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On paper, Forgiveness, a two-part, three-hour (trimmed down from four hours) documentary, written, produced, and directed by Helen Whitney, sounds like just the kind of thing it would be good to see more of on PBS: a serious film that means to offer a personal, wide-ranging take on a complicated subject. In reality, it's a messy affair that suffers from sticking too close to what might be called the PBS house style when it comes to vaguely spiritual matters, which might be described as kind of New Agey. There are moments during Forgiveness when you wouldn't be too surprised to see Leo Buscaglia, back from the dead to tell us all how he's forgiven the neighbors who don't understand his great love affair with leaves.
One challenge of dealing with this kind of subject on TV is that, even when there's nothing to do but shovel information onto the soundtrack in voice-over, you still have to show pictures of something. The first half of Forgiveness is especially heavy on images of dark skies and autumnal landscapes and still photos of dead-looking people in contorted positions, while dirge-like strings or a single piano are heard, and deep thoughts are intoned by a narrator who sounds like the sum of every NPR announcer you've ever listened to while falling asleep at the wheel. This Jack Handey stuff is there to pad out appearances by writers, historians, and religious authorities, who share stories from their lives and from history, most of whom are lit in shadow as if they were Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now, serenely kidding himself that nobody will be able to tell that he's put on a few pounds. If an episode of This American Life had terminal illness, it would sound like this.
Whitney, who wrote, produced, and directed the film, is a veteran TV documentarian who's made films for Frontline, American Masters, and ABC News, back when network television showed news documentaries. In 2002, she made a film about 9/11 for PBS called Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero, and her most recent work was an American Experience film on the Mormons. The avoidance of a personal voice in this film—she's more determined to include as many different viewpoints as possible, while seeming to lend them all equal weight—is a form of self-negation that may have a spiritual basis of its own, but it's too much in keeping with the attitude that seems dominant at PBS these days, which can be summed up as, "If nobody notices we made this, they won't cite it as a reason to cut off our funding." Without a strong sensibility to fuse the pieces of Forgiveness, every segment is left to stand on its own. It's not that there isn't some strong material here. But you have to sift for it.
The quickest and strongest passage in the first episode, which first aired last week, is also the one that ends with the ripest stroke of self-parody. It's about a man who used to be a member of the South African government's "security forces" during the Apartheid era. This is also the one sequence when the director's feelings about what she's showing us are hardest to miss. Talking about how he killed a prisoner, the security man appears to be smiling as he recalls, "I personally assaulted him with a hose pipe, which was very effective, because it doesn't leave any marks." The director may possibly detect a trace of insincerity in his tone, because she lights him as if he were Satan in an episode of Tales from the Darkside. The murder was subsequently covered up and the corpse disposed of, and for years afterward, the security man harassed the dead man's mother by calling her into his office to accuse her of concealing her son's whereabouts.
After the Apartheid regime collapsed, this sweetheart testified to his crimes before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in exchange for amnesty. Now, claiming to have undergone a religious conversion, he shows up at the home of his victim's family, hat and camera crew in hand, to ask them for forgiveness. First, the dead man's father gently but firmly tells him, thanks for stopping by, but I don't think so. Then somebody smashes the man upside the head with a vase, turning his forehead into a bloody broken-window pattern that, in one of those irresistible details that no fiction artist would be able to get away with, kind of resembles a swastika. That should be the end of that, but then the narrator, in that over-explainatory way that PBS viewers have come to know and cringe at, says, "If the request for forgiveness comes too late, if it is felt to be false or to violate a sense of justice, then it can provoke outrage, even understandable violence." Never before have so many people sitting watching television in different living rooms said at the same time, in the same sarcastic way, "Do ya think!?"
The best part of Forgiveness is the last hour, which deals with the legacies of Nazi Germany and the genocide in Rwanda, juggling stories of individual acts of forgiveness with analysis of what is described by the writer Thane Rosenbaum as a new, "very different age" of official acts of contrition, "where nations own up to their past, where nations accept collective guilt and responsibility for their guilt; nations acknowledge what they've done; nations memorialize what they've done; they undertake gestures of restitution and reparation and seek forgiveness for what they've done." The show seems to regard the utopian implications behind the increasingly ritualized gestures of official contrition with more faith in the good motives behind them than the cynic in me might like. (I know it's hard to believe, but he's in here, seriously!) To give her credit, Whitney does include an indelible exchange between Joshua Blahyl, better known as General Butt Naked, and an interlocutor during his testimony before the Liberian Truth Commission. "The children were alive when you carried out the ritual, is that correct?" the woman asks, the "ritual" in question being Blahyl's habit of preparing his men for battle by cutting out a child's heart and passing it around to be eaten. At a loss for words but with a firm grasp on the whole "show of contrition" thing, Blahyl simply mutters, "Sorry. Sorry."
The U.S. government, under Ronald Reagan, only comes up indirectly, in a segment about Reagan's determination to lay a wreath at a cemetery that included the graves of Nazi S.S. soldiers during his 1985 visit to Germany. When the news broke, the selection of the cemetery was described as a screw-up by White House chief of staff Michael Deaver, but after all hell broke loose, Reagan, to use the preferred metaphor used approximately 300 times in ten minutes by his former aides, "stuck to his guns", and began insisting that the visit was necessary for the psychic and emotional of the German people. Lance Morrow, a writer whose byline has appeared like kudzu in Time magazine for approximately as long as I have inhabited the earth, explains that Reagan epitomized "the American brusqueness that rejects [hanging onto the past] and says, you know, Scarlett O'Hara, 'tomorrow is another day.' Reagan was Scarlett O'Hara." If these are not the wisest words ever uttered on the subject, they at least gave me a mental image that I expect I'll be using to giggle myself to sleep for many nights to come.
Whatever the faults of Forgiveness overall, it's worth seeking out the last hour and change, to see such testimony as the German writer Hannes Heer's account of how he was able to bond for the first time with his unrepentant Nazi father after the old man slipped into dementia and "became a child" again, and Father Petero Sabune, a former prison chaplain who has offered counsel to those who participated in the Rwanda genocide, including those who were interested in being forgiven and those who didn't understand why people thought they'd done anything wrong. "We can't guarantee," he told those who were repentant, "that just because you say that, you're going to be forgiven. You may never be forgiven. You may never know." (The first 20-odd minutes of tonight's show is taken up with the story of a woman who, after she and her husband divorced, moved 1,200 miles away, and left the kids with him. Can her ex-husband and their children ever forgive her? Can she ever forgive herself? Would anyone even think to ask these questions if it had been the man who left his ex in charge of raising their offspring when he took off to have a life? "I had all my eggs in one basket," says the ex-husband all these years later, "and she stepped on the basket." There is only one correct response to that statement, and I don't think anyone has ever said it better than Livia Soprano.)
One thing that comes up again and again here, and that may surprise some people, is how controversial the idea of forgiveness actually is, when you take it out of the realm of abstract concepts and start applying it to people's actual lives. The show is full of people belligerently asserting their right to hang onto their hatred of whomever has wronged them, to the point that they believe that to forgive is to show disrespect to the dead. When a man confronting his former torturer at South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation hearings simply asks, "What kind of man are you?" it cuts through a lot of smog. Then there's the man the historian Anna Rosmur talks about, a Jewish survivor of the concentration camps who, after the war, settled down in a part of Germany where many of his neighbors had been complicit in, or at least not protesting of, Hitler's policies and were now prepared to live and let live but not about to pretend to be sorry for having fit in so well when anti-Semitic murder was official policy. Forgiving them, he told her, had nothing to do with the goodness of his heart and everything to do with practicality: They weren't going to change, and he didn't want to leave, and since he was the one with the more highly developed brain, it was up to him to find a way for them to live together. "Forgiveness," Ramsur says sadly, "may not only be granted out of graciousness, out of altruism, but perhaps, to some degree, at least, to sustain your own sanity, to cut yourself free."


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Reporter Bob Wilton is in search of his next big story when he encounters Lyn Cassady, a shadowy figure who claims to be part of an experimental U.S. military unit. According to Cassady, the New Earth Army is changing the way wars are fought. A legion of "Warrior Monks" with unparalleled psychic powers can read the enemy's thoughts, pass through solid walls, and even kill a goat simply by staring at it. Now, the program's founder, Bill Django, has gone missing and Cassady's mission is to find him. Intrigued by his new acquaintance's far-fetched stories, Bob impulsively decides to tag along. When the pair tracks Django to a clandestine training camp run by renegade psychic Larry Hooper, the reporter is trapped in the middle of a grudge match between the forces of Django's New Earth Army and Hooper's personal militia of super soldiers. In order to survive this wild adventure, Bob will have to outwit an enemy he never thought possible. (Source)
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The request came Thursday (June 1) in three separate petitions to courts in Richmond, Va., and San Francisco that blocked the president's executive order barring most immigrants from countries deemed at risk for terrorism, as well as international refugees.
Government lawyers asked the justices to let the travel ban go into effect even while they challenge the lower courts' rulings. While that request faces an uphill battle, the high court ultimately could reverse the 4th Circuit and 9th Circuit courts after hearing the case.
"This order has been the subject of passionate political debate," Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall said in legal papers. "But whatever one's views, the precedent set by this case for the judiciary's proper role in reviewing the president's national-security and immigration authority will transcend this debate, this order, and this constitutional moment."
The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled 10-3 last week against a toned-down version of the original travel ban issued a week after Trump's inauguration in January.
Chief Judge Roger Gregory said revisions removing any mention of religion from the second executive order did not hide the real motive: "President Trump's desire to exclude Muslims from the United States."
"From the highest elected office in the nation has come an executive order steeped in animus and directed at a single religious group," Gregory said in the 79-page opinion, which was accompanied by concurrences and dissents from his colleagues.
At the time, Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed that the case would be appealed to the Supreme Court because it "blocks the president's efforts to strengthen this country's national security."
"As the dissenting justices explained, the executive order is a constitutional exercise of the president's duty to protect our communities from terrorism," he said.
Reaction to the Justice Department's move was swift, with the American Civil Liberties Union denouncing the request.
"We've beat this hateful ban and are ready to do it again," the ACLU said on Twitter. "We will defend our victory and the Constitution."
Meanwhile, a ruling is expected any day in a similar case from a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, based in San Francisco. Rather than wait for that decision, the Justice Department asked that a federal district court's earlier decision striking down the ban be blocked so that it can go into effect.
At issue is Trump's plan to ban most travel from six countries — Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — for 90 days and suspend the entire refugee program for 120 days. The Richmond court blocked the immigration ban, while the district court in Hawaii blocked the refugee ban as well.
Trump first tried to implement the travel ban by signing an executive order on Jan. 27. That order was in effect for seven days before it was blocked by a federal judge in Seattle, a ruling upheld by the 9th Circuit.
Rather than appeal to the Supreme Court, Trump revoked his first travel ban and issued a revised version on March 6. That order was blocked by a federal judge in Hawaii hours before it went into effect, as well as another judge in Maryland. The Justice Department appealed both rulings.
Changes made to the revised ban included exempting thousands of foreign nationals who hold valid visas or green cards. It eliminated Iraq from the original list of affected countries, leaving Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. It contained no preference for religious minorities, while the original had favoured Christians. And it included a waiver process for those claiming undue hardship.
The Supreme Court, finally at full strength with the addition of Trump's nominee, conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, has divided in the past on immigration issues. Those 4-4 ties, which were commonplace following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, could tilt in Trump's favour with Gorsuch on the bench.
While seeking to have the lower court decisions blocked so the travel ban can go into effect immediately, the government is not asking the court to hear the case any sooner than next fall, when its 2017 term begins.


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(HealthDay News) – The magnitude of change in serum prostate specific antigen (PSA) after 5α-reductase inhibitor therapy may help diagnose prostate cancer in men with persistently increased serum PSA and previously negative biopsies, according to a study published in the September issue of The Journal of Urology.
Steven A. Kaplan, MD, from Cornell University in New York City, and colleagues examined the effect of 5α-reductase inhibitor therapy on prostate cancer detection in 276 men with PSA greater than 4ng/mL (208) or a PSA velocity change of 0.75ng/mL (68) and a normal digital rectal examination who had previously undergone biopsy at least twice. Patients were given finasteride (154) or dutasteride (122) daily. In phase 1, PSA was measured at 6 and 12 months in 97. In phase 2, biopsy was performed on patients with a nadir PSA of more than 0.4ng/mL.
In phase 1 at 1 year, the researchers found that PSA had decreased by 46.7% and prostate volume had decreased by 17.9%. In 27.8% of the 97 patients, prostate cancer was detected with a mean minimum PSA velocity of 0.6ng/mL from a nadir of 0.4ng/mL. At a mean of 14.6 months, 26.8% of the 179 participants in phase 2 underwent repeat biopsy. Of these, 54.1% had prostate cancer, and Gleason score 7 or greater disease was detected in 76.9% of them.
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"The data in this study support the concept that the magnitude of change in serum PSA after 1 year of 5α-reductase inhibitor therapy may be useful in diagnosing prostate cancer in men with persistently increased serum PSA and previously negative prostate biopsies," the authors write.
Several authors disclosed financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
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"Pain don't hurt" or so says Dalton in the movie Road House. I loved that movie and I love that quote. The truth is pain does hurt, but the temporary and manageable hurt creates success!
I had the most amazing experience last year at the Denver and Minnesota Success Summits. For those of you that I was lucky enough to present to, you know that over time I have focused my energy on teaching skills, techniques, and strategies to help you get rich in real estate. I gave my first presentation to a live audience in 2006, and have since taught thousands of investors how to make money. I have written countless articles, reports, and a book. I love getting notes in the mail, emails, or people approaching me telling me how I helped change their life. Someone told me that my book helped them make an additional $50,000 this past year alone. You can probably tell that I have a passion and am driven to help people reach their goals, and now I understand that I was missing a very important piece to this mission. Most people need more than skills, techniques and strategies. Many can acquire all the information they need to make a fortune and still be broke. What most people need is the understanding of what it actually takes to be successful.
At this year's Success Summits, I tried something new. I tried to breakdown the fear that prevents us from taking action and tried to give techniques on how to move forward past the fear. I had a lot of fun with the presentation, but it also pulled a lot of emotion out of me and the audience. Multiple people told me I touched them, and it was the exact presentation they needed to hear as the try to jump start their investing. I think one of the reasons I had several people approach me in tears is because they know they have not been taking action, to avoid pain, and all that has created in their life is more pain. That is a hard thing for someone to realize. My guess is people left that presentation being hard on themselves. That is not the point. The point is, now they understand what was holding them back so that they can implement strategies to propel themselves forward. The past is the past, and serves only as an educator for the greatness that is about to come.
If you attended the presentation, you learned that our decisions are based on one of two driving forces. Pursuit of pleasure or the avoidance of pain. We talked about pain being a stronger force, and can easily dominate our decision making. The thought of experiencing pain, even if it is not physical, is scary; which is where the fear that stops us stems.
What is important to understand is that pain supports us. Success is developed by experiencing pain. If you look back through time, you will see that all successful people had to endure pain before the triumph, and that all people experiences what could be considered large amounts of pain. No one is immune to this fact. What makes successful people successful is they can embrace it and learn from it. I also believe that once you start to embrace psychological pain, and are able to reflect on it, you will have no choice but to grow and become more and more successful. Things that scare most of us, like being embarrassed, or being rejected, are things that make us stronger, smarter, and better equipped to succeed.
As we move through the year I will write more articles on the subject of busting through fear in hopes that more of you will start to implement the real estate skills, techniques and strategies that we teach. For now, I want you to understand the reason you make the decisions you make. I want you to understand that the fear is based on your attempt to avoid pain, so you can peel back the fear and focus on what the actual results of your decision. Obviously, you can mess up and create pain through failure, disappointment, and rejection, but none of that is that bad. In fact, it is necessary. Focusing on the pleasure you will get from doing the things you are afraid of will help move you forward. And you never know, if you try something… it just might work.


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Amazon Santa: Wish List Creation Aimed At Kids
Remember making Christmas present lists as a kid? In a way, it was the most exciting part of Christmas. All that anticipation of working out exactly what deserved to be on the list and the preciouse hope that Santa would buy all of the items.
Pen and paper seem to be increasingly going out of fashion, but now people can create personalized Wish Lists to share with friends, family and Santa via Amazon Santa! Yup, Amazon is so popular, even Santa is using it for some gifts.
Amazon Santa offers all the functionality of the Wish List feature on the site but in a simplistic way that's ideal for children. Kids can browse more than 500,000 family-friendly toys, games, books, music, video games, movies and TV shows, adding items at the tap of the screen.
Parents can then review and edit the Wish List, sharing it via email with anyone they want such as grandparents, siblings or family friends. It's secure too, with Wish Lists only viewable by the contacts that parents select.
Amazon Santa is a modern interpretation of a tried and tested part of Christmas. It's out now for the iPad and it's free.


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JANESVILLE—Police say a Janesville man was running a marijuana grow operation with 22 pot plants at his residence.
Police on Thursday morning arrested Steven M. Tomasevic, 27, of 214 E. Holmes St., Janesville, on suspicion of running a marijuana grow operation and a drug house, according to a news release from the Janesville Police Department.
Tomasevic was taken into custody after police executed a search warrant at his residence following a months-long investigation by local police and the Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation.
Police said a search warrant for the residence was issued early Thursday.
In the search, police seized 22 marijuana plants in various stages of growth in Tomasevic's basement, according to the news release.
Police believe Tomasevic was distributing marijuana out of the residence. He was arrested on charges of running a drug house, possession of more than 20 marijuana plants and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Police said city code officials also turned up several code violations at the residence, which had illegal electrical alterations, including extra wiring for lights and temperature control to support a grow operation.


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The inner eyelid of cats--more properly called the palpebra tertia but also known as the nictitating membrane, third eyelid or "haw"--has been regarded by some as a biological curiosity much like the human appendix or wisdom teeth. In fact, some veterinary articles in the early 1900s describe methods for removing this supposedly irrelevant structure so as to facilitate examination of the eye. Despite these perceptions, the third eyelid of cats plays an important role in maintaining the health of their eye surface. In fact, it is so important that among mammals and birds the norm is for a species to have a third eyelid and those lacking one--such as humans and some of our fellow primates--are the true oddities in nature.
The anatomy of the third eyelid is complex. It is a fold of tissue covered by a specialized mucous membrane (the conjunctiva) that faces the inner surface of the eyelids (palpebral surface) on one side and the cornea on the other side (bulbar surface). Embedded in the bulbar surface is a dense population of lymphoid follicles that are in contact with the surface of the eye and the tear film, a thin layer of liquid. These structures function as the lymph nodes of the eye, trapping unwanted dirt and detritus.
Between the two layers of conjunctiva is a dense T-shaped cartilage plate. The crossbar of this T cartilage stiffens the free edge of the third eyelid and is also curved so as to conform to the corneal surface. The stem of the T cartilage is surrounded by an accessory lacrimal gland, which produces a substantial portion of the tear film. The tiny ducts through which tears leave the gland of the third eyelid exit between the lymphoid follicles on the surface of the third eyelid, allowing these cells to dump their contents into the tear film and be widely distributed over the surface of the eye.
In cats, as in most species, the third eyelid is large enough to completely cover the cornea and acts much like a windshield wiper blade by removing debris from the surface and redistributing tears over the cornea. When the cat is alert, the bulk of the third eyelid is hidden within the eye socket and only a small portion is visible in the inner corner of the eye. When relaxed, during sleep or during blinking, however, retraction of the eyeball by a set of skeletal muscles causes the third eyelid to passively move across the ocular surface from the inner, lower corner of the eye to the upper, outer corner. Movement of the third eyelid in cats is also partially regulated by the sympathetic nervous system as well as by smooth muscle cells within the third eyelid. The former fact has been used extensively in the study of how certain drugs affect the sympathetic nervous system.
The exact function of the third eyelid in cats is not completely known but it is believed to help protect a very large cornea from injury as cats move through tall grass or capture prey. Additionally the presence of an accessory tear gland allows for even greater tear production and rinsing of the ocular surface than is found in primates. As this portion of the tear film flows over the lymphoid follicles covering the surface of the third eyelid, a variety of immunologic mediators, including secretory IgA and lactoferrin, are dumped into the tear film to bathe and immunologically protect the ocular surface from the stew of bacteria and fungi that inhabit the surface of even a normal eye.
The third eyelid is also believed to help keep the surface of the eye moister by holding the tear film against the cornea better than the eyelids do by themselves. Loss of the third eyelid through trauma or in the treatment of neoplasia frequently results in chronic irritation of the cornea and remaining conjunctiva. In view of this, the real question is not "Why do cats have a third eyelid?" but "Why don't people have a third eyelid?" In humans, the third eyelid has been reduced to a rudimentary fleshy bump in the inner corner of the eye. Although the exact reason why we lack a third eyelid is unknown, it may be related to the fact that humans do not typically capture prey by biting (as would a cat) or by rooting through vegetation (as would a horse). Thus, there may be no advantage for us in having this extra measure of protection for the surface of the eye.


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This is a great find, thanks for sharing.
I've written about free online storage in the past, but nothing comes close to this. For a limited time, filedropper.com is giving away 250GB storage accounts to bloggers for free. This account usually costs $10 a month. THIS DEAL HAS ENDED, BUT I DO HAVE SOME SLIGHTLY GOOD NEWS...
UPDATE: I got in touch with Jay from FileDropper. As I suspected, the killer traffic from Digg and Reddit was responsible for the deal ending so early. Jay cannot give out any more free Gold accounts, but has offered to give Ten 5G accounts (usually $12 a year) to Wisebread readers. I will be offering the first two accounts to Michelle and Norm, who tried and failed to get the Gold account. If anyone else wants a 5GB account, leave your comment here. I will arrange it for the first 8 commenters WITH A GOOD ENOUGH REASON to get one. A simple "I want it" won't be enough to qualify. Thanks folks.
I've been test-driving this service on-and-off all day and I can't find a flaw, other than the upload limit...which is 5GB! I searched my system and I'd say 98% of my files fall beneath that size. Even a DVD movie rip is generally below 5GB so that it can fit onto a regular DVD.
What I also like about filedropper is the sheer simplicity. There's no complex interface or software to download. It's as basic as it gets. There are a few google ads and a donate button which makes me think that this could really pay off for the site via Adsense money. But they're very small, a tiny distraction and well worth it for the amount of space and freedom the account gives you.
The deal expires on May 15th, so sign up quick. Just go here and give a name, password and email address. That's it, no huge form, it takes seconds and you're off and running. Let me know how it works for you, I've found it to be excellent and well worth the price (or should I say no price) of admission.
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i've been trying to up a 2.5 gig file.... but it simply won't work at all. pretty frustrating...
The site is getting insane traffic from digg, reddit, technorati and a bunch of other blogs (including this one). The free signup should be back tomorrow, and you will still have until May 15th to get your account. This unusually high traffic is also responsible for the slow upload/download times. When it returns to normal, it will be a great asset.
Thanks for the link! Always nice to have free stuff!
I'm just going to throw out a caution for everyone - they can stop offering this for free at any time, and then you may have to pay to get any files back.
I won't go in to the gory details of MediaMax, but as of April 25 they deleted all of their free accounts. Holders of these accounts had 6 days to get their stuff off or upgrade to a paid account to avoid losing files.
I've only had my File Dropper acocunt a few hours, but as Paul points out, I LOVE the simplicity and ease of use!
I want to say I appreciate the heads up first and had no trouble opening the account. However! I tried several times on both firefox and IE to upload one picture (695kb) on my dial up connection to this account just for test purposes. Nothing. IE just froze up like a lone baby penguin in an arctic storm. Firfox made a valiant effort of getting about half way before a freeze up and I could never get the whole picture to load. I dont know if it was the sudden rush jamming the site or what. Maybe I'll try again in a few days when the frenzy dies down but if it stays like this even a free account does no good if people can't upload to it. Thanks again anyway for trying to put the word out. Any updates you hear from the site would be appreciated.
Yesterday when I checked this, it said the deal would be available again the next morning. Today, there's no sign that there was ever a deal at all.
Oh well, I was too slow, I guess :)
You're right Norm. I checked the link today and Filedropper has killed the special signup link, despite making it clear the offer was open until May 15th. This is something that really gets my goat. You can't just pull an offer because it became more popular than you thought it would. In fact, FileDropper targetted blogs and sites like Digg and Reddit so that they would actually get huge traffic. I have contacted FileDropper, I hope to have a resolution for Wisebread readers within a day or two.
Seems that the deal is off but an account I opened 25 minutes after Mr. Michael posted remains functional and appears working correctly after the rush.
This is one of those things that kind of gets to me. When a company offers something free like this they have to realize that it is going to hit the netwaves big time. They should be willing to hold to their promises or just offer it limitedly in the first place. If I could be so fortunate to receive one of the remaining free offers, I would be grateful, if not eternally, at least til 2038. I do some file transfers occasionally back and forth between work and home and generally have to rely on my dying USB HDD. These are generally too large to transport via Gmail so I am stuck with that as my only option. Please help me out here. I have been trying to sign up since Sunday night.
I work at a job that requires me to use several different computers at different desks. An online file storage system would be ideal for me to be able to store files that I need to access regularly
I am a photographer and this would be great for backup storage. I have lost (damaged) so many USB flash drives in the past two years. It would be great to have a large repository to place files that sounds so simple to use.
I have the ability to work from home on occasion, and there have been many times where I've ended up having to go down to the office to email additional files to a client. I have yet to find an easy and convenient way to have everything available all the time, wherever I may be.
Having a way to just put all current client documentation and files online and accessible at home would not only make life easier, but would save me an untold amount of gas driving to and from the office on days I didn't expect I'd have to do so.
Thanks for giving me a chance for this.
though I could still use the smaller space to back up my all-important thesis stuff plus a few personal files. I get nervous every time the thunderstorms roll into Missouri. Still have any accounts left?
I'm leaving the states on the 18th of May to begin service as a Peace Corps volunteer in Romania. I'll be working in a high school, or secondary school, teaching English as a foreign language-- as such, I've been guaranteed access to internet, whether in my apartment, at work, or nearby internet cafe'.
I've been encouraged to bring my laptop, as a result. Originally, I was going to bring my external hard drive out to back up any files: writing, assignments, pictures, etc..
However, if I could get one of the online storage accounts, then I could leave my external HD here. It'd be one less expensive thing to pack, and claim traveler's insurance on. Also, I imagine the worst case scenario is my apartment getting broken into, in which case my laptop and external HD would almost certainly get snatched. If I had online file storage, my HD would be safe here the states, but I could still recover any necessary files/photos from my post abroad.
Why did file dropper mention till the 15th of May, what they could have done is said 48 hours for 250 gig free and 5 gig there after until May 15 free.
Their promotion was way more popular than they expected, so they cut it off early. As I mentioned, even the 5G would help me out (my whole documents directory is only 15G), but I am disappointed that by sleeping on it overnight I wasn't able to take them up on it. They'd have done better to say "up to X number of accounts," but I don't think they anticipated word of mouth very well.
...once I have all ten names, I will ask the admin team to forward me the email addresses. I will send them to Jay at FileDropper, who should be able to set you up directly. Any issues, let me know. Right now, I count 9...
MICHELLE (all caps)
Michelle (l/c)
That leaves one spot open.
And they have two files of mine that I can't get back. Fortunately, they aren't critical and I have backups but that's just unethical. I was going to use it to transfer some small video files to my sister who's putting together a grandkids video for our parents. Hmmph!
Thanks, I was able to snag one of those free 250 GB accounts in time.
Does anyone have a problem of not being able to see all their files on FileDropper? I can only see the first 14, any after that aren't in the viewable area. (I use Safari and Firefox.)
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Born at Plowden Hall, Shropshire, 1743; died at Jougne, Doubs, France, 13 June, 1821. He was lineally descended from Edmund Plowden, the celebrated lawyer. The family adhered steadily to the Catholic faith, contributed ten members to the Society of Jesus, and numerous subjects to various female orders (see Foley, "Records of the English Province". Plowden Pedigree, IV, 537). Educated at St. Omer's, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1759, and was ordained priest, at Rome, in 1770. At the suppression of the Society, in 1773, he was minister of the English College at Bruges: the Austro-Belgic government, in its execution of the decree of suppression, kept him imprisoned for some months after the closing of the college. He wrote an account of its destruction. After his release from confinement, he was for a time at the Academy of Liège, which the prince-bishop had offered to the English ex-Jesuits. Returning to England, he became a tutor in the family of Mr. Weld, and chaplain at Lulworth Castle, where he assisted at the consecration of Bishop Carroll, in 1790. He preached the sermon on the occasion, and published an account of the establishment of the new See of Baltimore. Father Plowden had a large share in the direction of Stonyhurst College, founded in 1794, and by his ability and virtue, "he promoted the credit and welfare of that institution" (Oliver). Richard Lalor Shiel, who had been his pupil, speaks of him as "a perfect Jesuit of the old school". After the restoration of the Society of England, he was the first master of novices, at Hodder. In 1817, he was declared Provincial, and at the same time, Rector of Stonyhurst, holding the later office till 1819. Summoned to Rome for the election of the general of the Society, he died suddenly on his journey homeward, and, through mistaken information to his mission and identity, he was buried with full military honours. His attendant had gathered the information that he had been at Rome in connection with business concerning a "general", and the town authorities, mixing things, concluded that he was a general of the British army hence the military funeral.
In addition to his many administrative activities and occupations, Father Plowden was a profile writer. Sommervogel gives a list of twenty-two publications of which he was the author, besides several works in manuscript which have been preserved. He was a lifelong correspondent of Bishop Carroll and wrote a beautiful eulogy on the death of his friend in 1815. A large collection of the letters which the interchanged, originals or copies, exists at Stonyhurst and Georgetown Colleges, as also in the Baltimore diocesan archives. He was protagonist in the polemics that distracted the Catholic body in England, in relation to the Oath proposed as a preliminary to the Catholic Relief Bill. It was "a desperate life and death struggle of Catholicism in England, during one of the most insidious and dangerous assaults upon its liberties to which it had ever been exposed". Writers on both sides, in the heat of controversy, employed language which subsequently necessitated explanation, apologies, and retractions. Plowden was too outspoken and perfervid in some of his utterances, but his spirit was that of loyalty to the vicars-Apostolic and to Catholic traditions.
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Some of you may be surprised to discover that fastfood reviews weren't invented by bored teens on YouTube (or bloggers at Gizmodo).
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In this 1984 video, Geek-Glasses Paul (who is perfect and brilliant) gives an on-camera review (using a now-ancient VHS camcorder) of his McDonald's breakfast, like a time capsule straight to the core YouTube contingent of today.
Why did he do it? WIth what prior planning, and for whom?
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Intel this week presented an array of arguments to the E.U. General Court against a massive $1.33 billion fine imposed by Europe's antitrust regulators.
In 2009, the European Commission fined Intel for using rebates to block rivals. The Commission says that between 2002 and 2005, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, NEC, Lenovo and Media Saturn Holding all received financial incentives from Intel not to buy computer chips from its rivals.
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Intel's lawyer, Nicholas Green, told the court that the Commission's analysis was "simplistic" and failed to meet the burden of proof.
But the Commission argues that the condition that customers buy at least 95 percent of chips for personal computers from Intel was detrimental to Intel's main rival AMD. The antitrust fine was the E.U.'s biggest and represented about 4 percent of Intel's annual turnover in 2008. The Commission can impose fines of up to 10 percent of turnover. Intel is seeking to have the fine annulled or substantially reduced.
Lawyers for Intel say that the Commission was faulty in finding that the discounts it granted to its customers were abusive per se by virtue of being conditional, without establishing that they had an actual capability to foreclose competition.
They also contend that the Commission failed to take into account evidence that one of Intel's competitors actually increased its market share and profitability in the period under review. Nor did the Commission establish a causal link between conditional discounts and the decisions of Intel's customers not to purchase from that competitor according to Intel.
Lawyers also told the five presiding judges that the Commission did not procure certain internal documents from AMD that, according to Intel, were potentially exculpatory of Intel, nor did it make a proper note of its meeting with a key witness from one of Intel's customers, who was highly likely to have given exculpatory evidence.
Finally the chip makers say that the Commission's failure to grant Intel an oral hearing following the Statement of Objections materially harmed Intel's defense and that the size of the fine is disproportionate.
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What did Jesus mean when He said that the generation that sees the blossoming of the fig tree will witness His return? What generation was He talking about? And how long is a generation?
I believe that Jesus meant exactly what He said — that the generation that sees the re-establishment of the nation of Israel is the one that will witness the Lord's return. This is the most important reason I believe that we are the terminal generation.
People frequently ask me how long is a generation? The answer is that it depends upon context. In Genesis 15:13-16 a generation is defined as 100 years. In Psalm 90:10 it is 70 years. A generation based on the genealogy presented in the first chapter of Matthew calculates to be about 50 years. Job 42:16 says Job lived 140 years and saw four generations during his lifetime, which would make a generation 35 years. The Bible frequently refers to a generation as being 40 years (Numbers 32:13; Psalm 95:10; and Hebrews 3:8-10). Some passages seem to indicate that a generation was viewed as starting at age 20 (Exodus 30:14; Numbers 1:3; and Numbers 14:29). If that were so, and you add 40 years, then a generation would have been from 20 to 60 years of age.
But, the word is also used generically to refer to people living at a particular time, and when it is used this way it does not refer to any specific number of years. An example can be found in Jeremiah 7:29 where the prophet declares that God has rejected "the generation of His wrath." That is simply a reference to the people living at that time. It would be like making a reference to the "Nixon generation," meaning all the people living during the time that Richard Nixon served as President. In like manner, people refer to the "Hippy Generation," which is a reference to young people living during the 1960's.
I believe the term is used generically in Matthew 24:34. All it is saying is that the people living at the time the nation of Israel is re-established will be the ones who will witness the return of the Lord. It could be a person who was a small child at that time and who will be 80 years old when the Lord returns. No time period is meant or implied.
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Mariah Carey fired the first shots in her "American Idol" war with Nicki Minaj ... calling the rapper a "bitch" multiple times ... this according to sources close to Minaj.
According to our sources, Nicki is adamant ... in the moments before the TMZ video begins, Mariah repeatedly berated her ... until Nicki finally had enough and exploded.
We're told ... Nicki feels Mariah has been wasting everyone's time by constantly praising herself instead of focusing her energy on critiquing the contestants.
One source tells us, "She keeps bringing up how many records she's sold, name dropping people she's worked with, how many tours she's done, and how many Grammys or awards she's won ... Nicki is tired of it."


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Acting out
· The term acting out is used in two ways: Contenu 1 Acting out as a defence 2 General sense 3 Interpretations 3.1 In parenting 3.2 In addiction 3.3 In criminology 4 Voir aussi 5 Références & Bibliographie 6 Textes clés 6.1 Livres 6.2 Papiers 7 Matériel supplémentaire 7.1 Livres 7.2 Papiers 8 Liens externes 8.1 Self help / informal psychology 8.2 Parenting Acting out as a defence In psychoanalytic theory Acting out is a psychological term meaning to perform an action to manage (often unconscious) emotional conflicts. For example someone may self-harm and this may be interpreted as: they are 'acting out' of their needs to resolve a conflict: they want to talk about being sexually abused but cannot, by cutting themselves the pain distracts them from their thoughts and gives them temporary emotional release. The behaviour usually has a paradoxical quality to it, expressing the unconscoius feelings (in this case of pain) as well as defending against them Acting out painful feelings may be contrasted with expressing them in ways more helpful to the sufferer, par exemple. by talking out, art therapy, psychodrama or mindful awareness of the feelings. Developing the ability to express one's conflicts safely and constructivly is an important part of impulse control, personal development and self-care. General sense The term has come to have a more general, less technical meaning where Acting out broadly means to act following impulses that they are not aware of. It has a negative connotation and is generally applied to problem behaviour. It is generally implied that the observer,usually a professional, somehow has access to a the persons 'real' motivation and is in a better position to give an account of the behaviour than the person themselves. The power dynamic this position creates is not without its difficulties. Firstly it makes it difficult for the person themselves to subsequently account for their own actions, now they have been pathologised. Secondly it makes the defining authority open to the charge that they too are 'acting out', out of a need to establish social power through the control of definitions. Where such interpretations are accurate and sensitively given they can be helpful. Where they are inaccurate and imposed they can be problematic and psychologically iatrogenic. The action is often anti-social and may take the form of acting on the impulses of an addiction (ie. drinking, drug taking or shoplifting) or as a means designed (often unconsciously or semi-consciously) to garner attention (ie. throwing a tantrum or behaving promiscuously). Acting out may be considered a form of projective identification. The action performed is usually destructive to self or others and may inhibit the development of more constructive responses to the feelings. The term is used in sexual addiction treatment, psychotherapy, twelve-step programs, criminology and parenting. Interpretations The interpretation of a person's acting out and an observer's response varies considerably, with context and subject usually setting audience expectations. In parenting See also: parenting Early years "temper tantrums" can be understood as episodes of acting out. As young children will not have developed the means to communicate their feelings of distress, tantrums prove an effective and achievable method of alerting parents to their needs and requesting attention. Ideally, as a child develops they learn to replace these attention gathering strategies with more socially acceptable and constructive communications. In adolescent years, acting out in the form of rebellious behaviors such as smoking, shoplifting and drug use can be understood as "a cry for help". The young person may seem to be disruptive - and may well be disruptive - but this behaviour is often underpinned by the need to regulate emotions that are too difficult to be handled in any other way. In addiction See also: addiction The moral model of addiction states that addictions are the result of human weakness, and are defects of character. Those who advance this model do not accept that there is any biological basis for addiction. They often have scant sympathy for people with serious addictions, believing either that a person with greater moral strength could have the force of will to break an addiction, or that the addict demonstrated a great moral failure in the first place by starting the addiction. The moral model is widely applied to dependency on illegal substances, perhaps purely for social or political reasons, but is no longer widely considered to have any therapeutic value. The disease model of addiction holds that addiction is a disease, coming about as a result of either the impairment of neurochemical or behavioral processes, or of some combination of the two. Within this model, addictive disease is treated by specialists in Addiction Medicine. Within the field of medicine, the American Medical Association, National Association of Social Workers, and American Psychological Association all have policy as to addictive processes representing a disease state. While there is some dispute among clinicians as to the reliability of this model, it is widely employed in therapeutic settings. Most treatment approaches involve recognition that dependencies are behavioral dysfunctions, and thus involve some element of physical or mental disease. Critics like Stanton Peele describe an absence of medical evidence for an implied physiological process (beyond that of simple mood state changes) that can be equated with the disease of addiction. Organizations such as the American Society of Addiction Medicine believe the research-based evidence for addiction's status as a disease is overwhelming. In criminology See also: criminology Classical school criminology based on "rational agent" philosophies... Positivist school ... psychoanalytic criminology See also Acting in Solitary destructive behaviour Attention seeking Enactments Behaviour disorders Emotionally disturbed References & Bibliography Key texts Books Papers Additional material Books Papers Google Scholar External links National Library of Medicine - Medical Subject Headings Acting out/Acting in (excerpt) International Journal of Psychoanalysis "Projective Identification, Countertransference, and the Struggle for Understanding Over Acting Out" Robert T. Waska, MME., MFCC, Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research 8:155-161, Avril 1999 Self help / informal psychology Acting out More complete explanation from a psychological perspective. Acting out Understanding acting out from outsiders and insider's perspectives, suggestions for developing positive potential from acting out traits. Parenting Acting out Acting out Encyclopedia of Children's Health This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia (voir les auteurs).
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (May 29, 2009) - Survive and advance was the name of the game for the ETSU track and field team Friday afternoon, and for three Buccaneer athletes the motto and hard work paid off at the 2009 NCAA Mideast Regional, located at Louisville's Cardinal Park.
Seniors Heidi Dahl (
"Overall everyone gave a valiant effort today and laid it on the line," commented associate head coach Michelle Byrne. "When you come to regionals the goal on day one is to advance to the finals, and three of our athletes were able to step up and make it happen today. I am pleased with how we performed and hopefully we see the same effort tomorrow."
Dahl was the first ETSU athlete to qualify for finals in her respective event, as she won her section in the 1500m with a time of 4:26.46. The
"Heidi advanced with ease and controlled the entire race," said Byrne. "She shifted with 600m to go and no one came up to test her. She is excited to compete in the finals and have the chance to qualify for the NCAA Championships tomorrow."
After not being able to pull through in the 100m, (Nae-Nae) Bailey made sure her collegiate career didn't come to an end on Friday, as she beat out Louisiana Tech's Stacia Hanneman for the final spot in the 200m. Bailey, who qualified for the 200m by claiming the Atlantic Sun title two weeks ago in
"It was great to see Nae-Nae extend her career and advance to the finals in the 200m," Byrne said. "To make the finals and see the hard work over the last four years pay off is very rewarding."
Meanwhile, (Mike) James excelled in his NCAA Regional debut after qualifying for finals in the 110-meter hurdles. James, who entered the race ranked 13th in the 18-man field, turned in a personal best time of 14.09 in the prelims and finished seventh overall. In the end, James' time had to be broken down to the thousandths, as he and two other competitors both finished 14.09. Fortunately, for James, he recorded the second fastest mark at 14.086.
"Mike is having a phenomenal and breakthrough season, and today he ran a very strong race" said Byrne. "To have him set a personal best and advance to the finals in his first regional meet is quite an accomplishment."
Friday was bittersweet for the ETSU track and field program, as (Judy) Johnson saw her career come to an end, while (Duronal) Monal ended an outstanding year as well. Johnson, who was competing in both the 100m and 200m, didn't advance. The
"It's heartbreaking to see Judy's season end like it did," said Byrne. "Judy wasn't 100-percent but she gave it everything she had in both events today. I am very appreciative of what she has been able to do here (at ETSU) and commend her dedication to our program."
Like Johnson, Monal also couldn't pull through in the sprints. Monal, the 2009 A-Sun Champion in both the 100m and 200m, finished a respectable 13th in the 200m and 14th in the 100m. The
"Our expectations for Duronal were to advance to the finals, but he still gained a lot of experience after competing on this stage," Byrne said. "He ran close to a lifetime best in the 200m, but made some technical errors, which cost him a spot in making the finals. Hopefully he uses this experience to his advantage and comes back stronger next year."
The Bucs return to action on Saturday when Dahl, Bailey and James all look to advance to the 2009 NCAA Championships. Dahl starts the day off at 4:20 p.m., James will then follow her 25 minutes later in the hurdles and Bailey wraps things up in the 200m at 6 p.m.
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Kyle Busch, family escape Mall of America shooting
Published 11:30 pm Thursday, August 4, 2022
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Kyle Busch, a two-time NASCAR champion, and his family safely escaped the Mall of America in suburban Minneapolis after someone fired shots.
Bloomington police, which said no one appeared to be injured, was still searching for a suspect after securing the scene shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday. The police said two groups at the mall got into an altercation at a store and one group left, but someone in that group fired three rounds.
A video posted on Twitter shows Busch walking away from the chaos while holding hands with his son, Brexton.
Busch's wife, Samantha, posted videos on her Instagram story, showing their son winning a youth racing event on Wednesday and riding roller coasters with her husband on Thursday before providing a sobering update after the shooting.
"If you are seeing the news about the @mallofamerica we got out and are safe," she posted. "Praying others inside are too."
Kyle Busch, the 2015 and 2019 champion and winner of 60 career Cup races, is scheduled to race in the No. 18 Toyota on Sunday at Michigan International Speedway.
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Health SA Gesondheid (Online) vol.16 n.1 Cape Town 2011
A literature review of the impact of HIV and AIDS on the role of the elderly in the sub-Saharan African community
Eucebious Lekalakala-Mokgele
School of Health Care Sciences, University of Limpopo (Medunsa Campus), South Africa
The status of older adults in Africa occupies a small but rapidly expanding share of the global literature on ageing. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) pandemic has generated a new focus on the changing role of the elderly in communities that have been affected. In sub-Saharan Africa, where millions are projected to be infected with HIV and about two million deaths are recorded annually amongst the traditionally productive adults, such loss of parents and breadwinners means children and the elderly have had to take up unusual responsibilities. A literature review on the elderly and HIV and AIDS provided the data analysed for this article. Access to databases was mainly via EBSCO (http://www.ebsco.co), which allowed searches in major databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in health and health-related academic journals, repositories and archived reports. Results showed that the AIDS pandemic has direct and indirect effects which have manifested in a set of interrelated social, economic and psychological dimensions that could ultimately impact on the health and well-being of the elderly. It is concluded that more needs to be done to articulate the knowledge base of the impact of HIV and AIDS in order to inform social, economic and political policies for the purpose of alleviating the problems that the pandemic is wreaking on the elderly African population.
Die status van ouer volwassenes in Afrika beklee'n klein, maar vinnig groeiende deel van die globale verouderings literatuur. Die menslike immuniteitsgebreksvirus (MTV) en verworwe immuniteitsgebreksindroom (VIGS) pandemie het 'n nuwe fokus op die veranderende rol van bejaardes in die gemeenskap wat deur VIGS beïnvloed word, gegenereer. In sub-Sahara Afrika waar na beraming miljoene geïnfekteer word met MIV, met sowat twee miljoen sterftes jaarliks gerekordeer onder die tradisoneel produktiewe volwassenes, word daar van die kinders en bejaardes verwag om ongewone verantwoordelikhede op hulle te neem as gevolg van die verlies aan ouers of broodwinners. 'n Literatuuroorsig wat handel oor bejaardes en MIV en VIGS het die geanaliseerde data voorsien vir hierdie artikel. Toegang tot die databasis was meestal deur EBSCO (http://www.ebsco.co) wat soektog toegelaat het tot groot databasisse en soekenjins wat bruikbaar in die akademiese opset is en die vind van artikels aangaande gesondheid, gesondheidverwante akademiese joernale en argief verslae. Bevindings toon dat die VIGS pandemie direkte en indirekte effekte het. Hierdie effekte manifisteer in 'n stel sosiaal verwante, ekonomiese en psigologiese dimensies wat ten einde 'n impak op die gesondheid en welstand van bejaardes het. Daar is tot die gevolgtrekking gekom dat meer gedoen moet word om die kennis basis van MIV en VIGS te artikuleer om die sosiale, ekonomiese en politiese beleid in kennis te stel, om sodoende die resulterende probleme van MIV en VIGS op die bejaarde Afrika populasie te verlig.
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Eucebious Lekalakala-Mokgele
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Medunsa 0204
South Africa
Received: 04 June 2010
Accepted: 29 Aug. 2011
Published: 10 Nov. 2011