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Close your eyes and you can almost see the Democrats' vision for North Carolina. In this corner are expanded Medicaid benefits; in that corner are 99 weeks of unemployment insurance – though why stop there? Smack dab in the middle are dramatic increases in teacher salaries without any other budget cuts or reforms.
They claim they can build this progressive paradise with a little tax hike here and another one there – but don't worry, the bill won't be coming to your mailbox, unless you're a greedy plutocrat.
Unfortunately, you must keep your eyes closed to hold onto this dream or you'll see the darkening nightmare created by the growing entitlement state. It is from this grave danger, already crippling so many other American cities and states and the federal government, that the GOP legislature is trying to save us.
Demanding that we live within our means is branded as just plain mean. In fact, the harsh attacks on the legislature offer strong evidence that liberals have few good answers as the day of reckoning draws near. They are increasingly rebranding government services as human rights because they can no longer defend the cost and efficiency of these programs. They insist on making the moral argument because their math does not add up.
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I am not arguing that their approach to government is wrong, though the fact that unemployment has fallen faster and job creation is projected to rise more quickly than the national average under GOP rule does not help their case. The problem apart from that is that their big government approach is undeniably unsustainable.
Consider President's Obama's vision for the federal government. "In the decade between 2014 and 2024, if the president's [2015] budget became law, spending for defense and nondefense 'discretionary' programs" would drop sharply, according to William A. Galston of the Brookings Institution. Military outlays would fall to 2.3 percent of GDP from 3.8 percent today. And an increasing share of that spending would be devoured by health care and pension costs. Adjusted for inflation, nondefense discretionary spending – which includes money for everything from education and housing to transportation, science and agriculture – would decline 20 percent.
Where's the money going? Mandatory entitlement spending on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid would increase by more than 20 percent, totaling $3.1 trillion, or half of all federal expenditures by 2024, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Assuming that interest rates will not stay at zero forever, the CBO projects that interest on the federal debt will nearly quadruple, to $812 billion a year in 2024, becoming the third-largest item in the budget. Those payments will finance a debt expected to rise from more than $16 trillion today to $27 trillion.
The upshot is that short of massive tax increases – which even middle class Democrats oppose – entitlement spending will increasingly eliminate the federal government's ability to make other investments, even as our fiscal picture continues to deteriorate.
The feds do have one thing going for them: They can run giant deficits to fuel their spending binge. The states are not so lucky, and a clear pattern is emerging: Liberal bastions are in decline. Nine of the 12 states (including the District of Columbia) with the highest unemployment rates went for Obama in 2012. Nine of the 10 states with greatest out-migration – led by New York, Illinois, California – are deep blue.
Yes, blue states tend to offer generous services, which provide some benefit to their citizens. But this beneficence is becoming their ruin. The people and businesses they depend on to finance these programs are fleeing to other states – including North Carolina – that have lower taxes and fewer regulations.
States unwilling to compromise their liberal vision through fiscal reform have responded by raising taxes, hastening their decline. Obama's home state, Illinois, is circling the drain because of this vicious cycle.
I could go on, mentioning liberal cities such as Detroit that have driven themselves into bankruptcy. I might also point to Europe, where the economic failure of welfare state policies is creating social unrest in many countries.
Many of these crises have particular historic roots, but the larger pattern is clear: The IOUs are coming home to roost.
Instead of condemning North Carolina's lawmakers, we should thank them for responding to the coal mine canaries chirping all around us. Unjustly pilloried as enemies of government, they may be its last, best hope.
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the ... David Wessel of the Wall Street Journal joined today by Peter McPherson who in his current job as president ... of the Association of public universities ... thank you for being with us today ... Peter is you know ... the president this week is going to once again pound the podium and say that ... college costs are going up too fast ... and the old federal strategy of trying to increase financial a fast enough to keep up with rising to a thing can go on forever ... so he wants you to find a way remembers to find a way to slow the growth of two which ... is the right ... but we got we need to contain the costs ... of for the students ... you need to think about ... that we should with the cost of education is composed of ... two parts ... one Steel Corporation to two issues ... that's a whole ... so is the state to dramatically cut their state appropriations ... weaving injuries tuition to students ... and that those of the facts by ... either doesn't take away from the need for us ... to continue to work really hard to reduce costs ... read about twenty five percent more students in this country ... in public universities ... my group is a large public university twenty five percent more students than we did ten years ago ... so instead ... you get a lot more students ... cut in state appropriations ... money and come from somewhere and by and large that his standing ... because that which increases not everything but a big part ... when the president puts a spotlight an industry like yours says basically you need to be more efficient when ... making lineage of things the way you do ... the university's their trustees and residents react ... it's not a new spotlight ... so assembled years ... and I'm probably top two hundred presents over the last ... few months ... my usual called CEO things are going and I can think ... inversely everybody's saying ... I'm among higher graduation rates due to we can get there ... I try to contain costs for public universities were up ... for institutions for the public good ... so we feel pretty intensely ... that we get it be that I could see Michigan State for ten years and I know it the twitchy decision ... he is a good for Republicans to tweak ... these we ... we need a larger portion of the population of ... two groups ... and public universities have to be the targets ... the president is also talking quite a bit about finding better ways to measure the quality of the value of education so that ... parents and students and maybe even sometimes effect Sunday the federal ... student aid agencies ... can decide whether it's a good deal ... aam and now measuring the outcomes of education school trip ... do you think it can be done in a way that the public can use in the coming years well I think there's some things you can you can reason we look at ... whether student disagree ... now that that person has the scoreboard up now that really is in complete and our hope is that that can be changed currently ... it shows ... the percentage of students to come to an institution full-time first time as a freshman ... in with a graduate in a certain number years ... the the ... the University community has put together ... a website that will be fully operational October ... that will show not or will the first time for Time ... freshman ... but also the students to transfer the end the year degree ... student debt transferred onto another institution they getting the ... best a more complete picture we IKEA graduation rates ... I is a reasonable way to local news too ... yet they need to ration the preparation Global Stone ... II ... if you've got ... Ollie students coming and you would expect higher graduation rates but ... read the CSeries formation ... something we don't have now which I think in due course we will ... is this reasonable ... always hear your graduate get a job ... I'm now you might do the job right away or five years the best data the universities in the beach we don't ... practice of MCF from educators that they don't want ... to the government to be measuring how much people make when they graduate that makes it all seem like it's some kind of I'm ... so far I would distinguish between employment which almost everybody wants job and income income gets a little trickier because there are some types of jobs ... that some ... some areas of work that fighting each with a pretty low pay ... and also ... what your income is the new liao to college ... first is fighting to yourself ... but certainly with you when you have a job as a legitimate how will your job is a very legitimate question a few months after college ... it ... is reasonable for people ... this this information students need to pay ... as well as parents and society indecision reasonably can be based upon ... there's that there's more to of course college in the job ... and we always have to keep in mind ... you want to learn how to learn you want to ... I have a richer fuller view of things ... and ... by the employment is one of us ... one of the things we've learned in the newspaper industry and once upon a time you were to record the Dow Jones before was purchased by Rupert Murdoch ... and you know this is that ... technology as a way of making you do things in ways that you never imagine where possible ... and I think part of what the president says it is some other people is that ... the universe sees half to find a way to better use information technology on line learning ... to provide the same service or better for less cost is a realistic course at this and I think it's realistic and I see a lot of people working on ... I mean down move ... down the street here and Virginia Tech ... that doesn't teach anymore freshman and concrete calculus ... except by way of self piece ... on computer program ... they can go see a professor periodic Lee but nobody dies are getting ... substantially higher learning outcomes ... and ... and the cost or less I've seen ... in any place you could have heightened courses where you have ... the information technology is a component ... is well into traditional method ... I think particularly in those first couple years The G recourse is Kelton statistics ... that are the gateways to be true ... you're going to see more more this I think also ... that ... that the ... word ACN already in place to resume tracking systems were hit by a figment ranking students are doing ... you take that ... you take a picture of this course are you doing in part on wine ... you can ... you can feed into the tracking system ... when it begins to get in trouble ... and thereby ... and thereby peyote professor intervention ... of personal intervention or ... for student research or ... to service resources focused ... we're going to see the campus were directed to your brain Sentry campuses ... in a lot of distance education ... what does technology is in the BG not just ... for Costa's ... and they're ... very important ... but we've got a can of ... more of the neocons ... this ... universe Eastern thinking about ... these two things and tea and ... to contain costs and write ... the drive ... now I think the from ... from the outside corner view from someone is not a university although at a cost to eight years ... I'm ... that this there seems to be a bit of resistance sometimes a change to have traditional departments to professors are used to doing things they want the way they do them ... we got some of the institutions of higher education really model the ... seventeenth century Britain to stuff like that ... I'm confident that American hire a dictation is resilient enough to make changes without having a lot of disruption oh eight in it I had a few question to the data mining and even cookie sheet I would say see so many things happening ... the financial crunch ... the public interest and pressure ... but also the the assertive ... philosophical the commitment to public purpose ... we don't have one more ... piece in this country for the future ... and by the way these big public universities ... have a major role in basic ... research ... I think police or military side ... you look at your own investors which is good for now I became quite familiar with my keys and they don't ... coming years ago was that that he wouldn't be doing this program ... or anywhere that not many years ago all reporters though ... but now ... you have this multiple roles ... in and I think ... I you reach more people and frankly ... haven't ... in some ways very even more rewarding job ... well the American newspaper reporters are happy to serve as a model for the professor whatever I think there's you know I look at what the Joneses Down Wall Street Journal ... and other papers tonight I think the ... thing you can remember it is how resistant there was to this ... different role for report ... in your your intellectual creators ... of content just its faculty are so ... well they get it yes I think I see a lot of this happened ... I thank you very much intact ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry is traveling to Turkey and Israel this weekend to build on the two nations' efforts to repair ties and look for a possible way to restart long-stalled Mideast peace talks, U.S. and Turkish officials said Wednesday.
Kerry had planned to leave Monday for meetings in London and then South Korea, China and Japan. But he moved up his departure to Saturday to solidify the rapprochement that President Barack Obama brokered between Turkey and Israel during his visit to the region two weeks ago, officials said.
Kerry also will discuss regional concerns such as Syria's civil war and the frozen Middle East peace process, making his third trip to the Jewish state in the last two weeks, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the trip had not been announced.
The succession of visits, which evokes the U.S. shuttle diplomacy to the region of times past, represents the latest American attempt to end a four-and-a-half year stalemate between the two sides, during which talks have hardly taken place at all. Kerry will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the latter possibly in neighboring Jordan.
Hoping to prod negotiators back to the table, U.S. officials said the Obama administration is exploring security guarantees for the Jordan Valley, a section of the West Bank that stretches along the border with Jordan.
Israel has long demanded the guarantees as part of any treaty establishing an independent Palestine, though the issue has been overshadowed by debates over the final boundary line between the two states and the final status of Jerusalem, which both sides claim as their capitals.
Although Palestinians have a measure of self-rule in other areas, the Jordan Valley is part of the 60 percent of the West Bank still under full Israeli control nearly two decades after interim peace accords granted the Palestinians autonomy elsewhere. The Israeli-controlled section includes military bases, nature reserves and Jewish settlements.
In previous negotiations, the Jewish state has demanded a residual force in the valley to ensure border security.
It fears that an independent Palestine without a sufficient international or Israeli presence could lead to a buildup of military equipment and extremists along whatever becomes the final boundary with Israel — and lead to more conflict.
One idea floated in the past included joint Israeli-Palestinian patrols of the mostly desert area home to some 60,000 Palestinians.
The strategy during Kerry's visit, according to U.S. officials, is to leverage movement by Abbas on security guarantees into possible concessions from Netanyahu on the contentious issue of Jewish settlement construction in lands the Palestinians hope to include in their future state.
But it's unclear what kind of reception such a proposal would get from the Palestinians, who've long demanded a complete freeze in Israeli settlements for negotiations to begin anew.
The last significant peace negotiations occurred when President George W. Bush brought leaders to Annapolis, Md., with the goal of a treaty by the end of 2008. After a two-year hiatus, talks begun under the Obama administration's guidance in 2010 quickly fizzled out.
Kerry may have an easier time cementing the diplomatic progress between Turkey and Israel.
The two countries were once strong allies, but their relations spiraled downward after Israel's 2010 raid on a Turkish flotilla bound for Gaza. Eight Turks and one Turkish-American died.
Last month, Obama arranged a call from Netanyahu to Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in which Netanyahu apologized for the botched raid.
Turkey had demanded an apology as a condition for restoring ties. Netanyahu had until then refused to apologize, saying Israeli soldiers acted in self-defense after being attacked by activists.
But Erdogan has held up full normalization of ties until a compensation agreement is worked out and there is a significant loosening of Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Associated Press writer Matthew Lee contributed to this report.
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Karl Rove, the big-time Republican strategist and pundit, said the nation is likely to see action this year on an overhaul of immigration laws after years of a partisan standoff that blocked movement.
That was the only bit of optimism voiced by Rove during an hourlong presentation Tuesday before the national convention of Associated Builders and Contractors at the Harbor Beach Marriott Resort and Spa.
Rove delivered a gloomy outlook for the nation's budget, implementation of the health care overhaul law, and prospects for what he said are needed changes in the Social Security and Medicare systems. He placed the blame squarely on President Barack Obama.
"You thought it was bad. It's going to get worse. If you're a teetotaler like me, you're going to be drinking heavily by the end of the day," he said.
A political mastermind who played a pivotal role in George W. Bush's presidential victories, Rove is now a frequent commentator on Fox News, the channel favored by Republicans. Rove is also the founder of American Crossroads, the political group that raised $328 million last year in an attempt to defeat Obama and congressional Democrats.
Associated Builders and Contractors is known as one of the most politically active, and largely Republican, interest groups in the country. Rove told about 300 of its members that they and other Republicans need to do a better job vetting candidates in 2014 and beyond to avoid having the party nominate people who are loved by conservative primary voters but aren't appealing to the broader electorate.
Rove's efforts to launch a new program of vetting candidates have earned him harsh criticism in recent weeks from conservative grassroots activists and members of the tea party — complaints that he brushed off on Tuesday.
He said the tea party would be far better off with an electable Republican than a nominee like Christine O'Donnell, who failed to win a U.S. Senate seat in Delaware in 2010.
Rove said O'Donnell was obviously unelectable, citing her failure to pay her mortgage and student loans. She was also ridiculed when comedian Bill Maher released videos from the 1990s in which she talked about dabbling in witchcraft and opposing masturbation.
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He didn't touch on any Florida topics. He left book signing a few minutes early when the line of autograph seekers ran out, but said he didn't have time to answer any Florida-related questions.
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Postby dynamictiger » Wed Dec 19, 2012 11:56 am
On the plus side I can usually squeeze a day or two a week in to commute to the office so am reasonably often cylcing from Victoria Park to Willetton and vice versa.
I must also point out that any car made with crumple zones and the like unfortunate enough to hit me and my bike would no doubt result in the car owner shopping for a new car the following day as I would do a lot more damage than your average cyclist. I am built like a rugby prop and as tall as a short AFL player.
What I have found though, after all these pre-qualifiers, is that all the motorists I encounter on my normal commute are polite, give way to me as they should, and are generally a very nice bunch. So whilst there is a tonne of bike riders here bashing poor motorist behaviour I would like to state I have found them a great bunch...if this is driven by concern for their own well being and cars then thats fine by me. Just been my experience.
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dynamictiger wrote:What I have found though, after all these pre-qualifiers, is that all the motorists I encounter on my normal commute are polite, give way to me as they should, and are generally a very nice bunch. So whilst there is a tonne of bike riders here bashing poor motorist behaviour I would like to state I have found them a great bunch...if this is driven by concern for their own well being and cars then thats fine by me. Just been my experience.
For sure that's been my experience as well. However even if we were to allow that 1% of the drivers are Moron Motorists that's still a lot of potential for badness.
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However, the more you ride, the more time you're on the bike and the more people you will encounter doing the wrong thing (like the lady that drove on the wrong side of the road last week to try and overtake me and narrowly avoided a head on collision because the oncoming car swerved over the gutter and onto the nature strip...). I have noticed similar situations with cyclists as well though, in one instance, one didn't even look for traffic when they entered a T intersection, just turned left into the cycle lane and I only narrowly avoided a collision, they were safe, nothing can happen when you're listening to an i-Pod at high volume, I could hear it when I passed.
About a month ago, I saw a lady hit a 16 year old girl on her bike, why? Because she "didn't see her coming". The girl was riding across the ped crossing at a set of lights, at jogging pace towards the car and the lady turned left and drove in front of her and the poor girl T boned the car and bounced onto the road. I jumped out of the vehicle to help and the lady driver started making out like she was the victim saying how she didn't see her etc. and it wasn't her fault. Which really got my back up because I was trying to help the girl (no serious injuries luckily, just cuts and bruises)and she was carrying on in my ear, so told her to go sit in her vehicle and wait for the police to arrive. That's what I see mostly, people who aren't paying attention, won't take responsibility for their actions and don't really care if they hurt someone else (it's not their family so who cares?).
When someone's very polite to me and lets me merge into traffic etc. I always thank them with a big wave and smile.
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grimbo wrote:Motorists can be very helpful triggering the lights sometimes. Besides that, I'm always very grateful when they don't kill me.
Motorists are just people, and most people are cool. I find that riding assertively and vehicularly (is that a word?) is the best way to be respected on the road.
But if you can't trigger the lights yourself, you're doing it wrong or they're broken: http://youtu.be/I46k45pmXIo
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matt_h1 wrote:I usually have one issue a week, people who've parked in a cycle lane, pulled across a cycle lane, who overtake and nearly crush me, people who scream insults randomly, people who run red lights etc, still, 1 trip a week out of 10 isnt too bad!
+1. While most are alert and courteous, I do come a cross about one bad apple a week. This week it was this morning at the roundabout on Anderson St and Domain Rd South Yarra. She didn't even look as she entered the roundabout - and I had my lights on and a bright orange jersey. I just can't do any more than that to alert them that I'm there. That's why I'm always on the lookout in traffic.
But like I said, in the main they're a good bunch.
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kiso wrote: I find that riding assertively and vehicularly (is that a word?) is the best way to be respected on the road.
+1, that's been my experience too.
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ldrcycles wrote:kiso wrote: I find that riding assertively and vehicularly (is that a word?) is the best way to be respected on the road.
+1, that's been my experience too.
+2. While I have a heap of video incidents of dodgy motorists since I record my rides, they are the tiny tip of the iceberg. The vast majority are OK if you ride like a car and don't scuttle along in the glass near the gutter.
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RALEIGH � The proposed new voter photo ID law could cost North Carolina as much as $3.6 million to implement � the price of providing free photos to those without driver�s licenses, and voter education efforts, state officials said.
The voter ID bill cleared another hurdle Thursday when it was approved by the House Finance Committee 18-10 in a vote that followed party lines with Republicans in favor and Democrats against. It is scheduled for a full House vote next week.
The legislative staff prepared an analysis of how much it would likely cost to implement the law which requires voters to provide a photo ID by the 2016 election. It would also require a trial run for the 2014 election.
One of the biggest costs will be providing free photo IDs to persons who do not hold driver�s licenses or other government-approved photos such as student IDs for state-supported campuses.
�We are trying to make it as easy as possible,� said Rep. Ruth Samuelson, a philanthropic consultant and a Charlotte Republican who is one of the bill�s chief sponsors.
The cost of a photo ID from the Division of Motor Vehicles and driver�s and marriages licenses are unknown because the estimates of how many people don�t have photo IDs has varied greatly.
The State Board of Elections determined in March that 318,643 of the state�s 6.4 million registered voters could not be matched with DMV computer records. Of those, 171,736 did not vote in the last two elections.
In Georgia, a state about the same size as North Carolina, 29,000 voters asked for free photo IDs so they could vote.
Other costs would involve setting up a staff to oversee implementing the law, and outreach efforts to make sure everyone understood the law including possible advertising.
Samuelson said she thought implementation of the voter ID law would actually cost less than $3.6 million, but the higher figure was being included to make sure that funds were available to cover all contingencies.
The Democrats offered several amendments in committee on Thursday, most of which were defeated. Several Democrats also questioned why student IDs were accepted at public institutions, but not private institutions.
Democratic Rep. Paul Luebke, a college professor from Durham, said there was no reason why a Duke University ID was not as good as a student ID from N.C. Central University.
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September 4, 2012 by Bob Ashley · Comments Off on Jayco Shows Entry-Level RedHawk Motorhome
Jayco Inc.'s new RedHawk Class C motorhome, introduced last week at the Family Motor Coach Association's (FMCA) 87th Family Reunion and Motorhome Showcase in Indianapolis, is the Middlebury, Ind. manufacturer's re-entry into the entry-level market. "This was a product, a segment that Jayco had not participated in for several years," said Jim Jacobs, president of Jayco's motorized group. "One of the ways we were able to control our costs was we standardized. There are very few options. Featurewise, the RedHawk has everything in it that you would expect in a much higher-priced segment." Offered initially with two floorplans — a single-slideout 26-footer with a walk-around queen bed and a 32-foot double-slide floorplan equipped with bunk beds — RedHawk is built on a Ford E-450 cutaway chassis equipped with a 305-hp Triton V-10 engine. Featuring molded fiberglass front caps, both floorplans are designed with overcab bunk beds. Standard amenities include backup cameras, 32-inch LCD TVs, residential linoleum floors, under-bed storage with gas struts, booth dinettes, laminate countertops with composite sinks, beechwood cabinets with screwed stiles and power driver seats. MSRP: $84,809.


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Private real estate investment firm, The Hampshire Companies, announced Friday it has sold a 128,031-square-foot office building in Vienna, Va. to the Navy Federal Credit Union.
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By Chris Myson
In July 2008, Gary Hooper was transfer-listed by Southend United after scoring just four goals in 44 games for the club. Less than five years later, he is preparing to spearhead Celtic's attack in the Champions League knockout stages against Juventus.
It has been a quite remarkable rise for the striker, who saw his impressive form for Scunthorpe after leaving Roots Hall earn himself a move to the SPL giants as one of Neil Lennon's first signings.
The £2.4 million transfer fee continues to look like a real bargain. Ever since he arrived north of the border, Hooper's eye for goal has been impressive and the Englishman became a mainstay of the Bhoys' attack.
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During that time, Celtic's fortunes have improved. From being a side who failed to qualify for the group stages of either continental competition during Hooper's first season in Scotland, they featured in the Europa League in 2011-12 before their exploits in Europe's elite club competition this term.
Still aged just 25, netting 73 times in two-and-a-half-years of consistent goalscoring, combined with exposure to the Champions League, has led to a new surge of interest in the striker.
In the most recent January transfer window, Norwich City had multiple bids rejected by Celtic and Andre Villas-Boas watched him play as Tottenham pondered whether to move for a frontman in the market.
England boss Roy Hodgson has been continuously urged to call him up to the international fold by Lennon and will travel to Scotland to take in the match against Juventus.
With his contract due to expire in the summer of 2014 and months of negotiations with his representatives proving unproductive so far, Hooper has been tipped to leave Glasgow, along with Victor Wanyama, in the summer.
Lennon has since admitted that his side's historic progress in the Champions League was vital in being able to hold on to his stars until at least the end of the season and the club remain hopeful that they can at least persuade the forward to extend his deal.
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On Tuesday night, though, comes a huge test for Hooper. There is already little doubt that he is a prolific striker capable of doing an excellent job for over half of the sides in England's Premier League, those from upper-mid table down to the lower reaches.
But, despite his success at Celtic to date, he is still yet to prove whether he really possesses the quality to warrant interest from Spurs, a call-up for England and to be considered a Champions League-level striker.
In the Europa League last season, he scored against Rennes and Udinese but failed to find the net in two games against eventual winners Atletico Madrid.
This year, he crucially netted home and away against Spartak Moscow but it was Wanyama and youngster Tony Watt who took the headlines against Barcelona.
In total, he has scored six goals in Europe from 15 appearances, 12 of which were starts, at an average of just under one every two games.
Domestically, tests against tougher opposition are hard to come by, aside from games against Old Firm rivals Rangers. Prior to their relegation to the Third Division, Hooper fared reasonably well against the Gers, scoring five times from 10 appearances, nine of which were starts.
That record in big matches certainly does not suggest he is out of his depth at the highest level but, as yet, he remains relatively untested.
If he is going to make it to the top, we are still waiting for Hooper's true breakout moment - a defining goal or match-winning contribution against a European heavyweight.
He has played twice against Barcelona and now has the opportunity to spearhead his side's formidable challenge to reach the last eight up against a team who dominated Serie A last season without losing a game and comfortably disposed of Chelsea in the group stages.
At Celtic you do not get many opportunities to play against the true elite, the likes of Barca, Juve and Manchester United. If Antonio Conte's side prove too strong for the SPL champions, Hooper will know that it could be his last chance to do so for some time.
That is why this last-16 tie could be so important in deciding the forward's next career move, be that extending his stay at Celtic, moving to a mid-table English club or making a decisive step forward to a top Premier League side and earning international recognition.
Based on the rapid rise that he has enjoyed in his career to date, there is every chance that he can go on to make an impression against Juve and continue his strong progression.
There is no doubt that he still has an awful lot to prove if he wants to be considered a striker capable of succeeding at Champions League and international level but Hooper goes into this tie with everything to gain.


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CLEMSON - Defensive end Jadeveon Clowney saying thanks-but-no-thanks to his senior year at South Carolina was the right call. Same for Clemson wide receiver Sammy Watkins.
Nobody disputes Clowney and Watkins could be the top two picks in the NFL Draft on Thursday. There was no reason for either to risk their fortunes by placing their bodies in peril for one more season of college football.
Clowney or Watkins have no worries about enjoying riches long into the future. The question is whether the Martavis Bryants and Vic Hamptons will.
Just three years ago, 56 underclassmen remaining declared for the draft, the most ever at the time. The number has soared every spring since.
A record 102 players with college eligibility remaining - including four from USC and three from Clemson - fled the NCAA for the NFL.
At least that's what they're hoping.
Listen to a chorus of agents, advisers and coaches who wish a vast majority of those players would strongly consider their tomorrows rather than grab a quick buck today:
NFL Network draft analyst Mike Mayock: "There's a lot of mixed emotions around the NFL because I don't think the scouts or the coaches are in any way trying to push kids out of college."
Sports agent Joe Flanagan: "The biggest disadvantage is they have no all-star game opportunity, and there's a record number (of draft-eligible underclassmen). You've got to break through the noise."
ESPN analyst/former NFL head coach Jon Gruden: "To not be able to see these kids perform in a college all-star game like the East-West game or the Senior Bowl, it's a little bit of a projection, and I don't like it. But it's the way the world is going."
Cincinnati Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis: "The problem is that right now they don't see this as work. Believe me, we're going to change their minds."
The experts sound like an army of fathers cautioning their kids. For some early entrants, this could be the most costly decision of their lives.
Three years is the average lifespan of an NFL career. That fact is not lost on young NFL hopefuls, who choose to get paid for their efforts the moment they have the chance.
"I guess it has to do with, you're not going to be long for the NFL," former Gamecocks receiver and Moncks Corner native Bruce Ellington said. "It can be one year, two years, three years, maybe 15 years. But after a while, you take enough hits, you have to find something else other than football."
However, that three-year alarm clock reflects the harsh realities of the NFL. Put simply, there aren't enough jobs to go around with 53 roster spots for 32 teams (1,696 total,). Yet the applicant list keeps rising.
Take the case of LSU, which saw 11 players leave early in 2013. Five of those players have yet to appear in an NFL game; three others played sparingly their rookie seasons, and those three are on contracts paying them less than $500,000 a year, with guarantees far less than that.
There are two in-state products - one from Clemson and one from USC - who might be regretting their choices from early 2011.
Surprising many by leaving school early, ex-Tigers tailback Jamie Harper was a fourth-round pick and played two years for the Tennessee Titans before being cut in May 2013. He was arrested for domestic assault in July, and has not been on an NFL roster since.
According to Spotrac.com (a web site tracking pro contracts), Harper earned $990,290 in base salary and a signing bonus since leaving Clemson more than three years ago.
Also after 2010, wide receiver Tori Gurley departed South Carolina before his senior year. Going undrafted, Gurley bounced around six different practice squads his first two years.
The minimum pay for a practice squad player in 2012 was $5,700 per week, which equates to less than $100,000 for a season.
In May 2013, Gurley signed a contract with the Cleveland Browns for about $500,000 annually with nothing guaranteed. The Cleveland Plain-Dealer reported in July that Gurley also worked jobs at Home Depot and Thompson Caterpillar while supporting a sick grandmother.
"I don't need to watch that ESPN 30 for 30 'Broke' to understand how to manage my money," Gurley told the newspaper last summer. "I've made a few dollars, but if I get cut I can't be living the life some other guys lead. I pinch pennies and clip coupons."
Gurley, who went on to appear in three games in 2013, admitted to the Plain-Dealer that leaving USC early was "ill-advised."
Receiver Ace Sanders, the 101st pick of the 2013 draft out of USC selected by the Jaguars, and tailback Andre Ellington, No. 187 out of Clemson but a prominent part of the Arizona Cardinals' offense, each command a $495,000 salary this coming year.
All salaries are taxed and agents get their cut. So to start, Sanders and Ellington are working with about $300,000 in net income (before endorsements and other payments.)
The real world requires real money. Amidst the hubbub over paying college athletes, scholarship players do not have to provide their own clothing, travel, insurance, agents, trainers, handlers, food and so on.
"I would never recommend that a junior leave school," said pro performance trainer Tony Villani, "because they don't understand what type of life they're getting into.
"What we're trying to do is get them (acquainted), and let them know what they're going to experience the next four years, and try to get their attention."
Suddenly, it becomes clear that with the new NFL rookie wage scale, only the cream of the crop are sure to live in luxury right away. For the mid-rounders, late-rounders and undrafted free agents, the pot of gold is further down the road, never to be reached by many.
"These kids have been told since they were little about being millionaires," Villani said. "It's not that simple."
The mantra in pro football is it's not about the first contract, it's the second one that secures players financially.
"You've got to get through four years," sports agent Tom Condon told The Associated Press, "before you get to free agency and three years before you start to talk about a contract extension."
Vic Beasley didn't just return to Clemson for 2014 to improve his draft stock. The All-American defensive end said it was critical to earn his degree to aid him in life after football.
Former Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd had multiple reasons for returning for his senior season last fall.
"I felt like I wanted to be ready for this transition because you've got to be ready for whatever life throws at you. Whether it's the finances, whether it's the family. It's not just football, that's just a small part of it."
Some players see the writing on the wall with playing time or academic eligibility for the coming year, and decide to jump ship feeling that's the optimal time to capitalize on their worth.
When Bryant and cornerback Bashaud Breeland left Clemson in early January, their choices were met with some skepticism. Both players pointed out they have children to support.
"In life, you never know what it's like to go through something if you never went through it," Breeland said. "I was very solid about my decision; I was strong when I made it, and there's not one day that I regret."
It's worth noting that linebacker Stephone Anthony has a daughter, and elected to return to Clemson for his senior year after discussing the decision with his family.
Ellington, cornerback Victor Hampton and defensive tackle Kelcy Quarles followed Clowney out the door with South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier's blessing.
"Coach Spurrier has always been supportive," Hampton said. "Yeah, we talked about it a lot. We just all felt we were ready. We felt like we did a lot for the school. We wanted to complete our dream."
Connor Shaw, the only South Carolina senior who attended the NFL Combine, said it's to the advantage of four-year quarterbacks like himself, Boyd and Georgia's Aaron Murray to stick around.
"Yeah, we all played for a very long time and won in really tough conferences, been in very big games," Shaw said. "I think that kind of translates."
Last year, 21 of the 73 draft-eligible underclassmen (29 percent) went undrafted. ESPN analyst and former NFL general manager Bill Polian estimates about 30 of this year's crop of 102 early entrants won't make a roster, meaning they spend this fall toiling on a practice squad for low pay instead of playing in college.
"It's easier to evaluate a player that's been there (college) for four or five years; hopefully he's more socially aware and secure," Mayock said. "You get a more physically mature football player, so it takes some of the variables out of play.
"There's nothing the NFL can do about it, except try to evaluate these kids and do the best job they can."


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Godfather: Part II, The (US - BD)
Gabe also takes a look at the second of Coppola's legendary features on Blu-ray
Once again, I find myself reviewing something I've already reviewed in a different packaging, and once again I'm not going to entirely re-write my thoughts. What follows here is a slightly re-edited version of the Godfather II section of my Godfather Trilogy review, including the video, audio sections, as nothing has changed from the releases besides the number of films and extras.
The Godfather Part II is the alpha and omega of film sequels. The same question applies here as with the original: is the film overrated? Is this really and truly the best sequel of all time? It's definitely one of the best, but how does one realistically compare The Godfather Part II to Empire Strikes Back, The Two Towers, Toy Story 2, Dawn of the Dead or Aliens? The truth is you can't entirely, but one must appreciate the (then) original take on a sequel, and the fact that these other attempts in improvement probably wouldn't exist without Coppola's example. The film fulfils all the requirements of a good sequel—a bigger budget, an upped ante, the characters we know are taken to hell and back, and the story is a proper continuation of themes, different but not unrecognizable. Coppola's innovation was telling two giant stories, separated by a large chasm of time in the same film. Even more innovative is the fact that the two stories don't line up chronologically—Vito's story sort of leads into the first film, and Michael's story picks up where the first film left off.
To bring Coppola back to the series the producers gave him the budget and freedom to make the film he wanted. This freedom, and the fact that the director didn't really even want to make the film in the first place, likely led to such a rich and experimental production, and with the exception of perhaps Empire Strikes Back there haven't been many filmmakers given this much leeway with sequel material. In many ways The Godfather Part II may be the superior film of the series. It's impossibly artful, meticulously filmed and acted, and it's a more intelligent film than the first, due in no small part to all the expectations set forth between films. The only regrets I find looking back with the most critical eye I can muster (strangely enough this film and Leone's Once Upon a Time in America have sort of been hammered into one mega film in my brain), is that the sequel loses some of the original film's pulpy lustre, and replaces it with semi-conceited tone. I wouldn't call it pretentious, because Coppola gets away with every inch of melodrama (the last act is still heart wrenching), butt-numbing length and indulgent photography. I'll use the less risible ostentatious.
The Godfather Part II is mostly similar to the original. The grain is still pretty thick, some of the browns are still a little noisy, and the details aren't quite razor sharp, but it still looks damn nice and as the director and DP intended. I noticed a few issues specifically pertaining to the second film, include minor frame shifts and shakes (mostly in outdoor shots), and a little more colour correction. The former item is regrettable, but the latter is very intriguing. Coppola and Willis pushed the sepia tones further in the second film (because they were allowed to), and the final effect is somewhat extreme, but fitting. My DVD and widescreen VHS copies are sizably more yellow then this new hi-def transfer, which is more golden, almost orange. This applies at an even more extreme degree to the Vito flashback scenes, which are also a little grainier, and a little lower on detail. I never noticed before, but Willis uses wider lenses and broader focus during many of the old world scenes, creating a flatter look in comparison to the more three dimensional '50s scenes. The blacks of the second film are noticeably sharper than those of the first film. Those unsure of their Blu-ray re-buy should really check out the scene where Fredo spills his guts. On the DVD Pacino and Cazale appear as silhouettes against the brighter stuff outside the window, while on Blu-ray we're now privy to the small details of their faces.
Audio is again similar to the original, but with the benefit of a larger budget. The sound design of the second film is more brash and assured. The attempt at murdering of Michael at the beginning of the film is another prime example of Coppola's suspense wracking sound design, and the bombast of the Tommy gun fire is a fantastic aural attack. The opening funeral procession features genuine surround sound cicadas, which subtly wrap around the viewer, while the Cuba sequences, including the inside and outside New Year's celebrations, and the street revolts, are the closest the disc gets to reference quality surround and bass. The dialogue is still a little flat and tinny, but the overall ambiance is more lively and realistic. Nino Rota's vigorously gloomy and chunky score is fully and warmly represented on both the first and second film's soundtracks. The surround representation of the music is more intricate than that of the sound effects. The strings and brass blast in a rather wall like fashion from the left and right, while the mandolins, clarinets, and guitars are delegated to specific channels. In the case of the second film the effect is even richer, and the bass even fuller.
The only extra here is Coppola's commentary track, which was recorded for the original DVD release of the trilogy. The track is still fully formed, stimulating, and substantially listenable, but is a little bit unessential given its previous availability. If you're like me, and you've already seen these films a dozen or so times, the track makes for an entertaining alternative to listening to the same old dialogue and music, no matter how brilliant it may be. You've got to respect the man's ability to sit and talk to himself for nearly nine hours (if we count the commentary on the third film, which is not available separately). Still, most of these stories are pretty well known, but those that don't own the trilogy collection have no other extras to work from.
This Sapphire Series release does, in fact, feature the same Coppola Restoration video and audio elements that accompanied the Godfather Trilogy Blu-ray set released in September of 2008, so there is no need for owners of that set to repurchase this film. I know there are those that really despise the third film in the series, but for the money it's probably worth buying the collection set over this disc, especially for the extra added quality of the fourth disc's documentaries and featurettes. Just think of the third film as a special feature. Those that positively cannot abide by Godfather III and who just don't care about extras can be satisfied in the knowledge that they are getting the best possible versions of one of the best possible movies ever made.
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Review by Gabriel Powers
hogaburger Contributor Join Date: April 2007 Location: United States Posts: 1,153
Got the trilogy back on day one. Good to know that these are the exact same.
From what I've read online, the new Goodfellas blu-ray is going to have the same transfer as the old one as well. Looks like I don't have to replace any of my classic gangster films on blu-ray yet.
Always preferred the second movie myself. The first one is just as good, but this one stuck with me more. Especially the flash back at the end. Never quite understood all the hate for Part III. It certainly isn't a timeless classic like the first two, but it is so far from a bad movie.
Also, who wrote these? Front page says Gabe, but both Godfather blu-ray reviews say "Reviewed by Chris Gould" at the bottom.
From what I've read online, the new Goodfellas blu-ray is going to have the same transfer as the old one as well. Looks like I don't have to replace any of my classic gangster films on blu-ray yet.
Always preferred the second movie myself. The first one is just as good, but this one stuck with me more. Especially the flash back at the end. Never quite understood all the hate for Part III. It certainly isn't a timeless classic like the first two, but it is so far from a bad movie.
Also, who wrote these? Front page says Gabe, but both Godfather blu-ray reviews say "Reviewed by Chris Gould" at the bottom.
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I wrote it as one big review and Chris took it apart to make two reviews.
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Release Date: 2nd February 2010
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby TrueHD English, Dolby TrueHD French, Dolby TrueHD Spanish, Dolby Digital Mono English
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: Director's Commentary
Easter Egg: No
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Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Diane Keaton, James Caan, Robert Duvall
Genre: Crime and Drama
Length: 200 minutes
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Smear Campaign against German-Turkish Female Activists
Three well-known German-Turkish authors, Seyran Ates, Necla Kelek and Serap Cileli, have recently been the target of smear campaigns in the German edition of the Turkish newspaper "Hürriyet." A background report by Uta Rasche
Every evening at 5:45 when the printing machines in Mörfelden-Walldorf begin to churn, the eight editors of the European edition of "Hürriyet" finally stop to catch their breath. But others begin to hold theirs. The three German-Turkish authors, Seyran Ates ("Große Reise ins Feuer" - "Big Journey into the Fire"), Necla Kelek ("Die fremde Braut" - "The Strange Bride") and Serap Cileli ("Wir sind eure Kinder, nicht eure Ehre" - "We Are Your Children, Not Your Honor") have been the target of a smear campaign by the newspaper since the end of February.
"The mood in the Turkish community has been turned against me," says Berlin lawyer Ates. The women's rights organization "Terre des Femmes" says the women have been put into a situation of "danger" due the articles.
In their books, all three authors have described how Turkish girls are imprisoned in the strict honor code of their families, how women are repressed by their husbands and by the widespread phenomenon of "arranged marriages" and forced marriages among Turks in Germany—topics which they have researched themselves. Their books are partly based on interviews and sociological studies, and partly on autobiographical material.
Cileli, for example, has written about how she herself was forced into an unwanted marriage and how she tried to defend herself. The topic is very much a current affair, even more so since the "honor killing" of a young Turkish woman out in the open in a Berlin street in early February.
"Hürriyet" is powerful
"Hürriyet" is the most widely circulating newspaper in Turkey with 500,000 copies sold daily. Their European headquarters are located six kilometers south of the Frankfurt airport. The editorial staff and the printers are based in a modern building in a town called Walldorf. From here, according to their own statistics, they sell 71,000 copies in Europe, 52,000 of them in Germany. That puts "Hürriyet" at the top of the market among Turkish newspapers sold in Germany.
The reach of this conservative-nationalist popular press daily among Turks in Germany is enormous. According to a study by the Germany-based Society for Consumer Research (GfK), in 2002 forty percent of those surveyed had read the paper in the past two weeks, fourteen percent on the previous day. "Hürriyet" is powerful.
So powerful, in fact, that even prominent German-Turkish figures of stature prefer not to give their names when "Hürriyet" is the topic at hand: "Those who are critical of 'Hürriyet' are reviled so vehemently that I would prefer not to comment."
In the past, even German politicians have been targeted by campaigns in "Hürriyet," which translates as "freedom": Current Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, for example, was slandered while serving as Minister President of Lower Saxony when he supported a stop on the deportation of Kurdish refugees back to Turkey.
Cem Özdemir, a former Bundestag representative (Green Party) of Turkish background, was also targeted when he demanded equal rights for the Alevitic religious community and criticized Turkey for its position on the Armenian genocide.
A visit with the German President
The regular attacks began when the editor of "Hürriyet," Aydin Dogan, was invited to talks with then-Federal President Johannes Rau in the summer of 2001. Representatives of the Federal Press Office, the Interior Ministry, and Rau himself spoke with the Turkish media czar, who also owns several television stations and other newspapers such as "Milliyet" and the sports magazine "Fanatic".
As the story goes, the Germans expressed their interest in fair reporting on German politics and politicians according to the standards of Western journalistic ethics. Shortly after, Dogan dismissed the director of the German edition of "Hürriyet", Ertug Karakullukcu, whose commentaries were considered hostile towards Germany and a hindrance to integration.
The new editor-in-chief, Ertugrul Özkök, is friendly toward Germany and Europe; in the debates about Turkey's possible entry into the EU, the paper toted the position of the Turkish government with the goal of securing a date for membership negotiations with the EU.
Of course, the paper did criticize Christian Democrats Merkel and Stoiber for their pursuit of a mere "privileged partnership" with Turkey. But the journalistic ethics of the paper had improved: Since 2001 press associations have no longer reprimanded the paper for articles on Germany, something they previously did quite regularly.
Further campaigns against Turks
The German edition of the paper has thus become more "liberal"—but apparently only toward the Germans. Smear campaigns still happen, though the deputy editor-in-chief for the German edition, Ayhan Can, refutes this: "We don't engage in campaigns and we don't even want to engage in politics, we want a good newspaper."
But authors Ates, Kelek and Cileli have seen it happen. At the end of February "Hürriyet" reported on new books by Cileli and Kelek, with headlines to the effect that the two authors had denounced Turkish men as violent brutes.
In mid-March the paper followed up with reports—supposedly at the request of Cileli's family who had contacted the editors—aimed at probing the issue of the author's "forced marriage". As a fifteen year old girl, they wrote, the author had willingly married. As proof, the paper published a wedding photo of Cileli in which she is smiling. "Does it look as if she was forced to marry?" asked the paper in large print.
The author was accused of telling stories in order to sell a few more books. "I feel personally threatened. If anything happens to me or the others, 'Hürriyet' is responsible. The way in which they dealt with my biography leads to other girls and women becoming discouraged."
A newspaper for the under-educated
Author Seyran Ates, a lawyer who represents Turkish women and who is not afraid to speak with directness, has also felt the wrath of "Hürriyet." According to her, Turks in Turkey are more progressive than most Turks in Germany. This is on the one hand because it is mostly the less educated Turks that immigrate, but also because of the isolation of Turks in the immigrant community. "Hürriyet" exploits this "not particularly literate or education-oriented group," she says.
The newspaper accuses her of insulting Turkish women, making the Turkish community look bad, and reconfirming German prejudices against Turks by making generalizations. In particular it was Ates' statement in a interview with the "Tageszeitung" that women who are forced to marry are "slaves on the Muslim marriage market" that drew protests from "Hürriyet".
She further outraged the newspaper when she went on to say that many Turkish girls must "give in to having anal sex with boys" because this is considered a good way to protect their virginity and the best form of birth control.
"Hürriyet" printed a series of short interviews with Turkish women in which they heavily criticized Ates. On March 11 the newspaper published an interview with Ates in which she appeared to admit that she had been misunderstood. According to the article, she did not want to generalize but was instead referring only to her clients experiences—i.e., a public retraction.
Ates says today that she had talked with "Hürriyet" but it was not an authorized interview. "I demanded an apology from 'Hürriyet', not the other way around. What kind of journalism is this?"
"The unbelievers are bad"
The Hamburg sociologist Necla Kelek explains the newspaper's reaction: "Turks are not allowed to say anything bad about the Turks, and especially not to a German." She says the idea of the Muslim "umma" is always present: "We Muslims are good, the unbelievers are bad."
Kelek, however, thinks that after forty years in Germany, the Turks "must finally accept German society as their own, instead of helping themselves to economic advantages and the social system and cursing everything else."
In the Turkish edition of "Hürriyet," on the other hand, studies on the topic of "violence in the family" are not taboo. At the initiative of the publisher's daughter, since last fall the paper has led a large campaign with posters, an informational bus traveling through Istanbul and the countryside, discussions with experts in the paper, and a telephone hotline.
No interest in a nuanced debate
At the wish of Dogan's daughter, the campaign will also tour Germany starting in mid-April, initially in five of the larger cities. Preparatory discussions for the German tour took place in early December with the participation of staff from the German Ministry for Family Affairs and "Terre des Femmes."
The latter organization has recently said in a letter to "Hürriyet" that they are unsure if they will participate in the campaign against domestic violence because of the paper's reporting. The articles are "irritating and counterproductive," they wrote, and they show that the newspaper is not genuinely interested in "a nuanced debate."
Competition with satellite television?
How does all this fit together—the newspaper's impetus to enlighten within Turkey, and yet the behavior of the editors at the German edition who strive to reinforce the patriarchal structures of the immigrant community? Perhaps it has to do with simple market strategies: Given the growing competition due to satellite television, this tactic is meant to cater to the tastes of the conservative immigrant community.
Perhaps it is related to continuity in personnel: According to circles around the Dogan publishing house in Turkey, the old editor-in-chief dismissed under pressure from Germany, Karakullukcu, is still serving as an advisor to his successor.
But also in another sense a sober view of the change in direction at "Hürriyet" has set in. The start of a German-language supplement (music, the scene, education and job training) appearing once a week was celebrated as making a great contribution to integration. However, half of its eight pages are devoted to the television program—but at least it is the program for Germany.
Uta Rasche
© Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Translation from German: Christina White
Commentary Ülger Polat
Perfidious Discussion about Honor Murders and Forced Marriages
Turkish people in Germany have other problems than honor murders and forced marriages. They are plagued by unemployment and social marginalization. A commentary by Ülger Polat
The Struggle against Forced Marriage
Each year, according to UN studies, more than one million people are forced into marriage – and for many years now, Berlin-based lawyer Seyran Ates has been fighting to increase the German public's awareness of the issue. Sigrid Dethloff reports.


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Salvatore Giammarresi Joins HomeGain
Appointed Vice President of Product
From the sunny peninsula that has given us Pavarotti, the Ferrari, the Lamborghini, Valentino, Armani, the Radio, Risotto, Pizza, Barolo, Leonardo da Vinci, Dante, Michelangelo, and a few sailors that discovered America, Italy sends the new world another of its favorite sons, Salvatore Giammarresi.
Dottore Giammarresi, a recent PhD graduate from the University of Palermo, joins HomeGain today as Vice President of Product.
Dr. Giammarresi's career stops have included Engineering Program Manager of Products at Electronics for Imaging, Senior Localization Manager of Products at Kana Communications and Director of International Product Management at Homestore (now Move.com) where he focused on product definition, planning, positioning, functionality, life cycle and management.
Salvo brings to HomeGain a wealth of product experience that should benefit our customers. He will lead an already strong product team.
"I am delighted to be joining HomeGain at a point in time during which it seems to be experiencing a Renaissance of new ideas and innovation," said Dr. Giammarresi.
Salvo's arrival coincides just in time for the launch of the second of a trilogy of features to be released next week.
For all of our tifosi (fans) in Italy—and for the benefit of Salvo's family, I have translated the foregoing in Italian. Continue reading this post


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You'll love the look that these overlay stamps give your layouts! Just add one to a background paper and then continue to scrap your page. What a different look you get! I recommend placing these directly above the background paper and not adding any shadow effect on them.
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Printfection necesitaba un nuevo diseño de camiseta y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 126 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
People wear a t-shirt to show support, loyalty, and of course express themselves. We help niche brands sell/giveaway t-shirts & merchandise. We're good at helping others spread the word, but not so great at designing our own merchandise to giveaway!
Check out the website to get a feel for us: http://www.printfection.com/
We'll be giving away this design on t-shirts, coffee mugs, aluminum water bottles, mousepads, etc - to existing and potential customers of ours. The design you create should appeal to a WIDE range of people. (The ladies and the gentleman, and the young and not so young.)
Above all else, we want a design that people will actually want to wear, even if this means a bit less "Printfection" branding within the design!
1) Use our name or logo SOMEWHERE in the design. You can drop the ".com" from the logo, if you're using the logo, that's fine.
1.5) We've also included some "blue P" designs we have, in case you want to work off this concept.
2) Needs to be something that someone would actually want to wear and doesn't get relegated to the bottom of a drawer. Its MORE than a t-shirt. Be creative.
3) Since we do our own printing there's no limit to the number of colors in the design.
4) We will only be printing front/back on the tee, so no sleeves or wraps.
5) Vector Image in RGB, not CMYK
6) Style guideline - We have included some example files of Quicksilver and Penguin, two brands. You can see their original logos and a few example t-shirt designs they have done to give you an idea of how you might alter a logo or brand name into a nice looking t-shirt. These are just examples, not hard rules as to what we'd like/ would not like.


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How diverse and perfect is the development of the ways of God in His word! Not only does it contain the great events that establish the fact of His government, and the character of that government-not only the proofs of His fidelity to His people, and His estimate of the evil that led to judgment, but also His answer to every feeling caused by the series of events by which He chastised them, the relief which He affords to the anguish that must be felt by one who is faithful, on account of the affliction of God's beloved people, together with the profitable exercise of his faith. The perfect ways of God are unfolded on the one side, and on the other the heart is formed to the intelligence of those ways, and to the enjoyment of the full effect of the faithfulness of the God of love; while, during the expectation of this effect, confidence in God Himself is established, and the links of the heart with God are abundantly strengthened.
It is of the latter part, the development of faith and of spiritual affections amid the trial, that Habakkuk treats in his prophecy. It speaks of the exercise of the heart of one who, full of the Spirit, is attached to the people of God. Still, it is Israel that is brought before us. Synopsis of the Books of the Bible, by John Nelson Darby [1857-62]Text Courtesy of Internet Sacred Texts Archive.


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A library catalog (or library catalogue) is a register of all bibliographic items found in a library or group of libraries, such as a network of libraries at several locations. A bibliographic item can be any information entity (e.g., books, computer files, graphics, realia, cartographic materials, etc.) that is considered library material (e.g., a single novel in an anthology), or a group of library materials (e.g., a trilogy), or linked from the catalog (e.g., a webpage) as far as it is relevant to the catalog and to the users (patrons) of the library. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Library catalogue)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
A CD-ROM (acronym of "Compact Disc Read-only memory") is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer for data storage and music playback. The 1985 'Yellow Book' standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data. CD-ROMs are popularly used to distribute computer software, including video games and multimedia applications, though any data can be stored (up to the capacity limit of a disc). Some CDs hold both computer data and audio with the latter capable of being played on a CD player, while data (such as software or digital video) is only usable on a computer (such as ISO 9660 format PC CD-ROMs). These are called enhanced CDs. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: CD-ROM)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
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CERIF (Common European Research Information Format) emerged first as a simple standard not unlike a library catalogue card or the present DC (Dublin Core Metadata Standard) and was intended as a data exchange format. It was based on records describing projects, with persons and organisational units as attributes. However, it was soon realised that in practice this CERIF91 standard was inadequate: it was too rigid in format, did not handle repeating groups of information, was not multilingual / multi character set and did not represent in a sufficiently rich way the universe of interest. A new group of experts was convened and CERIF2000 was generated. Its essential features are: (a) it has the concept of objects or entities with attributes such as project, person, organisational unit; (b) it supports n:m relationships between them (and recursively on any of them) using 'linking relations' thus providing rich semantics including roles and time; (c) it is fully internationalised in language and character set; (d) it is extensible without prejudicing the core datamodel thus providing guaranteed interoperability at least at the core level but not precluding even richer intercommunication. It is designed for use both for data exchange (data file transfer) and for heterogeneous distributed query / result environments. With CERIF2004, minor improvements in consistency have been released. With CERIF2006 substantial improvements have been implemented with the model, concerning in particular the introduction of a so-called Semantic Layer, that makes the model flexible and scalable for application in very heterogeneous environments. (Excerpt from this source)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
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common cartridge
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Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) is a specification for improving interoperability between Enterprise Content Management systems. OASIS approved CMIS as an OASIS Specification on May 1, 2010. CMIS provides a common data model covering typed files, folders with generic properties that can be set or read. In addition there may be an access control system, and a checkout and version control facility, and the ability to define generic relations. There is a set of generic services for modifying and querying the data model, and several protocol bindings for these services, including SOAP and Representational State Transfer (REST), using the Atom convention. The model is based on common architectures of document management systems. Although initiated by AIIM, CMIS is now being administered by the OASIS standards body. Participants in the process include Adobe Systems Incorporated, Alfresco, EMC, eXo, FatWire, HP, IBM, ISIS Papyrus, Liferay, Microsoft, Open Text, Oracle and SAP. The standard is available for public comment at OASIS. (Excerpt from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Management_Interoperability_Service... article: Content Management Interoperability Services)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
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