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Reginald Milton calls it the "dirty little secret" of nonprofits whose mission is to provide social services.
Tommy Reaves of Smith Interiors works inside the South Memphis Alliance Community Laundry Resource Center, which is expected to open in January.
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"We are not having the impact we once had," said Milton, executive director of South Memphis Alliance Inc.
As he talked, a construction crew outside his window was working on the laundromat next to the alliance offices at 1048 S. Bellevue Blvd. that is his answer to the secret.
The alliance bought the neighboring laundromat four years ago as its original owners contemplated selling the building to someone who wanted to develop it as a nightclub.
The alliance is renovating the laundromat and changing the floor plan just a bit to make room for several kiosks where it will offer prevention services and an introduction to other services for families that the alliance can help with.
"We really have to be creative," Milton said. "The great thing about this is it's self-sufficient."
Money the alliance makes from the laundromat go back into the operation of the laundromat as well as the kiosks. And laundromats are largely self-service businesses.
"Prevention works on repetition. You have about an hour of downtime where you can provide that service," said Milton, adding that those who use laundromats usually come two or three times a month.
"What's great about it is it requires you to lose something to utilize the service. That's a lack of something. If you are looking for the poor, they don't have access to a washer or dryer," he added as he sketched out the business plan. "We looked at sites like a car wash. But the problem is you would have to have something – a car. And we can focus on the service of the people and not be wrapped up in some complex business."
If all goes according to schedule, the old dairy building on Bellevue near Walker Avenue, also owned by the alliance, should be coming down in January as the new refurbished laundromat across the street has its grand opening. Milton wants to mark both occasions at the same time.
The nonprofit bought the dairy plant earlier this year with funding from the city's division of Housing and Community Development. The Assisi Foundation also provided funding for the effort.
In place of the dairy, the nonprofit is raising money to build a center for families and children that will offer some of the assistance customers at the laundromat can ask about.
The South Memphis Alliance plans to demolish the abandoned Reed Dairy Plant and build the SMA Center for Families & Children at the site.
That includes parenting supplies and support for pregnant teenagers through the Shelby County Office of Early Childhood and Youth. The alliance's Hope Chest is one of four baby stores the county office operates in which expectant teen mothers earn "bucks" for the supplies through parenting classes and similar activities.
Milton has described the future center on the dairy site as an eastern gateway into the neighborhood. The alliance performs social services for the still-developing comeback of the area where South Memphis meets Midtown.
Soulsville's return as a vibrant neighborhood is a multipart enterprise that includes the Soulsville Foundation that runs the Stax Music Academy and the Soulsville charter school next to the Stax Museum of American Soul Music on McLemore. The LeMoyne-Owen Community Development Corp. owns the Soulsville Towne Center across McLemore, which is returning retail to the area.
The South Memphis Alliance operates programs that are designed in most cases for children and young adults from foster care.
The alliance has a third property on the South Third Street side of the Soulsville area.
First Tennessee Bank has donated its recently closed circa-1955 bank branch at 1200 S. Third St., which includes a post office facility that was also recently closed.
First Tennessee executives sold the property to the alliance for $1 and donated money for expenses for the first few months of operation.
And Milton has secured $500,000 in federal funding through U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Memphis, as well with plans for a capital campaign to raise a total of nearly $3 million to get the space operational on a full-time basis. The city and the Assisi Foundation have also helped with the move to what the organization calls Dream Seekers Resource Center.
The post office facility could become eight lofts for transitional living of six to eight months at a time for foster children.
The tentative plans include using the basement as a "hang out" area with other activities including mentoring, classes and recreational activities.
"All too often, we are trying to provide services at a distance. If you really want to be effective, you have got to build trust," Milton said. "Trust means being on the ground. People have to see you, they have to know you are part of the community – that you experience things they experience."
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The family of a teenage girl who vanished after taking the rubbish out more than a week ago have made an emotional television appeal for information about her disappearance.
Eighteen-year-old Nida Ul-Naseer, from Newport in south Wales, has not been seen since she stepped outside at her home in Linton Street on December 28.
A major police search operation has been launched to find the teenager, who suffers from a medical condition and needs medication without which she is likely to become anaemic.
Her father Naseer Tahir, sister Naila Anwar and a brother appeared together in an interview on ITV's Daybreak programme this morning.
The programme said they felt that earlier reports of a family argument involving Nida had been taken out of context, and showed a printed sign pinned to their front door which read: "Nida please come home. Don't worry. We are all missing you."
Her father said: "We have some issues, but only in the family. The family are good. We want to see Nida here."
Naila Anwar described her sister as someone who is "very close to us. She would always share everything with us. It is just out of character".
She said of her sister: "She can't live without a phone. She just always talks to me on the phone."
She agreed there was no indication that her sister had in any way prepared to leave before vanishing.
"Everything is at home," she said. "Her purse that she used, everything is at home, she's not even taken her coat. Nothing."
Nida is described as a quiet and very shy girl who is addicted to her mobile phone and afraid of the dark.
Her sister added: "If you know anything about Nida, just tell us, just call the police. We just want to know that she's safe."
Gwent Police would neither confirm nor deny reports that the teenager was not wearing any shoes when she disappeared.
A force spokeswoman said: "The search for Nida remains a priority for the force and a team of about 40 officers are continuing to work on the investigation into Nida's disappearance.
"In particular today, searches are continuing mostly in the Spytty area of Newport and officers continue to look through CCTV.
"On Saturday night, officers were in the Pill area, conducting questionnaires and leaflet drops for motorists and residents a week on from her disappearance.
"Officers are also at Nash College today, speaking to any friends and classmates of Nida who haven't already been spoken to."
Police are urging anyone who can assist them with their inquiries to call 101 and quote log number 448 28/12/13.

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The Terriers held one of the league's highest scoring teams to its lowest point total since the Phoenix's loss to Duke earlier this season.
Wofford's defense put the deep freeze on the Southern Conference's hottest team.
North Division-leading Elon entered Thursday on a seven-game winning streak, including a previous victory over the Terriers, having scored the second-most points in the league overall before Wofford applied the clamps in a 60-50 win that snapped a three-game skid.
Elon had been averaging 71 points per game and its weakest previous output had come in a Dec. 20 loss at then-No. 1 Duke by 76-54.
"We're not as good defensively as Duke, let's make that perfectly clear," Wofford coach Mike Young quipped. "But hats off to our guys. They were very responsible with a lot on their plate and they handled it with aplomb. They were responsible, accountable and took care of their teammates when we were in help situations."
Wofford officially held Elon to zero fast-break points (although there was a bucket off a partial transition) and outscored the visitors 21-7 in points off turnovers.
"That's always a critical statistic and we wanted to be perfect with our transition defense," Young said. "That's a big part of their package. They want to score in transition and they're hard to guard. But it goes back to being responsible and playing the game with awareness and being alert and that was reflective of how we defended them."
It was an off-night for the two marquee scorers as Elon's Lucas Troutman (third in the SoCon at 16 per) finished with 10 points and Wofford's Karl Cochran (fourth at 15.4) posted 13 points on only 3 of 11 shooting.
Easley product Spencer Collins led the Terriers with 16 points, Lee Skinner had 10 and point guard Indiana Faithfull scored eight points (all after halftime and more than twice his season average) while grabbing eight rebounds.
"Throughout the game we just played harder and we played hungry," Faithfull said. "Aerris (Smith) and C.J. (Neumann) did a great job on their bigs and we limited their 3-pointers and we also rebounded. We definitely strive on our defense getting stops. I think we all just lifted up each other and played hard and played together."
It was that sense of togetherness that Young credited for his team's stingy defense and also being able to survive a mediocre night from the high-scoring Cochran.
"We've built this program and been able to hang those (championship) banners in this arena from being great teammates and picking up a teammate's slack when he has a tough night or missed assignment," Young said. "We did a good job with that and got some good minutes from guys coming off the bench and now we're looking forward to what lies ahead."
The Terriers trailed 22-21 at the intermission after each team led by a high of only five, and neither side scored more than five consecutive points. At the start of the second half, Collins scored six of his team's 12 points during a 3:08 span with his dunk after corralling a loose ball providing a 33-27 lead with 15:42 left.
Wofford never trailed and the game was never tied over the final 18:50. Faithfull nailed a corner 3-pointer before Cochran's steal and layup pushed the lead to eight. Skinner capped off a 9-2 run with a jumper for a 46-36 advantage and 7:12 remaining. Wofford would go on to lead by as many as 13 while the Phoenix never got closer than seven.
"That's the way the thing needs to play out for us," Young said. "If the game is in the 70s we're going to have a hard time winning. If we can play the thing in the 50s to low 60s, not only will we be right there, we'll have one heck of a shot to win the game."


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I've taken over 1,400 Instagram photos since opening my account; for everyday snapshots, Instagram has become a convenient photo journal of all the things I've done, people I've visited, meals I've eaten, cats and dogs I've pet, and just about everything inbetween. But in the back of my head I've always worried about losing these photographic memories, so I thought it might be a good idea to have them all printed out into book form via a book printing service called Keepsy. The results are pleasing enough I now plan to print one out every 6-12 months (because who knows if Instagram will be around in that time, such is life cycle of social media), and Emily and I will now have the pleasure of revisiting any of our shenanigans even when wi-fi or cell coverage is down with a good ole fashioned book!


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Hard Reset and Factory Reset of Sony Xperia U
Before you try the factory reset or hard reset on your device, make sure that you have backup your important files. Restoring the default settings or factory reset your device will delete all your existing files and will go back to its initial state.
>>> On your Home screen, tap Apps.
>>> Go to Settings, and select Backup & reset.
>>> Tap on Factory data reset.
>>> Then Reset phone.
>>> Confirm by tapping Erase everything. You just need to wait while your phone deleting your files and restoring your settings to default.
Hard Reset:
>>> Turn OFF your phone. Press and hold the Volume Up and Volume Down buttons.
>>> Then press and release the Power button (just keep on holding the volume buttons). There should a menu will appear on your phone. (If it does not work, try to Press and Hold the Power button)
>>> Press the Volume down button to navigate to the Recovery option. Press the Volume Up to select (if that doesn't work, use the Power button to select).
>>> An Android logo will appear. Press the Volume Down and Volume Up button together and a recovery menu should appear. Use the Volume buttons to move to the Wipe data/Factory reset option and then press Power to select.
>>> Use the Volume Down key to choose Yes and press the Power button again to select.
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text: Zach Randolph exited last night's Grizzlies game against the Pelicans after eight minutes, when he got word that his fiancée had gone into labor. Mother and child are healthy after the birth of a 7-pound, 4-ounce son (only 250 pounds or so to go). This is the actual player report that teams have to submit to media anytime a player leaves a game.


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Potters end poor run with Blackburn win
Stoke ended a run of four successive Barclays Premier League defeats in comprehensive fashion with a 3-1 victory against troubled Blackburn.
Goals from Rory Delap, Glenn Whelan and Peter Crouch increased the pressure on Rovers manager Steve Kean, who has now won just six times in 34 league matches, as Ruben Rochina's late consolation had little impact.
Rovers remain mired in the bottom three and this performance highlighted why, despite Kean's insistence that they have not played badly this season.
Blackburn have just one victory this season and have taken only three points from their last eight games.
With form like that it is surprising that owners Venky's sanctioned a new contract, confirmed this week, for the Rovers boss.
Stoke may have lost their last two home games but the other pre-match statistics gave little encouragement to Blackburn and those figures only worsened on a blustery afternoon in the Potteries.
Rovers have now lost the last four meetings, although they finally ended a goal drought against the Potters which had lasted 599 minutes.
Understandably, considering both teams were low on form and confidence, there was little for the crowd to get excited about in the first half, which could be summed up in three incidents.
Two of those involved Blackburn midfielder Steven Nzonzi and his flailing elbows which caught Ryan Shawcross and then Glenn Whelan in the head in separate incidents about three minutes apart.
The ball spent much of the time in the air, which was not a good ploy in the wind swirling around the stadium but did help in the creation of the opening goal.
Stoke's first genuine chance to threaten the Rovers goal came when Nzonzi's foul on Peter Crouch presented Jermaine Pennant with a free-kick from the right.
He produced a perfect delivery and Delap got in front of Gael Givet to divert a glancing header past goalkeeper Paul Robinson and inside the far post.
By contrast, Blackburn's first free-kick in a dangerous area was drilled straight into the wall by Pedersen and even when they did get a shot on target from Scott Dann's header Whelan comfortably cleared off the line under no pressure.
Blackburn should have equalised within a minute of the second half after Ruben Rochina had dribbled his way to the byline and cleverly backheeled to Mauro Formica but the Argentinian completely missed his shot from four yards.
There followed a brief interruption in play due to a number of black bin bags blowing across the pitch which could easily have represented some bizarre, ironic review of the game so far.
When the action resumed Robert Huth was left wondering how he missed the target as he powered a header wide from Matt Etherington's far post cross in the 54th minute.
But fortunately for Stoke they did not have long to rue that error as four minutes later Etherington picked out Jon Walters in the penalty area and he laid the ball off for Whelan, with the aid of a deflection from Dann, to drive home from 25 yards for his first goal since February 2010.
The match was wrapped up in the 72nd minute when Crouch clinically converted Marc Wilson's long ball into the Rovers penalty area with a left-footed shot.
Walters then fired wide from the other side of the penalty area as Stoke threatened to run amok.
When Rovers finally threatened it was too little to late as Rochina fired home from distance in the 86th minute after Hoilett had cut in from the left and Nzonzi had delivered the final pass for the Spaniard.
The final whistle brought relief for Stoke but more grief for Kean and his Blackburn team.


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HappyChick wrote:Ya know, it's not that I don't love and adore my own dogs, but I'm SO freaking jealous when I see your boys!!! I swear they must be the happiest, cutest, most adorabull dogs EVER!! I see pure joy in their faces. I really love how Luka has so quickly come to be one of the happy bunch!! Christine, you are truly amazin'!!
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SYCAMORE – Ozzie Guillen is capable of teaching Kane County Phantoms baseball players expert nuances about the game, but his famously colorful approach to the English language doesn't make much of an impression.
"We're all like 16, 17, 18 year olds, so it's nothing we've never heard before," said Mike Lee, a Burlington Central senior from rural St. Charles. "So he can kind of be himself out here. He keeps it professional, though."
This summer has provided equal parts baseball development and entertainment value for the Phantoms 17U travel team, which is coached by Oney Guillen, Ozzie's son, with plenty of help from other members of the Guillen clan, including the former White Sox and Marlins manager.
Ozzie Guillen has been a semi-regular guest in the Phantoms' dugout during the summer, including Saturday, as the Phantoms won a pair of games in their season-capping tournament in Sycamore.
"I'm a family man," Ozzie Guillen said. "I love to be around my kids. You have an opportunity to help these kids get better and play the game, have some fun, and I don't mind. I love it. I have a great time."
After managing the Sox to the 2005 World Series championship, chirping encouragement to the Kane County Phantoms on a July afternoon in Sycamore would seem like quite the come-down, but Ozzie Guillen said seeing baseball at the grass-roots level reinforces the purity of the game.
"I think the parents sacrifice more than the kids," said Ozzie Guillen, now 49 years old and sporting a graying beard. "The parents should be barbecuing right now, having fun someplace, but they bring the kids here to play baseball, and we appreciate that. As a baseball fan and a baseball fanatic, we appreciate that when you see a parent try and spend time with their kids in baseball."
Oney Guillen, 27, is in his first summer coaching the Phantoms, having accepted an offer from the White Sox-loving Colombe family – Ernie and his son, Steve – to break into the coaching ranks with the Phantoms. Oney Guillen has been around major league baseball most of his life through his dad, but said he missed the sport after transitioning to the insurance business the past couple years.
"The first question I asked was is if the guys are serious about baseball," Oney Guillen said. "They said they were serious and they got some talent, so I jumped right into it."
Oney Guillen's brothers, Ozzie Jr., and to a lesser extent Ozney, also have been around the Phantoms this summer, along with assistant coach Jon Basinski.
The Phantoms seldom have time for practice, so Oney Guillen said he's had to "teach on the fly" at their weekend tournaments. He considers himself a laid-back coach.
"Baseball's supposed to be fun – just don't disrespect the game, run the bases hard and be coachable," said Oney Guillen, who joked that he appreciates his dad popping for gas when they drive west together from the city. "It's easier to coach kids when they're willing to learn. Nobody has an attitude or anything like that, so that's the best. It's easier to coach kids than it is guys who make millions of dollars."
Oney Guillen made waves during his father's tenure in Chicago for his outspoken commentary about Sox matters via Twitter, with many fans and media members opining that Oney overstepped his bounds.
Ozzie Guillen said he didn't lecture Oney to keep a lower profile.
"If Oney was 10 years old, then I'd say something, but he was 25, 28 – he's a baseball fan," Ozzie Guillen said. "I think he's a baseball fan, and I think everybody has their own opinion about stuff. I think the tweeting thing, I think people overreact, I think the media overreacted a little bit."
During much of Saturday's game against Force Elite, Ozzie Guillen sat on a bucket just outside the Phantoms' dugout, taking breaks from scrolling through his cellphone to offer occasional words of encouragement. He joined Phantoms players and coaches in enthusiastically saluting catcher Logan Haring for a nimble, against-the-backstop stab of a foul popup to end the game.
Haring's father, Klent, said he's long been a big Ozzie Guillen fan. Referring to Guillen's uptempo diction and pronounced accent, Haring said he loved "trying to listen to him" talk during his days with the Sox. Haring, of DeKalb, said the players have been thrilled to have such extraordinary access to a former major league player and manager.
"Ozzie's come early and he's thrown batting practice to the boys, he's pulled some off to the side and instructed them a little bit on their hitting and fielding," Klent Haring said. "The boys, they dig it."
Lee, also a Sox fan, certainly does, and thinks the feeling might be mutual.
"I think he does like helping out the local kids," Lee said. "I'm not saying any of us are going to reach the minors or anything like that but I think he likes seeing young players. I mean, he watched his sons grow up, and he obviously helped his sons with baseball. So there's got to be somewhere deep down that he enjoys it. I mean, he's a dad."
Ozzie Guillen left a souring relationship with the Sox to manage the Marlins in 2012, but he was fired after one turbulent season in Miami.
These days, he works a couple days a week as an analyst for ESPN Deportes and on other ESPN studio shows, such as "Baseball Tonight" and "First Take." He keeps close tabs on Major League Baseball given his role with ESPN, and said he still pulls for the Sox, citing his relationship with current manager Robin Ventura.
"I wish they'd be playing better for him," Ozzie Guillen said.
On balance, though, he has plenty of newfound free time on his hands, as evidenced by his involvement with the Phantoms, who have five Kaneland players on their roster.
"A lot of people said, well, when you don't have baseball anymore, you might die – no, I'm having fun," Ozzie Guillen said. "I have plenty of time with my family, I go to Venezuela a lot, travel a lot. It's been great so far."
Oney Guillen feels similarly about the dawn of his coaching career. He said he'll play any future in baseball by ear, but considers his debut with the Phantoms to have been worthwhile.
"I said [at the start of the summer] I know a lot about baseball but I'm learning as well, so let's all learn together and hopefully make this a good summer," Oney Guillen said. "It's crazy how fast it's gone by."


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Cher on Christina Aguilera: "She Was Not Very Trusting of Me"
In last night's Nightline interview, Cher discussed her Burlesque co-star, what it's like to work with younger girls and why she envies Meryl Streep. As with every interview with the icon, Cher provides us with some amazing sound bites.
Cher also talked about the pain of being considered a "joke" at various points in her career.
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Of course, every interviewer wants to know how Cher feels about her son's gender reassignment surgery. Although Cher embraces Chaz and his decision, she still seems to struggle with which pronouns to use.
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Okay, yes, Burlesque looks like it will be a disaster, but we're still going to see it just for this scene. No one can do a power ballad like Cher!
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Stick with what works could be the unofficial theme of the NoBo Art District.
Three years ago the North Boulder organization altered its format for its First Friday in February, and everyone seemed to like it.
So, artists of the NoBo Art District will gather together again from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, at the First Congregational Church Faith Center in downtown Boulder for the third annual NoBo Art District Artists Reception.
It's the kickoff event for the third NoBo Art District Group Show, which will run through Feb. 26 at the Faith Center.
The Group Show varies from NoBo's typical monthly First Friday event, where a handful of artists open their individual studios for the evening for art enthusiasts to view and purchase artwork straight from the source.
Instead, February will be a group effort in which 43 artists are expected to show their work, more than doubling the amount of artists who were at the 2012 event.
All the credit for the increased participation goes to the dedicated core of artists involved, said Diane Stum Fekete, organizer of the NoBo Art District Group Show.
"By coming together and staying focused on the fact that what we're trying to do is to provide opportunity to sell our work, to show our work -- it keeps things pretty simple," she said.
The Group Show will feature a variety of work, including paintings, ceramics, photography, fiber art, handmade jewelry and floral design.
Friday's reception will include the popular NoBo First Friday "Paint About," a hands-on, instructional workshop hosted by various NoBo artists who will help with a special Valentine's Day theme.
For $5, "Paint About" participants can create Valentine's cards under the guidance of professional artists. All materials needed to create a thoughtful gift for your sweetheart will be provided, and event organizers will hand-deliver the cards to the city of Loveland for a stamp from the Sweetheart City itself.
Friday's event also will include light snacks and music by the Jeremy Mohney Quartet.
Stum Fekete is sold on NoBo's combined effort.
"It's a great opportunity to see a wide variety of artwork, all in one location, a great opportunity to support local artists and local musicians, and it's a chance to make a great Valentine's Day card for your sweetheart," she said.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 13th Nov 2009 17:01 UTC
TechCrunch's Michael Arrington is claiming Google's Chrome OS will debut next week - but his story does have an odd ring to it. He goes on and on about how driver support will be shoddy, but that makes no sense - isn't Chome OS supposed to be built on Linux? The only way I can see initial driver support to be shoddy is when Chrome OS has its own, custom graphical layer, instead of using X. However, were that to be the case, I'm sure Google would at least support some NVIDIA, ATI, and Intel chipsets. In any case, it's a rumour - do with it as you please.
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To the Times of Ti:
Excellent editorial regarding the new gun laws that were rammed through. The governor is first and foremost a politician with his sights on the White House (as if the current president isn't liberal enough).
These laws are nothing more than a publicity stunt and will not accomplish the stated goal of reducing gun violence. After all, DWI, rape, theft, etc. are all illegal and that doesn't seem to matter to those intent on breaking the law. Kudos to Dan Stec and Betty Little for voting against this.
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Oh, it's way past hip to quote from Napoleon Dynamite?
It's not even far gone enough to be hip again?
Well, let's continue enjoying vegan quesadillas, forget that reference, and commence talking about how much we love Tina Marjorino as Mac.
This is my first entry into the grand Teese Challenge. It had to be a soft, simple one because I've recently been attacked by new allergies and the worst sore throat of my life. My ultimate goal is for individual chick'n style seitan parm sticks with teese mozzarella – modeled after this post on my old site.
Whole Wheat Quesdilla with Teese Nacho Sauce, Black Bean & Roasted Red Pepper Spread, and Avocado.
I was pretty fascinated by the mildly spiced, calmly orange, Nacho Sauce. It was my first time using it. It comes out of its tube like squishy cheese curds and did that crazy teese-liquid-melt-congealing into the quesadilla. That is so cool! I know that may sound gross, but I'm a fan. Dang.
The Black Bean spread is based on this hummus recipe from Cooking Light. I swapped a whole roasted red pepper, dash of hot smoked paprika, and a couple tablespoons of water for the mere tablespoon for tahini, because I could. I bought the paprika from the new Spice & Tea Exchange location in downtown Portland – I'm mesmerized by this type of shopping on my lunch hour!
Teese ranks high with my favorite vegan cheeses. I was stoked to participate (and receive complimentary teese!) for this project! Can I make Nacho Libre nachos next?


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Crews get area ready for Bikes, Blues & BBQ
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. —
The countdown is on for Bikes, Blues and Barbecue.
The annual event starts Wednesday night.
Events are scheduled not only on Dickson Street but Baum Stadium at the University of Arkansas, the Washington County fairgrounds, Northwest Arkansas Mall, and the Fayetteville Executive Airport--which will host one of the new events this year, with the B-29 flyovers.
The Bikes, Blues and Barbecue team has been very busy this week putting the finishing touches on next week's events.
They've worked long days clearing their warehouse to get things set up.
Those preparations will continue well into the weekend and during the week.
Most hotels are already booked.
And crews expect a lot of congestion on area roads because of the crowds.


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Seduced by the sway of it's fragrant, frangipani-scented shores, our latest Griswold family holiday initially clung to the coastline.
While hubba hubby windsurfed, the rest of us explored the north shore and Honolua Bay, snorkling with turtles, and discovering hidden pockets of rainforest, reminiscent of the Navi forests of Pandora.
It was days before we ventured upcountry to East Maui's massive shield volcano.
In less than two hours, we drove from sea level to an altitude of 10,000 feet, to stand breathless on the lip of the volcano.
No writer's hyperbole here – climbing to the summit literally took our breath away.
We were higher than the clouds, higher than non-pressurised aircraft are permitted to fly (in the US, cabin altitude of airliners can climb no higher than 8,000 feet).
At 10,000 feet, human beings can experience the early signs of hypoxia, with lightheadedness, dizziness, reduced vision, and euphoria.
That might explain our exhilaration when we stood on the summit that the ancient Hawaiians called Haleakala, the house of the sun, where the demi-God Maui snared the sun and forced it to slow its journey across the skies.
In our excitement we ran down the sliding sands trail into the cinder cone of the dormant volcano, not realising that fifteen minutes down meant two or three times as long, trudging back up, huffing and puffing like emphysemic geriatrics.
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@bornagainpenguin: Moron.
GASP! He called me a moron..... BAAAAAAWWWWW
ooooohhhhh now he's laughing at meeeeeeee
*snort* hahahahahahahahah *snort*
Thanks distantvoices, it's nice to see at least one person aroun here gets it. What I still find hilarious is they still felt the need to mod me down despite the way I was careful to only say positive things about the topic. Feh...
But really what are we supposed to do every SkyOS release--every month I mean--when all we get is a screenshot and a change list? That's all my comment was intended to point out. And all this nonsense about the live cd is just that---nonsense! They've been saying the live cd will be ready Real Soon Now for how long now?
It gets to be a bit old seeing this kind of thing here all the time. Don't they have their own forums to discuss minute changes like this? It's not our fault their forums are dead from people getting tired of waiting...


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Some guy states, " I was pretty skeptical at first - it's my nature."
I felt the same way when I saw the book at B&N a whooping $50 bucks. 869 pages, I got studied it and now re-reading it now. It's well worth it, it was simple even for a newbie like me to FBSD. Which I liked, if your new to fbsd or even well versed with it . Still think it's worth having a copy of this one. FBSD Reference


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Interesting indulgence in a bit of ugly nastiness from you. But interestingly enough, you make my point:yuttadhammo wrote: Armchair Buddhism strikes again... try visiting a Buddhist country, eh?
- MMU in Bangkok sells the entire Tipitaka and commentaries (91 volumes) at cost with no copyright (more expensive to photocopy). MCU gives away DOC files of their version. learntipitaka.org has it all in zip format anyway for easy download. My teacher's monastery along gives away thousands of books on his birthday, hundreds on an ordinary day. The nissaya word-by-word-with-excrutiating-attention-to-detail Thai translation is available at cost, the Visuddhimagga Thai translation is available by donation, and that's just getting started in Thailand. Every large monastery that I've been to in Thailand has books either for free distribution or by donation, all sans-copyright. I would put the number of hard-copy books distributed at cost or less per day in Thailand alone at at least half a million - I obviously can't guess at the numbers on digital versions.


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'No bandage dress' for Winkleman
Claudia Winkleman says she prefers to be "hidden, physically" even though she is set to co-host the new series of Strictly Come Dancing
The presenter, who will join Tess Daly on the prime time Saturday night dancing show, also described her trademark fringe as her "poncho".
Speaking to the Sunday Times Style magazine, Winkleman said she will never be seen in a bright figure-hugging outfit.
Claudia Winkleman is co-hosting Strictly Come Dancing with Tess Daly
"I prefer to be hidden, physically. Let's just say you're never going to find me in an Herve Leger sky-blue bandage dress, a high pony and heels.
"You might find me slouched in the corner in a poncho. That's what my fringe is: a poncho," she said.
Asked why she works in television, Winkleman said she is a "mass of contradictions".
The presenter was full of praise for Daly, describing her as "adorable".
Adding: "We get on brilliantly and look after each other. She's got the best body you've ever seen in your life."
The new series will be the first without veteran host Sir Bruce Forsyth.
It returns to BBC1 for its 12th series next Sunday at 8pm.
Daly has co-hosted the show with Sir Bruce, 86, since it began in 2004 and was joined by Winkleman in 2011 to present the Sunday night results shows.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Current and former University of Tennessee football players were named in reports regarding underage drinking at a weekend party, police said.
Current players Daniel Sola, Dontavius Blair, Dimarya Mixon, Justin Coleman, Malik Brown and former player Isaac Mobley were all cited by the Knox County, Tenn., Sheriff's Office for underage drinking Sunday, as well as several others not on the team.
Football player Danny O'Brien was charged with criminal impersonation, resisting arrest and underage consumption. Player A.J. Johnson, 21, and former player Dontavius Sapp, 22, were charged with resisting arrest and alcoholic beverage purchase violations, WBIR-TV, Knoxville, reported Monday.
The arrests came after police were called out twice to a party involving 80 to 90 guests at a South Knox County apartment complex. Their second visit came after reports a fight had broken out, the sheriff's office said.
A police report said marijuana residue was also found in a pipe in a bedroom apartment but no drug arrests have been made.


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The Judds - OVER 1.7 MILLION VIEWERS TUNE IN TO WATCH THE JUDDS ON OWN
Series Continues This Sunday at 10pm EST
Friday, April 15th, 2011 – The Judds highly anticipated original docu-series debuted this past Sunday with over 1.7 million total viewers tuning in to watch the special two-hour premiere featuring the mother-daughter duo preparing for their first tour together in 10 years. Outside of launch week, The Judds was the highest rated premiere on the new Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) as well as the number one social media trend for cable during the episode. Hundreds of viewers logged on to participate in a live, online chat during the two-hour premiere.
The country legends held nothing back during the 2-hour premiere, offering viewers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of both their personal and professional lives. Whether it was disagreements over stage props and costumes or extremely intimate conversations with their life coach, Ted Klontz, fans and viewers were witness to it all. The audience got the opportunity to witness the elements that make up the complex relationship between Naomi and Wynonna as well as the excitement and emotion that comes along with putting together a nationwide farewell tour. In case you missed it, a full episode of The Judds can now be viewed at http://www.oprah.com/own-judds/The-Judds-Naomis-Secret-FULL-EPISODE.
Tune in this week as Naomi struggles with memories of her childhood abuse and deals with the decision on whether or not to reveal her painful secret to those closest to her. Meanwhile, Wynonna's relationship with Cactus deepens as he joins her on the tour and supports her when she grows concerned that her mother is hiding something important from her. The Judds episode 3 will air this Sunday, April 17 at 10pm ET/PT on OWN.
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The Wii was a massive gamble. Sony and Microsoft were busy trying to one-up themselves by producing ever more powerful hardware, without really trying to do something truly innovative in the game console space. Nintendo, on the other hand, tried something completely new, and designed its Wii console entirely around motion control.
This paid off big time for the Japanese company. The Wii was able to tap into a resource neither Sony nor Microsoft could tap into: the casual gamer. The Wii became a massive hit among the casual gamer crowd, who ate the thing up like cake with strawberries and whipped cream.
It also had a darker side effect, an effect which did not reflect itself in Nintendo's stellar sales figures and financial results: Nintendo started to snub its hardcore fans. As soon as Nintendo realised it could earn a lot more money by focussing its efforts on the casual crowd, its hardcore fans were in trouble.
I used to be a hardcore Nintendo fan, just like one of my best friends. We were both very excited when the Wii was first announced, but I was already a bit sceptical when I heard all the specifications. Standing up all the time? Flailing your arms around like a lunatic? Is this something I want to do when I play games - an activity which I perform to unwind?
We were both disappointed by the Wii, and as hardcore Nintendo fans, this was a weird sensation. On the 'net, I heard more and more hardcore Nintendo fans airing similar concerns. While the Wii is a very nice piece of hardware, it just doesn't appeal to a lot of hardcore Nintendo fans. This feeling was only made worse by the fact that the motion control system just doesn't work very well. It's inaccurate, it doesn't register your motions very well.
As Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw said many times, the Wii appeals to casual gamers and the gimmick crowd. However, they are like magpies - they will stick with the Wii until the next shiny object comes along. It's a dangerous affair to rely on those types of gamers, instead of the hardcore ones, which will buy whatever you put out as long as it doesn't kill bunnies. Yahtzee already wondered - what will happen when the novelty wears off? When people realise they play games to unwind, not to act like an "air traffic controller covered in beetles"?
Well, we now know what happens when the novelty wears off: Nintendo's profits and sales plummet. The company's profits in the first six months of 2009 dropped 52% compared to the same period in 2008 - from USD 1.59 billion to USD 709.3 million. In the US, the PlayStation 3 outsold the Wii for the first time last month, and the DS, too, is starting to see slower sales (it's still the best selling console in the US, but only by 32400 units).
Nintendo sold 5.75 million Wii units worldwide during the first six months of 2009, compared to more than 10 million units in the same period in 2008. That is a massive worldwide drop in sales, which certainly cannot be attributed solely to Sony's price cuts.
There are a few possible bright spots in Nintendo's future, though; the Wii has seen a price cut too recently, and is now stuck at the magical price point of 200 USD. This could increase sales, but history does not suggest a price cut will always lead to sales increase, nor does it say anything about the sustainability of such a possible sales increase. Another bright spot is the upcoming release of New Super Mario Bros. Wii - analysts suspect it will be the best selling game of the holiday season.
Then again, Sony and Microsoft have some decent games coming in or already released too - Left 4 Dead 2, Mass Effect 2, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Bioshock 2, Dragon Age: Origins, and so on.
Still, Nintendo won't reach the highs of the past few years any more. Let's not forget that despite these financial results, the company is still doing very, very well - just not amazingly out-of-this-world stellar any more.


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Chelsea's strikers are yet to score in the Barclays Premier League this term - Fernando Torres is the only one to find the net this season, notching twice, while Samuel Eto'o and Demba Ba are still to find the target - as Lukaku has bagged four for the Toffees.
Lukaku last week insisted in a British newspaper he approached Mourinho about leaving Stamford Bridge temporarily, while the Portuguese said playing well for Everton and Chelsea was a different matter.
Now Lukaku, who signed from Anderlecht in August 2011 and spent last term on loan at West Brom, has suggested Mourinho should have told him to stay at Chelsea.
The 20-year-old told Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad: "The coach decides and as a player you have to respect that.
"I chose to leave and it's up to me to prove the coach wrong.
"The only thing I can do is play well and score a lot. And then I think people will say that I'm a good player.
"I want to score more goals than the strikers of Chelsea.
"We will see at the end of the season who made the best choice."
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Karmazin to Leave Sirius XM
Mel Karmazin resigned as chief executive of Sirius XM Radio, throwing in the towel after an extended battle with John Malone's Liberty Media over control of the satellite-radio broadcaster. John Jannarone reports on Markets Hub. Photo: AP.
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text: Latest Staff Picks Wild boars attack ISIS base in Iraq, killing three jihadists Now if only the US military would start fighting ISIS then we might make some progress. Published 2 years ago on April 25, 2017 By Alex Christoforou 5,546 Views Share Tweet Wild boars are joining the fight against ISIS, and doing a good job killing the US-Saudi backed jihadists. Somewhere in America John McCain is pissed off to see wild boars defeat his ISIS army. Reports are coming in that wild boars attacked an ISIS base in the al-Rashad region of Kirkuk late Sunday. According to IraqiNews, three members of ISIS were left dead by the boar attack. This strange SITREP from IraqiNews… The clash occurred because the animals had encroached on the terrorists' farmland. Alsumaria News quoted a source as saying that "Daesh militants took revenge on the pigs that attacked the farmland," but did not provide details. Daesh captured areas of Kirkuk Governorate after invading the country in 2014 and has executed civilians over what it considers disobedience (such as collaboration with the country's legitimate authorities and attempts to flee). The Iraqi government is expected to launch a campaign against Daesh in the region after it completes the operation to retake Mosul, the terrorists' stronghold in the country, which kicked off in October. The Kirkuk Boars now lead the ISIS Daesh 3-0 – https://t.co/SIHaqh0svR pic.twitter.com/aEbcFcJDub — Small Wars Journal (@smallwars) April 25, 2017 Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Related Topics:SyriaISISIraq Up Next Ivanka Trump goes full globalist. 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Published 22 hours ago on December 9, 2018 By Tyler Durden Via Zerohedge… Canada's extraordinary arrest one week ago of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei founder and billionaire executive Ren Zhengfei, and its decision to charge her with "multiple" counts of fraud – a preamble to her likely extradition to the US to face charges of knowingly violating US and EU sanctions on Iran – has elicited widespread anger in Beijing, which declared Meng's detention a "violation of human rights" during a bail hearing for the jailed executive on Friday. That anger has apparently only intensified after the hearing adjourned without a decision (it will resume on Monday, allowing Meng's defense team to argue for why she should be released on bail, contrary to the wishes of government attorneys who are prosecuting the case). And with Canada insisting that it will prosecute Meng to the full extent of the law over allegations that she mislead banks about the true relationship of a Huawei subsidiary called Skycom, angry Chinese officials have decided to issue an ultimatum directly to the Canadian ambassador, who was summoned to a meeting in Beijing on Saturday and told in no uncertain terms that Canada will face "severe consequences" if Meng isn't released, according to the Wall Street Journal. China's foreign ministry publicized the warning in a statement (though Canadian officials have yet to comment): Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng summoned Canada's ambassador to Beijing, John McCallum, on Saturday to deliver the warning, according to a statement from the Chinese Foreign Ministry. The statement doesn't mention the name of Huawei's chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, though it refers to a Huawei "principal" taken into custody at U.S. request while changing planes in Vancouver, as was Ms. Meng. The statement accuses Canada of "severely violating the legal, legitimate rights of a Chinese citizen" and demands the person's release. "Otherwise there will be severe consequences, and Canada must bear the full responsibility," said the statement, which was posted online late Saturday. Phone calls to the Canadian Embassy rang unanswered while the Canadian government's global affairs media office didn't immediately respond to an email request for comment. The warning marks an escalation in Beijing's rhetoric as investors worry that the arrest could cause the shaky trade detente between the US and China to devolve into acrimony. A federal judge issued a warrant for Meng's arrest back in August. Though after she was made aware of the warrant, Meng avoided travel to the US. She was arrested in Vancouver last Saturday while traveling to Mexico. Aside from breaking off trade talks, some are worried that Beijing could seek to retaliate in kind by arresting a notable US executive. While the threats of Chinese bureaucrats might not amount to much in the eyes of US prosecutors, threatening a US executive with long-term detention in a Chinese "reeducation camp" just might. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest The trials of Julian Assange Eresh Omar Jamal interviews Italian journalist Stefania Maurizi in relation to the situation of Julian Assange. Published 22 hours ago on December 9, 2018 By The Duran Authored by Eresh Omar Jamal for The Daily Star (Bangladesh): Stefania Maurizi is an investigative journalist working for the Italian daily La Repubblica. She has worked on all WikiLeaks releases of secret documents and partnered with Glenn Greenwald to reveal the Snowden Files about Italy. She has authored two books—Dossier WikiLeaks: Segreti Italiani and Una Bomba, Dieci Storie. In an exclusive interview with Eresh Omar Jamal of The Daily Star, Maurizi talks about the continued arbitrary detention of Julian Assange, why powerful governments see WikiLeaks as an existential threat, and the implications for global press freedom if Assange is prosecuted for publishing secret government documents. You recently had the chance to visit Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. When was this and can you describe the state he is in? I was able to visit him on November 19, after 8 months of failed attempts, because last March the Ecuadorian authorities cut off all his social and professional contacts, with the exception of his lawyers, and in the preceding 8 months, I had asked for permission to visit him nine times without success—the Ecuadorian authorities didn't reply at all to my requests. When I was finally granted permission to visit the WikiLeaks founder at the Ecuadorian embassy in London last November, I was literally shocked to see the huge impact his isolation has had on his health. Because I have worked as a media partner with him and his organisation, WikiLeaks, for the last nine years, I have met him many times and can tell when there are any changes in his body and mind. I wondered how his mind could keep working; but after talking to him in the embassy for two hours, I have no doubt that his mind is working fine. I still wonder how that's possible after six and a half years of detention without even one hour of being outdoors. I would have had a physical and mental breakdown after just 6 months, not after 6 years. Detention and isolation are killing him slowly, and no one is doing anything to stop it. The media reports, the commentators comment, but at the end of the day, he is still there; having spent the last six and a half years confined to a tiny building with no access to sunlight or to proper medical treatment. And this is happening in London, in the heart of Europe. He is not sitting in an embassy in Pyongyang. It is truly tragic and completely unacceptable. And I'm simply appalled at the way the UK authorities have contributed to his arbitrary detention, and have opposed any solution to this intractable legal and diplomatic quagmire. Having bravely defended Assange for years, the Ecuadorian government in late March cut off almost all his communications with the outside world. What prompted this turnabout and what is its purpose? Politics has completely changed in Ecuador, and more in general, in Latin America, since 2012, when Ecuador granted Julian Assange asylum. I have never had any interviews with the current Ecuadorian President, Mr Lenin Moreno, but based on his public declarations, it's rather obvious to me that he does not approve of what Julian Assange and WikiLeaks do. With all his problems, Rafael Correa (former president of Ecuador) protected Assange from the very beginning, whereas Lenin Moreno considers him a liability. Moreno is under pressure from the right-wing politicians in Ecuador, and also from very powerful governments, like the US and UK governments, who will leave no stones unturned to jail Assange and destroy WikiLeaks. I am not sure how long Lenin Moreno will hold out against this immense pressure, provided that he wants to hold out at all. Assange was vindicated not so long ago as to why he cannot leave the embassy when the US Department of Justice "accidentally" revealed in November that the founder of WikiLeaks had been secretly charged in the US. What do you think those charges are for? It's hard to say unless the charges get declassified and I really appreciate how the US organisation, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, is fighting before the court in the Eastern District of Virginia, US, to have the charges declassified. There is no doubt whatsoever that the US authorities have always wanted to charge him for WikiLeaks' publications. They have wanted to do so from the very beginning, since 2010, when WikiLeaks released its bombshell publications like the US diplomatic cables. But the US authorities have been unable to do so due to the fact that WikiLeaks' publication activities enjoy constitutional protection thanks to the First Amendment. So it will be very interesting to see how they will get around this constitutional protection in order to be able to charge him and other WikiLeaks journalists and put them all in jail. Why have some of the most powerful governments and intelligence agencies invested so much resources to attack Assange and WikiLeaks? You have to realise what it meant for the US national security complex to witness the publication of 76,000 secret documents about the war in Afghanistan, and then another 390,000 secret reports about the war in Iraq; followed by 251,287 US diplomatic cables and 779 secret files on the Guantanamo detainees; and to watch WikiLeaks save Edward Snowden, while the US was trying everything it could do, to show the world that there is no way of exposing the NSA's secrets and keep your head attached to your neck having done so. You have to realise what this means in an environment like that of the US, where even the most brilliant national security reporters didn't dare to publish the name of the head of the CIA Counterterrorism Center, Michael D'Andrea, even though his name and the abuses committed by his centre were open secrets within their inner circles. Although the New York Times finally did, later on. But this was and still is the reality in the US, and even though it may not be as bad in the UK, it's still quite bad. Look at what happened with the arrest of Glenn Greenwald's husband, David Miranda, at the Heathrow Airport during the publication of the Snowden Files. Look at what happened with The Guardian being forced to destroy its hard drives during the publication of those files. There are different levels of power in our societies and generally in our western democracies, criticism against the low, medium and high levels of power via journalistic activities is tolerated. Journalists may get hit with libel cases, have troubles with their careers; however, exposing those levels is permitted. The problem is when journalists and media organisations touch the highest levels, the levels where states and intelligence agencies operate. WikiLeaks is a media organisation that has published secret documents about these entities for years, and Julian Assange and his staff have done this consistently, not occasionally like all the other media organisations do. You can imagine the anger these powerful entities have towards WikiLeaks—they perceive WikiLeaks as an existential threat and they want to set an example that says, "Don't you dare expose our secrets and crimes, because if you do, we will smash you." If Assange is prosecuted, what impact might it have on other publishers and journalists and on press freedom globally? It will have a huge impact and that is why organisations like the American Civil Liberties Union are speaking out. Never before in the US has an editor and media organisation ended up in jail for publishing information in the public interest. If Julian Assange and the WikiLeaks' staff end up in jail, it will be the first time in US history and will set a devastating precedent for attack on press freedom in the US, but actually, not only in the US. Because if a country like the US, in which the activities of the press enjoy constitutional protection, treats journalists this way, you can imagine how other countries where the press doesn't enjoy such strong protection will react. It will send a clear message to them: "Your hands are free." At the end of the day, I think there are two sides to this Assange and WikiLeaks saga: the US-UK national security complex, but more in general, I would say, the people within the national security complex, who want to destroy Julian Assange and WikiLeaks to send a clear message to journalists: "Don't mess with us if you don't want your lives to be destroyed." While on the other side, there are the freedom of the press guys, meaning journalists like me, who want to demonstrate the exact opposite: that we can expose power at the highest levels, we can expose the darkest corners of governments and come out alive and well. And actually, we must do this, because real power is invisible and hides in the darkest corners. Eresh Omar Jamal is a journalist for The Daily Star (Bangladesh). You can find him on Twitter: @EreshOmarJamal and Stefania Maurizi: @SMaurizi Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Diplomacy a Waste of Time with Washington Trump's JCPOA pullout and threatened INF Treaty withdrawal show Washington can never be trusted. Published 22 hours ago on December 9, 2018 By The Duran Authored by Stephen Lendman: The US is a serial lawbreaker, operating by its own rules, no others. Time and again, it flagrantly breaches international treaties, Security Council resolutions, and other rule of law principles, including its own Constitution. Diplomacy with Republicans and undemocratic Dems is an exercise in futility. Trump's JCPOA pullout and threatened INF Treaty withdrawal show Washington can never be trusted. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova's proposed US outreach to discuss INF Treaty bilateral differences is well intended – despite knowing nothing is accomplished when talks with Washington are held, so why bother. It's just a matter of time before the US breaches another promise. They're hollow when made. Kremlin good intentions aren't enough to overcome US duplicity and implacable hostility toward Russia. "We are ready to continue the dialogue in appropriate formats on the entire range of problems related to this document on the basis of professionalism and mutual respect, without putting forward unsubstantiated accusations and ultimatums. 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Ar year .Sm on .Ek .Oc .Op Fl W Ar num .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm utility checks the current directory for a file named .Pa calendar and displays lines that begin with either today's date or tomorrow's. On the day before a weekend (normally Friday), events for the next three days are displayed. .Pp The following options are available: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Fl A Ar num Print lines from today and the next .Ar num days (forward, future). .It Fl a Process the ``calendar'' files of all users and mail the results to them. This requires super-user privileges. .It Fl B Ar num Print lines from today and the previous .Ar num days (backward, past). .It Fl F Ar friday Specify which day of the week is ``Friday'' (the day before the weekend begins). Default is 5. .It Fl f Pa calendarfile Use .Pa calendarfile as the default calendar file. .It Xo Fl t .Sm off .Ar dd .Op . Ar mm Op . 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A Phantasy How To Insert Doubt Into Christians' Brains
There have been many threads already about how to support people to revert from religious belief towards atheism. As I have no personal mission to do this, I am usually not contributing. But today I had an idea, that triggered my phantasy. While reasoning usually fails on christian brains, maybe some form of manipulation could work better.
The Asch experiment gave me an idea, how it could be used to serve a good purpose.
Asch's conformity experiments have shown, that people change their opinion to the one of the majority, even when the majority's judgment is obviously and drasticlly so wrong, that the same mistake is not made, when alone. It appears logical to assume, that this should work even better, when the majority is right and convincing. Christians are gullible, else they would not be Christians. Therefore they can probably also easily be lured towards conformity. While they resist rationality, they may be gullible to atheism.
For the set-up to create conformity towards reason, at least three atheists are needed, more are better, but it only works on one christian target at a time. Needed also is a relaxed atmosphere, over a coffee or a glass of wine. The christian target has to be kept ignorant, that this is a set-up and that he is the only christian. The atheists are presented as sharing some hobby or interest with the target. If they are role models in this, even better. This enhances his motivation to belong to them.
The conversation has to be led to the topic of the irrationality of christianity in a way, that seems natural and accidential to the target, in a simple, friendly and rational way.
The atheists start to joke about incomprehensible, puzzling and weird beliefs, first only those of other religions, slowly bringing in also all good atheist arguments against christianity.
The psychological trick here is to make the christian feel as an insufficient outsider between a happy crowd of persons, who share something that makes them feel good. He wants to belong, but cannot due to lacking something, that the others share and that seems to be important to them. The christian starts to wonder, how he can make himself to belong to the group. If his wish to conform and belong is strong enough, he at least listens to their opinions with some interest. Instead of feeling the need to defend his belief in an outright confrontation, in which usually one atheist wastes his good reasons on a bunch of closed minded christians, the target christian is lured to compare the benefits of his beliefs with the benefits of conforming and belonging.
I am wondering, if ever anybody has attempted to reach christian brains by such methods.
I am also wondering, if anybody of those, who have left christianity behind, did this motivated by the benefits of conforming to role models of any kind, who were also atheists?
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for sure - it would work - just depends how vulnerable, intelligent and time you have.
Yes, I think this would work but is it really worth the effort? I know that there are a lot of Christians that go to church but don't believe everything they hear there. But they go for other reasons. It might be good for their business or it helps their standing in the community for other reasons. Also, their church is a very satisfying social club. That's what we are really fighting sometimes. They do not want to give up the friends and activities of their social club, regardless of what their beliefs are suppose to be. It's usually easy to sit in the pew and pretend. I use to do it sometimes just to keep my parents happy.
And isn't that why we are now all gathering around the web sites for Atheists? We need a social club too, a place for all of us like minded atheists to congregate and have dialog and fun with other atheists.
I think you'd make an effort for close friends and family... or just a convenient opportunity with someone you knew.
Some Christians are like dogs that roll around in cow manure. They know it's all shit, but they just like to immerse themselves in it anyway.
Maruli Marulaki,
Excellent thought! The thought process is not nearly as attractive to many people as is belief, but conformity with majority group thought is powerful. If this target Christian is actively supported, belonging to a congregation and comes from a Christian family, one dose of spoon-fed reality will not do it. He must be made to have a passion to want to belong to this particular rational group, the hooks involved might not be all that apparent. This individual might feel utterly brilliant in the context of his congregation, just from memorizing scripture and babbling it on cue. It is worth a try however, though I think open disrespect in the culture for the irrational is long over due.
I called it a fantasy to illustrate one point: All attempts to convince a christian of the absurdity of his belief by pointing out the contradictions of the bible, are futile, as long as he has a need to cling to his beliefs.
Independent rational thinkers become atheists by themselves, because they cannot avoid the insight. People with a need to conform, can be taken in by anything, that fulfills their needs the best, no matter, if it is christianity, buddhism, scientology or atheism.
Maruli Marulaki,
Placing atheism in the same category as religions is folly. Even placing some forms of Buddhism in the same category as these three desert religions is again folly. What separates these desert religions is their lack of intellectual integrity, absence of rational inquiry, and perhaps a profound lack of imagination, immaturity also comes to mind.
I am looking at religion as a misguided way of fulfilling psychological needs. The content is of no importance, all the content is absurd and irrational in some form. The interesting question is, what weird content fulfills what need and what deficit.
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Mommal, I appreciate your response and suggestions. You're right that I may need to "spin" things a bit to DH. I feel like that's unfortunate; of all the people I should be able to be honest with, my partner is #1. But you may be right that it may help to spin things a bit.
DH already does a good bit with DS on his own...he gets up with DS one day each weekend when it's my turn to sleep in. He watches DS when I have to work on the weekend (tonight, for example). I would say in general, they have a great relationship. And DS will cuddle up a bit to DH when I'm not there. When I am there, though, he usually prefers me. (It does go back and forth a bit, but usually he prefers me, at least for cuddling/affection). DH and DS have a wonderful time playing together. DH is really great about playing on a toddler's level and never gets tired of playing He's also really, really good at distraction--better than I am, really. So I don't see a deficiency in their relationship. DS adores his Daddy. Although sometimes DH is less sensitive to DS' needs than I am. For example, he was willing to let DS cry at night much sooner, and for much longer, than I was. He tends to push him to eat dinner regardless of whether DS wants to eat. He wanted to make DS get a haircut even though DS was crying and a hysterical mess. He suggested that if DS isn't ready to be left alone at preschool soon, we'll just have to leave and let DS cry and DS will eventually be okay, where I feel we should either stay until he's ready to let us leave, or perhaps pull him out of preschool if he really can't make the adjustment, but either way I'm not going to force it and leave him crying. I think this has a lot to do with some harsh parenting that DH received when he was young (forced baths when he was frightened, forced potty training, etc). He sees this as normal and thinks it's a discipline issue to make DS get a haircut or take a bath regardless of whether DS wants to. He loves DS to pieces, but he isn't as sensitive/responsive as I am. He also doesn't spend nearly as much time with DS as I do--I am usually the one to get up and take care of DS in the morning before work, where DH doesn't interact in the morning other than to say a quick "goodbye" a lot of times. He also works later than I do, and I am the one to flex my schedule and find a way to come home early, go in late, take a day off here and there, etc. So all in all, I probably spend several hours more a day with DS than DH does. That might have something to do with DS' attachment to me. Plus, isn't it normal for kids to be most attached to Mommy and prefer Mommy for comfort most of the time? That's certainly what I've seen with other kids, but it really hurts DH's feelings and makes him feel slighted