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Overview Detail Legend Zoom: ?? Overlay features legend For more map options click on any overview map area or any detail map feature. Detail Map Features Showing 6 items: Slievenisky 446m, Cratlieve 429m, Slievegarran 391m, Tracks: 1451, 10km 2453, 9km 2467, 2km Find Suggested WalksOpen walks finder Find hill, mountain, island, coastal feature. Videos Recent Contributions 1 2 3 .. 24 Next page >> Mullacor Track 4040 JoHeaney 15 hours ago walk, Len: 9.1km, Climb: 537m, Area: Mullacor, Dublin/Wicklow (Ireland) Mullaco... Bruse Hill: Bruse Summer 2017 Summit Comment TommyMc 5 days ago Since a big gorse fire in 2016, this hill is once more easily accessible to casual walkers and has been widely visited this summer. An easy approach is possible by taking the L6636 minor road off ... Belmore Mountain: A standing stone gathers all moss. 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Knockastia: Behind quarry Summit Comment Fergalh 2 days ago At Moate take road to the pretty village of Rosemount. Drive through village and turn left around west side of mountain. At quarry there is a sign for site of old church (N2401043352) proceed up t... Slievereagh: To drive or not to drive? Summit Comment TommyV a week ago Geo's directions are spot on. At the aforementioned Coilte forest entrance there is a sign staing no unauthorized vehicles beyond this point as the gate may close at any point. However as the Lazy... MV Gathering & Awards - This Friday!! Forum: General Onzy 3 days ago ALL WELCOME ! Seefin Mountain W Top: Two summits one hike. Summit Comment TommyV a week ago Nothing to add to the directions provided by melohara. Just to mention two things, the parking place was littered with close to a hundred empty beer cans, it looks like there was a party there or ... Knocknaskagh: The fast and the furious. 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Video display Mourne Mountains Area More detail Place count in area: 59, OSI/LPS Maps: 20, 29 Highest place: Slieve Donard, 850m Maximum height for area: 850 metres, Maximum prominence for area: 822 metres, Places in area Mourne Mountains:Ben Crom 526mButter Mountain 500mCarn Mountain 585.2mCarn Mountain North Top 553.7mChimney Rock Mountain 656mCock Mountain 504mCock Mountain South-West Top 505mCove Mountain 654.8mCrenville 460mCrossone 540mCrotlieve Mountain 347mDoan 592.6mEagle Mountain 638mFinlieve 578mGruggandoo 382mHen Mountain 354mKnockchree 306mKnockiveagh 235mMillstone Mountain 460mOtt Mountain 526.8mPigeon Rock Mountain 534mPigeon Rock Mountain South Top 530mRocky Mountain 404mRocky Mountain 524mShanlieve 626mSlieve Bearnagh 739mSlieve Bearnagh North Tor 680mSlieve Beg 595.9mSlieve Binnian 745.9mSlieve Binnian East Top 630mSlieve Binnian North Top 678mSlieve Binnian North Tor 670mSlieve Commedagh 767mSlieve Corragh 640mSlieve Donard 850mSlieve Loughshannagh 617mSlieve Meelbeg 701.9mSlieve Meelmore 680mSlieve Muck 670.4mSlieveacarnane 296mSlievegarran 391mSlievelamagan 702.2mSlievemartin 485mSlievemeel 420mSlievemeen 472mSlievemoughanmore 560mSlievenaboley 324mSlievenaglogh 445mSlievenaglogh 586mSlievenaglogh East Top 575mSlievenalargy 280mSlievenamiskan 444mSlievenaslat 272mTievedockaragh 473mWee Binnian 460mWee Slievemoughan 428mSlieve Croob: Cratlieve 429mSlieve Croob 534mSlievenisky 446m Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such. Centre on map. Slievegarran Hill Down County, in Binnion List, Granite, granodiorite Bedrock Height: 391m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 20 Grid Reference: J31632 42346 Place visited by 18 members. Recently by: arderincorbett, pdtempan, LorraineG60, MichaelG55, Wilderness, whoRya, AntrimRambler, Ulsterpooka, eamonoc, rowanofravara, sandman, Trailtrekker, Garmin, chalky, Peter Walker I have visited this place: NO (You need to be a logged-in member to change this.) More detail Longitude: -5.978204, Latitude: 54.312903 , Easting: 331632, Northing: 342346 Prominence: 133m, Isolation: 2.2km ITM: 731552 842347, GPS IDs, 6 char: Slvgrn, 10 char: SlvgrnBedrock type: Granite, granodiorite, (Newry Granodiorite Complex) Slievegarran is the 969th highest place in Ireland. Trackback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1068/ Rate Gallery COMMENTS for Slievegarran 1 of 1 Picture from Peter Walker : Slieve Croob from Slievegarran Picture: Slieve Croob from Slievegarran Some enchanted evening... by Peter Walker 17 Apr 2014 Armed only with the knowledge that three very illustrious Summiteers had managed an ascent before me, I set out to discover a route to the top of Slievegarran on a glorious spring evening. A drive around the northern perimeter revealed a lot of farmland and a forestry plantation festooned with forbidding notices aimed at anyone interested in trespassing or shooting. I chose to start from the minor road to the east at (323424 A) (room to squeeze a car or two onto the verge) where it seemed that just the one fence separated me from relatively open hillside.From this point a subsidiary ridge runs roughly parallel to Slievegarran's main ridge (i.e. NW-SE) and I headed straight up to it. Once you meet the crest of that lesser ridge you can turn straight up it until in sight of the plantation, but you can save a little effort by contouring its far slope above a boggy hollow. Said hollow is easily crossed just short of the plantation, and then a steep but straightforward slope of grass leads to the summit area. There is no higher ground between here and the Mournes to the south, hence the views are really rather good.See track 2467. Trackback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1068/comment/16017/ Your Score: Very useful << >>Average (End of comment section for Slievegarran.) Some mapping: Open Street Map (Various variations used.) British summit data courtesy: Database of British & Irish Hills (Creative Commons Licence) MountainViews.ie, a Hill-walking Website for the island of Ireland. 11 Million Visitors Per Year. 1300 Contributors.


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I must begin by confessing a certain pride that this prestigious Championship was being held in my homeland. The general opinion was that the event was a huge success and no doubt the debate will now gain pace as to whether Porthcawl has the capability of hosting an even bigger tournament in the form of the Open Championship. Everyone was particularly thankful that the weather was so good – in direct contrast to the monsoon conditions that we experienced at the Wales Senior Open at the same venue last year.
By now you will be aware that the incomparable Bernhard Langer destroyed the remainder of the field to win by a record margin. Now here's a thought, probably from left field, but I just wonder whether Herr Langer could feature in the Ryder Cup as a captain's pick? Now we all know it won't happen but he's certainly a man the USA team would fear, he has a winning mentality, his toughness as a competitor is renowned and of course he's also in magnificent form. So why not? (Answers on a postcard to Paul McGinley please!!)
From a Logos perspective, the week proved to be a qualified success. It began with a 'Tales from the Tour' event where golfers Fred Funk, Anders Forsbrand and Mike Goodes outlined the importance of their Christian faith to an audience of some 130 people who heard the message loud and clear. That same day I witnessed Chris Williams come through final qualifying but there wasn't such good news for either Hendrik Buhrmann or Steve Cipa who both made their way home before the main action began.
Attendance at the Wednesday Bible study was somewhat disappointing despite contact being made with the known Christian players and others who might have had some interest in attending. Potentially, we could have seen 15 or so players/caddies there, but the reality was a count of 2 players and 1 caddy. Perhaps the fact that so many players were not staying in Porthcawl itself was something of a hindrance?
My next involvement on the Senior Tour will be at the English Senior Open in Darlington in August – thank you again for your support.
Allan Gray, Logos Golf Ministries Chaplain the Senior Tour
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It takes me 4 hours to build a tool to investigate a problem a client claims to be experiencing.
I order my lunch at Sambucha's when Heather comes by and sits with me. We wind up sharing a wonderful afternoon together.
Heather and I share a pizza at Mama Sivia's for dinner.


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At the Domaine :
- Pool, Lake fishing (fishing rods available )
- Walk, Bike along the canal
- You can book a relaxing massage or a sport coach on request in advance
- Sale of vegetables and fruits of our garden (untreated vegetable )depending on season and availability
Less than 15 minutes away from the domain :
- The city of Narbonne with its Cathedral of St. Just, its channel and its typical market halls. Fontfroide Abbey classified historic monument.
- Bages pond and walking trails, nature reserve nidation.
Less than 30 minutes away :
- The Mediterranean with the pretty village of Gruissan and its beaches, Narbonne beach or Saint Pierre la Mer and its market.
- The picturesque villages of the canal de la robine : le somail, sallèles d'Aude, Visit the great wine chateaux of the Aude.
Less than 60 minutes away :
- Abbey Lagrasse and Gregorian chants.
- Beautiful cities of Perpignan, Béziers et Carcassonne
- The Cathar castles of Queribus, Peyrepertuse.


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Chef Ferran Adria is widely recognized as one of the best chefs in the world and head chef of the famed 3 Michelin star restaurant elBulli in Spain. In this lecture he discusses cooking, elBulli, and his new book, The Family Meal: Home Cooking with Ferran Adria.
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Urban Walls Serve as Canvas for Visual Wonderment
"The street art that grabs me, if street art is even the right term, is much looser and messier than [wall-filling pictures, aerosol graffiti, or 'sub-Banksy intervention']." says Poyner. "It's less a resolved image with a clearly stated intention and definite physical boundaries, and more a sprawling, evolving process of layering and accretion. It's often the work, over time, of multiple hands, most likely to be anonymous....The most seductive embellishments draw out and celebrate the vital texture of the streetscape and they don't need to be big or commanding to do this."
"For me, the pleasure of looking at this type of street communication or babbling urban unconscious (take your pick), wherever I happen to be, is closely connected to the pleasure of transforming it into a picture. If street artists and graffiti writers can appropriate parts of public space for their own purposes, then the itinerant viewer with a camera is just as free to appropriate their interventions, edit them, recompose them, find new possibilities in them, confer an alternative visual order, and turn the source material into self-contained images for equally personal purposes."


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There are different kinds of landslides in life, and our guide was soon to meet his.
Before leaving Katmandu, we made arrangements to have a driver pick us up in Pokhara and take us west. Easier said than done, as so few Napalese ventured in that direction. Success finally came in the shape of a guide. Sporting a pony tail of middle-age grey, an ear-ring and his favourite topic – how and why he stopped being a Hindu and was now a practicing Buddhist with his own guru – the guide refused to give us any contact of a driver. It was impossible for us to travel alone without a guide!
We had no idea how unpredictable the far west was and besides, we were only two foreigners, and as if that was not enough, we were both female. For us to reach the far west, there was no doubt that a guide was necessary and he would be our guide. Karma?
K. had never been to the west nor far west. K.'s main occupation was taking tourists to the east, rescuing trekkers trapped by flat tires, advising where to set up camp: all in the east. We listened to his incantations of Buddhism. We listened to how treacherous the west could be. Most of all, we listened to his need to come with us and be our guiding light.
In the end, we gave in. There was no other way to secure a driver and a jeep, so K. had to be taken along. Perhaps he did have other things to teach us, after all, he was Nepalese – and a professional guide. Without much further thought about our guide-to-be, we proceeded to Gorkha, where we had scheduled meetings before heading to Pokhara.
Words of wisdom from the far west:
he who listens shall not slide.
Listening was not his strongest feature.


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If you are a Sony Xperia M Smartphone owner and want to root your phone, just follow this tutorial. It works fine in both the C1904/1905 models running on Jelly Bean 4.1 firmware.
As you know, the interface of the Sony is always interesting and comes with many intuitive features. But if you want to do a lot on your phone and take full advantage of the interface you must root your device. At below are the easy instruction to root your phone along with the pre-requisites.
1.This rooting procedure works fine only on Sony Xperia M C1904/1905 models. So, before start to proceed just check your device model number. In case it varies, please don't make a try. Just stop here. If you continue either it may not working on your phone or end with bricking your phone.
2.To check your model number just navigate to Settings option in your phone and from there go to About Device, then Model Number.
3.Next charge your Sony Xperia phone fully or at least up to 70%. So, then it never gets switched off due to low battery.
4.Next make sure, your device was unlocked. The network-locked device may not get success in rooting by following this method.
5.Finally, connect your phone to the PC with the USB cable and make sure all the necessary drivers for this model or installed on your computer.
Disclaimer : Follow the given below rooting procedure at your own risk. We would not be held responsible/liable for any damage of your phone by following this tutorial.
Procedure to Root Sony Xperia M smartphone:
1.First Download the Framaroot.apk file from here.
2.Next install the apk and make sure that you had tick the "Unknown sources" at Settings>Security.
3.Next navigate to Settings > Developer Options and enable the USB debugging option on your phone.
4.After that connect your Sony Xperia M smartphone to the computer using original USB cable.
5.At that time just ensure that the android logo is visible at your status bar.
6.Next open the framaroot.apk and select the SuperSu or Superuser.
7.Again select the Gandalf exploiter (At this step, your device may freeze for few seconds, so don't panic).
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Doug Loves Movies, and tolerates me
It was a good time doing the show but also kinda stressful. I really wanted to nail it but its so far outside of what I normally do. I think part of the reason I'm driven to do stand up is the control. I can put my self out there socially but I'm rehearsed and in control and so my social anxieties are mostly dealt with. So, to enter that zone, where I'm amplified, illuminated, on a stage but I have to just roll with it, that bugs me out. My favorite moment is when Doug says he'll never have me on again and takes my microphone! I read it as only half joking, pretty sure that I was in fact annoying him. I knew I had to do something to redeem myself, and I think I did. Hopefully I get to do it again! I left the taping, hopped in a car and raced to San Francisco to audition for The Great American Comedy Festival.
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Tibor Ratkai sent me an email this morning, notifying me that my voice (as well as Ponzi's) has been used without our permission for a video Mac-Essentials.de just produced on the new black MacBooks. Well, let me be the first to say: COOL! If they thought Derek's remix was awesome enough to use for the video soundtrack, who am I to argue? My only wish is that the video could've been longer. I don't think we ever would have found out about this if it weren't for Tibor. Don't know if it makes me wanna run out and get a black MacBook yet, but it certainly gives me bragging rights – to say that my voice played a pivotal role in a German video about new Apple laptops. How's that for obscure?
I don't know if I'd buy one of Apple's new MacBooks right now or not. I'd much rather wait until OS X has Boot Camp baked into the operating system. That, and I'm waiting for Apple to release a few more generations of the MacBook running on the Intel platform. I'm in no rush to upgrade to a piece of hardware that might very well be a PoS. Apple's done a good job with the MacBook, don't get me wrong – but I'm just not enthusiastic about running out and buying one. Making the MacBook black is enticing, but not anything more than "interesting" to me as a tech enthusiast today. Ask Andru from GearLive what he thinks after he was forced to leave Boot Camp.


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Four Contemporary Jewelers in One Evening
By John Maxwell
This international group of young jewelers met at Sterling Quest School and workshop where the exchange of ideas is strongly promoted. Whilst each jeweler showing here has a distinct and unique approach, the four continue to work closely and with a constant dialogue.
Four Jewelers
Fri, Jun 12, 6:30-9pm
Instituto Allende
Cactus03, Int.19
Expect to find pieces that challenge the boundaries of traditional silver jewelry. Fashion, nature, and the processes of making Avant Garde wearable art for the body inspire the jewelers.
Harriet Morris Jewelry: Harriet makes dynamic, statement silver jewelry from her bench at Sterling Quest studio. A respect for the balance between control and chance play a strong role in the design process, and therefore, each piece is unique. Harriet studied History of Art at Cambridge University and Fine Art in London. She has since worked in film and theater as a set and costume designer and brings this experience of art, design, and the body to her jewelry making.
Crystal Victoria Designs: Crystal Victoria was born in Monterrey and raised in San Miguel. She started making jewelry in 1997 at the age of 17. Stones and metal were always her passion! Crystal has traveled to the Middle East and gets her inspiration from her traveling, nature, and legends. In the past few years she set up a studio and show room where she does production.
Frédérique Mercure: This new jewelry collection by Frederique Mercure is the result of an intuitive attraction to traditional jewelry and the experiment of incorporating the minimalist lines of contemporary jewelry into this series. Her new collection is strongly based on finding inventive ways of mounting raw and rough cut stones and their castings. The geometrical shapes are made with the purpose of not interfering with the stone's natural beauty.
Elsa Sin Miedo: These pieces are antagonistic products of what fear symbolizes in a contemporary society. It is daring, bold work that searches for more than favoritism within the masses, but to radiate their pure essence. They are intended to send a message that channels the artist's gears, transmuting them to a piece that has an irregular or imperfect form. This allusion reflects our innate human fear. The jewelry is handmade in SMA with 100 percent Mexican recycled sterling silver. Each piece is unique.


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Monday, October 27, 2008
what was the "Magic", and how can WE get some?
This past weekend I brought a friend to see Carole and Paula of the old children's TV series, "The Magic Garden" perform. For those of you who a) didn't grow up in the New York Tri-State area and b) weren't a child in the early 1970's, you probably have no idea what I'm talking about. The Magic Garden was a children's show that aired on the independent local metro NY station WPIX-11 from 1972-1984, and hosted by two women (whom happened to be former NYC school teachers, as well as childhood friends) named Carole (Demas) and Paula (Janis).
From today's vantage point, it may seem like there was nothing spectacular about the show; the women sang little songs and played guitar, acted out stories from "the story box", told jokes from "the chuckle patch", and interacted with puppet characters like Sherlock the pink squirrel. However, the reaction of the 30- and 40- somethings who attended the show (both Carole and Paula are pushing 70, mind you) told a different story. In the ladies room, I overheard grown women talk of how they would cry when the shutters would close at the end of the show; while standing on a very long line to obtain autographs following the performance, a couple (who had driven from Connecticut for the show), gripping their new copies of the Carole & Paula DVD, commented to us that they were planning to see them again next month, not only because they always see them perform in the area, but that "Sherlock will be at that show". We then engaged in a discussion about what time slot the show aired in; a gentleman ahead of us insisted, "It was 2:30! 2:30 every day, except Friday, when that damn 'Time for Joya' was on!".
While standing on line so my friend could get her autograph, I wondered what it was about the show that had such a lasting effect on all of us. I consider myself very fortunate that I grew up during a time period when the producers of children's television shows really began to see their potential as a teaching tool, and sought to incorporate innovative ways to make learning fun (pardon that tired cliche) through the use of new media. I remember my mother adjusting the "rabbit ears" on a tiny black and white TV one day in 1969 so I could watch the very first episode of Sesame Street; to this very day, I still sing some of the songs from the series The Electric Company in my head when struggling to remember my times tables. Why do middle aged baby boomers like myself and my peers remember the joy we felt when the shutters opened to The Magic Garden, but can barely remember the facts we learned in school? What was the "magic"? Sure, some of it was the natural charisma of Carole and Paula, who, to me, seemed like those cool older sisters; but maybe it was the daring uniqueness of them, the resistance to condescend to children and indulge their creative spirit. It made me wonder: are we attempting to do the same thing today, with web 2.0? Maybe I'm just trying to fit and old square video peg into a round digital hole, but I see some connection. Maybe I just want to see it, because I miss that magic.
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Swan Automaton
Recently the Daily Telegraph published a list of the "50 hidden Gems to seek out this summer" and in number 3 spot was the wonderful Swan Automaton at the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle.
It really is worth taking the time to visit this gem – in a gem of a building. The Bowes Museum was build by John Bowes (of the coal family) and his wife to house their growing collection of art and artefacts from their travels.
The collection includes works by Canaletto, El Greco and Goya as well as porcelain from Sevres and other decorative arts obects and fashions from across Europe.
you can read a little more and link through to the Museum website on our Bowes Museum page.
Apollo Pavilion
Also in the list was something else in the North that I'd never come across despite living in the region for well over 30 years, the Apollo Pavilion in Peterlee, County Durham. It was named after the first Apollo moon landing in 1969 and opened as a community centre.
Designed by Victor Pasmore in the 1960s, the building has recently been restored to repair years of neglect and vandalism. Well worth stopping off to see – if you like 60s brutalist architecture!


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This wild and wacky western spoof pits that famous "cowboy hero from Brooklyn" Red Hot Ryder against the carrot-snatching Masked Marauder, who looks an awful lot like Bugs Bunny. Though Red Hot Ryder tries hard, he's no match for the rascally rabbit, who uses a powerful magnet to rob our hero of his guns, his bullets and the safety-pin holding up his underwear--and this happens twice in the same picture! Finally, Red Hot Ryder pursues the fleeing rabbit right into the Grand Canyon...all the way down...more
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Developers push for 25-story office tower near West Palm waterfront
Supporters of the Related Cos. One Flagler office tower proposal packed City Hall on Wednesday as the developer pitched its top-tier, 25-story tower for a site near the downtown waterfront zoned for 5.
Outnumbered opponents criticized the limited advance notice of the Downtown Action Committee meeting. They said the project would violate the intent of a referendum against waterfront high-rises and would exacerbate traffic and block views. The opponents included residents of nearby condominiums, and billionaire downtown landowner and developer Jeff Greene, who plans a competing, $250 million office and hotel project several blocks off the waterfront.
Supporters included representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, Downtown Development Authority, Northwest Community Consortium, former Major Joel Daves and others, many of them wearing "I support One Flagler" buttons, who said the project would be an attractive addition to the waterfront that would bring high-end companies, construction and permanent jobs and property tax revenue and preserve the historic church it would rise behind.
The board did not vote on the agenda item, which was scheduled just for Related to lay out the broad outlines of the project. But it was disclosed that Related filed an application Tuesday to rewrite the city's downtown zoning map in a way that would let the company overcome the height restriction and pursue the project.
The city in October rejected a plan that would have allowed the New York-based development firm to build a 30-story version of the tower. The plan would have allowed builders to get approval for additional height by preserving and buying development rights from historic buildings. Dozens of residents opposed it, in favor of keeping tall buildings off the waterfront.
Related now is proposing the 25-story, 275,000-square-foot tower on the site, at South Flagler Drive and Lakeview Avenue, behind the First Church of Christ, Scientist, with a downtown zoning rewrite to make it possible.
Harvey Oyer III, West Palm Beach land use lawyer for Related, said the project would block few views and generate 1,000 high-paying jobs and $2 million in annual tax money for the city, while providing the skyline with an iconic structure designed by David Childs, architect of Manhattan's Freedom Tower and 7 World Trade Center.
Consultants hired by the developer have recommended a number of strategies to ease traffic, he said.
These include adding computer software to more efficiently sync traffic signals, staggering office work hours, shave off some of the city's Tent Site property on Okeechobee Boulevard for an additional turning lane onto Quadrille Boulevard and get the Coast Guard to stop Intracoastal Waterway drawbridge openings during peak traffic hours.
"You don't need to move your mega yachts and hold up thousands of people" during rush hour, Oyer said.
On Tuesday, Oyer had submitted to the city's Development Services Department a proposal to revise the city's downtown master plan to include an "Okeechobee Business District." The idea — mentioned only in passing at Wednesday's meeting — is to create consistent zoning that allows high-rises up and down Okeechobee Boulevard, he said after the meeting.
The city's original 1995 downtown plan included such an area, then referred to as the "Okeechobee spine," but subsequent changes altered zoning on various blocks, resulting in "a hodgepodge of varying zoning regulations," he said. One of those changes resulted from a public outcry about waterfront building heights and a referendum that limited the zoning on the church property where Related now wants to build, to five stories.
Oyer contended that failure to make Okeechobee zoning consistent will lead that section of downtown to be "under-utilized, under-valued, economically under-perform while miring the area in traffic gridlock."
Nancy Pullum, who heads a development watchdog group called Citizens for Thoughtful Growth, needled the Downtown Action Committee for having Related make its pitch for One Flagler without providing information about the zoning change needed to make it happen.
"There's no vote taken, but suitors are trying to woo you without all the details you need," Pullum said. "To have a presentation with no backup, with no information to the public or to you leaves people saying, 'What?' …We've been consistently asking, 'What's the plan?' …If the concepts are introduced only to select people, it kind of dampens the spirit of meaningful public participation."
Read the article here: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/developers-push-for-story-office-tower-near-west-palm-waterfront/RGElF4pHtNZ3VbGHPCkAxO/
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Sorry this is late, my loves! Starline was incredibly professional and easy to interview. I, on the other hand, am a massive flake. 🙂
Candi is an AWARD WINNING strip by Starline Hodge, one of the hottest young comics artists working right now. Candi is semi-autobiographical, and features a fascinating cast of characters, including a ferret engaged in an a battle of wits with some evil squirrels and the Sexy Police!
1. One of the neato things about Candi is that all the characters' skintones are different — in fact, there are many ethnicities represented, and even one incognito Latino. Was it important to you to have a multiethnic cast?
I don't think it was something I was actively thinking about. A lot of the characters are based on people I knew in high school and college, and since I'm from Miami, most of the people I hung out with were from different ethnic backgrounds. It just kinda happened.
2. Are you still basing characters on people you know?
Yeah, sort of? The characters have all taken a life of their own that this point. But when I feel stuck, I think back to the original people I based them off of as a guide.
3. Have any of your "muses" ever gotten mad at you for using them as a character base? Some of them — like whoever Linda is based off of! — don't come out looking very good.
I don't think so. I know they are aware of the comic, but I doubt they read it. It was never their thing. I still keep in contact with a few of them. The girl who Linda is based off and I haven't been on speaking terms in years though.
4. Hmmm. Is Candi semi-autobiographical, then? How closely does it mirror your life?
Yes. A lot of it is taken from my experiences from college. With some exaggerations. It's why I understand some of the frustration people have with Candi, Alex and Linda right now. I'd go back in time and smack myself across the head too if I could. 🙂 Although the comic has been going on for over 4 yrs now, it's still just her and the cast's freshman year. They're still teenagers dealing with entering adulthood.
5. Candi has evolved a great deal stylistically — did its style evolution cause its plot evolution, or the other way around?
Most of the style evolution took place because I wanted to get away from the manga look, although I don't think I've really succeeded with that. Heh. I guess that sort of thing will stick when your main character has pink hair. I've always sort of imagined the characters in a Disney-esque look. I'm always trying to experiment with that to keep it interesting. I don't think it effects the story very much, I have various plot points mapped out for the whole comic. So regardless of how the style changes, the story should still get to where its going.
6. How far ahead do you plot the comic? Have any of the major plot points changed since you've started writing it?
Not very many of the plot points have changed. There's one in particular with Chris (way way way into the future) that I keep flipping back forth with. I didn't like his character at all at first, but he's grown on me.
7. Will the ongoing ferret sub-plot ever be concluded?
Probably not. It's too fun to draw. I like writing about them when I need the break from the angst/drama.
8. Will we ever know all the different animals' allegiances??
Ha ha, is mostly Squirrels vs. The World. Or the college campus anyway. The University of Florida, which Candi's campus is based off of, is swarming with squirrels. They get pretty bold around people too. Always plotting. I guess if any other creature would be on their side, it might be the raccoons… They just want food though.
9. What other web-comics have influenced you?
Octopus Pie, Penny & Aggie, It's Walky / Shortpacked, Wapsi Square, and Questionable Content. (YAY! Check out Hathor's earlier 20 on the 20th interviews with Paul Taylor and T. Campbell!)
10. That's quite a range of comics! In what ways have they influenced you?
It's Walky was one of the first webcomics that I ever became a big fan of. I loved the character relationships and humor mixed with the surreal. QC & Wapsi have similar elements, so I was just drawn to them. Pablo's art style is very cool. Meredith Gran's storytelling in Octopus Pie is fantastic, and I like how each chapter is a self-contained story. I want to be able to write like that one day. Penny & Aggie's art is amazing, and I'd hope to get as good as Gisele with drawing people. I have a long way to go.
11. How do you practice/continue to develop your skills as an artist and author?
I just try to sketch as often as possible and read different kinds of stories and comics. The more exposure I get to different styles and artists, the more I learn.
12. What is your relationship with your fanbase like? I know you've established things like a podcast, etc., to augment the strips themselves.
I'm pretty open with my fanbase. I try to answer emails when I get them (usually takes me a day or two to respond). I'm also always lurking around in the forums. I don't like to say too much in there whenever they are discussing the strips or plot lines. I love to see what they have to say and if they guess right or not. The forum also helps me understand if my storylines are being interpreted clearly or not, and if I need make adjustments to the comic.
The podcast is mostly a side-project that my friend Kelly and I started for fun. It's mostly us talking about our week and various topics in pop culture, news, tv shows, and of course comics. We haven't updated it recently though, since our real-world jobs have kept us busier than usual.
13. Do fan questions/concerns ever change the storylines?
Not the main storylines themselves, but sometimes the focus might change from one character to the next based on some fan concerns/questions. For example, I recently wrote Linda's backstory because I wanted to show the readers where some of her behaviors came from. I might have not done that before, but a few debates about her in the forums made me want to reveal more of her past.
14. Will we see something similar about Alex? He's kind of awesome, but he's a bit of a love him or hate him sort of character.
I'd like to, but Alex is pretty straightforward with his behavior and attitude. He hasn't changed much from his younger-self. Very honest and logical, but not very good at dealing with emotions and emotional people.
15. Can you tell me a bit about LGBT issues/character in Candi? I know there is Trevor and Matt for LGBT identified characters… will we ever see a fancy pants LBT lady?
Trevor will eventually have to come out about his bi-sexuality to his parents, and hopefully Matt (and Laura) will be there to support him. He tends to piss off his friends often though, so we'll just have to see how that goes. As for an LBT lady joining the cast one day… maybe. 🙂
16. How do you see Candi the character growing in the future?
She's desperately trying to cling to her rose-colored view of the world right now, but that's falling apart. Candi has a lot of growing up to do and needs to get over her naivety.
17. What is it like to do cross over series or be a guest artist for other series, like P&A?
It's fun! T wrote the script, so it was great to try and get what he wanted to come across in the artwork. I wouldn't mind doing it again.
18. Have you thought about bringing on a guest artist for a particular set of strips, or a storyline?
Not really, I'd never thought to ask anyone.
19. What other projects are you thinking about for the future?
I have a few ideas that I want to work on. I'd really like to take on a smaller project and write/draw a short complete story. However, it seems like every idea I'd like to work on turns into a very very long tale. One day I hope I can balance two comics at a time.
20. If there was one piece of advice you could give to a beginning webcomic artist, what would it be?
When you start posting strips, make sure you update when you say you will. Keep trying to improve your skills as much as possible. If you're completely happy with your work, you're not doing it right.


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|SYRIZA's Alexis Tsipras is playing a high stakes double game
I've written on the economic and political crisis unfolding in Greece many times over the last few years. There's a very good reason for this. Naturally, the lives and living standards of eleven million Greeks are very significant and important in of themselves. But every European country is walking down the same road as Greece – slashing austerity as demanded by bankers, which is followed by a recession, which is followed by more of the same poisonous 'medicine'. Horrible though it is to think of it this way, the Greek experience is being used as a testing ground for the financial aristocracy, and therefore it must also be seen as a testing ground for working class resistance strategies.
Somewhere down this spiral, the 'centrist' (actually right wing) political consensus inevitably fractures and falls away, to be replaced by an increasing political polarisation. In Greece, this has meant the rise of the thuggish Golden Dawn to the fascist right, counterposing a wide variety of 'extreme left' groupings. Chief amongst them is SYRIZA, which won the second highest amount of votes (17%) in the May election, and according to the last official opinion polls before next week's re-vote, was on course to become the largest party in the Hellenic Parliament.
Not surprisingly, this news has sent flutters of anticipation through an international 'left' which is desperate for good news stories. Richard Seymour of the Lenin's Tomb blog neatly summarised the confusion with his post 'The Challenge of SYRIZA':
"Now, judging from online conversations and opinion pieces, a large section of the far left is waiting for the other shoe to drop. The narratives of betrayal are already being readied, the old verities being 'proved' repeatedly. There are many variations, but the core of it is that: 1) Syriza are straightforwardly reformists, notwithstanding the substantial revolutionary fringe – the tail does not wag the dog; 2) reformists are apt to compromise with the forces of capitalism, and as such a sell-out of the working class cannot be long following Syriza's election. In its latest instantiation, this is expressed in the tutting, sighing, and fanning of armpits over Tsipras chatting up the G20. There it is: the betrayal is already afoot, the reformists already making deals with the bosses. Perhaps so, but thus far Syriza have not withdrawn from their fundamental commitments, which are: abrogate the Memorandum, and stop austerity measures. They did not do so when there was pressure to do so after the last election, and are not doing so now."
Perhaps the most obvious explanation for Seymour's bet-hedging is that his own Socialist Workers' Party are also – like SYRIZA – left-sounding reformists tied to the reactionary trade union bureaucracy. Though the SWP's Greek affiliates are part of ANTARSYA – SYRIZA's rival 'extreme left' electoral block – there are few differences in principle between the groupings. In fact – as with the opportunist left everywhere (Italy and Germany come to mind) – it is difficult to see what 'principles' they wouldn't sell out for a shot at political power.
There can be no doubt that Tsipras is presenting a programme to the suffering Greek working class which – if implemented in full – would be enormously beneficial to the majority. He pledged to terminate the loan agreements with the so-called "Troika" of banker organisations, and reverse the social cuts imposed on Greek workers over the last few years. This would be paid for by a wealth tax. There would be no further privatisations, and some would be reversed.
If these were the 'transitional demands' of a horizontally-organised, grassroots-based mass working class movement, then they could be achieved, as the workers put their own hands on the levers of power in workplaces and neighbourhoods. But Tsipras and his cohorts are not such an organisation; they form a group of politicians from relatively well-heeled backgrounds, who only make an appeal to the working class to the extent they want their votes. And the programme cannot be put into practice without the working class taking economic and political power for themselves.
SYRIZA's official programme would certainly cut across the interests of the military brass, so you can be sure he's been making very different noises in the meetings he has held with them. After three hours of such talks at the end of May, he emerged pledging to protect and even enhance the fighting capabilities of the armed forces: "Defending the country's territorial integrity and national independence is a non-negotiable priority for SYRIZA", he told reporters.
Tsipras made these comments at a time when the right wing Greek press is openly talking of the military – which has held power in the nation as recently as the 1970s – playing a decisive role in the post-election period. Kathimerini has speculated that should the military decide to withdraw Greece from the euro:
"Over the two days, leaders would have to calm civil unrest while managing a potential sovereign default, planning a new currency, recapitalizing the banks, stemming the outflow of capital and seeking a way to pay bills once the bailout lifeline is cut[…]the country may deploy its military as soon as early morning Saturday and close its borders, preparing to stamp euros as drachma as an interim solution once a public announcement has been made."
In all so-called liberal democracies, the military always has the option of stepping in to protect its own interests, and this often happens in times of crisis. Far from warning workers of this possibility, Tsipras and SYRIZA are touring the offices of the Greek and international rich and powerful, invoking America's Franklin Delano Roosevelt in their offer to save Greek capital from itself. In the aftermath of a SYRIZA victory and a market meltdown, a sell-out would shortly be forthcoming.


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Objects made from exotic materials were placed with the burials to mark the individual's status. Copper ornaments, marine shell beads and ceremonial blades (knives or points that were thinner and larger than could be practically used) have been found buried with some individuals. The trade networks and use of copper by the Red Ocher people have their beginnings in the trade and copper use of the Old Copper Culture. Red Ocher people used copper more to make ornaments (beads, rings) than tools, like the Old Copper Culture people did. Not all Archaic or Woodland people were involved in the Red Ocher Culture. This is a unique set of lifeways that only some people were involved in.
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"Asem aba."
"You are an Ashanti, and u got real local and healthy foods available for you when you visit Ghana. We'll be glad to see you. Akwaaba!!!"
"How did he survive all these years without Jollof?"
"Now u have remembered that ur Ghanaian.. every spell dem Italians put for ur head.. that u forget about your beloved land Ghana i thank God its finally breaking small by small lmaoo ..lol.. Ghana still loves u tho nd i hope u enjoyed your food."
"He'll decide to play for Ghana after tasting such beautiful food."
"I hope u can play for Ghana one day. They have a great team they are just missing a great striker."
"So all these while you knew you were a Ghanaian...anyway, welcome bro...blood is blood!"
"Why don't u come play for Ghana."
Paulina says: Like most of you I absolutely love Mario Balotelli ----and I'm always intrigued and on the look out for his next fabulous offering.... -be it controversial, or about his giving (our Mario is very generous with his charity work) or about the ladies in his life etc etc....
Plus, whatever the media has to say, the world and not just we Ghanaians/Africans are gripped by all things Balotelli -especially those of us --privy to tales about his childhood. Anyway I follow our Mario on Facebook and today he uploaded the above photo with the above caption --and won more hearts. Just look at some of the replies I've posted above!!!!!!
I love Mario, I don't know all of his journey/story ---but I do know that he is loved ---and is now eating Jollof rice again, (how he went without it for 15 years is a mystery to me -laughter) and that makes me and a lot of people happy (laughter).. We Ghanaian are simple creatures -no? May we never become toooooooooo complicated.. More healing and peace for Balotelli -forever xx...
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A hyperactive child, who regularly demonstrated his nascent football skills by deliberately kicking
his ball through the glass pane of a door in his home, he has ripened into a hyperactive adult. "He's
always busy with lots of activities. He's doing something and then he has an idea, and he wants to do
something else. He has one thought, and he has 100 thoughts after it," says Cristina Balotelli, his
adoptive sister. "You make an appointment with him, and he changes twice."
Like her two brothers and her parents, she is protective of the vulnerable boy, still easily glimpsed in
the full-grown man, who joined her family after a difficult start in life. She praises how quickly he
learned English, his instinct to avoid the flattery and flummery that his celebrity brings. "He's a bit
of a mix," she says. "He's smart, he's mature, but at the same time he doesn't want to grow up." His
agent, Mino Raiola, describes him as a "free spirit" and "a Peter Pan, in the positive sense."
One key to Balotelli's reluctance to put away childish things seems easy enough to locate, in an early
life lacking in childish pleasures. Born in 1990 in Palermo, Sicily, to Ghanaian immigrants named
Thomas and Ruth Barwuah, Balotelli spent most of his first year in the hospital, as surgeons
conducted a series of operations to fix an intestinal malformation that threatened to kill him. Such
medically enforced separations in infancy can create enduring feelings of abandonment, and
Balotelli has indicated in interviews that he has just such feelings. But he traces them not to his time
in the hospital but to the decision of the Barwuahs, by then living in cramped quarters with another
African family in Brescia, northern Italy, to place him in care after his release from the hospital. He
wasn't yet 3 years old when he ended up with the foster parents who would later adopt him, the
Balotellis. "They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals," Balotelli told Sportweek, the
weekly supplement of Gazzetta dello Sport, in 2008. "I say only that an abandoned child never
forgets." Source: http://www.mariobalotelli.it/wp-content/files_mf/1351851343MB_Time.pdf
"They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals, I say only that an abandoned child never forgets." Mario Balotelli


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Yesterday Tomorrow
June 11th, 1940 (TUESDAY)UNITED KINGDOM:
RAF Bomber Command: 4 Group (Whitley). Bombing - aero-engine works at Turin and Genoa, Italy - road and rail communications in France.
10 Sqn. Eight aircraft to Turin. Five aborted, three bombed. Five aircraft to Somme/Abbeville. Four bombed, one FTR.
51 Sqn. Seven aircraft to Turin. One aborted, six bombed. Four aircraft to Somme/Abbeville. One returned early, three bombed.
58 Sqn. Six aircraft to Turin. Five aborted, one bombed.
77 Sqn. Eight aircraft to Turin. Six aborted, one bombed, one FTR.
102 Sqn. Seven aircraft to Turin. Five took off, three aborted, one bombed Turin, one bombed Genoa. One aircraft to Somme/Abbeville, successful.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill again sends a telegram to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt">Roosevelt asking for destroyers especially since the Royal Navy now must deal with Italian submarines. Churchill states, "To this, the only counter is destroyers. Nothing is so important as for us to have 30 or 40 old destroyers you have already had reconditioned."
Prior to the Italian declaration of war, the British and French governments had jointly agreed that in the eventuality of Italy joining forces with Germany, the Allies would commence air operations against her. Thus a force of bombers code-named 'Haddock Force' was created, comprising Wellingtons from Nos. 99 and 149 Squadrons of 3 Group. 'Haddock Force' was to be based on the French airfields at Salon and Le Vallon, to which an advance party had been despatched on June 7th. On the morning of June 11th, the Wellingtons of No. 99 Squadron arrived at Salon where they were immediately refuelled and bombed-up for a raid on Italian industrial targets that night. However the local French Air Force commander, backed up by a deputation from local authorities were aware that the Italians had already bombed Cannes and Nice that morning. They were fearful of possible Italian attacks in retaliation and objected to such a raid. Despite protests from the RAF commander that they had the approval of the French government and the personal intervention of Churchill to the French Premier Reynaud, the local authorities refused to budge. As the Wellingtons began to taxi out the airfield was blocked by French Army trucks and other vehicles. In order to prevent a clash the raid was called off and the Wellingtons ordered back to England to prevent sabotage by the French.
The RAF had taken out insurance by moving 4 Group Whitleys to the Channel Islands. The aircraft took off from the small airfields at Jersey and Guernsey bound for the Fiat aero-engine works at Turin and the Ansaldo factories at Genoa as the alternative. Electrical storms of great severity hampered the force and caused twenty crews to abort.
The prototype Hawker Hurricane Mk II makes it maiden flight. It is 20 mph faster than the Mk I.
Paris: The military governor, General Hering, declares Paris an open city. Meanwhile, a great exodus of citizens has been underway, organised by George Mandel, the Minister of the Interior.
Soissons: The French Army pulls back across the Aisne river.
The Germans have established three bridgeheads across the Seine and have crossed the Marne, thus separating the French 4th and 6th Armies. They have also captured Reims.
Briare, near Orleans: Churchill arrived here this afternoon with senior figures including Mr. Anthony Eden and Sir John Dill, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, to find out what the French are planning to do. Weygand, established in a railway carriage, greeted the British with the news the "the last line of defence has been pierced ... We are going to have to ask how France can continue the war."
This evening, after dinner, Reynaud told Churchill that Marshal Petain had already written down an appeal to the Germans for an armistice, but, Reynaud said: "He is ashamed to show it to me." Churchill told the gloomy French leaders that no matter what they did "we shall fight on forever."
Destroyers HMCS St Laurent and Restigouche exchanged fire with German artillery battery at St. Valery-en-Caux during the evacuation of the British 51st Highland Division and French troops. These were the first shots fired in anger by the RCN during World War II.
NORWEGIAN CAMPAIGN: (Mark Horan) 0800 saw the departure of another search, this time by nine Swordfish out to 120 miles between 181 northward to 359 degrees. Nothing was sighted, but thick weather ahead was reported.
At 0830, Lt. G. E. D. Finch-Noyes section of 800 Squadron (three Skuas) went up after another snooper but it was a friendly Coastal Command flying boat. At 1200, Ark Royal entered the weather front and flying was suspended.
Meanwhile, word had come in via Coastal Command photo recon efforts that the elusive German warships whish had sunk Glorious (by now the Germans had announced their success to the world) were in Trondheim harbour. In an effort to rid themselves of the enemy's remaining capital ships, Ark Royal was going to strike the enemy where they lay. Unfortunately, for the FAA crews would would be involved, Trondheim is not Bergen ...
The first Italian air raid of the war destroys one of the four Gloster Gladiator fighters defending the island. The remaining three 'Faith', 'Hope' and 'Charity' are flown by flying-boat pilots as the RAF has no presence on the island.
Italian bombers (SM 79s) with fighter escort (Mc 200s), attack Grand Harbour, Halfar and Kalafrana.
Station Fighter Flight of Sea Gladiators (Faith, Hope and Charity) in action. In seven attacks 11 civilians and six soldiers are killed and 130 civilians and some soldiers are injured.
LIBYA: at 12:01 a.m. on June 11, men of the 11th Hussars armored regiment begin cutting gaps in the barbed-wire fences marking the frontier, and are soon attacking Italian truck traffic along the coast road. (Mike Yaklich)
AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND and REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA declare war on Italy.
ITALIAN SOMALILAND: Eight Vickers Wellesleys of RAF 47 Squadron strike three Italian airfields destroying 780 gallons of gasoline. Also four SAAF Ju-86s bomb Italian positions near the Kenyan border, six hours before South Africa officially declares war on Italy, while six Blenheims from Aden attack Italian targets along the Red Sea coast.
U.S.A.: Washington: Congress passes the Naval Supply Act, giving $1,500 million to the US Navy.
The German submarine U-101 stops the U.S. passenger liner SS Washington which is enroute from Lisbon, Portugal, to Galway, Eire, with 1,020 American citizens, to pickup more U.S. citizens leaving Europe. The sub captain believes the ship is a Greek vessel and orders all passengers and crew to abandon ship prior to it being sunk. Blinker signals between the two vessels eventually confirm Washington's identity and she is allowed to proceed.
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In the Cheney years of ruling power in the U.S., the word 'traitor' took on new meanings unimagined by Funk and Wagnall.
The basic meaning as written down by the word-oracle Webster some 250 years ago is 'one who betrays a trust' which would put pretty much the whole Bush cabinet in jail. In our kinetic times it has come to mean the following as well: any social or legal action purported by a liberal, any one who dared criticize the hard Right agenda, anyone who protested the war in Iraq, anyone who questioned anything the ruling elite does.
Times change, however, and so do words. Now the word traitor must again be changed to reflect the increasingly complicated time in which we live. Following are the new meanings the term 'traitor' should encompass:
Anyone who seeks to undermine the President for no reason other than sheer political power grabbing.
Anyone who sent our boys over to fight, die and be maimed in a war whose sole real purpose is the pursuit of wealth through oil or as a land grab.
Anyone who manipulated the economy of the very country they base their business in to the point of making thousands impoverished and homeless.
Anyone keeping their own people intentionally ignorant so that they cannot raise their heads and arms above the poverty their ignorance forces upon them.
Anyone who incites people emotionally and blindly to lash out at any policy set forth by another political entity.
Any educational institution that will purposely manipulate the minds of its own young to be obedient to artificial authorities so that they can be easily controlled.
Anyone who expects his employees and fellow citizens to live on wages that barely pay for their food and place to live.
Any company who lays off their fellow townspeople in order to send their jobs overseas.
Any company who enslaves the people of another country to make products cheaply in order to undercut competitors at home.
Any organization that brainwashes and lies to its own followers to gain their political support.
Any corporation or business that belittles its employees or treats them like slaves in order to control them easier.
Any business entity so cold that it would devastate an entire area of a country by laying off employees rather than lose stock value.
Any financial entity that would so contrive the business of real estate that they would profit as many are left without homes.
Anyone who constantly derides or ridicules a governmental official for the purpose of undermining him.
Any military leaders who hire outside agents to work along side them who then in turn gouge and embezzle shamelessly their nations funds.
Any outside agents who would ruthlessly exploit their advantage in a war zone to gain immense profits due to lack of governmental oversight.
Any vice president of a country who would stand by, let this all this happen, and profit from it.
Such as these are the true traitors. They poison their very land of dwelling, then wonder why it rots.


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Sunday, February 21, 2010
Medina screws up again... says many tea party peeps share Austin suicide plane crasher's sense of desperation...
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- AnonymousFebruary 21, 2010 at 6:58 PM
I will never understand how anyone can take Medina and say, "Oh yeah, she's great"... oh my God! She is a nut bag.ReplyDelete
She is terrible, this woman. Terrible. Truly, truly terrible.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 21, 2010 at 10:34 PM
People are hurting out there. I'm sorry you're too disconnected with the average Texan to realize that.ReplyDelete
Because of its length, my comment will be in two parts in order to satisfy the blogspot cyber moderator. What follows is Part I.ReplyDelete
With all due respect for your right to express your personal opinion, I have to say that it is clearly opinion based NOT on fact, but on fact perceptually distorted by your belief system. Your commentary is a quintessential demonstration of how belief can trump perception, aided and abetted by hamstrung thinking, which takes sense data out of context and transforms them into nonsense.
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"Medina once again tried to show how her own political ideology is in line with the Austin suicide plane crash guy Joe Stack."
What basis do you have for this bald-faced assertion which flys in the face of logic? And, why would a gubernatorial candidate, who has already been blind-sided by a personal attack, which sought to link her with fringe elements in the 9/11 Truth movement, go out of her way to show that her political views are "in line" with the obviously deranged views of Joe Stack? This is beyond all logic, political expediency, common sense, and is, thus, ridiculously ludricrous. It would be laughable if you were not so serious.
Your quoting Medina out of context and twisting her words to make them come out the way you want them would be unconscionable if you were aware of doing it, which I suspect is not the case. So, I'll cut you some slack in this regard, but I shall, nontheless, point out that it appears that you take Medina's statement, "nor can we wash our hands and say oh, well, the government didn't have anything to do with that," and find some kind of "kooky, conspiracy theorist" connection between it and the Glenn Beck attack.
Medina has focused her entire campaign for a year on addressing the corruption and manipulation of the people of Texas by the Perry Administration. There has never been even the slightest hint of any kind of far-out radical connection. The issue never arose.
It is to this which she is referring when she says further that "People are hurting, and they're tired of abuse at the hands of their government." The government, at both the state and federal level, has been abusive and this abuse grows daily as those who have sold out to the corporate lobbies and banks wreak more havoc in the lives of the citizens of Texas and the U.S.
This is Part II of my comment regarding the post on this blog.ReplyDelete
If you would bother to take your blinders off and inform yourself regarding who Debra Medina really is, you would probably find that she is very much like someone in your family that you care a lot about. She is not a politician. She is a rather ordinary Texan--a mother, rancher, nurse, and business woman--a very pragmatic, tend-to-business sort of person, not the "nut case" to which you are fond of referring.
But, with your cognitive blinders firmly set in place, your writing is filled with ad hominem attacks that belie your admonition to would be commenters to "Be nice....I don't want any overly foul language, personal attacks on anyone other than the candidates themselves or other party fouls. I will moderate the heck out of you if you start breaking the bounds of civility."
"Civility," in not extending, by your definition, to others such as Ms. Medina, since she is a "candidate" makes her fair game for your personal attack, which to my mind clearly breaks "the bounds of civility." You give yourself and your readers latitude to be uncivil to those whom you dislike for not agreeing with your political views. The diatribe which you have posted is a prime example of the insidious infection which is nourished and perpetuated by partisan belief, and it borders on demagoguery since you fan the flames of emotionally reactive uncivility in your readers.
Thqat being said, it is clear how you could post a video (second one) that is such transparent propaganda. If you want substantiation of my assessment, I refer you to my blog. The immediately following post addresses the "the tree of liberty" and "secession" issues which the the video raises, but you will have to read a ways before you get to it.
Also, listen to the revelation in the Feb. 19th video of her speech in Rockwall in another post.
I would hope that you might dismount from that long-legged horse that you are riding and engage Ms. Medina on the issues instead of focusing on her personal beliefs OR "presumed beliefs." This would be true political discussion and have some hope of bringing about the kinds of creative, new ideas that are desperately needed in Texas. Otherwise, your writing proceeds dangerously close to slander and the demagoguery that I have previously mentioned, and it does not serve to solve the serious problems facing Texans each and every day.
- Ken Allison, TylerFebruary 22, 2010 at 7:54 AM
If- obviously a big if- Texans are really tired of corrupt career politicians, why on Earth is there such an effort to misrepresent this honorable lady; Debra Medina? There are lots of reasons not to vote for either RP or KBH but there are even more reasons to vote FOR Debra. If you truly love freedom and are concerned for the future of Texas go to www.mediafortexas.com and read her positions in her own words. And ignore the msm attempt to distort what she says or does.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 22, 2010 at 8:19 AM
Midina is a loose screw trying to screw Texans!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 25, 2010 at 6:29 AM
Hard to believe someone uses the title of a "Ph.D", but is still totally brainwashed defending this fringe Alex Jones nutjob Medina!...BIZZARE!ReplyDelete
Hey now, campaign characters. Be nice. I know a lot of you on both sides, so I don't want any overly foul language, personal attacks on anyone other than the candidates themselves, or other party fouls. I will moderate the heck out of you if you start breaking the bounds of civility.


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Weight loss, when discussed in connection to a medical or physical subject, means the reduction in the total body mass due to some underlying medical reason or perhaps due to a conscious effort on the part of the individual. Weight loss could result from a reduction of body mass brought on by a loss of body fluids, fat deposits, adipose tissue, and even lean mass such as bone, tissue, tendon, or any other connective tissue and muscle mass. We shall discuss weight loss diet tips that most people who perceive a state of or in a state of obesity should keep in mind in their conscious effort to lose weight.
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People take to weight loss programs to consciously lose body mass in an effort to change their appearance or to improve health and fitness, invariably both. Tow things play an important role in helping these individuals achieve their goal. One is a good weight loss diet and the other is a well planned exercise regime. We shall discuss the weight loss diet and especially weight loss diet tips in this article.
Weight loss begins to occur in the body when the system reaches what is generally looked upon as a state of negative energy levels. This means that the person is losing more energy than he or she is consuming through food and other nutrition supplements. It is when the body begins to use more energy through work and exercise than it is gaining through diet it will naturally begin to draw on its reserves such as fat deposits, bone tissue and muscle mass thus bringing about considerable loss in body mass.
To begin with we must first say something about a crash diet. This form of dieting is all about abstaining from any form of food and drink, with an exception to water, for a period of twelve hours. This does not work. The metabolism will realize this trick and will begin to draw energy from bone and muscle and will preserve fat deposits in a survival effort. Better than this will be to go on an intermittent diet, abstaining from food every alternate day and changing the type of food regularly to confuse the metabolism. This works well in a majority of individuals.
Begin by keeping a diet diary. Research by the American Journal for Preventive Medicine has shown that those who keep a journal of the food they eat daily lose twice as much fat as those who do not. The journal will show what hinders and what promotes weight loss.
Include low fat foods in your weight loss diet. Fat contains nine calories per gram of fat from carbs and proteins. But this does not mean one can eat an unlimited amount of fat free foods. Everything has to be done within limits. Eating very slowly also helps a lot when one is trying to lose weight.
There is logic behind this. People who eat fast tend to over eat. This is because the stomach takes at least 15 minutes to tell the brain that it is full. Eating slowly will give the brain enough time to get this signal and tell the person to stop eating. Where as if the person eats fast, the stomach will send the signal which will take fifteen to twenty minutes to reach the brain, in the meantime the individual has eaten three times more food. This extra food will end up as fat reserves in the body over time.
Drinking a lot of water will also help weight loss especially while eating. A large glass of water will fill a lot of space in the stomach and so the per son will feel full and stop eating. People who follow this as part of their eight loss program should eat small meals four times a day to keep the hunger pangs at bay.
Now while dieting to lose weight it is not wise to keep off fat completely. There is no doubt that fat has acquired a very bad reputation recently, however, it is important to include some fats in a weight loss diet. Switching over to vegetable oils for baking and olive oil for stove top cooking will go a long way in ones weight loss program. Avocado oil is perfect for salads, soups and more.
While nuts also had a bad rep when it came to weight loss it now turns out that the fat content in some nuts is good for the body. A few nuts amounting to a small fistful over a period of a day helps in staving off the hunger pangs between meals. Every time one feels like grabbing a bite to eat and should not be doing so should teach into their pocket and pull out a few nuts and pop them in.
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When you're thinking of restaurants serving delicious vegan food, Texas probably isn't what comes to mind – more likely than not, you see a BBQ-and-grill establishment as the representative of Texan cuisine. Despite this, many cities in Texas – even some smaller ones – have a lot of great vegan restaurant chains to choose from, if you know where to look.
If you'd like to eat out regularly without compromising your vegan dietary habits, read on for 4 restaurants to look for if you are a Texas vegan.
- Avocado Cafe and Juice Bar: These guys serve a lot more than just fruit and juices – each restaurant in the chain features a complete menu of gourmet dishes that would make even the most seasoned meat eater reconsider his dietary beliefs. A San Antonio family-run business, Avocado caters to anyone and everyone: from those looking for a quick veggie burger to those needing to fuel a ceremony or special event with large quantities of quality vegan or gluten-free food. If you're feeling adventurous, you can also order a surprise dish, carefully picked out by the chef. And if you need even more reasons to feel good about eating here, consider the fact that many of Avocado's chefs are veterans of the U.S. military.
- Loving Hut: This international chain of vegan restaurants advises you to go vegan in order to save the planet. Well, you're sure to save your stomach while eating something from their tasty and health-conscious menu. Many of the dishes are Asian couisine (Vietnamese in particular), and the menu varies based on the many different restaurant locations, but the general idea stays the same. If you're looking for some quality take-out or sit-down vegan lunch or dinner in Addison, Arlington or Houston, treat yourself to one of Loving Hut's complete courses.
- Chipotle: You might be surprised that Chipotle made its way onto the list. They're well-known for their Mexican cuisine (known to be meat-based), so what could they have in store for vegans? While they do focus on dishes with meat, they still make room for the conscious eater. Many of the dishes are available in vegan and vegetarian edition – you can order existing dishes with plant-based meat subsitutes – and there are also specialty vegan items like a soy burrito in some locations. You can also customize your order by eliminating toppings such as cheese. They have over a dozen locations in Texas alone, many of which are found in Fort Worth or Odessa.
- Guero's Taco Bar: A popular Mexican restaurant in South Austin, Guero's makes vegan Mexican cuisine seem easy. Unlike many similar establishments, Guero's features a full vegan menu that covers breakfast, lunch and dinner. Customers still retain control over their order and can choose between soy or plant-based fillings depending on their preferences. If you're a vegan who's always longed to try out everything that Mexican cuisine has to offer, look no further – Guero's veg-friendly meals are so well-made that you'll almost forget Mexican food is meant to be prepared with meat.