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All-22: Why the Eagles Failed In the Red Zone
Here's the All-22 review of the Eagles' offense, with a focus on why the team failed to score a touchdown on five trips inside the red zone against the Saints.
Play 1: On the first play of the game, Michael Vick might have been better off using DeSean Jackson as a decoy and going to Jeremy Maclin.
Maclin's got all kinds of space in the middle of the field. This would have been an easy 15-yard gain to start the drive off. Instead, Vick takes a shot with Jackson. And to be fair, the decision is defensible. Jackson's running away from the safety. If he can create some separation, the Eagles have a chance at a big play. But cornerback Patrick Robinson did a good job in coverage.
Play 2: Later on the first drive, the Eagles had a stretch of three straight sacks. The second one, by Brodrick Bunkley, was a direct result of defensive end Will Smith beating King Dunlap. Had the left tackle done a better job, the Eagles would have had a shot at a huge gain.
After the play-fake, Bryce Brown went out into his route, and there were zero Saints defenders nearby. If Vick's able to get him the ball, it's a big play. Maybe even a touchdown if Brown makes a man miss. But instead, Vick had pressure in his face, tried to scramble and took the sack.
Play 3: The first red-zone trip resulted in a pick-six. And while there are certainly things to criticize Vick about in this game (see below), I don't know that this play is really one of them. He knew the blitz was coming and got rid of the ball quickly. Here's a look.
I actually buy the explanation from Vick and Andy Reid that they thought Brent Celek was held. You're not going to get every call, but this play draws a flag more often than not. With Celek blanketed, Vick's throw had to be to the outside. And if the tight end doesn't get held, we might be talking about what a good job Vick did of fitting it into a tight window.
You can see his other options on the play. It looked like he wanted to go to Clay Harbor (blue arrow) with his first read. Harbor's open in front of the defender, but the safety blitzing from that side likely got in Vick's way, and he couldn't attempt the throw. In the middle of the field, Jackson is covered. On the right, Maclin has some room, but I'm not sure Vick could have turned around and gotten him the ball without first getting crushed.
Play 4: On red-zone trip number two, the Eagles went to the old reliable shovel pass. Perhaps you recall them using this once or twice over the years? The play here requires two things to take place to be successful. One is that the linebacker goes with Stanley Havili into the flat. The other is that right guard Dennis Kelly executes his block.
If one of the two things happens, maybe McCoy can make something out of nothing, which he is asked to do all the time anyway. But instead, neither of the two happen.
McCoy gets crushed for no gain. I've heard some argue that this play was too predictable, and I think that's fair. The linebacker kept his eyes on McCoy the whole time and was able to make a play. The Eagles certainly did not catch the Saints off-guard.
Play 5: I will fully admit that I know far less about scheme than NFL coaches. But I can't figure out how this 3rd-and-11 setup from the second quarter makes any sense. The Eagles go with an empty backfield and five receivers.
The offense had trouble protecting Vick all game long (all season long?) up to this point. The Saints were showing blitz, meaning he'd likely have to get rid of the ball quickly. But the Eagles needed 11 yards for a first down, so right away, that doesn't seem like a recipe for success. And it wasn't.
Three of the receivers (red boxes) are running vertical routes and are nowhere close to being open by the time Vick has to get rid of the ball. Maclin (yellow circle) isn't open either, and even if he was, he's not in a position to pick up a first down. So Vick fires it to Jason Avant for what would have been about a 2-yard gain had it been completed.
Nothing about this play made sense to me. If someone can help me out, chime in.
Play 6: After the special-teams takeaway, the Eagles had a chance to make it a 21-17 game. On first down, they got what they wanted too. Here, you'll see Maclin wide open on the post.
The cornerback is trailing him, and the safety is occupied by Jackson. This should be a touchdown, but Vick tucks the ball and takes off for 14 yards. The Saints blitzed, and Vick did not have a clean pocket. But if he had kept his eyes downfield when he started to scramble, he would have seen Maclin.
On one hand, Vick left a touchdown on the field. On the other hand, is it really reasonable to expect him to be patient here, given the beating he'd taken all game long? This play's a pretty good example of why the offense is such a mess right now.
Play 7: Since going with the empty backfield made so much sense earlier, the Eagles try it again. The Saints show six at the line of scrimmage, but the key is they only rush five. One linebacker drops back into coverage.
Of course, the Eagles do not know the linebacker is going to drop back when the ball is snapped, so they slide protection to the right and let the defensive end come unblocked. Vick's hoping to go to Celek, but because the linebacker dropped back, a throw to the tight end would likely result in a turnover. In a way, Vick shows progress here for not forcing it.
As you can see, nowhere to go with the football. The sack occurs (unofficially) 1.9 seconds after the ball is snapped. No chance.
Play 8: On the very next play, Vick has Maclin on the post in the end zone again. He's got the cornerback trailing.
Watching live, I thought this was just a throw that Vick sailed. But the safety dropping adds to the degree of difficulty. And the result is an incompletion. It also doesn't help that Dallas Reynolds gets beat and Vick gets hit (again) as he got rid of the ball.
Play 9: There's at least one sack (actually two) we can say definitively was on Vick. Here, he's got Harbor running across the middle of the field, but doesn't pull the trigger.
He had about 3.6 seconds before he was sacked. The Saints only rushed four. This is a play Vick's got to make.
Play 10: On the fourth red-zone trip, Vick missed a potential touchdown on what would have been an easy throw.
McCoy (red circle) is all by himself in the flat. There are no defenders to that side of the field. At the very least, he gets inside the 10. There's a good chance he scores. But Vick launches one out of the back of the end zone for Jackson instead. This one's on the quarterback. It was a four-man rush without pressure.
After this play, the Eagles just imploded. Demetress Bell had two penalties and allowed a sack. McCoy had a drop. And Celek fumbled.
On the fifth red-zone trip, which took place when the game was essentially over, Harbor and Avant had drops.
Two more quick things: One, if you're wondering why I didn't show more of the protection breakdowns, those were covered in an earlier post. And if you're going to comment that they should have used McCoy more in the red zone, you may have a point, but it's not quite that simple. I'll cover why in a future post.
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antigeopolitics, May 14 -- Ahead of the anniversary of the mass killings and forced exile of the Circassians from their ancestral lands in the Caucasus at the hands of the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th century, which will be marked on the 21st of May, the parliament of Georgia has again mooted the possibility of recognising these events as genocide. The Circassian genocide has had a profound impact on Circassian history and national identity, and the process towards its recognition is given huge importance by many Circassians, especially among the diaspora in Turkey and the wider Middle East. However, until recently, no state has shown willingness to officially recognise the Circassians genocide as such. This changed in late 2010, when following a speech by president Mikhail Saakashvili, the process towards recognising the Circassian genocide was begun by the Georgian parliament. This process further sparked a conference on the Circassian genocide held in Tbilisi in March 2011, organised by the Jamestown Foundation and with the participation of the so-called American Committee for Peace in Chechnya, both known instruments of the US foreign policy establishment.
Since its failed bid to recapture the breakaway republics Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the 2008 August War, the Georgian overture towards the Circassians has formed part of a charm offensive to shore up support for Georgia among the peoples of the Russian North Caucasus, and drive a wedge between Russia and the peoples of the region. As seen from Tbilisi, the conflicts in the Georgian breakaway territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia are merely the result of Russian efforts to destabilize an independent and sovereign Georgian state, and Georgia reckons that two can play this came. Ostensibly under the aegis of pan-Caucasian unity and solidarity, Georgian president Mikhal Saakashvili has ordered the abolition of visas to Georgia for citizens from North Caucasus republics, as well as the establishment of the Russian-language satellite TV channel "First Caucasian" or PIK in Russian. The idea was to give the inhabitants of the North Caucasus more possibilities for education and trade in Georgia, and also provide them with a source of "unbiased" information that is not controlled by the Russian government.
While Russian authorities have universally condemned Georgia's moves, many in the North Caucasus republics themselves have been cautiously optimistic or supportive. However, there is considerable lingering distrust of the Georgian actions and their motives in the North Caucasus for historical and ideological reasons. The Circassians especially point to the role played by Georgia in the Russian conquest of the North Caucasus, where the Georgian nobility participated on Russia's side against Circassians and other highlanders in the Great Caucasian War, which events eventually led to the Circassian genocide. Circassians also note what they see as double standards in Georgian dealings with them and what they see as their "brother nation", the Abkhaz, especially in the light of Georgia's attempts to suppress Abkhaz national aspirations during the 1992-1993 war in Abkhazia. In any case, it is widely believed that the Georgian conception of Caucasian unity is designed to further Georgia's ambition to become a regional leader, a role which the other Caucasian peoples, fiercely independent and assured of their own position in the region, would naturally be wary to grant it.
There is also notable cause for concern when assessing the renewed Western interest in the Circassians and their predicament. Some Western opinion formers and policy makers acting through organisations such as the Jamestown Foundation have primarily the national interests of the West and the United States at heart, and seek to use the Circassians and other peoples of the North Caucasus as tools to further their own geopolitical agenda. This turn of events has historical precedents in British interest in the Circassian cause in the period running up to the Cirmean War, which even included pledges of military support to the Circassians in their fight against the Russian Empire. However, Circassian hopes in the British eventually turned out to be misplaced, as Britain abandoned all aid to the Circassians following the end of the war. Current Western support for the Circassians is not likely to be more reliable.
It is not at all clear either that recognition of the Circassian genocide by Georgia or other third parties would have the positive effect that Circassian nationalists, especially in the diaspora, are hoping for. Rather than force concessions from Moscow on cultural or political rights, or exact some form of apology and reparation for past wrongdoings, it is more likely that recognition will only harden the front between Russia and the Circassians and worsen the lot of Circassians currently living in Circassia. Examples here can be readily drawn from the efforts of many countries to recognise the Armenian genocide, which so far has failed to make Ankara relent on its position. In addition, the stubbornness by which recognition has been pursued, especially by the Armenian diaspora, have actually helped to further complicate the relationship between Armenia and Turkey, forestalling beneficial economic and diplomatic steps like the reopening of the Turko-Armenian border. Consequently, those among the Circassians who are prepared to accept outside support for their cause would do well to ponder who their allies are, and which possible consequences recognition could entail.
Source: antigeopolitics
Richard Berge holds a BA in Politics and Georgian language from the School of Oriental and African Studies at University of London, and a MA in Politics, Security and Integration from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at UCL. He has worked for the Norwegian Embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan in 2009 and the European Centre for Minority Issues in Tbilisi, Georgia in 2010, focusing on human rights, freedom of information and minority rights in both countries. He is currently looking to publish his MA thesis on the political situation of the Armenian minority in Abkhazia.
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Wind turbines constitute a "taking" of private property value (Mass.)
Mar 22, 2012
The approval of wind energy projects within close proximity to occupied homes is tantamount to an inverse condemnation, or regulatory taking of private property rights, as the noise and impacts are in some respects a physical invasion, an easement in gross over neighboring properties, and the direct impacts reduce property values and the rights of nearby neighbors."
Michael S. McCann, CRA
McCann Appraisal, LLC
Chicago, IL
"Mr. McCann has confirmed a 25-40 percent reduction is to be expected within two miles and that smaller reductions over a larger area should also be anticipated."
"Based on her experience in Falmouth, MA, Mrs. Cool says, 'I know that the installation of industrial wind turbines is a Negative Material Fact.'"
Annie Hart Cool
Annie Hart Cool Team
Sotheby's International Realty
—Walter Cudnohufsky, Shelburne Falls Independent (3/22/12)
The proposal to install wind turbines on Mt. Massaemet (Mass.) has already dramatically lowered all property values in the 11 square miles of Shelburne (MA) and Buckland (MA) lying within the most impacted two miles of the turbines. The turbines already cast a shadow on the title and expected benefits to residential property.
Chicago real estate appraiser Michael McCann, who spoke in Shelburne Falls recently at the invitation of the Friends of Mt. Massaemet advocacy group, suggests that industrial wind installations can be tantamount to "inverse condemnation," or a regulatory and private taking of others' private property rights.
At his March 3 presentation, Mr. McCann suggested that, given his well documented and conservative estimate of 25 percent value decline, an impressive $45 million tax base depreciation would be anticipated in Shelburne alone. Buckland would certainly have a significant tax base impact as well. The depreciation has, in his studies, reached 40 percent. McCann has conducted 20 recent industrial turbine-related evaluations, zoning compliance and impact studies across the country.
It may take two to three years for the Shelburne/Buckland marketplace to reflect this now-surmised devaluation of real estate. When the affected property values are lowered by demand, every property in the Shelburne and Buckland communities will then need to share higher property taxes to compensate for the inevitable tax-base shortfall.
The reality is that Governor Patrick's 2020 renewable energy goal, whether intentional or not, is equivalent to taking private property in every ridgeline community in western Massachusetts with no planned compensation for property owners.
Economic impacts are common sense
Common sense should tell us that 400-500-foot-tall industrial wind turbines on the tops of New England ridges will have impacts. Machines so out of scale with surrounding landscape and visible over hundreds of square miles will diminish the natural beauty of our hills and the tourism industry that depends on them. The concern for now well-documented and widespread noise and related health effects is common knowledge to any discerning person seeking to purchase land here. This one-two punch for health and view impacts adds up to reduced interest in property purchase and reduced values.
Mr. McCann says, "The approval of wind energy projects within close proximity to occupied homes is tantamount to an inverse condemnation, or regulatory taking, of private property rights, as the noise and impacts are in some respects a physical invasion, an easement in gross over neighboring properties, and the direct impacts reduce property values and the rights of nearby neighbors."
Perhaps this is the more potent measure of turbine impact? There has been an inevitable devaluing of more than 2,000 Shelburne and Buckland residential, business and civic properties within two miles of the proposed turbines. For most of us, this is an irreplaceable retirement nest egg.
This property value impact has a name
Annie Hart Cool, a Sotheby's realtor, lives a half mile from the Falmouth turbine and has been affected in many ways, experiencing health impacts from low-frequency noise generated by turbines, restricted use of her property, a drop in business and a recently reduced property value appraisal.. She spoke in Shelburne on Jan. 28, 2012.
She calls it "an insult to homeowners' intelligence and to their financial health to even begin the story that turbines won't affect a buyer's desire to buy in a neighborhood."
As a realtor, Mrs. Cool is bound by a code of ethics that obliges her to reveal "Negative Material Facts" or "Material Adverse Effects" pertaining to the properties she deals with.
"These terms, used in accounting, finance, mortgage banking, thus real estate, represent a severe decline in profitability and/or the possibility that a company's (or person's) financial position may be seriously compromised. Any purchaser has several years to seek legal redress for unreported or misreported factors affecting the property's value."
Based on her experience in Falmouth, Mrs. Cool says, "I know installation of industrial wind turbines is a Negative Material Fact."
An example of what we can expect in Shelburne and Buckland
Eight unsold homes exist in Mrs. Cool's immediate two-block Falmouth neighborhood. Five hundred forty-nine ocean-oriented properties — a combined $2 billion in value — lie within one-half mile of the turbines. Despite their delight with the neighborhood, the setting and the wonderful homes, Mrs. Cool reports potential buyers are walking away from purchases. They note the risk of the turbine impacts as their prime reason.
As some have said, it is not whether turbines will reduce property values but rather by how much. Mr. McCann has confirmed a 25-40 percent reduction is to be expected within two miles and that smaller reductions over a larger area should also be anticipated. Using the more modest 25 percent devaluation, the Falmouth Turbines have created a $500 million decrease in tax base. Using the larger 40 percent estimate, this total rises to an $800 million devaluation, within just the one-half mile.
Accounting for the two-mile zone of impact, the reduction in tax base for Falmouth is likely reach into the low billions in a town with a total property value of $11 billion. The resulting decline in tax revenue must be made up by raising taxes for all Falmouth property owners — a process that has already begun.
Don't expect wind energy companies to compensate for any loss, as this example from Hammond, New York shows. In December 2010, an article by reporter Matt McAllister in The Ogdensburg (NY) Journal stated, "If Hammond adopts a wind law that requires Iberdrola Renewables, Inc. to compensate property owners who see drops in their land values, the company says it will scrap plans to build a proposed wind farm."
If there is no fiscal impact, as Iberdrola has claimed, it should be an easily justifiable business expense to bond that proclaimed fact. Florida Power & Light subsidiary, NextEra, made the same claim in DeKalb, Illinois, but relented when the Hearing Officer recommended denial of their project without such a guarantee. The guarantee was then agreed and the project was approved.
Some wind power companies have strategically used the buyout or noise easement purchases to silence nearby property owners when it was demanded and became essential. Easements in Gross are easements where the benefits accrue to the ownership (developers) but not a particular property. The wind developers understandably have no intention, as the above example illustrates, to purchase such easements over the two-mile and beyond impact zone.
To conclude
It is not then a question of whether or when Shelburne and Buckland properties will be devalued. The reality is that property devaluation has already taken place by the "negative material fact" that a publicly registered application to construct such a wind turbine complex on Mt. Massaemet exists.
This was accompanied by the public assertion by Mr. Field that "plenty of wind capacity exists on Massaemet." The possibility is now common knowledge, and is irreversible. It is irreversible even if this current proposal were formally withdrawn by the developer or even if it were denied by the town. The on-going intent and possibility exists as a permanent, not removable, property value devaluation.
In a Letter to the Editor of the Shelburne Falls & West County Independent of Nov. 11, 2011, Vicki Citron of Newton, MA described her decision not to purchase land in Shelburne two miles down-slope of the then-proposed turbines: "We don't want to live near this industrial site with the health hazards and lowering of property values associated with it. . . . I urge you to carefully consider the impact of this wind development on the economic health of Shelburne. Others interested in living in Shelburne, like us, may choose to live elsewhere."
A single remedy exists to reinstate the affected property values: Ban industrial-scale wind turbines in Shelburne, Buckland, Ashfield and in all of western MA and New England.
Turbines must be banned because, additionally, it is our tax dollars that pay for these multi-million-dollar, out-of-scale installations, and our money that pays exponentially accelerating electric rates when wind turbines come online. They must be banned because it is morally criminal to build turbines proven worldwide to have a dismal performance as illustrated in a growing number of careful assessments. Turbines are proving only to exacerbate climate and energy problems, not provide the solution promoted. They must be banned at minimum because they constitute a "taking" of private property value.
In simplest terms, there has been "daylight robbery of your nest egg" in Shelburne and Buckland. Unintended or not, government-funded industrial wind is a scam to conscript personal money, investment, savings and assets for other private and corporate entities. It cannot and must not stand!
Shelburne Falls Independent editorial note: A proposal to build wind turbines on Mt. Massaemet was withdrawn without prejudice this winter, meaning that a proposal may again be made. However, at this time, there is no proposal on the table to erect wind turbines on Mt. Massaemet.


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|My sweet kids checking it out on the car ride home from Barnes & Noble
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YAY!!!!! so flippin excited for you!ReplyDelete
Wow! That is fantastic! So well deserved too! Yay! :0)ReplyDelete
HOLY MOLY! There you are again! ;) I got teared up looking at your kids look at the magazine. This is awesome! And well deserved! how BEYOND exciting! Congrats!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
Jennifer!! This is so exciting and I am so happy for you. Congrats, friend :)ReplyDelete
YAY! It is a beautiful wall and totally deserving of LHJ!ReplyDelete
You shouldn't be surprised- you are super talented and deserve all the recognition!ReplyDelete
He blessed you with so much talent and you deserve to be featured! :) Congratulations girly.ReplyDelete
I'm so very happy for you, Jennifer!! You deserve the recognition because not only are your projects so creative and interesting, YOU are so kind and considerate and encouraging to others. I firmly believe all the good you put out into the world comes back to you and clearly you have put a lot of wonderful out there! Congrats and enjoy this excitement :)ReplyDelete
Congratulations!!!! That is so awesome :) Love that wall!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness, you know I couldn't be more thrilled for you!!! You have a wonderful gift sweet friend, and it's great to see it being shared beyond our little blogging community! :)ReplyDelete
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I always knew your home was magazine worthy!! Congrats friend!!ReplyDelete
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So very excited for you, it truly couldn't had happened to a better person, you deserve to be in the spot light my friend. Congratulations to you and your wonderful blog.ReplyDelete
Congrats, Jennifer! That is so exciting. You deserve it!ReplyDelete
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YAY!!!! That's great Jennifer!!! Congrats :) xo KristinReplyDelete
Congrats Jennifer, this is so amazing!!! I'll have to stop by the magazine aisle and check it out when I go to the store!! :)ReplyDelete
Well Amen Sister Jennifer. He is indeed AWESOME! The best is yet to come....ReplyDelete
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I'm not a bit surprised! I check in a few times a week :) How exciting!!!ReplyDelete
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I just stumbled on to your blog today, and oh my goodness, I am not surprised at all that you are featured! In fact, I have pretty much decided to copy your entire beautiful home;-) Seriously, I can't wait to spend some time looking through your blog, and being inspired. Congratulations on your magazine- you certainly deserve it, that is a great treatment!ReplyDelete
I just found you today too! I am going to feature your cool ceiling fans on Monday morning, but whoa! What a fun and amazing time for you. Your blog is awesome and I am not surprised someone "discovered" you!ReplyDelete
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That wonder wall with some mirrors is one of the unique idea that I have seen, like what I have remembered when I visit my friend's house I actually being innocent with her mirror because it is not just a mirror but a tv in mirror! They laugh at me for I was so naive.ReplyDelete
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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
September 29, 2005
Statement on H.R. 3649, S. 1340, and S. 1368
On Thursday, September 29, 2005, the President signed into law:
H.R. 3649, the "Sportfishing and Recreational Boating Safety Amendments Act of 2005," which provides funding for boating safety and sportfishing programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund through the end of FY 2005; and reallocates FY 2005 budgetary resources for certain programs supported by the Highway Trust Fund, including the operating expenses of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration;
S. 1340, which extends through FY 2015, authority to spend interest from the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Fund to support projects carried out under the North American Wetlands Conservation Act; and
S. 1368, which extends the United States Parole Commission for an additional three years, until November 1, 2008; and requires the United States Sentencing Commission to amend certain Federal sentencing guidelines, commentary, and policy statements.
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Lake Forest, IL – The Chicago Bears named Mel Tucker as the team's new defensive coordinator on Friday.
Tucker served as defensive coordinator for the Jacksonville Jaguars from 2009-2012, and also served as an assistant head coach for the Jags last season. Tucker will replace Rod Marinelli, who has served as Chicago's defensive leader from 2009-2012.
This past season, Tucker guided a defensive unit that ranked 30th in the NFL in total yards allowed (6,088) and 28th in third-down efficiency (40.9 percent).
Prior to joining Jacksonville, Tucker served as defensive coordinator (2008) and defensive backs coach (2005-2007) for the Cleveland Browns and co- defensive coordinator (2004) and defensive backs coach (2001-2003) for Ohio State.
Tucker took over as Jacksonville's interim head coach at the end of the 2011 season following the dismissal of Jack Del Rio, guiding the team to a 2-3 finish.


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A Mother's Day Supercut of Memorable Movie Moms [VIDEO]
Mother's Day is upon us this Sunday and we can't think of a better way to celebrate than with this Movie Moms Supercut from our friends at The Forward featuring some of the fiercest mothers in movie history, from Anjelica Huston's solid "Royal Tenenbaums" matriarch to Faye Dunaway's unstable Joan "Mommie Dearest" Crawford.
It's a perfect last-minute gift for mom: simply send her this video via email or post it on her Facebook wall with a note saying how much you love her.
Watch the video and see the complete list of films below:
The films, in order of appearance:
- Stepmom
- Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
- Look Who's Talking
- Requiem for a Dream
- Mamma Mia!
- Jerry Maguire
- Black Swan
- Junebug
- Back to the Future
- The King of Comedy
- Mean Girls
- The River Wild
- Step Brothers
- Serial Mom
- Knocked Up
- Dazed and Confused
- Parenthood
- Angus
- Carrie
- Freaky Friday
- Please Give
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- Terms of Endearment
- Postcards From the Edge
- Mommie Dearest
- Ordinary People
- Flirting With Disaster
- Goodfellas
- Role Models
- The Fighter
- The Blind Side
- Raising Arizona
- You Can Count on Me
- The Kids Are All Right
- Grey Gardens
- A Woman Under the Influence
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Erin Brockovich
- Juno
- Transamerica
- The Sixth Sense
- Steel Magnolias
- Kramer vs. Kramer
- Psycho
- The Shining
- Little Man Tate
- Animal Kingdom
- Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
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Some sectors in the electronics industry are showing signs of recovery, but the damage caused by the recession may be felt for a few years, Gartner said in a study released on Monday.
Most of the sectors in the electronics market, including the consumer, wireless and semiconductor industries, are awaiting the first signs of recovery, Gartner said in its report. There is still uncertainty surrounding the stabilization of product demand and effectiveness of government stimulus packages.
Gartner predicted recovery for some industries, such as the wireless and semiconductor, to resume in earnest starting in 2010. However, the damaging effect of the recession will be felt for a few more years, and some industries will have to wait a few years to achieve highs of previous years, Gartner said.
"Almost all sectors of the electronic equipment market have now hit bottom and await signs of 'first growth' in comparison with the same quarter last year," said Klaus Rinnen, managing vice president at Gartner's semiconductor manufacturing group, in a statement.
The PC industry is an exception, with signs that product demand stabilizing in the third quarter this year. The PC industry bottomed out in the first quarter, and consumer demand for PCs has remained "better than expected," Gartner said. Analysts have attributed stabilization of PC demand to lower prices and increasing demand for netbooks, which are inexpensive laptops characterized by small screens and keyboards. Netbooks are designed to run basic Internet applications and office productivity applications like word processing.
However, other major sectors will have to wait till next year before showing signs of growth, Rinnen said. Recovery for the semiconductor arena could begin next year. Revenue could peak in 2012, when it reaches the levels of 2007, after which the chip revenue skid began.
The global mobile phone industry should recover in 2010, as it is showing signs of sustainable recovery. The rebound should come from demand for products in emerging markets like China, and from smartphones, which could see a drop in prices as demand increases.
The consumer electronics category still faces longer term of instability as revenue and unit shipments for many products dropped during the recession. Demand for some products like LCD TVs and Blu-ray players remained stable and could continue to grow, but the industry overall faces a rough 2010. The industry could stabilize in first quarter of 2011, when demand for products reach growth rates prior to the recession, Gartner said.


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Mt. Abe busing drives proposed 6.3 percent spending hike
By CYRUS LEVESQUE
BRISTOL — The Mount Abraham Union High School board of directors has signed off on a spending plan totaling $12,919,874 for the 2008-2009 school year.
The plan represents a proposed increase in spending of 6.37 percent over the current year's budget, but officials attributed almost half of that increase to the fact that in past years busing costs appeared in elementary school budgets but this year they appear in the high school budgets.
According to Mount Abe school board Chairman Lanny Smith, the effective proposed increase in spending is about 3.2 percent.
Residents of Addison Northeast Supervisory Union towns — Bristol, Lincoln, Monkton, New Haven and Starksboro — will vote on the proposed Mount Abe spending plan, approved at the board's Jan. 22 meeting, on Town Meeting Day. Supervisory union business manager Greg Burdick said that education tax rates had not been set by the state legislature as the Addison Independent went to press, so the exact impact of the budget on area towns cannot yet be determined.
Children in the ANeSU ride the same buses whether in high school or the elementary schools of each town. Act 130, a Vermont law that took effect in the past year, requires school districts to distinguish between spending on elementary school and secondary school, so the supervisory union is now calculating the high school and elementary busing costs separately.
As a result, the transportation budget for the high school more than tripled, from $148,071 in the 2007-2008 budget to $499,114 in the 2008-09 spending plan. Most of that increase had appeared in the elementary schools' budgets in the past, and Burdick said that the transportation expenses for those schools will drop correspondingly.
At a December meeting, the board received a budget draft that totaled $12,999,836 and it asked administrators to cut another $130,000 from it, to reduce the growth in spending from 4 to 3 percent (minus the busing increase). The final budget of $12,919,874 comes to an increase of about 3.2 percent, but according to Smith, the cuts were still significant enough to satisfy the board.
"Everybody agreed that it was close but it was acceptable," he said.
He said the cuts between the December draft and the final version of the budget came from a lot of relatively small reductions in various places rather than significant cuts to any one program.
The Horizons Counseling department budget was $632,568 in the December draft but only $630,349 in the final budget, for example, and the Horizons Personalized Learning budget was $317,643 in the December draft but only $316,190 in the final budget.
Other than the change to tracking transportation costs, the rest of the spending plan for the 2008-2009 school year contains few surprises.
The budget picture became even clearer on Thursday evening, when negotiators for the school board and the Addison Northeast Education Association came to tentative terms on a new teachers' contract.
The exact terms of that contract will be revealed when both sides formally ratify the pact.
Joanne Casey, chief negotiator for the teachers' union, could not be reached for comment as the Addison Independent went to press on Friday.
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Galaxy Press
Established in 2002 to meet the growing demand for the fiction works of bestselling author, L. Ron Hubbard, Galaxy Press is managed by Author Services, Inc. and located in the same building on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. It is the United States publisher and distributor for Mr. Hubbard's complete fiction library, including perennial and New York Times bestsellers such as Battlefield Earth, Mission Earth, Fear, Final Blackout and To the Stars.
In 2008, Galaxy Press embarked upon a six-year program to re-publish over 150 short stories and novelettes written by Mr. Hubbard in the 1930s and 1940s, in the form of an 80-volume book and full cast audio drama series. These stories span every genre from western and mystery to fantasy and Science Fiction.
The annual L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future anthology, featuring new authors selected by a panel of blue ribbon judges, is likewise published by Galaxy Press.
Realizing the tremendous wealth of fiction writings and content created by L. Ron Hubbard, the Galaxy Press staff continuously strive to create new product lines, maximize the value of the works and making them available in every format to new audiences.
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With three big votes on three contentious, momentous marijuana bills, Colorado lawmakers stepped to the threshold of history Tuesday.
If the legislature gives final approval to the last two remaining pot bills before it adjourns on Wednesday, it will become the first in the country to pass laws regulating the sale of marijuana to any adult over age 21 for any purpose in special retail stores.
One of those bills, House Bill 1317, creates the regulatory framework for the stores. The other bill, House Bill 1318, levies taxes on them. Both bills received preliminary approval in the state Senate on Tuesday. Amendments adopted Tuesday bar cities from running their own pot shops, as Aurora has considered, and ban incorporated marijuana collectives that skirt the regulations.
The third bill, meanwhile, seeks to counter one of the negative consequences many lawmakers fear will come out of marijuana legalization: an increase in stoned driving. The Senate gave final approval Tuesday to a bill setting a stoned-driving limit and sent it to Gov. John Hickenlooper, who has said he will sign it.
The 24-11 vote in favor of the bill, House Bill 1325, belied the struggle the proposal has had at the Capitol. The bill approved Tuesday was the sixth try in the past three years to pass a stoned-driving limit, which supporters say will give prosecutors a tool to combat an increase in stoned-driving cases.
"The reason I keep coming back," Sen. Steve King, a Grand Junction Republican who sponsored the bill, said this week, "is because the numbers are going the wrong way."
Indeed, the unprecedented debates came more with apprehension about the new future of legal marijuana than with excitement.
In advocating for HB 1318, sponsor Sen. Cheri Jahn, D-Wheat Ridge, said sizable taxes on marijuana would be needed to regulate the stores.
"We have to make sure we collect enough money not to hurt other things," Jahn said. "This has to be a self-sustaining program."
And Sen. David Balmer, R-Centennial, decried how much of the entire debate around marijuana this session had focused on making legalization work, without consideration of legalization's overall merits.
"We need to mark this day on the calendar as a day we were implementing something that is profoundly and foundationally wrong," Balmer said.
Lawmakers were forced into regulating marijuana by Colorado voters' approval in November of Amendment 64, which legalized use, limited possession and commercial production of marijuana for people 21 and older. The measure instructed the legislature to draw up the blueprint for implementing marijuana legalization. The state Department of Revenue will later add more details.
By the end of the day Tuesday, Colorado's new rules for recreational marijuana had become much clearer.
Under HB 1317, marijuana stores would have to be licensed by the state and owned by Colorado residents. For the first nine months, only current medical-marijuana dispensary owners could apply to open recreational pot shops. The first recreational marijuana stores to open would have to grow what they sell, but wholesale growers and stand-alone retailers would be allowed starting in October 2014.
House Bill 1318 would impose a 15 percent excise tax and a sales tax initially set at 10 percent on pot. Voters will ultimately need to approve the taxes before the rates go into effect.
The first $40 million generated by the excise tax each year would go to school construction. The sales tax would be used to pay for regulation of marijuana stores.
The Senate approved an amendment to HB 1317 on Tuesday that outlaws businesses that incorporate as marijuana collectives, seeking to avoid state rules for regulation of stores and taxes. Activists had championed such collectives as recently as this week as viable alternatives to pot shops.
The Senate also OK'd an amendment that cities can't run marijuana stores. Aurora was considering several proposals regarding recreational marijuana, including growing and selling marijuana itself.
But Mayor Steve Hogan said it doesn't look like the city will be getting into the pot business now.
"I'm assuming that if that particular bill is all the way through the legislature, we probably won't do anything with it," Hogan said.
"It makes it tough at the local level to make determinations when rules are changing all the time," Hogan said.
Cities won't have to wait much longer to get the final rules, though. Both HB 1317 and 1318 need one more vote in the Senate on Wednesday, the legislature's last day. Changes the Senate made to the bills would need to be approved in the House before the bills could go to Hickenlooper.
The bill already on its way to the governor, House Bill 1325, sets a limit of active THC — the psychoactive chemical in marijuana — that drivers can have in their blood before juries can presume they were too high to drive.
The bill does not change anything about how police identify, stop, question or test stoned drivers. Except in extreme circumstances, drivers would have to give consent to have their blood drawn — though they could lose their licenses if they refuse a request for a blood test.
The bill's impact is in the courtroom, where it creates a "permissive inference" — essentially a nudge — to juries that people with more than 5 nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood were stoned.
That is a smaller impact than in previous years, when versions of the bill made it an automatic conviction to drive with a THC blood level above the limit.
"We've come to a good compromise," Sen. Andy Kerr, D-Lakewood, said during debate on the bill Monday.
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Global icon, trendsetter, businesswoman, and multi-talented entertainer, Janet Damita Jo Jackson is a woman who needs no introduction. Her resume reveals an impressive combination of professional achievements and philanthropic endeavors, and she is currently ranked as one of the top ten best-selling solo artists in the history of contemporary music.
Through words and deeds, Janet has set an example of generosity, of empowerment, of tolerance, while leading an array of efforts addressing some of society's greatest challenges. She has raised money for such charities such as the Cities in Schools and America's Promise. She has supported the Watts Willowbrook Boys & Girls Club of America, the Starlight Foundation, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, A Place Called Home (providing after school programs in South Central, Los Angeles), the American Foundation for AIDS Research, S.O.S. Children's Villages in South Africa, Cartier's Love Bracelet Program benefiting OCNA and sponsored an Airlift of Food and Medical supplies to famine-stricken Rwanda.
Janet established the Rhythm Nation Scholarship with the UNCF, too, and has assisted countless students striving to meet their educational goals. Most recently, she chaired the American Foundation for AIDS Research's gala charity event in Milan that raised more than a million dollars. She also traveled to Abu Dhabi recently to support fresh2o, a charity whose goal is providing worldwide access to clean water for drinking and sanitation purposes.
Janet has been the recipient of many humanitarian awards because of her involvement in charitable and social causes, including the 2008 Humanitarian of the Year award from the Lisa Lopes Foundation, the 2008 Vanguard Award from GLAAD, and the 2004 Touching a Life Humanitarian and Philanthropic Award from the NBA. Janet's admirable efforts have been recognized by AIDS Project LA, the Congress for Racial Equality, and by the NAACP with its Chairman's Award.
Janet will soon be publishing her first book, "True You," a memoir offering an intimate look at her life and how she has dealt with issues of self-esteem. Here, she talks with Ladybrille's Kam Williams about her work as Jo in Tyler Perry's screen adaptation of For Colored Girls, an ensemble drama co-starring Kerry Washington, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise, Loretta Devine and Phylicia Rashad.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: Hey, Janet, thanks again for the time.
Janet Jackson: Hi Kam, how are you?
LADYBRILLEmag.com: Great, and you?
JJ: Very well, thanks.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: FSU grad Laz Lyles would like to know what it is about Tyler Perry that enabled him to assemble such an accomplished cast.
JJ: First of all, he's a wonderful person and a great director who gets it right when he does an ensemble piece, so naturally everyone's really dying to work with him. Secondly, what he creates resonates with audiences which all the more makes you want to be a part of that magic.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: Reverend Florine Thompson asks: How did you come to play Jo? Did you pick that role or did Tyler pick it for you?
JJ: Her name originally was Carmen when Tyler approached me with this role in mind. I had not read the script. He told me a lot about her, and I asked him "Do you really think I can do this?" He responded, "I wouldn't be asking you, if I didn't think so." Then, when I read the script, I said to myself, "Well, this is really different from anything that I've ever done." I knew it would involve a great deal of hard work, but I felt up to the challenge. And I fell in love with the character in so many different ways. That's really how it all came about.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: Well, you really did a terrific job, further expanding the range you exhibited in Why Did I Get Married, Too. Children's book author Irene Smalls asks: Do you think this movie will have cross-over appeal, even though it's about African-American females?
JJ: Of course, the issues that are addressed by this film are relevant to all women, so I'm sure it will have a universal appeal and resonate across all demographics.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: Irene was also curious about whether there was one person you drew on in portraying Joanna, a magazine editor?
JJ: No, but in doing research, one of the things that was very helpful to me was watching old movies. One in particular was Adam's Rib with Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. And, a friend of mine, Glenda Bailey, the editor of Harper's Bazaar, actually allowed me to visit her office so I could get a sense of the inner workings of the fashion magazine world. That enabled me to make sure my dialogue was credible. Not that Glenda's anything like my character. I also spent some time with another friend, Laura Brown, who's at Harper's Bazaar as well. They were both very helpful. Besides that, I just dove into what Tyler was trying to bring to life.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: Is there any question no one ever asks you, that you wish someone would?
JJ: I can't think of one.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: The Tasha Smith question: Are you ever afraid?
JJ: Of course. I wouldn't be human, if I never experienced fear.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: The Columbus Short question: Are you happy?
JJ: Very!
LADYBRILLEmag.com: The Teri Emerson question: When was the last time you had a good laugh?
JJ: [Chuckles] Just a little while ago.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: What is your guiltiest pleasure?
JJ: Caramel apples.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: The bookworm Troy Johnson question: What was the last book you read?
JJ: A novel by Megan Abbott called "Queenpin."
LADYBRILLEmag.com: The music maven Heather Covington question: What are you listening to on your iPod?
JJ: Drake…and mellow jazz… and a lot of other things.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: What is your favorite type of food to eat?
JJ: I couldn't pick just one. I love Mexican… Chinese… Japanese… Indian… I had Moroccan recently, and it was really delicious.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: Have you ever had Ethiopian? That's really good, too.
JJ: No, and there's an Ethiopian restaurant on Fairfax, and every time I pass by I say, I've got to try it.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: The Uduak Oduok question: Who is your favorite clothes designer?
JJ: Again, I couldn't pick just one. But I love Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, Haider Ackermann, Todd Lynn and Rick Owens.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: The Ling-Ju Yen question: What is your earliest childhood memory?
JJ: Attending my sister's wedding when I was two years-old.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: Which sister was that?
JJ: Rebbe.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: When you look in the mirror, what do you see?
JJ: Damita Jo. [Laughs]
LADYBRILLEmag.com: Damita Jo , do you go by your middle names a lot?
JJ: Yeah, my friends call me Damita Jo, Damita or just Jo. When I look in the mirror, what do I see? I see someone who has had a wonderful life, who continues to enjoy a wonderful life and to grow because she's a work in progress. I've come a long way, but I still have open arms to learn more.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: Well, thanks again for another great interview, Janet, and best of luck with the film.
JJ: Thank you very much.
LADYBRILLEmag.com: And I hope to speak to you again when you publish your upcoming memoir, "True You."
JJ: I would love that, Kam.
~Kam Williams
~Courtesy photo for Colored Girls
Founded in 2007, Ladybrille® Magazine is a California based pioneer digital publication demystifying the image of Africans in the west through contemporary African fashion and celebrating the brilliant woman in business and leadership, with an emphasis on the African woman in the diaspora. Our coverage includes stories on capital, access to markets, expertise, hiring and retention, sales, marketing, and promotions.


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- Year: 2022
- Located in: Unknown, Florida, United States
While conventional wisdom in the marine industry holds that a company should introduce ever-larger models, we intend to bring the unsurpassed quality level of the Explorer lineup down into more modest sizes to satisfy an obvious demand. Our intention is to fill the obvious gaps existent within the segment of the marine marketplace we call home. Our modified epoxy resins combined with the legendary strength of Dupont Kevlar assures a hull that can go to sea in less than favorable conditions keeping her passengers safe and comfortable.
Like her smaller and larger sisters in the ever expanding product line, the Marlow Explorer 58E exhibits comparatively huge volumes of space compared to typical polyester and woven roving construction with plywood bulkheads and wood framed bilges. By eliminating wooden supports, bulkheads and framing in favor of vacuum bagged sandwich construction we have once again been able to bring a yacht to market with 79" of headroom in the main salon and lower accommodations areas, 74" in the engine room and a total height to the top of the hardtop of just 18'2". This low profile make a far superior sea boat with a drastically lowered center of gravity, while allowing the yacht to slip under many bridges an ordinary yacht in this size range would have to wait for.
The proprietary and protected Velocijet Strut Keels® are used to great success allowing propeller protection and down sea tracking that has the industries' experts raving. Like feathers on an arrow, these twin tails guide and stabilize the yacht making heavy downwind running a delight rather than a white knuckle experience.
Featuring 304 stainless steel water tanks, fiberglass fuel tanks (no corrosion) and the finest fittings available from the premier suppliers around the globe, the 58E will be, like her sisters, a yacht for the ages.
Standing elegantly at a fine marina or forging her way through seas that would make ordinary yachts tremble, the Marlow Explore 58E will need no apology for any shortcoming. We have brought the craftsmanship from the descendants of the Ming and other Dynasty furniture makers together with the very best in Western technology resulting in an exquisite piece of art to be treasured by her lucky owners.
Whether you plan to visit the Galapagos, Prince Edward Island, Bermuda or the Spice Islands of the Caribbean the new 58E will take you there in comfort and safety carried in the hearts and hands of seamen who have been there before you. The lower deck standard layout of the Explorer 58E is fairly typical for a 58-foot raised pilothouse which includes the master stateroom amidships with a centerline king berth and an en suite head that benefits from streams of natural light. A portside stateroom and a forward stateroom share a head. Like all Marlow Yachts, the 58E is semi-custom and except for superstructure, no two yachts have been alike.
Unique and thoughtful features are boundless and too many to mention. For example, pull up a few floorboards and you will discover just one of countless hidden treasures aboard our 58E. The beautifully finished bilge has active and passive ventilation resulting in continuous airflow through the boat, helping to keep things fresh. Under the forward berth a self contained box houses the anchor chain. In order to keep weight out of the bow, we designed a system that places the chain approximately 13 feet abaft the stem. We also designed the system to automatically spray water inside the chain pipe while the windlass brings up the chain. All the items we have come to be known for that signify the very best will be clearly seen on this new Marlow Explorer. The Schwepper door hardware, Grohe Infinity bath and galley fixtures, polished stainless fittings in the engine room and bilges, high volume pumps, inverters and other features will all grace your 58E. Super duty drive train components worthy of much larger vessels will provide the propulsion force through our proprietary Strut Keels that provide great protection for the running gear and guarantee the straight tracking Marlow Explorers are famous for in inclement weather.
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Marlow Yachts are limited production yachts built under constant supervision and stringent quality control procedures. Very few products in the world undergo the battery of tests and scrutiny designed to make your yachting experience one of pleasure. The major vacuum bagged components are built in only three major molds constituting a marvelous technological advance that eliminates dozens of potential leaks and unsightly joint areas. Resin infusion is extensively used where appropriate. The Marlow Explorer exterior finish is among the finest on earth and will look like fine porcelain for years to come. Marlow yachts are designed and built to cross the oceans of the world in comfort and safety while the proprietary Strut Keel© technology allows inland and island cruising with fully protected running gear. Marlow yachts factory operations are capable of producing various yachts compliant with a variety of standards such as ISO 9001, USCG, ABYC, NMMA, CE, Bureau Veritas, Lloyds Register and other governing societies worldwide.
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The lower deck standard layout of the Explorer 58E is fairly typical for a 58-foot raised pilothouse which includes the master stateroom amidships with a centerline king berth and an en suite head that benefits from streams of natural light. A portside stateroom and a forward stateroom share a head. Like all Marlow Yachts, the 58E is semi-custom and except for superstructure, no two yachts have been alike.
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One imagines that the two, if ever they could have a quiet talk together, would have much to agree on. Both were meticulous planners, though I dare say Breivik was Hitler's superior. He would not delay an invasion of Russia. Both harbored grudges against threats to their culture from the foreign-born and what Breivik called the "cultural Marxists." I can well imagine the Fuhrer admiring Breivik's taste in uniforms, his Aryan features and his longing for his viking past. Both were mama's boys.
The New York Times on Sunday rushed into print the front-page headline "As Horrors Emerge, Norway Charges Christian Extremist." Within hours, applying the appellation "Christian" to the assassin subsided, and by Tuesday, the newspaper settled on identifying Breivik with an organization that may or may not exist beyond his deranged mind, the Knights Templar. It was a military force from the Middle Ages that went on a crusade. I actually doubt Breivik is any kind of Christian, but rather a fanatical pagan, a viking. On that, he and Hitler might congratulate themselves. Both were pre-Christian savages.
Breivik hated Muslims and other immigrants entering into Norway, and now the amazing liberals are linking him to almost any critic of immigration or of Islam, even critics of illegal immigration and of militant Islam -- terrorists, for instance. I find these liberals amazing because most never have shown any sympathy for any of the West's organized religions, at least not religions that demand anything from their believers. I suppose a religion that suggested yoga or Pilates from adherents or perhaps vegetarianism might appeal to these liberals. Yet I cannot see them respecting an obligation to attend Sunday church or honor a celibate priesthood or defend female-male marriage or any other requirement associated with an established religion of the West.
What is the American liberal's position on Shariah? There are places in Europe and, I dare say, America where Muslims are insisting on the practice of Shariah, with all of its strictures against women's rights and, come to think of it, against the traditional democratic freedoms that our Founding Fathers fought for and brought into the law of the land. On other matters, from purchasing alcohol to practicing homosexuality, Shariah is against it.
Europe, for people of faith and for people of no faith (though they replace religious rigor with substitutes, say global warming), is in serious trouble. This week, writing from Norway, a critic of Islamic fundamentalism, Bruce Bawer, asserted in The Wall Street Journal that "millions of European Muslims live in rigidly patriarchal families in rapidly growing enclaves where women are second-class citizens, and where non-Muslims dare not venture. Surveys show that an unsettling percentage of Muslims in Europe reject Western values, despise the countries they live in, support the execution of homosexuals, and want to replace democracy with Sharia law."
Bawer does not strike me as anyone about whom liberals have to worry. Yet maybe they do. Still, after all the liberals' dithering, it is sobering to think that Breivik shared so much with Hitler. Hitler captured the loyalty of a nation. Breivik was a loner. How many more would-be Breiviks and Hitlers are out there? I doubt the liberals' dithering ever thwarted a Breivik's or a Hitler's grand design. For that, you need a Churchill or a Roosevelt, a pre-modern liberal.


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Advice For Successfully Getting A Small Business Loan
Even during challenging times, a small business with a sound strategy can obtain a loan. If you're looking to start or expand your business, here are strategies that may help you acquire the financing you need.
Have a Solid Business Plan
Be prepared to present a basic business plan to potential lenders outlining, if possible, a past, solid record of profitability, plus a three to five year plan. Include current and projected sales. If you aren't operating in the black, include a solid marketing initiative outlining how you will rectify your current situation. Use as much detail as possible. Make sure to include your projected budget and cash flow statement.
Pursue a Bank Loan
Many banks have solid reputations as being lenders you can trust, plus typically offer the lowest interest rates available for small business loans. The trick is finding a bank willing to work with you. Many small business owners set their sights on one or two banks and, if turned down, give up. A better strategy is to cast a wide net and research seven to 10 banks you would be comfortable working with. If your business is creditworthy, you may ultimately find a bank willing to work with you, provided you keep pursuing your options.
Think Big, Ask Small
You may have big dreams, but large loan requests are less likely to get approved by banks than small ones, despite your current assets or collateral. Go as bare bones as possible, building small, short-term gains into your business plan.
Look into SBA Loan Programs
The Small Business Administration can facilitate loans with third-party lenders, such as banks and community development organizations and help identify other venture capital sources. SBA small business loan types have a variety of requirements and eligibility factors. Typically, businesses will need to have reasonably invested equity and be able to show a solid need for the loan, as well as have no past history of delinquent debt obligations to the government. Some businesses are automatically ineligible, such as those involved substantially in legal gambling, religious instruction or life insurance companies.
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Alternative, online peer-to-peer lenders help fill in the gap between banks and interest-gouging cash advance lenders. If your business doesn't qualify for a bank loan, peer-to-peer lending may provide a viable, short-term option, provided you are able to commit to a personal guarantee or substantiate business-related collateral. Interest rates vary and can go high, so make sure to ask the right questions before you commit.
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Carroll found notoriety making horror comics and gorgeous illustrations online, but this book is truly something special. It's a collection of short horror comics all penned and illustrated by Carroll. Her devilish use of the slow burn and white space is just phenomenal. Seriously, I could not put this book down. And we are very honored to give all you readers the ENTIRE first scary story from Through The Woods, "Our Neighbor's House." So turn off all the lights and curl up for a good chill.
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KUPANG, Indonesia (CNN) -- At Roslin Orphanage, children giggle through deep concentration as they try to master the "Chicken Dance." It's a far cry from the Indonesian orphans' earlier months and years.
Budi Soehardi poses with young residents of Roslin Orphanage.
"They are cheerful-looking and photogenic, but close to all have a very sad story," said Budi Soehardi, founder of the West Timor orphanage.
"Some of the babies come because a mother passes away right after delivery because of lack of nutrition. Others come from extreme poverty. Some come from families [that] just do not want the children and abandon them," he said. Vote now for the CNN Hero of the Year
Soehardi, a 53-year-old Indonesian pilot living in Singapore, and his wife, Peggy, look after 47 children at the orphanage. They have a personal relationship with each one, and consider them part of their family. The couple named many of the children since they entered the orphanage as babies -- some of them tiny victims and refugees from the conflict in East Timor.
Soehardi has three children of his own but says there is no difference between what he supplies for his biological children and those living at the orphanage. They all get clean living spaces, vaccinations, food, clothing and vitamins from the United States.
"Mr. Budi is like my own father," said Gerson Mangi, 20, a resident at Roslin Orphanage. Mangi, who came to the orphanage when he was 12 years old, had no means to attend school after his parents died. Now, thanks to the educational training at Roslin and a private sponsor, he is in medical school.
Soehardi, whose father died when he was 9 years old, can relate to these young people's hardships.
"Food was hard to come by and my school fee was very difficult," Soehardi said. "The refugees just really strike me so badly and [I want] them to be better off."
Young victims of a fight for independence
A 1999 news report on the situation in East Timor inspired the Soehardis to take action.
Soehardi was eating dinner and watching CNN with his wife and family at home in Singapore when he saw the plight of the refugees fleeing East Timor for West Timor, Indonesia. Families were living in cardboard boxes, children were wearing rags for clothes, and sanitation was nonexistent.
"It was devastating," Soehardi said.
The poor conditions were a result of conflicts in East Timor that surfaced after the residents voted for independence from Indonesia. Following the election, militias -- with support from Indonesian security forces -- launched a campaign of violence throughout the region. Hundreds of East Timorese were killed, and as many as 250,000 were displaced from their homes, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
The Soehardis had been planning on taking a vacation, but watching the news made them rethink their plans.
"[My wife and I] look at each other and we have a thought of our own. ... 'Hey, let's do something else. Why don't we visit the place ... to make a different kind of holiday,' " Soehardi said.
He began coordinating financial donations, food, clothing and supplies. With help from friends and ground volunteers, the Soehardis navigated the conflict-ridden areas and delivered more than 40 tons of food, medical supplies and toiletries to East Timor refugee camps.
Soon the Soehardis determined West Timor could use a space for orphans.
"My wife was initially asking me to build three rooms. Then two hours later she [asked for] five rooms, and then later nine rooms and finally, the orphanage building."
They completed their orphanage building in 11 months and named it Roslin Orphanage, after a pair of Timorese women whom Peggy looked up to as a girl.
In April 2002, the orphanage opened and provided a home for four children. Since then the residence has expanded to provide free education, clothing, housing and food for 47 children of all ages, newborns to university-age. About half of its residents are younger than 8 years old. Watch Soehardi teach the children the alphabet »
An unexpected harvest
The orphanage was built on donated land that the Soehardis initially thought bore barren soil. But today, the rice they feed the children comes solely from their own land.
"We dared to take the challenge," said Soehardi of his foray into irrigation. He and Peggy, who are not trained in agriculture, used two pumps and a generator to get water for irrigation.
Then they began planting rice. "One hundred days later, we were having our first harvest and declared ourselves to be self-sufficient on rice for the orphanage children," he said. Watch Soehardi explain how he made the land more fertile »
It's a fortunate cost-cutting tactic, especially with Soehardi losing his piloting job in November because of the struggling economy.
Soehardi, whose pilot salary goes toward maintaining the orphanage and funding medical student Mangi's education, is hopeful that the end of his contract will not affect the children's well-being.
"To help these children is a privilege for me and my wife because it's giving back to society ... giving back what has been blessed to us."
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Submitted to: Journal of Economic Entomology
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 12/19/2008
Publication Date: 4/1/2009
Citation: Kim, K.S., Szendrei, Z., Rodriguez-Saona, C., Mulder, P.G., Sappington, T.W. 2009. Molecular Diagnostic for Boll Weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Based on Amplification of Three Species-specific Microsatellites. Journal of Economic Entomology. 102(2):759-766.
Interpretive Summary: Boll weevils are a serious pest of cotton in the south-central U.S. They have been eradicated from much of the Cotton Belt, but because boll weevils can fly long distances, areas from which they have been eradicated are monitored closely with traps. When boll weevils are detected in a trap, very expensive procedures are implemented to ensure that they do not reinfest the area. Therefore, it is very important to be sure that a weevil in a trap is truly a boll weevil and not a similar weevil that may accidently get in the trap. A few weevils look similar, and the chances of a misidentification are compounded when ants or beetles get into the trap and feed on captured weevils, leaving behind only body parts. We have developed a molecular method to identify boll weevils based on a simple DNA fingerprint. We show that the pattern of DNA produced is specific to boll weevils and not to other common weevils that might get into the traps. We also show that the molecular technique can identify boll weevils from legs, wings, and other body parts, so that it is sensitive enough to use even if a trapped weevil is broken-up in the trap. This information will be of use to eradication officials and scientists at the USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the Texas Department of Agriculture, and the Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation as they strive to finally eliminate this pest from the United States.
Technical Abstract: The boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis Boheman (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), is a serious pest of cultivated cotton in the Americas, and reinfestation of zones from which they have been eradicated is of perpetual concern. Extensive arrays of pheromone traps monitor for reintroductions, but occasionally the traps collect non-target weevils that can be misidentified by scouts. For example, the congeneric pepper weevil, A. eugenii Cano, is attracted to the boll weevil pheromone lure, and other superficially similar weevils may blunder into the trap. Though morphologically distinguishable by trained personnel, the potential for misidentification is compounded when captured weevils are dismembered or partially consumed by ants or carabids that sometimes feed on them in the traps. Because both false positives due to misidentification and false negatives caused by compromised morphological features of trapped insects can have very expensive consequences, a molecular diagnostic tool would be of great value to eradication managers. We demonstrate that a cocktail of three genomic primer pairs in a single polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplify three species-specific microsatellites that unambiguously distinguish A. grandis from three other weevil species tested, including A. eugenii, the cranberry weevil A. musculus Say, and the pecan weevil Curculio caryae Horn. A universal ITS primer pair included in the cocktail cross-amplifies DNA from all four species. Furthermore, the diagnostic primers amplified the target microsatellites from various A. grandis adult body parts, indicating that the PCR technology using the primer cocktail is sensitive enough to identify A. grandis even when the body is broken-up in a trap.


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The folks at the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum are hard at work putting the finishing touches on a replica of the America, a Glenn Curtiss twin-engine OX-6 "flying boat" that was originally conceived (in 1914, mind you) as a trans-Atlantic transport. 30,000-hour retired American Airlines Captain Jim Poel is scheduled to fly America at the Lake Keuka (NY) Seaplane Fly-In this weekend, which means the project staff and volunteers will be pretty busy as you read this.
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The sax-heavy pop/rock band known as Quarterflash formed in early 1980, joining together two of Oregon's more popular acts: Seafood Mama, which contributed singer/saxophonist Rindy Ross and her guitarist husband Marv; and Pilot, which added guitarist Jack Charles, keyboardist Rick DiGiallonardo, bassist Rich Gooch, and drummer Brian David Willis. The band would release four albums, starting with its 1981 self-titled debut, which sold over two million copies and spawned two of the group's biggest songs, "Harden My Heart," which went to number three on the charts, and the Top 20 hit "Find Another Fool." Subsequent albums would not reach the blockbuster commercial success of their debut, but they continued to sell albums steadily throughout the mid-'80s. Another notable song was "Night Shift," which was the theme for the movie of the same name. They followed up their debut with 1983's Take Another Picture, which produced another Top 20 hit, "Take Me to Heart," as Quarterflash continued forward with their trademark rock sound. By Girl in the Wind in 1984, the band began to run out of clever hooks and issued just one more album, Back into Blue, in 1985. After recording an unreleased album in 1995, a modified version of the band anchored by the Rosses continued to perform live. ~ Stacia Proefrock


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It's a day of redefinitions. For one thing, "Kodak moment" apparently now refers to taking someone to court; the MacBook Pro with Retina display has redefined how thin you can make an LCD, and Apple may be loosely redefining the word "everything." The remainders for Tuesday, June 19, 2012, meanwhile, are as constant as the north star.
Kodak sues Apple, claiming interference in patent sales (Reuters)
Rochester, NY-based Eastman Kodak is suing Apple, alleging that Cupertino is attempting to block Kodak's sale of a large number of patents. Apple, for its part, says that it owns ten of the patents that Kodak is trying to sell. I guess we'll find out the truth when the judge threatens to cut the patents in half.
MacBook Pro 15" Retina Display Teardown (iFixit)
If you haven't gotten enough teardown action on the new MacBook Pro, iFixit has pulled apart the Retina display itself. The team did unearth some interesting things inside, including a data matrix and a series of dots—possibly a reference to the Game of Life—on the inside of the casing. Rumor has it the data matrix resolves into the message "Abandon all hope, ye who attempt to repair here."
iOS Developers Must Submit High Resolution 1024×1024 Icons & Artwork From July (Cult of Mac)
Beginning in July, Apple will apparently be requiring iOS developers to submit 1024-by-1024 pixel icons to the App Store. We suspect those large icons are intended for a feature where customers browsing the App Store will be prompted to say "Holy $%@&^, those are gigantic icons."
Apple – The new iPad – TV Ad – Do It All (Apple)
Apple would like you to know you can do everything on your new iPad. Every single thing. Ever. Stop looking at that cover with the integrated keyboard!
Schumer: New Apple And Google Plans To Use Military-Grade Spy Planes To Map Communities And Publish Images Could Cause Unprecedented Invasion Of Privacy; Technology Strong Enough To See Through Windows And Even Catch Sun Bathers In Back Yards (Senator Charles E. Schumer)
I'm starting to think he buys his headlines in bulk from the New York Post.
Product News:
Thunderbolt Software Update 1.2.1 – This update adds support for Apple's new Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter.
Sid Meier's Civilization V: Gods & Kings Expansion Pack – Aspyr Media has released this addition to Civilization V that includes 27 new units, 13 new buildings, nine new technologies, 13 new buildings, and nine new Wonders. The expansion pack also has nine new civilizations, three new scenarios, a revamped combat system, two new city-state types, and more. $30.
SOS for Mac 2.0 – SOS Online Backup has updated its Mac client to version 2.0. It features improvements in speed and ease of use, as well as the ability to access backups from other Macs, Windows PCs, smartphones, and tablets. Plans begin at $15 per computer per year for up to five users—plus unlimited smartphones and tablets.
Camtasia for Mac 2.2 – TechSmith has released version 2.2 of its Mac application for screen- and video-recording. The update brings the ability to create interactive, clickable videos; a Smart Player feature that optimizes the video for playback on any platform; and table of contents functionality for videos uploaded to YouTube. $99 for a new license; $50 to upgrade from Camtasia 1.x; free update for Camtasia 2.x users.