text: Saturday 21 February 2015 'Night,Mother Feb 21st 7:30pm Coaster Theatre Playhouse Website Jessie's father is dead, her marriage ended in divorce, her absent son is a petty thief, her last job didn't work out and, in general, her life is stale. As the evening unfolds she sets about tidying the house and making a list for her mother of things to be looked after as we discover what has brought her to this desperate place in her life. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize – this eloquent and ultimately shattering play explores the final moments in the life a woman who has decided that it's no longer worth living. This is a brutal, hard, thought provoking play with multiple facets. When first produced over 30 years ago the issue of suicide was not a subject frequently discussed and is not a topic easily broached to this day. It can always be asked, "What would I do in a similar situation?" There is no one answer. No one really knows until they are there. In interviews with the playwright she says, "I felt with 'Night Mother that Jesse's decision to commit suicide was quite brave. She finally decided that she could decide what to do with her life...The point was not to kill herself; the point was to take charge." " When approached about the irony that it looks like self-annihilation but it actually is self-activation, Marsha Norman responded, "For people who understand that, great; the ones who don't will have another experience with it." "... paintings don't come with instructions. You can't say here's how to perceive this." This play will mean different things to different people. This is just one person's perspective walking in someone else's shoes. Performance Schedule: January 30,31 February 6,7,8,12,13,15,19,20,21Talkback Thursday: February 19thAll performances begin at 7:30pm, Sunday show starts at 3:00pmTickets: $15-$20Box Office: 503-436-1242coastertheatre.com Related Business Coaster Theatre Playhouse


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Acclaimed author Stephen Rea returns to lead fall Writing Institute
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Acclaimed author Stephen Rea returns to Loyola University New Orleans this fall to host the Writing Institute, presented by the Walker Percy Center for Writing and Publishing. The eight-week writing course, "Writing Well-Crafted Fiction," will take place on Tuesday evenings, Oct. 2 – Nov. 20, from 7 – 9 p.m. in Bobet Hall, Room 341. The class is open to the public and costs $250. Enrollment will be capped at 15 participants.
The course, designed to help aspiring authors improve their fiction writing, will help students with a range of goals, from mastering the basics and perfecting short stories, to getting their novels onto bookstore shelves.
All students will have their work read, edited, discussed and critiqued by the other writers in the class. The program will be flexible, informal and tailored to the interests of the students, no matter their age, writing ability or experience.
A native of Northern Ireland who currently resides in New Orleans, Rea was a national newspaper journalist in the United Kingdom. He has covered a range of news stories, from the Gulf War and terrorist attacks in London to the resignation of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
After relocating to New Orleans in 2004, Rea discovered Finn McCool's, a Mid-City Irish bar with a club soccer team playing in a local league. While displaced to Houston during Hurricane Katrina, he authored "Finn McCool's Football Club," which follows Rea's and his team's struggles during that time.
Interested participants are asked to submit a one to 10-page writing sample of fiction or non-fiction, along with their name, profession, e-mail address, local address and phone number to Rea at email@example.com. To reserve a place in the class, checks can be mailed to: Walker Percy Center, Box 157, 6363 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans, LA 70118.
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human909 wrote:The more money they poor into Swanston st the worse it gets for cyclists.
Hmm, dunno, the recent changes have one big advantage: cars can no longer go all the way down Swanston St because of the tram stops (although I did see a taxi get stuck at the corner of Lt Lonsdale and Swanston today who seemed to be trying just that). I have noticed less cars and less parked vehicles since the new stops were put in. Now, if they want to get serious there should be no parking at all on Swanston St (and that includes the cop cars near Flinders Lane). It's a start, are they planning on doing anything to the sections where there is no tram stop or just leave them as is?


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Condi's Inner Life
What Freudian slips do—or don't—tell us about politicians.
Could preternaturally self-composed National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice actually have a roiling inner life? Is she tormented by needs, longings, embarrassing fantasies? So the world wondered after New York reported what it benevolently called a "poignant faux pas" committed by Rice at a recent D.C. dinner party. What Rice reportedly said was this: "As I was telling my husb—" before abruptly breaking off and correcting herself: "As I was telling President Bush." Jaws dropped, we're told. And though nobody thinks Bush and Rice are "actually an item," we were nevertheless reminded that the unmarried Condi does regularly spend weekends with the president and first lady.
Whether this happened exactly as reported has since been questioned in a second leak—and in fact it seems that while Rice said the first thing, she didn't go on to say, "As I was telling President Bush." But as we see, whenever politicians make (or are suspected of making) Freudian slips, the media get very wound up. But how should we construe the meaning of such unintentional locutions in the political classes? The conventional understanding of what Freud himself called "parapraxes"—slips of the tongue or the pen, also losing, forgetting, and mishearing things—is that what emerges in these moments are glimpses of something repressed or unconscious. We're composed of an inside and an outside in this account, the outside being the thin veneer of socialization and repression that holds all manner of pleasure-seeking urges and infantile wishes at bay. (You know, marry dad … or the boss.) And as everyone knows, because pop Freudianism permeates our culture's understanding of how selves operate (even as psychoanalysis itself fast becomes a doctrine in decline), such slips aren't random or innocent, they reveal something.
This view is now so standard that it can serve as a regular premise for sitcom humor without requiring the least explication of the principle. But even those who reject the premise generally still adhere to some version of the inner-life/outer-life dichotomy, and whether it's a soul or just some vague inner being residing in there, what's "underneath" is invariably understood to be more true than what's exterior. You do find the occasional dissenter who rejects the whole model, notably Oscar Wilde, for whom surfaces were far more interesting: "It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
But living as we do in an era when political speech has been reduced to slick messages produced by consultants and pollsters, and staying "on message" is a politician's ultimate goal, the question of how to assess surfaces is the political question of our time. Put politicians under oath in front of special truth-seeking tribunals, and they still dissemble and spin—as we recently saw when Rice herself testified before the 9/11 commission. In such a milieu, the unintentional slip becomes far more meaningful as a cultural moment than it might otherwise be. Indeed, it's the only reason to watch presidential press conferences (when this president deigns to hold one) since aside from slip-ups, they're invariably devoid of content. Or so a New York Times "Week in Review" piece following the last Bush news conference acknowledged. Reporters have one goal, David Rosenbaum wrote, "to lure the president into committing a gaffe or divulging something he shouldn't."
Whatever such slips may mean is actually a different issue than what they signify, which seems to be the feeble hope that a politician might, if inadvertently, say something true. Given the vapidness that passes for political speech, it's easy to see how error becomes conflated with truth. If politicians say something revealing only by mistake, then every mistake becomes big news. A zeal for exposure—exposure of anything—sets in, meaning that reporters start prowling through political candidates' trash cans and love lives in search of something that supposedly reveals the "real person." The faux revelation substitutes for political substance, exactly because substance has been evacuated from political speech.
If ours is a scandal-obsessed society, one reason is that scandal-mongering does have a certain resemblance to truth-telling. The mechanics of scandal requires that something previously hidden be involuntarily exposed. And (as in every surface-depth paradigm) the hidden thing is presumed to have truth value. No doubt the quest to expose politicians also contains a certain ambivalence about power. Thus Condi's dinner-party slip provided the opportunity to vent some antagonism at her, but for all the wrong reasons. Bloggers ran the item alongside news photos of Bush embracing Rice; Condi was "wanting some hot monkey love from the Chimpanzee in Chief"; she'd probably better avoid Laura Bush for a while.
This was mildly funny, but Condi's devotion to Bush in other respects is not so amusing. Take Rice, standing by her man as usual, responding to Tim Russert's questions about Bush's refusal to speak to the 9/11 commission for more than an hour.
Rice: The president, of course, is the president, and he does have a schedule to keep, but he has said that he will sit with the chairman and with the co-chairman and that he will answer whatever questions they have. And I'm quite certain he will take as long as they need to answer those questions.
Russert: Several hours a day if they need?
Rice: Well, I would hope that they would recognize that he's president and that people would be judicious in the use of his time.
When Russert pointed out that the president seemed to have time enough to go to rodeos, Rice repeated, "Well, I would hope that they would recognize that he's president and that people would be judicious in the use of his time." When Russert pushed her, Rice stuck right to that script: "As I've said, Tim, I believe the president is prepared to spend whatever time they need to answer their questions, but I hope that people will be judicious with his time."
And about her own unwillingness to testify under oath:
Rice: Tim, this is not a matter of preference; this is a matter of principle. It has long been a legal and constitutional principle that assistants to the president, the presidential staff, do not testify before legislative bodies. But this is not a matter of preference …
And on she went, and the interpreters supplied the obvious interpretation, which was that the administration was stonewalling. And when Rice finally did testify under oath, what did we hear? Meaningless generalities, right on script.
If the media get whipped up when politicians make slips of the tongue, lining up to play the interpretation game, it's like co-dependents handing a corkscrew to an alcoholic: a form of complicity. Bush and Rice assure us that we're winning the war as the body count mounts, the administration vastly expands presidential power and executive secrecy, and the press keeps busy parsing sentences and monitoring slips, including jumping all over Bush for stumbling on the dumb press conference question about his "biggest mistake" since 9/11. As if there were one mistake that could be singled out?
But we want to know the inner man—you know, who George Bush really is. Except that it's not the slips and errors that reveal the truth about this man, Condi's Stepford-wife act, or this political moment: That's a game. Everything to know is right there on the surface.


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Veep Sheet: Paul Ryan in the mix
Mitt Romney is back in the U.S., the Tampa convention is just weeks away and the anticipation of his vice presidential pick is mounting. Yesterday, ABC's Jon Karl noted that at least two veep options have been instructed to stand by for an announcement any day now, and that the latest VP shortlist includes Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, former Minn. Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota and — a recent development — Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, who's generated considerable buzz this week as the subject of a lengthy New Yorker profile.
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Pre-emptive distancing? The Ohio senator is likely aware of an obvious line of attack from Democrats, should he be named VP: Portman has close ties to the unpopular Bush administration. Portman pushed backin an interview with The Hill, which reported:
"Creating daylight between him and the Bush administration could be important for Portman if he is picked as the vice- presidential nominee because Democrats would surely try to tie Romney to Bush.
"Portman, who served as director of the OMB from May 2006 to August 2007, recalled his behind-the-scenes battles with other senior advisers.
"'I was frustrated when I was there about some spending issues — specifically, as you know, I wanted to offer a balanced budget over five years, and a lot of people didn't,' he said in the interview, noting the decision to submit a balanced budget was ultimately the president's. 'I prevailed. The president sent his budget — not my budget, his budget — a five-year balanced budget. But it was a fight, internally.'"
Paul Ryan
Badger State Dems batten the hatches: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that as chatter about a possible Ryan veep choice intensifies, Wisconsin Democrats are strengthening their resolve to keep their state a blue one — even if the powerful House Budget chairman does make it onto Romney's ticket.
Profiling the profiler: NPR's Fresh Air talks with The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza, who wrote the Ryan profile this week. On the show, Terry Gross and Lizza "discuss Ryan and why [Lizza] believes the congressman has come to wield disproportionate influence in the upcoming presidential election." Lizza said:
"And I think we'll know in the next few months, we'll know at the convention, and we'll know when we start seeing a bit more detail from Mitt Romney about whether he decides to be a true Ryan Republican or if he and his pollsters and campaign strategists decide that Paul Ryan is leading the Republican Party over the cliff the way he arguably did in 2005, and they need to distance Mitt Romney from Paul Ryan and his ideas."
Marco Rubio
Tampa, one way or another: Even if the Florida senator isn't tapped for the veep slot, he's certain to be a presence in Tampa. POLITICO's Anna Palmer reports that Rubio is throwing a swanky fundraiser on the first night of the Republican National Convention:
"The event, which has been dubbed the "Paint the Senate Red Fundraising Bash," is set for Monday, Aug. 27, from 9 p.m. to midnight at The Cube and will benefit the Rubio/Reclaim America Joint Committee.
"The invitation is one of the first circulating on K Street for the GOP convention, which brings many of the party's largest donors into one place for at least four days.
"… Campaign contributions will go to Rubio's Senate campaign committee and his leadership political action committee Reclaim America PAC. The joint committee, which Rubio filed the paperwork for in late April, had raised $41,000 as of the end of July, according to the Federal Election Committee."


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Skip to comments.Barack Obama lied about babies Born Alive vote then smeared Corsi
Posted on 08/19/2008 3:41:09 AM PDT by Sergeant Tim
On August 16, 2008, in a CBN News interview with David Brody, Senator Barack Obama said:
They're engaging in the kind of politics that I think we've become accustomed to which is you try to tear your opponents down and you engage in sort of slash and burn tactics. And very personal sort of personal character attacks. And one of the challenges for us in this campaign is how do you make sure those attacks are answered quickly and forcefully, but also truthfully and that we don't fall into that same kind of tactic. ...
As promised, Mark Levin again interviewed Jerome Corsi, the author of 'The Obama Nation', last night...
(Excerpt) Read more at marklevinfan.com ...
Mark Levin ping!
How do I say this?
Barama has to be the suckyest suck that ever sucked.
The Suck Meister.
...Obama has said again and again he voted against versions of that bill as an Illinois state senator because it did not include language to protect Roe v. Wade, as the federal version did which sailed through the U.S. Senate 98-0. The committee report, however, shows a 10-0 vote in favor of an amendment to add the same language to protect abortion rights that was added to the federal bill. That same committee report subsequently shows Obama voting the kill the bill in a "final action" vote.
Thanx for the Ping Tim
I think what truly frightens me is the fact the todays politicians lie so blatantly and consider getting out of it merely a tactical maneuver which has nothing to do with the truth at all.
Avoid truth at all cost seems to be their motto.
Obama, "He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity."
Obama, "My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton's army. He saw the dead and dying across the fields of Europe; he heard the stories of fellow troops who first entered Auschwitz and Treblinka."
Obama, "You want a fight, President Bush? Let's fight to make sure that the UN inspectors can do their work"
November 8, 2002: The UN Security Council adopts Resolution 1441. The resolution declares that Iraq "remains in material breach" of past resolutions and gives Iraq a "final opportunity to comply with its disarmament obligations" set out by Security Council resolutions stretching back to the end of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. It also strengthens UNMOVIC's and the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) powers to conduct inspections throughout Iraq, specifying that Iraq must allow "immediate, unimpeded, unconditional and unrestricted access" to "facilities, buildings, equipment, records, and means of transport which they wish to inspect." UN inspectors are given the authority to prohibit the movement of vehicles and aircraft around sites to be inspected and have the right to interview anyone they choose, without Iraqi officials present, in any location they wish. Additionally, the resolution overrides a 1998 memorandum of understanding between Baghdad and UN Secretary-General Annan that had placed special conditions on inspections of presidential sites to which Iraq had previously denied the inspectors access.
The resolution also warns that Iraq will face "serious consequences" if it fails to comply with its disarmament obligations.
November 13, 2002: Iraq accepts Resolution 1441 in a letter to Annan from Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabr.
November 27, 2002: UNMOVIC and IAEA inspections begin.
As if voting for a version of the bill which did not include language to protect Roe v. Wade would have been totally acceptable and understandable.
Q. When is it okay for a child who has survived an attempted abortion to be refused medical treatment and to be put on a shelf in the laundry room to die of neglect?
A. If you don't answer "Never!" firmly and immediately, you're not fit to be a human being, let alone president.
#1 Clinton Legacy (previously known as "How can we pull the wool over their eyes today?). Left over from Cold War, Carter, and the KGB! Currently best implemented by the Nation of Islam!
thank you for the ping. Do we have a link to the nurse's testimony before Congress about finding and caring for the aborted baby in that Chicago hospital? I had it before but can't find it....thanks.
Tanks for the PINGy Tim..
Anyone who claims that Roe V Wade or a woman's "right to choose" must must be "protected" is condoning murder...
And not fit to be POTUS of the 300 million live Americans as the leader of the free world...
Furthermore from http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/429313.aspx
"I was just granted an exclusive one on one interview with Barack Obama here at the Saddleback Civil Forum. CBN News was the only media outlet to go behind the scenes and conduct an interview. It happened literally two minutes after Obama walked off the stage."
Obama: And I hate to say that people are lying, but here's a situation where folks are lying.
So Obama may have also lied about lying in Saddleback Church.
Thanks Tim.
I fell asleep during the show.
Yes that is possible!
Now its easy for me to go back and listen.
Where is the mainstream media when you need them most to report a story? They find time to report the cone of silence but conveniently find no time at all to report Obama's lies and behavior only fit for a typical politician. The MSM needs to be replaced by some organizations that are willing to report all stories and ask the tough questions not just topics that favor Democrats.
Goes to show how LOW American politics has gotten.
Thank you. It was an honor...
Words fail.
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I think it would help if you post your company, the condition and terms here. This might probably wake the curioi of some potential clients.
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Yes - I am new here and I am involved in the business finance industry! Good to see others with similar backgrounds here.
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I want to start a business with loan money, but i got lose in business will bank help me more?
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Now a days loan can be easily available a person don;t need to worry for the loan. Business loan is a loan which is taken for the business. A person who want to do his or her own business or need loan for some business deal the it is easily available.
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Hey guys! I need your help. I want to start my business, and I need to take a loan. What loan company should I apply to? I've read many scam reviews (http://www.pissedconsumer.com/consumer-reviews/direct-lenders.html) from clients of loan companies, and I don't want to have the same experience..
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Experience is needed who want to get success in any field especially in the case of finance field.Now a days it is very difficult to obtain a loan from banks.Some financial lending institutions are giving loan with reasonable interest rates.They are offering loans especially for the bad credit people.Business people are getting immediate finance from these finance institutions.
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Getting business loans are very easy nowadays. All you need to do is to apply online and get instant approval in no minutes.
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A company may want to secure financing to maintain business operations, invest in equipment, start a new branch, or any number of other motivations. A decent business plan. However the biggest advantage of taking out a business loan during tough economic times is that companies can use it to increase their working capital. While companies that are looking to expand often already have enough money to become larger, taking out a loan allows them to maintain their operating cash flow, making it easier for them to cover any unexpected expenses. If the loan is lent to a corporate entity, the loan will not usually have to be repaid by the business owner if the company fails.
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While companies that are looking to expand often already have enough money to become larger, taking out a loan allows them to maintain their operating cash flow, making it easier for them to cover any unexpected expenses.
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for start business you can apply for loan
it is easy nowadays
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Hi to Everyone!
Now a days it is very difficult to get business loan from banking institution. They need collateral or guarantee for granting loans to the small business mans. If you want to get a unsecured loan, the interest rates higher than secured loans. So, first you can try to get a good credit score co-signer for your business and then apply business loan in banks. This option can provide you higher chances to obtain a loan from banks.
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Lalime Helps StoneHill Move Past Purple Knights 58-53
COLCHESTER-It's been a winding road for the last two years for former Lake Region standout Abbey Lalime. The Orleans native has landed at her second school in as many years playing now for Division Two Stonehill, located some 30 miles outside Boston.Lalime got good minutes as part of the 5-3 Skyhawks Northeast Ten ballcub. Stonehill held off a furious St. Mikes rally to win by five 58-53. Lalime played 16 minutes versus the purple Knights. She hit a ten footer in the lane and nailed a long three pointer giving her team they're biggest lead of the evening before the Knights whittled away to close within two with 35 seconds to go.Abbey displayed that tough hard nosed defense, and long range jump shooting that she was famous for at Lake Region. She picked up three personal fouls and grabbed three rebounds with two assists during the afternoon encounter.St. Mikes came back from 11 points down before falling to 4-5 on the season.Lalime came out of LRUHS as part of the Class of 2010. She was the key first gem of the Lady Rangers group of six or seven blue chip female athletes that rewrote LRU athletics from 2007 through 2011. Abbey was the first of a new group of LRU student athletes.These females athletes provide the foundation for a five year run that achieved unparalleled continual success raising the bar forever at the high school. Those seven played three sports and excelled in all of them.Lalime finished as the all time leading scorer in Ranger basketball history, boy or girl, and she earned the Burlington Free Press "Miss Basketball" state wide award as a senior. She scored 39 goals in soccer despite foregoing her senior year. She made her league first team All-Star in softball as a catcher even though she played only two years, all to devote time to basketball. She had picked up the game of hoop in sixth grade after being an outstanding hockey player playing in the Boarder Hockey boy's league putting up 30 goal seasons regularly and virtually assuring herself of a full college scholarship for hockey.Hoop was a big hit immediately as Abbey with running mates Paige Wells and Danika Gallup roared through a 66-3 record as members of Coach Laurie Souliere's Orleans Patriots junior high girls team. AAU success and LRUHS's four straight finals That did it for hockey and when she switched to hoop and the end result of that commitment was a full Division One athletic scholarship to the University of Vermont.When former UVM coach Sharon Dawley, who had recruited Abbey, moved on the UMASS, Abbey chose to go with her keeping her full scholarship in place as well.That was a short lived decision as Abbey felt she had not been given the playing time she was promised. The commitment to a DI school program were immense.A nagging foot injury contributed to her lack of minutes and by the end of the grueling Division One campaign she had had enough. She decided to forgo her scholarship and move on.She said, "It didn't work out the way I planned. Stonehill wanted me and they have a good program where I can play. Plus some friends I played AAU basketball with are coming as well. It's been a great fit since the first day."While the foot problem lingered on into the start of hoop camp, it has improved. Abbey says, "It's the best it's been since I had the walking cast. As it has gotten stronger my minutes have gone up as well."Saint Michaels head coach, Jen Neibling, a former Randolph high school 1000 point scorer and a UVM 1000 point scorer and a big part of UVM's incredible 52 game win streak in the nineties knows Abbie's past. Jen worked the Red, White and Blue basketball camps held in Orleans County as well. She said, "Abbey played well today and she has always been a solid player. She will be happy at Stonehill, they have a great staff and a good program."For Lalime it's a new adventure and a continuing saga to what has been an outstanding athletic career. A career that has a few pages still to be written. And it all started at Orleans Graded school.


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"Michael was one of the first riders in the peloton to come down with the sickness that blitzed through the peloton and race staff. He was awake nearly the entire night Sunday and very nearly didn't start the race Monday. . . . Attacking from the start of the [final] 93-mile (150 km) stage, Creed played an instrumental role in a pair of breakaways that stayed clear of the peloton on a rain-soaked, bone-chilling ride from Santa Clarita to Pasadena. Aggressive to the end, Rock Racing nearly scored its second podium finish of the race when Creed attacked inside the final mile and finished fourth in a five-up sprint in front of the Rose Bowl."
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Innhyu wrote:This probably is the most fundamental, idiotic question to those experienced but I don't get why.
You did change the value with html, what's the mechanism behind ACTUALLY changing the values of the webpage?
Why don't local changes with html permanently change the values?
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thank you for the really clear explanation!
that helped a lot
-Ninjex- wrote:Exactly what cent had posted.
What you change on your end of the .html copy is all client side, and will not actually change information stored server side; unless of course you can send information to the server.
Which can be done multiple ways such as forms, injections, etc...
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I worked with several developers for application games on MySpace and Facebook (Mafia Wars, Mobsters, Vampires, Dog Wars, Cat Wars, and Bloodlines), I would tamper with client side information only and allow it to change things or make things happen server side that should not have happened. In most cases, it was via form fields.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony and the semi-annual Monetary Policy Report he will deliver to the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday, July 17 will be released to the public at 8:30 a.m. EDT that day. This is a change from earlier practice when the testimony and report were not released until the scheduled start of the hearing.
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Looks good, but how can a fireplace be made of rubber tires?
Very nice! A labor of love.
cool - how awesome
Oh Patricia I love the remodeling.
And of course the cat -- such a beautiful cat you have.
Lovely - just wonderful work.
Congrats that it's finished at last! And it looks great!
Patricia, I really like the color scheme....silver and grey....very modern. OK, you have to explain the rug made from pop bottles, please!! Never heard of that. Sounds like this was a very environmentally friendly renovation. I love the fireplace. How awesome it is to reuse materials for totally unrelated purposes.
Is the fireplace one, large molded piece of rubber, or is it made of of individual 'bricks?'
Oh, yeah. I forgot. Love the cat as well. :)
I like the silver-grey.
Patricia, you have done a remarkable job of design and color. I love white and the ways you blend them is perfect. Nice wall hangings too. Just Stunning!
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What does 2010 hold for the disenchanted Gavin Henson, London Irish boss Toby Booth, Wales youngster Dan Biggar and the newly-knighted Sir Ian McGeecan? © Getty Images
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The New Year is upon us so it is time for us to dust off the crystal ball and make some bold predictions for the next 12 months.
Regular readers of ESPNscrum may recall our not-so-prophetic feature from this time last year that did at least predict success for Cardiff Blues, rugby's return to the Olympic family, ELVs-related carnage and a superb Lions tour for Welshman Stephen Jones.
Undeterred by our hit-and-miss record we offer our picks for 2010 - and Happy New Year from everyone at ESPNscrum.com.
England silence their critics with Six Nations title
Interest in Anglo-Welsh Cup hits all time low
McGeechan agrees to roar once more
Henson rediscovers his passion for the game
All Blacks reclaim Tri-Nations title
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So looking at this scale has anybody a good idea for a cannon which can connect into a single recessed stud or stud?


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In the 1970's, when Jackie Lieske was 12, her mother was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.
Four years after being diagnosed, her mother, Peggy Sheltzer, went into a coma.
"She was able to manage before that, but after the coma, that was it," Lieske said. "The medication the doctors gave to her put her in a coma for 10 days."
When Sheltzer came out of it, she was no longer able to talk or walk.
"She was almost to the state of vegetation."
For nearly the next 30 years, the Middletown woman helped care for her mother on a regular basis until she passed away in 2001.
Lieske said that she wanted to start her own home health care business for a long time, but when she was in her 20's, it wasn't financially feasible.
Then four years ago, things started to come together and Lieske began Shorecare Delaware, an in-home health care agency that serves the entire state.
"I set a goal and a dream," Lieske said. "I started my business from the ground up."
Shorecare Delaware provides a variety of services, some of which can't be found anywhere else.
"We're different because I lived that experience," she said. "We have hair dressers for people who can't get out of the house. We went from the needs we had with my mother who was 100 percent bed bound."
When Lieske started Shorecare Delaware in June 2009, she started with just one client.
Now, she has about 50 active employees, all of whom she has interviewed, who visit patients from either just an hour a day to being with them all day, every day.
"We go to homes of people with a variety of needs," she said. "If someone is elder and lives alone, a caregiver may stay there permanently. We can help people after surgery, take care of people who are bed ridden, provide transportation and help assist them with activities of daily living."
Shorecare Delaware also has a portable wheelchair ramp, Lieske said.
Lieske did all of the research on how to run her company, and for eight months, went without a paycheck and started the business from the ground up.
Before starting Shorecare Delaware, Lieske held an Assistant Vice President role at Bank of America, but was laid off when the economy began to turn south.
Her entire life though was dedicated to caring for her mother, she said.
"My father promised to my mom before she got real sick, to always be there with her," Lieske said. "I was the only child. I had to be there for the support team too."
From the age of 12 until 2001, Lieske helped her father care for her – and now she even takes care of her mother's sister, who has stage four Alzheimer's.
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We'd all just like to say a BIG thank you to Eonaleth, a big fan of AE's games! She's been telling us for a while about her awesomely friendly project that she was working on: friendship bracelets for the people in the Secret Underground Lab.
So as we were sitting around eating our Chinese food and listening to the AQW birthday cutscenes (Paul and Storm sound AMAZING!), Zazul came in with a very important envelope. (We do not often get VIE's with gifts in them. Usually they contain Very Important Notices from business people. Or there are VUS's. Very Unimportant Spam mails. We just throw those out.) Zazul handed us the plastic envelopes with THESE in them:
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American drones are inefficient, terrorize civilians, and create more terrorists.
This. Is an absolutely devastating read.
Even if you buy into drones. Even if you don't mind the complete lack of checks and balances on their usage. Even if you don't mind their liberal usage. Even if you think the sacrifices being made are excusable and necessary blowback.
Your tax dollars go into this program that seemingly creates as much antipathy towards us as it extinguishes. It creates terror while pretending to be fighting it. And ths study from NYU shows the tremendous civilian cost that goes into it.
The drone program creates a warfare that America would already be trigger-happy to use. But add into the fact that there's no checks on this power, no conceivable way to exhaust it, and no attempts from either party to even remotely slow it down... and this becomes a practice whose blowback seems tailor made for civilian psychological destruction, if not outright physical destruction.
Death from above, in robot form. The sad thing is, the human fingers on the button turn out to be as indifferent as the drones themselves.
New Stanford/NYU study documents the civilian terror from Obama's drones
New research shows the terrorizing impact of drones in Pakistan, false statements from US officials, and how it increases the terror threat
Glenn Greenwald
Tuesday 25 September 2012 08.18 EDT
A vitally important and thoroughly documented new report on the impact of Obama's drone campaign has just been released by researchers at NYU School of Law and Stanford University Law School. Entitled "Living Under Drones: Death, Injury and Trauma to Civilians From US Drone Practices in Pakistan", the report details the terrorizing effects of Obama's drone assaults as well as the numerous, highly misleading public statements from administration officials about that campaign. The study's purpose was to conduct an "independent investigations into whether, and to what extent, drone strikes in Pakistan conformed to international law and caused harm and/or injury to civilians".
The report is "based on over 130 detailed interviews with victims and witnesses of drone activity, their family members, current and former Pakistani government officials, representatives from five major Pakistani political parties, subject matter experts, lawyers, medical professionals, development and humanitarian workers, members of civil society, academics, and journalists." Witnesses "provided first-hand
accounts of drone strikes, and provided testimony about a range of issues, including the missile strikes themselves, the strike sites, the victims' bodies, or a family member or members killed or injured in the strike".
Here is the powerful first three paragraphs of the report, summarizing its main findings:
Whilte noting that it is difficult to obtain precise information on the number of civilian deaths "because of US efforts to shield the drone program from democratic accountability", the report nonetheless concludes: "while civilian casualties are rarely acknowledged by the US government, there is significant evidence that US drone strikes have injured and killed civilians."
But beyond body counts, there's the fact that "US drone strike policies cause considerable and under-accounted for harm to the daily lives of ordinary civilians, beyond death and physical injury":
In other words, the people in the areas targeted by Obama's drone campaign are being systematically terrorized. There's just no other word for it. It is a campaign of terror - highly effective terror - regardless of what noble progressive sentiments one wishes to believe reside in the heart of the leader ordering it. And that's precisely why the report, to its great credit, uses that term to describe the Obama policy: the drone campaign "terrorizes men, women, and children".
Along the same lines, note that the report confirms what had already been previously documented: the Obama campaign's despicable (and likely criminal) targeting of rescuers who arrive to provide aid to the victims of the original strike. Noting that even funerals of drone victims have been targeted under Obama, the report documents that the US has "made family members afraid to attend funerals". The result of this tactic is as predictable as it is heinous:
Perhaps worst of all, the report details at length that the prime excuse offered by Obama defenders for this continuous killing - it Keeps Us Safe by killing The Terrorists - is dubious "at best"; indeed, the opposite is more likely true:
All the way back in 2004, the Rumsfeld Pentagon commissioned a study to determine the causes of anti-US terrorism, and even it concluded: "Muslims do not 'hate our freedom,' but rather, they hate our policies." Running around the world beating your chest, bellowing "we're at war!", and bombing multiple Muslim countries does not keep one safe. It manifestly does the opposite, since it ensures that even the most rational people will calculate that targeting Americans with violence in response is just and necessary to deter further aggression.
A one-day attack on US soil eleven years ago unleashed a never-ending campaign of violence around the world from the target and its allies. Is it really a challenge to understand that continuous bombings and civilian-killing assaults over many years, in many Muslim countries, will generate the same desire for aggression and vengeance against the US?
Time and again, those who have attempted to perpetrate attacks on US soil have cited the Muslim children and other innocent human beings extinguished by Obama's drones. Recall the words of the attempted Times Square bomber, Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad, at his sentencing hearing when the federal judge presiding over his case, Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, asked incredulously how he could possibly use violence that he knew would result in the deaths even of innocent children -- as though she were literally unaware that her own government continuously does exactly that:
Perhaps most importantly, the report documents the extreme levels of propaganda used by the western press to deceive their citizens into believing pure myths about the drone campaign. As I've argued before, the worst of these myths is the journalistic mimicry of the term "militants" to describe drone victims even when those outlets have no idea who was killed or whether that term is accurate (indeed, the term itself is almost as ill-defined as "terrorist"). This media practice became particularly inexcusable after the New York Times revealed in May that "Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties that did little to box him in. It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants."
Incredibly, even after that radical redefinition was revealed, and even after the Obama administration got caught red-handed spewing demonstrable falsehoods about the identity of drone victims, US media outlets continued to use the term "militant" to describe drone victims. The new report urges that this practice stop:
Significantly, the report says the prime culprit of these evils is what it calls the "dramatic escalation" of the drone campaign by the 2009 Nobel Peace laureate - escalated not just in sheer numbers (in less than four years, Obama "has reportedly carried out more than five times" the number ordered by Bush in eight years), but more so, the indiscriminate nature of the strikes. As Tuesday's Guardian article on this report states: it "blames the US president, Barack Obama, for the escalation of 'signature strikes' in which groups are selected merely through remote 'pattern of life' analysis."
The report is equally damning when documenting the attempts of the Obama administration to suppress information about its drone victims, and worse, to actively mislead when they deign selectively to release information. Recognizing the difficulty of determining the number of civilian deaths with exactitude - due to "the opaqueness of the US government about its targeted killing program" as well as the inaccessibility of the region - it nonetheless documents that "the numbers of civilians killed are undoubtedly far higher than the few claimed by US officials." In other words, the administration's public statements are false: "undoubtedly" so. As the LA Times summarizes the study's findings today: "Far more civilians have been killed by U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas than U.S. counter-terrorism officials have acknowledged."
(The report is particularly scathing about the patent unreliability of the New America Foundation and its leading drone-and-Obama cheerleader, Peter Bergen, also of CNN, who has been amply rewarded with lucrative access by the administration he dutifully defends. Echoing a recent article by the Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf and an analysis from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the report concludes that scrutiny of Bergen's key claims "has since revealed omissions and inconsistencies in
New America Foundation's dataset, calling its widely publicized conclusions into question." It documents "several other glaring omissions from New America Foundation's data" used to depict Obama's drone campaign as far more benign than it actually is.)
Finally, the report notes the threat to democratic accountability posed by the Obama administration's refusal to allow any transparency or judicial oversight regarding who the president orders killed: "The opaque position of the US government on civilian casualties is also emblematic of an accountability and democratic vacuum." In that regard, the report - as its final paragraph - quotes the question I have often asked about this state of affairs, an answer to which I have never heard from Obama's drone defenders:
What has always made that question particularly pressing for me is that American progressives cheered loudly when a similar question was posed by Al Gore in a widely celebrated 2006 speech he gave on the Washington mall denouncing the Bush/Cheney assault on civil liberties:
Democrats spent several days at their convention two weeks ago wildly cheering and chanting whenever President Obama's use of violence and force was heralded. They're celebrating a leader who is terrorizing several parts of the Muslim world, repeatedly killing children, targeting rescuers and mourners, and entrenching the authority to exert the most extreme powers in full secrecy and without any accountability -- all while he increases, not decreases, the likelihood of future attacks. This new Stanford/NYU report is but the latest in a long line of evidence proving all of that.
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Haven't had time to read this yet, but I can see how the premise could be valid. The only part I might take issue with is the idea that it "creates" more terrorists. That is a pretty big leap to take without some serious justification. I can definitely see how one could think or feel that to be true... but it still relies on a shit ton of assumptions. Again, I'll revisit this after I have read it more fully.
Just off the cuff, it sounds like it sucks, but what ya gonna do? I'm ALL ABOUT blaming Obama for shit, but this seems like a damned if you do, damned and vulnerable if you don't.
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well, as shitty as this may sound, drone strikes don't create terrorists nor do they aid recruitment by terrorist organizations. Agoraphobes aren't going to attack anything.
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Well dude, they are efficient in the ONE way that matters most to ANY leader.
They do not cost lives of OUR men.
Sadly, that is the only efficiency that truly matters when you have to send men into harm's way.
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If countries actually aided our efforts, more than half of these actions wouldn't be necessary.
So IMO, their governments are equally to blame, if not more, for any civilian losses.
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Frankly, any strategy that is mindlessly and exclusively built around shooting bad guys isn't going to win this type of war. It really is about "hearts and minds". The Russians learned that in Afghanistan, and we learned it in Vietnam.
That said, everything I've read about the drones indicates that they are a devastatingly effective component of the "shoot the bad guys" part of the strategy. NOTE that I said it can't be EXCLUSIVELY built around shooting bad guys. That is a PART of the methods we must employ, however.
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A friend has just mentioned that he's doing a film on the perennial philosophy, which invites comment. I don't think there is any topic I find more interesting than that.
The phrase can be traced back to Agostino Steuco (1497–1548) who used it as the title of his treatise, De perenni philosophia libri X, published in 1540. It's more generally associated with Gottfried Leibniz and Aldous Huxley. (1)
A synonym for it is the ageless wisdom or ancient wisdom. Hinduism is actually formally called sanathana dharma or (loosely translated) eternal law. That too is a synonym.
If I were to summarize the notion in a single word, I'd say the "perennial philosophy" means the Truth. The Truth at all levels, shorn of religious doctrine, dogma and orthodoxy – the Truth of reality.
One could say that the Truth is synonymous with God. God is all there is. There is no second, no other besides God. God being all there is, God must be the Truth of reality. He/She/It is the Dreamer as well as the dream.
God created a divine drama called "Life" and so the phrase "perennial philosophy" becomes extended to take in all the ins and outs of that drama – what could be called its design features and divine processes.
When most of these are little known, we consider statements of them to be the "mysteries" of life.
Our great spiritual teachers have gotten glimpses of these mysteries and attempted to put the wordless into words. Their teachings become the basis of religions and often become misinterpreted, but originally they were attempts to describe the Truth underlying reality.
An example of a teaching that forms a part of the perennial philosophy is the Christian teaching of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. It dovetails with the Hindu teaching of Brahman, Atman and Shakti. So far we might consider that we simply have teachings of Christianity and Hinduism.
But when we say that what is being talked about here is the Transcendental (the Father, Brahman), the Phenomenal (the Holy Ghost, Shakti), and the Transcendental within the Phenomenal (the Son, the Atman), we've translated the particular into the general, religious teachings into the perennial philosophy that underlies them, if even only in a most tenuous way
I don't wish to develop that teaching here. I have in other places (2) I'd like more to simply point to it to demonstrate how a specific religious teaching relates to the more general perennial philosophy. (3)
The perennial philosophy reduces the particular to the general. It takes common elements or common denominators of the Truth contained in each religion and shows how they are common to each other.
Examples of design features of life are the various bodies we inhabit, the various dimensions we exist on, the longing for liberation, the organs of our bodies that sense, breathe, support locomotion, digestion, excretion, etc.
Examples of divine processes are birth, death, reincarnation, reproduction, breathing, thinking, feeling, digestion, excretion, etc. All of these are divinely planned, administered, and altered by divine command, just as we see Ascension being altered now, according to what is often called the Mother's Plan. (4)
Previously one had to shed the body to ascend, but not this time around. The plan of reality is being changed before our eyes. Now we can ascend with the physical body intact. The changes in the plan of Ascension reflect the dynamic aspect of life at the hands of the creative forces.
The existence of a Creator and Its creation and the relations between the two are elements of the perennial philosophy. We can see that, at the level of the perennial philosophy, we can discuss these matters. At the level of religions, many discussions are looked upon as being heresy and may not be possible.
What are design features on one dimension may not be design features on another. In the Third Dimension we give birth live but my understanding is that that isn't a feature of some higher dimensions. New residents of the Astral Plane are often surprised to find that they have no organs of reproduction, digestion or excretion. The astral body is different than the physical body.
In the lower dimensions, all is multiplicity but as we go higher and higher in dimensionality on our road back to God, many multiple things simplify and many unsuspected areas of life, such as manifestation, bilocation, telepathic communication, etc., expand.
But all explanations of these design features and divine processes can be considered to be, not parts of one religion's teachings only, but also parts of the perennial philosophy generally, the truth underlying all religions.
Finally, the perennial philosophy is looked to for statements of important general matters like the purpose and meaning of life. Why was life created? What are we to do in life? The answer to questions like these we've discussed here many times. (5)
The purpose of God's creating life was to offer the Unknowable an opportunity to know Itself. Each time one of us realizes our true identity as God in a moment of enlightenment, God meets God.
We don't find that purpose much discussed in church doctrine or religious dogma, but we find it front and center in discussions of the perennial philosophy, whether those discussions are to be found in the writings of the galactics or Earth's ascended masters or the celestials, and so on.
An example of a statement of the perennial philosophy might be "Spiritual Evolution: The Divine Plan for Life," (6) written after I finished the book The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment. I'll repost it as a companion piece to this article and an illustration of a partial presentation of the ageless wisdom.
Thus in general the perennial philosophy refers to the body of generic truths underlying the specific teachings of the world's religions and spiritual paths. As we face the need to create a common, cross-cultural body of statements of spiritual truth, we'll find ourselves more and more turning to the tenets of the perennial philosophy.
(1) Huxley's statements on the perennial philosophy are excellent and exemplified by two works: (1) Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy. New York, etc.: Harper and Row, 1970; c1944 and his introduction to Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, trans., Bhagavad-Gita. The Song of God. New York and Scarborough: New American Library, 1972; c1944.
(2) However it is developed here: "Christianity and Hinduism are One," at http://goldenageofgaia.com/spiritual-essays/cross-cultural-spirituality/christianity-and-hinduism-are-one/ and "The One Became Two and the Two Became Three," at http://goldenageofgaia.com/spiritual-essays/cross-cultural-spirituality/the-one-became-two-and-the-two-became-three/
(3) For another take on the situation, see "An Introduction to the Perennial Philosophy" at http://goldenageofgaia.com/spiritual-essays/back-to-the-basics-2/an-introduction-to-the-perennial-philosophy/
(4) See for instance "Transcript of Archangel Michael from An Hour with an Angel, Dec. 26, 2011," at http://goldenageofgaia.com/the-2012-scenario/what-role-are-the-angels-playing/transcript-of-archangel-michael-from-an-hour-with-an-angel-dec-26-2011/an "Archangel Michael: Transcript of 'An Hour with an Angel'" Dec. 12, 2011, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2011/12/archangel-michael-transcript-of-an-hour-with-an-angel/
(5) On these matters, see the papers in the section "The Purpose of Life," at http://goldenageofgaia.com/spiritual-essays/16244-2/


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Just as everyone has an individual face or thumb print, according to Ayurveda, each person has a particular pattern of energy--an individual combination of physical, mental and emotional characteristics--which is his or her constitution. This constitution is determined at conception by a number of factors and is the same throughout one's life. Many factors, both internal and external, act upon us to disturb this balance and are reflected as a change in one's constitution from the balanced state. Examples of some of these emotional and physical stresses are: one's emotional state, diet and food choices, seasons and weather, physical trauma, work and family relationships. Once these factors that can cause imbalance are understood, one can take appropriate actions to nullify or minimize their effects or eliminate the causes, and re-establish one's original constitution. Balance is the natural order; imbalance is disorder. Health is order; disease is disorder. Within the body there is a constant interaction between order and disorder. Once one understands the nature and structure of disorder, one can re-establish order.
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