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What's the biggest fiscal problem facing the developed world?
To an objective observer, the answer is a rising burden of government spending, which is caused by poorly designed entitlement programs, growing levels of dependency, and unfavorable demographics. The combination of these factors helps to explain why almost all industrialized nations—as confirmed by BIS, OECD, and IMF data—face a very grim fiscal future.
If lawmakers want to avert widespread Greek-style fiscal chaos and economic suffering, this suggests genuine entitlement reform and other steps to control the growth of the public sector.
But you probably won't be surprised to learn that politicians instead are concocting new ways of extracting more money from the economy's productive sector.
They've already been busy raising personal income tax rates and increasing value-added tax burdens, but that's apparently not sufficient for our greedy overlords.
Now they want higher taxes on business. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, for instance, put together a "base erosion and profit shifting" plan at the behest of the high-tax governments that dominate and control the Paris-based bureaucracy.
What is this BEPS plan? In an editorial titled "Global Revenue Grab," The Wall Street Journal explains that it's a scheme to raise tax burdens on the business community:
After five years of failing to spur a robust economic recovery through spending and tax hikes, the world's richest countries have hit upon a new idea that looks a lot like the old: International coordination to raise taxes on business. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on Friday presented its action plan to combat what it calls "base erosion and profit shifting," or BEPS. This is bureaucratese for not paying as much tax as government wishes you did. The plan bemoans the danger of "double non-taxation," whatever that is, and even raises the specter of "global tax chaos" if this bogeyman called BEPS isn't tamed. Don't be fooled, because this is an attempt to limit corporate global tax competition and take more cash out of the private economy.
The Journal is spot on. This is merely the latest chapter in the OECD's anti-tax competition crusade. The bureaucracy represents the interests of
high-tax governments that are seeking to impose higher tax burdens—a goal that will be easier to achieve if they can restrict the ability of taxpayers to benefit from better tax policy in other jurisdictions.
More specifically, the OECD basically wants a radical shift in international tax rules so that multinational companies are forced to declare more income in high-tax nations even though those firms have wisely structured their operations so that much of their income is earned in low-tax jurisdictions.


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The Networking team plans, administers, installs, and maintains all the network wiring on all campuses, including the connections between campuses and the wires to the wireless access points. All these wires lead to approximately 60 closets that are scattered about and plug into numerous routers and switches which direct the traffic to its proper destination.
With all these wires and connections, it is important that there is high security with these connections. The networking team monitors the traffic in and out of all the servers and computers on campus by utilizing many different tools such as firewalls, email virus detection, and bandwidth and traffic management to ensure that the network is secure from predators.
All the equipment mentioned requires setup, installation, upkeep, and constant updating, and are all tasks taken care of by this team.
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WOODLAWN –– Galax placed second in the girls' standings and fifth among boys' teams as it hosted the Maroon Tide Invitational cross country meet Wednesday at the Southwestern Virginia Training Center.
Led by top-20 finishes by Megan Boyles (11th), Lindsey Ayers (13th) and Jennifer Laws (18th), the Maroon Tide finished with 75 team points and was able to hold off Patrick Henry-Glade Spring for the runner-up spot behind Radford.
Marleigh Durham ran to a 23rd-place finish and Kelsey Williams was 34th for the Tide.
Grayson County, Auburn, Glenvar and Floyd County rounded out the girls' teams.
Kaitlin Smith of Radford took the individual title with a winning time of 20 minutes, 32 seconds ahead of John Battle's Miriah Arnold. Carley Smith of Grayson County was third overall in 20:59. She was followed by Layken Parks in 16th, Olivia Wyatt (33rd), Hayley Reavis (38th) and Allison Smith (41st) for the Blue Devils.
Elise Zyvlosky finished in ninth place for Carroll County, Lindsey Brumfield was 27th and Beth Proffit (55th) ran a personal-best 28:31 for the Cavaliers.
Floyd County's Andrew Grubb outlegged Walker Mogen of Radford for the boys' individual win, finishing in 16:37 to Mogen's 16:53. Radford took the team title with 60 points, followed by Floyd County (87), Marion (107), John Battle (123) and Galax (134).
Travis Cockerham led Galax with a 14th-place effort, Kendall Haynes of Carroll County was 18th, and Galax took places 27-29 with Eddie Hanks, Justin Ayers and Dyllan Taylor. Austin Bunn paced Grayson County with a 31st-place showing.
Susan Davis of Galax placed fifth in the JV girls' race, Carroll's Zach Cockerham was second in the middle school boys race, and a trio of area runners – Galax's Ashley Jordan and Carroll's Sophie Webb and Gracie Puckett – led the girls' middle school event.
Walker's Run: Galax's boys claimed their fourth team championship in five years at the Walker's Run Invitational, hosted by Marion at Hungry Mother State Park.
Travis Cockerham led a field of 129 runners across the line, taking the individual win with a time of 17:28. Kevin Loftin posted a ninth-place finish while Justin Ayers and Eddie Hanks placed 14th and 15th, respectively. Dyllan Taylor came in 21st as the Maroon Tide finished with 50 points, 29 points ahead of Tennessee High.
Carley Smith placed sixth for Grayson in the girls' race. Megan Boyles led Galax in 26th, and Elise Zyvlosky paced Carroll County in 27th.
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The adults of "Modern Family" aren't the only ones seeing green.
After contract renegotiations throughout the past month, the kids of ABC's hit comedy will see a surge in their paychecks, too.
Rico Rodriguez, Nolan Gould, Ariel Winter, and Sarah Hyland who play Manny, Luke, Ariel, and Haley, respectively, are set to now receive salaries close to $70,000 per episode, according to Deadline.
The amount will nearly triple the gang's previous salaries.
The only one left without a pay bump is five-year-old Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, who joined the cast this past season as Cameron and Mitchell's outspoken daughter, Lily.
Contract renegotiations come about after a long-winded battle between 20th Century Fox and adult castmembers of "Modern Family" for a pay increase following the show's 17 Emmy nominations - the highest of any network series.
Previously, the adult cast, save Ed O'Neill, was receiving around the neighborhood of $65,000 per episode for season three.
Castmembers finally reached a settlement at the end of July leaving the stars with paychecks near the $150,000 range.


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Residents of the neighborhoods adjoining the medical campus, along with their neighbors across New Haven and in surrounding towns, are served by one of the nation's premiere centers for advanced medical care, with access to more than 800 physicians practicing in 100 specialty and subspecialty areas. The Yale Medical Group provided $4.7 million in free care to New Haven residents in 2006, and many medical school departments reach out with services tailored to the needs of inner-city families and individuals. Yale faculty have developed programs to combat asthma, diabetes, preventable injuries, infectious diseases, childhood illnesses and exposure to violence, many of which affect urban dwellers in greater numbers.
Community members have the opportunity, through the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation, to help advance the frontiers of medicine by participating in the hundreds of clinical trials Yale faculty conduct annually in search of better ways of detecting and treating illness, and by helping to guide the direction of future research. Community physicians help their Yale colleagues to educate the next generation of doctors by opening their practices to medical students in their learning years and by lecturing and rounding with students and residents in the hospital.
For their part, Yale medical, nursing, public health and PA students volunteer in dozens of settings [more information]. Fellows of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program participate in a wide array of community programs, including some two dozen listed on the program's web site. And the Science Education Outreach Program matches graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the sciences with New Haven middle school students for an introduction to genetics, including projects with fruit flies, worms, DNA bracelets and electrophoresis gels.


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If you're ever pitching a venture capital firm and you want to clear the room, just say you want to start a content company.
Most venture capitalists run away screaming when they hear the word "content."
Well, these reasons, for starters:
- Content is created by human beings, who cost a lot
- Content goes stale fast
- Content is not as leverageable as technology
- Content companies are often dependent on prima-donna "talent" and "stars" who are forever hitting their employers up for more money or leaving and taking their value with them
- Most successful content companies sell for tens or hundreds of millions, not the BILLIONS venture capitalists get stoked about
- The real money in the content business, at least historically, has been in distribution
- and so on...
But one venture capital firm is betting big that the rest of the VC herd is missing something.
Which firm is that?
Village Ventures, a New York-based VC firm run by Bo Peabody, the former founder and CEO of Tripod, and Matt Harris.
Village Ventures is organizing its portfolio around what it calls its "vertical media thesis."
This thesis has already helped produce one very successful company, Everyday Health, which has filed for an IPO. And Village Ventures has several other similar companies cooking.
What's the "Vertical Media Thesis"?
In short, it's this:
Online content can be a great business, as long as content companies are built from three complementary parts:
- A branded content site focused on an attractive vertical (technology, health, etc.)
- An ad network composed of a few dozen sites in the same vertical, and
- A consumer commerce business that sells something directly to the same consumers who would read the content
Once the company has these three business lines, it employs the following strategy:
It integrates the commerce and content offerings in such a way that the potential commerce customers also consume some content. It then spends money marketing the commerce business, in such a way that the potential customers also consume some content, even if they don't end up buying anything. It sells ads on its own content and throughout the network.
With this configuration, Village Ventures believes, online content companies can spend tens of millions of dollars on marketing--a strategy that, without the commerce business, is wasted money (remember all those dotcom content companies that used to advertise on TV?). And, in so doing, they can drive millions of visitors to their premium content and rake in the cash on advertising.
These companies have a cyclical advantage: In strong economies, when advertising pricing is high, they coin money by selling advertising. In weak economies, meanwhile, when advertising is cheap, they can buy a boatload of it themselves--driving huge traffic to their sites.
Does the vertical media thesis work?
It's certainly working for Everyday Health, which should generate more than $125 million of revenue this year. And, as noted, it's starting to work for several other Village Ventures companies like Tech Media Network and Babble, which are at earlier stages of development.
Village Ventures partner Bo Peabody will be speaking at our IGNITION: Future of Media conference on Dec 2-3 at the Time Warner Center, so you can hear more about these ideas there. (You can also buy your tickets now, and save money on our early-bird deal).
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League Grand Finals21 June 2019
The Mercy College Rugby League program had a very successful night on Wednesday, taking out the Year 7/8 and Year 9/10 MDSSRL Grand Finals.
The Mercy College Year 7/8 team took out the Barry Blanchfield Shield with a commanding 54 – 0 victory over Mackay State High School. Mercy were in control for the entire match, dominating field position and demonstrating a high level of skills resulting in some entertaining tries being scored. The boys were dominant in defence and were rarely threatened by the Mackay High attack.
The Mercy College Year 9/10 team played out a physical encounter with Mackay State High School, eventually taking out the Booka Primrose Shield with a hard-earned 18 – 10 victory. Mercy were first on the scoreboard early in the game, however, Mackay High bounced back to go into the sheds at halftime with a deserved 10 – 6 lead. After some inspirational words from Coach Matthew Paul, the Mercy boys put in an improved performance in the second half to win the game.
Refugee Week16 June 2019
This week is Refugee week. On Wednesday 19 June, Sr Denise Hinton visited Justice@Mercy students to talk about refugees and how she has worked over many years not only supporting refugees here in Mackay but in other areas as well. The students learnt about the many challenges faced by refugees both in their homelands and here in Australia.
Mrs Patroni is doing the Act for Peace Ration Challenge this week. This challenge is where you are given the same week's rations as a Syrian refugee. Money raised towards taking on the Act for Peace Ration Challenge will help support Syrian refugees living in camps in Jordan, having fled eight years of conflict and violence in their own country.
Retreat Reflections12 June 2019
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'My two days with Glen were fantastic; he taught me so much during his seminar. The advice that he gave was most relevant to young people today and some aspects could easily be implemented into our lives. Glen's touching life story and the incredible information he gave us has changed my view on a lot of things. I am so incredibly lucky to have had this opportunity and I highly recommend this retreat to the upcoming Year 10's.' Tayla (Yr 10)
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My son loved Retreat and got so much out of the 2 days. Thanks for providing an experience that allows reflection, safe expression of emotion, plus growth, laughter and joy amongst their peers. It was great hearing all about it at the end of each day!
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I have learnt that you are enough no matter what, even if you think bad of yourself. I also learnt that meeting new people can be life-changing, sometimes it can be a bad change and sometimes it can be good. We have been learning about who inspires us. We also played games such as jockey, immortal and many more. Coming to retreat has changed me a lot; I have met new people and learnt new things. Jayla (Year 8)
Beach Clean Up10 June 2019
On the Wednesday 5 June, a cold and very windy afternoon, Mr Denman drove the bus with 16 Justice@Mercy students to Mackay Harbour Beach for a clean-up. Students spent an hour cleaning up rubbish from the beautiful Harbour Beach. Rubbish included cigarette butts, fishing line, lots of paper and a variety of plastics including straws, bottles and pieces of plastic from various packaging and containers. Justice@Mercy intends to revisit the Harbour next term to do some cleaning up in the parks and beach area.
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In Week 9 the Student Wellbeing Committee hosted Revolution Red's 'Festival of Hope'. This year's campaign incorporated boxing gloves with a message of hope. Each Year level had their day to participate in boxing activities during lunch time, instructed by Mr George. 'Revolution Red Go' was another activity students could join in by finding the giant gloves hidden around the school.
The Revolution Red campaign aims to break down the stigma surrounding mental health issues, with hope to see an end to teen suicide.
This week also coincided with R U OK Day, a campaign that promotes starting meaningful conversations, so people feel connected and supported during life's struggles.


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The game seems a tad complex, but the underlying mechanics are really quite simple.
The AI is actually quite decent for a 4x game, and the automatic options work surprisingly well, which helps if a first one is a bit overwhelmed by the amount of things to do.
A very good but complex game, the ai helps run your empire so if your new to the game best bet is to start small, take control of 1 ship, maybe r&d until you get the hang of it.
I have tried, twice to download and play distant worlds. When i hit 'play' in the game menu, its proceeds to do 'something ' for tow minutes, then it CTD. Distant Worlds needs a much more robust installer, verifier.


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LODI - A prominent Lodi attorney who has drawn the ire of local business owners for filing Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuits on behalf of people with disabilities is now himself facing allegations that he is out of compliance with ADA laws.
LODI - A prominent Lodi attorney who has drawn the ire of local business owners for filing Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuits on behalf of people with disabilities is now himself facing allegations that he is out of compliance with ADA laws.
A complaint has been filed in San Joaquin County Superior Court on behalf of former Lodi Mayor James McCarty, 86, and his brother Robert McCarty, 78, against lawyer Russell Humphrey.
The McCartys, and their Carmichael-based attorney Catherine Corfee, claim the office complex at 1420 S. Mills Ave. where Humphrey leases office space is out of compliance with ADA laws. Humphrey does not own the building, but under ADA law, property owners and their tenants can be sued for infractions. McCarty's complaint also names the property owner, Larry Anderson.
The complaint came when James McCarty, a disabled Lockeford liquor store owner who has been sued by Humphrey on behalf of client Connie Moreno for ADA violations, found himself without access to Humphrey's upstairs office.
"This is an unusual situation," James McCarty said. "The hunter is now being hunted."
Humphrey, who said he is familiar with the suit but had not been served as of Thursday afternoon, called the complaint "retaliatory" and the type of action he expected to receive from people when he began filing ADA suits.
"This (ADA laws) is a legitimate civil rights issue," Humphrey said. "I knew when I started (filing ADA suits) that there would be pushback, because whenever you stand up for somebody that can't always stand up for their own rights, you know you're going to get some retaliation from the establishment."
The McCartys and Corfee filled the 35-page complaint with information on how Humphrey and his client, Moreno, targeted a dozen business in Lockeford.
The McCartys and Corfee helped stage a rally with other business owners in Lodi a year ago, saying the ADA suits are often filed as abuse of the legal system.
Corfee said Moreno doesn't shop in Lockeford but only visited once to find ADA violations for which she could sue business owners.
She said the McCartys responded by making costly ADA repairs, but that Humphrey and Moreno persisted in seeking monetary damages of $4,000 or more for each violation.
When the McCartys tried to meet with Humphrey at his office to try to resolve the issue, they were "shocked to see the parking lot out of code," she said.
"My clients wanted to meet with Humphrey, but they couldn't access his office. There weren't enough handicapped spaces, no space for a van, and inadequate directional signage. They couldn't find the elevator, and when they did find it on their next trip, it was locked and they couldn't use it."
The McCartys are aging and both lack mobility. They use canes to walk. James McCarty has a breathing ailment as well.
When asked if the lawsuit is retaliatory, Corfee did not deny it.
"Who wouldn't want to retaliate against a liar?" she asked. "A man who represents disabled people in ADA suits isn't compliant himself."
Humphrey said Corfee's allegations are not true.
He said he notified his landlord that the office complex did need to come into compliance more than 11/2 years ago, and that Anderson spent a large sum of money to make improvements.
"I told him that I would be having disabled clients coming in often. The property here has been brought into significant compliance," said Humphrey, who added that his own mother needs a wheelchair for mobility.
Both parties recognize that their battle has roots from the two lawyers' extended history on the opposite sides of cases. Corfee routinely defends the business owners that Humphrey sues.
"They can call me a hypocrite or an extortionist, whatever they want. Truth is, I'm proud of the progress I've helped make in this community. As much as me and my clients get vilified, I think the community is better off than it was before," Humphrey said.
"I'm representing people that just want to enjoy going into a business and want access to the restroom like everybody else."
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Even though being one of the most requested figures by fans, no sign of a MOTUC Ram Man yet. But after just posting this poll on a MOTUC Ram Man colour scheme, I got to wondering as to just what Rammy's legs were all about, and how they should be reflected in his profile, if / when the figure ever comes about.
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Spain Rodriguez died yesterday after a six year battle with cancer. He was 72. Rodriguez was one of the major underground comics artists, of course, but he created or illustrated many other kinds of work from Sherlock Holmes to personal stories of "What the Fifties Were Really Like".
His work was political, from a proletarian perspective. He was pleased to work in a mass medium that was disdained as lowbrow. When he knew he was dying, Rodriguez said, "I've enjoyed immensely being a Zap artist. I've enjoyed being an underground cartoonist. I generally wish everybody well."
Some of his political comics include: The Dark Hotel about an attempted American coup in the 1930s, a biography of Che Guevara , and stories about The Long War aka the War On Terrorism.
I particularly liked his work based on the great struggle between fascism and communism in the twentieth century. His direct, thick lines were well suited for depicting the industrial scale combat of the 1940s. Although a collection of these strips was proposed once or twice, it never was published and that's too bad.
This link includes a fifteen minute documentary.
Much of Spain Rodriguez' work, such as The Dark Hotel , is out of print. His most recent book in print is Crusin' With The Hound: The Life And Times Of Fred Toote , a series of stories from the 1950s.
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Who are the parents of Juan Antonio Baca? In a previous post I indicated that the parents of Juan Antonio Baca, husband of Maria Romero and father of Luis Maria Cabeza de Baca, may not be the son of Antonio Baca and Monica de Chavez. Fray Angelico Chavez, in his book "Origins of New Mexico Families", asserted this connection based on a document in the Bancroft Library in Berkeley, CA in which Juan Antonio Baca is shown related to Barbara Baca, the daughter of Antonio Baca and Monica Chavez. However, not everyone one agrees with Chavez's assessment.
In her article "Juan Antonio Baca m. Maria Romero: A Genealogical Proof Standard of", Henrietta Martinez Christmas demonstrates that it is more likely that Juan Antonio Baca was the son of a family from the Rio Arriba (northern New Mexico) rather than the Rio Abajo (southern New Mexico.) She believes that Juan Antonio Baca lived all of his life in La Cienega/ Santa Fe. She shows that all the records for him are in Santa Fe in the Rio Arriba, and that he seems to have a connection to Cristobal Baca and Apolonia Vega y Coca, who Henrietta Christmas theorizes are his parents. The only weakness to her argument is that she does not have access to the Bankcroft document, and therefore cannot definitively discount the document as inaccurate or that Fray Chavez misinterpreted the document.
The importance of figuring out who are Juan Antonio's parents is to figure out once and for all if Juan Antonio's lineage goes directly through the paternal line to the original Cristobal Baca (the other Cristobal Baca's 2nd great grandfather), the progenitor of the Baca family in New Mexico. If Cristobal Baca and Apolonia Vega y Coca are Juan Antonio's parents, than Juan Antonio's line does go directly up the paternal line. If his parents are Antonio Baca and Monica Chavez, it does not. This is because Antonio Baca is the son of Josefa Baca and an unknown father. Antonio took his mother's surname, not his father's.
As I mentioned in the previous post, I hope that one day we can answer this question by using DNA. I am hoping that descendants of Antonio Baca and the younger Cristobal Baca take a Y-DNA test to help us clear up this problem.
Fray Angelico Chavez, Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Revised Ed. (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1992) pp. 144 and 152.
Henrietta M. Christmas, "Juan Antonio Baca m. Maria Romero: A Genealogical Proof Standard of", Herencia, Vol. 13 (January 2005), pp. 26-31.


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China Censors WSJ Story on Top Banker's Stalled Political Career
Chinese authorities have blocked online access to an article published on the English-language and Chinese-language websites of The Wall Street Journal that describes how a top Chinese state banker's commercial success hasn't translated into promotion within the Communist Party.
The Journal had posted the English-language article about Jiang Jianqing, the longtime chairman of Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd., at about noon Tuesday in China. It posted the Chinese version of the article on its Chinese-language site about two hours later.
By 6 p.m. Tuesday in China, access to both the English- and Chinese-language versions of the article had been blocked. A post linking to the article on the Journal's Sina Weibo microblog account was also blocked. A Sina spokesman said he didn't have an immediate comment.
The article was published at a time when China's new leaders are expected to make decisions on a number of top economic slots, including head of the central bank and ministers of Commerce and Finance. Mr. Jiang, which built ICBC into China's most profitable state-owned bank, was the only one of his peers at China's top four banks to get passed over for promotion at a recent party congress. That badly damaged his chances of holding any of those plum positions, according to bank and Communist Party officials.
Chinese authorities have blocked domestic access over the past year to articles in the Journal and in other foreign media focused on sensitive topics such as the fall of former Communist Party highflyer Bo Xilai and the wealth of China's top leaders. It also blocked the Journal's entire Chinese-language website for five days in April following Mr. Bo's fall. Websites for the New York Times and Bloomberg remain blocked.
China's Internet censorship efforts are usually more lax with articles involving companies and businesses, an area in which China's closely controlled media are allowed a greater degree of freedom in their coverage. The move to block the ICBC article further underscores the gray areas between business and politics in which China's biggest state-run banks lie.
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More Hollywood Studios Say 'No Smoking'
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30 — In the movie musical "Dreamgirls†last year, James "Thunder†Early, Eddie Murphy's soul-singing, chain-smoking character, was so infuriated by a fumbled food order that he mashed his cigarette into a chicken sandwich that was supposed to have no mayonnaise.
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The film "Waitress,†where smoking is seen, was produced independently and acquired by Fox.
That portrayal and scene could still fly these days at DreamWorks, which made the movie. But if Universal Pictures were to produce the movie today, Mr. Murphy might consider having his character switch to chewing gum.
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WASHINGTON, July 23, 2012 – The existence of the Federal Communications Commissions Broadband Lifeline Pilot, and the emergence of national public-private organizations focused on computer training could herald the beginning of a new age of broadband adoption and use, said panelists at the Broadband Breakfast Club last week. BroadbandBreakfast.com released the video of the event,… Keep Reading


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Chanel Soft Elegance Flap Bag
December is approaching; I want to decorate our Christmas tree with lights and baubles and I can't wait until the snow starts to drop. Jingle bell, Jingle bell, the feeling of Christmas is so right. And if you've been a good girl this year, expect something big under the tree. If your loved ones haven't decided yet what to buy, perhaps you can drop a hint or two. It's always better to open a gift that you love and need, right? Well, let us give you an idea that we belief will definitely suit your taste; from Chanel's new fall and winter collection, there's another flap bag released, it's called the Chanel Soft Elegance flap bag.
Hmm… I wonder where it got its name Soft and Elegance? Compare it to the Chanel classic flap bag and you will notice that the soft elegance flap is more squared and structured from the exterior. I couldn't belief this, but the bottom half section of the flap is embellished with soft leather instead of quilted finishing, it actually makes the design more elegant and neat. And it also makes it possible for the Chanel CC logo to be bigger than what you've been used to. Looking from the side, the soft Elegance flap is made of three interior pockets, quite similar to the design of the Celine trio bag, making it easier to structure your essentials and better to navigate your stuff. The exterior is also embellished with a large back pocket secured with a snap closure. This is truly a beautiful bag for casual and chic events, a timeless piece that can easily match any outfit.
For the f/w 13 release, this bag will be available in black, burgundy, green and brown. There will be two styles available and each in two sizes. The flap bags will be available in medium and jumbo size. The totes will be available in large and medium. The prices?
Chanel soft elegance flap bag in medium (Style code: A66413): $3,400 USD
Chanel soft elegance flap bag in jumbo size (Style code: A66414): $3,900 USD, €2.700 EUR
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Jackson, Miss. Eleven of the 32 Republicans in the Mississippi Senate say they're forming a conservative coalition to help evaluate bills.
In announcing their plan, they said they're not disgruntled. They also say they're inviting others to join, but it's unclear whether that will happen.
The coalition has eight freshmen and three senators who have served longer but were not appointed to top leadership posts by Republican Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves.
The coalition chairman is second-term Sen. Chris McDaniel, of Ellisville, who's often mentioned as a potential candidate for statewide office such as U.S. senator.
In addition to McDaniel, members are Michael Watson of Pascagoula, Perry Lee of Mendenhall, Phillip Gandy of Waynesboro, Josh Harkins of Flowood, Angela Burks Hill of Picayune, Will Longwitz of Madison, Chris Massey of Nesbit, David Parker of Olive Branch, Tony Smith of Picayune and Melanie Sojourner of Natchez.
Republican Sen. Terry Burton, of Newton, says he won't join the coalition because he doesn't like it when lawmakers break into cliques. Burton is in his sixth term and is an ally of Reeves.


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In this time when news is disseminated ever more quickly, we asked our critics to list the best of culture in 2013 in tweet form:
"The Returned" (Sundance Channel). Supernatural French import joins the uncanny and the quotidian, prizes mystery over explanation.
"Inside Amy Schumer" (Comedy Central). Year's most daring, dangerous, political, serious, human comedy. Also funny.
"Drunk History" (Comedy Central). Speakers under the influence get vernacular with the past; miming actors create ironic tension.
"Top of the Lake" (Sundance Channel). Jane Campion directs Elisabeth Moss in New Zealand highland mystery. Unsettling, gorgeous.
"Moone Boy" (Hulu). "Family Tree" (HBO). Chris O'Dowd x 2. 1st: a memory piece, from himself; 2nd, by Chris Guest, a piece on memory.
"MasterChef Junior" (Fox). Little kids give hope for the future with brilliant cooking. Moving! And Gordon Ramsay behaves himself.
"The Hollow Crown" (PBS). Three kings (Richard II/Henry IV/Henry V) in four plays. Shakespeare is the man for the tragical-historical.
"Incredible Crew" (Nickelodeon). Smart teen sketch show (canceled) offered media critique, parodies, pranks, weirdness, chops.
"Only the Young" (PBS). Distressed SoCal Christian skate punks in a documentary teenage "Jules and Jim." No lessons, just love.
"Please Like Me" (Pivot). "The Fosters" (ABC Family). Family, friends, identity. Australian mumblecore/American YA. Couldn't choose!
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Wednesday, June 3
Chicken Parmesan Bake
20 comments:
- orangesparrow said...
ooo looks delicious! Must try :)
- June 3, 2009 at 8:12 AM
- Grace said...
i lurve chicken parm, and the idea of a casserole is just brilliant! that's a heck of a lot of cheese, and such a delightful dish deserves every scrap of it. :)
- June 3, 2009 at 8:14 AM
This sounds excellent! Great idea to use the whole wheat pasta too!
- June 3, 2009 at 9:23 AM
- Cori said...
Sweet sassy molassy that looks awesome.
- June 3, 2009 at 1:05 PM
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
Oh, that's one of my favorite dishes! Yummy looking!
- June 3, 2009 at 3:13 PM
- Pam said...
I love this healthy take on one of my very favorite dishes. Using ground chicken is a great idea.
- June 3, 2009 at 3:31 PM
- Karyn - (French Charming) said...
Hi Zoe,
THANK YOU SO MUCH for your wonderful comment, can't tell you how much it means to me!
Healthy Chicken Parm, I'm all over this one! My man who I affectionately refer to as "The Italian" does most of the cooking and I'm sure he would enjoy a healthy version of one of his favorite dishes too!
- June 3, 2009 at 4:54 PM
- Kristen said...
that's one to add to my menu rotation!
- June 3, 2009 at 5:16 PM
- Sara said...
I love that this is healthy, sometimes chicken parmesan can be so fattening. It looks delicious!
- June 3, 2009 at 10:32 PM
- Sophie said...
MMMMM..super delicious! I love the yummie flavours!
- June 4, 2009 at 6:10 AM
WOOWWW THis looks to die for! YUMMY!
- June 4, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Definitely want to try since the twist is for health!
- June 6, 2009 at 1:43 AM
- Kerstin said...
Oh, this looks SO yummy! Love this lightened up version. It's one of my favorite comfort food dishes!
- June 6, 2009 at 2:02 PM
- Deeba @Passionate About Baking said...
I love this. Simple & a dish in one...great comfort food!
- June 7, 2009 at 9:52 AM
- Ingrid said...
This sounds wonderful and easy! I'll definitely be giving it a try. Now that the kids are out of school meals are going to be a chore.
Thanks for visiting and commenting.
- June 8, 2009 at 10:39 AM
- Harry said...
Your blog is a great mix of fine cuisine and homemaking! How refreshing and...alternative!
- June 18, 2009 at 4:57 PM
- January 4, 2010 at 11:38 AM
- Jackie said...
I was wondering if I could try this dish with Italian Turkey Sausages. If so, do I have to add or takeaway any of the ingredients in the list.
- March 26, 2010 at 12:00 AM
- Zoe said...
Hi Jackie,
Yes I think turkey sausage would be fantastic!
- March 26, 2010 at 8:09 AM
made this for the boyfriend and myself the other night! perfect amount of cheese for me - I loved how it all incorporated and mixed together. This was also my first time to use chicken as a base in italian meatsauce, and I loved that too (leftovers are even better!). I did, however, think there was a bit too much oregano for the amount of sauce made for my taste. I also added salt/pepper. This is something I'll definitely keep making in the future. How easy would it be on a busy night to pour a jar of sauce over the chicken and mix it all up? Thanks again for the fun idea!
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Micro Bikini and Microkini Online Guidehttps://www.pleasuresexylingerie.com/collections/micro-bikini
One of the hottest trends this summer season entails tossing away your traditional two-piece bikinis as well as regular swimsuits in favor of a "microkini." Now, many of you are most likely vaguely accustomed to the principle of a microkini or a micro bikini. For those that don't know, mini swimwears are essentially an ultrathin variation of regular swimwear. They cover a whole lot much less area around the genitals and also on the busts. Just what plenty of people possibly do not know is that microkinis been available in a variety of different designs. You have your traditional micro bikinis, yet you can also get a thong swimwear. If that doesn't match you after that you could attempt string bikinis or a monokini. Take a look as well as learn everything that you have to understand about the micro bikini.
Brazilian Bikini.
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A Thong Bikini is fairly obvious. On the leading it appears like a normal swimsuit, nonetheless, the bottom half is extremely slim like a band. There is only sufficient product to cover the genital areas. It exposes a lot of cheek. Still, if you intend to really feel sexy this summertime, a thong swimsuit is probably the very best alternative while still remaining somewhat moderate and safe (definition you don't have to stress over any problems).
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A String Bikini is a bit different from the other 2 classifications stated so far in that it could encompass a wide variety of styles. String bikinis are specified by the amount of material holding the bottom as well as top together. You could find a string bikini that supplies a lot of protection, or you could discover one that supplies only the bare minimum.
There is 2 sort of Monokinis out there. The first is possibly not going to be an option for a number of you this summertime because it essentially includes only using a swimwear bottom without a top. So, unless you have access to nude beaches, then you possibly won't be sporting it this summer (although it could work as an assistant in the bedroom). The various other types of monokini is a much better choice because it does supply protection for the busts and genital areas, making it a practical choice get more info on any coastline or poolside. A monokini is essentially a one-piece swimwear, however with marginal quantities of material attaching the top as well as bottom parts of the suit. Furthermore, the actual protection offered to both the breasts and genitals could differ. Some supply an excellent amount of coverage, others are a lot more like a small swimwear that gives the minimum amount of coverage needed to walk around your typical beachfront.


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As much as I love living in the Midwest, the winters are harsh and I always look forward to spending the holidays with my family in Florida. I can't wait to trade-in my winter coat (which some have mistaken for an extreme-weather sleeping bag) for some flip-flops. Since Thanksgiving I have been setting aside what I'll be packing in excited anticipation of my trip. Below is a list of what will be in my travel bag (while leaving room for some vacation shopping!) Are you heading someplace warm for the holidays?
1. I've been wearing Toms shoes for years because I love how comfortable they are and it's easy to justify buying a pair of shoes when your purchase helps someone in need! I love the colors of this striped pair, which will look great with jean shorts and a tank or short sundress.
2. I love being tan just as much as the next sun-worshipping gal, but is important to protect skin from damaging rays. Clinique has great sunscreens for face and body that won't clog pores or leave you feeling greasy.
3. I'm glad the chambray shirt is making a comeback – it travels well and can be paired with anything. I'll use it as a beach cover-up or tie it up over a maxi dress and add some bangles.
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Ubuntu 9.04: Making Sense of Resources
So you are enjoying the new Ubuntu 9.04 but maybe you notice some issues. Like at times your desktop seems slow…why? Or maybe your are just curious to know what is happening under the hood. Ubuntu provides an easy to use interface to take a look at resources and what is happening.
Select System/Administration/System Monitoring.
The "System" tab gives you a summary of your operating system, your hardware and the status of the system. Here you can see that Jackalope is installed. Note it also provides you with the exact kernel that you are using. As you update the kernel this will change. The hardware shows the total amount of RAM on your system. Keep this number handy as you will need it to evaluate what you are using later. Here it looks like there are two processors, when actually there is only one but it is using hyperthreading so it functions as two. The status is basically showing available disk space.
Processes are the applications running on the machine. Now you may see a lot of "sleeping" processes and want to say, "hey you guys wake up and do something!". Well, that is exactly it, they are waiting to be called upon to do something. Basically these processes are ready to go, they just are not needed right now, this is how your system can save on resources. If you are looking for what is slowing your computer down check the "%CPU" as this will list the processess usage. If you see a process hogging the CPU it may be because it has a problem, so you need to look into it. You also see a column with memory listings. This is another area to check for processes that are using a lot of memory. Write them down so that if you see a pattern you can dig into it later.
The "Resources" tab provides a real time view of how your computer is using available resources. The CPU History shows what percentage is active for each processor. The Memory and Swap History shows the amount of RAM that is used. If you are consistently using a lot of RAM you may want to purchase new RAM for your machine as that will certainly slow down your computer. SWAP is hard drive space that will be used if the RAM runs low. SWAP can be 10 to 100 times slower if it is used so be careful. The Network History will show traffic on your network connections.
Drive space is viewed in the last tab. It will show the amount that has been used.
May 2, 2009 at 8:30 am
I do indeed find after upgrading that Ubuntu 9.04 is extremely slow and I haven't yet been able to figure out why. system diagnosis shows only marginal use of RAM (300 MB of 4.6 GB), CPU (4 core) is only at 2.6 to 19% capacity – and it still does take ages to open sites in Firefox (6000 DSL line, speed test successful at http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/). So I don't see hat could cause it?
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So let's talk about this sockless issue. I'm going to tell you my big secret. The summer time is the only time that I don't wear shoes sockless. Maybe tennis shoes but not leather shoes.
There's one very simple reason.
In the summer your feet sweat then they stick to the leather, then blister.
Actually the ideal time to go sockless is between 45 degrees and 66 degrees. At that point your feet are cool enough to keep from blistering but not too cold, and not too warm.
I know there's always the option of that little footie thing but that never seems to work for me at any time of year.
A few of you made an interesting point that if it's cold enough for gloves it's cold enough for socks. Personally I don't dress by those kind of mathematical equations. But what I will say is that you wear gloves to keep your fingers warm and you wear shoes to keep your toes warm. The only part that's exposed is your ankles. Maybe I have insensitive ankles, but my ankles never seem to get cold, just like my wrists never seem to get cold. I can honestly say when that photograph was taken, my extremities were temperature comfortable.


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"I never thought a golem could make me cry, but hearing the big clay guy's sad story brought a tear to my normally bloodshot eyes."
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Ex-Isle: A Novel
Peter Clines
Since the zombie apocalypse in 2009, a group of survivors, including several superheroes led by St. George, have been holed up in a former movie studio in Los Angeles. St. George's team goes into action when needed to defend the remaining humans against undead attackers and living people with nefarious motives. In
, the 5th in the Ex-Heroes series, St. George and his cohort are excited to learn of a zombie-free colony of survivors out in the Pacific. But does the colony have dangers other than zombies? If you haven't read author Peter Clines' fast-paced adventures featuring empathetic characters, you might want to start with the 1st,
, but each novel can stand alone.
Good Girls
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In award-winning author Glen Hirshberg's
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The Oxford Inheritance
Ann A. McDonald
When American college student Cassandra Blackwell embarks on a year abroad at Oxford University, she has something else in mind besides her studies: finding out what happened there years earlier to her mother. Doubt about who's telling the truth magnifies Cassie's concern about occult activities in her college and leads to a climactic confrontation. Combining mystery and horror,
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The White Devil
The Damned
Tarn Richardson
It's an alternate version of 1914, and the violence of World War I is stirring up werewolves in Arras, France, escalating the horrors of war with supernatural violence. Meanwhile, a string of murders, whose victims are all Catholic clergy, prompts the Inquisition to send a Polish priest named Poldek Tacit to investigate. In addition, British Lt. Henry Frost struggles to cope with the venality and idiocy of war itself. Combining history and supernatural terror into a complex, "allegorical and erudite" (
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Focus on: Zombies
Unnatural Acts: Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I.
Kevin J. Anderson
Unnatural Acts
, author Kevin Anderson's offbeat approach to zombie lore, undead private detective Dan Shamble and his human partner Robin Dyer have to cope with a range of unnatural and supernatural beings, as well as human Senator Rupert Balfour, who's attempting to criminalize undead activities. Also in Dan's caseload, enslaved golems are seeking freedom from the manufacturer they work for, and somebody murders a gremlin pawnbroker. If you like your horror with a side of humor, you'll want to try this 2nd entry in the Shamble & Die Investigations series, which begins with
Death Warmed Over
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls
Steve Hockensmith
This prequel to Seth Grahame-Smith's bestselling
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
reveals how Elizabeth Bennet and her sisters came to be such skilled zombie slayers. The story begins several years before Mr. Bingley moves to Netherfield, when undead "unmentionables" begin popping up in the quiet Hertfordshire town of Meryton. Mr. Bennet, the girls' curmudgeonly father -- a retired special operative who thought his zombie-hunting days were over -- converts their greenhouse into a dojo and trains his daughters in combat. If you're a fan of literary monster mash-ups, especially those based on Jane Austen's novels, author Steve Hockensmith's
Dawn of the Dreadfuls
is a must-read.
Dead of Night: A Zombie Novel
Jonathan Maberry
A medical experiment unexpectedly turns a condemned prisoner, Homer Gibbon, into a zombie in Jonathan Maberry's gripping
Dead of Night
. After the prisoner wakes up, he goes on a violent rampage -- and his bites turn his victims into yet more zombies. Police officers JT Hammond and Dez Fox work with reporter Billy Trout to investigate the origin of this plague, which soon becomes a full-fledged zombie apocalypse. Supplying both humor and terror, this tale will enthrall fans of classic zombie literature and films, especially George Romero's
Night of the Living Dead
. Maberry's sequel,
Fall of Night
, continues the adventures of Dez, Billy, and JT.
Cherie Priest
During the American Civil War, scientist Leviticus Blue invented "Dr. Blue's Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine," a massive steam-powered mining machine. Unfortunately, it malfunctioned, tearing open a vein of toxic gas that killed the inventor and turned many of Seattle's inhabitants into zombies called "rotters." Sixteen years later, Blue's teenage son Zeke heads for the ruined, walled-off city to learn more about his father, hoping to clear his name. Harboring her own dark secrets, Zeke's widowed mother, Briar, sets out to rescue her son. Set in an alternate 1880 Seattle,
offers an absorbing blend of steampunk, mystery, coming-of-age, and horror.
To Sail a Darkling Sea
John Ringo
In this sequel to
Under a Graveyard Sky
, author John Ringo continues his creative approach to recounting the zombie apocalypse. Featuring engaging, believable characters and banter-filled dialog,
To Sail a Darkling Sea
finds Australian Steve Smith, his family, and other survivors on a flotilla-city off the coast of the U.S. As they work to rid the boats they encounter of zombies, they plan to extend clearing operations to towns on land and develop a vaccine at a Guantanamo research facility. The 4-volume Black Tide Rising series continues in
Islands of Rage and Hope
and concludes in
Strands of Sorrow
. An additional story anthology by various authors,
Black Tide Rising
, is due out this month.
Rise Again: Below Zero
Ben Tripp
Two years after the events related in author Ben Tripp's
Rise Again
, the zombies have evolved into several types. In addition to the classic shambling cannibals, there are cunning hunters and predatory thinkers. Sheriff Danielle "Danny" Adelman and her small group of survivors hear rumors of a safe haven called Happy Town somewhere in the east, but the closer they get to it, the more suspicious Danny becomes. The well-drawn characters in
Below Zero
increase the emotional power of Danny's moral dilemmas in this "taut and intelligent" (
Publishers Weekly
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Members of Parliament from three East African countries recently visited the Pangani River Water Basin in Tanzania to get an insight into the challenges facing the basin's ecosystem as a case study in integrated water resources management.
Over the years, the effects of human activity and climate change have affected the basin's ecosystem and livelihoods of local populations. Lake Jipe, a cross border water resource shared by Kenya and Tanzania, is faced with enormous problems which include reduced runoff, increasing siltation, decreasing water levels and quality, and advancing wetland plants that threaten its existence. For its part, Nyumba ya Mungu, a man-made lake built for the purpose of generating hydro-electric power and other economic activities, has borne the brunt of extreme climatic events such as flooding and droughts, which have affected its water resources.
The objective of the visit, involving eight MPs from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and the East African Legislative Assembly, and other stakeholders including NGOs, journalists and government departments was to raise awareness of the status of water resources in the region, highlight efforts being made to restore the basin's ecosystem and implement integrated water resources management and identify gaps which need to be filled with a view to promoting sustainable water use and livelihoods in East Africa.
The MPs expressed concern that local communities did not have access to potable water and electricity despite their proximity to the sources and called for a deliberate effort to ensure the services benefited the people.
In view of the integrated water resources management objectives, the MPs called for the coordination of different government departments whose activities affect the environment in order to ward off conflicting decisions and enhance transparency.
Apart from discussions, field visits were organized to Nyumba ya Mungu Dam and Lake Jipe. The participants also met and exchanged views with Regional Commissioner for Kilimanjaro, Hon. Mohamed A. Babu, who expressed concern that the degradation of the basin's ecosystem would have a far-reaching impact on the livelihoods of local populations.
The MPs promised to speak about environmental issues in Parliament as a way of curbing degradation and encouraging sustainable practices and requested the IUCN Eastern Africa Regional Programme to facilitate a planning meeting to develop a joint strategy to address environmental challenges facing the region.
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10 of the Most Bad-Ass Contemporary American Poets
As you may know, April is National Poetry Month, so we have poets on the brain a little more than usual. We've been celebrating by memorizing poems, but the occasion has also gotten us thinking about the modern perception of poets in America — a lot of people think of poets as having a sort of hippy flower-worshipper vibe that is rather inaccurate (or at least not true all the time). To broaden the field of our collective imagination a little bit, we've put together this list of some of the toughest, coolest, most badass contemporary American poets living and working today — though we know there are way more than ten, and everyone has their own idea of what being a badass entails, so we're definitely open to additions. Click through to check out our picks, and let us know if we've missed any of your favorites in the comments!
Nick Flynn
Nick Flynn would probably make this list just for the fact that his memoir is called Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, which is one of our favorite names for anything ever — never mind that the book, which traces Flynn's relationship with his ex-con father living on the streets of Boston, is brilliant. Flynn, who worked as a ship's captain, as an electrician, and at a homeless center before he began racking up fellowships and writing awards, writes poems and prose with comedic brilliance and hardscrabble reality in equal measure.


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The installation is the latest instalment in the Dornbracht Edges series featuring projects in which architecture, design and art intersect. Curated by Mike Meiré, the installation is the work of the group Interpalazzo.
Interpalazzo is a collective of media artists. For 'Revolving Realities', Interpalazzo (Martin Hesselmeier, Andreas Muxel und Carsten Goertz) has teamed up with composer Marcus Schmickler, who is creating a sound composition specifically for the project.


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Friday, 3 December 2010
Letter from Gya House
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It is with the most profound sadness that we inform you about the death of Alan Peck who died on Wednesday evening, 3rd March 2010. The premature passing of such a gentle man, a sincere practitioner and lineage holder is an immense loss.
Through the virtues we have collected by practising the stages of the path, may Alan find the opportunity to practise in the same way.
May Alan experience the happiness of humans and gods, and quickly attain enlightenment, so that his samsara is finally extinguished.
May there arise in Alan's mind great faith in Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha, and thus may he always receive the blessings of the Three Precious Jewels.
May Alan meet precious Teachers who reveal the stages of the path to enlightenment, and through engaging in this path may he quickly attain the ultimate peace of full enlightenment.
The Buddhadharma is the supreme medicine that relieves all mental pain, so may this precious Dharma Jewel pervade all worlds throughout space.
However many living beings there are experiencing mental and physical suffering, may their suffering cease through the power of our merit, and may they find everlasting happiness and joy.
May there never arise in this world the miseries of incurable disease, famine, or war, or the dangers of earthquakes, fires,
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Through the blessings of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, the truth of actions and their effects, and the power of our pure superior intention, may all our prayers be fulfilled.


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One of the staple cliches of on-line conspiranoids is to make constant allusion to the 'false left-right paradigm' and to refer to left and right wing politics as being 'two wings of the same bird'
Now, as it happens, I agree that mainstream politics are frequently manipulated into two horse races where both horses have the same owner
I also agree that the left-right paradigm is a restrictive, 'two dimensional' representation of the possible spectrum of political viewpoints. The political bird in question also has a head (libertarian) and an arse (authoritarian) - and several other appendages that could be pressed into methaphorical service, but not in this post
By bringing the additional libertarian-authoritarian axis into your simple left-right political paradigm it becomes possible to shed light on all sorts of otherwise difficult to explain behaviour...
- Why Hitler and Stalin got on so well, for a while anyway
- Why on certain issues such as personal freedoms or overseas wars, libertarian right wingers can sound a lot less bloodthirsty than left wingers with an authoritarian streak
- How it is possible for a certain type of young 'Marxist' (sic.) to effortlessly become a middle-aged Neocon, or Melanie Phillips
If you are the kind of person who enjoys petty power and telling people what to do you would probably fit just as well into a 'hard' left as a 'hard' right regime. If you do not like giving or taking orders you are going to have real issues living under a paternalistic regime, however benign
Having said all that, simplistic as the left-right paradigm may be it is not a false paradigm
There are such things as left and right wing sensibilities and one of the falsest paradigms out there on the Interweb is the assertion that left wing ideologies are entirely a fabrication of the Illuminati Jew Bankers, created to destroy the transcendental beauty that is Christian Free Market Capitalism
Oh hum, where do you start?
- You could point out that the Christ depicted in the New Testament is not what you would call a raving free market capitalist
- You could explain that the vast majority of workers in free market nirvanas such as Victorian England didn't exactly have much scope to savour the joys of all those capitalistic opportunities and freedoms, on account of being too poor and dying prematurely from a variety of exciting lung diseases
- Or you could simply suggest that anyone who dismisses compassion for and empathy with fellow humans as being nothing more than the product of Zionist mind control is probably in dire need of a hug
Without going into the ins and outs of who allegedly funded and promoted which political group, which writer or which revolution, plain common sense and a little knowledge of history, should tell you that the quest for fairness, compassion and empathy goes back a long way and is not some 19th century cabalistic invention conjured up out of the ether by Marx
Zionist pawn Watt Tyler - getting it in the neck as punishment for falling for the 'false left-right paradigm' super early; almost 500 years before the publication of Das Kapital
The really bizarre thing is that of the plethora of conspiratorial websites and personalities out there the great majority are anti left-wing and pro capitalism*. Somehow socialism gets discounted as a capitalist plot but capitalism does not
Which, from an evil, plutocratic overlord's point of view is a bit of a result, and exactly the manner in which you would like to see your opposition behaving
* = That would be a special kind of never yet seen magic capitalism which does not rely on banks and does not result in dangerous concentrations of dynastic wealth and power
Anyway, all of the above was merely a preamble to this short clip of Alex Jones explaining what true political insight is really all about. It is not about false paradigms and birds' wings. It is about elves, clockwork elves...
PS And if anyone who has bothered to read my latest spate of posts detects a certain confrontational tone being directed towards conspiracy theorists as well as official narratives they might well be onto something. It could be that I am either a) a Zionist keyboard monkey basking in a shower of Jew Gold, or b) a contrarian scrotum who is bored of reading the same old lazy-arsed, confirmation bias-riddled BS on conspiratorial sites and which is rapidly achieving the status of unquestionable orthodoxy. Fuck that


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Face of Defense: Rabbi Ministers Across Afghanistan
By Army Sgt. Christine Samples
International Security Assistance Force
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan, March 13, 2012 - There are just not enough rabbis to go around.
That's why the only U.S. military rabbi currently serving in Afghanistan travels regularly from his base at Kandahar Air Field to other military camps here and uses the Internet to reach his congregation. It's not a conventional role for a rabbi, but it helps him reach more people.
Army Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Avi Weiss, a father of three and grandfather of 11, from Chicago, recently made his first visit to Camp Leatherneck since his December arrival in theater.
He looks younger than his 61 years and has a friendly, approachable manner. His attire consists of the
Army uniform and a black yarmulke that miraculously stays on his shaved head with the help of some bobby pins. His eyes rest on each person individually when he's talking in a group, like an unspoken invitation for each one's thoughts.
Anyone who wants to jump in the conversation, however, needs to act quickly. Keeping up with Weiss' train of thought isn't easy. He jumps from one topic to another and back again. It's a habit that his wife, Elcya, often teases him about. Fortunately, Weiss stays on topic during services.
Before Shabbat, the Friday evening service observing the Sabbath, Weiss sat on a bench in Leatherneck's simple, wooden chapel to talk about his ministry.
"Attempting to keep traditional Jewish laws is difficult in this environment," said Weiss, explaining the shortage of rabbis in the military. "It's a credit to the military that it does a lot to help someone practice their faith, but it's still not necessarily the choice environment for someone who wants to live a certain way."
It may not be a choice environment for some, but the military managed to attract Weiss in 1974 and keep him for 37 years as an active duty and Reserve chaplain. He says he joined the Army just for the job, but stayed for the unique opportunity to minister.
"I really enjoy the military," Weiss said. "I don't want to be a synagogue rabbi. I enjoy jumping out of airplanes [with the 82nd Airborne Division]. I really enjoy being in Afghanistan. You can touch people's lives in ways you can't possibly do in other places."
Weiss joked that because people can't go downtown on Friday nights, they're more open to attending services, which makes his job easier.
Although people can't hang out downtown, Weiss still has his work cut out for him. Schedules here make it difficult for some to attend services. Five came to Shabbat, but Weiss said he concentrates on individuals, not numbers.
The Jewish population in the military falls well below one percent, according to Defense Department statistics, but Weiss believes the actual numbers are higher and some just need to know they're not alone.
"I try to encourage individuals to think about being more involved in their faith," he said. "I'm not really involved with the Afghanistan war or the issues. I'm more concerned with the individuals here. I can make a little bit of difference in someone's life -- even one person."
Because he can't be everywhere, Weiss stays connected with the community through the Internet. He uses email to answer questions and give advice to lay leaders who perform services when no rabbi is available. He also started an online newsletter, Kol Torah, with the help of his wife in Heidelberg, Germany. The newsletter keeps the community here informed of events and educates them on Jewish culture.
So while there may not be enough rabbis to go around, Jewish service members aren't left on their own. Weiss makes sure they get as much support as possible.