S. military guards their global assets.
They use the fertile ground of publicly funded research and infrastructure to bolster their own profits. They create new products from a foundation of Uncle Sam's investments in medical and scientific research and government funded technologies like the Internet. Our taxpayer-funded roads, ports, and bridges bolster their business environment. Our public schools and universities educate the workers these companies rely on. In fact 16 of these 25 CEOs attended public universities. They personally were educated with help from U.S. tax dollars.
These CEOs profess to love America. But when it comes time to pay the bills, they'd rather outsource that job over to you or the small business down the road.
The only way corporate tax dodging will get on the agenda of Congressional deficit cutters is if public puts it there. US Uncut is bringing the issue to town hall meetings around the country, urging elected officials to shut down corporate tax dodging.
Others are pressing their members of Congress to join Rep. Cummings in his call for Congressional oversight hearings on runaway CEO pay and corporate tax avoidance, and to cosponsor and pass the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act which would limit some of these tax shenanigans—and generate $100 billion revenue per year. In the face of growing fiscal austerity, there's a growing sentiment that these companies should contribute to the solution and pay their fair share of U.S. taxes.


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awesome fashion photography based on vintage crime-scenes from Melanie Pullen.
VIDEOHere is the new trailer for one of the most anticipated games of 2009 from EA & BioWare. Dragon Age Origins is the epic tale of violence, lust, and betrayal.The game launches Oct 20, 2009.
Beautiful handcut paper works by designer/illustrator Thibaud Herem.
We love this charming and clever 'Deskhouse' from Ninetonine design - it doubles as both playhouse and desk / drafting table for arty kids. Wish I had one when I was a kid!
Chanel has turned to male models to promote its female bags in this set by photographer David Byun.
The Hergé Museum has officially opened in Louvain-la-Neuve, a small town near Brussels, Belgium. The museum is dedicated to the work of Hergé (Georges Remi), who created the Tintin comic-books.
Awesome looking rattan "jars" made from rattan over a steel frame. They are just under 6' high in either 9-3/4" or 11" diameter. Used in multiples, they are really cool. Like some kind of a trippy forest.
Oooh Camelback has stainless water (or other stuff?) bottles now!
shepard fairey promotes SMS restoration plans during venice art biennial 09
FEATUREDDror for Target ~ best piece in the new collection are these nesting/stacking bookshelves ~ maybe they even work as stools too?
impressive moon bounce shox like shoes on helena bonham carter...
The Pyramid Farm is an incredible concept for the future of agriculture envisioned by professors Eric Ellingsen and Dickson Despommier.
Gorgeous photography, nice idea: A calendar of German car egineers shows little scientists in their big world of the car.
Prolific illustrator Stuart Kolakovic's awesome new design for tea towel outfit ToDryFor.
Cartoon remakes of your favourite films - told in 3 frames!
The Sunlight Foundation's Ali Felski redesigns the Supreme Court Web site to bring it into the 21st Century
Just released, this stunning image shows remarkable and mysterious details near the dark central region of a planet-sized sunspot in one of the sharpest views ever of the surface of the Sun.
The Swiss designers of Big-Game recently presented their 'Blur' collection. It consists of a vase, two mirrors, three tables and four lamps, which are playing with the notion of blurriness...
Toronto-based street artist Posterchild's latest project involves installing flower beds in the mostly run-down distribution boxes on the streets that dispense all those free publications and magazines.
Gold ADDY winning mailer for Dale Chihuly's Glass exhibition at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona.
To celebrate their 20th year in music, 2009 heralds the release of 'Orbital 20′'. The new identity and cover by Farrow Design. Orbital 20 will be released on June 16th, 2009. Love their website!
Electrolux Re-mix concept seen here mixes food by using the vibrations emitted by sound frequency. This is known as Cymatics.
Great interview with Dean Spunt of No Age. An in depth discussion about the creation process and finding success in art.
Unique customized camper with a hydraulic lift system to create a second-story Japanese-style zen loft space complete with rice paper windows and tatami mats.
Wrap like a pro - video
In about 6 months time its Christmas again. The time to give – and to wrap!
Scenes from a Rooftop, a wonderful timelapse with tilt-shift effect.
Mark Braun's Pyrus' is a mono material pendant light, made of grey and white paper – therefore the shade is completely biodegradable.
Alberto Cerriteño, art at its best.
FEATUREDAston Martin sliced in half ~ well more like full skeleton showing with half its skin? It's like a beautiful sculpture! Found it at the DBS Volante presentation last night... Check out the details...
we love the last watch signed by Issey Miyake x Ross Lovegrove...
The Glue Society's latest sculpture: a 25 tonne digger that has buried itself in rubble
Tre lamp is a three-legged floor lamp made of metal. Turnable lamp is perfect for reading light, peeking over the reader's shoulder. Turnable light shade creates light upward or downward.
Inspired by the animals and the sea creatures which were discovered by the famous German biologist Ernst Haeckel in the late 1800's, Lazerian's latest in jewelry has indeed integrated the same quasi-organic form into his bangles.
The Code X is a high speed yacht that uses both Twin 710hp Ilmor engines or twin electric/solar drives. Its daringly minimalist and mean origami-meets-Tie-fighter look matches its avant garde styling with equally cutting edge technology.
An interview with Ebon Heath, creator of beautiful typographic sculptures. [Editor's note: Ebon Heath's work has been previously featured as #17782]
Vitaminwater are running a design competition to create a huge poster to be wrapped around this building in central London. $800 cash prize plus festival tickets.
Su Casa Es Mi Casa is an art project where a creative collective have taken over a Barcelona apartment and created installations in each room, re-imagining a private living space as a public gallery.
Designer Paul Smith designed new rubbish bins for the city of London. The ears of the rabbit light up when you throw something into the bin. Pretty nice idea!
In this series of totems actual lost things are represented (keys, shoes, jobs, friendships, etc). Each paper totem takes the form of a cube, providing an easy way by which to stack them so as to best suit your preference…
A great photo project that uses a pair of photos each week to portray the striking differences and the unexpected similarities between rural life in Leavenworth, Kansas and urban life in Chicago, Illinois.
Pete Fowler's animated world now has a soundtrack that is just as psychedelic and imaginative as his illustrations.
The Harvard Review literary journal gets a beautiful redesign by Alex Camlin.
The Japanese furniture giant ITOKI launches a boutique American operation at this year's ICFF. Whether they can succeed in this economy is another matter.
SeARCH architects have designed a look-out with a planted platform that towers 40m above the Schovenhorst Estate, Netherlands.
A truly ESD building by Australia-based Studio 505 located in Former CUB Site, Melbourne, Australia, which will score 6 star GreenStar Carbon Neutral project.
Toronto photographer Matt Barnes. Smooth, sleazy and beautiful.
Lexus forges into exotic sports car territory with the LF-A concept vehicle. Integrating the simple elegance of the new Lexus design initiative with racing–inspired style
The Beatles Rock Band Press Conference Trailer.


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The 26th annual AIDS Walk Washington is coming together. The community has already raised more than $500,000 for Whitman-Walker Health and 17 "Community Partner" organizations. Nearly 4,000 people have registered to walk the Oct. 27 circuit or participate in the 5k timed run. The DC Cowboys are scheduled for one final farewell performance. The grand marshals – 20-month-old Miles Daniels and 10-week-old Milaya Daniels – have been selected to represent the hope for an AIDS-free generation.
And the day's two awardees have been named. The GEICO insurance company, long involved with AIDS Walk, is receiving the Community Service Award. The Courage Award? That's going to George Kerr, co-founder and executive director of START (Syringe, Training, Advocacy, Resources and Treatment) at Westminster, a program of D.C.'s Westminster Presbyterian Church.
George Kerr
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While the recognition shouldn't be a surprise in that Kerr, 46, has been in the fight against HIV/AIDS in D.C. for two decades, it's a far cry from the oceangoing path he set out on.
"I planned on doing a career in the Navy, until Bill Clinton came out with the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy and I decided it was time for me to get out of the Navy," recalls Kerr, a California native who began his Navy career in San Diego. "My next assignment was going to be on a new Marines boat. By that time, I'd come to understand who I was and what I wanted in life. And that wasn't it."
Kerr, who really hadn't had any identity as a gay man prior, walked away from his Pentagon job and started a new life in D.C. At first, that meant retail – not a good two months.
"Then I went to a temp agency. On my second assignment, I stayed there for 19 years. I started out as the receptionist and worked my way up to facilities manager."
That second assignment was with the organization today called FHI 360, and Kerr's career concerned with the well being of others began. With FHI the scope was international. In 2005, he brought that perspective home, helping to found DC Fights Back, a grassroots organization advocating for people affected by HIV/AIDS. The START at Westminster effort began in 2008, offering HIV testing and counseling, education, referrals, condom distribution and more.


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Posted by Alisa Brady on July 12, 1998 at 17:22:43:
In Reply to: Re: Fed Tax Lien posted by John on February 10, 1998 at 22:48:08:
: : Does anyone have any ideas on how to get rid of a Fed Tax Lien. I don't file and these jerks are messing with me. Thanks Jack
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This boy was a student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the 1990s who was sorted into Gryffindor. He greeted Sir Nicholas for being back after the ghost had been petrified.
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Medications that Interact with Tamoxifen
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I have heard that anti-depressant medications interfere with tamoxifen. Are there any other medications- particularly over the counter meds that should be avoided as well?
Carolyn Vachani RN, MSN, AOCN, OncoLink's Nurse Educator, responds:
When you take tamoxifen, your body breaks it down, converting it into the "active metabolites" that actually do what we want tamoxifen to do. An enzyme found in the liver, called P450 2D6, is responsible for making the main active metabolite. Some drugs block the activity of this enzyme. This, in turn, decreases the amount of active metabolite available to do the job.
Some anti-depressants do interfere with this enzyme, while others do not. According to recent research (Jin et al, 2005), the anti-depressants mostly likely to interfere with tamoxifen metabolism are paroxetine (Paxil), fluoxetine (Prozac), buproprion (Wellbutrin), and duloxetine (Cymbalta). Your doctor may consider avoiding these medications while you are taking tamoxifen, as they may reduce the efficacy of tamoxifen. If one of these medications is being used to treat hot flashes, another medication, such as gabapentin, may be considered. If the medication is being used to treat depression or anxiety, another medication may be considered. It is important to discuss these decisions with your medical team.
Diphenhydramine (Benadryl) is one over the counter medication that interferes with P450 2D6. People taking tamoxifen should read the labels on any over the counter medications, looking for diphenhydramine, as this is often an ingredient in sleep aids or cold and allergy medications. Other medications that may interfere with tamoxifen include some antifungal drugs (terbinafine, or Lamasil) and cimetidine (Tagamet).
The University of Indiana Division of Clinical Pharmacology has a nice guide for patients that may be helpful. An article regarding antidepressant use and tamoxifen has also been published by the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Women's Mental Health.


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The "Problem":
Some times folks put the code blocks first, and the question second. The CRLF in code blocks is ignored, which makes the summaries usually worthless. Also, it is code, and not a description of the problem, then the summary is again usually worthless.
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The "Solution":
Do not include code blocks in abbreviated question summaries on the question listing pages.
Then again, we could just go off and reformat other people's questions, but that seems unnecessarily invasive for such a minor 'problem'.