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This 75 minute session is a breath-centred, Hatha Flow practice, working with Yang muscle tissue, flexibility, core strength, balance and restorative postures using the ancient Patanjali and Satyananda lineage approach.
We end with a 10-15 minute yoga nidra or guided meditation relaxation, so you will go on about your week with a sense of well-being and joy.
We have mats, blankets and blocks should you need them but bringing your own mat or towel is encouraged.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is coming to a movie theater near you in about eight days and counting. Do you have your midnight tickets yet? Because they're going fast, especially if you want to see it in extra special 2D.
Some of the set visit interviews from Deathly Hallows Part 2 are finally making their way onto the Internet. Today, we have word from director David Yates – who has directed these films since Order of the Phoenix – and various cast members, including Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint.
Major spoilers ahead. Read at your own peril!
About the final battle between Harry Potter and Voldemort, courtesy of Movie Fone, Daniel Radcliffe said:
"For me, this whole series is about loss of innocence, and about Harry going from this wide-eyed child to this slightly grizzled young man by the end. It's essential that he doesn't entirely turn into a man in the film because that's what makes all that fight stuff at the end so powerful. It's also kind of horrible to watch, because you're seeing a kid get beaten up by a very strong, very angry man."
David Yates talked a bit about the numerous wizard duels in Deathly Hallows Part 2, which we haven't really seen since Dumbledore VS. Voldemort in Order of the Phoenix:
"The notion that you're in the middle of this wizard fighting is exciting, so it feels very visceral," says Yates. "I did a wizard battle at the end of 'Order of the Phoenix,' and it was the first wizard battle between Dumbledore and Voldemort. What I really loved was the kinetic power of the exchange, because the magic I had seen at that point had always been pretty and clean. There are moments in this battle that are very visceral, frightening and percussive."
Regarding the 3D, which was deemed undoable for Part 1, Yates said:
"My own idea about 3D is that it's there to enhance the viewing experience, but I don't think that you have to use it in a tricky way. I think the minute you sacrifice story and character for something coming out of the screen, I think you've lost it, really."
The problem with this argument is, if you can barely tell the 3D is there, why are you paying six extra dollars for it?
On the accuracy with which Deathly Hallows Part 2 adapts the second half of the book it's based on:
"I'm sure some of the fans will be frustrated [with what hasn't been included from the books], but fortunately we've kept more than we've ever been able to keep […] with other adaptations. Because we can spread the whole story into two movies, we're able to address some loose ends that we can tie up as we go."
Two of the bigger problems with the some of the previous films have been either A) the filmmakers' attempt to cram too much from the books into a too brief running time –Goblet of Fire – or B) the total exclusion of necessary plot points and scenes to fit said running time – Alfonso Cuaron's Prisoner of Azkaban.
As for where the Deathly Hallows Part 2 differs from its source material, Yates said:
"Ultimately, the battle and the magical fighting is a counterpoint, and that is where we differ from the book a little bit. I felt that in the book and the earlier drafts of the scripts—before we worked them out—there was an opportunity [to counterpoint] Harry's desperate race for the Horcrux with the Dark Lord's ever-encroaching ability to kill everyone in the school, so there is this race against time. So we counterpointed these two strands."
Rupert Grint talked about one of the major death scenes in Part 2 and how difficult it was to film:
"Ron [losing] his brother [...] was quite a big scene with the whole Weasley family. It was a depressing scene to do because you've got Fred lying on the floor and it's quite shocking. It involves a character we've associated with jokes and mucking about. It's quite horrible. There were a lot of heavy, emotional scenes like that."
The man who plays Ron Weasley's father, Mark Williams, expanded on the depressing nature of the scene:
"Oh God, yeah, that scene was rough. We've actually just finished shooting it. Those scenes are all behind us and they were not very nice. It's not very nice spending days thinking about your children dying."
Rupert Grint also discussed the increased violence in the finale, saying:
"It's really taken to another level – it's quite gory. It's really graphic, actually."
As for the 'big kiss' between Ron and Hermione that has been building since Sorcerer's Stone, Grint said:
"I kind of built up this thing in my head. We were both kind of dreading it, really, just because we've known each other since we were really small. It's like kissing your sister."
Yeah, it's like kissing your sister if she weren't actually your sister and she looked likeEmma Watson. Sorry, Rupert, but it's just difficult to feel sorry for you on this issue.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 hits theaters July 15th, 2011.
Source: Movie Fone
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"Nothing about the golf course itself has changed," said Katie Flaherty, the club's general manager, who added, "We're doing some rebranding, have a new logo, and we're starting a remodel shortly."
The first phase of golf club remodeling, set to begin in the next week or two, involves building a new outside deck at the existing restaurant at the course.
"A deck will be built out on the existing patio, extending out onto the grass that will really showcase the golf course," said Flaherty, noting the new deck will be substantial at 2,700 square feet.
"It's intended to house an outdoor kitchen and bar," said Flaherty, adding once the new deck is complete, "We'll then close down and remodel the existing golf building."
Flaherty said it is hoped the entire project remodel will be done sometime in October.
Though plans are still being formulated, Flaherty said the idea is to give the existing golf-club facility a modernized facelift, making it more "loungey and inviting."
There's discussion of changing the configuration of the existing building's kitchen, to remove it from sight and replace it with a line bar.
Sail Ho was the original name given to NTC's golf course in the 1920s. The golf course has been in operation since 2006, with much of its staff from that time still intact, said Flaherty.


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A new poll shows strong support for raising taxes on wealthy Mainers as a way to bridge a state budget gap.
The poll also shows that a slim majority favor canceling the tax cuts enacted in 2011, which critics say largely favored wealthy Mainers.
The results of the Maine People's Resource Center's automated survey of 558 registered voters were released Thursday, as lawmakers begin considering changes to the governor's $6.2 billion budget proposal for the two years starting July 1.
The nonprofit organization that released the poll has some ties to the Maine People's Alliance, a progressive activist group, but has been lauded for its accuracy. The poll was conducted Feb. 2 to Feb. 4 and has a margin of error of 4.15 percentage points.
Respondents overwhelmingly found it unacceptable to cut Medicaid (62.9 percent) and local school funding (67.8 percent) to balance the budget. The Medicaid question described the health insurance program as government health insurance "for the poor."
More than 84 percent of respondents opposed raising property taxes. The question did not mention Gov. Paul LePage's plan to suspend over $200 million in municipal aid for two years, a proposal that critics say would increase property taxes.
The administration has argued that raising property taxes in response to the funding freeze is a local choice.
On "tax fairness," 79 percent of respondents favored "requiring those who make over $250,000 per year to pay at least as high a combined state and local tax rate as the average Mainer."
More than 74 percent found it acceptable to raise taxes on "the wealthy." The question did not specify what defined a wealthy earner.
Respondents were asked if they would favor canceling the tax cut passed by LePage and the Legislature in 2011. Over 42 percent said it would be acceptable, while 37 percent said it wouldn't. Over 20.3 percent were unsure.
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Arrrgh! Bliksem!! Went out to feed my fishies this morning and found a trail of muddy bare footprints trailing across my carport floor. They weren't mine or my Daughter's. When I got to my fish-room, half my fishies were missing!
So much for all my expensive, razor-wire topped walls, electrified fences, devils-fork palisades, and motion detectors!
Must be kids, Judging by the size of the footprints.
Taxi, my dog, kicked up a fuss in the middle of the night, but I was, like, really tired, and sleeping more soundly than I'd slept in a long time, so I just threw a pillow at her... Sorry Tax...
'Stru's bob, if I trap the buggers, I'll do an Oscar on them!!!
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Stealing fish? What the hell? Why would they steal fish? I swear, if these burglars could pick up a pool they would take that too. I suppose it's kinda the norm around here though. A few years ago we were broken into and they stole my brothers roll on deodorant and razors (among the usual things) and they went through my cupboard picking and choosing what they wanted. We had an electric fence and an alarm system and they still got in and had the time to leisurely decide that they liked that one shirt that was at the bottom of my pile in my room after cleaning the rest of the house out.
Teri, Judging by the size of the footprints, they were prob'ly just a couple of kids scoping out neighbors yards for kicks.
The fish were not valuable per se, just some guppies, but, dammit, they were my guppies. If they really wanted them, all they had to do was ask, and I'd have given them some.
Just when I'm feeling all safe and secure in my little fortress, a couple of zitsqueezings sneak in and out like they were ghosts. Guess it's time to re-evaluate my security system.
What worries me is that, if they keep this up, someone's going to shoot them before they're even old enough to enjoy their first wet-dream.
There are enough nets and transport bags lying around. Prob'ly used some of those.
Seem like they know something about fish-keeping, otherwise, they'd probly just have vandalized the place. Guess I should be grateful they didn't do that anyway.
Strass. You nincompoop. Those fish laid eggs filled with a valuable ink. Jet printer ink. Do you have any idea how much jet printer ink is worth per ml ? Even if those fish lay a couple thousand per month each you'd be in on a fortune. And your dog knew all about it. Poor Tax. He was trying to save you a fortune.
He-he.. Good one, Dude... Like I said, they're Guppies, and unfortunately, guppies don't lay eggs, they're live bearers. It's awesome... Kinda like watching teeny tiny puppies being born... but, I'm sure you knew that. :)
Hey! That rhymes. Guppies an' Puppies
Wizards are quick to anger, but not so subtle. Props to anyone who get's the reference.
He-he... Reference to Gandalf... er... Thanks... (I think).
Originall quote: "Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger." - Gildor, Three is Company, LOTR
Partially. Also a reference to The Dresden Files, first scene of Storm Front. Mailman is asking about Harry's door, which labels him as a professional wizard. "So, what, like for real? The whole subtle and quick to anger thing?"
"Not Soo Subtle. Can I have my mail please?"
Originally by Tolkien, Dude, but swiped by a lot of people.
Also used in Babylon 5:
"There's an old saying: 'Do not try the patience of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.'" - 'Elric' the Technomage (Babylon 5's equivalent of Wizards), in The Geometry of Shadows.


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Officers from the Long Beach Police Department's DUI Enforcement Team will be deploying this weekend to stop and arrest alcohol and drug-impaired drivers in the Department's ongoing traffic safety campaign. DUI Saturation Patrols will deploy on Saturday, January 19th, between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 4:00 a.m. in areas with high frequencies of DUI collisions and/or arrests. "This is a 'Zero Tolerance' crackdown, so Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over!"
In California, this deadly crime led to 774 deaths in 2010 because someone failed to designate a sober driver. After falling dramatically for five straight years, figures for 2011 indicate that DUI deaths remained the same as 2010. Over the course of the past three years, DUI collisions have claimed 14 lives and resulted in 305 injury crashes, harming 417 of our friends and neighbors.
Driving under the influence can impact the economy in addition to the pain and suffering of those immediately affected. Conservatively, a fatality has a $1.4 million impact, an injury $70,000, and a crash that only damages property averages nearly $9,000.
"California's roadways are very much safer than they were before 2006," said OTS Director Christopher J. Murphy. "The Long Beach Police Department will be keeping the pressure on through enforcement and public awareness so that we can continue saving lives and reach the vision we all share – Toward zero deaths, every 1 counts."
Funding for this program is from a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Report Drunk Drivers, Call 911!


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The lawsuits inspired scholars from around North America to rally behind Askey. Created by Martha Reineke, a professor of religion at the University of Northern Iowa, a petition demanding EMP to drop its lawsuits had garnered more than 3,100 names as of Monday morning.
EMP told CBC Hamilton on Monday that it "has discontinued the court case against McMaster University and Dale Askey."
In a statement, the company added: "financial pressure of the social media campaign and press on authors is severe. EMP is a small company. Therefore [it] must choose to focus its resources on its business and serving its authors."
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WOAH – Dale just tweeted that only one of the suits is dropped. The other is still active. Stay tuned!


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Former Texans TE Owen Daniels agrees with Ravens on deal
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The Baltimore Ravens and tight end Owen Daniels have reached agreement on a 1-year contract, pending a physical.
The 32-year-old Daniels broke into the league with Houston in 2007 and spent his entire career with the Texans before being cut last month. Daniels rejoins former Houston head coach Gary Kubiak, who became Baltimore's offensive coordinator during the offseason.
Daniels broke his right leg last October and played in only five games. He had 24 catches for 352 yards and five touchdowns. For his career, the 6-foot-3, 249-pounder has 385 catches for 4,617 yards and 29 touchdowns.
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"Because I eat so much bread—and I always have—I'm interested in making the most nutritious bread that I can. The most nutritious and the most delicious bread that I can."
A scroll through Josey Baker's picture-studded blog might make you think he's a fun-loving, free-spirited guy with equal passions for baking bread and taking silly pictures with his friends. And, well, that's pretty accurate. Josey is founder and head baker at The Mill, one of San Francisco's newest bakeries. But many San Franciscans have long been familiar with Josey's baking; though The Mill just opened its doors in February, Josey Baker Bread has been a local mainstay for a while.
Josey started baking about three years ago, and at first it was just a casual hobby. He baked a few loaves at home, then a few more, and soon he was constantly experimenting with new techniques and textures. The loaves began to take over his kitchen, so he called upon a few friends to help take them off his hands. Soon, friends started to spread the word and strangers would come knocking, asking to buy loaves of bread. And so Josey Baker Bread was born.
After a big Thanksgiving order in 2010 challenged the capacity of Josey's home oven, he began looking for commercial kitchens to host his growing business. He baked out of spots like Mission Pie, selling his bread over their counter. His growing exposure and larger capacity meant he was soon selling to Bi-Rite Market and Rainbow Grocery, sharing shelf space with big-name bakeries and gaining a wider following.
Nowadays, Josey works at The Mill full-time and is managing a staff of eager baking enthusiasts. He just started to mill his own flour, a process that clearly amplifies the connection he feels to his end product. I chatted with Josey about how he came to love baking bread, what inspired his current loaves, and where The Mill is headed.
So what was life like before The Mill? I had been working at UC Berkeley for five years. I started selling bread just six months after I started baking it, three years ago. I just fell in love immediately and was just baking all the time—so selling it was actually a way to deal with all the excess bread that I was baking. When I quit my job in 2011, I was baking out of Mission Pie. And for a year and a half, I'd bake bread and sell it out of there and out of Bi-Rite Market. And I had a bread subscription, I still have a bread subscription. But it was so different then. It was just me.
How did you learn your technique? I learned mostly through trial and error, and books, and talking to people. It was amazing—I was amazed at how generous people were with what they knew. I'm most interested in baking sourdough whole-grain breads, even though I started out making French-style sourdough. I was definitely attracted to sourdough rather than commercial yeast, mostly because it tasted better in breads than I'd had and made. And so that's definitely still true. But now because I eat so much bread—and I always have—I'm interested in making the most nutritious bread that I can. The most nutritious and the most delicious bread that I can.
What makes bread nutritious? Using whole grains is a good first step, and making sourdough instead of commercial yeast helps out with the nutritional aspects. And being able to use flour that's very freshly milled helps out a lot. I have plenty of anecdotal evidence that fresh-milled sourdough whole grain breads are easier to digest. Everybody who bakes bread like that says that it's better for a million reasons. I'm still hungry for a more nuanced picture about what's actually going on scientifically.
Tell me about the Mill. How did that idea come about? That was really inspired by Dave Miller out in Chico. He's really a one-man show—he mills all his flour himself and makes the bread himself and sells it at farmers markets. I started to get interested in milling when we were early in the process of building the bakery. And I was totally awestruck by this man and the bread he was making and the way he was making it. And I think I was really looking for a mentor because I'd never been to school for it, I'd never worked in a bakery—I didn't have that training, that upbringing, that model. So Dave was generous enough to let me come out to his bakery once a week last summer. I'd drive out there, mill my flour, make it into bread, and then bring it back to San Francisco. So, now I'm learning how to use the mill. The plan is eventually to start sourcing from farmers around here who are growing grains for bread.
What's your favorite loaf in the shop? Right now I think it's probably the dark rye, especially because we just started milling all that flour. I'm also really happy with our whole wheat, which is really coming into its own. Just the other day was the first day that I made a loaf with the fresh milled whole wheat, and it was like, I was...it was amazing. I couldn't believe that I made it.
So what's in store for The Mill? We'll probably eke production upwards, but not too much more. I didn't design the space to be able to make much more bread than we're making, and that's fine. I really like the idea of staying as close to a neighborhood bakery as we can. I find that there's an underlying assumption that success means growth, but I'm interested in lateral growth: what new things can we discover and how far can we push the quality of what we're making? But time will tell.
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Four days after US Navy SEALs swooped deep into Pakistani territory to carry out a daring, 40-minute raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the Pakistan Army is facing a rising domestic backlash.
Observers normally reluctant to criticize the military – this country's most powerful and popular institution – are now publicly asking why Pakistan's main intelligence agency apparently had no knowledge of Mr. bin Laden's presence and why the military appeared to be caught unaware of the US raid.
But the public relations disaster the Army has suffered could provide a rare and overdue chance to mend broken civil-military relations, analysts say.
"This is a golden opportunity," says Ayesha Siddiqa, author of "Military Inc: Inside Pakistan's Military." "We're seeing a period we've never had before. It's something comparable to 1971," she says, referring to the year Pakistan lost its second war to India, which resulted in the capture of 90,000 prisoners of war and the secession of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). That, in turn, paved the way for the arrival of a powerful civilian ruler in Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
"What we might see happen [now] is people raising their voices [in protest] and the president using that to say Pakistan is interested in change," says Ms. Siddiqa. That includes greater oversight by the civilian government over intelligence and appointments. "What I want to see is now is greater transparency and accountability from the Army," adds Siddiqa.
Unfettered control
Until now, Pakistan's Army has enjoyed almost unfettered control. No civilian oversight is required in making or renewing high-level appointments, including experts observe, the extension of ISI Chief Lt. Gen. Shuja Pasha's tenure in March.
The Army oversees the country's defense and foreign policy and maintains a major stake in industries, agriculture, and land holdings. It even has its own brand of breakfast cereal.
Then there is the matter of its budget, which citizens are starting to question. Officially, the Army receives some 22 percent of the budget, though analysts estimate the actual figure to be significantly higher.
Promises to investigate
On Thursday, in the wake of a growing backlash among Pakistan's citizens, Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani chaired a high-level meeting of his commanders. The result was that the Army promised to investigate intelligence failures in detecting the world's most wanted terrorist.
For many people, that wasn't enough.
If the military persists with their claim of ignorance, says postgraduate student Imran Khalid, echoing popular sentiment, "They will be seen by the general public as incompetent in terms of not being able to protect the borders and the nation's sovereignty…. People will begin to question whether it is worth maintaining a military, which is at sea both against terrorist outfits as well as foreign military operations."
Civilian government's problems
But Pakistan's civilian government, led by President Asif Ali Zardari, has its own problems.
It has shown reluctance to tackle issues relating to defense or terrorism, and that is unlikely to change soon, says retired Brig. Shaukat Qadir. "In South Waziristan, the Army is, by all accounts, detaining 1,500 militants illegally, because the civilian government does not have the capacity to prosecute them. In Swat, the military has taken a lead in building a school to deprogram children brainwashed by terrorists," he says.
The civilian government's track record of poor governance could also scupper hope of clawing back territory from the Army, say analysts. Spiraling inflation, power outages, and fuel shortages have all contributed to its unpopularity.
"This is definitely an opening for change," says Cyril Almeida, a columnist, "because the calumny being heaped on the military at the moment offers a window to civilians to take some leadership." But, he adds, since assuming office, President Zardari has made little effort to push the military back into a more limited role, concentrating instead on keeping his government afloat.
"If the politicians were working effectively to govern better on other fronts – for example, if they had popular support on education, health, and financial management – the spillover effect would embolden them to wrest power from the Army," he cautions. "But as long as your core job is being performed abysmally, the possibility of pushing back is limited."


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Obama's Wide Web
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Amid the cramped, crowded cubicles inside Sen. Barack Obama's campaign headquarters here, sandals are as ubiquitous as iPods. Two young guys in shorts and T-shirts throw a football around. An electoral college map (California 55, Texas 34, etc.) is taped to the wall in the men's bathroom. A BlackBerrying staffer sneezes and blurts out, "Whew! I think I'm allergic to hope!"
This is Triple O -- Obama's online operation.
Five years ago, Howard Dean's online-fueled campaign cemented the Internet's role as a political force. Exactly how big a force no one was quite sure. But this year's primary season, spanning six months, proved that online buzz and activity can translate to offline, on-the-ground results. Indeed, the Web has been crucial to how Obama raises money, communicates his message and, most important, recruits, energizes and turns out his supporters.
With less than three months to go before the election, Triple O is the envy of strategists in both parties, redefining the role that an online team can play within a campaign.
"Theirs is an operation that everyone will be studying for campaigns to come," says Peter Daou, who was Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's Internet director.
Adds Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Forum, an online hub of how politics and technology intersect: "Obama's success online is as much about how our society has changed, how our media ecology has changed, just in the past four years."
Rasiej describes how his 81-year-old father, an Obama supporter, has taken to e-mailing videos of the senator's speeches and policy plans to 50 of his friends. "In one afternoon, my dad is reaching friends who in the past would have taken him a whole year to be in contact with. That's not necessarily Obama. That's the Internet," he continues. "But you have to give credit where credit is due: Obama's Internet team is doing a hell of a job taking advantage of all these changes. They've basically leapfrogged not just the Clinton and McCain campaigns but also the mainstream media when it comes to reaching their supporters."
Joe Trippi, who's widely credited with Dean's pioneering use of the Web, says: "I like to say that we at the Dean campaign were the Wright brothers. We put this rickety thing together and got it off the ground. But the folks in Obama's online team are the Apollo project. The question is, are they Apollo 8 or Apollo 11? If they're Apollo 11, they're going to launch a guy and land him in the White House."
The launch began in early 2007, when Joe Rospars, a veteran of the Dean campaign and the Democratic National Committee, was hired as new-media director. In the following weeks, the 27-year-old assembled a group that included one of the co-founders of Facebook, an award-winning CNN producer and a text-messaging enthusiast. BarackObama.com was born.
A year and a half ago, Rospars led a group of 11. It's easily double that now, with staffers taping signs on the back of their furniture that read, "This is not an extra chair! This chair belongs to . . ." Rospars won't divulge the total number of people in his team. "We don't want to give away our entire playbook," he says.
But he and other members of the group were willing to discuss many other details behind Triple O. This is how the pieces of their operation fit together.


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The Galax Christmas Parade is at 7 p.m. on Dec. 7. The route is from North Main Street to Felts Park.
Prior to the parade, the city Christmas tree will be lit at 6:30 p.m. at Police Plaza on North Main.
Any groups or individuals wishing to participate in the parade need to complete an application, available from A Place in Time Antiques or the Galax Downtown Association office. For more information, call 236-0668.
There will be a $10 fee for business entries, and all entries will be judged.
Two new events will make downtown a holiday destination on Dec. 8.
From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Holiday Gift Expo will be held at Cornerstone Church on 227 S. Main Street. Vendors who sell merchandise via home parties will be gathered in one place for shopping convenience, and the GDA will sell coffee and donuts.
Sellers include Mary Kay, Pampered Chef, Sabika Jewelry and many others. Door prizes and drawings will be held.
From 5 to 8 that evening, the first Community Christmas Concert will be held at the Rex Theater, featuring school and church choirs and area musicians. Admission is $5, and popcorn and drinks will be sold by Friends of the Rex.
The downtown association said that it is hopes the event will become a tradition that features a wide variety of Christmas music and the talent of the region.
"We hope you will bring visiting relatives and friends to downtown Galax for a small-city celebration of this special time for the year," the association said in a press release.
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Two Civil War Sailors from the Ironclad USS Monitor Interred at Arlington National Cemetery
151st anniversary of Battle of Hampton Roads
The remains of two unknown USS Monitor sailors, recovered by NOAA and the U.S. Navy in 2002 from the ship's gun turret, were buried today, with full military honors, at Arlington National Cemetery. The USS Monitor sank in a New Year's Eve storm just over 150 years ago, carrying 16 crew members to their deaths.
"Just as the crew of the Monitor fought tirelessly to keep their 'old-time knight in armor' afloat, so have many worked tirelessly since her loss to keep their commitment to her, and to the 16 sailors who answered the call-to-arms of a young nation in peril, and paid the ultimate price," said Kathryn D. Sullivan, Ph.D., Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and acting NOAA administrator, in remarks at the memorial service. "One major step toward that was taken some 40 years ago, when the nation designated the place where Monitor lies as America's first National Marine Sanctuary, marking it forever as a place of special national significance. We are gathered here today to take another major step, laying two of her sailors to rest in the hallowed ground of Arlington National Cemetery. As we do so, let us all reaffirm our own commitment to forever remember the work of the Monitor and insure her story is told to our children's children.
"As keepers of the USS Monitor National Marine Sanctuary, NOAA is committed to protecting the final resting site of this 'little boat' and her valiant crew, and to assuring that the memory and the legacy of the Monitor and her crew are preserved and passed on to future generations," she added. Full release.


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Marshall shines as Dragons slay Sharks
Benji Marshall produced his best performance in a St George Illawarra jersey and Josh Dugan grabbed a hat-trick as an injury-plagued Cronulla side were put to the sword 30-0 in Wollongong on Saturday.
The beleaguered Sharks were without 13 of their top-25 playing squad and 2010 Golden Boot winner Marshall took full advantage having a hand in five of his side's six tries in front of a crowd of 12,079.
Dugan gave his hopes of a recall to the NSW Origin side as a right centre a real shot in the arm with two tries before the interval, with Peter Mata'utia and Gerard Beale also crossing for four pointers.
The former Canberra star completed the second hat-trick of his career midway through the second half when he soared above a statuesque Sharks defence to haul in Marshall's perfectly-weighted kick.
Dugan's display will certainly have given NSW coach Laurie Daley food for thought but so would the level of opposition he faced, which was little more than a reserve-grade standard.
But it would be churlish to be too critical of Marshall, in his third game since his shock return to the NRL from his disastrous spell in New Zealand rugby, as he showed glimpses of the class he demonstrated so often in a Wests Tigers shirt.
Mata'utia's 13th-minute opener was created by a sweeping run and pass from the former Kiwi skipper that found Aidan Quinlan in support.
Marshall then set up Dugan's first try with a smart inside ball before producing a no-look pass to gift-wrap his second.
He then delivered a delicious long pass to Gareth Widdop that resulted in Beale charging over the line.
The Sharks were much improved after halftime but were toothless in attack and with playmakers Todd Carney and Jeff Robson on the sidelines, they never really put the hosts under pressure.
Beale added some extra gloss to the scoreline with his second try four minutes from time following a brilliantly regathered grubber-kick from Widdop, handing McGregor his first victory as interim coach.
McGregor said he was delighted with the improvement in his side following Monday's loss to South Sydney and said Marshall's performance didn't come as a surprise to him.
"Just getting better week to week is all I am after at the moment," he said.
"I spoke to them at halftime about their completions rates and challenged them to get over 82 per cent and they got to 85.
"The other challenge was to keep them to zero and we did that and that was pleasing.
"Benji has been showing a bit of class all week and no one has seen it apart from the coaching staff and the players at training.
Sharks coach Peter Sharp said he'd never seen such a lengthy injury list in his long career and said he hoped to have at least 10 players back for their clash with Manly in two weeks' time.
"We just want to be healthy and that has been our sole aim for the last three weeks," Sharp said.
"Let's draw in the sand and let's try and play some good positive footy for the last 10 weeks.
"That will put everyone in a better frame of mind.
"We had 10 or 11 top-line players out today and that is a fair chunk of your squad."
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Students at Brighton and Sussex universities are among the highest drug takers in the country, according to a national survey.
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Over 9,000 commuters have joined together in signing a petition, which will run for six months, calling for Southeastern to be rid of its rail franchise.
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UK supermarket ASDA are predicting 2016 to be another year of "intense pressure" for the chain and their competitors.


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High-Level Economists Support the Protests
Nobel prize winning economist Joe Stiglitz – like many other high-level economists – supports the "Occupy Wall Street" protests.
People may assume that Stiglitz supports the Federal Reserve because "liberals like printing money".
Nobel Prize Winning Economist Dislikes the Fed
In reality, Stiglitz strongly dislikes the Fed:
Joseph Stiglitz – former head economist at the World Bank and a nobel-prize winner – said yesterday that the very structure of the Federal Reserve system is so fraught with conflicts that it is "corrupt" and undermines democracy.
Stiglitz said:
If we [i.e. the World Bank] had seen a governance structure that corresponds to our Federal Reserve system, we would have been yelling and screaming and saying that country does not deserve any assistance, this is a corrupt governing structure.
Stiglitz pointed out that – if another country had presented a plan to reform its financial system, and included a regulatory regime that copied the makeup of the Federal Reserve system – "it would have been a big signal that something is wrong."
Stiglitz stressed that the Fed banks have clear conflicts of interest, since the banks are largely governed by a board of directors that includes officers of the very banks they're supposed to be overseeing:
So, these are the guys who appointed the guy who bailed them out … Is that a conflict of interest?
They would say, 'no conflict of interest, we were just doing our job. But you have to look at the conflicts of interest"…
The reason you talk about governance is because in a democracy you want people to have confidence … This is a structure that will undermine confidence in a democracy.
Stiglitz is not alone.
Many High-Level Economists Say "End the Fed"
Milton Friedman, Murray Rothbard and many other economists have called for an end to the Fed.
Aren't Criticisms of Wall Street and the Fed Inconsistent?
While it might at first seem confusing that Stiglitz could support the Wall Street protests and criticism of the Fed, these are really just two sides of the same coin.


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The headline is predictable: "JPMorgan Knew of Risks," and under that, the subhead is familiar: "Concerning $2 billion loss."
Paragraph two is predetermined: "Losses could go as high as $5 billion."
So, now, in Washington, someone is saying, "There ought to be a law!"
That would be any fan of the so-called Volcker rule that limits banks' proprietary bets in the market or Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, who has pounced on JPMorgan's losses to push the SAFE Banking Act, which would prevent any one institution from growing past 10 percent of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's ability to back up retail accounts.
The law would also prevent banks from borrowing more than $10 for every $1 of shareholder equity, which Brown says would limit its affect to the six largest Wall Street banks.
A law for six banks? Really?
Some perspective is needed here. Since the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul took care of every manner of mistakes at major banks, it is difficult to figure out what will earn a politician a snappy sound byte out of all of this. There is Brown, of course, but also Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, who is calling for JPMorgan Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon to resign from the board of directors of the Federal Reserve of New York, where Dimon is serving his second term.
Never mind, this is a board that does not tell the Fed how to do its business, but instead only monitors the economic health of the district. Never mind, the Dodd-Frank bill has already eliminated the second of the board's two chores -- the one in which the board helps choose the New York Fed's president, when the occasion arises.
Never mind federal law specifies that bankers sit on the board. And never mind it is, by tradition, a two-term appointment and Dimon is expected to step down in September.
When Dimon testifies in Washington Wednesday in a hearing to review the bank's big loss, it is likely someone will repeat the phrase, "JPMorgan is the poster child for the Volcker rule."
But here is some perspective on that topic.
One: Making investments is what banks do.
Two: The Chief Investment Office in London that incurred the loss, is in charge of investing JPMorgan's "excess cash."
Three: In these troubled times, JPMorgan's "excess cash" in round figures amounts to $370 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
Dimon, of course, is being assailed this week for his previous comments on the Volcker rule, especially his regrettable statement that former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker "doesn't understand capital markets."
Neither, apparently, does Dimon whose understanding of capital markets did not stop his bank from losing massive amounts of money.
Not making headlines, however, are the well-intended regulators who managed to explode the modest 11 pages of the Volcker rule in the Dodd-Frank bill into a 298-page proposal that The Economist reports can be broken down into 1,420 sub-questions that are expected to cost banks hundreds of thousands of dollars to fill out the first time and about $40,000 in subsequent years.
That, frankly, is an extremely modest investment for preventing losses of $5 billion and more, but the trouble is, the Volcker rule is too big to succeed.
Further, in an election year, Brown's shot at passing a SAFE Banking Act is as slim as a coat of paint.
Banks at the moment are safe from the threat of more regulations, leaving Wednesday's hearings as "a tempest in a teapot," to borrow Dimon's April description of the losses he knew the bank was about to incur.
In international markets Wednesday, the Nikkei 225 index in Japan added 0.6 percent, while the Shanghai composite index in China gained 1.27 percent. The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong rose 0.82 percent, while the Sensex in India climbed 0.11 percent.
The S&P/ASX 200 in Australia fell 0.22 percent.
In midday trading in Europe, the FTSE 100 index in Britain was flat, off 0.09 percent, while the DAX 30 in Germany shed 0.18 percent. The CAC 40 in France slipped 0.36 percent, while the Stoxx Europe 600 fell 0.44 percent.


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VATICAN CITY — Showing more of his sprightly personality and his priorities, Pope Francis sped two of his predecessors toward sainthood on Friday: John Paul II, who guided the Roman Catholic Church during the end of the cold war, and John XXIII, who assembled the liberalizing Second Vatican Council in the 1960s.
In approving the sainthood of John XXIII even without a second miracle attributable to the pontiff, Francis took the rare step of bypassing the Vatican bureaucracy. Francis also said a Vatican committee had accepted the validity of a second miracle attributed to the intercession of John Paul. Both popes are expected to be canonized before the end of the year.
Also on Friday, Pope Francis issued his first encyclical — a rich meditation on faith and love co-written with his immediate predecessor, Benedict XVI, that clearly displays their different styles: Francis' more conversational, Benedict's more intellectual.
The canonization cause for John Paul began almost immediately after his death in 2005. At his funeral, crowds in St. Peter's Square began shouting "Santo subito," or "Sainthood now," for the beloved pope. He was beatified in May 2011, after a Vatican committee credited him with interceding to cure a French nun, Marie Simon-Pierre Normand, of Parkinson's disease, the same malady from which the pontiff suffered.
The second miracle attributed to John Paul is said to be the healing of a woman who prayed to the pope on the day of his beatification.
The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said Francis was eager to canonize John XXIII. "Despite the absence of a second miracle it was the pope's will that the sainthood of the great pope of the Second Vatican Council be recognized," he said. But he played down the fact that Francis had bypassed a second miracle. "There are lots of theologians who in fact discuss the principle of the fact that it's necessary to have two distinct miracles."
Father Lombardi said John Paul and John XXIII would most likely be canonized before the end of the year.
Alberto Melloni, a Vatican historian and director of the John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies a liberal Catholic research institute in Bologna, Italy, said the canonizations were an important nod to the more liberal wings of the Catholic Church. They "mark the end of a season that cast doubts over the Second Vatican Council, a season of some mistrust," he said.
"Many spoke about the council, criticized it as too weak and with too many compromises, but failed to feel the spirit of the council," he added. "Both popes were bishops at the council, not theologians."
Mr. Melloni said it was significant that Francis had bypassed the need for a second miracle attributed to John XXIII. Perhaps he decided "that the people of God have already made a judgment about the two popes," he added.
At John Paul II's beatification ceremony, which drew one and a half million people to Rome, Benedict lauded John Paul II as a central figure in the history of the 20th century and a hero of the church.
"He was witness to the tragic age of big ideologies, totalitarian regimes, and from their passing John Paul II embraced the harsh suffering, marked by tension and contradictions, of the transition of the modern age toward a new phase of history, showing constant concern that the human person be its protagonist," Benedict said at the Mass.
While Benedict's first encyclical, "God Is Love," drew on the work of John Paul, Francis' first encyclical, "Lumen Fidei," or "The Light of Faith," released on Friday, is the first that the Vatican has openly acknowledged was written by two popes together. The encyclical calls on believers and seekers alike to explore how God can enrich their lives.
It also urges Catholics to uphold the church's conception of the family. "The first setting in which faith enlightened the human city is the family," Francis writes. "I think first and foremost of the stable union of man and woman in marriage."
The concluding chapter of the encyclical, which touches on the role of faith in reinforcing the common good, recalls the informal, immediate style of Francis, a low-key Argentine Jesuit who regularly delivers off-the-cuff sermons and has chosen to live in a Vatican dormitory instead of the Apostolic Palace.
The opening three chapters are rich in biblical and literary references and bear the mark of Benedict, a theologian who was head of the Vatican's doctrinal office for 25 years before becoming pope in 2005. In addition to the Old Testament and the Gospel, the encyclical quotes Dante, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Friedrich Nietzsche, T. S. Eliot and the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber.
It also touches on a passage in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel "The Idiot," in which Prince Myshkin sees the painting "The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb" by Hans Holbein the Younger and says, "Looking at this painting might cause one to lose his faith."
"Yet it is precisely in contemplating Jesus' death that faith grows stronger and receives a dazzling light," Francis writes.


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Anonymous Coward, 30 Aug 2004 @ 12:55pm
pirate this, jack"I've talked to about 3,500 students at Harvard, Yale, NYU, Stanford and Duke - eight universities in all. When I ask, how many of you believe that what you�re doing is wrong, morally and legally, most of their hands go up. But they rationalize it by saying, yes, it is a kind of stealing, but everybody else is doing it, and it costs too much to go to a movie. There's a rationalization that goes on, but I am convinced if we keep putting this moral imperative before them and if the professors follow through on this, it will have an effect."
So Valenti and the MPAA want to maintain the status quo just so they can keep ripping off consumers? Nice. Perhaps if he and the movie studios put as much effort into delivering quality content at reasonable prices as they did blowing hot air about "piracy", the problem would solve itself.
bunion jack, 5 Nov 2004 @ 10:25am
Re: pirate this, jackthe mpaa is in trouble.
Permanent4, 30 Aug 2004 @ 1:10pm
Irony so think you need a fork...
Some new business model may want to put a movie out on the Internet just after it leaves theatrical exhibition. We can�t afford to let that be copied at that juncture because it�s the [home entertainment] aftermarket where you make your profits.
Really? Would that be the same aftermarket that you tried to prevent by comparing the VCR to the Boston Strangler 25 years ago?
thecaptain, 30 Aug 2004 @ 2:19pm
A rebuttal is needed...It would be interesting to ask the interviewer directly why he/she let him get away with it so easily.
I'd personally love to know.
Maybe he/she could come and post on here like the other moron you had :)
Re: A rebuttal is needed...Well, it's not necessarily fair to compare the Wikipedia hating reporter to the interviewer here. In the past, JD Lasica has shown that he clearly understands the issues at hand. He's not misrepresenting anything, I just feel that he didn't do a good job in this particular interview.
Anyway, I have emailed him asking if he'd like to make a response here. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, and assume there's some reason why he let Valenti's statements pass unchallenged.
JD Lasica, 30 Aug 2004 @ 3:22pm
Talking with ValentiWell, fair point. I think the explanation lies in the fact that this interview was set up to get the MPAA's position on a host of issues important to the tech community. I'm writing a book on the subject, and I'll be offering counter-arguments to Valenti's claims when it's published. I thought his remarks would be of interest to an audience hip to the issues surrounding technology and electronics, so I excerpted his remarks for Engadget (he knew the interview was for both the book and for a publication). So, only about a third of our interview was printed here.
So, that's the explanation. On reflection, I think you're right, and I should have included more skeptical responses in the excerpts I chose for Engadget. But Jack won't be getting away so easily when the book comes out. ("Darknet: Remixing the Future of Movies, Music & Television," Wiley & Sons, spring 2005).
Thanks for the good critique.
thecaptain, 31 Aug 2004 @ 5:30am
Re: Talking with ValentiTo Mike and JD Lasica.
You are correct Mike, it WAS unfair to compare JD to the other guy. Please blame it on a late night after a bad day :)
JD, I think its great that you are willing to come on here and post up your own comments, it clears things up a bit and I enjoyed your honest reflection. Apologies to you...
Thomas Hawk (profile), 31 Aug 2004 @ 7:34am
Re: Talking with ValentiPersonally I think it was nothing short of amazing that J.D. was ever able to get the interview in the first place. Obviously Valenti doesn't know how to use Google because if he'd bothered to Google J.D. and read some of what his interviewer has written about in the past I'm sure he'd have had second thoughts.
I think the interview actually went fairly well and I think that as an interview it was probably good that J.D. didn't go for the throat as some might be quick to discredit it with bias. No, I think it was better to let Jack hang himself with his own words and let the online community do the after-analysis. The important thing is that by getting the interview in the first place it brings to light once again the problems with the adversarial tactics of the MPAA and their cousin the RIAA.
Below are my comments from the post at Engadget:
"What would you say to a mom who wants to make a backup of her kids? DVD movies?
When you go to your department store and you buy 10 Cognac glasses and two weeks later you break two of them, the store doesn?t give you two backup copies. Where did this backup copy thing come from?"
Look, either you are selling content or you are selling physical goods -- you cannot have your cake and eat it too. When you buy a DVD you are buying content. The DVD is merely the delivery vehicle for the content. If I buy a tune from itunes and then burn it to my CD and it breaks, should I then also not be able to re burn it? It infuriates me that people like Jack Valenti have no problem gouging the public with expensive dvds and then when the medium is no longer useable try to compare it to a pair of cognac glasses.
On Thursday night someone broke the window of my car at the West Oakland BART station and in addition to stealing the dvd player in the car stole all of my kids dvds -- about 20 of them which were hidden in the glove compartment. They stole the dvd player even though I had taken the face plate off and it is essentially worthless to them without it.
Now Vallenti wants to tell me that I'm SOL and why don't I just go out and drop another $500 buying my content all over again -- and he has the audacity to speak about a "moral imperative."?!
This guy is classic. How about this Jack. How about I just download everything I want for free and use any resource I have to avoid ever paying for another dvd for the rest of my life. How about I just copy everything to my PC and burn it to dvd for play in my car in the future and don't give you or your friends another god-damn dime. There is a reason that you are portrayed as a "villian" in cyberspace. And while you may have a modicum of power based on your previous position with the MPAA, the tide is turning and things like you opening your mouth and saying really stupid things will ony bring about both grass roots political change and technological pirating tools faster.
You, my friend, are a hypocrite -- someone who talks about the value being the content one day and the form the very next.
Saygin(?), 31 Aug 2004 @ 7:43am
Re: Talking with ValentiJD, Thank you for the interview. Nicely done. It serves as a nice cap to Valenti's career and a useful introduction to the issues and positions his replacement stands to inherit.
achacha, 31 Aug 2004 @ 9:46am
Re: Talking with ValentiNot to stereotype, but most (not all) of the communication and journalism majors in my school were athletes who figured that if their career in sports doesn't pan out, they can always become announcers and reporters. Same people that never showed up to classes and got their passing grades through dubious means went on to become journalists and I sometimes see articles that they write and wonder at how many people out there will read it and not question it. Happens all the time and it is an insult to the great journalists out there that actually think, ask questions and challenge the interviewee... a lost art it seems.
I, for one, am happy that a luddite like Valenti is retiring, his lack of understanding and greed has set the movie industry many years back.
Jim L., 30 Aug 2004 @ 4:20pm
Ever read the Hollywood trades?This kind of stream of consciousness gobbledeegook is par for the course when you transcribe Hollywood interviews. But then, I guess thats why some people are reporters and other people make movies.
momo, 30 Aug 2004 @ 7:48pm
Media doesn't question, just repeats."My biggest complaint with the interview isn't with Valenti, actually. It's that the interviewer, JD Lasica, who definitely knows better, didn't challenge Valenti on any of his ridiculous answers."
You may not have noticed it, but the media no longer challenges anything.
Christ just look at all the swift boat crap that's been debunked. Frankly at this point in time we're lucky that all of the news casters aren't as bad as Novak, actively pushing crap like the swift boat book because his son is an executive for the company distributing it.
JD Lasica, 31 Aug 2004 @ 5:52pm
Re: Talking with ValentiMike, I thought you asked the right questions. Keep up the good digging at Techdirt!
Brian Shock, 1 Sep 2004 @ 9:06am
No Subject GivenValenti was and is just a talking head, a semihuman channel for the yammerings of a swarm of film executives and lawyers. Giving him the facts would be about as effective as shouting at your computer. There's no reason to believe his successor will be any different.
bunion, 5 Nov 2004 @ 10:33am
Re: No Subject GivenValenti is a moron. He is too old to understand the technology. There are many of us who are not pirates and want to back up legitimate copies of our own legally purchased dvd's and tapes and lps. These assholes at the film and record companies don't mind selling us this overpriced shit. I am not copying anything but I will never buy anything ever again. I listen to my free radio station. I won't buy satelite radio or satelite tv either because the same assholes who run the film and recording companies control the pay services too. All citizens should defeat them by listening to free broadcast material. Granted they might be owned by the same assholes too but they give it to us free. These liberal hollywood pukes such as streisand, robbins, sarrandon, garrafallo, sheen can all shove their overpriced movies and records up their ass. Suggestion, go to the library and check out their pitiful materials and watch them and then return them to the library. It is all quite legal and you don't support these greedy assholes.
bunion, 5 Nov 2004 @ 10:55am
No Subject GivenPeople should just quit purchasing movies, they should quit going to movies, they should boycott cds and not rent movies for a whole year. If everyone boycotted these assholes for one year and held to it, these hollywood assholes would come begging back with price reductions. As long as they have suckers (consumers) ready and willing to buy their shit, they will peddle it a high prices. Piracy has caused them to rethink their price structure and reduce the price of cd's. Just think if they were to be boycotted for just one year. What if no one went to a movie or rented a tape or bought a cd for just one year. They would be begging to sell us cd's for a reasonable price which should be about 2.00 per cd. We are the ignorant ones for buying their shit. I have boycotted their shit for a whole year now and I figured out that I am about 2000.00 richer. It is not against the law to boycott these assholes. Steven Spielburg and Barbara Streisand, Charlie Sheen, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, Saan Penn, Ben Affleck and on and on and on. These flaunt their affluent wealth to the public and then they moan when someone copies a movie. They are greedy whores and we don't have to sit and take their shit. We can do a legal boycott. When you boycott their movies, they don't make any money and you don't have to worry about the assholes at the mpaa or riaa knocking on your door. I just wish I could convince someone with national recognition to champion a world wide boycott of their shit. Now of course, there would be some turncoat neanderthals who could not live without the shit that they spew out. If just two million people felt the same way I do, and those two million people went to the movies twice a month at an average ticket price of 6.00 per ticket, a boycott would costg them 288 million dollars. If those same two million people would refrain from buying 2 cd's/mo at an average cost of 15.00 each, it would cost them 720 million in revenue. That is a billion dollars. That is just two million people. Those money worshiping son-of-a bitches in entertainment understand money. That is the only thing they understand. Two million boycotters would hurt the hell out of them. So anyone reading this. Boycott the son-of-a - bitches. Let a man make a doller from you and he will take you for granted, boycott the son of a bitch and he will come crawling to your door. So jump in there with the bunion and boycott the hell out of the bastards. Don't do anything illegal. By doing so you empower them. Practice the politics which worked so well for Dr. King. Peaceful-legal-boycott and protest. It is not against the law if you don't buy but you must not copy either. You can live without thier shit. I have and I enjoy reading and sailing and motorcycling and biking. I have lost weight and my cholesterol; is lower. Think of it as a heal;thy retreat. signed bunion for legal protest


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Jen's Mom Writes a Post
And now, a note from Jen's mom:
Jennifer tells me I have to use the funny cake pictures.
[You're doing fine, mom.]
Are you coming to Jennifer's little book parties? She's been working so hard on them, even though I told her that probably nobody is going to come.
But I told her, I said, "Just because people don't want to see you doesn't mean you're a failure. Maybe everybody's busy! Maybe they're at their mothers'! Who am I to say? What do I know?"
All I know is that all of my friends already have grandchildren.
It's hard for me to tell them that my Jennifer apparently doesn't love me enough to give me grandbabies.
[Mom! This is not the time.]
Fine! Fine, I'll change the subject.
So, I remember Jennifer's first period...
What? I'm telling a story! Well, anyway, she cried for days. It was terrible. And the clots...oh my goodness...
Okay, okay! Well. If you blog people aren't visiting your mothers on the night of Jennifer's little party, maybe you could go. Who knows? It might be fun. And if not, at least you'll know you did something nice for my baby.
Oh, and also:
Wait. That's not the right cake. Jennifer, sweetie, how do I put up the "Thank You" cake?
[Don't worry, Mom. I'll just put that in later.]
Thanks to Erin B., Kelly W., Ryan H., B.I., Anne S., and Jen's mom, who would obviously never write something like this and is an awfully good sport.


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acventures needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 53 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
The School District is called Shelby County Public Schools.
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I will preview all the logos with the client, return with reviews and then select the winner with the client.
This must work ok on print, small sizes for business cards, and shirts for embroidery.
Winner must also be competent enough to create Stationery and Business Card Layouts as well.
- The colors to choose from are Deep Blue, Deep Red, and Gold.
- Abstract is ok, must work good on print, small size, and business cards.
They do not want a kid-ish logo
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I have ZOOM MRS-1608 & 1044, in both of them I can find no way of changing the octave of the bass root note. After choosing the rhythm pattern & number of bars the 1808 manual states:
"9. Repeat steps 4 – 8 to enter all required pattern information."
no mention of octaves.
In Rhythm Song mode, I created a simple 12 bar blues in E (E,E,E,E,A,A,E,E,B,A,E,B) when I enter the B instead of the bass sounding B above E it sounds B below E then goes up to A above E.
OrgRoot is set to E yet I am stuck in an octave of B C D E F G A, paradoxically the bass pad bank is in E. In Rhythm Song mode how do you to get the octave to start at E or access the other 2 octaves, like in the bass pads section?
(MRS-1608 & 1044) Rhythm Song Mode - Can't Change Bass Octave
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As the puppies play at Woof and Shloof in midtown Toronto, it's hard to say it's a dog-eat-dog world out there. None of the happy hounds look dog tired, there wasn't one who could claim to be sick as a dog, but, truth be told, it certainly looked like the place was going to the dogs.
But in a good way.
It turns out, today's pampered pooches never had it so good, what with the spa-like grooming services and doggie daycare at their convenience.
As people spend more and more on their canine companions, enter Woof and Shloof, a grooming, daycare and dog-training company located not far from Forest Hill. It bills itself as a "first-class facility [that] is cage free and architected entirely from the dog's point of view."
Jesse Sternberg, founder and owner of the 18-month-old company, believes he has hit on a winning formula that distinguishes Woof and Shloof (Yiddish for sleep) from other facilities catering to canines.
At the heart of it is his uncanny ability to see the world as dogs see it, to relate to them on their own level and to provide them with a stimulating and enjoyable experience that sees them return to their owners calm and peaceful.
It's something they appreciate, he said. The last thing many of them want to do is deal with a hyped-up hound that's been cooped up all day in a house or apartment.
Sternberg can relate to dogs because he's been around them all his life – he jokes he "was raised by a sheepdog" – and has learned to recognize and apply the non-verbal signals they use to communicate.
"I can do stuff other people can't do," he explained. "I can take a plate of food off your table and put it on the floor, and [the dog] wouldn't touch it – he'd wait for me to give it to him."
Through his own experience and by following the lead of renowned dog trainer Turid Rugaas, Sternberg communicates with animals through gestures and subtle signals.
"Dogs see us as part of the animal kingdom," he said. "They communicate non-verbally."
"Dogs come from a place where they avoid conflict, where they want to be peaceful," he continued. They avoid eye contact, which can be seen as a gesture of assertiveness.
Since he is sensitive to these hidden clues, Sternberg is able to create an environment in which as many as 30 dogs can socialize without conflict, play, get exercise and expend their energy. His staff is trained to employ his techniques, and his clients love the calmness in their animals when they pick them up at the end of the day. They usually come back for more.
"I'll get crazy, poorly behaved dogs at home, and after they come here, they go home and they're blissfully calm. The owners are amazed and they spread it around by word-of-mouth," Sternberg, 31, said.
"It's a huge part of my business because I have two customers every time someone comes into the store, the dog and the human."
As a result, the business has grown by leaps and bounds. In the 18 months since he opened, more than 1,300 customers have come through the doors. "Every month, the numbers are growing."
"We hit our break-even point," Sternberg said. "It took a while. It took 16 months. Since then, it's basically been exploding."
The April 2012 revenue numbers are triple what they were the same month the year before, he added.
Woof and Shloof's revenue model is based on selling packages for half-day or full-day daycare, as well as providing grooming services and training.
The hourly rate drops as larger packages are selected. A full day is priced at $39 to drop in; $33 a day for a package of 10, or $29 a day for a package of 20.
The competition can't match that value, Sternberg said, not when dog walkers charge $20 just for a one-hour walk.
"The best customers are the ones who are double-income earners who work long days and their dog is essentially their child," he said. "They feel guilty leaving the dog at home. Also, when a dog is left alone for that long, dogs tend to be destructive. They chew the couch and rip the baseboard. So this becomes a solution."


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Libido simply means sex drive. A woman's desire for sex can vary individually. When a woman is in a new relationship she will experience what is commonly called "the honeymoon phase" where sex is abundant whilst over a period a woman's sex drive will decrease. The frequency of sexual activity ranges from daily to not happening at all. If you are concerned about the decrease in your sexual libido, you might need to seek professional help.
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Reduced libidos are treated with various styles. Treatments can include seeking any underlying medical problems which the patient might have. Hormone replacement therapy which typically adjusts the balance of hormones in a female's body. Anti-depressants and stress management have proved to work with females suffering from low sexual libidos. Counseling aids as well with the emotional factors involved with females suffering from sexual issues.
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Where should women seek help for low sexual libidos?
Where can women seek help for their low sexual libidos? Their first place to check should always be with their family doctor. A woman's family doctor can provide referrals to sex therapists or psychologist. Urologists can aid women as well if there are some underlying medical problems which are affecting a woman's desire to have sex.
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