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Fears rise as Google tries to emulate Microsoft
We prefer Exxon as our master
Stern response I have faced the giant and won. That much is clear from your letters related to my incisive analysis last week, exploring Google's ills.
Only sadists really like this company, while the rest of us approach it with caution. Do we need another choke point on the flow information? I don't think so. Having Google dominate the browser is just like Microsoft dominating the desktop. Let's get an open source search engine going right now.
I could go on about this all day and night and then into tomorrow and probably the day after. But let's turn to your letters instead.
I haven't enjoyed a technology piece so much for many years. You are set to become the LJK Setright of IT Journalism.... Peter
No, Peter. I'm just the Old Otto. You are right about the brilliance claim though.
Interesting.... I guess you're what we in the UK call a "stirrer", one of the most important sociological types if you ask me. Nice work, enjoy your stuff enormously, thanks
Keith Carter
Well, Keith, that is what my dear wife Gertrude called me before her untimely death. Thanks for the kind words and shame on you for dredging up such terrible memories.
thank you! I thought that I was the only person who thought that the grubby fingers of google were starting to get a little too personal (i'm not really into that fetish). The entire geek/techy world seems to be hanging on the every word and product as google as the next technological revolution. Personally, I'm getting sick of it, and i'm glad someone else is.
All Hail to Google!! Zeig Heil!!
Ben Lambert
Please leave the Germans out of the Google debate.
Let's face it : The comparison of gas and google dont hold a second.
Gas prices hurt everyone bad at the moment. At 3 bucks a gallon .. what the oil indistry is doing is suck up the economy . Trucking industry , transport cars , jets, heating .. we have no choice but to bend and pay up. The gas we all consume is not a luxury .. it's a must. It's unfortunately holding us all by the tweeties and they are squeezing hard. Google aint ! .. Im not in any way defending either side .. but if you dont like google dont use it .. Gas may be another story .... Im just really eager to see the results of people stopping using gas ! Back to the stone age guys .
Have fun :) Im enjoying your column
Ric Hebert
I had a Google man come to the door, and he certainly said something about my tweeties. So don't speak too soon, Ric.
You attack Google ... an upstart company ... and ignore Microsoft's real global monopoly.
You sound just like a Microsoft shill.
Lloyd Silverberg
Do us all a favor, Lloyd, and improve your reading comprehension skills. For $800, I'll go back through the story and highlight the bits that address how Microsoft is the problem Google is becoming.
For a while now, I have been getting more and more disgusted with the ever-failing quality of tech journalism. It seems like everyone just has the same non-thinking tripe to pass around. Tech sites have become such a constant regurgitation of this moronic crap, that I was just about to stop reading anything.
Then I came across your article "Big Google is much worse than Big Oil," and I had hope again! I am so glad to see there is someone out there with something interesting to say, and who has better things to do than just repeat the same "Google does no evil" crap.
Lee Lloyd
Yeah, you'll need to read CNET for the objective reporting on how wonderful Google is.
Followed your SkyCar link, and saw that:
Skycar Update It is exciting to see the test nacelle as it goes together. There is a big advantage when one re-creates an already tested product. The experience from our earlier nacelle tests taught us:
5. Using methanol as a fuel is toxic to eyes, lungs and skin (forms formaldehyde).
Yes, they actually had to find that out from an earlier test. Hilarious! Aravind
No comment.
It's amazing how loud the reader can hear the voice of an author seething through the literal text of the written word, especially when the writer has an extreme bitter gripe. Your bitterness, sir, supercedes the article you are writing. I highly disagree with your statement. The difference between Google and the Big Oil Company is Google has the ability to push an e-commerce business revenue and profit into the stratosphere polyfold as many businesses have atested to.
This it does for a very inexpensive price, low enough for even the smallest businesses to afford. On the other hand, big oil companies know that it has the entire economy at its knees and takes full advantage of this setting unreasonable prices in production and raw materials to the point where many companies who depend on this overpriced oil fall victim to lagging profits and revenues. You're inability to see this due to your bitterness toward Google. Do us all a favor and check your blinders at the door next time.
Jeff Daniels
I'll check my blinders if you pull your head out of . . . . Wait, wait. The editors told me to be nicer.
Good point.
Oh, for Pete's sake.
Do you REALLY think the U.S. Senate is cracking down on big oil? Have you considered the possibility that these "hearings" might only be a big show that is intended to prop up the sagging popularity of the Republican party, conveniently right around election day?
Talk is cheap. I'll believe it if and when they actually *do* something.
Jude Suszko
You are funny. Can't take you seriously however. Sounds like big oil has tainted your brain. I'm so sick of paying what a big oil company wants this week or this month or this year I'mk close to getting rid of everything that requires oil to run and just ride my Segway! At least Google peddles harmless things and doesn't use up limited resources. There's plenty of tripe available, as witnessed by your column and others.
Good luck with getting your brain adjusted. I just wouldn't try oiling it anymore. Probably needs some time to dry out.
James Perdue
Hmmm... You appear to be a complete and utter wanker. First, those oil companies are already loaded. They don't need the money. Rather than investing the money they do have in to finding ways of creating renewable energy they prefer to pollute the planet as much as possible (to ensure that even the richest people, and all their descendents - along with the rest of the planet - will eventually die in a thick cloud of america's finest smog), they much prefer to get the US puppet government to go invading countries all over the place. A bit like a modern day Crusades - only this time as well as getting to kill, imprison or enslave vast numbers of non-Christians, you also get a shit load of oil out of the bargain and best of all it'll be sold in $ rather than Euros!
The US government bitch slapping oil companies for making too much money is merely a limp and very transparent gesture to raise public support for the Bush (another word for Twat) administration while behind the scenes the likes of Haliburton (ooh, I wonder how many of these politicians own shares in that?) rake in billions getting the soverign state they just invaded to pay for repairs to the damage that they effectively caused. Second, open source stuff is rather important if you must know. I guess as you just sit in your desert bunker wanking over pictures of Bill G (probably because Steve Ballmer pays you to or threatens to throw a chair at you), you never actually got round to setting up a software company in this day and age where it's almost impossible to compete with huge monopolies like Microsoft.
Open Source gives start-ups a fighting chance at actually getting on some form of level footing and having a chance to see if we can do any better. If Google is the next Mircosoft, then I say great! At least they have open API's!
And what the fuck's with that picture in the article? I feel all dirty and raped after seeing it. At least put up a picture of some fine naked frippet for us to gork at while reading your fesering tripe excuse for a story*. As a final thought, take a big sledge hammer and hit yourself over the head repeatedly with it. If that doesn't knock some sense in to you, at least you'll die in a pool of your own blood and brain cells. Oh, sorry, just blood - there's obviously no brain matter in that cranium/cavity/cavern/vacuum of yours.
If you were German, you'd be the sort of gimp that thinks David Hasslehof's music videos are great. Weirdo!
* Like a really bad movie, your stories need to be read in full just because it's human nature to hope that things can't get any better. Unlike a bad movie, we don't ponder afterwards "that was crap, but I actually enjoyed watching it" - we just think "Hmmm... You appear to be a complete and utter wanker."
Now go back to the top of this article and recursievely read for the rest of your life (assuming you are to incompetant to beat yourself round the head with a really big hammer).
Oh, I fogot to mention...
You have no friends. You ooze puss from every pore. You smell of poo. Guy
Bravo, with lots of applause, and a great big LOL on the STDoogle.
Shane Kent
Thank you all for appreciating my genius. ®
Otto Z. Stern is a director at The Institute of Technological Values - a think tank dedicated to a more moral digital age. He has closely monitored the IT industry's intersection with America's role as a world leader for thirty years. You can find Stern locked and loaded, corralling wounded iLemmings, nursing an opal-plated prostate, wearing a smashing suit, dropping a SkyCar on the Googleplex, spitting on Frenchmen, vomiting in fear with a life-sized cutout of Hilary Rosen at his solar-powered compound somewhere in the Great American Southwest.


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Eisenhower Memorial Proposed Design
By Emma DumainRoll Call Staff
The Eisenhower Memorial Commission would not receive any new funds in fiscal 2013 under a draft bill unveiled Tuesday from the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior, Environment and Related Agencies.
Opponents perceive the move as another blow to the 11-member commission tasked with overseeing the realization of a monument to former president and World War II hero Dwight Eisenhower.
"[It] reflects a growing public concern over this controversial project. It shows that objections to the memorial's content, size and selection process are being heard," said Sam Roche, a University of Miami architecture lecturer and author who is acting as a spokesman for the coalition of activists opposed to the current design.
Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah), chairman of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, which has held a hearing on the project, said the decision not to further fund the commission was a sound one.
"I think it's wise until we can get more clarity on what the memorial should be," said Bishop, who indicated that he would recommend the Appropriations Committee withhold additional funding until "consensus" can be reached.
The Eisenhower Memorial Commission has been the subject of scrutiny in recent months, with critics alleging it is pushing ahead with a controversial design by renowned architect Frank Gehry despite opposition from, among others, the Eisenhower family.
Multiple meetings to approve the design for groundbreaking have been postponed as more stakeholders demand to see models and speak with the commissioners about the process used to select Gehry.
Earlier this month, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar requested another delay in order to have a private viewing of the design.
For fiscal 2013, the Eisenhower Memorial Commission had requested $59.8 million, the bulk of which would go toward construction costs. For fiscal 2012, it received roughly $32 million.
Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.), the ranking member of the House subcommittee who has spoken out against Gehry's concept, suggested Tuesday that the decision to withhold money would send a message.
"It's a tight budget year and it seems to me, on something like this, you should have consensus before you commit any further money to it," he said.
The subcommittee's chairman, Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), is also among the eight Congressional lawmakers who were tapped to serve on the Eisenhower Memorial Commission. It struck many stakeholders as surprising that he would allow funding to be cut off for an ambitious undertaking in which he is significantly involved.
"I'd be lying if I didn't say I was surprised, but Mr. Simpson is a very rational person who understands he is under tremendous pressure to bring balance to everything, and if this is controversial, if consensus is not there … it's logical," Bishop said.
Simpson told Roll Call that he did not feel a tension between his two roles that would now seem at odds with one another.
"This was not a repudiation of what the Commission is doing," he said. "It's not at all. It's just, you know, we've only got so much money, and if we had another $50 million we'd put that in."
In fact, Simpson and Moran both said the commission still has close to $30 million left from its fiscal 2012 appropriation. Commission spokeswoman Chris Cimko also told Roll Call that the project was still funded through fiscal 2013, possibly because ground was never broken and construction deferred.
"They don't really need any more money this year," Simpson said, adding that he would also "like to see a resolution between the commission and the family."
Rep. Raúl Grijalva (Ariz.), ranking Democrat of the National Parks subcommittee, still said he is concerned about what effect the lack of new funding would have on the Commission's efforts and momentum.
"[Eisenhower] deserves it, there should be a place of honor for him and it has already been consigned by Congress," Grijalva said. "To zero it out is kind of a back door way to kill the project."
Grijalva said he is prepared to offer an amendment on the House floor to restore some of the funding.
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Health care's family feud
To understand the machinations behind Monday's health care announcements, imagine an unhappy young couple trying to cut corners, all the while chaperoned by well-meaning, buttinsky aunts who keep bumping into one another.
House and Senate Democrats are the distrustful couple; the Congressional Budget Office and Senate parliamentarian the two strait-laced aunts with conflicting advice on the do's and don'ts that lie ahead.
And as the House Budget Committee kicked off the process Monday afternoon, the rampant confusion is a lesson in the fact that cutting corners is never a good start in Congress.
The time-honored legislative process would have been for the House and Senate to conference on their respective health bills, reach agreement, vote and then send the package on to President Barack Obama. But with the loss of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts, Democrats no longer have a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority in the Senate, and the party leadership has concluded that a shortcut is needed if comprehensive reform is to be enacted.
To cross the finish line, the House is taking a two-pronged approach that means sending the Senate's unvarnished version of reform to Obama and then immediately initiating changes in a second sidecar bill that invokes budget "reconciliation" privileges to circumvent the threat of a Senate filibuster.
It will be a huge lift, but Senate Democratic leaders are sworn to come up with the 51 votes needed; if so, the final result will be as close to a compromise as the two sides can hope for at this stage.
Trying to slow this train, Republicans are pulling all levers to sow doubts in the House that the second bill will make it through the Senate — a nightmare for Democrats. The past week has seen Washington a twitter over what the two aunts are up to — neither of whom talks publicly, which adds to the confusion.
The preferred solution for Democrats would be for Obama to hold off signing anything until the sidecar health bill has cleared Congress — something neither CBO nor the parliamentarian's office rules out.
CBO typically scores bills against current law, but there are precedents for doing the same with legislation that is still on its way to the White House having cleared the House and Senate. And despite recent press reports, Senate Parliamentarian Alan Frumin has been open to several ways that reconciliation could be accomplished without the big Senate bill first being signed.
The path gets more confused when the two aunts start advising on how to get there.
CBO has said nothing officially but it's clearly signaled that the most practical approach would be for the reconciliation bill to be written to directly reference the larger Senate bill.
For example, because the House wants higher health insurance subsidies than the Senate, referring to the Senate bill provides context for changing the parameters of what are really new structures for government, such as proposed insurance exchanges. From CBO's own standpoint, the certainty of the policy effect would be greater if it were written in specific reference to the Senate bill.
But for the parliamentarian, this is the hardest route to defend if Democrats truly want to avoid having an early bill signing.
Frumin has privately argued that if reconciliation is to change law, what it changes must truly be law — not simply a bill on its way to the president. He's pointed to alternative routes such as amending the underlying Social Security or Medicare statutes on which much of the Senate bill rests. But if the bill is written to specifically build on the Senate bill — thereby helping with CBO scoring -- then Obama will have to sign it into law before Senate action.
A compromise might yet be found, but after weeks of trying different drafting approaches, the House appears resigned to moving ahead with an approach that directly references the Senate-passed bill.
"We're in the process of — actually contacting every single Democratic senator," said Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on NBC's "Meet the Press." "When Nancy Pelosi goes before her House Democratic Caucus it will be with the solid assurance that when reconciliation comes over to the Senate side, we're gonna pass it."


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Thursday, August 25, 2011
Some Days Turn Out To Be Great Days.. Especially When Photos of Ex-Boyfs Are Involved.
Cocktails and Hot Wheels Ashley Paige at 7:00 AM
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This post made my morning... Too funny!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 25, 2011 at 8:49 AM
Haha, I love when ex's post hilarious photos of themselves. Mine has a whole album of mobile uploads on facebook that make me pee my pants.ReplyDelete
At least the gay boy flips will come in handy dancing with Irene...ReplyDelete
Love it!
Ha!! Love it!ReplyDelete
I die I die! I love you and your posts. You always know how to pick me up on a slow wanting to sleep morning. hahaReplyDelete
looove this! glad to know i'm not the only person to cyber search ex's and get way to much amusement out of itReplyDelete
LOL - is it bad that, even though *I* de-friended (I take great pride in that!) my most recent ex (the SAE boy, remember him?) on FB, I can still see his wall and the pictures of him and his brunette Brazilian (yes!) girlfriend he broke my heart for?! I can laugh now - I know he looks back at my profile pic with the most awesome man I ever had, that makes the ex look like a sack of schmidt!ReplyDelete
Nothing wrong with a little nostalgia with a heaping scoop of evil-ness and sass. Keep rockin!
haha too funny. gotta love when the ex's arent lookin too hot.ReplyDelete
Hi-larious start to my day. Go get 'em, Irene!ReplyDelete
Ash- you could have made this one a linked-up one because I could share a few fun stories like your's myself! Love it!ReplyDelete
This post cracked me up!
and the bra thing? FOR SURE!
Haha! My ex got married in a backyard wedding in our hometown last summer. It felt goooooooood! (His wife is really skinny though. Whatevs)ReplyDelete
ahahahah. You must have known he got engaged right or do you conduct that search often? Unfortunately For me, I know my hs/college ex is doing very well and looking very good :(ReplyDelete
Don't you just love it. Feels good, in an evil (yet fun) way!ReplyDelete
Mine has gained a few lbeeez also.
I spent 7 years with that one and he found me on FB and now we are FB friends...how sweet?
Haha, that is too funny! I was smiling all the way until the ex, then I was laughing so hard my C woke up from his nap, oopsie. We don't party like it's 1999 here, so I had to get him back to nap land ASAP! Thanks for making me laugh daily =)ReplyDelete
Haha, too funny! Love it! I was smiling all the way to your ex, then I was laughing out loud. I got a little too loud as my C woke from nap! We don't party like it's 1999, so I had to get him back down STAT! Thanks for making me laugh daily =)ReplyDelete
haha! You are too funny.. Lets hope Irene takes those flips flops with her! :)ReplyDelete
Ha! Love this. You win!ReplyDelete
Oh my gahhh.... I love it. That sounds like a perfect day to me fo' sho'.ReplyDelete
That was funny!! WINNING!!ReplyDelete
You crack me the eff up! Great post and SO true. I saw one of my ex's on facebook and he had gained about 100lbs and had a MULLET. Yikes!ReplyDelete
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Before any possible fallout over the title, let me explain.
It is not my gigantormous ego talking, daring to call these chicken wings "savory" when they may not be. I am not influencing your perception of my recipe for chicken wings, although you may indeed find, after testing the recipe yourself, that these are some mighty-savory, savory-to-the-max, chicken wings.
Furthermore, please note I don't have a gigantormous ego. My ego is very proportionate to the reality of myself. ;)
The name is an invocation of the chicken I had enjoyed ages and ages ago.
Growing up before the age of factory-farmed chicken, my favourite meat was, indeed, chicken. I would eat every part of it with gusto, even biting through the bones and sucking the oh-so-very-scrumptious marrow up so-very-undelicately. I must have looked like a dog instead of a little girl when I had chicken bones in my hands and marrow bits on my face.
There used to be a famous restaurant in Manila called "Savory Restaurant."
If memory serves me right, it was located on the right hand side of the street, just before what is now called the Filipino-Chinese Friendship Arch (aka "Goodwill Arch"), which marked the entrance to Manila's Chinatown (interestingly, the oldest Chinatown in the world).
I remember the restaurant's name was in big, red orange letters, the bold block font signalling its no-nonsense approach to food and the seriousness of its purpose.
Food will be savory, dang it!
Needless to say, the chicken was fabulously savory. Everytime my parents would bring home a box of Savory chicken, I would be the first to open the box and dig in with both hands. The overall flavour of the signature chicken dish, I would say, was similar to a Cantonese roast barbecued duck, but, of course, not exactly the same. The skin was not roasted to a crisp, but still rather soft, but the meat, the meat, oh my goodness, the meat! Juicy, delectable, lipsmackingly -- you guessed it -- SAVORY.
So, this is my attempt capturing the flavours I remember from those chicken of years past. I must say that the recipe I have here does not duplicate Savory's chicken, but it does succeed in evoking fond Savory memories. (I think I need to finetune and tinker with the recipe a bit more to get it "just right.")
At the very least, it is my own version of savory, so please enjoy.
To get into the mood, here are beautiful photos of Manila Chinatown, including shots of food/ingredients for sale.
The Goodwill Arch
Welcome Arch
More info about Manila Chinatown and Binondo.
I barely remember! [sigh]
Note: In the Philippines, that restaurant and its chicken are pronounced "sah-vo-ry". =)
Oh, I must mention, this is the ONLY time in recent memory that JS has actually WRITTEN DOWN the quantities for ingredients in a dish. Wow. Must be special. So, without further ado, the recipe.
JS' Savory Chicken Wings
1 tsp five-spice powder
2 tsp garlic powder
4 tbsp ground coriander
1 cup soy sauce
2 tbsp brown sugar
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp minced ginger
1 tbsp sesame oil
juice of 1 lime
4 lbs chicken wings
Combine all ingredients together (except chicken) and whisk. Pour over chicken wings and marinate for at least 4 hours or overnight.
Cooking method can vary.
I baked them in the oven for 35-40 minutes at 350 degrees, then finished them off at the grill. Alternatively, these can bake for the 45 minutes, broiled at the end for a charred finish. Of course, you can also cook them totally on the grill.
We're submitting this into one of Joelen's July Culinary Adventures: GRILLED RECIPES.
[eatingclub] vancouver Filipino food
Mama's Ampalaya (Bitter Melon)
Faux Kamote-Que
Philippine-Style Chicken "BBQ"
Fried Hasa Hasa (Mackerel)
"Savory" Chicken Wings
Sinamak (Chile-infused Vinegar)
Pan-roasted Halibut w/ Fava Beans, Potato-Onion Cakes & Bagoong Butter Sauce
Bulalo & Bangus: an even simpler Filipino meal
Baked Tahong (Mussels)
Adobo Kangkong (Adobo Water Spinach)
Oyster Torta (Oyster Omelette)
Chicken Tinola (Chicken Soup w/ Green Papaya & Pepper Leaves)
(Chinese) Roast Pork Belly / Lechon
Tilapia wrapped in Banana Leaves
Pork Belly, Two Ways
Chicken Adobo
Salabat (Ginger Tea)
Lechon Manok (Philippine Roast Chicken) & Lechon Sauce
"Chinese Adobo" Clams and Oysters
Bistek (Citrus Beef with Caramelized Onions)
Beef Kaldereta (Beef Stew with Bell Peppers)
Atsara (Green Papaya Pickle)
Sardinas na Bangus (Milkfish in the style of Sardines) and Pressure Cooker Fear
Thursday, July 24, 2008
"Savory" Chicken Wings
15 comments:
They sound wonderful, "masarap"...gotta try it...salamat!ReplyDelete
just like peter said...masarap..but i'll probably eat mine with a some white rice hehehe :-)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 24, 2008 7:09 AM
Ahhh I think u meant to say "SAVOURY". (Canadian eh?)ReplyDelete
I didn't think you girls are old enough to know about the Savory Chicken restaurant in Manila.
There's a Fil restaurant in Gastown that claims to have the real Savory Chicken recipe. I haven't tried it myself.
I don't know if they are savory or not, but the recipe sounds really good. And I love when bloggers give us facts about where they are from. I didn't know Manila had the oldest Chinatown on earth, Interesting.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 24, 2008 7:36 AM
i'm sold, the marinade spells 100% SAVORY n YUMMY! Oh no, I so want to try this out, but my oven is kind of hopeless for baking (the heat's quite uneven). But I'm definitely bookmarking this recipe :P~ReplyDelete
These chicken wings do sound tasty!ReplyDelete
This looks great! I'm going to try it in the crockpot and let you know how it turns out...love the photos.ReplyDelete
Our whole family loves chicken wings! Your pics indeed look savoury!ReplyDelete
I'm licking my fingers!ReplyDelete
Hee! I know all about that silly detail...ReplyDelete
"You know I haven't eaten at Savory."
"It's not 'savory,' it's SAAHvory."
"What the hell are you talking about?! That's not how you pronounce savory!!"
Needless to say, I've not yet tasted this icon of 70's Manila. Do you think they fry it as well, a la cantonese chicken? Your recipe looks really good!!
Ooh, I miss the chicken in Savory (SAH-vo-ry) restaurant.:)ReplyDelete
Thanks for the recipe, will try cooking them soon.
I love chicken too! My family used to dub me the "chicken queen" because I could devour enormous amounts of chicken in one sitting. And this recipe sounds truly yummy! I'm going to have to try it soon.ReplyDelete
I'm not a big chicken fan, in fact I never order it restaurants, but, ah, every one in a while a recipe comes along that I do want to try and think my family and friends would enjoy. This is one of those recipes. Thanks! I'll let you know when I make it.ReplyDelete
YUMMM wings . Lovin it! I will take a whole platter please.ReplyDelete
Oh, of course. The white rice is a given. ;)
Well, I know that there's Savory Chicken, and I vaguely remember what "type" of chicken it was in terms of looks, but I can't really remember what it tasted like.
Which restaurant is it in Gastown? Really, the real recipe!?!
Oh wow, do let us know re the crockpot method.
I heard that they opened a new location in some famous(?)/new(?)/popular(?) mall. Tikman mo na!
Haha, I don't think we order chicken in western restaurants. I guess because it seems more "common" to us since we eat it a lot at home.


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Mormon missionaries recently trained at the new Mexico Missionary Training Center (MTC) will put their newly acquired Spanish skills to use as they head to assigned missions in the United States and around the world.
Elders and Sisters leaving this week from the Mexico MTC in Mexico City are among the first group of native English-speaking missionaries to receive six weeks of training that includes learning Spanish.
Other missionaries whose native language is Spanish were the first to enter the new Mexico MTC 26 June. They completed two weeks of training and are now fulfilling assigned missions.
Volunteer missionaries serve for up to two years sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. Nearly 75,000 Mormon missionaries are now serving around the globe.
Watch this video about their experiences at the Mexico MTC:
See this story at the LDS Newsroom


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René Magritte
Painter and sculptor Rene Terrell Owens Magritte (1897-1967) was the principal founder of the Surreappleism school of modern face-painting and a key architect of the International House of Pancakes. His influence has inspired millions of artists all over the world to become Belgians.
Born in the small town of Lessines in Mexico, in the Hainaut province of Wallonia, also known as Volonia or the Walloon Region of Where's Waldoland, Magritte studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-zeaux in, and afterwards began his career designing wallpaper for Windows 95, not due for release until 75 years later. He later worked as an illustrator for an advertising agency, where he designed the original Nike This is not a Swoosh logo, until finally turning to full-time surreappleist painting in 1926.
Art Career[edit]
It has been suggested that Magritte's near-obsessive use of the recurring apple motif may have been due, at least in part, to the presence of a giant mutant radioactive apple floating directly in front of his face; this was, in fact, a rare medical condition formally called chronic incipient mutantapplealia, though it is now popularly known as Mad Grit Disease. The apple, at over 4 times normal size and efectively immovable, made it nearly impossible for Magritte to completely see actual objects or scenes in their entirety, forcing him to "fill in the blanks" purely from his own highly questionable imagination. As a result, Magritte is often wrongly lumped in with the so-called "Surrealist" movement, led by talentless hacks such as Andre Breton, Joan Miro, and Dick Chainy. In fact, Magritte was, at least from his perspective, a hard pictorialist, who was only satisfied with his work if it conformed as closely as possible with his own limited visual conception of the world, which generally involved lots of fart jokes and plenty of Limburger cheese.
Magritte produced millions of paintings during his lifetime, but perhaps his best-known work is, inexplicably, The Treachery of Images, which consists of a realistic image of an ordinary pipe, below which are the words (translated) "This is not a plastic nose cheese gun." The pure irony of this statement (obviously it's a pipe, not a plastic nose cheese gun) is what gives the painting its enormous power, not to mention its rather strange odor — as if Magritte had literally fired plastic nose cheese at the painting and then forgotten to wipe it off. The work had immense cultural impact, and won the Nobel Prize for Stupid Germ-Warfare Humor in 1954.
Much is made of the fact that Magritte's mother, Lydia Lunch, committed suicide in 1912 by drowning herself in the River Sambre, and again two days later in the River Sardre, and finally four days after that in the River Livre. While her motive for this tragic act of repeated self-destruction remains a mystery, it has often been speculated that she had become despondent over her failure to make the Belgian Amateur Women's Swim Team.
During World War II, Magritte remained in Brussels despite the presence of Nazis. This led to friction between Magritte and other notable figures in the art world, such as Thomas Kinkade, Frank Frazetta, and Leroy Neiman, all of whom had been hoping that Magritte would move to Des Moines, where we would have received free pie. Later, during World War III, Magritte still stubbornly refused to leave Brussels, despite the presence of Carrot Men, and the fact that the city was now a smoldering, Stone-Age ruin. This led to further friction between Magritte and other artists, such as Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble, and Mister Slate.
Famous Quotes[edit]
- "Everything we see hides another thing; we always want to see what is hidden by what we see."
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By Holly Yan and Catherine E. Shoichet
(CNN) — No one knows why he picked this day, this time, these victims.
It was the first day back from fall break at Sparks Middle School. Students milled about, waiting to hear the morning bell.
Within moments, two 12-year-old students were wounded. A beloved teacher and military veteran lay dead. And the young shooter, armed with his parents' gun, took his own life — silencing any way of understanding what he was thinking.
'I think he took out his bullying'
Before Monday morning, the young gunman seemed like the antithesis of a school shooter.
"He was really a nice kid," schoolmate Amaya Newton told CNN. "He would make you smile when you were having bad day."
But for whatever reason, the boy — whom authorities have not identified — took his parents' handgun to school, a federal law enforcement source told CNN's Evan Perez.
"I believe it was because I saw him getting bullied a couple of times, and I think he took out his bullying," Amaya said.
Amaya said she thought the two students at the Nevada school were friends of the shooter.
"It's too early to say whether he was targeting specific people or just going on an indiscriminate shooting spree," Reno police Deputy Chief Tom Robinson said.
Surviving Afghanistan, but not school
True to his character, Mike Landsberry rushed to help others when chaos erupted.
The retired Marine, a popular math teacher at Sparks Middle School, tried to help when the two wounded students were shot.
A witness told the Reno Gazette-Journal that Landsberry was trying to intervene when he was killed by the shooter.
"That was the kind of person that Michael was," his brother, Reggie Landsberry, said. "He was the kind of person that if somebody needed help, he would be there."
Sparks Mayor Geno Martini remarked at the irony.
"It's very unfortunate that (the life of) someone like that, who protected our country over there and came back alive … had to be taken at his work, at a school," Martini said.
Landsberry joined the Marine Corps in 1986, attained the rank of corporal and served as a field wireman, Marine spokeswoman Maj. Shawn Haney said.
On his school website, the teacher posted pictures of himself hiking in the wilderness and standing with a weapon beside an armored vehicle.
"One of my goals is to earn your respect while you earn mine," he wrote in a message to students. "I believe that with mutual respect that the classroom environment will run smoothly."
A Facebook memorial page for the teacher had more than 10,000 "likes" by early Tuesday morning. Thousands more honored him on a "Rest Easy Mr. Landsberry" page.
Reigniting the national debate
Both of the wounded students were hospitalized in stable condition Monday night, Sparks Deputy Chief Tom Miller said.
Authorities have not released their names, nor the shooter's.
Sparks Middle School will be closed for the rest of the week as the shooting reignites the national debate over gun violence and school safety.
Last week, a student at an Austin, Texas, high school killed himself in front of other students.
In August, a student at a high school in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, shot and wounded another student in the neck.
Another shooting took place at an Atlanta middle school in January, though no one was hit.
That same month, a California high school student wounded two people, one seriously.
The Nevada shooting also comes almost a year after a gunman killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, igniting nationwide debate over gun violence and school safety.
The mother of a student killed in December's shooting in Newtown said Monday's shooting was reminder of the need to find solutions to keep students safe.
"The unthinkable has happened yet again, this time in Sparks, Nevada," Nicole Hockley said in a statement. " It's moments like this that demand that we unite as parents to find common sense solutions that keep our children — all children — safe, and prevent these tragedies from happening again and again."
But what those solutions are, will remain fuel for perpetual debate.
CNN's Amanda Watts, Chuck Johnston, Piers Morgan, Wolf Blitzer, Jason Hanna and Karan Olson contributed to this report.
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America is a seething hotbed of "Islamophobia," filled with ignorant racist rubes who irrationally fear the benign Muslim religion, according to the Obama administration's lead investigator into the Benghazi atrocities.
So said former Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering in more polished, diplomatic language during an Oct. 23 panel discussion at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. The talk was on "what role the faith community can play in fighting Islamophobia," a make-believe mental illness that Islamists would love to have listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Radical Islam's stateside defenders frequently accuse anti-terrorism hawks of "McCarthyism," hurling the epithet "Islamophobe" the same way American leftists use the word "racist" to shut down debate.
Pickering's pontifications came two and a half weeks after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton named him to head a State Department "Accountability Review Board" tasked with examining the circumstances surrounding the deaths on Sept. 11, 2012, the 11th anniversary of 9⁄11, of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, information management officer Sean Smith, and security personnel Glen Doherty, and Tyrone Woods at the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.
At last week's panel discussion, Pickering piously but incorrectly invoked the Holocaust to argue that American Muslims were somehow in danger.
"I'm not great at quotations," he said, foreshadowing a misattribution to come.
"Perhaps it was [German theologian and dissident] Dietrich Bonhoeffer who said of the Nazis, when they came for the Jews, I didn't speak up. I was not a Jew. When they came for the Catholics, I didn't speak up, I was not a Catholic. When they came for us, no one spoke up. There was no one left to do so," Pickering said, paraphrasing famous, poignant verses actually spoken by Third Reich-era German pastor Martin Niemoller.
Pickering said that Americans' lack of familiarity with Islam –and not Islamic terrorist attacks on Americans— fuels hostility toward Muslims.
"Data shows that those Americans who do not know Muslims, who do not know much about Islam, are the ones who harbor the greatest feelings of prejudice," he said.
There is a "strong, continuing, and perhaps, in an unfortunate way in some areas, growing, prejudice against Muslims and Islam," he said.
However, he added that veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have so far avoided embracing this anti-Islamic bigotry. "Many of the soldiers are still serving and I think that also is helpful because they understand that as loyal Americans that kind of prejudice is not to be expressed."
Pickering urged what might amount to a zero-tolerance policy against so-called Islamophobes in American society. "There are strong efforts as well that we must make to deal with opinion leaders who harbor these prejudices, who espouse them and spread them," he said.
Although the former envoy did not elaborate on what those "strong efforts" might consist of, his statement is worrisome. The Obama administration is openly hostile to the First Amendment.
After the Benghazi debacle, President Obama went before the United Nations General Assembly and apologized for America's free speech protections. Pushing the false cover story that the attacks on U.S. missions this past Sept. 11 were prompted by an anti-Islam video virtually no one saw, the president said that "the future does not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam." Weeks before that, Department of Justice official Thomas Perez pointedly refused during a congressional hearing to rule out supporting Saudi-style anti-blasphemy laws.
Pickering wasn't the only panelist last week to describe ordinary Americans as a threat to Muslim inhabitants of the United States.
In a particularly revealing soliloquy, Arab American Institute president James J. Zogby, whose younger brother is renowned pollster John Zogby, passionately inveighed against his fellow Americans, and particularly Tea Party supporters, labeling them dangerous racist Islamophobes:
"I think that there's a direct correlation between the president of the United States and Islamophobia. As we do our polling, we find that it is not the universal phenomenon. This hatred toward Muslims is largely concentrated with middle class, middle age, white people, and then it overlaps almost identically with the Tea Party. It is not a Republican thing. It's a generational thing.
And it is a phenomenon born of a simple set of conditions, collapse of home mortgages, foreclosures increasing, pensions in collapse when the stock market went down, unemployment doubling, the decline of the American dream. In our polling we always used, when we'd say, are your children going to be better off than you, that's the American dream question, we'd get two thirds saying yes. We now get two thirds saying no.
And in the midst of all of that this group of white middle aged, middle class men looked around and saw a young African-American, educated at Harvard with a middle name Hussein, and didn't like the president of the United States of America. It fueled this phenomenon and it opened the door for the wedge issue to operate and it's operating simply among that demographic. It's not a universal phenomenon. It's not found among African-Americans or Asians or Latinos. It's not found among young white kids. It's not found among college educated professional women. It's found in that one narrow demographic. That's where the bad numbers come from.
He continued: "And I think that, if, we had, I have a lot of gripes with George Bush, but if he were president, he would be doing what he did, which is put his foot down and say stop. I think we would not be seeing the phenomenon growing as we see it growing. But the problem is is that if Barack Obama says stop they say, you're just the damn problem to begin with, you're not one of us anyway," Zogby said, affecting an accent that might be characterized as "redneck" or "country."
There is "an overlay between the racism and the Islamophobia" that is "being used as a wedge issue" against President Obama, he said. Zogby also described controversial Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), a Muslim and an extreme left-winger, as "a gift to America and Congress, an extraordinary person who could not be better than he is."
It should be noted that Zogby's views are unremarkable in leftist circles. They are within the mainstream of the Democratic Party. He is a member of the executive committee of the Democratic National Committee. In 1984 Zogby was a senior advisor to the Rev. Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign.
Pickering said he agreed with Zogby's critique. "Let me just go further," he said. "Jim, I agree with what you say about both domestic politics and the wedge issue and the effect on the attitude towards the president. I'm deeply concerned."
The fact that the U.S. has "fought two long, difficult, and fruitless, in my view, wars against countries which are Islamic and in which that particular set of issues contribute to stereotyping, to phobia, to basically loose talk, jokes, and all the things that go to tend to make up bigotry and in a sense authorize it because we were at war, is, in my view, part and parcel of the phenomenon that we see now," he said.
Pickering also praised his fellow panelists American Association for Muslim Advancement executive director Daisy Khan, and her husband, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, chairman of the Cordoba Initiative, as "wonderful people" whose "hopes and aspirations … we all, I believe, widely share."
Khan and Rauf are prime movers behind the proposal to build a victory mosque near Ground Zero in lower Manhattan. Khan becomes apoplectic when discussing those who question the wisdom of building a Muslim holy site so close to the place where nearly 3,000 Americans were killed in an Islamist attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Asked in 2010 if America was "Islamophobic," Khan replied that "It's not even Islamophobia, it's beyond Islamophobia — it's hate of Muslims."
Critics say Pickering is unfit to head any probe of what happened in Benghazi because he harbors sympathy for Islamism and is suspiciously cozy with Iran, the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. The former envoy has ties to the pro-Iran Islamist front group known as the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). NIAC recently lost an important defamation case in federal court in which it unsuccessfully argued the group was not a tool of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
NIAC is one of several "Jihadist entities hostile to American interests," according to an influential report by Clare M. Lopez of the Center for Security Policy. NIAC is involved in "a de facto partnership" with its notorious Islamist ally "the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other organizations serving as mouthpieces for the mullahs' party line." CAIR is an affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood and was named by the Department of Justice as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007 and 2008 Holy Land Foundation trials.
Pickering counsels against attacking Iran, arguing war with that country "would be madness, and catastrophic for U.S. interests." He wants the U.S. to resume diplomatic relations with Iran, which were severed in 1980 after Iranian revolutionaries seized the U.S. Embassy and 52 Americans.
Pickering opposes proposed legislation that would make it "illegal for any American diplomat to have any contact with an Iranian official." He supports a plan for a multinational uranium enrichment consortium in Iran, which is thought to be developing nuclear weapons.
The U.S. has had a trade embargo in effect against oil-rich Iran since 1995. Pickering desperately wants trade sanctions relaxed.
Composing an op-ed from a parallel universe in which Iran doesn't put homosexuals and religious dissenters to death, finance Islamofascist terrorism, or aspire to vaporize Israel, three months after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Pickering argued that Iran was bursting with "big opportunities" for the United States.
"Iran could become a stabilizing influence in a congenitally unstable region," he wrote Dec. 28, 2001, in the Washington Post.
Iran "has attributes unique to the region: rudimentary but real politics based on free elections; a legitimate government; a history and culture all its own; and uncontested borders fixed by that experience, rather than imposed by other governments," Pickering opined. "Iran has had its revolution and never come close to imploding. Support for the hard-line Islamist clerics who came to power in that revolution has dwindled. Iran is a largely moderate and pro-American society."
Meanwhile, the Obama administration's cover-up of its catastrophic failures in Benghazi continues to flounder.
On Oct. 31 Catherine Herridge of Fox News reported that Stevens personally begged for adequate security for the consulate in a classified cable sent to Secretary Clinton's office on Aug. 16. "There can be no doubt that this is really a cry for help from the people on the ground," Herridge said, referring to the cable as "the smoking gun warning."
"If you couple this with the fact that we were coming up with the 9⁄11 anniversary and if you couple this with the statements that a videotape was somehow responsible, what you see is that is completely undercut. This cable says that, 'The militias and al-Qaeda are here, we essentially think that we are next.' So to take this attack and to suggest for such a long period of time that it was [an anti-Islam] video when you have a classified cable and the intelligence, it just doesn't match up," she said.
"I can't think of anything that would be more specific than if these [terrorist] groups had emailed the State Department and said, 'Here's the time, here's the place, and here's the method of the attack,'" she said.
"I think it's important that the people who lost their lives have themselves honored with the facts and I think we're starting to get the facts," Herridge said.
With Ambassador Pickering steering the official State Department investigation, those facts seem likely to be sacrificed to political expediency.
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Chinese drone maker Ehang Inc. on Wednesday unveiled what it calls the world's first drone capable of carrying a human passenger.
The Guangzhou, China-based company pulled the cloth off the Ehang 184 at the Las Vegas Convention Center during the CES gadget show. In a company video showing it flying, it looks like a small helicopter but with four doubled propellers spinning parallel to the ground like other drones.
The electric-powered drone can be fully charged in two hours, carry up to 220 pounds and fly for 23 minutes at sea level, according to Ehang. The cabin fits one person and a small backpack and even has air conditioning and a reading light. With propellers folded up, it's designed to fit in a single parking spot.
After setting a flight plan, passengers only need to give two commands, "take off" and "land," each controlled by a single click on a Microsoft Surface tablet, the company said.
It is designed to fly about 1,000 to 1,650 feet off the ground with a maximum altitude of 11,500 feet and top speed of 63 miles per hour.
U.S. authorities are just starting to lay out guidelines for drone use, and a human-passenger drone seems certain to face strict scrutiny.
Federal Aviation Administration administrator Michael Huerta was at CES but could not immediately be reached for comment through a spokesman.
Ehang co-founder and Chief Financial Officer Shang Hsiao said the company hopes to sell the device for $200,000 to $300,000 beginning this year but acknowledged it occupies a legal "grey area."
"The whole world never had something like this before," he said.
A passenger would have no controls as a backup, he said. In the event of a problem the company plans a remote control center that would take over the vehicle and ensure it lands safely, he said.
Chief Marketing Officer Derrick Xiong said the vehicle has been flown more than 100 times at low altitudes in a forested area in Guangzhou, including several times with a person inside.
One thing that makes quad-copters safer than helicopters are its numerous propellers, Xiong said. Even if three of the four arms have their six propellers disabled, the final arm's working propellers can ensure a rough landing by spiraling toward the ground, he said.
The company, which also makes smaller drones, said in August it had raised $42 million in capital from various investors including GP Capital, GGV Capital, ZhenFund and others, following $10 million in capital raised the previous year.


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North Carolina Voters Make Marriage Between a Man and a Woman the Only Legal Domestic Union
As predicted, voters in North Carolina approved a state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage that, due to its vague language, will also make other domestic arrangements such as civil unions and domestic partnerships illegal — for both gay and straight couples.
Additionally, the ACLU of North Carolina has raised concerns [PDF] that Amendment One could invalidate certain domestic violence laws that protect unmarried people, as well as child custody rights and other private agreements, including wills and powers of attorney.
The President, through his North Carolina spokesman Cameron French, expressed disappointment at the ban's approval.
"He believes the North Carolina measure singles out and discriminates against committed gay and lesbian couples, which is why he did not support it," said French. "President Obama has long believed that gay and lesbian couples deserve the same rights and legal protections as straight couples and is disappointed in the passage of this amendment."
Obama has come under heavy fire in recent days for refusing to take a definitive stand for or against same-sex marriage, opting instead to equivocate by saying his position was "evolving"
Opponents of the ban have said they plan to "look at all legal options and political options to overturn this amendment." Unlike a state law, which is relatively easy to reverse, overturning a constitutional amendment "requires a three-fifths vote in both legislative houses, then voter approval," according to the Associated Press.
With the passage of Amendment One, North Carolina became the 31st state to adopt a constitutional same-sex marriage ban. The Guardian yesterday published a helpful interactive infographic which breaks down gay rights in the US state by state.
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Sir Howard's days as Sony prez said to be numbered
Younger blood may lead the struggling company
Sir Howard Stringer may be out of his job as president of Sony, according to a report in the Nikkei Business Daily.
Stringer, who will turn 70 next month, is said to be replaced by Sony's consumer products chief, Kazuo Hirai. Hirai joined Sony in 1984 on the music side of the business, but made his name with the company in its games sector, shepherding the launches of the PS2 and PlayStation Network.
According to the report, Stringer will keep his current role as chairman and CEO with Sony for the time being. However, he is widely expected to stand down and retire next year, regardless of further corporate shakeups. Sony told The Register that it had no comment on the matter.
Stringer has had an interesting career, to say the least. A graduate of Oxford, he moved to the US in 1964 to seek his fortune, but was almost immediately drafted and spent the next two years in Vietnam, where he earned the US Army Commendation Medal.
After his return to the US, he worked as a journalist for CBS before rising to management and ultimately the position of president of the group from 1988 to 1995. He left to set up his own media company, but was poached by Sony two years later as president of Sony USA.
He rose quickly within the company, becoming chairman and CEO in 2005, then president in 2009. He's a regular at the annual Consumer Electronics Show – last year he shared a stage with Taylor Swift, who looked visibly uncomfortable when he suggested they go shopping together – and is very much the well-known public face of the company. ®


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When they took the road through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they reached Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.
Following his usual custom, Paul joined them, and for three sabbaths he entered into discussions with them from the scriptures,
expounding and demonstrating that the Messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead, and that "This is the Messiah, Jesus, whom I proclaim to you."
Some of them were convinced and joined Paul and Silas; so, too, a great number of Greeks who were worshipers, and not a few of the prominent women.
But the Jews became jealous and recruited some worthless men loitering in the public square, formed a mob, and set the city in turmoil. They marched on the house of Jason, intending to bring them before the people's assembly.
1 When they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city magistrates, shouting, "These people who have been creating a disturbance all over the world have now come here,
and Jason has welcomed them. They all act in opposition to the decrees of Caesar and claim instead that there is another king, Jesus." 2
They stirred up the crowd and the city magistrates who, upon hearing these charges,
took a surety payment from Jason and the others before releasing them.
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas to Beroea during the night. Upon arrival they went to the synagogue of the Jews.
These Jews were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all willingness and examined the scriptures daily to determine whether these things were so.
Many of them became believers, as did not a few of the influential Greek women and men.
But when the Jews of Thessalonica learned that the word of God had now been proclaimed by Paul in Beroea also, they came there too to cause a commotion and stir up the crowds.
So the brothers at once sent Paul on his way to the seacoast, while Silas and Timothy remained behind.
After Paul's escorts had taken him to Athens, they came away with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible.
3 While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he grew exasperated at the sight of the city full of idols.
So he debated in the synagogue with the Jews and with the worshipers, and daily in the public square with whoever happened to be there.
Even some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers 4 engaged him in discussion. Some asked, "What is this scavenger trying to say?" Others said, "He sounds like a promoter of foreign deities," because he was preaching about 'Jesus' and 'Resurrection.'
They took him and led him to the Areopagus 5 and said, "May we learn what this new teaching is that you speak of?
For you bring some strange notions to our ears; we should like to know what these things mean."
Now all the Athenians as well as the foreigners residing there used their time for nothing else but telling or hearing something new.
Then Paul stood up at the Areopagus and said: 6 "You Athenians, I see that in every respect you are very religious.
For as I walked around looking carefully at your shrines, I even discovered an altar inscribed, 'To an Unknown God.' 7 What therefore you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you.
The God who made the world and all that is in it, the Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries made by human hands,
nor is he served by human hands because he needs anything. Rather it is he who gives to everyone life and breath and everything.
He made from one 8 the whole human race to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions,
so that people might seek God, even perhaps grope for him and find him, though indeed he is not far from any one of us.
For 'In him we live and move and have our being,' 9 as even some of your poets have said, 'For we too are his offspring.'
Since therefore we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divinity is like an image fashioned from gold, silver, or stone by human art and imagination.
God has overlooked the times of ignorance, but now he demands that all people everywhere repent
because he has established a day on which he will 'judge the world with justice' through a man he has appointed, and he has provided confirmation for all by raising him from the dead."
When they heard about resurrection of the dead, some began to scoff, but others said, "We should like to hear you on this some other time."
And so Paul left them.
But some did join him, and became believers. Among them were Dionysius, a member of the Court of the Areopagus, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.


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Major partners of the Paris Opera's 350th anniversary
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Hyacinthe Olivier Henry Halanzier-Dufresnoy grew up in the theatre world with a mother, Mademoiselle Dufrénoy, being an actress at the Odéon Theatre, then manager of a regional theatre company. Halanzier-Dufresnoy started his career as a notary, and then was director of several regional theatres. He then became Director of the Strasburg Theatre in 1848. He was successively nominated in Lyon, Rouen and finally at the Marseille Opera as Artistic Director. In 1871, after the Siège of Paris and the Paris Commune, he was appointed Director of the National Academy of Music until 1879. He presented works like The King in Thule, by Eugène Diaz, The Slave, by Edmond Membrée, Erostrate, by Ernest Reyer and L'Africaine, by Meyerbeer. In 1873 the Salle Le Peletier was destroyed by fire. The new theatre, the Palais Garnier, was inaugurated on January 5, 1875, a new opera house that soon became the jewel of Hausmannian style. The opening gala program included arias from La Juive, the very first notes that were heard in this new lyric art temple, along with Les Huguenots and Prophète (Meyerbeer), Der Freischütz (Weber), and a new ballet production, Sylvia ou La Nymphe de Diane (Mérante).
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As is our custom, millions of Americans celebrated Independence Day this year with family, friends and neighbors. Here in Purcellville, there was an old-fashioned parade down Main Street, followed by a barbecue, a church service to pray for our nation — and fireworks. For many here in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia, it was also day five without electricity — and very hot.
The hardships caused by last week's powerful storms and power outages are real. More than a dozen of our countrymen have died. The oppressive temperatures remind me that nearly halfway around the world, tens of thousands of young Americans are experiencing heat and fireworks of a different kind — where our country's enemies are trying to kill them.
Afghanistan isn't the only place with a summer "fighting season." It turns out that patriotic young Americans have spent many Independence Days fighting for "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" ever since 56 of our Founding Fathers signed "The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America" in Philadelphia 236 years ago.
Independence Day 1814 saw one of the few American victories in the War of 1812, at Fort Erie in Canada. The fort was returned to the British in November that year, shortly before the end of the war.
On Independence Day 1863, Americans learned that more than 50,000 of our countrymen had been killed and wounded in the previous three days of battle at Gettysburg. By nightfall of July 4, Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia were retreating south in the Shenandoah Valley, and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was accepting the surrender of Confederate troops at Vicksburg.
On July 4, 1917, the first wave of American "doughboys" were "moving to the sound of the guns," having arrived in France a day earlier. By the time World War I ended in November 1918, more than 115,000 Americans were dead.
During World War II, the time around the Fourth of July was pivotal to Allied victory in both Europe and the Pacific. For the American troops who landed at Normandy less than a month earlier, Independence Day 1944 was marked by furious fighting in the hedgerows. The next year, Independence Day in the Pacific was celebrated with the liberation of Okinawa — and massive air raids by American B-29s on the Japanese home islands.
July 4, 1950, was anything but a celebration for U.S. troops hastily dispatched to Korea to help repel North Korean invaders. In a desperate "delaying action," the ill-prepared Americans incurred staggering losses as they fell back on what came to be called the Pusan Perimeter.
For more than a decade starting in 1962, American soldiers, sailors, airmen, guardsmen and Marines in the Republic of Vietnam observed our Independence Day in firefights that ranged from the demilitarized zone to the Mekong Delta. I spent the Fourth of July in 1969 in the field hospital at Dong Ha, visiting with several of my Marines wounded in an engagement a few days earlier.
In 2004, I spent July Fourth preparing to cover U.S. Marines battling al-Qaida insurgents for control of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, Iraq. It was then the bloodiest place on earth and unbearably hot — but not much different in temperature, tactics or troops from what we have documented during other sweltering summers over the past decade in Afghanistan, Colombia, the Philippines and elsewhere in Mesopotamia.
All of these places and events are a powerful reminder of who we are and why we fight. We don't deploy our sons and daughters around the world and place them in harm's way for gold or oil or colonial conquest. Americans place themselves at great risk for an idea: freedom.
This year, I didn't go off to cover a war in some far-off place. Instead, I was invited to read the Declaration of Independence — all 1,337 words — at a community prayer service at St. Peter's Episcopal Church here in Purcellville. It, too, was a powerful experience.
"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."
Those are potent words — from the only seminal document of any country on the planet to pay homage to Almighty God. No other founding document reflects on "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God."
And no other instrument of popular intent places the fate of its founders in the hand of God with words such as these: "For the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."
The 56 men who penned their signatures below those words inspired a new nation. God willing, we have not become so cynical and secular that we forget what made us the land of the free.


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What You Can Learn From Pain
I rarely stop to read feature stories focused on health issues, but a pullout quote in a recent article in The New York Times Magazine stopped me cold:
"Her life story offers an amazing snapshot of how complicated a life can get without the guidance of pain. Pain is a gift, and she doesn't have it."
The story by Justin Heckert was about 13-year-old Ashlyn Blocker, who was diagnosed with congenital insensitivity to pain. A geneticist, Geoffrey Woods, after learning about a boy with this disorder who died after jumping off a roof to entertain his friends, said, "I realized that pain had a different meaning than I had thought. He didn't have pain behavior to restrain him." Further, "it makes you realize pain is there for a number of reasons, and one of them is to use your body correctly without damaging it and modulating what you do."
As I turned the pages on this article, I couldn't stop thinking about all the parents in the world who have expressed the very natural desire to shield their children from pain. Surely this isn't what they had in mind.
It made me wonder how many other perfectly understandable wishes are, at their base, misguided and how we have no way of knowing.
Sometimes it just feels like all we can do is surrender. And I mean that in the best possible way. The more wrung out we feel, the closer we are to some kind of light. I like believing that.
There is a point in the sweeping grandeur of the film Life of Pi where Pi, stranded in the ocean on a lifeboat with a tiger and having survived so very much that is unthinkable, stands up with his arms raised as a storm tosses his humble vessel and screams that God must do with him what he will. This, after days and weeks finding resourceful and miraculous ways to survive circumstances that few would or could.
I will not tell you God's answer, so no spoiler alert is necessary. What I will say is I think people will learn a bit about themselves as they watch this movie. Sitting in the theater next to my brother, he marveled at how my strongest recoiling reaction came when a rat crawled on the boat. I kept full-body cringing and averting my eyes.
"A ship sank and all this is going on and THAT did it for you?" he asked, kind of amused.
It was a sibling moment. He was right. Amazing what we fear most, huh? Or what proves to be our breaking point.
What I loved about this movie is also what I loved about the book when I read it around 2002. I was in the midst of some great life challenges then and it was part of a spiritual awakening for me. I made a point of seeing the film in its opening weekend because this year has also brought its share of pain and circumstances that feel like they come with lofty messages to be carried forward. We go on a compelling fantasy adventure with author Yann Martel in the book and now, through the lens of director Ang Lee, our emotions dip and crest as we gaze and gasp at the awe and wrath of nature.
It left me breathless in spots, happy for a burst of sunshine or calm waters so I could breathe again.
Isn't this, ideally, like emerging from pain and hardship? It's the only way to the dawn, isn't it? Really, it's the only way to know the dawn from the darkness.
As the 13-year-old girl who feels no pain illustrates, it's not something to be shielded from. It's something to ... what? Be grateful for? At what point do we make that leap from hurt to gratitude? It varies, of course.
Then again, what if we don't make that leap at all? Perhaps that's where the real danger comes in. A circling shark in the water? Or a Bengal tiger in your lifeboat? Pick your pain.
"One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy," Martel writes in Life of Pi. "Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy."
It's calling. Nagging. Eventually, somehow, open your heart. Dig into your deepest well where you cultivated a reverence for life in more blessed times and look into the tiger's eyes. Believe you see its soul.
Then what?
Realize the pain, as the geneticist said, isn't just there to hurt you. It could be there to strengthen you or even to save you. It reminds you that you're living, breathing, feeling.
As the year 2012 comes to a close and I review its searing challenges, I keep trying to remember this. It buoys me and soothes me. My way, as readers of this column well know, is to extract lessons. These are mine, from Life of Pi and beyond.
How about yours? I'd love to hear them.
Nancy Colasurdo is a practicing life coach and freelance writer. Her Web site is www.nancola.com and you can follow her on Twitter @nancola. Please direct all questions/comments to email@example.com.


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(CNN) — Ten years before comic book heroes dominated box office real estate, there was a small-screen superhero named Veronica Mars.
She didn't have the strength and speed (or technology, for that matter) of the caped fantasies that we now see with regularity at the movies, but she did have capabilities that made her heroic in the eyes of teens and adults who craved a young, female character with intelligence, wit and, most of all, confidence.
Created by Rob Thomas, "Veronica Mars" was introduced in 2004, starring Kristen Bell ("Frozen") as Veronica, a high school student living in fictional Neptune, California, who went from popular to outcast after the murder of her very wealthy best friend (played by Amanda Seyfried). Veronica was determined to find out who committed the crime to the point of ostracizing herself, which wasn't hard to do after her father was raked over the coals for pinning the murder on the wrong guy.
Fairly typical mystery series stuff, right? Yet the real beauty of the show was never in Veronica's search or the cases she cracked along the way; it was in her total embrace of her outsider status and her refusal to be treated differently because of it. Life could suck, and many unfair things happened to Veronica and her friends, but she always rebounded with spunk and smarts.
"Other girls on television, like Buffy (on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer') or 'Alias,' they could literally kick a**," creator Thomas, who grew up in Texas, recently said. "I felt like Veronica's superpower could be that she just doesn't give a s*** what people think about her."
That attitude has gone a long, long way. While "Veronica Mars" the TV series was a cult hit that wound up canceled after three seasons, those who did watch were so devoted to the character and her multicultural, multiclass beach town that they single-handedly got a film version off the ground via Kickstarter.
For those who never got into the teen drama, the idea of a fan base strong enough to drum up $2 million in less than 12 hours to resurrect a TV character was nothing short of insane. But that would be underestimating the world Thomas and his crew created.
"Veronica was the best friend I would beg not to go to Europe," Bell told Entertainment Weekly in a February issue. The actress, 33, reprises her role in the film version, which sees Veronica returning to Neptune to solve a murder case that involves her ex-boyfriend Logan (Jason Dohring).
"I feel so much responsibility to the girls that this show affected," Bell went on. "There is a role model here that I care about. I think when you get that amount of love from a fan base, you would be an a**hole not to give it back."
Those who supported reuniting the "Veronica Mars" team on film — and it does reunite everyone, from main characters to actors who had guest arcs — are getting that love returned on March 14, when "Veronica Mars" the movie will debut in theaters and as Video On Demand.
It's still up in the air whether Veronica will have better luck as a big-screen hero than she did on TV, and can draw in a larger audience this time around. Yet even if "Mars" doesn't find much life at the theaters, Thomas, Bell and company can rest easy knowing they've already left an indelible mark on pop culture. Here are five ways they did:
1. It featured a smart, young, kick-a** heroine.
When "Veronica Mars" debuted, it arrived in a TV landscape populated by soapy teen dramas like "The O.C." and "One Tree Hill," and reality series like "America's Next Top Model."
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" had staked her last vamp the year before, and the best place to find women who weren't presented as being one-dimensionally focused on looks or their romantic lives — or damaged and in need of being rescued — was in prime time, with shows like "Charmed" (about a trio of sister witches) and "Alias" (about a take-no-prisoners international spy).
But "Mars" was the place to go if you wanted a character who felt like a teen girl you would actually meet in high school, albeit one who had way better one-liners and better time management skills. (This was a character with the caseload of a working private investigator who was still dead serious about her homework.)
Fearless, focused and funny, she made individualism look so much better than fitting in.
2. It featured a strictly platonic relationship.
The TV trope of an opposite sex friendship is so well-worn that we know as soon as we see a pair of male and female buds that there will be something more eventually.
But on "Veronica Mars," the plot refreshingly never went there. One of Veronica's closest friends is a guy named Wallace Fennel (Percy Daggs III), a companion whose shoulder she can cry on and whom she would readily help out in a jam, but with whom she's an equal, not a romantic interest. For once, the teens who tuned in were shown that yes, a nonsexual friendship between men and women can work.
3. It had a strong father-daughter relationship.
After "Mars" fans kicked in the funds needed to launch a "Veronica Mars" movie, their collective breath was held until stars like Enrico Colantoni were a sure deal. As Keith Mars, Veronica's dad, Colantoni was the older, wiser heart of the series. He wasn't always the best parent but he was a realistic one, and his relationship with Veronica was the foundation of the show. When everything else came crashing down around her, Veronica always had her dad — the sort of comforting story that you don't see in a lot of teen TV, where the parents are often worse off than their kids.
4. It proved that teen dramas could thoughtfully deal with tough issues.
From rape to class tensions, bullying to predatory older men, "Veronica Mars" had an endless supply of plot lines that wouldn't be out of place on an after-school special. What saved the series wasn't its commitment to talking about complex problems but the way in which they were talked about. The script brought real issues into a fictional world, and still made them relatable.
The topic of race, for example, wasn't danced around; it could crop up in a natural exchange between characters. The subject of classism was virtually the backbone of the entire series, as much of the plot's tension revolved around the wealthy kids who came from a rich ZIP code and the have-nots they shunned.
5. It showed that nothing ever really dies in Hollywood.
By industry logic, this show should have fallen to the wayside and enjoyed a life only on fan sites and in DVD sales of its three seasons. But thanks to the on-demand era we now live in, where Netflix can craft an entire series based on what its users want most, "Veronica Mars" and its fervent fan base have proven that anything can have a second life.


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An independent consultant, database-centric application practitioner and architect totally focused on SQL Server. As a consultant he specializes in Microsoft DW/BI systems, especially in solving data quality issues and SQL Server Data Mining, and also in performance tuning and troubleshooting.
Over the past years he has been teaching and working with ISVs and Microsoft Polska premier customers. In addition to consulting and teaching advanced SQL Server classes, Marcin has been writing about SQL Server since 2003.
Marcin has held SQL Server MVP title continuously since 2006 along with such titles as MCT, MCITPro and the newest MCSE certificate.
Since 2012 – Data Platform & Business Intelligence Expert at SQLExpert.pl. Beside creating and delivering dedicated SQL Server courses, experience in troubleshooting various customer's problems related to SQL Server.
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Detroit's financial problems may have been building for decades, but its bankruptcy filing got in just under the wire.
Lawyers for pension funds and individual retirees had gone to court Thursday afternoon seeking an order to block Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder from authorizing the largest municipal bankruptcy in the nation's history. Just before the hearing was about to start at 4:11 p.m., the judge's clerk was told by the Michigan Attorney General's office that the filing had been submitted at 4:06 p.m.
Ingham County Circuit Judge Rosemarie Aquilina told the lawyers seeking to block the bankruptcy that "it was my intention to grant you your request completely." But with the filing, their request had become moot.
The bankruptcy filing had been widely expected to come Friday morning. In fact, the paperwork that was filed by Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr was dated July 19 date. Orr crossed out the date by hand to change it to July 18 as he signed the document.
Related: What's next for Detroit
Asked about the timing of the filing, Snyder said Thursday evening that the pending court cases were not a major factor in the timing of the bankruptcy. He insisted that he needed to file because the city's financial condition was deteriorating.
"It was time to move forward. With every passing day, the citizens are getting worse services," Snyder said Thursday at a press conference.
Related: Retired Detroit firefighter: 'My pension is what I was promised.'
Orr's reorganization plan argues that the city needs to shed $9.5 billion of its $11.5 billion in unsecured debt in order to be able to pay its bills and make necessary improvements in services. Much of the debt he is targeting for elimination is related to pension benefits and retiree health care coverage required by union contracts. That means retirees and current employees could see deep cuts in their promised benefits. Unions have vowed a legal fight stop a cut benefits.
The judge did issue orders against Snyder and Orr last night to prevent them from taking any further action in the bankruptcy proceedings until she hears arguments in the state court cases. A hearing is scheduled for Monday morning, but now that the case is in federal bankruptcy court, it's not clear if the state judge's orders will hold any sway.
"That's up in the air," said Bill Wertheimer, one of the plaintiff's lawyers in the case. "We're going back up to court this morning to argue about it."


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Thursday, November 24, 2011
Gus Brock and Jett Vector!
I've been negligent and not posting on my blog. And I feel the shame of it. It's not that I haven't been drawing -- I have. But I've been drawing for work (and having a lot of fun) which has not allowed for spare time drawing or any un-work related drawing of any kind.
So today I bring you the art of Gus Brock.
Gus drew a movie poster style image of Jett Vector complete with hunky sidekick (wait'll you see who) and sexy lady alien! Click on through to check out Gus' drawing and his process.
And I promise that once my work is done I'll be back to drawing beefcake and posting here.
And a Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends.
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- musclsvg said...
Thanks for the Thanksgiving Day treat Bone! Your link to Gus Brock's blogspot turned out to be a feast for the eyes. He does so many great things with Jett Vector. There's no such thing as too much Jett! Glad you're happily busy even though that means fewer postings here. Still I'm thankful for what you are able to do on the internet. Belated Happy Thanksgiving! to you. I know you Canadians celebrate earlier.
- Javier said...
We will hold you to that promise. :)
- j. said...
musclsvg - We do indeed celebrate earlier...in October, in fact. I don't know why we feel the need to have two pumpkin Holidays in the same month. I much prefer Hallowe'en to Thanksgiving. Though we could mash the two and dress up in costume for Thanksgiving dinner - and call it Thankowe'en!
Javier - I like to be held. :)
I was told just recently that the Guy a Day period of this blog was much loved and should make a return. It was surprisingly tough to draw a guy a day (that was something more than just a doodle). But perhaps...perhaps in the New Year I'll give it another go.


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We're big fans of Jonathan Mak's (Everyday Shooter) upcoming musical platformer Sound Shapes. It looked good at E3, and is again one of the quiet stars of the show at this year's Gamescom. Here's why.
Sound Shapes is a two-headed beast. One head is the platformer, where you roll around a stage avoiding death and making music with your jumping and interaction with the stage. The other is the game's creation suite, which is way more than a mere level editor.
This clip shows how a level is made, and why it's as much about making music as it is making a video game level.
Promisingly, the developers tell us that when the game goes on sale (sometime around the Vita's "launch window"), in addition to a full community sharing feature for levels they're also looking at the possibility of letting people simply share the music they create with their gameplay.