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Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'" — Matthew 22:37-39
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Our key verse for revival is 2 Chronicles 7:14. "If my people who are called by my name shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. Our verse last week focused on praying. For the next few weeks, we will be focusing on repentance.
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This event helps couples understand why the daily activities found in the book will equip them to build a stronger marriage and the book provides them with 365 intentional activities to take what they learn at the event and apply it on a daily basis. Through the event, couples will discover the Biblical "why" behind the categories of activities found in the book and the "how" these activities are important to building a stronger marriage. Focus points of the event includes :
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Praying couple sculpture in lifelike detail, cast stone on circle base with protective felt backing. Handpainted with engraved Scripture verse on plaque; Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other's faults because of your love. Make every effort to keep yourselves united in the Spirit, binding yourselves together with peace. Ephesians 4:2-3. 6″ x 6″ x 4.5″. Boxed. Devoted Sculpture Series.
God, Love, and Marshmallow Wars: 365 Daily Challenges to Grow Your Marriage
By Julia M. Bruce / WestBow Press
There's no doubt that marriage is hard work. Yet it can also be one of the most fulfilling relationships you can experience, outside of your relationship with God. However, many marriages leave God outside of the relationship. Godly marriages do not happen without cultivating it, investing in it, and putting God first in your individual lives and in your marriage.
This book includes 365 daily activities and takes you on a journey through Biblical principles about Godly marriage that you can then apply to your marriage, as well as helping you talk through concepts that can help you develop a solid relationship. Inside you will find simple, quick activities that include:
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• Personal reflections
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|Beholding and Becoming: The Art of Everyday Worship
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You are in the process of becoming. Every day is an opportunity to be shaped and formed by what moves your heart.drives your thoughts.captures your gaze. Is it any wonder that where you direct your eyes and your heart matter in your day-to-day?
We become what we behold when we set our hearts and minds on Christ and His redemption story here in the details of our daily lives. Not just on Sunday, not just on holidays, not just when extraordinarily hard or wonderful things happen.but today
Bestselling author and artist Ruth Chou Simons invites you on a new journey to Beholding and Becoming. With more than 850 pieces of intricate, original artwork, Ruth encourages you to elevate your gaze to the One who created all things.
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Recent images from the embattled Syrian city of Homs, after nearly a week of shelling and more than 60 reported deaths, are hard to stomach: an anguished Syrian citizen pointed to dead and dying children with terrible wounds, shouting hoarsely, "Is this what the U.N. voted for?" Last week Russia and China had vetoed a key U.N. Security Council resolution that backed a new Arab League plan for a transition of power.
While Moscow's close ties to Damascus—its weapons sales, the port it leases from Syria—are well-known, why did China go along with Russia? Beijing's decision was made from a position of defensiveness, not of strength. China's relationship with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime isn't all that ironclad or important. But Beijing is paranoid about giving the West any leverage to topple autocratic regimes around the world (why else was there an Arab Spring, as Chinese leaders see it) or to compel them to kneel before Western standards of human rights. Beijing is tired of being pressured to follow rules set by the West.
Chinese strategists are painfully aware that much of the existing institutional architecture of the international community was built in the post–World War II era dominated by the U.S. and Western Europe. That meant isolated, socialist, impoverished China had little to do with the establishment of things such as currency regimes, the infrastructure of global trade, even global values systems and pop culture. That's why U.S. officials are always trying to make China feel—and act—like a "stakeholder" in the international order.
Today, Beijing feels that many of those old systems are outmoded, putting China at a disadvantage. In the wake of the global financial crisis in 2009, for example, China's central bank proposed replacing the U.S. dollar as the international reserve currency, setting up in its place a new global system controlled by the International Monetary Fund. "The outbreak of the [current] crisis and its spillover to the entire world reflects the inherent vulnerabilities and systemic risks in the existing international monetary system," stated People's Bank of China governor Zhou Xiaochuan, in what was perceived as a startling broadside against the greenback.
Beijing wants to make sure the West doesn't always get its way in the U.N., either. This helps explain why Chinese authorities expended valuable political capital to echo Moscow's veto on Syria. Unlike Moscow, Beijing has been relatively low-key and circumspect in the use of its veto power; however two of eight vetoes cast by China in the Security Council have involved Syria (one in October 2011, blocking a sanctions resolution, and the second last week), leading to the perception of a Russia-China "axis of obstruction," as Sinologist Minxin Pei's op-ed in The New York Times called it. Pei said the two countries are acting "to defy the West together, so that neither might look isolated." (China's other vetoes usually reflected national interests tied to significant allies at the time, such as Zimbabwe, Burma, and Bangladesh.)
China will pay a price. The recent veto on Syria undermines its campaign to project "soft power" and a kinder, gentler image around the world. However, the decision was based on visceral concerns. Ever mindful of what happened during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest movement, Beijing officials are jittery about rising levels of domestic unrest today in China, especially on the eve of a delicate leadership transition at the top. The last thing they want is to set a precedent allowing outside governments to tinker with the internal affairs–and possibly foment regime change—in a nation wracked by dissent.
The issue of human-rights abuses has always bedeviled Beijing. Less than two weeks ago an editorial in the state-run China Daily lambasted an annual report by the U.S.-based NGO Human Rights Watch because it stated that Beijing's human -rights situation is "deteriorating." The commentary accused Human Rights Watch of trying to "conspire with some Western governments to achieve their political aims," and attributed the report's findings to prejudices rooted in "the West's distorted perception of the socialist system, which deems China a threat and challenger to the West."
Another hard-hitting editorial, this one in the English-language Global Times, which often reflects nationalistic views, accused some Americans of viewing the rise of China as a "zero-sum game" in which the U.S. could enhance its interests by bringing about "chaos" to undermine Beijing. The piece urged Washington to see that "the rise of China is not a sinister national political goal," and concluded "it's not easy to walk out of the shadow of the geopolitical competition of the past. But globalization is profoundly changing the rules and nature of competition between nations." This time around, China aims to ensure it has a say in how those rules are made.


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Jim used to enjoy reading my blog. Man that's a nice thing to know. He would have read this back in December: Awake at a Wake. I wonder what he thought.
My sisters and mother and I will not be broken by this and we have the inappropriate texts to prove it. We're already mosaics from being broken previously, thereby making any impending brokenness null and void. They are my best mates ever. And my Aunty Cousin Moochie. All scarred and bonded by these weeks.
I keep hunching over and crying. Sometimes just a wail, or just a weeny sob. A sharp intake of breath. I can't BREATHE. When Jim was in his big pain, he would grimace. I realised just today that I've been grimacing too. Only ever when I'm by myself. It's a sudden ... a horrible, scrunching of my face and bending over. Pain is pain is pain. Then the keening.
So, so sorry I haven't replied to beautiful comments and emails. It's been wicked. I'm barely coping, cannot handle one more thing, drama, child.
Here's the words I wrote and read out last Friday. Had to punch myself in the head ten times beforehand. I think I made it too personal, couldn't help it.
There's an African saying that when a wise man dies, a library burns to the ground.
I met Jim about thirty years ago. A softly-spoken, thoughtful, peaceful man. Always. He married my mother and it was a happy day. Jim took on four sad stepchildren - quietly, in his own way. He was just always there, you know? He wasn't loud, didn't make sweeping statements using his arms to prove a point. He wasn't aggro or angry or noisy. He was just Jim.
He was the singularly most grounding influence my mother has ever had. What a gift. Thank you Mark and Lynn, for sharing him with mum, Linda, Leigh, Cam and me. No mean feat .. because we are CRAZY.
There have been parties and holidays and babies born and Christmases and birthdays, year after year. Our big blended family passing our milestones and doing our things, getting together when we can in this busy world. I've never had a bad word to say about Jim. Ever. Only good words, like gentle and grounding. Accepting. Understanding. Smart. Humble. He called us all 'love.'
The past month has been beyond hard. It was Jim's time to leave. We wished so hard that it wasn't, but it was.
People came from all over, to visit him in Gosford Hospital. For chats, for love, and to say goodbye.
How do we say goodbye to the people that we love?
Jim showed us that we do it with Grace and acceptance. He is so loved that we had to set up a kind of roster system, taking it in turns to file into his room and see his beautiful face and those beautiful blue eyes. When I saw new nurses come in to care for him for the first time, I wanted to tell them exactly what kind of a man he was. To make sure they knew how valued, cherished and loved this stranger in the bed before them was. Thing is, I didn't have to, because they quickly realised anyway.
Asked by his favourite nurse Lisa what his occupation was, Jim thought for a bit and replied, "Oh, just a handyman." We all know that he is so much more than just a handyman. (He was an engineer.)
Jim had to adjust to his new reality pretty quickly. He wasn't given a choice. When it was my turn to go in, he grabbed my hands and we spoke for a while. I asked him, what is it … what could I do for him, in the world. I would do anything, anything at all. He knew I was completely serious. He said "Well, my grasshopper …" and he laughed. And shrugged. And just went on to tell me that there's people in the world who are only out for themselves, and what they can get for their own gain. He said that's not the way to be … that the best way to live is to give and help others. To be kind.
A few weeks later I sat with him again, except this time he couldn't speak. So I did. I told how beautiful his Spirit was. How hard it must be for him to let go. I told him I believed he was going on to a most amazing, incredible place. One we can't even imagine but I swear Jim it's unreal. Then I told him my secret which is I actually don't like life very much at all but I keep living it as best I can anyway. I said I was probably saying the wrong thing to him and I'm so sorry, and I told him that I wish I knew what HE would say to someone in this position. Because I'd say that.
I said I'd see him tomorrow, and then tomorrow and them tomorrow. To take his time. That we will all take care of mum. That love never dies.
Jim has touched so many people in his life. He is the best father-figure we ever had, and we really needed one.
I ask everyone here today, to please, please take some time out and make sure you let my mother know that she is not alone. Now, in three weeks, in three months, a year …. please show her some love. She is an extraordinary, beautiful, giving woman. And Jim loved her so much.
So. A wise man dies, a library burns to the ground … but before it does, let's steal a few scorched books from Jim. And let the way he lived his life linger in our hearts. For always.
Love you Jim.
Tomorrow I fly to New York for Maybelline NY to attend BlogHer 2012. I wasn't going to go, but my Mum told me to. Georgia from Maybelline has been so patient and kind, not minding a bit what my decision was.
I'm not packing much because my grief takes up all the room. It's invisible, can travel anywhere. Don't know how I'll be or if I can talk to people properly. I know I'm running away but man it's better than the alternative.
I need some time to myself, some burgers, a new tattoo, and a pair of black and gold high tops. I need to see my Americanos. Dave's coming with me - he turns 46 tomorrow. We had presents and cake tonight with the kids and I bought forty six candles. The wax melted all over the icing and it took ages to light them all.
I made him promise me he'll never die.


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Rementsconce.club is a deceptive site that might start opening on your browser by itself if you have adware installed. Most of the time adware ends up on computers after users install free programs and don't opt out of extra software installation, or when users launch executable files downloaded from untrustworthy sources. The adware may insert ads into webpages you open or redirect you to various unwanted websites, including Rementsconce.club. The adware aims to trick users into clicking the Allow button on the "Show notifications" confirmation request (see the screenshot). If a user clicks Allow, Rementsconce.club notifications will start popping up in the lower right-hand corner of the screen occasionally and advertise various questionable websites. This step-by-step guide will help you remove Rementsconce.club pop-ups and notifications from your browser.
How Rementsconce.club pop-up gets on your PC?
Rementsconce.club adware usually comes bundled with free Internet programs. For example, a user may download a program, but its installer may try to also install some potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) under the guise of useful tools. To avoid such cases, you need to pay attention during the installation process, do not install suspicious programs and browser add-ons, as well as use special software that can protect you from threats like that. If you already have Rementsconce.club pop-up on your computer, please use our recommendations to remove it.
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Windows XP:
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- Control Panel.
- Then click Add or Remove Programs.
- Find Rementsconce.club.
- Click Uninstall.
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Windows 7/Windows Vista:
- Click Start.
- Then Control Panel.
- Click Uninstall a Program.
- Find Rementsconce.club and click Uninstall.
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Windows 8/Windows 8.1:
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- Click Search.
- After that click Apps.
- Then Control Panel.
- Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
- Find Rementsconce.club, select it and click Uninstall.
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Windows 10:
- Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, click on the Settings at the top.
- Click on App & features on the left menu.
- On the right side, locate Rementsconce.club pop-up and click it, then click on the Uninstall button.
- Click on Uninstall to confirm.
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Note: If you can't find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for last installed programs.
After that remove Rementsconce.club pop-up from your browser.
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Google Chrome:
- Open Google Chrome
- Push Alt + F.
- Click Tools.
- Choose Extensions.
- Find suspicious and unfamiliar extensions.
- Click the trash can icon to remove them.
- Push Alt + F.
- Select Settings.
- Type notifications into the search bar.
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- Find Rementsconce.club (or fpj3.Rementsconce.club, ures.Rementsconce.club, vct7.Rementsconce.club, etc.) in the Allow list.
- Click on three dots next to Rementsconce.club and select Remove.
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The False Roman Model of the Kingdom Used Today by Evangelical Pastors
As I have been travelling the world teaching on the Kingdom of God in many large Christian leadership conferences, I have noticed something of great concern to me. Since many pastors in Latin America, Europe and North America have come from a Roman Catholic background (or a city with a heavy Roman Catholic religious paradigm), their local church application of the kingdom message reflects this influence.
For example, the Roman Catholic Church in theory largely believes that their (Catholic) church is the physical manifestation of the Kingdom of God on earth! This is why the pope is referred to as the Vicar of Christ or as the Prince of the kingdom on earth, representing God himself as the leader of His church on earth. Hence, the Vatican is viewed as a nation with innumerable riches and her hierarchy has accumulated enormous wealth (its own Vatican Bank), political influence (the Vatican has its own ambassadors to various nations), as well as its own institutions of education, art, music, and canon law (church doctrine, councils and legal procedures regarding various situations of applying church law both in church and in secular culture). Hence, in summary, the Roman Church has its own empire with an enormous subculture in which it (as a religious nation) relates to secular nations and institutions. Thus, the Roman Catholic application of the Kingdom of God is extremely church-centric which leads its adherents (in each parish or diocese) to depend upon their local church to exert religious influence in society instead of obligating non-clergy members in the marketplace to influence culture!
Consequently, this has become the subconscious model for many evangelical pastors in Roman Catholic paradigm cultures, resulting in many senior pastors of megachurches acting like popes to their large congregations and building their own mini-empires! Their (Roman) interpretation of the kingdom has resulted in further empowering a (pope-like) top-down leadership style without processing decisions through a multiplicity of ministers, as well as the use of the kingdom message of cultural dominion to get business people and congregations to donate vast sums of monies to build huge church-centric empires that include banks, shopping malls, businesses, hospitals, schools and many other vestiges of societal institutions. That is to say, the people in the congregation exist to empower their local church leadership to exert (institutional) cultural influence instead of the biblical model of local church leadership existing to equip the saints for the work of the ministry to exert cultural influence. (Read Ephesians 4:10-12. Verse 10 shows the work of the ministry involves filling up the whole earth for the glory of God. Thus, equipping the saints allows for marketplace activities to be called ministry, not just traditional ecclesial ministry.)
In special instances, I am all for a local church becoming a cultural institution and building shopping malls, starting banks, schools, etc., especially in at-risk communities in which it is difficult to effectively empower individuals economically. However, the key to an effective movement is the distribution of labor. Thus, I believe the ideal is to see a more decentralized strategy in which the local church exists to empower individual believers to have cultural influence in their spheres so they can maximize their human potential as kingdom experts! This is better than the marketplace leader merely existing to empower the local church in empire building! This (church-centric) kingdom model perpetuates a dualism in which the believer lives a totally secular life in the marketplace because their only duty is to give their tithes on Sunday to empower their local church to fulfill the Cultural Commission of Genesis 1:28. This dualism will result in nominal Christianity amongst its membership because believers are not encouraged to learn how to study and pray to apply a biblical worldview to their sphere of influence! (After all, they think, that's the job of the professional clergy!)
Unless evangelical pastors reject the Roman Catholic template of the kingdom, and understand that the church is not the kingdom but only the key agent of the kingdom that exists to equip the saints for the work of the ministry, kingdom preaching in these nations will only continue to empower thousands of mini-popes and mini-kingdoms and limit the work of the kingdom to professional clergy!
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Rare Book Monthly
Articles - October - 2007 Issue
My "I have a dream" speech
By Bruce McKinney
If you are looking for a reworking of Martin Luther King's speech in 1963 on the Washington D. C. Mall you are in for a surprise. It isn't that. It's much better. Through an electronic frame 6" by 9" I recently saw the future and it looks very good. It's Sony's eBook or rather what this device will, in my opinion, become. They call it The Reader. I call it the future or at least a piece of it.
The Reader is a nine ounce, half inch thick, electronic tablet with a six inch screen [measured diagonally] into which you can load any one of more than 10,000 books to read. This is interesting but probably isn't going to succeed because, as readers know, a typical Barnes & Noble carries about 75,000 titles and it is still difficult to find a book to read. Confining yourself to out-of-print classics [as Sony has done] is perfect for the precocious 7th grader but won't work for many adults who moved beyond Treasure Island more than five Presidential elections ago. Nevertheless, this product has incredible potential and I'm putting it on my top ten list of things to see realized before I die.
Every year there are apparently about 75,000 new book titles released in English. English is important but hardly the only language and perhaps there are 400,000 to 500,000 new volumes in all languages released each year. To this we can add periodicals of all descriptions in all languages. If we think magazines this is one magnitude. If we think newspapers it's another altogether.
There are 6.6 billion people on the planet and 353,000 new-world-citizens born every day. We all have diverse tastes and interests and the number of written items created for us is astonishing. SO I'd like this Sony eBook to do a little more than cover 10,000+ classics. I want you to take on the world.
Let's start by connecting the eBook to Google's inventory of the printed word. Today Google's books-on-line is just an enfant but it's an enfant brontosaurus and it is devouring books by the library full. The volume of available downloadable for eBook is a thin straw compared to the Niagara Falls of material that Google is organizing. If I want to read Vassar College documents from the 1870s I want this to be a one click decision. I may also want to read the Rochester, New York city directories of the 1850s. Or I might like to read both the newspaper and magazine accounts of Texas in its war of independence in the 1830s. Search, select, download, thank you.
Now I'm off to lunch, the beach or the mountains and I'm taking this material with me. Of course I also have a copy or links to a copy in my G Mail account. I take it for granted that you know I'm one quarter blind and half deaf and therefore provide a full range of adjustments to make the screen visible in all lightings. Initially you'll resist providing an audio conversion but in time you'll realize I'm serious. Sometimes I'll prefer to hear the text rather than to read it. Mark Twain's newspaper accounts fall into this category. I'll listen to interesting material while driving.


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Veteran infielder-outfielder Chone Figgins, looking to revive his career after a disappointing tenure in Seattle and a one-year baseball hiatus in 2013, has reached agreement on a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers, a baseball source told ESPN.com.Probably worth a flyer for Chone. He dropped off the face of the earth after his Seattle move, but at one point he was a tiny force to be reckoned with. He could provide the 2014 squad with some speed off the bench, some what was once Gold Glove defense at multiple positions, and, most importantly, compete with Dee Gordon for team lead Mini Sirloin Burger.
The deal includes an invitation to the team's major league spring training camp, where Figgins is expected to compete for a spot on manager Don Mattingly's roster as a utility man.
Figgins, 36, is a .277 hitter with 337 stolen bases in the majors. After making the American League All-Star team and finishing 10th in MVP balloting with the Los Angeles Angels in 2009, he signed a four-year, guaranteed $36 million deal with the Seattle Mariners with a vesting option for a fifth year.
But Figgins struggled badly in Seattle, hitting .188 and .181 in back-to-back seasons, and the Mariners released him in November 2012. Figgins hooked on with the Miami Marlins, but they released him last March and he sat out the entire 2013 season.
Figgins recently held an open tryout in Tampa that was attended by scouts from about 10 clubs. He ran the 60-yard dash in a fleet 6.5 seconds and showed enough with his bat and glove to prompt the Dodgers to offer him a minor league deal.
Hopefully Jack in the Box will still honor this coupon.


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Somebody might better have chosen a "salad bowl" descriptor with compatible ingredients that retain some part of their flavors, but both approaches fail to convey the hostility with which each identifiable group of new Americans has been greeted -- at least since the Massachusetts tribes made the mistake of hosting Thanksgiving.
Newcomers have had to shoulder their way toward the mainstream, overcoming blatant and subtle obstacles erected by those who happened to come before them. On one level, that seems odd in a country settled in significant measure by those who couldn't get along in their native lands; but on another plane not-so-much, as folks who have struggled mightily to carve their niche may be disinclined to share it.
This has been a significant month for immigration policy. First, President Obama announced a new enforcement approach by Executive Order, which incorporates much of the unrealized Dream Act. By its provisions, persons now under 30, who were brought here illegally as minors, who have graduated high school and stayed out of trouble with the law will be issued work permits -- thus paving the way for their addition to the salad. And just this week, the Supreme Court delivered a split decision on the AZ law that sought to facilitate state-level enforcement of federal immigration statutes.
The Justices struck down parts of the AZ law that are "preempted by the feds" meaning there's no room for any concurrent state jurisdiction over the subject, but upheld the "reasonable suspicion" provision that allows the police to demand papers from those they "reasonably believe" may be here illegally.
Now, as to the Executive Order, the President characterized it as the right thing to do. I agree, although I'd add that it's "doing well by doing good," it may have locked-up the Hispanic vote for the Dems, as Mr. Romney's ham-handed non-response won him no friends he didn't already have (the more I see of him in "action," the more I have a sneaking suspicion that he is incapable of independent analytical thought, and his handlers hadn't yet told him what he thinks). I see no justice in punishing young people in those circumstances.
The ?reasonable suspicion" situation, however, gives me great pause. If it means arresting some guy in a dashiki who's hanging around the airport with a Stinger missile, then by all means do so. I fear, however, that in keeping with our history, this will be an invitation now to be copied by other states to profile drivers by their apparent ethnicity. I have heard enough stories from people I trust about the perceived offense of "driving while black" to be concerned about how enforcement will proceed.
More broadly, I have never been overly concerned about economic illegals -- those who have come north seeking opportunity (a flow which has slowed to a crawl as those opportunities have become fewer in this lousy economy). They contribute important labor and significant tax and fee revenue, and bear the personal rigors of situations in which the law is not there to defend them. I understand there are health system effects, but unless/until we otherwise get that chaos in order, I just don't care. There may also be some free education provided, but that's just not the kind of issue that sets my blood to boil.
I am hopeful for a pragmatic eventual resolution that is long on realities, and short on ideology. The illegals I fear are those who come to spread the Mexican drug trade/wars northward, and others who mean to do us harm as a society. It's also my hope that most of the federal and state resources directed at the problem will go after those types.
Until that time, "Give me your tired, your poor" is a noble expression of aspiration, but a misstatement of actual American history, and present policy.


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The actor: Alan Thicke will forever be best known as the father on the hit 1980s sitcom Growing Pains (and the father of R&B superstar Robin Thicke), but he's had a surprisingly eclectic career. He composed the deathless theme songs to the sitcoms Diff'Rent Strokes and The Facts Of Life, wrote for the '70s cult-hit comedies Fernwood 2 Night, America 2-Night, and The Richard Pryor Show, and presided over one of the biggest, most notorious failures in late-night television, the unfortunately titled '80s talk show Thicke Of The Night. Thicke occasionally appears as himself on How I Met Your Mother, and as a talk-show host on The Bold And The Beautiful. He recently popped up in the overflowing supporting cast of the raunchy car comedy The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, which was just released on DVD.
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)—"Stu Harding"
Alan Thicke: My recommendation would be that people remember that I told you to watch for the Will Ferrell death scene, where it's raining adult pleasure toys, and remember that I was the guy who told you to keep your eye out for that. And I predict that's a classic scene in the frat-boy humor domain, to be remembered and cherished along with the memorable semen-in-the-hair scene from There's Something About Mary, and When Harry Met Sally, the famous restaurant, the luncheon scene. I think The Goods proudly gives you one of those memorable cinematic highlights.
AVC: I was watching it last night, and I went to bed right after that scene.
AT: There's nothing to do after that. That's right. You can't top it. It's over. When it's raining dildos, you've got nothing left to say after that.
How I Met Your Mother (2008-2009)—Himself
AT: The role I was born to play, that of Alan Thicke. The plotline there is that Robin Sparkles and I, Alan Thicke, worked together on a Canadian variety show some years ago, and we've kept in touch since. And that's how I get my annual recurring appearance on that show and keep my SAG insurance alive.
AVC: In the show, you mention playing the "I'm Alan Thicke" card. Do you find yourself playing the "I'm Alan Thicke" card a lot in real life?
AT: I do, you know. I have few other characters to relate to other than myself. I have enough of a body of work now that the paternal side of Alan Thicke gets a lot of play. I do get a lot of calls to play dads. In The Goods I'm Ed Helms' dad, and I was known all those years as Kirk Cameron's father, and now I'm known as Robin Thicke's father, so I find myself playing myself a lot, and frankly living up to expectations of what the public's image of me is. They see me as a family guy, so in some cases I'm able to play the family guy gone bad.
The Bold And The Beautiful (2006-2009)—"Rich Ginger"
AT: I enjoyed that. That's another one of those annual recurring things I get to do. The character comes on every six months or so just to move the plotline along. I'm used. I'm a utility guy. I play a local talk-show host. So when they want to get 11 plot points mentioned in five minutes, it's an easy way to do it when you have one of the characters come on the talk show, and then Rich Ginger interviews them, asks them a bunch of questions, and that covers about three months' worth of plotline on The Bold And The Beautiful. And then suddenly everybody's caught up, and they can move forward with their story.
So that's kind of fun for me to do, because I've lived a bit of that life. One of my wives was a soap star, and used to get up and disappear at 5:30 in the morning every day, and I had no idea where in the hell she was going. She kept saying she was an actress on a soap. I had no reason not to believe her. And sure enough, when I got invited into that world to make some cameo appearances, I was curious to see how they worked, and it's quite an art form. They do 400 pages of dialogue in a day. They have to be in character all the time and work ridiculous hours, and mostly get underpaid for it, which I recall her lawyer saying to me as part of our dissolution. It's an interesting area of theater.
AVC: So your character was an exposition machine?
AT: Yeah, exactly. I'm used. I bend over, and they get their exposition.
AVC: Is it exhausting working through so much dialogue in one day?
AT: Well, I think that it is for the people who have to do it every day. To pop in for a couple of days is just an interesting challenge. But to have to do it every day, to be in character and do copious amounts of scenes and dialogue, that's a lot. I mean it's certainly not the way film people are accustomed to working, where you do a couple of pages a day. These people are literally doing, I don't know, 20 or 30 pages a day, so that's… it's a volume business.
Fernwood 2 Night (1977)—Writer
AVC: Speaking of grueling, you were a writer for Fernwood 2 Night. That was on every night, was it not?
AT: It was. That was a grueling schedule. When Norman Lear first came to me to write and produce that series, his concept was totally improvisational, that we would give a couple of guys an idea, an outline as you would an improv troupe, and they would go and improvise comedy in these characters as faux host and co-host of a nightly local talk show. And that made me nervous, the fact that we had to produce 24 minutes of material every day, and we were going to rely on improv to do that. I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.
I've never been a big fan of improvisation, because, as I said, I think you appreciate the process and the cleverness of it more than the actual comedy in most cases. And I remembered having a conversation with no less an authority than Carl Reiner around the time we were getting ready to shoot the first episodes. I said, "Carl, Norman wants to do this improvisational show." Carl said, "Listen. You know that I love Norman, but Mel Brooks and I are the funniest guys in the history of the English language at improvisation, the funniest team, and we could take one of your premises and give you 45 minutes of genius on any given day. And on every other day, we could give you two hours of deathly silence and come up with absolutely nothing. So you tell Norman that his friend Carl says this show needed a little writing." So I went ahead and with my couple of writers, completely scripted verbatim the entire first week's worth of shows. Five episodes. Took them to Norman, and he fired me. And he said, "This is not what I have in mind. I want to do an improv show. This is all crap. Get these first shows taped and you're out of here."
So I, with my tail between my legs, went and taped the first episodes, the audience went crazy, the show was hilarious, everybody involved loved it, and, to Norman's great credit, he handed me a note afterwards. He said "I don't get it, I don't understand it. I don't know how this is happening, but it's obviously working, so I'm going to Tahiti, have a nice time." So he left us alone after that to do it the way that I envisioned doing it, which was with a verbatim script, but always letting Martin Mull and Fred Willard improvise over and above the script. I always made sure we taped an extra five or ten minutes a day, because invariably they came up with something wonderful. But at the same time, we were always covered in case they had brain damage on any given day. I remembered a lot of that experience when I was doing The Goods; these guys would film a couple of takes and then throw the script out and say "Play with it." I think my experience writing and producing that stuff years ago helped me understand how these guys work in this wonderful frat-boy type of comedy movie that they do so successfully time after time, and I understood the process.
AVC: Neal Brennan, who's best known for Chappelle's Show, directed The Goods, so he certainly has experience with improvisation.
AT: Part of the mystique of shows like Curb Your Enthusiasm is the idea that they begin with a couple of plotlines and then a bunch of geniuses improvise dialogue. It's not quite that unstructured and loose. It makes for a good urban myth, but everything's a little more tightly scripted and programmed than that. But if a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.
AVC: You need a solid foundation to deviate from.
AT: Exactly. You know what the chords are, you just don't know what the notes are.
AVC: You were also lucky to have as gifted improvisers like Mull and Willard.
AT: Yeah, brilliant, brilliant. And like I said, that's what I was experiencing in that ensemble cast on The Goods. You have to have a wonderful confluence of good ideas that came from the table, and great execution, and the ability to go deeper from your actors.
America 2-Night (1978)—Writer
AVC: In the second season, Fernwood 2 Night changed into America 2-Night. How did the show's shift from being a faux-local show affect you as a writer?
AT: Well, in a way, it became easier. The reason we shifted from Fernwood 2 Night to America 2-Night was the simple matter of ratings. It was around then that the networks were all feeling that celebrity big-name bookings were important in drawing a crowd and getting people into the tent. So we needed to find an excuse to have celebrities coming on the show, which was not the case at all in Fernwood, and, sure enough, the notion that we'd be moving from Ohio to Hollywood, or specifically Alta Coma, California, allowed us to be geographically within range to have celebrities on the show, so we were able to have bookings that were important at the time. Big names like Carol Burnett and Charlton Heston. And what we did was have them on the show and kind of poke fun of them, or more specifically, kind of laugh with them. These were big stars that were able to come on our show and poke fun at themselves. Stick some pins in their own balloons. And that was the very early days of that style. Nowadays, of course, it's stock in trade if you watch programs like Head Case, or the Ricky Gervais shows, including the one he did called Extras a couple of years ago. People love to come on shows and lampoon themselves now. I did that on Jay Leno a couple of weeks ago, playing myself. I guess to some degree, I did that on How I Met Your Mother recently. But back then, it was the early days of giving stars the opportunity to poke a little fun at themselves. That was part of—if not the reason for the move to California, it was at least a product of it.
AVC: Wasn't Tom Waits on Fernwood 2 Night?
AT: Tom Waits was, yes, yes, where he did the famous line "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
AVC: How was that? Creating the rationale for Tom Waits to be in Fernwood?
AT: We got pretty good at creating that kind of rationale. We could occasionally have somebody pop through Fernwood. One of our famous pop-through-Fernwood episodes was one that we did called "Talk To A Jew," the idea being that they'd never seen a person of the Jewish faith in Fernwood, and a traveling salesman was caught going 10 miles over the speed limit, and the local sheriff decided that instead of a fine, it would be a public service if he could come on television and local residents could see that Jewish people were just like anybody else, and this would be an enlightening appearance.
So he came on the show, and of course it became—the political incorrectness was hilarious on that episode. In real life, there was an outcry. We got a lot of letters, a lot of response—the show was fairly controversial anyway—but a lot of response from self-righteous, mostly right-wingers saying "How could you possibly make sport of our Jewish friends in such a way?" Because we had phone-in callers saying "What is that beanie you guys wear on the top of your head?" and "What's your favorite Barbra Streisand movie?" The interesting thing was that we also at the same time got a commendation from B'nai B'rith that Norman Lear ended up being very proud of, commending us, giving us their award of the year for media enlightenment for showing the silliness and putting a funny face on prejudice and racial stereotypes, etc. So we were getting commended by the Jewish press at the same time that some people in Alabama were wondering why we were making fun of them. It was that kind of a show. If you got the satire, it was brilliant, and if you didn't, it was just offensive.
The Richard Pryor Special? and The Richard Pryor Show (1977)—Writer
AVC: Speaking of satire and controversy, in 1977 you were a writer for both The Richard Pryor Special? and The Richard Pryor Show. That must have been interesting.
AT: It was fascinating, and another great experience or milestone in my improvisational life. I was a head writer for Richard's show, and my skill there involved being able to push his button, and then push the button on my cassette recorder, and then transcribe the gems that fell out of his mouth. I quickly learned that the best way to work with Richard was to find a premise that he responded to, that made his eyes light up. After his horrible self-immolation incident, I used to tease him that I knew how to make his eyes light up, and he knew how to get the rest of his body to follow suit. The point being that if you came up with a premise, like a one-liner, as you're sitting around at a meeting, and you say "Richard, how about if you were this old blues guy, and it was your very last appearance after 50 years with this partner of yours, and you had a few things to get off your chest?" If he was responding to that and he liked it, you could see the wheels starting to turn, and his eyes would kind of light up, and he would improvise a couple of lines in that character. Then if he really liked it—you knew it was time to turn on the tape recorder if he actually got up on his feet, got off the sofa, and started walking around performing this character, Mudbone or whoever it would be. That's when you really knew you had something. So you turned on the tape recorder, and he'd start winging it, and you just made sure you had batteries in the machine, and you'd end up with a script.
AVC: That was also a fairly controversial show, was it not?
AT: Oh, it was, sure. He couldn't do it any other way. Richard was not about to capitulate to the norms and standards of network television at the time. He was one of the guys that always railed against it, and here, all these years later, we remember that he took a stand, whether it was on racial issues, political issues, censorship issues… He tackled them all in ways that would be considered modest and mild by today's standards, but then were considered revolutionary. People along the way in every decade have to push the envelope a little bit, and he was one of the guys that did that.
Diff'rent Strokes (1978) and The Facts Of Life (1979)—Theme Songwriter
AVC: In the late '70s, you wrote two theme songs that will ricochet through pop-culture forever. How does it work when you're writing a theme song? Do you get the script and write it from there? Do you see a pilot? What's the process like?
AT: It's all of that. The challenge was, you have 24 seconds to do something catchy and memorable and sum up the entire premise of the show in case somebody had never seen it before. You had to do it with an internal rhyme scheme and a perky little ditty. So it was an interesting challenge that way. It varied. I did over 40 themes altogether. Those happen to be two of the most memorable ones, and long-lasting. It would vary. Sometimes it would be brought in at the very last minute, when a show was already completely shot and the pilot had been edited, and they'd say "Here, add your 24 seconds." There were other instances, and Diff'rent Strokes was one of them, where you got the information, you were included, from day one and page one. From the notion "Well, we're developing this idea, and we kind of have an idea that it's a couple of young black guys with an older white guy." And then you would get a copy of the script a month later and the revision a month after that, and then you're invited to the taping, and then you do your own editing right through their editing, so that hopefully you all come together at the end when it's time to deliver. I've experienced it both ways.
Nowadays, I get paid by technology that didn't even exist then. I get ringtone royalties now. Apparently what happens is, you get college kids after a couple of rounds of Beer Pong, and they start to bet each other who can remember the most lyrics to an iconic sitcom, and they order it up on ringtones, and I get 11 cents. It doesn't keep up with the current state of the global economy, but it's always a pleasant little surprise in the mail.
AVC: When you were writing those songs, did you get the sense that you'd nailed it, that the themes just worked?
AT: Back then, theme songs were more important. They were a part of every show. Nowadays, they don't aspire to have memorable themes for every show, because the networks are so competitive that as soon as you hit 8 o'clock, or 8:30, or 9 o'clock, that show needs to be in progress already. They don't want to waste the time with 25 or 30 seconds of a ditty. They get right to the action, and that's the case in both comedy and drama now. And certainly theme songs with a lyric, they have no time for that. So I think that's almost a lost art. Back then, we took it a little more seriously, and you knew that your song would be heard every episode. So yeah, you spent some time at it, and took a little pride in it, and worked hard. Like, the Facts Of Life internal rhyme scheme was intricate and one that I remember finishing and saying "Yeah, that's pretty good. That all rhymes. I got a lot of rhyming words in 24 seconds."
Thicke Of The Night (1983-1984)—Host
AT: I remember that when I saw the first episode on the air, I literally fainted. I was in a writers' meeting at my house preparing the next day's material, and I got lightheaded and walked up to my kitchen and fell. The writers heard the clinking and clamoring, the disturbance, and came and rescued me, but that's how disturbed I was at myself. The show was lousy, and I was super-lousy in it. To this day, I can't even really watch it. It was a dark period in my life. I'm happy to say that it did, nevertheless, lead me to my opportunity on Growing Pains. But Thicke Of The Night was… I made the big mistake of listening to, paying attention to, some of my press clippings and thinking I was all that, and I really wasn't. And the irony is that in today's marketplace, those ratings would be considered a huge hit. Back then, it was just me and Johnny Carson, and I was getting clobbered, but I was getting clobbered and putting up numbers that today would be competitive in late-night with anybody, including Dave [Letterman] and Conan [O'Brien]. Not that we deserved it.
It's not false modesty when I say I was pretty bad at it. I was quite terrific as an afternoon host, as a schmoozer kind of guy, more in the Mike Douglas, Merv Griffin mode, back when those shows were popular. I was good at that. I had a very successful show in Canada doing that. But in late-night, you can't take yourself too seriously. You can't think you're all that or too sexy. It's an environment in which you have to go for the jugular. You have to be prepared to be mean and nasty and get your laughs. And I say that with great admiration for the guys who do it. It really takes a stand-up mentality, where you can go for the killer joke at anybody's expense at any time, in your monologue and beyond. That just wasn't my background.
AVC: You lacked the killer instinct?
AT: I did. I don't know if it's just an instinct performance-wise, or even as a writer. Although as a writer for guys like Pryor, and other people I really loved comedically, like Sam Kinison, my feeling always was "I can write naughty things for other people to say." I never had the balls to say them myself.
AVC: Johnny Carson was such an icon at the time that people were almost offended that anyone would dare compete with him.
AT: Oh, absolutely. And we made the terrible mistake—and I was compliant and just went along with it—but we made the terrible mistake of having an entire promotional campaign that said, "We're going to take on Johnny and beat him, and nobody's ever been able to do it." That was an outrageous thing for an unknown, semi-talented, no-name Canadian, a terrible position for him to take against an American broadcasting icon. That wasn't my idea, but I let it go, I let them do it, because they said "This is how we're going to get attention. This is how we're going to get eyeballs on the show." They were half-right, but the show didn't deserve to stick anyway. It didn't probably deserve to die the horrible death and be the scourge of the land that it became. But we certainly invited that kind of reaction by this horrible promotional campaign.
AVC: The stakes were very, very high.
AT: Yeah, and I became the go-to guy as the guru of late-night failure after that. Literally, a lot of guys who followed would call me and take me to dinner to find out how I blew it so badly. Pat Sajak, Dennis Miller, Rick Dees, Arsenio Hall, they all called and asked, "Alan how did you fuck this up so bad? Tell us what mistakes not to make." I did have a couple of important tips for the guys who followed, but it wasn't until Chevy Chase and Magic Johnson came along that the stench of Thicke Of The Night began to dissipate.
AVC: They usurped you as the people behind the ultimate failed talk show?
AT: I had to be preempted by guys who raised the bar or lowered it, I guess.
Growing Pains (1985-1992)—"Dr. Jason Seaver"
AT: Loved it. Proud of it. Proud of what it stood for. I share the corny family values espoused on that show. Happy for the role, both, as I said, what it stood for and what it did for me and my life and my family and my career. So if that's what goes on my tombstone, I'm perfectly comfortable with it. It was a great opportunity that made my life good and something that I can show to my 12-year-old now in reruns. Corny and dated as it is, it's still relatable, understandable, and he can look at it and say "Yeah, I get it. Now I see what you did before I was born."


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Hello everyone!
My name is Mo and im located in London, UK and this is my first post. At the momment, I am at university in my final year of a Computer Networking degree. My area of interest is mainly in the security section of computing and ofcourse networking. I hope to help out as much as I can on this forum and gain more knowledge as we never can know enough
Take it easy guys and catch yous around on the forums.


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Jennifer Forbes, candidate for Kitsap County Superior Court Judge, posted a comment on the Kitsap Sun's Web site this afternoon regretting her decision to comment on stories without identifying herself.
She'd made several comments using the handle "1989payforward" where she accuses her opponent, Karen Klein, mainly of misrepresenting her hours working as a pro-tem judge. (That clash was well documented in a story by the North Kitsap Herald's Richard Walker.)
"My blogs were all truthful, except that I did not re-identify myself as the blogger, which in retrospect, I should have," Forbes said in her most recent comment, which she also emailed to me.
Another commenter had pointed out earlier that Forbes, the Kitsap County Bar Association's president, had signed her name to the 1989payforward handle a few years back on an obituary.
Klein, the woman Forbes is running against, said she'd heard about the comments and took a look at them. She hadn't seen them before. "I don't like to read blog posts," she said.
She wasn't sure if they were Forbes or not, but felt that if true, "there are ethical issues." She said she was trying to stay focused on her own campaign.
Here is Forbes' most recent comment:
"Last week there was a column in the Sun by Rob Woutat regarding Karen Klein. I had nothing to do with that article. I did not ask for it, nor instigate it. However, I did post comments in a blog under the name "1989payforward," a log-in blog name I had previously identified as me. (May 2011)
These blogs took issue with falsehoods continually repeated by Ms. Klein about her over-exaggerated hours as a judge pro-tem. These allegations were investigated and reported in the North Kitsap Herald, verifying that Ms. Klein had significantly less experience she was making the basis of her qualifications for judge.
My blogs were all truthful, except that I did not re-identify myself as the blogger, which in retrospect, I should have.
These comments followed after weeks of Ms. Klein handing out a flyer to voters with a material misstatement about her qualification that she had earlier admitted were not true. After she handed it out again this last week in a meeting in front of me, my frustration boiled over.
I regret letting my frustration get the best of me.
It has been a long campaign, and I have been subjected to slurs and falsehoods in this and other settings. But when it comes to watching falsehoods repeated week after week, with little press to check up on the true facts, I truly was just trying to stand up for myself and my record."


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- 2 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 1 tablespoon sugar, plus 1/4 cup
- 1 tablespoon hazelnut liqueur (recommended: frangelico)
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 ounce milk chocolate, chopped, plus 6 ounces chopped
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup milk
- 4 cup eggs, separated
- 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
Baking Directions:
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
Butter and sugar 6 (6-ounce) ramekins.
Heat the butter, 1 tablespoon sugar, hazelnut liqueur, and vanilla in a double boiler over medium heat until the butter melts.
Remove the butter mixture from the heat, add the chocolate, and let sit until it melts, about 3 minutes.
Place the chocolate mixture in a pie dish and place in the freezer for 10 minutes to firm up.
Use a spoon to form the chilled mixture into 6 evenly-sized balls about the size of a walnut.
Reserve in the refrigerator.
Meanwhile, place the flour in a double boiler and slowly whisk in the milk.
Add the salt.
Heat the mixture over medium heat, whisking constantly until thick, about 5 minutes.
Add the egg yolks and continue to whisk constantly.
The mixture will thicken to the consistency of mayonnaise in another 3 to 4 minutes.
Remove the mixture from the heat.
Stir in the 6 ounces of chocolate and set aside to let the chocolate melt.
Place the egg whites in a large bowl with the cream of tartar.
Using a hand mixer, whip the egg whites until soft peaks.
Gradually add in the 1/4 cup sugar and continue whipping until firm peaks.
Fold the egg whites into the warm chocolate mixture.
Place a ball of the chilled chocolate mixture in each of the ramekins.
Spoon the souffle mixture over the chocolate balls and up to the rim of the ramekins.
(At this point the souffle can be covered and kept refrigerated for 2 days.)
Place the ramekins in a hot water bath and bake until golden on top and the souffle has risen, about 30 minutes (40 minutes if refrigerated).
Remove from the oven and serve immediately.


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A fan of Muhammad Ali has acquired an important piece of memorabilia: the boxing legend's boyhood home.
Louisville Realtor Dave Lambrechts told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Las Vegas real estate investor Jared Weiss closed on the property the day before. He said Weiss paid $70,000 for the small white house with a sagging front porch overhang in a western Louisville neighborhood made up of mostly neat, modest homes.
"The guy's a huge Ali fan, and that's what kind of spurred this," Lambrechts said.
The home already has a state historical marker out front recognizing the residence as the home of Ali when he was a boy named Cassius Clay. The marker says Ali lived in the mostly black neighborhood with his parents and brother and attended local public schools.
It was at the home where the future boxing champion's "values were instilled," the marker says.
"Ali's childhood home is really symbolic for the area," Lambrechts said.
Ali and his wife, Lonnie, have multiple residences but do not live in Louisville. However, they remain linked to the city by the Muhammad Ali Center, a downtown museum and education center that is one of the city's prime tourist attractions. Ali came home for a 70th birthday bash in January.
Lambrechts says the new owner wants to restore the home to how it looked when Ali lived in it.
He said Weiss hasn't finalized his plans but won't use it as rental property. Among the options being considered are turning the home into a museum or using it for some charitable function.
The house had been under private ownership and was assessed at $23,260, according to the Jefferson County Property Value Administrator's website. Former owner Steve Stephenson had said he was asking $50,000.


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Microsoft and Me
Regarding desktops, tablets, and smartphones – I am considering going pure Microsoft. That will mean two new mobile devices, and then switching to IE and Office 365. I will lose apps on my mobile devices and hinder my path to WebRTC. It will be a difficult transition.
It really boils down to two frustrations. Google's whims and I am tired of interop politics.
For almost a decade, I've been living in a Google sponsored world. Other than my Win7 desktop and notebook. My current environment includes a tablet and phone running Android, Gmail, Google Apps, and Chrome Browser (with plugins). The solutions work well and you can't beat the price., but I feel like a cog in Google's information machine.
I hadn't thought about it much until they killed Reader. I loved Reader and I wasn't alone. But it was taken away despite a loyal following. It didn't fit Google's needs anymore. Google Voice has become unreliable too. The recent XMPP stunt on Google Apps and Gmail was infuriating. Google recently updated my Android Gmail clients and I did't like that either.
I don't like being at the mercy of Google's whims largely because they aren't about improvements for me. The changes really seem either optimized for their real business of advertising or to drive adoption of Google+. The standard response 'it's free' is no longer an acceptable trade. I want to be the customer again.
It won't be easy to de-Google myself, but I think it's time to start planning an escape route.
I've never been a fan of the walled garden, but I think it's time to trade fantasy for reality. All the gardens seem to have a wall, or at least a fence.
The iPad didnt work for me largely because of Gmail. I tried various configurations: with one approach there were no contacts, with another I lost stars and labels. Many iPad users don't even know what Gmail can really do. My last attempt with the iPad was when I marked a bunch of emails for follow-up only to find there was no way to sort them to actually follow-up on them on the iPad or my Gmail client. I got snagged on the fence between two gardens.
I realized that Google doesn't want to make the experience great on an iPad. It's a recurring theme. Each vendor has an agenda and it is not about giving their customers free choice. Apple, Google, and Microsoft are all competitors on multiple fronts and work to sabotage each other's efforts.
So I've decided to pick a garden. Three choices:
- A) MS Windows, Tablet, Mobile, and Office 365.
- B) Apple MAC OS, iOS tablet and mobile, Office.
- C) Google Chromebook, Android tablet and mobile, Google Apps.
My core requirements are a good desktop, Office (there goes option C), email, Adobe Reader, Skype, and a few other misc. apps. Though most of my day is in the browser.
I've never really been an Apple fan. I've tried it out, but the walls around the garden are very high. The Apple ecosystem has come a long way, and now MS even offers Office on the iPad. I think I shall pass on Apple mostly for emotional reasons, but here's my attempt at logic:
- With Jobs gone, the golden era is over
- They are more expensive
- I have never liked iTunes (and it's hard to get away from if you use iOS)
- I don't know what to do about the dock connector – Today I use 1 single USB mini for my Kindle, Tablet, and Phone.
Win8 makes the most sense to me. A Win8 desktop as my primary desktop will be similar to my current Win7 solution. A Windows tablet for travel will replace my travel laptop and Android tablet that can run Office. This Windows device will be compatible with my desktop. Microsoft's Office 365 and SkyDrive will replace Google Apps and Google Drive with richer capability (but it's a step backward in terms of collaboration).
There are not many apps on the mobile phones, but I don't really use that many anyway. Some of my purchased mobile apps are just weak versions of my desktop apps. I do rely on mobile email, Twitter, a camera, Maps/navigation, and Evernote. All of that's available, but I will need to switch from Google Maps to Nokia Here Drive. I'd prefer Google Maps, but Google is more interested in using Maps to hurt Microsoft than help me get to where I am going – oh well.
Have I got this thought out? Suggestions?
Regardless if I do this or not, it gives me confidence in Microsoft's strategy. At the time of this writing, I have yet to try a Windows Phone or Windows 8 Tablet.