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Large Black Tourmaline RAW Black Crystal from Minas Gerais, Brazil
Receive this huge powerful protective Black Tourmaline that weighs almost 4 pounds! Ancient magicians relied upon Black Tourmaline, known as Schorl, for protection. Today this stone is still revered as a premier talisman of protection, a psychic shield deflecting and dispelling negative energies, entities, or destructive forces. It guards against radiation and environmental pollutants, and is highly useful in purifying and neutralizing one's own negative thoughts and internal conflicts, and turning them into positive, usable energy.
Listing is for ONE LARGE Black Tourmaline- the same one seen in the pictures.
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This specimen is deliciously black and potent. It came to me packaged with such care! I can't wait to work with it tonight, thank you!


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This isn't like the "newest" thing on the Internet right now, but it just happens to be the thing that is cracking my shit up in particular today. Presented for your mid-afternoon delectation is the often obscene and always hilarious Kanye'd By The Bell, a "Nietzche Family Circus"-esque exploration of the thrills of juxtaposition. It's Kanye lyrics. On top of screenshots of Saved By The Bell. To hilarious effect.
All of your favorite Bayside High characters come under consideration: Zach. Lisa. Slater. Screech. Kelly. Jessie. And, duh, Mr. Belding. Here are some of my favorites.
I'm very impressed by this blogger's mastery of both Kanye West lyrics and the Saved By The Bell canon.
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When it's this hot out, turning on the oven is just not a possibility. But that doesn't mean that dessert should be skipped, or that ice cream is the only option. Here are the SE community's favorite ways to make dessert, no oven required.
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Jose Maria Olazabal squeezed his eyes shut as they filled with tears, overwhelmed and overjoyed that the Ryder Cup still belongs to Europe.
His players wore the image of Seve Ballesteros on their sleeves and played their hearts out yesterday at Medinah, filling the scoreboard with European blue as they chipped away at a four-point deficit until completing a comeback even more remarkable than what the Americans did to them at Brookline in 1999.
This one was on the road, where Europe didn't have the advantage of a flag-waving crowd carrying them along. All they had was a message from their captain to "play your socks off," and the spirit of another Spaniard whose name didn't need to be mentioned in the closing ceremony.
"Seve, Seve, Seve," the crowd chanted when Olazabal bowed his head to compose himself.
"I'm pretty sure he's very happy where he is today," Olazabal said.
The Americans were simply stunned.
Three times they came to the 17th hole with a chance to win a match, only for Europe to deliver the key shots that win the Ryder Cup. Ian Poulter won the last two holes, and so did Justin Rose, a birdie-birdie finish to beat Phil Mickelson. Sergio Garcia won the last two holes with pars to beat Jim Furyk.
Even at the very end, this Ryder Cup could have gone either way until Martin Kaymer of Germany stepped forward to erase another bad memory. He stood over a 6-foot par putt that he needed to make to assure Europe would keep the trophy. If he missed, Tiger Woods was in the fairway behind him, ready to take the final point the Americans needed.
Kaymer poured it in to beat Stricker, and the celebration was on.
"What you did out there today was outstanding," Olazabal said. "You believed, and you delivered. And I'm very proud that you have kept Europe's hand on this Ryder Cup. All men die, but not all men live. And you made me feel alive again this week."
He hugged all 12 players, saving the longest embrace for Westwood, the only European who played on the 1997 team with Ballesteros as the captain.
Woods missed a 3 1/2 -foot par putt on the 18th hole, and then conceded a par to Francesco Molinari of about that length to halve their match. That extra half-point made it a clear-cut win for Europe, 14 1/2 -13 1/2 . Woods and Stricker, the anchors in the lineup, didn't win a single match at Medinah.
"This one is for all of Europe," Olazabal said. "Seve will always be present with this team. He was a big factor for this event for the European side, and last night when we were having that meeting, I think the boys understood that believing was the most important thing. And I think they did."
Ian Poulter was the first to embrace Olazabal, which was only fitting.
It was Poulter who gave Europe hope Saturday evening when he made five straight birdies to turn a loss into a win and swing momentum in Europe's favor. Poulter was up to his fist-pumping, eye-bulging tricks again on the final day, winning the last two holes in his match against U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson.
And he had plenty of help. Europe's top five players in the lineup all won, including Rory McIlroy, who was lucky to be playing.
McIlroy thought his match was at 12:25 p.m. — it was listed in Eastern time, not Central — and needed a police escort to get to the course with 10 minutes to spare. Then, he came up with key birdies to hand Keegan Bradley his first loss of the week.
The biggest match might have belonged to Rose. He was on the verge of losing to Mickelson when Rose holed a 12-foot par putt to halve the 16th, made a 35-foot birdie putt from the back of the 17th green to win the hole, and then closed out Mickelson with a 12-foot birdie on the last hole.
Six of the 12 matches went to the 18th hole yesterday. The Americans won only one of them.
The Americans also rallied from a four-point deficit to win in 1999 at Brookline. This was different, though. The Americans won big in those early matches. At Medinah, so many of them could have gone either way.
"Today was certainly not what we expected," U.S. captain Davis Love III said.
Europe now has won seven of the last nine Ryder Cups, and even more remarkable about this comeback is that they did it on the road.
Love became the first U.S. captain to sit every player at least once before Sunday, wanting them to be fresh for the decisive day. Instead, the Americans faltered at the end — especially Furyk and Stricker, two of his captain's picks.
"The plan worked the first two days," he said. "It just didn't work today."
The only U.S. points came from Dustin Johnson, who went 3-0 in this Ryder Cup, Zach Johnson and unheralded Jason Dufner.
"We're all kind of stunned," Love said. "We know what it feels like now from the '99 Ryder Cup. It's a little bit shocking. We were playing so well, we figured it didn't matter how we sent them out there. We got a couple of matches flipped there in the middle that cost us."
Love thought all along the Ryder Cup would be decided in the ninth match by Dufner. It was most appropriate that Europe won the cup thanks to Kaymer.
Kaymer gave German golf some redemption from Kiawah Island in 1991, when countryman Bernhard Langer missed a par putt from about the same length that allowed the Americans to win.
"It's a feeling I never had before," Kaymer said. "On Friday, I sat down with Bernhard and talked a little bit about the Ryder Cup because my attitude was not the right one. But now I know how important the Ryder Cup is."


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One of just three individual national champions in school history at the time of induction, Simpson won the long jump competition at the 1996 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships. A four-time All-america performer in the long jump and triple jump, Myra stands as one of the most highly decorated athletes in school history, having won three CAC Track Athlete of the Year awards. Myra received the Arthur Ashe Award in 1996 and the Mary Washington Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year award in 1997.
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Officials: Bank of Cyprus savers with over 100,000 euros could take losses of up to 60 percent
NICOSIA, Cyprus – A Central Bank official and a senior Finance Ministry technocrat says that Bank of Cyprus savers with over 100,000 euros could take losses of up to 60 percent.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they're not authorized to publicly discuss details of the issue, said Saturday that deposits over 100,000 at the country's largest lender will lose 37.5 percent of their value after being converted into bank shares.
They said they could lose up to 22.5 percent more, depending on an assessment by officials who will determine the exact figure aimed at restoring the troubled bank back to health.
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You're right about immigration, Trump has significantly increased anti immigrant sentiment and policy in the Republicans party.
Secret Trump bonus: opinion of Russia among Republicans rose after Trump got elected.
Tldr Trump has influenced the GOP, but the GOP also influences the Trump administration.
Tyndmyr wrote:Zamfir wrote:I don't think that adds up. There are plenty of rich, white, American men who would love to be president, but don't stand a chance. Trump's Twitter feed is a thing of jealousy for politicians, this level of direct communication to supporters who actually listen. It might be shameless, but it's not idiocy.
Again, look at this case. It's eye on the ball, sharp messaging. What's important about hurricane Maria for Trump? The democrats would love another Katrina to hurt his reputation. What's Trump's strength? The original death numbers were low, and his supporters look down on Puerto Ricans. Whats the weakness? The place is visibly in shambles.
I agree. It's not stupidity, it's an effective method of communication. It isn't literally correct in a great many cases, but his statements with regard to the hurricane are a reasonable depiction of the situation from his point of view.
Trump's been maligned for being an idiot for a long time, but we can't reasonably attribute all of his successes to luck. At the end of the day, the guy does seem to understand PR, and utilizes fairly effectively for self-promotion. He's pretty good at what he cares about, he just doesn't appear to care about the things many of us do.
Twitter is a useful tool for Trump, but it's a double edged sword. Would you agree on "Trump would be more popular if he shut up and changed nothing else"?


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Jan. 3-7 is Women's Self Empowerment Week, a time to raise awareness and fight for equality for women now just in America but around the world.
Oh, isn't that something that already happened in the '70s? some may ask.
Absolutely not.
Women today earn a median income of $36,931 yearly. That compares with $47,715 for men, or 77 percent as much for women.
Part of the "argument" for women earning less than men is that women naturally gravitate toward careers that pay less. However, there remains about a 1 percent disparity between women and men in "traditional" women's careers such as elementary teaching or human resources administration.
In traditionally male-dominated careers, such as software developer and construction project manager, there remains a 4 percent disparity - again, in favor of men.
And if you go abroad, it's even worse.
In China, women on average earn just 63.5 percent of the median men's salaries.
It doesn't just end in salaries, though.
A few months ago, a 14-year girl was beaten severely for speaking out in Pakistan. And even more recently, a 23-year-old woman was raped and murdered by a group of women in India.
Our state department needs to act on these senseless acts of violence against women and act to boycott tourism and trade in areas where these events occur. In Pakistan, which is openly hostile toward women, a nationwide boycott would be in order.
Unless the U.S. takes leadership on not just a national but on a global level, these events will not only continue to occur but will worsen.
And it has to happen now. To continue to sit and do nothing is only condoning these crimes against women.


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Swiss SMEs: Turnover to return soon to last year's level
According to the latest UBS survey conducted in December and January, business improved slightly for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the fourth quarter. The pace of declining cash flows and turnover slowed considerably and staff cutbacks were halted. Companies are not anticipating a substantial improvement in business in the first quarter, but the industrial and service sectors are still expecting turnover to stabilize at last year's level.
Compared to the previous year, turnover for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) declined slightly less in the fourth quarter of 2009 than in the third quarter. The companies surveyed expect a further slight improvement in the first quarter of 2010. But, while industrial and service-sector SMEs are optimistic and even anticipate turnover to stabilize at last year's level, those in tourism, the retail sales and construction expect business to continue to decline in the first quarter.
Staff cutbacks in industry continue apace
Staff cutbacks in industrial SMEs continue unabated, despite signs pointing to a slow stabilization of turnover and earnings. The downward spiral slowed in the fourth quarter of 2009, and the companies surveyed said that they expect to maintain last year's level of earnings and sales in the first quarter of 2010. However, price pressure appears to be as strong as ever. The business climate a synthetic indicator calculated on the basis of the survey findings regarding output, turnover and new orders is also improving. The companies surveyed also expect the business climate to stabilize in the first quarter of 2010. A comparison of the SME survey results with those of large Swiss companies reveals a very similar business trend.
Service providers: Trend reversal at the start of the year
SMEs in the service sector were less affected by the crisis than their larger competitors and the industry in general. Declines in turnover and earnings were lower, and employment remained relatively stable. Following a slight improvement in profit and turnover in the fourth quarter, with profit reductions and sales shortfalls somewhat lower than the previous year, SMEs in this sector expect a stabilization of turnover and profits at previous year's levels in the first quarter of 2010.
Tourism continues to suffer
In the tourism sector, SMEs and large companies are taking longer to recover from the crisis. This is demonstrated by a further slump in earnings and a decline in cash flows and profits, which is continuing largely unabated. Although it is expected that the downward spiral will slow slightly in the first quarter of 2010, SMEs still see no return to growth ahead and are continuing to shed jobs.
Retail sector SMEs have the edge
The survey results reveal that the price pressure on SMEs is not as high as for large retail traders and that they are even expecting some relief in the first quarter. Staff levels are also comparatively stable, and SMEs are not planning to make headcount reductions in the first quarter. Turnover and cash flows in the first quarter 2010 should reach the previous year's levels.
Building sector characterized by price pressure
The price competition in the building sector shows no sign of easing, neither for SMEs nor their larger competitors. Profits continue to suffer, although the decline was slightly lower in the fourth quarter. Turnover remains stable, and there was even a slight rise in staffing levels year-on-year. However, the anticipated development in the first quarter of 2010 indicates a more difficult business environment. SMEs expect turnover to come under pressure again, possibly leading to deteriorating cash flows and profits.
Modest investment plans
According to the survey 2009 investment activity of SMEs held to its long-term average, although industrial and retail SMEs reported lower-than-average investments. In all sectors, except retail, SMEs anticipate average investments in 2010. They also see no need for regeneration, and the expansion of capacity is not being considered across a broad front.
The Swiss economy is recovering from the crisis of previous quarters, leading to an increase of positive signals for SMEs, as shown by the results of UBS's last quarterly survey conducted in cooperation with the Swiss Trade Association and within the context of the UBS SME barometer. About 450 SMEs and 180 large companies were surveyed from mid-December 2009 to mid-January 2010 for comparative purposes.
Methodology of the UBS SME barometer
The UBS SME barometer is based on an evaluation of the UBS survey on manufacturing that the bank has carried out since 1975. This survey was extended to include service providers in the third quarter of 2006. Around 1,300 companies (1,000 SMEs and 300 large companies), forming a representative cross-section of the Swiss economy, are surveyed every quarter. Companies with fewer than 250 employees are classed as SMEs. Survey responses are evaluated using a diffusion index: the result represents the weighted average of the percentages of companies reporting a very positive, positive, negative or very negative trend. It therefore does not represent a percentage rate of change.
The business climate is calculated on the basis of the survey results for output, incoming orders and revenue in the manufacturing sector. Data on cash flow and on an industry-specific level have been collected since the first quarter of 2009.
Previous quarter trends are extrapolated actual results (grey bars). Current quarter trends are companies' expectations (shaded bar). The respondents were asked about the change compared to the same quarter in the previous year. The collected data is evaluated using a diffusion index. The results can range between -100 and +100, with results at or around zero [-5;5] representing stagnation, results up to -50 (+50) representing a deterioration (improvement) and results below -50 (above +50) representing a major deterioration (improvement). The data do not represent a percentage change in the parameter.
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Origins of Fallopian Tube Cancer
Dear OncoLink "Ask the Experts,"
Is there such a cancer as fallopian tube cancer? Or, is it ovarian cancer that starts in the fallopian tube?
Thank you,
Ivor Benjamin, M.D., Former co-Editor-in-Chief, OncoLink, responds:
Dear F.
Thank you for your question and your interest.
Yes, there are several forms of cancer that may start in the Fallopian Tube. By far the most common variety is adenocarcinoma. More rare histologies (i.e. cell-types) include leiomyosarcoma or transitional cell carcinoma.
Overall, Fallopian Tube primary tumors (i.e. tumors that started in the tube) are uncommon and account for only 1-2% of all gynecologic cancers. The Fallopian Tube is a common site of metastasis (i.e. spread) from tumors that started in the ovary, uterus, endometrium, appendix or colon.
It is often difficult for the surgeon or the pathologist to reliably determine if an adenocarcinoma has started in the Fallopian Tube or the ovary. The reason is that the cells appear similar and the organs are in such close proximity to each other. For a clear diagnosis of Fallopian Tube cancer, the pathologist will look for an area of epithelium that shows a transition from normal to malignant cells that are in continuity. This implies that the tumor arose in the tube and was not a metastasis.


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action wrote:the beach boys gave a stunning performance that day
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TheHero wrote:It was the best showmanship Freddie ever delivered, but maybe not the best Queen concert. But it was definately the best concert of that day. Probably only Bruce Springsteen can be compared to it, when it comes to showmanship and audience participation these days.
YAFF wrote:No it wasn't.
And the wounded skies above say it's much too late
Eli wrote:I agree that it was overrated. It's nothing compared to their best concerts: Montreal '81, Houston '77, Hammersmith Odeon '75, even Knebworth '86. And I tend to dislike most of what they did, both live and in studio, between '82 and '87ish anyway. However, I don't know much about the other acts that performed there and how Queen were in relation to them, so take what I say lightly.
Mother Mercury wrote:Never quite understood why they did Hammer To Fall (maybe Brian insisting on them doing some hard rock?), when IWTBF might have been a better one to plug The Works?
And why does no-one ever mention the end of HTF? Did Freddie finish too early?! The band carry on as he's done then the wheels kind of fall off the train.
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This year I thought I'd paint a vampire inspired a little from Countess Báthory with her lust for blood. I am fascinated with the concept and wanted to create a character that was very different but similar in that aspect and a lot darker. Though this character is not supposed to be Countess Báthory, I may consider painting her in the future since I do find her fascinating.
Painted using Photoshop and Painter.
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Let's get right to the point: Louisville will win this year's edition of nuclear warfare – or maybe after last year, that should be hand-to-hand combat – Kentucky style.
But Kentucky is the better team with more upside.
In other words, Louisville will win Friday's battle, but Kentucky will win the war or will be around a bit longer in March.
Just some observations about this year's edition of the Cats and Cards.
It might be a stretch to say that Anderson County has been a cradle of basketball coaches, but the county has had its share of people who have had a significant impact on the game. I have listed some coaches who have spent time at a school in the county. Feel free to add more in the comments section.
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Earle Jones led the Tigers to a state runner-up finish in 1930. Later, he coached many years at Maysville High School, winning a state title.
Whenever you embark on a project such as picking an All-Time Team with random persons making the selections, there is one major risk: Will people be fair?
With over 300 people participating by sending in selections, it was apparent that readers of The Anderson News took things seriously and for the most part, seemed to really be trying to pick those who really were just a notch above all the rest on the hardwood. Sure, there were some people who had large families that stuck together. There's nothing wrong with that and everyone would do the same.
In this week's edition of The Anderson News, I briefly relived to of the greatest wins in Western High School history, namely when the Eagles eliminated Anderson County from the 30th District tournaments in 1982 and 1983. Biggest wins in Eagle history? Perhaps. But there is no question they are the most memorable to any Eagle fan today.
So what are the biggest wins in Western history? Records are very spotty and I have been unable to locate everything but these have to be among the biggest.
1.Western 72, Anderson County 59 (1982)
In researching 100 years of basketball in Anderson County, I relied heavily on five sources of information: My own memory for the years 1970 and forward, oral histories given by different people I interviewed, some extensive research done by local historian extraordinaire Jack Birdwhistell, high school yearbooks at the Anderson Public Library and archived copies of The Anderson News.
I also browsed some old copies of The Courier-Journal and the Lexington Herald-Leader.
There are times when it really hits home just how long I have been covering Anderson County sports. We know that basketball has been played in Anderson County for 100 seasons now and, for the most part, I have been writing about the sport for a little over 25 years.
A quarter of Anderson County's hoops history? That is kind of mind-boggling when you think about it. And I can honestly say there have been few times more enjoyable than those when I had the privilege of writing about Western Eagle basketball from 1986-89.
Basketball fans often talk about the "What ifs?" in their sport.
Like "What if Mike Casey had not broken his leg in the summer before his senior year? Would a team of Dan Issel, Mike Pratt and Mike Casey have been unstoppable in 1970?"
Or "What if Terry Howard had remained perfect at the free throw line? Would Kentucky and Louisville have played for the national championship in 1975?"
For more than two decades, black Anderson County residents were bused to Lincoln Institute, about a mile west of Simpsonville in Shelby County.
At one time, there was a high school known as Lawrenceburg Colored, which was located on Lincoln Street, according to local resident John Cunningham, whose mother, Gertrude, attended school there. Cunningham says the school burned in the late 1930s or early 1940s. After that, high school students were bused to Lincoln.
No school in Anderson County has never won a state high school basketball championship recognized by the Kentucky High School Athletic Association.
However, the girls' basketball team at Lawrenceburg Colored High School was a state champion, according to local realtor John Cunningham.
The team included Cunningham's mother, Gertrude Bean Cunningham. He says that another member of the team was Mary Harris Gill. Cunningham says that all of the team members are now deceased.
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
Kristol Mess: It's Official, 'NYT' Hires New Op-Ed Pundit
Times' editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal defended the move. Rosenthal told Politico shortly after the official announcement Saturday that he fails to understand "this weird fear of opposing views....The idea that The New York Times is giving voice to a guy who is a serious, respected conservative intellectual — and somehow that's a bad thing," Rosenthal added. "How intolerant is that?" Of course, some would argue that Kristol is not "serious, respected," broadly speaking. Unlike the Times' other regulars, Kristol will write only once a week, with his first column set for Jan. 7, and he has just a one-year contract.
In the July 14, 2006 issue of The Weekly Standard, which he edits, Kristol called for a "military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. Why wait? Does anyone think a nuclear Iran can be contained? That the current regime will negotiate in good faith? It would be easier to act sooner rather than later. Yes, there would be repercussions--and they would be healthy ones, showing a strong America that has rejected further appeasement."
But opponents may take heart from this precedent: Kristol's predecessor in one of the "right" spots at the Times, John Tierney, was laughed off the page in short order.
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If they were going to hire anyone, I would have liked to see them add Thomas Sowell to their staff. But its still a good move- Kristol is excellent.
- Saturday, December 29, 2007
Can anybody name 1 thing Kristol has been right about?
Just 1 thing.
- Saturday, December 29, 2007
"The idea that The New York Times is giving voice to a guy who is a serious, respected conservative intellectual — and somehow that's a bad thing,"
The question is how someone who had been so disastrously, lethally wrong about every important question of the last six years is "respected" and considered a "serious intellectual" in Mr Rosenthal's world.
To say nothing of Mr Kristol's repeated calls for the NYT to be prosecuted for practicing journalism.
Does that give Mr Rosenthal the Younger no pause? Or is there some sort of wink-and-a-nod code of Legacy between Abe and Irving's boys?
- Saturday, December 29, 2007
"...serious, respected conservative intellectual." Surely, Rosenthal is joking. The NYTimes can do better than this well-dressed hack who has never been right about anything important. He couldn't even tell Dan Quayle how to spell p-o-t-a-t-o.
- Saturday, December 29, 2007
- profmarcus said...
it's hardly a "weird fear of opposing views..." in fact, it's not fear of any sort... it's pure incredulity that a "newspaper of record" would consent to give valuable column inches and printer's ink to a well-known government propaganda pusher... an actual "opposing view" would be welcome, certainly preferable to white house talking points regurgitation... puh-l-e-e-e-eze...
- Saturday, December 29, 2007
The most leftwing columnist in the Times is a mainstream economist. They provide a full range of views from center right to far right.
- Saturday, December 29, 2007
- James said...
If Kristol is a serious, respected conservative, the conservative movement needs its head examined. "William the Bloody" deserves the vanity editorship he has now. There are many serious conservatives. Why pick this moron?
- Saturday, December 29, 2007
- James said...
Ah, yes. Freedom of speech. Only when the Times was doing its job by revealing the illegal wiretapping operations of the Bush administration, Mr. Kristol was calling the Times a nest of traitors who deserve jail. This is no friend of free speech.
- Saturday, December 29, 2007
The earlier commenter Jim has it right. It's a Rosenthal/Kristol crime family thing. Nepotism at its worst.
- Saturday, December 29, 2007
Now that we don't have Judith Miller to kick around any more...
Honestly, this news has ruined my weekend. Calling Kristol a serious intellectual is ludicrous. As everyone everywhere has noted, the man is never right. He doesn't ever deserve to be right.
There are thousands of great writers in America. Why in hell would the NYT choose this man when Ann Coulter is available?
Just shoot me.
- Saturday, December 29, 2007
Enough said.
That's all I have to say. Except this:
Bill Kristol needs psychological help, and the NY Times ain't helping.
How truly embarrassing.
- Saturday, December 29, 2007
- Bill Cameron said...
Kristol is a case-study in how being witty and having a large vocabulary is not the same thing as being intelligent.
- Saturday, December 29, 2007
How stupid is Rosenthal? Playing the intolerant card and claiming Kristol is "serious" and "respected?" Um, dude, Kristol has managed to be wrong about everything he's ever commented on. The only people who respect him are guys talking pigeons in the park and Dick Cheney. Same diff.
There's a serious disconnect between our pundit class and reality.
- Saturday, December 29, 2007
Profanity somehow seems inadequate.
- Saturday, December 29, 2007
- Julia said...
There now, I suppose I have been intolerant of opposing views on the war getting into the Times.
I'll get my staff working on a 10,000 word explanation of that right away.
- Saturday, December 29, 2007
As a life time reader and ardent supporter of the NY Times I am appalled, disheartened, and finally, feel that the integrity of the paper has now gone beyond a point of no return.
I for one, shall no longer be reading the paper whether in print or online.
- Saturday, December 29, 2007
- Ian said...
the mainstream media, led by the NY Times, has failed this nation, and this entire country. hundreds of thousands if not millions are dead because of it. and how do they work to regain their credibility. they hire a man who could not, be every conceivable measure, have any less credibility on foreign policy issues.
is there any rationality left in this country? where is the major outrage? where is the movement by Times readers to revolt. this equal time argument is garbage. there is equal time to opposing views, and then there is giving space to someone who has destroyed the reputation of this country by spouting biased political rhetoric without any remote resemblance of the truth. i literally cannot take this anymore. what the hell kind of precedent is the Times setting. can we please start a movement to simply destroy the Times membership already. please, how much more damage can we let them do before we all get together and force them to be more responsible.
- Sunday, December 30, 2007
- Ian said...
for those who are interested, Media Matters has a nice collection of Kristol's BS here:
- Sunday, December 30, 2007
- lovable liberal said...
Can anyone seriously imagine Rosenthal blasting conservative critics in the dismissive terms he uses against liberal ones? Like Congress, the NYT is suffering from a major case of battered spouse syndrome.
- Sunday, December 30, 2007
- lovable liberal said...
Oh, and one more thing: Kristol couldn't find his ass with both hands. He's a proven idiot. Can't the conservatives come up with anyone who has a record of being right about something, anything.
- Sunday, December 30, 2007
- Negroponte said...
Kristol is a an agit-prop con artist who has openly espoused the use of deception as a public virtue. He is a Straussian, through and through. Not enough people are calling him and his enablers out on this.
- Sunday, December 30, 2007
- Jen Clark said...
Just when Time Magazine gets rid of this guy, he gets picked up by the New York Times. It's just so wrong.
People are trying to be informed in this country, which is why they read the paper and watch television news. They have no idea the extent to which they are being lied to. We are in real trouble because these guys are given such huge platforms to re-write history and blur reality.
I believe strongly in freedom of speech. However, we should have more control over who gets the bullhorn.
When will people start losing their journalism jobs for lying?
- Sunday, December 30, 2007
i'd like to know how much kristol's personal financial portfolio, undoubtedly heavily vested in soviet style government contractors, has benefitted from the war he created.
- Sunday, December 30, 2007
It's not about opposing views, it's about putting a fact-challenged flat-earther on the op-ed page. One that doesn't care if your kids or my kids get killed as long as it costs him nothing but notoriety.
Kristol is not a journalist nor is he a fair dealer with facts about anything more challenging than what day of the week it is..
As soon as this was confirmed, I wrote an e-mail to the NYT objecting. Since then I have cancelled all online and other subscriptions to the new home of the NeoCons.
I guess their objective is to out Murdoch Murdoch. Can Page 3 girls be far behind?
- Sunday, December 30, 2007
Right on to Rootless-e for pointing out that the Times runs the gamut from center right to far right.
David Brooks, Maureen Dowd, Thomas Friedman,
who-the-hell-is-Roger Cohen (and does he ever write on any subject that is remotely interesting?)
...all tools of the Republican party.
SOME "liberal newspaper"...Paul Krugman and Bob Herbert and That's IT.
And the news has Elisabeth Bumiller, Michael Cooper, Katharine Seeley, Sheryl Gay Stohlberg, and Adam Nagourney...ALL biased against the Democrats and willing stenographers for the Republicans.
The Times USED to be a great newspaper.
No more.
- Sunday, December 30, 2007
- Lank George said...
Uh, yeah... so we all know that Rosenthal's dad (and previous NYT op/ed editor), besides being a hardcore homophobe, was also a stalwart neocon, right? He won an award called the "Defender of Zion" along with Podhertz, Pipes, and others of similar ilk. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, my friends.
- Sunday, December 30, 2007
I don't want to pay for a subscription to a newspaper that wants to hire Bill Kristol as a columnist, the same Bill Kristol that wants to bomb Iran.
I don't want to pay for bundled cable tv and thereby finance fox faux news.
I'm sick of the Judy Millers and lazy NYTs editors that brought this country to war on fraudulent intelligence. I'll be damned if I'll pay to see Republican propaganda in the editorial column on the paper of record, unless the news division fact checks it.
It's hard to understand that the NYT feels the need to give the editor of the Weekly Standard and Sunday Fox news program regular another bullhorn for his Republican party propaganda. Bye bye NYT. Go f*ck yourselves.
- Sunday, December 30, 2007
"Rosenthal told Politico.com shortly after the official announcement Saturday that he fails to understand "this weird fear of opposing views...."
I have opposing views also. Israel should be cut off, or moved to another part of the world, and neocons should be put on trial for the traitors that they are.
We should be encouraging opposing views, isn't that right Rosenthal?
- Sunday, December 30, 2007
Kristol is predictably, dependably, consistently wrong. But I'm not all that upset the Times is giving him a little Op-Ed real estate to demonstrate just how wrong leading conservatives have been.
Give Kristol some journalistic rope and he's guaranteed to hang himself.
- Sunday, December 30, 2007
- gleeindc said...
Perhaps if the Times had someone from farther left to add balance. I have no problem with presenting Mr. Kristol's views as opinion, but I do take issue with the media limiting the range to the left they allow.
- Sunday, December 30, 2007
Maybe they just figure it's the best way to keep him from trying to sick the feds on them.
Either that, or both the Times and WaPo can see their demise written on the internet wall, and they're doing their best to ensure that they won't be missed.
- Sunday, December 30, 2007
It's not about free speech. It's about judgment. The Times will never regain its credibility until it understands intolerance of bad judgment is essential to a good newspaper, and good government. Until then, we will be stuck in an incestuous cesspool of incompetence (Frank Rich and Krugman excepted).
- Sunday, December 30, 2007
- possum said...
Kristol is a Bush propagandist and a liar. He uses the "liberal elite," the same words used by Rush Limbaugh, Neal Boortz and other Bush toadies on the radio. The real problem is the "lying elite," which clearly includes the New York Times. Remember Judith Miller? The Times stands for nothing.
- Sunday, December 30, 2007
He's a voice of gravitas and significance on the Right. The NYT has been sinking in the quicksand with its too liberal orientation. This move restores balance and may help them begin building readership among Right demographics who read more, and buy more product, than Left readers.
- Sunday, December 30, 2007
larrybowa -
Are you serious? "Krsitol is excellent"? Have you ever read anything he's written? The man has been wrong in virtually every public utterance he's ever made. Why would you think someone who has proven himself time and again to be clueless is "excellent"? I can't wait to hear your assessment of GW...
- Sunday, December 30, 2007
- Brooke Chamberlain said...
Rosenthal defense about hiring Kristol is to claim that NYT readers fear "opposing views". What a ridiculous argument. Negative reaction to the NYT hiring Bill Kristol is not about fearing opposing views, it's about giving credence (and a platform) to a person who championed a war of choice and who has been wrong on almost everything in regard to foreign affairs to date. Will the New York Times hire Anne Coulter next? (And then try to justify it). The Kristol decision is a true misstep by the NYT.
- Sunday, December 30, 2007
This is Judy Miller's perfect remplacemt Hurray for Time's shareholders.
Bill Kristol (R) Tel Avid will do a good job.
- Sunday, December 30, 2007
- Sam Thornton said...
The single benefit to readers of the Times' Op-Ed section of a Kristol incumbency is in learning first-hand the latest lunatic views of the neocon cult without having to access one of their insipid rags.
This actually could prove both fun and funny.
- Sunday, December 30, 2007
No conservative voice? What's David Brooks - a flaming liberal? Kristol is without credibility, he's a partisan hack. Moves like this are why the NYT and other papers are losing circulation.
- Sunday, December 30, 2007
What, did Ann Coulter turn them down? This is just the same ivy league press circle jerk happening again.
- Sunday, December 30, 2007
My goodness. As the comments on this page make clear, Rosenthal is right. The Left is scared to death of being confronted with opposing views. It has become the most intolerant movement in the country. Thank goodness the American people have the good sense not to give the far Left too much political power, or we'd have a Stalinist state.
- Monday, December 31, 2007
Funniest event of the year!! The NYT has spent decades spreading biased liberal BS to its readers. Now the remaining readers of this Democrat Party Newsletter are so blindly drinking the Kool Ade of socialism that they accuse their own version of Tass of being biased towards Conservatives because they hire 1 conservative writer who will write one story a week. If the Liberal Agenda is so weak that 1 writer can tear it down maybe they need to reconsider that agenda.
- Monday, December 31, 2007
- lovable liberal said...
I see that the trolls are out in force to regurgitate their witless right-wing talking points. They hope that endless repetitions of bullshit will lead their weak-minded cohorts to believe the conservatives. They themselves probably still believe that Iraqis were involved with 9/11 and that Saddam had WMD. Information cannot argue with an open mouth.
- Monday, December 31, 2007
I don't mind opposing views. I'm not afraid to discuss issues. But Kristol has been wrong about Iraq. No WMD, no ties to al-Quaida, had nothing to do with 9/11, and to think that the Iraq military was a threat to the US is a gross insult.
Besides Kristol has his pulpit on Fox news. I think it would have been better for the NYT to hire a libertarian.
- Tuesday, January 01, 2008


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(NEW YORK) -- Delta Air Lines has partnered with Architectural Digest to develop the airline's first-ever outdoor airport terraces.
Called The Sky Deck at Delta Sky Club in Concourse F of Atlanta's new international terminal and in New York's redeveloped Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport, the terraces were designed by Thom Filicia, who was selected by Architectural Digest for the project.
"Amid the hustle and bustle of the airport experience, we seek to create a refuge, which represents Delta's dedication to elevated design and pays homage to an elegant lifestyle of travel and the spirit of flight," Filicia said.
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Michael Condon, executive director of the nonprofit that owns the USS Salem in the Quincy Shipyard, revealed Wednesday that he has agreed to move the former Navy cruiser to the Boston Harbor Shipyard & Marina.
The USS Salem is leaving Quincy and is headed to East Boston.
Michael Condon, executive director of the nonprofit that owns the former Navy cruiser, revealed Wednesday that he has agreed to move the ship to the Boston Harbor Shipyard & Marina as the MBTA prepares to sell the Quincy wharf which currently holds the Salem to local developer Jay Cashman.
The USS Salem was built at the Quincy shipyard in the 1940s. The Navy commissioned it in 1949 and decommissioned it in 1959. In 1994, the Salem returned to Quincy and a year later opened as the U.S. Naval Shipbuilding Museum, serving as a symbol of the city's shipbuilding history during World War II.
"We love Quincy and we felt that Quincy was the reason why the ship existed as a museum. But in the end, we felt the East Boston location is a place where the museum can blossom," Condon said Wednesday.
Condon estimated the USS Salem will likely be moved out of the Quincy shipyard in the next six to 12 months, and he said the MBTA and Cashman will help fund its relocation to East Boston.
The Boston shipyard is also home to the Nantucket Lightship, a popular historic site for tourists, and HarborArts, a collection of monumental sculptures and public art.
"We want to make a little destination place, and we hope the USS Salem rounds it out," said Dan Noonan, co-owner of Boston Harbor Shipyard and Marina.
Noonan said Condon has expressed interest in debuting the USS Salem in Boston in time to hold its popular Haunted Ship program before Halloween. Since the 1990s, the museum has also generated revenue by offering tours, educational programs and overnight stays for the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts.
The MBTA shut down access to the Salem last September after discovering that the wharf next to the ship was unstable. The museum has been closed to the public ever since.
The T decided to sell its wharf, including the pier that the Salem leases from the T, last fall after a water-main break further damaged a sea wall and cracked the pavement near the boarding area of the Fore River ferry terminal. The ferry service will not reopen, and the T has since expanded service out of the Hingham shipyard to accommodate Quincy passengers.
Last week, Fore River Recycling, a subsidiary owned by shipyard developer Jay Cashman, placed a $1.1 million bid to buy the T's property, comprised of nearly 12 acres of land and water rights. The T property abuts 26 acres that Cashman already owns at the shipyard.
Cashman said he has donated more than $100,000 to the USS Salem in past years, and he's a fan of the programs it offers. However, he said the East Boston location will provide a better place for the museum to thrive.
"Right now, they are kind of tucked under the (Fore River) bridge and they are not getting the visibility they can get in a location like Boston," Cashman said Wednesday.
After his purchase of the T property is finalized, Cashman said he'll repair the damaged wharf and expand the existing site of Cashman Dredging. In his current space, Cashman said his firm can only build about 75 percent of the dredgers on-site and the rest must be built in other shipyards.
Cashman said gaining control of the T space will also allow his company to build a marine railway to launch ships into the harbor.
"This gives us a little more elbow room. This will allow us to build from soup to nuts, do the outfitting and launch it ourselves," Cashman said.


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Dairy Today magazine and dairytoday.com won more than a dozen writing and web awards at the recent Agricultural Media Summit in Buffalo, N.Y.
MONTICELLO, Minn. -- Dairy Today magazine and dairytoday.com won more than a dozen writing and web awards, including best agricultural website, at the recent Agricultural Media Summit in Buffalo, N.Y.
Dairytoday.com took first place in websites in the American Agricultural Editors Association (AAEA) Digital and Social Media Awards program. Fellow Farm Journal Media website, Agweb.com, placed second. These awards are notable since the websites compete against all agricultural websites available to farmers, and they affirm Farm Journal Media's dominant market share in this marketing space.
Catherine Merlo, Western and online editor for Dairy Today, also was named a Level 5 Master Writer by AAEA. The recognition is one of the highest—and most sought after—awards bestowed by AAEA.
In the Livestock Publications Council contest, Dairy Today won six first place awards, five second place awards and three honorable mentions. It far outpaced all of its competitors.
Merlo won three of the first place awards, for News story, Instructional story and Feature/Human Interest story.
Jim Dickrell, Dairy Today editor, won two first place awards for Marketing story and Farm/Ranch profile.
The magazine also won a first place award for Event/Show Program for its 2012 World Dairy Expo Official Program.
Dairytoday.com won a second place in the LPC website division, and an honorable mention for its Dairy Today eUpdate weekly online newsletter.
To view Dairy Today's website and magazines, go to www.dairytoday.com.
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Fonterra Places Two Senior Managers on Leave


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LOWELL — A dispute over a frozen cheese pizza has landed a Tewksbury man in legal trouble after police said they found a handgun and bullets in his Main Street home Wednesday.
Tewksbury police say Henry Mulholland Jr.'s housemate reported to police that he and Mulholland argued via text messages because Mulholland ate his pizza. The messages included threats to kill and break the housemate's jaw, prosecutors allege.
Mulholland bought a handgun two weeks earlier, the housemate told police.
Tewksbury police searched the 1192 Main St. home, where Mulholland, his wife and the housemate live.
Police said they found, in a TV cabinet, a Smith & Wesson handgun, a 15-round magazine of bullets, a box of Federal 38 Special ammunition, five loose bullets in a wooden box and proof of residency, according to court documents.
Mulholland allegedly denied having knowledge of any firearms. When asked what was in the cabinet, he responded, "a chest of coins," police allege.
Police said they found a bullet on Mulholland during booking. Mulholland allegedly told police the bullet was 28 years old and he received it from a 12-step program to remind him of the saying having "a slip" would mean he would "bite the bullet."
Mulholland told police the victim was setting him up because he was being evicted.
Police listened to one of Mulholland's voice-mail messages, in which Mulholland allegedly told the housemate they could go outside and "settle things like men." The housemate told police the subsequent voice-mail messages were more threatening.
In Lowell District Court on Thursday, Mulholland, 57, was released on personal recognizance. He pleaded not guilty to possession of a large-capacity firearm (three counts), improper storage of a large-capacity firearm, possession of a firearm without a firearms-identification card, possession of ammunition without a firearms-identification card, and threats.
As part of his release, Mulholland must stay away from and have no contact with the alleged victim, and to not possess guns or ammunition.
His next court date is July 8 for a probable-cause hearing.
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If you dug the soulful hip-hop of Toussaint Morrison's recent mixtapes, then you'll definitely want to check out Wiggle, the debut by his producer Dr. Wylie.
The opening track "GFGDGT" stands for Good Food, Good Drinks, Good Times. It conveys all that and more with its grinding anchor of a beat and a cosmic synth lead that toes the line between Dam Funk and Dabke (that spirited solo about 2 minutes in particularly recalls this vibe). More highlights include the talkbox-infused spacious groove of "Favrit Flayvah" and the hop-along organ beat of "Happy Money."
Wiggle was released by Urban Home Companion. The Twin City activist/art collective is a home for music by Dr. Wylie, Toussaint Morrison, and their talented collaborators. It's also a platform for forays into film and theater. We're looking forward to new releases by both Dr. Wylie and Toussaint Morrison this April!


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By parco on Monday, December 10, 2018I bought this car new in Jan of 2012 , it is now about 7 years old. It is a 3.6 V6 and has incredible power and on interstate at 80 mph for a round trip of 22 hours it averaged 35 MPG with 3 people and a/c running. Very pleased with the car but one problem. It has a lot of body rattles. More than any other car I have ever owned. Still I would buy another one.
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By Power on Tuesday, July 03, 2018All i have to say is WOW. This car is awesome! It will throw your head into the seat and make you pay for smashing that gas pedal. 370 screaming HEMI ponies are on tap just about anywhere in the rev range and when they scream, they scream loud! This car sounds like a screaming banshee after about 4600RPMs. sure a newer Mustang GT will pull you 3 lengths on the freeway, and a Camero SS will blow your doors off on that straight stretch, but on the back roads, this beast becomes a true weapon. It handles like a whale on train tracks, you can sling this bad boy into a hairpin and smash the pedal and lose almost no speed. Dodge did a fantastic job of handing the body roll of this fat beast. this car truly becomes a different animal hitting the curves, fast acceleration will have you hitting 3 digits quicker than you sensibly want and great brakes will keep you out of the bushes. this car is truly a work of MERICAN Art. The only thing i hate about this car is the gas mileage...but thats the price you pay for such an amazing car.
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Wordy Wednesday: Our Office Assistants
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- AnonymousApril 14, 2010 at 3:50 AM
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- AnonymousApril 14, 2010 at 4:50 AM
Cute! That looks like what our cats do - lay on or around computers as much as possible, if not our laps. :-DReplyDelete
And when do they want the most attention? When I've said, "Oh my gosh! I think I found something!" LOL
Great pictures of your cats!ReplyDelete
Too cute, gotta love it!ReplyDelete
I love it. Makes me miss my kitties.ReplyDelete
I only have one office assistant. She is either waiting for me or jumps up when she sees me sitting down to the computer. Her favorite place is smack dab in front of the screen. Probably one reason why I make so many mistakes...lol Cute kitties.ReplyDelete
Love it.ReplyDelete
Looks like my office only I have one dog and a tuxedo cat
Wendy - I've heard that called The Law of Cat Presence - "Where your attention is, that is where the cat must be."ReplyDelete
Harriet, Mary, MIchelle - Thank you!
Linda - When I let the cats into my office, that is exactly what they do. They also get very interested when I tune the harp or put CDs in our CD player.
Steve - You can't tell it from the picture, but Boo-Boo (the Computer Cat) is also a tuxedo cat.


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Saturday December 22 2007 11:30:00 AM
Surf spot: Mavericks, United States of America
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Wind direction: Onshore
Wind Strength: Established
Nb waves ridden: 1
Length of the surf session: 180 min
Surfboard ridden: 12'8.5" standup gun
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Waves height: 4.5m-6m / 15ft-20ft
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Made it out and back without the assistance of the Coast Guard and didn't end up in the e.r. - so I guess this was a good session. Still sitting in the channel. I was very conservative today. One did come my way - didn't fully commit and I missed it. I did get a little one though...purely by accident...as I was coming in - at the spot where the kayaks sit. Someone in the parking lot told me that's called the yacker bowl.
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BOSTON, Mass. – Despite playing with 10 men for almost 85 minutes, men's soccer nearly took down conference leader UMass Dartmouth, as the Beacons fired off three goals in the second half to lead the contest. Unfortunately it was the visiting Corsairs who would have the final say as they netted a pair of goals in the final 20 minutes to earn the 4-3 Little East Conference win Saturday afternoon at the Clark Athletic Center Field.
Securing the conference win for the Corsairs was John Macaroco on a Jordan Sindo assist. Sindo crossed the ball into the Beacons goal box, where Macaroco headed it home at the 75 minute mark. With the victory UMD improved to 8-3, 4-0 in the conference and with the 1-1 tie between Eastern Connecticut State University and Keene State College, the Corsairs moved into sole possession of first place in the LEC. UMass Boston fell to 3-7-2, 0-4 in the conference after Saturday's tough loss.
Saturday's contest got off to a very difficult start for both squads. Just five minutes in UMass Boston's Victor Hugo Costa (Brasilia, Brazil) went for a 50-50 ball in the Corsairs goal box where he collided with goalkeeper Jon Doucette. The then starting goalkeeper for UMD would have to leave the field do to that collision and Costa would also leave the game on a changed yellow to red card by the official.
After a very quiet 30 minutes, Saturday's conference match resumed and quickly picked-up intensity. The two teams rattled off a combined 13 shots in the first 45 minutes of play, but neither team was able to break goal line.
It was not until after the break that things really started to heat-up at the Clark Athletic Field. Just one minute and 19 seconds into the second half, the Corsairs broke the scoreless draw on a goal from Anthony Dos Santos, his first of the season. Santos placed a Jacinto Centeio corner kick to the near post to make 1-0.
UMass Boston finally ended their scoring draught in a huge way, with help from a player who throughout his entire career has prevented goals rather than scoring them. That game-changing player was senior Brycen Dowd (Mansfield, Mass.). Still wearing the cast that took him out of the goal, Dowd was a freight train on the field going through the Corsairs defense at will.
His first of two scores came in the 63rd minute when Dowd took a combined three shots all of which bounced off of a UMD player before it landing in the back of the net. Just minutes later, UMD retook control of the scoreboard when Victor Ferreira was able to collect a loose ball in the Beacons goal box and place it home to make it 2-1 in favor of the visitors.
However just moments later, Dowd struck again, this time with a little help from Brian Sanz (Belo Horizonte, Brazil). The two seniors connected on a free kick, with Dowd heading the then game-tying goal for the Beacons. UMass would then take their first lead of the afternoon as Alejandro Lazalde (Monterrey, Mexico) put on a great display of ball control, by dribbling through two Corsair defensemen before crushing a shot to the upper near post. The three Beacons goals coupled with the one UMass Dartmouth goal were scored within a six minute window.
Even with the late rally, the Beacons could not overcome the one-man difference, which Dartmouth used to get their final two goals. UMD's third goal came from Sindo off of a Alief Soloman cross. Now tied at 3-3, it took just three minutes before the Corsairs regained control of the scoreboard and eventually earned the win.
In goal, sophomore Bryce Menard (Randolph, Mass.) was solid all afternoon for the Beacons coming-up with one great save after another. On the day, the Randolph native totaled four stops, with one save also going to Menard's defense, which cleared the ball out just as it was getting ready to cross the goal line. Mike Phelan, who replaced the injured Doucette, totaled five saves to earn his eighth win of the year. Doucette tallied one-stop before the collision in the opening minutes.
UMass Dartmouth held a 20-13 advantage in shots, with both teams recorded nine shots on goal. The two teams were even in corner kicks as well with three each.
Men's Soccer returns to action on Wednesday when they travel to Emerson College for a 6 p.m. non-conference game.


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White-eye is a small bird with yellow green body, whose eye is on a white ground.
Why not make a bird of felt?
This is 10cm length.
Sew the body except the tail. Turn inside out.
Glue the tail and iron it. Then trim it.
The beak doesn't need seam allowance.
Glue it on the top of the face. Some glue makes the beak hard.
Stuff the body with polyesterfiberfill.
Glue white and black circles on the face. You may use beads as eyes.
Cut the wings and glue or sew them.
Wrap a wire with a tape.
Bundle 4 wires together. It is a leg.
Make 2 holes on the belly. Stick the legs.
Jan 28, 2008
White-eye is a small bird with yellow green body, whose eye is on a white ground.
Jan 8, 2008
Mini dog
Tiny Jack Russell terrier of felt. About 4 centimeters.
Cutting. It needs seam allowance (3 millimeters), except ears.
Sew the head and the body. (j-i)
Sew the middle of the body. (a-b, i-h, g-f)
And sew the crown to the head. (i-j-a-j-i)
Sew the speckle of the back. (h-g-h)
Sew the belly to the body.
Turn inside out.
Stuff polyester fiberfill.
Close the opening (k-l) with ladder stitch.
Embroider the nose and the mouth.
Attach beads for eyes.
Sew the ear to the head.
Sew the tail. Turn inside out.
Stitch the tail to the hip.
This article was renewed November, 2013.
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For starters, you will need to get your tax identification number to avoid a 7.5% fee on your earnings (if the company you are working for takes their accounting seriously). Yes, you do have options to do things under the table (this is Lebanon after all!), but if you are serious about being able to grow your services into a full-fledged business (like me), you will need to do things the right way.
I recently went to get my tax identification number so that I can start doing some contract work in my field of Web Development and Agile Consulting. I worked as a consultant for 3 years in the US as part of a small consultancy called OpenSource Connections, before starting work on Jogabo (you can take a look at my past experiences here). But now that I am in Lebanon, I am starting to give workshops (eg. Best Practices Workshop) and trying to get some consulting work done.
So, as a freelancer or contractor what do you have to do to be able to bill for your work, legally? I asked a couple of friends who are in the same field as I am to get an idea what I'm up against. These two friends are people who have already gone through the process themselves. So theoretically they should have valid and valuable information.
Friend number 1 had done this outside of Beirut, since that's where his residence is, so when I asked him he said the following:
- Go to the Ministry of Finance office in DT
- Take take a copy of your ID
- Take a copy of your diploma
- Take a "tasemo7" signed by your father saying he gives you permission to use the apartment he is renting as your location of work. And that this could not get us in trouble with the landlord and that we would not be evicted (important, since we still have an old lease)
- Fill 2 forms they will give you there, it will only cost you LL2,000 the cost of a stamp
Friend number 2 had done this in order to become part of the Engineering Syndicate in Lebanon, he told me the following:
- Go the Ministry of Finance office next to Jiser el Naher, after Mat7af, next to el 3adliyeh (Ministry of Justice), the one in DT is actually the office of the minister. According to your profession, they will tell you what to paperwork you need
So I called my father asking him to prepare the paper for the lease. He objected saying that this would cause us big trouble with the landlord and that he would ask a Moukhtar (local notary) friend of ours about this. My dad then called back saying he had talked to another friend who works at the Ministry of Finance and that he got the required documents.
I decided to have my father come with me, just in case we were asked about some paperwork related to the lease or whatnot, he'd be there ready to answer. We gathered all paperwork we thought we might need, according to 3 different sources. Of course, the third source had told us that we had to go the ministry's offices on Bechara El Khoury (neither one of the other locations I was told about by my friends). Here's what I had with me:
- My ID and a photocopy
- My father's ID and a photocopy
- A photocopy of my diploma notarized by a notary public in Virginia (where I got my diploma)
- A photocopy of my diploma notarized by a notary public, signed by the Virginia Commonwealth and the Ministry of Interior of the US government
- A recent lease agreement in my father's name, with a photocopy
- A signed "tasemo7", nautorized by the Moukhtar
- Myself and my father
We were taking no prisoners 😛
We get there. Again, the offices on Bechara El Khoury, before Sodeco, the building on the island separating the two ways going to and coming from the Downtown. Go up to the first floor. Enter the first office on the right. "Saba7o", "Ahla". "Mishein el ra2em el meleh", "eh hon, tfaddal". Great! We were in the right spot. That's achievement number 1. We get our turn, we ask what we need to do. The guy asks me immediately: are you an Engineer ("Mhandis"), or a Doctor? Limited choices, right? My father immediately answers "Engineer," proudly, before I get to give my answer. The guy immediately said that I have to be part of the Syndicate of Engineers to apply for the my tax number. Now, my dad gave the correct answer, but not the appropriate answer. See, I do have a computer engineering degree. Except that my 4 year degree from the US, no matter how much more advanced it might be, is still only a 4 year degree and does not qualify me to be part of the syndicate, since their requirements are a 5 year degree (because that's how long it takes at the Lebanese University). So I cut in and said that I want to work as a Web Developer, not as an Engineer. That seemed to solve everything.
So, we asked again, what do we need? He got 2 forms for us: the M10 and the M11. Told us that we need to fill them out. Have a copy of my ID. Then he asked what's our living situation, do we own or rent and is the rent old or new. When we said we rent and it's an old rent, he told us that all we need is a copy of the receipt of a recent tax payment on the rental and a copy of the rental agreement. That was it! BUT… that was the one thing we didn't bring! Oh, the irony!
No problem. We filled out the forms. Went back home. Got the proper paper. Came back. Gave it to the guy who we talked to. He circled some things, signed the papers and told us to go have the papers signed by another guy in the same office. That person then looked over the papers, circled something else, signed them and then told us to go to the window outside the office and give them the paperwork. We went there, gave the women the paperwork, she typed the data into her computer and then passed the papers to the guy sitting next to her. I just did a simple slide to the right (now clap your hands!), that guy also signed some things, filed something in this HUGE book he had in front of him, gave us a paper which was the equivalent of a receipt saying the paperwork was filed and told us to come back in 2 days for pick up.
Typical Lebanese procedures. You ask 3 different people what needs to be done, you get 3 different answers. In fact, when we got there, we saw signs all over the wall saying that a "tasemo7" will not be accepted for a lease, only from the owner of the apartment. At that point we thought we were screwed. But even one of the employees was on the phone talking to her boss asking about this policy to check. Of course I did try to look for information on the ministry's website but it had no relevant information. Your best bet is always to go there, put on a good smile with a nice "saba7o", maybe even wear bright colors (I was wearing an orange UVA hoodie) and hope the person you're dealing with had his chill pill 🙂
But in case you were wondering, and you want to be a web development freelancer, here's what I had to have:
- A copy of my ID
- A copy of the lease
- A copy of a recent tax receipt on the payment of the lease
- Forms M10 and M11 (very basic, name and address and signature) that you get from there
Four business days later (they said two, but I gave them a grace period), I went back to same place for the pickup. I brought the application receipt they had given me on the first day, a copy of my ID and a 1,000L.L. stamp, and I received my company registration certificate:
That's it! It seems like a complicated process, it may deter many from even trying, yet it's very simple and straight forward. Surprising for a bureaucratic country like Lebanon, right?
BONUS 1: the process is the same if you're a business consultant (or marketing, or designer, etc)
BONUS 2: if you own the house or apartment, you only need a copy of the deed, even if it's owned by one of your parents, and you do not need an authorization paper ("tasemo7")
N.B.: bring all orignal documents with you for authenticity verification purposes (you'll only submit the copy though)
As for foreigners, my understanding is that for you to work in Lebanon, you have to have a work permit and that work permit has to be sponsored by your employer. But for freelancing gigs, you will be forced to take the 7.5% deduction since you will not be paying taxes in Lebanon, instead you'll be paying your taxes back in your home country.
– Youssef


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