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Women's right must be upheld even during calamities – Angara
Aurora Rep. Edgardo "Sonny" Angara appealed for continued vigilance in upholding women's rights and welfare, especially during times of disaster, such as the devastation caused by Typhoon Pablo.
Angara authored the Magna Carta of Women (Republic Act 9710) which was enacted in 2009. Section 10 of the comprehensive women's rights law states that women have the right to protection and security in times of disasters, calamities, and other crisis situations in all phases of relief, recovery, rehabilitation, and construction efforts.
The government's response to disaster situations must include particular needs of women from a gender perspective, such as psychosocial and livelihood support, and comprehensive health services, including protection during pregnancy.
"In times of disaster, women and children have special needs, such as safety and privacy, that may not be accommodated. Incidence of sexual violence and domestic abuse tend to increase due to stress and the breakdown of community norms and protection," he warned.
"Relief and rescue efforts are very difficult and, often, dangerous. Nonetheless, I hope we can strive to ensure that we not only provide for the basic needs of women and children, but also special needs that will help them feel more secure. They are very vulnerable at this period, and we hope to protect them from further hardship or trauma," Angara stressed.
Angara also lauded the recent 18-day campaign, which began on Nov. 25 and ended on Dec. 12, launched to promote awareness of the Magna Carta of Women.
Themed "Violence Against Women-Free Society in Times of Peace, Conflict and Calamity," the campaign aimed to raise awareness about gender-based violence in crisis situations to increase support mechanisms for female victim-survivors.
The Philippine Commission on Women led activities such as a media campaign, launching of Barangay Violence Against Women Desk Handbook, information sessions for Internally Displaced Persons or evacuees, and forum by different organizations working in conflict or disaster areas.
"Sexual violence against women is used as a weapon during war or conflict, even at the home or workplace. This can result in sexual trauma, mental health disorders, and sex-related diseases," Angara explained.
He continued, "I hope we can sustain this campaign, as well as launch other initiatives that will help Filipino women empower themselves against abuse, especially those who have fallen victims to violence."
"I urge everyone to utilize every means possible, especially social media, to help create an environment in which every Filipina can freely speak up and fight for her rights," Angara said.
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Second largest city of Georgia, capital of Imereti province located on Rioni river. One of the oldest cities of Transcaucasia it has been a captial of many kingdoms, including Colchis and Abkhazia. Population: 185,965.
Origin: From ქუთაისი.
Kutaisi is Georgia's second largest city, legislative capital, and the capital of the western region of Imereti. It is 221 km west of Tbilisi.
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Substitute House Bill No. 6564
Public Act No. 01-153
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 32-38 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof:
The board shall appoint an executive director of the corporation who shall not be a member of the board and who shall serve at the pleasure of the board and shall receive such compensation as shall be determined by the board. The executive director shall [be the chief administrative and operational officer of the corporation and shall] direct and supervise administrative affairs and the general management of the corporation. The executive director may employ such other employees as shall be designated by the board of directors; shall attend all meetings of the board; keep a record of all proceedings and maintain and be custodian of all books, documents and papers filed with the corporation and of the minute book of the corporation and of its official seal. [He] The executive director may cause copies to be made of all minutes and other records and documents of the corporation and may give certificates under the official seal of the corporation to the effect that such copies are true copies, and all persons dealing with the corporation may rely upon such certificates. The executive director or [his] the executive director's designee may serve as a member of such other boards or committees as may be necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes of the corporation.
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Senior PA to Global Chief Executive
Job Description
A rare opportunity to join this leading media and entertainment business, based in London's West End, as Senior PA to the Founder and Global Chief Executive.
The successful candidate will provide senior level administrative support, helping the Chief Executive to make the best use of their time by dealing with organisational, secretarial and administrative tasks. The Senior PA will also act as the Chief Executive's first point of contact for people from both inside and outside the organisation.
You must have previous senior level experience in a similarly creative industry. A proactive and organised mind set is imperative and you must possess excellent oral and written communication skills and the ability to work under pressure.
The Chief Executive will often rely heavily on you, trusting that work will be handled efficiently in his absence. Discretion, judgement and confidentiality are essential attributes for the successful Senior PA.
Daily tasks are likely to include:
- Diary management and travel arrangement (including visas and accommodation)
- Meeting and greeting visitors of all levels of seniority
- Dealing with incoming emails and post
- Producing documents, briefing papers, reports and presentations
- Organising and attending meetings and ensuring the Chief Executive is well prepared for them
- Carrying out specific projects and research
- Responsibility for expense accounts
Skills and Experience
- 'Can-do' flexible attitude
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Ahhh the romance movie. much maligned and scorned by some, adored by others. I think it all really depends from your current perspective when you watch them whether you will like them or not. I've noticed a major change in my own personal perspective of over the past 2 years. I can't appear get enough of the things, and neither will your lady love.
The V remake isn't so much aiming end up being the next Lost, as it is hoping to be a successor to the original saga. V was one for this cult sci-fi miniseries' from the 80's, and has a constructed in audience hoping that the remake doesn't tarnish if you like. The new V series is built in more hard-core sci-fi territory than both Flash Forward and Lost, fuel at an impressive actually puts aliens in the mix. The seemingly friendly Visitors are out to take over humanity from within, with only a few humans discovering their true evil plans.
June is upon us and has long held the difference of being the favorite month for weddings. You are able to bet your bippy the pair won't spend their wedding night watching a movie, but the next night merely might. That makes these movies a wedding ceremony and party gift, in perhaps a gigantic ol' bucket of pre-popped corn as well as other candies.
Mr. Cox plays Frank, who is serving an existence sentence within a prison so ancient it's almost ancient. Upon learning that his daughter is gravely ill, Frank determines to be able to out. He recruits a crew of very capable accomplices for the unrecognizably bulked-up joseph fiennes contact, Liam Cunningham of "Hunger" and Dominic Cooper of "Mamma Mia!" Meanwhile, the fearsome inmate ringleaders, played by Steven Macintosh and Damian Lewis, stand squarely in their way.
The film works most likely thanks to Joe Walker's crafty search phrases. It creates a lot of smoke and mirrors to distract moviegoers from shortcomings their script co-written by Daniel Hardy and Mr. Wyatt, such as gaping plot holes and expository back stories not fleshed down. They have given the cast so little to work with, that even a skilled pro like Mr. Cox at times has that deer-in-the-headlights look on his face. The biggest problem, though, occurs when Messrs. Hardy and Wyatt try their hands inside the climactic twist designed in order to clever, but which is removed as totally contrived. More efficient way the situation is in Hollywood though, Mr. Wyatt has quite a bright future ahead.
All in all, the set-up is quite good. We have an immediate sensation of paranoia that sets in as the world wonders might have caused this thing to happen and it should happen rear? Because when it did happen it caused lots of chaos. You see, cars were still moving and planes and helicopters were still flying and doctors were in the midst of operations when everyone fell asleep.
Ralph Fiennes comes in the creative family, mother a novelist his father a photographer. It's only natural that he plays his role of Lord Voldemort with ease and very much class a villain get a. He has won many awards and nominations for his role in Schindler's List, but definitely long be known as Lord Voldemort.


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Samsung Finds Evidence of Child Labor at Chinese Supplier
South Korean Electronics Giant Halts Business With Shinyang Electronics Co.
SEOUL—Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it is temporarily halting business with a supplier in China because a company investigation indicates the supplier used child labor.
Last week, nonprofit labor group China Labor Watch accused the South Korean company of overlooking the use of child labor at supplier Shinyang Electronics Co., which makes cellphone covers and parts for Samsung in Dongguan, China. China Labor Watch, based in New...


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IWAKUNI, Japan - Station residents celebrated Marine Corps Community Services' 12th Annual Wine Festival at the Club Iwakuni Ballroom here, March 9, 2013
"We have wine from Mexico, Argentina and all over," said Andrew Chung,MCCS Divisional sales manager. "We have more than 100 different types of wine and it was a difficult logistical effort getting all the vendors together and selecting which wines we would have as well as how we would get them here."
Tasting wine can be an all-day event. Therefore, MCCS provided food and snacks for patrons to enjoy, including pasta, roast pork, fruit and several types of cheese.
"We work in conjunction with the exchange to bring in a lot of the alcohol and numerous vendors to bring in our vast variety of food," said Chad Landry, Club Iwakuni General Manager. "We do a raw bar, with raw oysters and clams, as well as sushi and different chef specialties."
Patrons filled the ballroom during the event as the line stretched outside and down the hallway. The 500 tickets for the event
sold out. MCCS organizers originally thought that to be a sufficient number to sell.
"We sell 500 tickets and we usually sell out about two-to-three weeks after the tickets go on sale," said Landry. "This event is one of the most popular events that we do all year."
It was obvious from the smiling faces everyone was having fun.
"I have been here almost three years," said Manuel Valenciacantu, 12th Annual Wine Festival attendee. "This is my first time coming to the wine festival and now I regret not coming before. Since I'm going to be here another three years, I plan on coming back. My favorite wine so far has been the Casablanca. I'm not sure where it comes from, but it has a great flavor to it."
Many patrons enjoyed the night and already look forward to next year's event, and the upcoming Fall Harvest Festival, which is another popular MCCS event featuring beer from across the globe.


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Lets Get Cooking Recipes
- (Cooking recipe) A recipe is a set of instructions that describe how to prepare or make something, especially a culinary dish.
- Local Exchange Trading Schemes are community-based mutual aid networks in which people exchange all kinds of goods and services with one another, without the need for money. They are an organised form of barter.
- talk technology first. Before we begin creating anything in 3D we need to understand what it's going to used for in the final product. So first lets cover some of the basics about Game Engines and how they work. Understanding this information is pivotal to working and designing for a video game.
- (in racket sports) A play that is nullified and has to be played again, esp. a when a served ball touches the top of the net
- Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS) also known as LETSystems are locally initiated, democratically organised, not-for-profit community enterprises which provides a community information service and records transactions of members exchanging goods and services by using the currency of locally
Challah (Recipe)
I got this recipe from the wonderful Molly Breslin. Baking challah, or any bread, from scratch isn't difficult, it just takes some time. Most of that time is spent waiting for the dough to rise. I like baking on Sundays, and I use the rising periods for short bouts of studying.
Shosh's Challah (2 loaves)
5 1/2 - 6 c. flour
1 T dry yeast
1/2 c. sugar
1 1/4 t salt
6 T vegetable oil
1 1/2 c water plus 2 t
1 egg
1. In a small bowl (#1), put yeast, 1 T sugar, 1/4 c water. Mix and
let it stand for 10 minutes or until it bubbles.
2. In bowl #2 put all dry ingredients: flour, salt, sugar; mix them well.
3. In bowl #3 put all wet ingredients: water, oil, egg, and the yeast mixture after it's bubbled; mix them well.
4. Mix everything together to make the dough. If the dough is too sticky, add a little flour until you can handle it. Use your hands to mix and press the mixture until it forms a ball of dough.
5. Cover with a towel, and let the dough stand in a warm place for an hour or an hour and a half until it doubles in size.
6. Punch the dough to let out the air bubbles (this is the fun part!).
7. Let stand for 10 minutes.
8. For traditional-style challah, separate dough into six even
pieces, roll each piece into a snake either between your hands or on
the table, and make two braids. Turn the ends under so they look
pretty. You may need to keep a little flour out to keep them from
getting too sticky. Or, weave them into any design you like. Place
them on greased and floured cookie sheets.
9. Beat one egg in a small bowl. Brush both braids with egg. Let them stand half an hour, and then
brush with egg again. If you
like, sprinkle with poppy or sesame seeds after the second egg wash.
10. Let rise for an hour or an hour and a half until the loaves double in size. Be patient!
11. Heat oven to 375F.
12. Bake for 22-26 minutes or until the tops turn golden.
13. Eat all at once because it's so yummy that you can't stop yourself.
Joy of Cooking: Recipe #25, Chocolate
Breakfast time! Hot Chocolate, boiled eggs, raisin toast, and orange wedges.
Irma says to serve this hot chocolate with a tablespoon of whipped cream at room temperature. How long do you have to take a picture of hand-whipped cream at room temperature on top of hot chocolate, before it melts and you can't see the hot chocolate any more? An EIGHTH of a second, people, I swear. And I don't move that fast in the morning.
Irma's recipes are deceiving. Mise en place, even for hot chocolate. You have to read those recipes like a detective, looking for everything that has to be set up before you begin - boiling water in the double boiler, boiling water for the recipe, scalded milk, hand-whipped cream at room temperature - those steps aren't part of the recipe, they are descriptions of ingredients! You have to stay on your toes.
Which I didn't. I was hand-whipping cream while I was scalding the milk. I was trying to halve Irma's recipe and figuring out what half of 3 1/2 cups was - and I got the 3/4 part but stopped there. I was whisking like mad and scalded only 3/4 cup of milk. You can bet that made some nice rich hot chocolate but then - I had to keep spooning on the whipped cream while taking the pictures so that it would stand up at least a little. Oh, my, this is what a butterfat high feels like, I'm sure. My poor cholesterol. I am going to eat grains and greens for the rest of the day!
What is better? Hot chocolate made with baking chocolate or cocoa made from cocoa powder? I have no way to compare. Irma doesn't add whipped cream for the cocoa recipe. But just as she has a refrigerator-stable chocolate syrup for cocoa powder, she has one for baking chocolate. I will compare the drinks made from them instead. If my arteries will let me, anyway.
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Retailers back Red Tractor logo
Retailers are using the Red Tractor (RT) logo on a greater proportion of British products, the Red Tractor's annual audit has found, but they are still missing opportunities to promote assured standards to consumers.
The second Red Tractor labelling report analyses the use of the RT logo on British own-label produce in UK retailers, finding that the RT label is now the most widely used assurance mark in the UK and is used extensively by retailers to promote assured British produce. Fresh meat is the second largest category using the RT logo across the major retailers, and it now appears on 87% of fresh meat products. Only fresh milk and dairy exceed this, at 94%.
Core meat categories on which the RT logo is used accounts for nearly £10,000bn worth of retail value per annum. In fresh meat, the missed opportunities generally occurred where origin information was overprinted on the label, where other meat assurance marks were used, or where there was although there were a few examples where provenance information alone was used without supporting logo. Sainsbury's and Waitrose had the highest proportion of RT qualifying products.
However, the report showed that there were opportunities being missed by retailers, particularly in frozen meat and sliced cooked meats.
Use of the RT logo was inconsistent on retailers' packs of sliced cooked meats, with only Tesco consistently using the RT logo on the front of the pack. However, the majority that did qualify to use the logo, did not do so, while opportunities were also missed on sausages, bacon and gammon. Frozen meat and added value meat products were also variable, with 30% using front of pack labelling, 35% using back of pack labelling and 35% not using it at all.
Richard Cattell, head of marketing at Red Tractor Assurance said: "While we are pleased with the steps forward, the results highlighted that 3 in 10 products that qualify to carry the Red Tractor logo do not currently use it, which means there is plenty of opportunity to go after."
"An area that represents a significant opportunity for Red Tractor is the frozen category, as it is a growing area and consumers are looking for extra reassurance that frozen meat or produce it is still a quality product."
Total foods using the RT logo increased from 66% to 70% since the same time last year.
>Red Tractor launches meat processing scheme
>Red Tractor recognition grows


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View Pool Manager
Thanks to Eric Sloof for linking to the new free Fling available at the VMware Labs website. The tool called View Pool Manager is a development from Andre Leibovici who's well known for his blog myvirtualcloud.net. The tools allows you to manage a few tasks around the VMware View Pool management. The View Pool Manager can help you to save time, maybe a few hours a week. Try it!
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Two Free Chapter from the new EUC book! ThinApp Factory and Horizon AppManager
Following to my post from last week regarding Mike Lavericks and Barry Coombs new End User Computing book I'd like to share two links with you. Follow these links and you'll get two free chapters from the new book. One is about ThinApp Factory, an appliance which helps you to automate your application virtualization processes and the other is about VMware's Horizon Application Manager.
ThinApp Factory: http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-20095
Horizon AppManager: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/413086
VMware Labs Fling Boomerang updated to version 2.0.0
Today Adam Gross, a engineer at VMware's Enterprise Desktop Group has published a new version of Boomerang. Boomerang is a free software tool available at the VMware Labs. With this Fling you get a simple client application that allows you to use multiple vSphere servers simultaneously. When opening the client just hit "Add a Server…" to connect to a ESX, vCenter or View Connection Server and you'll be presented with all virtual machines.
For View you are able to use RDP and PCoIP as remote protocol for your desktop. Once you have launched a virtual desktop, you will have a functional remote desktop experience that matches the View Windows Client.
Here're some features:
- Supports connecting to multiple ESX and VC servers simultaneously.
- Supports connecting to multiple View Connection Servers simultaneously.
- Graphical installer lets you disable support for vSphere or View if you have no use for it.
- Connect to View desktops using PCoIP or RDP.
- Automatic redirection of client printers to View desktops with ThinPrint.
- Allows you to save your credentials for easy login to servers.
- Favorites pane enables easy browsing through multiple virtual machines on different servers.
- Simple user interface gives you quick access to connecting to a virtual machine or issuing power operations.
- Keyboard navigation allows you to type the name of the virtual machine you want to use or to use directional keys to navigate.
- Servers with large numbers of virtual machines are automatically collapsed into hyperlinks, which you can click to view subsets of the inventory or the entire thing.
- Configurable automatic update checking.
- See virtual machines you have recently connected to in the Recently Used section.
- Search for virtual machines quickly across all your servers.
- Users needing access to more than basic virtual machine power operations should use VMware vCenter Server to manage vSphere hosts and virtual machines.
- vCenter supports activities like vMotion, High Availability, storage configuration, host provisioning cloning, templates, monitoring, alerts and more.
Note: You are not able to connect to the free ESXi server.
If you want to learn more about this Fling, please visit the VMware Labs.


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( Originally Published 1879 )
CHARITY is one of those amiable qualities of the human breast that imparts pleasure to its possessor, and those who receive it. It is of a modest and retiring nature. Charity, like the dew from heaven, falls gently on the drooping flower in the stillness of night. Its refreshing and reviving effects are felt, seen, and admired. It flows from a good heart, and looks beyond the skies for approval and reward. It never opens, but seeks to heal the wounds inflicted by misfortune—it never harrows up, but strives to calm the troubled mind. Like their Lord and Master, the truly benevolent man and woman go about doing good for the sake of goodness. No parade, no trumpet to
sound their charities, no press to chronicle their acts. The gratitude of the donee is a rich recompense to the donor—purity of motive heightens and refines the joys of each. Angels smile on such benevolence. It is the attribute of Deity, the moving cause of every blessing we enjoy.
Fair Charity, be thou my guest,
Charity is the golden chain that reaches from heaven to earth. It is another name for disinterested, lofty, unadulterated love. It is the substratum of philanthropy, the brightest star in the Christian's diadem. It spurns the scrofula of jealousy, the canker of tormenting envy, the tortures of burning malice, the typhoid of foaming revenge. It is an impartial mirror, set in the frame of love, resting on equity and justice. It is the foundation and cap stone of the climax of all the Christian graces; without it, our religion is like a body without a soul; our friendships, shadows of a shadow; our alms, the offsprings of pride, or, what is more detestable, the offerings of hypocrisy; our humanity, a mere iceberg on the ocean of time—we are unfit to discharge the duties of life, and derange the design of our creation. Was this heaven-born, soul-cheering principle the mainspring of human action, the all-pervading motive-power that impelled mankind in their onward course to eternity, the polar star to guide them through this world of sin and wo—the ills that flesh is heir to, would be softened in its melting sunbeams, a new and blissful era would dawn auspiciously upon our race, and Satan would become a bankrupt for want of business. Wars and rumors of wars would cease; envy, jealousy, and revenge would hide their diminished heads; falsehood, slander, and persecution would be unknown; sectarian walls, in matters of religion, would crumble in dust; the household of faith would become, what it should be, one united, harmonious family in Christ; infidelity, vice, and immorality would recede, and happiness, before unknown, would become the crowning glory of man. Pure and undefiled religion would then be honored and glorified—primitive Christianity would stand forth, divested of the inventions of men, in all the majesty of its native loveliness. Oh, could an angel bear a balm of such charity into our hearts, then would earth become a heaven and hell a fable.
When we take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to ourself the struggles and temptations it passed through—the brief pulsation of joy, the tears of regret, the feebleness of purpose, the scorn of the world that has little charity; the desolation of the soul's sanctuary, and threatening voices within; health gone; happiness gone—we would fain leave the erring soul of our fellow-man with Him from whose hands it came. It is then that the words of Prior show their truth and beauty :
"Soft peace it brings wherever it arrives,
Is any man fallen into disgrace? Charity holds down its head, is abashed and out of countenance, partaking of his shame. Is any man disappointed of his hopes or endeavors? Charity cries out, alas! as if it were itself defeated. Is any man afflicted with pain or sickness? Charity looks sadly, it sigheth and groans, it faints and languishes with him. Is any man pinched with hard want? Charity, if it cannot succor, will condole. Does ill news arrive? Charity hears it with an unwilling ear and a sad heart, although not particularly concerned in it. The sight of a wreck at sea, of a field spread with carcasses, of a country desolated, of houses burned and cities ruined, and of the like calamities incident to mankind, would touch the bowels of any man; but the very report of them would affect the heart of charity.


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DeFazio's Pizza in Troy will be serving chocolate-based specials in addition to its regular menu for Valentine's diners on Thursday (2/14):
- Chocolate bruschetta with sea salt.
- Field greens, strawberries, red onions, grated pecorino romano, strawberry-chocolate vinaigrette.
Entrée: Homemade chocolate fettucini (recomended with alfredo, roasario or bolognese sauces).
- Chocolate cannoli.
- Bindi's Coppa Stracciatella.
- Nutella & strawberry pizza.
DeFazio's is located at 264 Fourth St. Call 271-1111 for info or to order.


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NEW LONDON, N.H. — The Husson University Eagles pounded out 14 hits and 15 runs to beat Colby-Sawyer 15-1 in the second game of a baseball doubleheader Friday.
Colby-Sawyer won the first game 4-2.
The 9-12 Eagles of Bangor struck for three runs in the first inning on an RBI double by Nick Lancisi and a two-run double from Niko Ververis. Husson tacked on two more runs in the second when Kyle Vanidestine hit an RBI single and Jake Arthers added a run-producing double..
In the seventh, Husson sent 11 men to the plate and added seven more runs, paced by Shawn Smith's two-run single and Benjamin McLain's two-run triple.
Spencer Allen earned the win as he scattered six hits, giving up a sacrifice fly to Cameron Knight.
In the first game, Justin Martin hit an RBI double, Jon Wylie added a sacrifice fly and Jake Szulak connected on an RBI single for 11-13 Colby-Sawyer.
Ververis had an RBI single for Husson and Joe Stanevicz pitched a solid game in the loss, giving up five hits and one earned run.
Bates 4, Bowdoin 3
At Brunswick, Nate Pajka delivered a two-out, bases-loaded two-run single in the eighth to rally the Bobcats to the win, snapping a eight-game losing streak at Bowdoin's Pickard Field.
Michael Spinosa earned the win for 12-8 Bates, tossing eight innings and allowing six hits and three earned runs while striking out six.
Bowdoin, now 11-8, took a 3-1 lead in the fourth on Tim McGarry's two-run double.
Mekae Hyde had three hits for Bates while Griff Tewksbury, Kevin McGregor and Mike Ciummei each two. Tim McGarry and Luke Regan each had two hits for Bowdoin.
Thomas sweeps Lyndon
At Lyndon Center, Vt., the Terriers of Waterville broke open a one-run game by scoring three runs in the fifth en route to a 11-1 victory in the first game and then went on to post a 7-2 win in the second game to complete the sweep.
Jeff Richardson hit a run-scoring double for 11-9 Thomas in its three-run fifth and Ben Goodall added an RBI single. Goodall finished with three singles and three RBIs while Wes Perreault chipped in with three hits and an RBI and Ethan Hurley contributed two hits and three RBIs.
Tim Locke earned the win as he didn't allow an earned run, gave up five hits and three walks and struck out three.
Quinn Rambo and Shayne Kirby each had two hits for 2-16 Lyndon State.
In the second game, the Terriers snapped a 2-2 tie with a four-run sixth inning as three straight errors led to three runs. Goodall had a double and RBI. Richardson, Perreault and Joshua Gray each had two hits while Jake Chamblee notched the win by allowing only one earned run on four hits, striking out seven and walking three.
UMF drops two
At Farmington, the University of Maine-Farmington Beavers slipped to 4-8 after being swept by New England College, 14-8, 3-1.
LiAnn Linck hit a single, double and home run and drove in five runs to propel 14-8 NEC in the first game.
Kaitlyn Bartlett smacked a pair of solo homers for UMF and Amy Jones chipped in with a single, homer and three RBIs. Shannon Mitchell added a two-run homer, Jillian Withee singled twice and Meaghan Donnell doubled.
In the second game, Gabrielle Tims scattered six hits, walked only one and struck out six to lead NEC by the Beavers. Tims was also the game-one winner as she allowed only three hits in the final four innings.
Lily Barry and Liz Sargent each doubled for UMF and Withee added an RBI single.
MMA sweeps Green Mtn.
At Castine, Erica Taylor threw the second no-hitter in Maine Maritime Academy history to lead the Mariners to an 8-0 win in the opener Abby Yeo helped completed the sweep as she struck out seven in the nightcap for a 10-1 victory.
Taylor allowed two walks and another runner reached on an error in five innings as she joined Amanda Barker (2008) as the only MMA pitchers with a no-hitter.
Leading 3-0, MMA scored five more runs in the fifth on four hits and two errors. Autumn Jones provided a two-run double and finished the twinbill with two doubles and three RBIs.
In the second game, 9-7 MMA scored six runs in the first inning and four more in the second to pull away for good. Taylor contributed with a solo homer and RBI single and Sam Goda added a bases-loaded triple.
Kris Belessis singled twice for 1-14 Green Mountain.
Bates 10, Colby 9
At Lewiston, the Bobcats rallied for four runs in the seventh, with the winning run scoring on an error, to notch the win and improve to 8-6.
Kelly McManus and Lauren Dobish hit back-to-back singles to open the Bates seventh and then McManus scored when Leah Maciejewski doubled. The next batters struck out, but Alayna Garbarino responded with an RBI double to tie the game. Libby King then reached on an error and Garbarino raced home when the ball went into left field, sliding under catcher Erica Pulford's tag.
Colby (4-11) added a run in its half of the inning to take a 9-6 lead on Bri Wheeler's RBI single.
UNE sweeps Curry
At Milton, Mass., the University of New England scored seven runs in the top of the seventh inning of game two, including a go-ahead three-run homer by Gabrielle LaRoche to come back and complete a sweep of Curry with an 8-3 win after winning the first game 5-1.
LaRoche finished with three hits in the second game for 12-6 UNE while Erin Grover and Amanda Vaudreuil each added two hits. Chelsey Munsey took the loss for 16-10 Curry despite giving up only one earned run. She also had three hits.
LaRoche and Jessica Potter each had RBI singles for UNE in the first game and Kelly Reid earned the win, limiting Curry to five hits and no walks while striking out seven to improve to 6-1.
Ariel LaRosa homered for Curry.
Men's lacrosse
MMA 16, Johnson St. 4
At Castine, Brian Corain scored five goals and assisted on another and Andrew DiSalvo tallied his 200th career point as Maine Maritime Academy rolled to victory.
Bronson Guimond chipped in with three goals and an assist for 2-5 MMA and Nicholas Betti added three goals. DiSalvo had two goals and two assists and Oscar Adams and Gavin Cote combined for eight saves.
Alex Petti led 1-5 Johnson State with two goals and Zach Jermone had 16 saves.


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Sultan Husayn Mirza Bayqara was the last ruler of the Timurid empire (reigned 1469–1506). By the time he ascended the throne at age thirty-one, the once-vast empire was radically diminished in size, but his reign was one of the most brilliant moments in the history of Timurid art and culture.
Although Timurid artists rarely depicted actual events, this painting represents Sultan Husayn Mirza Bayqara's coronation in 1469. Kneeling on a throne inscribed with his name, the ruler is accompanied by his son Badi al-Zaman. To the right, an attendant carries a gold crown, while another shields it with a small, gold parasol. Both objects were the most important attributes of kingship in the Timurid era. Such carefully observed court ceremonies became a favorite subject in Mughal art.


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Secularization in the U.S.
Most recently I have been working on a study of religious affiliation, especially the increasing number of people in the U.S. with no religious preference. I have written several blog posts on the topic.
And I have a paper, under consideration for publication, about the effect of Internet use on religious affiliation.
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2 indicted in Katrina levee bribery case
Published 7:00 pm, Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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A former Army Corps of Engineers consultant and a dirt subcontractor were indicted Thursday on bribery charges stemming from an investigation into levee work after Hurricane Katrina.
Durwanda Elizabeth Morgan Heinrich, a dirt, sand and gravel subcontractor, allegedly conspired with two former corps workers to get confidential bid information for a $16.8 million levee project southwest of New Orleans in September 2006.
In exchange, Heinrich promised to give the workers, Kern Carver Bernard Wilson and Raul Miranda, 25 cents for every cubic yard of material used to build levees near Lake Cataouatche, the indictment said.
Heinrich was charged by a federal grand jury in New Orleans with one count of conspiring to commit bribery and two counts of offering a bribe to a public official.
Also indicted was Wilson, who was working for the corps as a consultant on the levee enlargement project. Wilson was charged with one count of conspiring to commit bribery and one count of demanding and agreeing to accept a bribe as a public official.
Last September, Miranda pleaded guilty to bribery.
The arrangement would have funneled $299,375 to Wilson and Miranda, the Justice Department said.
Miranda, 50, of Spring, Texas, was scheduled to be sentenced on April 23, but his sentencing was pushed back to Oct. 22. He faces up to 15 years in prison and heavy fines.
Miranda was a construction manager for Integrated Logistical Support Inc., also known as Ilsi Engineering, a New Orleans civil engineering firm hired to help the corps manage some of its projects.
The prime contractor on the Lake Cataouatche project is Manson Gulf LLC, a construction company based in Houma. Company officials said they were familiar with the probe but that Heinrich was not affiliated with their company.
The investigation surrounding the Lake Cataouatche project has been the only case of criminal wrongdoing in levee work so far prosecuted by the Justice Department.
After Katrina hit the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts, flooded 80 percent of New Orleans and killed more than 1,600 people, Congress gave the corps billions of dollars to repair damaged levees and upgrade others.
Lake Cataouatche is southwest of New Orleans and protects an area of suburbs and small towns on the western side of the Mississippi River.
Maj. Timothy Kurgan, a corps spokesman in New Orleans, declined to comment Thursday on ongoing litigation but said his agency had turned over information about alleged wrongdoing to the Army's criminal investigation division.


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What "The War That Time Forgot" can teach us!
With the recent announcement that DC is re-launching a bunch of their war comics, including "The War That Time Forgot," I thought I'd post this. I started this in 2008 and meant it to be a series of five, but they take a really long time to put together, and none of the other old-school DC war comics are as fun as Robert Kanigher's insane soldiers-versus-dinosaurs epic anyway, so I'm only doing this one. But it's a doozy!
I should point out that I don't have much interest in buying the DC Silver Age superhero stuff, because of what I've read, the only thing that holds up is Doom Patrol, but the war comics are something else. Yes, they're often the same story over and over, but they're still more "mature" than the superhero stuff (even with the haunted tank and the dinosaurs).
So what can we learn from DC's war comics? Well, as the Showcase volumes are over 500 pages, quite a lot. And so, in the grand tradition of learning about women through Wonder Woman comics, finding out that comics were better in the Seventies (and then finding out they were far scarier, too), judging early Batman comics completely out of context, and what we can learn from the Kree-Skrull War, let's look at …
The War That Time Forgot volume 1! Yes, it's the U. S. Armed Forces versus dinosaurs, as serialized in Star-Spangled War Stories #90-128, April/May 1960 to August/September 1966. Before we begin, I'd like to point out that the panels marked with a (1) were drawn by Russ Heath, the panels marked with a (2) were drawn by Joe Kubert, and those with a (3) were drawn by Gene Colan. Every other panel was drawn by Ross Andru and inked by Mike Esposito. That's most of the book, by the way.
Keep in mind, too, that I'm going to take these completely out of context. I know what I'm doing. I'm just heading off the criticism of "Well, you're taking these completely out of context." Isn't that part of the fun?
So what can we learn from DC's 1960s war comics? Well …
You might think only one island in the Pacific has dinosaurs living on it, but you'd be wrong:
There's "Mystery Island" …
"X Island" …
"Lava Island" …
"Red Island One" …
The island has no name …
"Fireworks Island" …
And, finally …
That's at least seven islands with dinosaurs living on them. And nobody has ever stumbled across them before? Wow. Of course, each story probably features a different island with dinosaurs, because some of them get destroyed at the end of the story (see below), but these are the only ones that are named or acknowledged. But if there are so many islands with dinosaurs all over the Pacific, why hasn't someone discovered them before? It's probably because …
One needs to pass through clouds to pierce the space-time continuum and travel to these dinosaur-age islands …
How did the dinosaurs survive, you might ask? Well, Kanigher doesn't go into that too much, but there is one theory …
But enough about the survival of the dinosaurs or where they lived, undetected, for millions of years! What about the very islands on which they live?
First, islands apparently float on top of the water and are not mountains on the ocean floor, as geologists have been telling us for years! All geologists are liars!
Second, it's easy to destroy an island. Either waves come along and completely swamp it …
… or you can just bomb the island to pieces …
… or a handy volcano erupts, wiping the island from the face of the planet!
What else can these comics teach us, especially about America's finest fighters?
If your patrol disappears, the best thing to do is send two men to check it out, because they can deal with the enemy far more effectively!
Never mention that your flamethrower might not work … because it won't!
JFK was apparently very close to fighting dinosaurs … but he never got the chance!
The Army loves using its soldiers as guinea pigs!
We also discover that there are a lot of assholes in the United States Armed Forces. I mean, a lot of assholes. This lieutenant …
The skipper of this PT boat …
And even when he believes that dinosaurs walk the Earth, he's still an asshole!
The older brothers are assholes to their younger brother …
This guy is an asshole …
It's not limited to the Armed Forces, as this reporter is a real asshole …
(For the record, Morgan died because he pushed Mace too hard, and he, Morgan, absolved Mace before he died.)
Morgan's brother is a real asshole …
These cops are assholes …
And Arnie is an asshole. That's a lot of jerks running around the South Pacific!
Of course, some soldiers just can't help but be heroic!
We also learn that brothers often don't know each other's names. Do they even have any?
Ah, yes, Kanigher remembers that they were unnamed. Good for him!
One thing the Army really values is the ability to form human pyramids. I mean, if you can't form human pyramids, how can you battle the barbarian hordes who want to destroy our American Way of Life????
American fighting men are also remarkably cavalier about their situation. They don't like dinosaurs, but getting killed in action? That means it's time for jokes!
If they're not cavalier about their lot, they're kind of gloomy. Come on man, you're in the American Army – the greatest fighting force ever assembled! Dinosaurs don't stand a chance against you!
Our soldiers also always carried matches. You never know when you might need one!
For some reason, characters reappear in consecutive issues … and don't remember that they fought dinosaurs in the previous one! Maybe the Army used some kind of brainwashing on them!!!!
Despite the fact that the soldiers are ass-kickers, they're not that bright. They think that cavemen lived during the dinosaur age …
They don't realize that a dinosaur carcass is as good as a live one …
And this paleontologist thinks that pterodactyls had feathers. He got his degree at the Eau Claire Community College Annex.
Meanwhile, this soldier accepts that dinosaurs walk the land, but he doesn't believe in a giant white gorilla. That's just silly!
And the Army thinks that this nerve gas will turn soldiers into zombies, but dinosaurs – that's kooky!
We also learn that you can get the bends in fairly shallow water. The dinosaur can stand on the bottom and reach the surface, yet the frogmen are concerned about the bends. Don't you need to be deeper in order to have a problem with that?
The top brass of the Armed Forces isn't too bright, either. I can understand that they never thought a dinosaur would tear through a parachute, but they never "computed" that something else might tear a 'chute? Really?
Soldiers, we learn, also have issues with unconscious comrades.
I mean, come on, man, let it go!
Speaking of insecurities, if a policeman ever does one tiny thing wrong, well, this is what happens …
(Of course, we saw above that his fellow cops are dicks, so maybe he has reason to think this!)
We also learn that, of course, if one person sees dinosaurs, no matter how sane they are or how many other people see them, the government will suppress it! Who cares how many lives it might save! Who cares if they could launch a bigger offensive so that individuals or small groups of people wouldn't get sacrificed to the dinosaur hordes!
So the government shuts it down in many different ways …
Yeah, "warn the base." That'll work!
Why? Why?
Oh, sure there will be an "investigation." Suuuure!
Even if two people corroborate the story, that's not enough!
No wonder no one believes – they sent the soldiers to the booby hatch!
Of course, based on what happened to Talbot, maybe the booby hatch is a good place for them!
I mean, look at that guy!
Talbot was swallowed by a sea monster and blasted his way out, so maybe he has a right to go crazy. But still … he seems like kind of a wuss to me! He can't be a true American, man!
Why? Why?
Another thing we learn about the Armed Forces is that they're enamored of robots. Yes, robots. Who could forget the waves of robot soldiers storming the beaches of Okinawa? Well, maybe things didn't work out that way … probably because the robots were too busy fighting dinosaurs … and other robots!
Of course, you're bound to have serious mood swings when you address the unspeaking robot.
And you can't talk to the robot about the two most important things in the world!
In war, human-robot relations are key to victory!
But be careful it doesn't become something unholy … like human-robot love!
And, of course, you often forget that you're talking to a robot, because they're so damned lifelike!
And if the United States has a G. I. robot, you just know the Japanese will have a GIANT ROBOT!
Not only will the Japanese have a GIANT ROBOT, it will be SOLAR-POWERED!!!!!
But do robots recognize opposing sides in a war? Wouldn't they just unite against their human overlords????
Naturally, if the first robot doesn't work out, the Army is ready with another one!
And, when it comes time for another G. I. robot, we learn the sad and mysterious fate of the first one.
Unfortunately, this robot doesn't fare much better. So sad!
Kanigher also give us fascinating insight into the fairer sex. Girls, you see, are terrified of dinosaur models, for crying out loud! Silly girls!
Not only notable for its insight into the female, this comic also exposes … the plight of the well dressed white kid! Man, there's nothing worse than being a well dressed white kid – they're freaks, man!
We get very little about the actual enemy in these comics. First, we find out that they have a "secret weapon," but we know it's really the terror of the dinosaurs!
And then … we see enemy sailors! This is the only time in this entire collection that the Japanese show up. They could have won the war while the Americans were busy fighting dinosaurs!
Some of the panels in this can only be described as … "Because Bob Kanigher!"
"Concentrate your fire on that coconut!"
"Never thought my life would depend on a G. I. robot battling a dinosaur!"
Some kinky people like being in a dinosaur sandwich.
I want to read "Hillbilly With a Heater!"
I really want to read "Hillbilly With a Heater!"
Um, that's not a spider. It has six legs and insect mandibles. You would think our fighting men would know what a spider looks like!
These soldiers know what antipasto is, but they can't tell the difference between an insect and a spider? Our soldiers have weird tastes.
Anson Williams?
There are quite a lot of interesting turns of phrases in this book. Here are some of the better ones. Mr. Kanigher, you may pick up your Pulitzer any time you wish!
Teeth larger than piano keys? Piano keys aren't really that big.
Dinosaurs often "gulp" down bullets shot at them. This is a typical metaphor employed by the soldiers.
And we couldn't end with a phrase that probably wouldn't have made anyone think of sex, but in today's awful world run by liberals who have intercourse with anything that moves, this panel made me laugh. Yes, I'm a Commie liberal hippie. Please forgive me!
That's quite a lot we can learn just from one volume of DC's war comics. Who knows what else we can discover about the Greatest Generation from reading about them in 1960s and 1970s comic books? Whatever it is, you'd be wise to treat these comics as perfectly composed guides to life. Why can't you just accept that Bob Kanigher knows far more about how to live than you do? DC knew it, and so should you!
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Greenway Conservancy lights great elm in North End park
(Jeremy C. Fox for Boston.com)
North End residents came together Tuesday evening with city officials and representatives from the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy for the annual lighting of the great elm tree in the North End Greenway Parks.
During a brief ceremony that drew a small group of stalwart North Enders, Nancy Brennan, executive director of the conservancy, thanked the recently formed Friends of the North End Parks for their partnership with the conservancy and work in planting 12,000 daffodil bulbs that will bloom in these parks in spring.
"Thank you so much for your caring about this park so deeply and for literally getting in the dirt with us," Brennan said. "We're so grateful."
City Councilor Salvatore LaMattina said the event was his "eighth and final tree lighting" of the holiday season as he stood together with longtime North End resident Nancy Caruso for the countdown.
LaMattina and Caruso, a retired Northeastern professor who co-founded of the North End Waterfront Central Artery Committee, reflected briefly on the long process of transforming the area from the former elevated Central Artery highway to the park system that now snakes through the downtown waterfront.
"The first meetings took place in the late '80s, and this was the outcome of the work that was created then," LaMattina said.
When he asked Caruso if she had thoughts she wanted to share, her message was short.
"I just want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and the happiest New Year, for all of us," she said.
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Syria, imperialism and the left (3)
There is a third position on the Syrian events: opposition to Assad and to Western interference. This position also is unsatisfactory in its way to positive account of the revolt. Third and final part of the series.
There is a third position on the Syrian events, defended by, for instance, people from the Socialist Workers' Party in Britain like Alex Callinicos andSimon Assaf, but also by an interesting left wing blog called Syrian Freedom Forever. The bare outline is summarized well by Simon Assaf:
The Syrian revolution has two enemies. Assad wants to crush it to remain in power. The Western powers want to hijack it to ensure an friendly government replaces him
. He is right about the two enemies. Buts as we will see, he underestimates a third enemy.
Basically, this position supports the revolt, generally called a revolution. In this, it agrees with the position above, defended by Proyect, Cole, etcetera: they also like to talk about the 'Syrian revolution'. But supporters of this third position combine support for the revolt with a clear opposition to Western intervention. They rightly see these kind of interventions – like the Lybian NATO precedent – as an effort by Western imperialism to ostenstatiously stand on the side of "democracy and freedom" against "dictatorship", in order to regain ideological influence and hegemony on the enfolding movements that became known as the 'Arab Spring'. When revolt ended the rule of the dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, the US was seen as being on the wrong side. By supporting the Lybian and now the Syrian armed revolt they hope to be seen as freedom's friend again. This will help them to recuperate strugges and and lead resistance forces in a more pro-Western direction, and will help if regimes produced by revolts have to decide whom to sell oil to and who to sell arms from. In other words, intervening in Libya and Syria is a form of business investment taken with a longer view.
This analysis is sensible, the opposition to imperialist intervention is welcome. Where this position errs is in its estimate of the revolt itself, and of the amount of intervention already taking place. Callinicos, Assaf and the maker of Syria Freedom Forever write as if Western interference is basically a danger in the future to be warned against, not yet a big reality. I think this grossly underestimates the extent of deliveries of arms, equiment and advice already going on for months. It underestimates the relevance of the location where nerve centres of the FSA are based: in Turkey, controlled by Turkey, a NATO alley;. Such headquarters means a place to train fighers, to fall back to if defeat looms, to regroup to fight again. It is a serious contribution Turkey – and by implication, NATO and its US leadership, even though the US holds back from more open and voluminous intervention – is already making. Turkey has established a base where assistance to the fighters is coordinated and monitored. I think now the revolt would survive when Turkey would not allow FSA its bases: the resistance is too strong, too locally-rooted, to be defeated by such things. But it would still weaken the fight from a purely military point of view. Turkish support of this kind is one of the forms of intervention going on for more than a year now. This underestimation of the amount of intervention also characterizes the supporters of position two, the likes of Cole, Woodward and Binh. They find more intervention acceptable, while Callinicos annd Assaf warn against it. But both think that present interference amounts to not very much. I think they are wrong. And opposing intervention mainly in the future, while almost neglecting the intervention already taking place, is a rather weak form of opposing intervention.
They are also wrong in their rather positive picture of the revolt as a whole. For instance, SWP writers talk about "mass strikes" being part of the revolt. But the specifics of these strikes do not point to workers' action, but mainly to shops and businesses closing ther doors for one or more days. Youtube videos with empty streets with texts like 'General Strike' probably show business shutdowns like that. It is not always even clear wether they do so as a form of protest by the business classes themselves, or whether they are forced to do so by FSA fighters. There have been civil disobedience campaign initiatives in December 2011, talk of a "Dignity Strike" in December 2011 andJanuary 2012 on the website of the Local Coordination Committees, one of the main resistance alliances. Whether much remains of these forms of struggles, I do not know. Of course, strikes and similar actions are rather difficult in a civil war situation. And ofcourse, there are different forms of workers' struggle. But the suggestion implied in the word "mass strikes" that there is a strong element of specifically workers' revolt is, I am afraid, wrong.
There are other aspects of the rather too positive picture these people are painting of the events. Sectarian dynamics, attacks on minorities, on non-Sunni communities like Alawites, execution and mistreatment of prisoners, are not denied. But they are not given much attention either. That FSA fighters don't just fight the armed regime forces, but also take revenge on people suspected of sympathizing with the regime; that parts of the resistence use bloodthirsty rhetoric against not just regime sypporters but against whole communities thought integrally to support the regime – the Alawites most of all – is not totally ignored. But it is treated as the sort of information that hurts the support the revolt deserves, and therefore not emphasized as it should be. The fact, however, is that these disagreeable aspects of the revolt are not minor incidents. They are logical practices for future bosses. They are symptomaticof a right wing of the revolt, a wing that is at the same time the deadly enemy of its liberatory potential. And this right wing is not a minor force; on the contrary, it is quite strong, and it seems to be growing.
This is the rational kernel in the otherwise despicable position of many of Assads 'critical' defenders: however horrible Assad may be, strong elements of the insurgency are no improvement. The revolt has not just two enemies: Assad and Western imperialism. It has a third enemmy: right wing forces operating inside the revolt, whether connected to outside reactionary powers or not. It is not totally irrelevant that many of the high-rank defectors of the Assad regime reappear to pronounce their support for the revolt – from exile in Qatar of all places, of all counterrevolutinary regimes in the region one of the most horrible. What kind of revolution is this, with a military base in Turkey, and two of its main sponsors the Saudi and Qatari regime? Asad Abu Khalil, on his blog the Angry Arab, asks questions like these, and gives item after item illustratiing these reactionary elements – and they are much more than just 'elements' – in the revolt. He exaggerates where he paints the FSA as almost only an Saudi/ Qatari / US proxy force, and misses some of the more positive things happening. But he should be taken seriously, as he is at the same time an opponent of the Assad regime and cannot stand its apologetics.
Yes, there is more to the revolt than the FSA; there is also the LCC, building community resistance. And no, the FSA is not just the sectarian outfit that for instance the Angry Arab says it is. But large parts of the FSA are sectarian outfits, and the various Jihadi groups outside it certainly are. That is not at all a reason to support the regime. But it should be a reason not to cheerlead the resistance as a whole, not talk about "The Syrian Revolution" as mainly a wave of progressive resistance. It is not. Yes, people had and still have very good and valid reasons to revolt. The rebellion has deep social roots, and resistance was and still is fully justified. But that does not at all mean that the dominant ideologies, practices and organisations now leading the revolt are just and supportable as well. They should be exposed and opposed just as ferociously as the regime should be exposed and opposed.
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According to iSuppli beancounters, the global semiconductor industry has started recovering, sort of.
The current quarter should see the first year-on-year quarterly growth since the start of the recession. However, this is really no surprise, as Q4 2008 was utterly horrible, but the 10-6 percent revenue jump is good news anyway.
Shipments are still down compared to pre-recession levels. Global semiconductor revenue is expected to contract by 16.5 percent in 2009. The decrease in 2008 was 5.4 percent.
iSuppli expects the market to rebound to pre-recession levels in 2011 or 2012, provided the world doesn't come to an end in 2012.
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EA Inc. this week released Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare.
Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare is a multiplayer shooter that includes a four-player co-op mode survival mode and characters like Peashooter that can plant turrets.
Other characters include the Chomper, Sunflower, and the Cactus, each with specific abilities. Enemies include Disco Zombie and Gigantuar.
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Are Liberals REALLY More Intelligent Than Conservatives?
I would like to share some love and as stated I said that it was an interesting post. You showed yourself capable of analysis and intelligence but then descended into lazy, blanket statements about liberals.
I hope that your reference to 'so called' independents is not a further attempt to polarise and manipulate people into supporting the corrupt 2 party system in the US.
Originally posted by Cosmic911
I wouldn't say Liberians are more intelligent than Conservatives. I would say liberals are more intelligent than hate-mongering people pretending to be good Christians.
Originally posted by neo96
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Those liberals who go around saying Conservatives hate women and children and push grandmas off cliffs?
More inteligent my arse.
A very common "sophisticated" position on ATS is that there is no difference between Republicans and Democrats. This allows the professor of these views to present himself as superior and enlightened, and it allows the side benefit of not requiring the speaker to know anything about either party.
Why not explore things like "More schooling brings more specializtion and more inhumanity." Or "Having overwhelmingly liberal professors (or conservative ones) is like intellectual incest, with the same mental results." I will watch with interest.
Originally posted by Stormdancer777
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Christians are easy prey, but perhaps you could have said,
I believe anyone is smarter than hate-mongering people pretending to be good _ _ _ _ _ _. fill in the blanks,
Do you think by calling Christian hate mongers, it makes you look like a hate monger?
threads here on ATS recently by suppossed Christians that are breeding grounds for hate and ill-will.
Originally posted by freethinker123
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I don't dispute his right to an opinion. What I do take issue with is any attempt to divide or making name calling generalisations about one 'group' above another. Fine if there is a concrete case being made to prove that liberals are 'brainwashed, intellectually dishonest' etc, make it but this isn't in the rant section, its a discussion about intelligence and political support.
The polarisation because of Obama... have you just woken up or something? US politics has been polarised for years. To be honest you sound a bit like a victim of one of the supposed two ideologies the politicians expect US citizens to support.
When a man promises to change the status-quo,as Obama did,and falls heavily short,dividing America,with perpetual rhetoric,and faulty policy,that's beyond party lines. That effects the whole of America,regardless of party lines.
Liberalism is all about appearances, not outcomes. What matters to liberals is how a program makes them FEEL about themselves, not whether it works or not. Thus a program like Headstart, which sounds good because it's designed to help children read, makes liberals feel good about themselves, even though the program doesn't work and wastes billions. A ban on DDT makes liberals feel good about themselves because they're "protecting the environment" even though millions of people have died as a result. For liberals, it's not what a program does in the real world; it's about whether they feel better about themselves for supporting it.
Liberalism creates a feedback loop. It is usually impossible for a non-liberal to change a liberal's mind about political issues because liberalism works like so: only liberals are credible sources of information. How do you know someone's liberal? He espouses liberal doctrine. So, no matter how plausible what you say may be, it will be ignored if you're not a liberal and if you are a liberal, of course, you probably agree with liberal views. This sort of close-mindedness makes liberals nearly impervious to any information that might undermine their beliefs.


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Runes of Magic – Interview with Matthias FellingerRecently we had the opportunity to talk about Runes of Magic with Matthias Fellinger, Product Manager. We received detailed answers for each questions, and got an inside view on what means to promote and manage one of the best free mmorpg on the market.
"Hello all XMMORPG readers. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk a little about Runes of Magic. My name is Matthias Fellinger and as the Product Manager I am responsible for a lot of tasks concerning Runes of Magic. Enjoy reading!" XMMORPG: First let's start with the game updates and patches. Does Frogster Online takes care of updates, or only the original developer Runewaker? Regarding our regular updates and patches, this is really teamwork between Runewaker Entertainment (our Developer) and Frogster. While Runewaker is programming and designing the content, we also have our own employees which are very dedicated to Runes of Magic. So both sides are responsible for creating new ideas. On the other hand we do get rather finished e.g. new zones from Runewaker and then have a deeper look at it and give feedback for improvement. In general this means that while Runewaker develops the game in Taiwan, we're working vigilantly on polishing it for the western community. XMMORPG: Runes of Magic has become one of the most popular free mmorpgs on the market. What are the features that make Runes of Magic so popular to the players? I think there are various reasons for the big success of the game. One is, as you said, the amount of features ingame. These are features that players already love, like personal and guild housing, demanding instances or enthralling pvp fights and also new features like the dual class system. Combined in an atmospheric landscape with 2500+ Quests, the game just stands for itself. But we think that there is another reason for its success and this is the business model behind Runes of Magic. As you know, we are free-to-play, meaning you can download the client for free and there are no monthly fees/subscription required to play the whole game. Furthermore we are offering new, free content on a monthly basis – like new dungeons or new zones – and big extensions – we call them chapters – every four to six months. So you don't have to spend one single penny to experience the game and will be entertained with new content on a regular base.
Additionally players can buy items for convenience (eg an Experience Potion, granting you an XP Bonus for one hour) or for style (giving your mount a special color) in the Item Shop. You will not find any weapons, armors or similar items in this shop to keep the balance ingame. We are also offering the players who don't want to spent money various opportunities to get access to Item Shop Items. We have the Phirius Token Shop, where you can buy several Item Shop items by using a special ingame currency, so called Phirius Tokens. Plus, you can trade gold (ingame currency) for diamonds (our real money currency) and vice versa in the Auction House. To sum up, offering free quality content that is just fun to play and never forcing users to buy ingame is our recipe for the success of Runes of Magic. XMMORPG: Many mmorpg players that didn't play the game say that ROM is a copy of World of Warcraft, what do you have to say about this? First of all, being compared to the most successful MMORPG out there isn't the worst thing that can happen. There are of course many game mechanics that are well know to the players and have established a certain "state of the art" and hey, why not stick to something that players like? But, everyone who takes a look at Runes of Magic will soon notice the differences. For example: Housing from level one, Guild Castles, dual class system, elite skills, millions of individualization possibilities and and and.. XMMORPG: We played the game and we were impressed of the number and quality of the features present, but the combat on melee side seemed somewhat poorly executed, as in the GFX, particles which are not very clear for each skill, and neither the sounds for them. Do you think this is a problem that you will work on, or is just a matter of taste? As in most of the MMOs, we are improving the game for all aspects constantly. Graphics and sounds are one of the issues we are currently having a closer look at. Our partner, award winning Dynamedion, responsible for our Soundtrack, is re-working a lot of the sounds of the game at the moment. As it is with issues like this, there are a lot of personal opinions flying around and therefore our community feedback is most valuable for our decisions. So everyone is invited to express their opinions on our official forums found on our website www.runesofmagic.com . Since we are designing the game for our players, every opinion is gathered by our hard working Community Managers and discussed internally and, in most cases, find their way into the game.
So yes, we are working on issues like this and yes, this is a matter of taste where we always try to find the way that most of our players pleases. Again, feel free to tell us your feedback via our forums or surveys. You will be heard! XMMORPG: Can you tells us a rough number of players the game has now? Sure, we were happy to announce that we just hit the 2 million mark with Game Accounts on 09/10/06. Talking about players and as it is the nature of free to play games, it depends what you declare as "player". Because the game is free to download and play, some might just register to give the game a quick try, some play regularly, some only a few hours a month and everything in between regarding playtime. We really think that this is one of the huge advantages of Runes of Magic and one of its reasons for the success: No matter how often and how long you play the game, there are no costs involved and there is no complicated process involved to e.g. pause you subscription like for the holidays. But, if you look at the game and its numbers since release in March 2009, we have an significant increase in active players every day and have already added several new servers since launch. We even offer localized servers for Spanish and French speaking players as well. XMMORPG: How is this publishing/managing of a mmo that wasn't developed from the start by your company, working so far for you? As I have stated before, we are having a very good and productive relationship with our developers and since the beginning, are taking actively part in adjusting the game. So we actually started the game in Europe like a "new game". We had our Closed Beta, the Open Beta and finaly the release in March. In all of these stages we improved and suggested redesigns to make the game even better, a lot of based our community feedback. Of course, the game itself had a lot of advantages and nice features already when we first saw it.
To conclude, we never felt that we lost control over the game at any stage of its progress. And, the successful partnership with Runewaker for Runes of Magic lead the way to a complete new project with the developers. We are all looking forward to this, but unfortunately I can't tell you more at this stage. XMMORPG: Can you give us a glimpse of the future updates and plans for this game? Of course we will stick to our routine for regular free updates. We are testing new elite skills and dungeons which we want to release within the next updates. As always there will be content like new mounts and of course improvements to existing content. And, as you might expect, we are working on more or less "secret" content which I don't want to spoil to much about it at this stage. But I am really looking forward to see that stuff ingame. Thank you for your time. See you all in Taborea! Take care, Matthias
RuMoR says:
RoM, the most expensive F2P game I have ever played. Sure it's free to play, but.. "You will not find any weapons, armors or similar items in this shop to keep the balance ingame." Weapons.. no, Armors.. no.. Purified Fusion stones.. Item Shop Jewels.. yes. Don't want to buy them? Don't think about doing anything fun in this game.. want to make your own weps and armors.. be prepared to gather for months and months on end.VA:F [1.9.10_1130]
Thrasher says:
Well RuMoR i think your just a little disgruntled because i apbsolutely LOVE RoM is great!! So for you to say these things im thinking your very mad maybe about buying the wrong set of equipment from item shop or what but you shouldnt degrade a great thimg that has happened to MMORPGS in a while! RoM will be around for a while and if I had the Opportunity I would love to have worked for Frogster making this game and such or even If I could get an opportunity to work with them in the future!VA:F [1.9.10_1130]
Jeremy S. says:
RoM is the most congenial and well balanced RMT based MMO out there. I've played 30+. Some players have expectations because they only want highest lvl and the raids at cap. Then they get there as fast as they can and feel they have to pay to upgrade armor fast. You can upgrade just fine in-game. Might take you a bit longer, but not impossibly long. I find it wel within reach. It's not like it will take you a year to get enough stuff to upgrade armor. I had 2 guildies that had some of the best armor in whole server who never paid and did it within 2 months.
It depends how long you can play at a time, but it's very reasonable. More reasonable than any other F2P game.
RoM has changed expectations for what a F2P game is, but many are trained from everything that came before it, so they compare apples to oranges.
If anyone can point me to a better F2P game, I'm all for it(The more super fun games for me the better). But I really don't think that any better F2P exists right now.VA:F [1.9.10_1130]
Ricardo says:
RoM is great, yeah sure. But frogster and runewaker are the dumbest and stupidest company on earth!
They don«t care about players, the EU forums are run by a Nazi team, they say they want to hear your opinion? Maybe only the good opinion as in licking their as****, because if you say anything bad about them or the game you will either get banned or have your post deleted. They take loads of time to fix anything. Mages are OP, Scouts and Wardens look like a joke. The servers now look almost deserted, except for the high lvl areas but its still few.
Here check this, its regarding the famous RoM balance between classes. Check other threads to on this forum:
(Main Forum page) http://romuncensored.freeforums.org/index.php
Allods Online is in close beta now, i suggest you come to this game and fuck for RoM, RoM is history, thanks to the wonderlfull job of Frogster and Runewaker.VA:F [1.9.10_1130]
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It's amazing that there are still thousands of mums out there that get a beating from their loved one, hubby/bf, some in front of their children. Ihate violence, no form of violence should be acceptable at all but while a man will slap you across the face & leave no scar or leave a bruise that you treat and it goes away, there is a slap far deeper than that, it goes to your heart, head and body! And it is VERBAL ABUSE, am talking about what a hubby/bf says to you whether it's a comment or abuse. It could affect you for the rest or your life directly or indirectly. Comments about a woman's looks, sexuality, size and brains are the most damaging. Over time these kick in & you start to believe them. Next it is low self-esteem, feeling of uselessness, hopelessness, struggling to live up to what your not.
We must guard against this form of abuse too, it is way too damaging!
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What do some hospitals do with babies that are aborted but still alive? Throw them in the 'dirty room'. What happens if a nurse reports such treatment? They're fired. What happens when hospitals violate the Born Alive Infants Protection Act and falsify legal documents? My guest, Jill Stanek, a nurse-now journalist, who goes where few women dare to go...bravely exposing the abortion industry's true face, talked with me about this on the show today.
She told of a nurse named 'Abby' who had an experience very similar to her own when she found an aborted baby boy that was still alive in the hospital 'dirty' room, left unattended to die. She reported this incident as well as other similar ones, but sadly, babies are aborted alive more often than is known...even to the mothers.
There are doctors who, as in the case above, falsify records instructing nurses to enter 'zero-zero' for the baby's vital signs, when in fact, the baby is very much alive. No attention is given to these babies to keep them alive, but rather they are disposed of in some of the most inhumane ways, as Jill described one aborted alive baby who was put in a bio-hazard bag and thrown out to die.
The Born Alive Infants Protection Act that Pres. Bush signed into law is being violated, and even when reported, little is being done to prosecute violations.
This is barbaric! There is no other word for it. Giving an abortion. The baby survives the abortion. Doctors and nurses do nothing to help it. Just leave it to die. But then, that's the point of the abortion, right? No baby.
As Dr. Kelly Hollowell writes in her book, "Struggling for Life",
"The most dangerous time in any child's life is his or her first nine months. That's because abortion takes one out of every four children conceived in America, making the route from womb to tomb very short for millions of unborn boys and girls."
Some abortionists and clinic workers are willing to talk about their experiences in the industry, such as in the following quotes gathered by Abortionfacts.com
"They [the women] are never allowed to look at the ultrasound because we knew that if they so much as heard the heart beat, they wouldn't want to have an abortion." -Dr. Randall, 'Pro-Choice 1990: Skeletons in the Closet" by David Kuperlain and Mark Masters in Oct "New Dimensions" magazine
Every woman has these same two questions: First, "Is it a baby?" "No" the counselor assures her. "It is a product of conception (or a blood clot, or a piece of tissue). . .How many women would have an abortion, if they told them the truth?" -Carol Everett, former owner of two clinics and director of four, "A Walk Through an Abortion Clinic" by Carol Everett ALL About Issues magazine
"I was trained by a professional marketing director in how to sell abortions over the telephone. He took every one of our receptionists, nurses, and anyone else who would deal with people over the phone through an extensive training period. The object was, when the girl called, to hook the sale so that she wouldn't get an abortion somewhere else, or adopt out her baby, or change her mind. We were doing it for the money." -Nina Whitten, chief secretary at a Dallas abortion clinic under Dr. Curtis Boyd
"If a woman we were counseling expressed doubts about having an abortion, we would say whatever was necessary to persuade her to abort immediately." -Judy W., former office manager of the second largest abortion clinic in El Paso, Texas
"We tried to avoid the women seeing them [the fetuses] They always wanted to know the sex, but we lied and said it was too early to tell. It's better for the women to think of the fetus as an 'it'. -Abortion clinic worker Norma Eidelman quoted in Rachel Weeping
"I have seen hundreds of patients in my office who have had abortions and were just lied to by the abortion counselor. Namely 'This is less painful than having a tooth removed. It is not a baby.' Afterwards, the woman sees Life magazine and breaks down and goes into a major depression." -Psychologist Vincent Rue quoted in "Abortion Inc" David Kupelian and Jo Ann Gasper, New Dimensions
"Clinic workers may say they support a woman's right to choose, but they will also say that they do not want to see tiny hands and tiny feet....there is a great difference between the intellectual support of a woman's right to choose and the actual participation in the carnage of abortion. Because seeing body parts bothers the workers." -Judith Fetrow, former clinic worker from San Francisco quoted in "Meet the Abortion Providers III"
"One night a lady delivered and I was called to come and see her because she was 'uncontrollable.' I went into the room, and she was going to pieces; she was having a nervous breakdown, screaming and thrashing. The other patients were upset because this lady was screaming. I walked in, and here was this little saline abortion baby kicking. It had been born alive, and was kicking and moving for a little while before it finally died of those terrible burns, because the salt solution gets into the lungs and burns the lungs too. I'll tell you one thing about D& E . You never have to worry about a baby's being born alive. I won't describe D & E , other than to say that, as a doctor, you are sitting there tearing, and I mean tearing- you need a lot of strength to do it- arms and legs off of babies and putting them in a stack on top of the table." -Dr. David Brewer of Glen Ellyn Illinois
"I got to where I couldn't stand to look at the little bodies anymore" -Dr. Beverly McMillan, when asked why she stopped performing abortions
"We know that its killing, but the state permits killing under certain circumstances" -Dr. Neville Sender, abortionist
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As this incredible well-known picture shows, taken by photographer Michael Clancy, it's a baby that's in the womb. A little human life. Dr. Joseph Bruner, Director of Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, was performing surgery on a 21-week-old baby while he was still in his mother's womb to alleviate the effects of spina bifida.
When Dr. Bruner had made the incision for this extraordinary operation, baby Samuel reached his tiny hand out of the uterus and clutched Dr. Bruner's middle finger. See picture of Samuel Armas, after he was born here.
I don't care how politically incorrect it is to talk about this. I don't care how many pro-choice liberals, feminists et al disagree with and get mad about what I've written. These practices are unnatural, barbaric, and unbelievable that doctors and nurses could perform such acts...that clinic workers would lie to vulnerable women about what abortion really is 'for the money.' If these 'procedures' were done to any other human being, other than a baby in the womb, they'd go to jail for murder.
But then, we've passed laws saying it's okay.
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I was looking at the other surrounding Cities and I found one that requires a franchise agreement that has to be approved by the City Council. They have to approve routes, stops, hours of operation, charge a fee, etc.
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