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Six Parallels Between Ancient Rome and Modern America
The following is an adapted excerpt from Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America, by Cullen Murphy (Houghton Mifflin).
1) The way we look at ourselves
"One parallel involves the way Americans see America; and, more to the point, the way the tiny, elite subset of Americans who live in the nation's capital see America — and see Washington itself. Rome prized its status as the city around which the world revolved. Official Washington shares that Ptolemaic outlook. Unfortunately, it's not a self-fulfilling prophecy — just a faulty premise. And it leads to an exaggerated sense of its importance in the eyes of others, and of its ability to act alone. Washington led the fight against some of the twentieth century's most dangerous '-isms.' Solipsism is one it missed."
2) The way we run our military
"Another parallel concerns military power. This is the subject that comes most often to mind when Rome and America are compared. All that empire talk! Rome and America aren't carbon copies or fraternal twins, in either approach to power or the tools at their disposal. Amid all the differences, though, two large common problems stand out. One is cultural and social: the widening divide between military society and civilian society. The other reason is demographic: the shortage of manpower. For a variety of reasons, Rome and America both start to run short of the people they need to sustain their militaries, and both have to find new recruits wherever they can. Rome turned to barbarians for help: not a good long-run solution, history would suggest. America is increasingly turning to its own outside sources — not the Visigothi and the Ostrogothe but the Halliburtoni and the Wackenhuti. Also not a good long-run solution."
3) The way we privatize public services
"A third parallel is something that can be lumped under the term 'privatization,' which can often also mean 'corruption.' Rome had trouble maintaining a distinction between public and private responsibilities — and between public and private resources. The line between these is never fixed, anywhere. But when it becomes too hazy, or fades altogether, central government becomes impossible to steer. It took a long time to happen, but the fraying connection between imperial will and concrete action is a big part of What Went Wrong in ancient Rome. America has in recent years embarked on a privatization binge like no other in its history, putting into private hands all manner of activities once thought to be public tasks: collecting the nation's taxes, patrolling its streets, defending its borders. This may make sense in the short term — and sometimes, like Rome, we may have no choice in the matter. But how will the consequences play out over decades, or centuries? Badly, I believe."
4) The way we look at others
"A fourth parallel has to do with the way Americans view the outside world — the flip side of their self-centeredness. Rome often disparaged the people beyond its frontiers, and generally underestimated their capabilities, even as it held and outsize opinion of its own superiority and power. America's attitude is more complicated than Rome's, and often more idealistic and well-meaning, but in many ways it's strikingly similar, and it leads to the same preventable form of blindness: either we don't see what's coming at us, or we don't see what we're hurtling toward."
5) The way we set our borders
"And then, fifth, is the question of borders. Historians in recent decades have invested much effort in the study of Rome's frontiers, showing that the fringe of empire was less a fence and more a threshold — not so much a firm line fortified with 'Keep Out' signs as a permeable zone of continual interaction, sometimes troublesome but normally peaceful and mutually advantageous. The borderlands could hardly have been anything else: this is always the dynamic when a rich and powerful civilization bumps up against a poor and less developed one. The dynamic can't be argued with or neutralized, and yet Rome coped successfully with this reality for many centuries, assimilating newcomers by the millions: that's the happy lesson. When historians describe life along the Rhine or the Danube frontier in Roman times, an American reader can't help conjuring an image of another boundary zone: the one that includes the Rio Grande."
6) The way we can't control consequences
"Finally, sixth, comes the complexity parallel. Sprawling powers like Rome and America face a built-in problem. They inevitably become impossible to manage, because the very act of managing has unpredictable ripple effects, of global scale, which in turn become park of the environment that needs to be managed. The theologian Reinhold Niebuhr was writing about a newly predominant America, but his observation (made fifty years ago) applies equally to Rome: 'The same strength which has extended our power beyond a continent has also…brought us into a vast web of history in which other wills, running in oblique or contrasting directions to our own, inevitably hinder or contradict what we most fervently desire.' The bigger the entity and the more things it touches, the more susceptible it is to forces beyond its control. Maintaining stability requires far more work than formenting instability. Analysts of modern terrorism wring their hands over a version of the same dilemma: governments can win only by defending everywhere; terrorists can win by succeeding anywhere. The complexity problem may have no real solution other than Thoreau's deceptively easy one: 'simplify.'"
This post was originally published by the Progressive Book Club.
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It is not "insurance" if the likelyhood of habing a claim is 100%.
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- GW+ is a quicker way of writing "Gateway Women Private Online Community on Google Plus! It's a private, members-only discussion community hosted on the Google Plus platform. It is open to all women over 18 who aren't mothers (or not yet), whatever the reason. There are many, many ways to find yourself childless when that wasn't the plan – as I've written about here in "50 Ways Not To Be A Mother".
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- Nothing you share in the GW+ Community is visible anywhere elsewhere on Google+ to anyone who is not a member of the GW+ Community. It can be confusing that you'll see your posts on your own Google+ home page, but that's because you're a member of the GW+ Community. You can change your settings so that your own posts from GW+ do not appear in your own home page, if that makes you feel safer.
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1. Location
overhead - Brine disposal study costs
1. Finds shortest paths between points on network (could be a GIS function)
2. Defines and modifies model parameters (e.g. components of pipe and truck cost equations)
3. Uses shortest paths and parameters to calculate transport costs by each mode
4. Searches for optimum solution using add, drop and swap heuristics add - start with no facilities, at each step place facilities in location which best improves objective drop - start with facilities at every node, at each step drop the facility which produces least deterioration in the objective swap - try to improve the objective by moving facilities from one node to another
5. Evaluates solutions and displays results
overhead - Brine disposal options costs
overhead - Sensitivity analysis
Ghosh, A. and G. Rushton, 1987. Spatial Analysis and Location- Allocation Models, Van Nostrand, Reinhold, New York. Includes many applications of location-allocation methods.
Golden, B.L. and L. Bodin, 1986. "Microcomputer-based vehicle routing and scheduling software," Computers and Operations Research 13:277-85. Reviews the availability of network analysis modules for microcomputers.
Goodchild, M.F. and J.A. Donnan, 1987. "Optimum location of liquid waste disposal facilities: formation fluid in the Petrolia, Ontario oilfield," in M. Chatterji, Editor, Hazardous Materials Disposal: Siting and Management, Gower, Aldershot, UK, pp 263-73.
1. Evaluate the Petrolia study as an example of the application of an objective, scientific technique. In what ways was the methodology arbitrary? Which parts of it would be most difficult to defend in court, and which parts would be easiest?
2. The Petrolia study was presented as an isolated stage in the decision-making process. Discuss the issues involved in implementing the results of studies like these, and ways in which the models and associated GIS might be involved as the implementation proceeds.
3. What functions would a GIS need to play the role outlined in this unit? What functions would be important in "selling" the solution through the political process, and modifying the solution in response to new concerns?
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Born Kiyoharu Matsumoto in Kokura (now Kokura Kita Ward, Kitakysh City), Fukuoka Prefecture, on the island of Kyushu in Japan in 1909, he later adopted the pen name of Seich Matsumoto. A product of humble origins, he was his parents' only child. Following his graduation from elementary school, Matsumoto found employment at a utility company. As an adult he designed layouts for the Asahi Shinbun newspaper in Kyushu. His work in the advertising department was interrupted by service in World War II. A medical corpsman, Matsumoto spent much of the war in Korea. He resumed work at Asahi Shinbun after the war, transferring to the publication's Tokyo office in 1950.
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An RCMP officer in Surrey, B.C., shot and killed a pit bullthat had threatenedto attack a woman who was already being mauled by two of the dogs in her home Sunday afternoon.
The victim, who takes in previously abused dogs, was being bitten on the arms and legs by two of the adopted animals.
The officer fired asingle shot, killing a third dog that was acting aggressively.
The officer then pulled the injured woman out of the house and locked the other dogs inside, before administering first aid. The woman was recovering in hospital Monday morning.
The B.C. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals told CBC News Monday morning it had taken custody of the two dogs.
Lorie Chortyk, general manager of community relations for the SPCA, said she believed one of the dogs became aggressive and the other two followed because of their "pack mentality."
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GOV. Arnold Schwarzenegger's ambitious plans for his second term may crumble if the state's nonpartisan legislative analyst is correct with her numbers.
While the governor pitched a $2.1 billion surplus when he unveiled his budget in January, Elizabeth Hill estimated that due to slower-than-expected revenue projections, Schwarzenegger's plan would actually leave the state with a $726 million shortfall for fiscal 2007-08.
If we assume Hill to be correct — and she often has been — this a warning that must be heeded. Economists have said that a slugglish housing market has hurt economic growth, and state revenues in January were $1 billion lower than projected due to lagging personal income tax collections — the two could be related judging by rising home foreclosures. Though the answer won't be known until tax season is over, Hill's estimations have been reliable over the years through Republican and Democrat administrations.
A spokesman for Schwarzenegger basically said the governor intends to stay the course, but we hope he takes a thorough look at this report and takes a realistic approach with the upcoming budget. This will be further evidence of whether Schwarzenegger has truly learned from the "girlie man" mistakes of his previous term.
We believe he has. Schwarzenegger has been willing to change before when it came to transportation and working with the state Legislature, and he does have the insight to see both sides. Our advice to him is: The sooner you prepare for the worst, the better.
The troubling aspect of all this is that last year there was a windfall of more than $8 billion that was spent on education and other programs. Yet a potential shortfall this year should've been anticipated. The housing boom led to the windfall, but real estate analysts warned that the market was moving at an unrealistic pace. We've been on this budget rollercoaster for years — one year we spend, the next year we cut. When are we going to learn to keep some revenue in reserve for a rainy day?
The problem, too, is that much of the budget is already spent due to state and voter commitments, such as bond measures. Now, just when lawmakers in Sacramento were on the doorstep of cooperative euphoria, there stands the potential for a huge roadblock.
If the rain comes, the new spirit of cooperation in Sacramento may wash away. Expect budget fights to commence among the governor, Democrats and Republicans. If the analyst's numbers hold true, some valuable programs will suffer and the ongoing budget debt Schwarzenegger promised to eliminate will no doubt linger.


text: At the moment my guild is extending our heroic ID every week to kill paragons and then garrosh. Someone is looking for a normal Garrosh kill and I don't think it works but I figured I'd check here too. Can one player from our main team hold the lockout and everyone else kills normal Garrosh, then the player holding the lockout (who wasn't in for Garrosh can extend it next week to get back to Paragons)? I didn't think it'd work since heroic modes have IDs and aren't flexible but I wasn't too sure on the rules once the raid had been changed to normal mode. Am I right in thinking that as soon as you kill one heroic boss then it's stuck as a heroic ID no matter what?


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Thread: New York Chinese Shao-Lin Center
1/10/2009 4:48pm, #1
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My experience at this school lasted only a month, because at that point, I found bullshido and realized that I should be training at a school with aliveness and non-compliant drills. That said, I have no beef with anyone at the center or the instructor, who seems to be IMO a great guy despite perhaps the fact the he may be unaware of the limitations of his art. I have tried to keep this review as objective as possible so that people who are looking for Kung Fu or other traditional arts in New York know exactly what this place is and isn't and don't end up wasting money and time like I did. All of my descriptions pertain to the lower belt classes, as I did not see much of any of the blackbelt classes.
All of the lower belt "Kung Fu" classes, excluding the "Special Class Festivals", which cost extra and include "Classical I Chin Ching", "Technical Punching and Kicking", "Hou Tien Chi Meditation", and "Yin/Yang Conditioning and Stretching", are run pretty much exactly the same as the last. All began with a warm-up that last about 30 minutes or so and consisted of some push-ups, sit-ups, static stretching, and punching and kicking the air or practicing the "sparring techniques" (i.e. sequences of punches and kicks) also against the air.
The next part of class would involve sparring in 3 minute rounds against 2 or 3 different people, chosen randomly, followed by a round or two of sparring against multiple opponents. This is part of how I slowly realized that I wasn't going to get what I wanted out of this school. I was never bruised, only perhaps slightly tapped or more often, not touched at all during the sparring sessions. This is not to say that I was "better" than the other students, but that pulling punches and kicks was the rule. In theory there should have been light contact (according to the instructor) but often this really translated into no contact.
Finally, we would break up into groups by belts, and work on several of the 900 forms that make up the CSC/Shaolin-Do syllabus'. We would also occasionally work on Chin-Na (self-defenese/anti-crappling stuff) or the upper belts would work on weapons. Everything done in these sessions seemed highly impractical and was always practiced against a compliant, non-resisting partner. There was never any standard against which to measure if any of this stuff actually did or did not work. There were usually about 20-30 students at each class, and sometimes only the instructor and no other black belts, which meant that brown belts would teach during a majority of these final forms sessions, some of whom, it seemed, didn't remember all of the forms they had originally learned.
All in all, there were probably some people there who could really fight, but I don't consider that an endorsement of the school. What bothered me the most is that there was never any real test of these techniques against resisting opponents in a meaningful. It seemed, to me, that a lot of it was just learning forms and what not for the sake of learning forms. The vibe was OK, less bullshit it seems than many of the other Shaolin-do/CSCs, but many people took themselves and their MA way too seriously, which was also a turn off. I suppose that my recommendation would be, that if you want to get some exercise in a less-than-completely serious environment, this place is OK, but I'm pretty sure that the BS outweighs the useful in terms of actual martial arts.
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You gotta have some big balls to have that school next to Shi Yanming's.The best Kung Fu school in WNY
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I think this is how all of the Shaolin Do schools are. Thats how the one here (Lexington, Ky) is run and it's thier main headquarters.
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The "Chin-Na (self-defenese/anti-crappling stuff)" should definitely have been against a actively resisting partner, but I have seen this within several of the CSC's and it is a common fault. That said you often can find partners who are more willing to actively resist and make you prove your techniques are being performed effectively. I would as a result say that blame for that falls on both the partners you had, and the instructor for not encouraging people to actually test their partners more.


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Municipal Accounting Reforms in India: An Implementation Guide
To further strengthen India's urban local bodies in their financial management, the central government developed guidelines for moving to a double entry accrual-based accounting system.
India's first generation of economic reforms made a significant change in the perception of the role of local self-government bodies in the Indian public governance system. One of the important reforms introduced during this period was the Constitution (Seventy-fourth Amendment) Act, 1992. This reform empowered the urban local bodies in India to function as local self-governments as the third tier of governance. With the view to further strengthen these urban local bodies in their financial management the central government also developed guidelines for moving to a double entry accrual-based accounting system through the introduction of a National Municipal Accounts Manual.
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Mass Market Paperbound)
The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America's place in the world, refreshingly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here sets out his political convictions and inspires us to trust in the dogged optimism that has long defined us and that is our best hope going forward.
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Back in Time 06-23-09
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June 23, 1959: Mrs. Emma Waller, 92, of Kress underwent successful surgery for an acute appendectomy a week ago Monday.
*Outstanding Bible teacher Mrs. Cecil Watson inspired members of First Baptist WMU with her beautiful Bible lesson Monday morning.
*Roland R. Buhrkuhl of Plainview is among 35 junior and senior Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets from West Texas State College who will participate in a six-week training camp at Fort Hood.
*Charles E. Saigling advertised a $250 reward for information leading to the recovery of property stolen from his home on the night of May 19.
June 23, 1969: Actress Judy Garland, 47, was found dead by her fifth husband, Mickey Deans, in the bathroom of her London home.
*Direct Distance Dialing will go into effect in Plainview on Sunday, according to Bob Davis, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company manager.
*Twenty-one Rainbow girls attended Grand Assembly in Fort Worth. Mrs. Gene Ridlehuber is Mother Advisor.
*Joy Parnell, Home Service Advisor of Southwestern Public Service, reviewed a new electronic range at the Area I Young Homemakers annual summer college at Texas Tech.
*June 23, 1979: Mrs. Glen Godsey will preside over the Women's Missionary Union meetings at the Mexican Baptist Convention in Lubbock.
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*A reception, wardrobe show and talent preview featuring Leah Kay Lyle, Miss Haltom-Richland Area of 1989, will be at the Harral Recital Hall on Saturday.
*Chris Hooten, former Herald sports editor and current member of the sports staff of the Amarillo Globe-News, received third place in sports coverage in the Texas Press Association Contest.
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Sea Turtles, Cell Phones and the WTO
Briggs, William, Communication World
Global trade protests show major changes are upon us...
Throughout history, climactic battles have resulted in major change for people and organizations alike. And among the fallout from the recent World Trade Organization (WTO) debacle--dubbed the 'Battle in Seattle'--are numerous lessons about the way organizations will have to change how they communicate in the new century. Trade issues aside, the real effect of the failed negotiations and the howl of protest that surrounded them is that organizations will never be able to manage their communication in the same way again.
In a new millennium where globalization is a fact, despite the wide range of concerns and protests the concept engenders, the inept behavior of the WTO, itself, was a shocking example of how not to communicate its messages. Even most entry-level communicators could have managed this issue better. The WTO event planning team was also woefully deficient, though the city of Seattle shares some of the blame here. The events of the week clearly demonstrated the arrival of new technologies as a democratizing, equalizing means of moving messages, mobilizing people, and framing public opinion. The real result is that the year 2000 begins with stakeholders no longer reduced to message recipients, but fully informed participants. Organizations can no longer assume a cavalier attitude, taking these stakeholders for granted. Modern public relations is largely a 20th-century phenomenon, but as we enter the 2lst century there appears to be a need to reevaluate the role of activist constituencies and perhaps reexamine the a ctivist role of public relations itself.
The World Trade Organization is the five-year-old successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), established after World War II to facilitate free flow of global commerce and prevent the protectionism that fostered the Great Depression. Headquartered in Geneva, with 135 member nations, the WTO operated with a 1999 budget of U.S.$78.5 million and may be the most powerful nonprofit organization in the world. The WTO administers trade agreements, serves as a forum for trade negotiations, handles trade disputes, monitors national trade policies and provides technical assistance and training to developing nations. Unlike GATT, the WTO has enforcement powers, including the ability to levy fines on nations not abiding by its rulings over trade disputes.
The Seattle ministerial round was the WTO's third international conference since inception. The broad focus of this round of talks was to further international trade liberalization. As host nation, the U.S. had the responsibility for ensuring an appropriate setting for these talks, making concessions to keep the talks moving forward, advancing its own agenda at the same time. Before the Seattle meeting, the WTO was a nameless acronym, with virtually no recognition among the world's citizenry. Even among the insiders who understand and operate within the WTO bureaucracy there was substantial room for disagreement and contention. But as the WTO became better known, if still poorly understood by the endless stream of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), special interests and workers of the world, the WTO became the focus of every fear and frustration of living in a globalizing world, and the streets of Seattle became ground zero.
One would think that the WTO would have been able to communicate its story easily. Globalization is improving the lives of people worldwide, although unevenly and at varying rates. The World Bank estimates that the percentage of people living in poverty worldwide declined from 28.7 to 24.3 percent during the decade of the 1990s, a period of expanding globalization and expanding world trade. Trade creates more markets for national products, allowing expansion at home, more jobs, greater investment and more products at lower prices for consumers through imports. Trade makes countries richer. …


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Wisconsin Republicans are slowly turning up the heat on Democrats, like the proverbial frog being slowly boiled (a trope that is untrue, by the way). Stopping direct deposits of paychecks and per diem payments (how can legislators collect per diem expense payments if they aren't on the job?) is nice, as is the threat to pass a photo ID requirement for voting. But if Republicans really want to turn up the temperature, they should consider fast-tracking two other measures: easy and quick alternative certification for new public-school teachers, who could then replace striking teachers, and expanding school choice.
Another note: One of the signs that Reagan was going to succeed in breaking the air-traffic controllers' strike in 1981 was when other labor unions offered only verbal support. No other labor union observed the striking controllers' picket lines at airports. Of course, there are no picket lines to cross in Wisconsin, but have there been any of the usual threats to boycott Wisconsin cheese, cancel conventions, and otherwise make the state a pariah, as happened when Arizona passed its anti-illegal-immigration measures last year? So far, all you've seen from the AFL-CIO's Rich Trumka is his best imitation of a thug.


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> Despite predictions that doing business via the Internet and > the World Wide Web would be a de-humanising process with less > and less face-to-face contact, or should I say human > inter-facing, the individuals who make up the music industry > still appear to have an appetite for person-to-person > contact, and socialising – or again, should I say – > networking. The number of trade shows and showcase events is > on the increase and attendance at selected, and in some cases > nearly all, of these appears to be considered essential and > worth paying out for by a high proportion of the business. What slight did the English language do to you that you should abuse it so? Regards, Jon Hanna Work: <http://www.selkieweb.com/> Play: <http://www.hackcraft.net/> Chat: <irc://irc.freenode.net/selkie>Received on Friday, 28 January 2005 23:20:17 UTC
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Last weekend was the best of times. This weekend is the worst. It's "Fast Between Means Saturday." No ranked teams play each other. Only five ranked teams play a Power 5 opponent. UCF, Tulsa, Kentucky, and Nevada will be playing games on national broadcast networks.
This is the sort of weekend where you'll be stumbling around at last call and talk yourself into Penn State vs. Pitt sitting over there in a dank corner. Some teams are playing at a NASCAR track, if you're into that sort of thing.
Biggish Games
Penn State at Pittsburgh: James Franklin signed on with Penn State, pledging to "dominate the state." Three years in, the Nittany Lions travel to Pitt, with an even newer coach, as six-point underdogs. This is the first of a crucial two-game, in-state stretch for Penn State stretch. The second game is Temple, who beat the Nittany Lions down last year. Things won't be looking swell for JF if they are 1-2 heading into their Big Ten opener, at Michigan. [Noon ET ESPN]
Arkansas at TCU: First meeting for the former conference opponents since 1991. Arkansas underwhelmed in week one, needing a late touchdown to fend off Louisiana Tech. TCU did so as well, being forced to come from behind against South Dakota State. The disappointments meet, with the Horned Frogs being healthy favorites. The last time Kenny Hill played Arkansas he threw for two long touchdowns in the fourth quarter to tie the game and a third in overtime for the win, appearing to cement his place in Texas A&M history. [7:00pm ESPN]
BYU at Utah: The Holy War returns to the regular season. The fans don't like each other. The teams tend to play close, weird games. In last year's Las Vegas Bowl, Utah ran up a 35-0 lead in the first quarter, then nearly blew it, hanging on for a 35-28 win. Can BYU do it on the road a second-straight week? [7:30pm ET FOX]
Tennessee vs. Virginia Tech: Football at a NASCAR venue. An attendance record that few outside Ann Arbor will care about. This is the first true look at Justin Fuente's Virginia Tech and new QB Jerod Evans. This game will be a bellwether for where Tennessee is heading after escaping Appalachian State in week one. Stinking up the place as a double-digit favorite again could see Butch Jones move up this list. [8:00pm ET ABC]
Texas Tech at Arizona State: High Octane vs. High Swag. The coach once linked with Britney Spears vs. the coach who once used a similar headset to Britney Spears. We know what we're getting with Texas Tech. They play offense. They don't play defense. We have no idea what we're getting with Arizona State. They do some things well. They do others terribly. Maybe they get it together for a night game at home. These teams combined for 8 games last season in which both teams scored 40 points. Solid chance of some P12/B12 After Dark. [10:00pm ET FS1]
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Kentucky at Florida: This is the lead SEC game of the weekend. Can Mark Stoops get his team to play all four quarters? Can the Wildcats withstand the Luke Del Rio aerial assault (44 throws against UMass?). Not sure whether it's more surprising Florida is a 16.5 point favorite or that Florida is expected to score at least 16.5 points. [3:30pm ET CBS]
Iowa State at Iowa: For all the corn and political caucuses. Kirk Ferentz got a jaw dropping contract extension. Losing to Iowa State – the Hawkeyes have dropped three of the last five and the last two at Kinnick – would be incredibly "Kirk Ferentz." [7:30pm ET BTN]
Washington State at Boise State: The Cougars are coached by Mike Leach. The Broncos run an up tempo offense and tend to give up big pass plays. This could be the palate cleanser America needs after an atrocious day of football. Set the end time over/under at 2:00am ET. [10:15pm ET ESPN2]


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| utopian sky chapter 1 . 3/16/2005
this sort of reminds me of a [really] short poem i wrote about my insecurities. it's painfully honest and perfectly beautiful.
| spenga chapter 1 . 3/24/2004
Hey lookie I'm reviewing! So you can't attack my poor defenceless ankles :P hehe. I liked this alot, can relate to it as I've often felt the feeling of being 'repressed' or unable to be ME. It's short but good :) congrats


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Fat Tuesday at the Friendly Planet
JUNEAU - Local musician Collette Costa, the alter-ego of KBJZLP-FM radio personality The Morning Madame, will host a Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, at the Friendly Planet, 200 Seward Street.
The show, $7, will include performances from Costa, Buddy Tabor, Albert McDonnell, Riley Woodford, Terry Schwartz and more.
Refreshments will be available, and a "fabulous time" is "guaranteed."
DVD releases
"The Agatha Christie Collection" (A&E Home Video: nine-disc DVD $139.95) This collection includes 13 cases featuring two of Agatha Christie's greatest sleuths: Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
"Camp" (MGM: DVD $29.98; PG-13) This Grand Jury Prize-winner at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival includes a cast of young people selected from a nationwide search. The musical comedy follows the wannabe celebrities as they prepare for their biggest performance.
"Dummy" (Lions Gate: DVD $26.98; R) Academy Award-winner Adrien Brody ("The Pianist") stars as a lovable loser who becomes a ventriloquist and finds his own voice.
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Since the last batch of updates about 4 days ago or so, on initial boot-up of the day I'm not getting a login screen but am getting an error saying that I'm running in low-graphics mode. Clicking OK gets me to a menu of four options, like reconfigure, troubleshoot, and exit to console login, but I have no cursor and am unable to select any of the options.
I've been using CTRL-alt-SysRq REISUB to recover, but what can I do to fix or at least troubleshoot this issue?
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There must be something in the water in France. Something that causes common sense to exit the bodies of young women. Something that makes the young ladies sunbath topless. Of course, French magazines love the chance to capture it all with a zoom lens! We all know about the problems poor Duchess Kate is having with the paparazzi. Now add supermodel and 'Project Runway' host Heidi Klum to the mix of topless photo opportunities.
Heidi was vacationing on a beach in the south of France, topless, when the pictures were taken. These pictures have appeared in a few of the French tabloids, and on several French websites as well. The supermodel and 'Project Runway' star is considering legal action, but needs to figure out which magazine published the topless photos first. A source says that Heidi may wait to see how Kate Middleton's lawsuit regarding her topless pictures plays out before she begins her own proceedings.
Do you feel some compassion for the girls who thought that they were enjoying a bit of privacy, or do you think that they really should have been a bit more careful as public figures?


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Through tears, Jeralynn Blueford made a promise on behalf of her son, who was fatally shot in May by an Oakland police officer. "Alan cannot speak, so I'm going to speak for Alan," she said to a crowd of about 50 protesters on Saturday at the Eastmont substation of the Oakland Police Department. The OPD's "job is to protect and serve—I was not served and Alan was not protected. We are about standing for justice."
The Blueford family, friends and other members of the Justice for Alan Blueford coalition gathered Saturday to speak out about the officer-involved shooting death of the 18-year-old Skyline High School senior. Though it has been six months since the teen's death, family members said they have yet to receive a police report detailing the incident.
Read the rest of the story and see photos by Samantha Masunaga at Oakland North.
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By Bill Kozloff
Undefeated heavyweight contender Magomed Abdusalamov (18-0, 18KOs) is ready for a step-up opponent and says there is no issue with facing either Johnathon Banks (29-2-1, 19KOs) of Chris Arreola (35-3, 30KOs) in the fall. Magomed has already fought twice in 2013, stopping Victor Bisbal in five rounds in March and then destroying Sebastian Ceballas in the first round in April. Magomed's first choice would be Arreola, because of the Mexican boxer's fighting style.
"I would be interesting in facing Banks, but he said that he injured both hands in the fight against [Seth] Mitchell [last month]. Of course, I would like to first meet with Chris Arreola. I like boxers who go out there and fight, who give a good show. Fighters who are going to be running around the ring, I'm not interested. I need a strong opponent, someone who would be interesting to the spectators and the TV networks," Magomed said.
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It's wrapped in star attractive gold plating and it's got a supercar badge, but you won't find any traces of the 450 hp air-cooled flat-six 3.6-litre engine under the hood. And it won't reach 100 km/h in 3.7 seconds – well, it won't actually reach 100 km/h, period.
That's because what you're unbelievably looking at is an Austrian made bicycle Porsche – the work of one Johannes Langeder, 48, which invested only £11,000 in making (by himself) his car. Which is also road legal – because in Austria it's treated like a bike.
Speaking of which – although it has all it needs to look like a proper Porsche – from headlights and badge to brake lights and huge rear wing, the creation is treated by Austrian law like any other bike.
And so we come to its top speed of 10 mph (16 km/h) – achievable only if the owner does break a sweat! On the other hand it's eerie quiet and entirely and utterly truly eco-friendly.
"The most impressive feature is its extreme slowness – everyone on the street is faster than you. You are no enemy to other road users and the slowness is a kind of luxury. Most car drivers need a second look before they realize it is technically a bicycle," says Langeder, originally from the northern Austrian city of Linz.
The car took 6 months and around 1,000 hours to build, is made of a steel-frame and only weighs 99.6 kg – the rest of the car is equipped with plastic tubes, cardboard, aluminum foil and miles of tape. Oh, and it also has 24 gears…
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Avoid calling terrorists jihadis: USJune 2nd, 2008 - 9:39 pm ICT by ANI
New York, June 2 (ANI): The US State Department recently circulated an internal memo advising foreign service officers to avoid calling terrorists jihadists or jihadis.
But President Bush, Secretary of Defence Robert Gates and members of the news media continue to use them regularly, The New York Times reported.
The word jihad means to strive or struggle, and in the Muslim world it has traditionally been used in tandem with fi sabilillah (in the path of God).
The term has long been taken to mean either a quest to find ones faith or an external fight for justice. It makes sense, then, for terrorists to associate themselves with a term that has positive connotations.
For the US to support them in that effort, however, is a fundamental strategic mistake.
First, to call a terrorist a jihadist or jihadi effectively puts any campaign against terrorism into the framework of an existential battle between the West and Islam.
Second, these words locate the ideological battle exactly where the extremists want it to be.
Third, when American leaders use this language it sends a confusing message to the Muslim world, showing ignorance on basic issues and possibly even raising doubts about American motives. (ANI)
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EDITORIAL: Fix flood insurance, but don't penalize average homeowners
Published 4:00 am, Thursday, October 3, 2013
Flood insurance should work the way car insurance does. If you have a good driving record, and you don't have an unusual vehicle, your insurance should be affordable. If you have a bad record and drive a Maserati, expect to pay more.
With flood insurance, that means if your primary home is in a reasonable location and you haven't filed claims before, coverage shouldn't cost you and arm and a leg. But if you're trying to insure a second home, maybe on the edge of a waterway, it won't be cheap.
Congress is trying to make the National Flood Insurance self-sufficient, and frankly that means higher premiums for some property owners. That's OK as long as costs are based on factors like risk and record. But unfairly high costs for average homeowners would drive them out of the program.
After Congress gets past this silly shutdown, this issue should be resolved once and for all for coastal residents.


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Sears Canada is Closing Even More Stores This Year!
It appears that Sears Canada has been struggling for quite some time now - years to be exact. So sadly, Sears has decided to downsize again. In 2012 Sears had sold 3 stores for $170 million and in 2013 they told everyone that they also sold a few more leases for $191 million. Later in 2013 Sears had announced they were closing five more stores. And now? They are closing more stores again.
I will be incredibly sad if Sears leaves us entirely, but while trying to cut down their costs they have decided to focus more on their department stores (like the ones you see within malls). They say they want to focus on home products. Their executive chairman is quite determined to turn their business around and help them strive again.
It sounds like they will only be scaling back their under-performing locations at this time. Sears has approximately 10 outlet stores, 40 home stores and 95 traditional full department stores. I wonder what is going on? We lost Target entirely, Future Shop closed up and Staples is downsizing quickly.
All in all, Sears Canada has made no final decisions about which locations will be closed at this time. Once all the arrangements are finalized, we will hear about which locations will be leaving us.
Moosers, what do you think is going on?
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- FenIt's a marketing issue. They need to make their store "younger" as its still viewed by many as a store where grandma gets her nighties. Their website isn't great either. They need a revamp much like what we saw with The Bay. I buy stuff online during sales days, but the fact is that you can buy the same products elsewhere for much cheaper a lot of the time. Either you are high end or you're not. If you're not, then the prices should reflect that.
- sdabIt's not just a marketing issue, it's a customer service issue to. My father used to do installations for Sears for over 20 years, and then a few years back they completely changed the their Installation services. Instead of Sears doing it direct, they had Sears Home Service do it. Installs that used to happen in a few days time where taking a month to do. My father, who did electrical installations, kept getting work orders for plumbing installations. Installers weren't getting paid. Customers weren't getting installs. The Sales Team at our Sears location ending up just telling customers to contact the installers directly, since doing it through SHS was losing them customers. In the end SHS went bankrupt. I know my father's company was out $600 in unpaid fees from SHS, though he knew people who were owed $20k+. I'm sure that a lot of customers lost faith in Sears during the whole SHS ordeal.
- PaulinCalgaryDefinitely a question of identity. Trying to do too much but doing too little. It is viewed as an old person store for the most part; somewhere your Grandparents went to. Young people are the ones that spend the money. It needs to reinvent itself as something that makes people want to go to Sears. I find great deals on there, but the atmosphere in terms of displays and marketing is pretty poor. And I'm not "old" yet, even though I'm getting there..
- OingoThey have become irrelevant. I was just sent a flyer and opened it immediately only to find out the one product that I was interested in was not available. I also documented them changing msrp prices by adding a word to the description of the product. Their own branded products purposely don't have model numbers or names on them so that this is easy to do. They were not smart enough though to change the location of the images so when I searched for the old product number it came up with the "new" one and the images were in the same location. It's illegal to falsify the regular selling price of a product and in turn use discount percentages to misrepresent the actual value.
- willyAll I know is that my family got the best winter coats for the best price this winter in Calgary. No one else came close, not the Bay, not SportCheck, not REI and so on. The quality of clothes has gotten a lot better. I stopped shopping at Sears years ago because their clothes became all mis- sized chinese junk. Now they are much better and we go shopping there. I hope Sears keeps up the good work and the great products. We also only buy Kenmore humidifiers because they last longer.


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Egyptian Candor
Egyptian Candor: A Dark Horse in Near Darkness The 1965 race is memorable for a lot of reasons. With an awe-some, torrential rain on Hambletonian eve, the Du Quoin track was reduced to a sea of mud. The first heat of the day's program did not get off until nearly 4:00 and then the Hambletonian field proceeded to take four heats in determining a winner. It was both an uplifting and disheartening day for Stanley Dancer, trainer of the eventual winner, Egyptian Candor, a colt owned and bred by the Dancers. Dancer had Noble Victory in the race as the prohibitive favorite. Both before and after the Hambletonian, Noble Victory would be the cream of the crop, but on Hambletonian Day, Noble Victory could not handle the off track . Short Stop, with the veteran Ned Bower in the sulky, took the first heat, trotted in 2:051 over the sticky going, defeating Nimble Boy by a head. Noble Victory made a break in the opening heat and finished a badly beaten ninth. In the second heat, Del Cameron, substituting for Dancer, got Egyptian Candor home a winner over Nimble Boy and Armbro Flight. The mile was trotted in 2:04.3. The three heat winners were barely visible as they loafed through the opening three-quarters. Egyptian Candor came out just after the half, and engaged the filly Armbro Flight from there home, and recorded a narrow win. For Del Cameron, it was his second Hambletonian victory, and for Stanley Dancer, victory was tinged with the defeat of Noble Victory, who was fourth overall.
Stanley Dancer won his first Hambletonian as a trainer, with a horse owned by his wife. However, he elected to drive the overwhelming pre-race favorite, and seemingly unbeatable, Noble Victory, who came into the Hambletonian with a 20-race win streak. In the first heat, Noble Victory made a break over the sticky racetrack and finished ninth. In the second heat, Del Cameron, subbing for Dancer, won with Noble Victory's stablemate Egyptian Candor. Noble Victory, still struggling over the surface, was seventh. When the great filly Armbro Flight beat Egyptian Candor to win the third heat (Noble Victory was third) the race was forced to a fourth heat for just the fifth time in its history. Cameron asked Dancer to take over and drive Egyptian Candor in the three-horse race-off, but Dancer told him "it's your race to win or lose." Del Cameron won his second Hambletonian in near darkness, a little before 8:00 p.m. The photographer's flashes illuminated a narrow win for Egyptian Candor over Armbro Flight. A homebred form the Dancer's Egyptain Acres Stable, Egyptian Candor was the fourth sond of 1950 runner-up Star's Pride to win the classic.
Egyptian Candor
There is no video for the 1965 Hambletonian.