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Cozumel in July brings calm, warm water, bright blue skies, 100'+ visibility and underwater colors that can only be found in Cozumel. This 6-day workshop is perfect for all levels of photographer from beginner to advanced. No camera is too big or too small. We'll show you how to use your digital camera and get the best shots possible both topside and underwater. Here's your chance to pick up photo pointers from real photo pros and improve your own underwater shooting techniques.
This workshop is lead by Bonnie Pelnar, who has been leading photography workshops around the world for the past 10 years. She has made 35 trips to Cozumel and knows where and how to find the best Cozumel has to offer AND she can show you how to capture it with your camera! Bonnie has a passion for Isla Cozumel. You won't find a better tour guide.
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"This was one of the best dive trips I have ever done. Bonnie seems to have the perfect formula mix of having fun as well as serious underwater photography instruction for those wanting to improve their uw images. I had just bought a new housing for my digital camera and Bonnie patiently answered my numerous questions on the new rig. She also shared her vast knowledge freely with the participants. I plan on doing future UW Photography Workshops with Bonnie."
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Tuesday: Daybreak and time for the keen photographers to be out to capture the special light and the morning movement of wildlife. Prolific birdlife includes pelicans, blue wrens and black swans. Enjoy a leisurely morning and lunch cruising upriver to Blanchetown through one of 13 locks which maintain the flow and levels of water. This afternoon the vessel moor near Salters Station for your overnight anchorage. As the last rays of the sun fade, join a guided tour of Burk Salter's vineyard on the banks of the river and enjoy wine tasting at his cellar door. Tonight enjoy all the fun and excitement of the Murray River Cup.
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A Little Bit of History Repeating...
Are you serious chocolate? So the many i protest with are bunch of white racist wing nuts. Including me. Talk about some :bs ....
Communism is the devil.
I can't figure out if you're inferring that people who oppose more nationalized health care are racists, or if you're equating nationalized health care with desegregation; or both. Either way, your cleverness is stifling.
I think this is going to be my last post on this website. This kind of warped logic is disturbing and I'm just tired of seeing it; it's been all too common lately and it's boring. You're boring. Although I suppose it's my fault for venturing in here after seeing so much utter nonsense in the past. So, I'm going to exercise my right to get the hell outta here. Consider this camel's back to be finally broken. Have a good one.
Hell, there was NO CAPTION to the picture, and not a word of text in the original post. Where you are imputing "warped logic" is clearly a faulty assumption on your own part.
(Although: Calling "race mixing" communism in one instance and then, 40-some-odd years later, protesters of the same political stripe using the same vocabulary to fight against health care reform is telling. Of what is another thread, and the demise of another weak-backed camel.)
For the rest:
No; tea party protesters are not automatic racists. Not the point. No; all protesters and protests are not the same.
The point is that damn-near EVERY BIT of meaningful change has come about over and through such protestation as we're seeing now from Conservatives. Sure, definitionally there is to be expected some resistance to PROGRESS...hence the term conservative. I get that. But...
Slavery. The New Deal. Voting equality. Repeal of the poll tax. Civil rights. Integrated schools. Women's rights.
And now: Gay marriage. Health care.
It seems as though any time we're talking about domestic change that stands to actually better lives and improve the communities nearest to us, Conservatives protest loud and hard...yet not one of those sign-holding tea partiers bats an eyelash when another appropriations request comes down for $50BN (or more) for rebuilding Iraq -- a country whose new US-sponsored constitution spells out the terms of guaranteed healthcare for all Iraqis (Art. 31).
Interpret the picture as you choose...or dismiss it entirely. I promise: You won't break my heart if you ignore the thread, no need to threaten to leave the forum foreversies or jump from that ledge ("I'll do it this time! Honest!").
The picture just made me wonder how many modern-day Republican see the stark difference in what the two parties protest. In 2003, Liberals protested spending tax payer dollars to make war and kill others in a unilateral war since proven to be based on false pretenses. Now, the current version of the most "conservative" Republicans are protesting national healthcare that would, at worst, cost a drop in the bucket of taxpayer money as compared to Oceania's war in Eurasia to help improve a catastrophically broken health care system. Want to protest the government's reckless spending of taxpayer dollars? Sounds great. Problem is, those "Rallies for America" back then (Glenn Beck again!) were promoting the very wars that have siphoned off the funds so desperately needed to fix the growing problems here in the US. Where have the real conservatives gone?
So there's that picture. It was unsettling to me from the moment I saw it. Very unsettling. It was unsettling to see the fervor and intensity of protesters who are fighting against the creation of a system that can set the world standard for health care if done correctly. This should be a true bipartisan effort; this is NOT the issue to hope President Obama or the Dems screw up on. Jason pegged it right on: It's stirring up the same nationalistic fears from a bag of tricks that ought not work any longer. It's fearmongering, plain and simple. It's putting a forked tail and sickle on what seems to be a genuine chance at reform.
In my book, it's worthy of that same "bs" emoticon to see the "Obama is a socialist!" signs held high and proud by protesters who have never, not once set foot outside the "'merica" they just know to be the greatest and best at all things, beyond discussion. Set aside for a moment just how confusing it is just how the President can be a nazi, an Islamofacist sympathizer, a communist, an anti-christ, and a closet atheist--all at once. I've been sick in Germany--I lived there. I've used a German emergency room. It was UN-FREAKING-BELIEVABLE how smooth and inexpensive it was. I've had tonsillitis in Costa Rica. Emergency room. Same experience. Yes, upfront taxes are higher. You know what? We are already paying a ridiculous amount for health care (not to mention all the sales, use, excise, and other taxes). Factor in what you're paying now, and my guess is a substantial net GAIN with an expanded national health care. Where exactly does it say that we have to have so comparatively crappy a health care system in order to preserve that myopic vision of "'merica"?
Because you know what: We can likely all agree that what we have now--Nixon's implementation of plan designed ONLY to increase provider profits--ain't workin' anymore, if it ever did. Instead of conservative obstructionism and protests, why not JOIN THE PROCESS and craft a piece of legislation that builds upon the working systems already out there, and adds that 'merican touch. Hell, the right should be saying, "We need this bill...but it has to be fiscally responsible." Set realistic targets, limits, and publicly shame Congresscritters from either side that try to slip garbage in the bill. You know...actually being conservative on an issue that could benefit from informed constituents demanding actual fiscal restraint. I'd love to see that.
Unfortunately, that's not what I have been seeing. Maybe I'm mistaken. Maybe I'm just not seeing the whole picture. Maybe I'm getting too caught up with the communism garbage and the scores of prejudicial message hijacking with all the "Send him back to Africa!" and the "Lyin' Kenyan" posters, and I'm failing to see the more subtle, politically savvy messages that are coming from the right. Maybe obi had a "clever" point of his own that, but for my boring posting a single picture, we would have all benefited to hear. Maybe there is no historical connection in the conservative protests I mentioned. Maybe the Red demon-of-choice choice for each group of protesters is coincidental. Maybe these events are separate, distinct, and absolutely removed from each other instance such that any comparison necessarily requires the application of "warped logic".
I'm skeptical, but who knows.
What I do know is that the viewpoint from outside the teaparty is one that makes the loudest of the fringe, the hagiographical Glenn Beck crowd, seem like they are espousing the viewpoints of the majority of the right. That, my friends, could only lead to further defection and conservative party fragmentation.
(Pardon these tears...I just love this forum...so...much. -Sniff-)
And that's why that picture caught my eye.
/"warped logic and cleverness" of a fiscal conservative and social realist
Regardless, solid post, WC.
Harry Reid's History Lesson
Harry Reid compares the fight for health-care reform to the emancipation and women's suffrage movements.
By JOHN FUND
Majority Leader Harry Reid tarred opponents of his health care bill yesterday as the equivalent of those who opposed equal rights for women and civil rights for blacks.
In a remarkable statement on the Senate floor, Mr. Reid lambasted Republicans for wanting to "slow down" on health care. "You think you've heard these same excuses before? You're right," he said. "In this country there were those who dug in their heels and said, 'Slow down, it's too early. Let's wait. Things aren't bad enough' -- about slavery. When women wanted to vote, [they said] 'Slow down, there will be a better day to do that -- the day isn't quite right. . . .'"
He wrapped up his remarks as follows: "When this body was on the verge of guaranteeing equal civil rights to everyone regardless of the color of their skin, some senators resorted to the same filibuster threats that we hear today."
Senator Reid's comments were quickly condemned. "Hyperbole. It is over the top. It reminds me of earlier people talking about Nazis," said Juan Williams of NPR and Fox News, author of "Eyes on the Prize," a definitive history of the civil rights movement.
Historians also faulted Mr. Reid's curious reference to the Senate civil rights debates of the 1960s. After all, it was Southern Democrats who mounted an 83-day filibuster of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill. The final vote to cut off debate saw 29 Senators in opposition, 80% of them Democrats. Among those voting to block the civil rights bill was West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, who personally filibustered the bill for 14 hours. The next year he also opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Mr. Byrd still sits in the Senate, and indeed preceded Mr. Reid as his party's majority leader until he stepped down from that role in 1989.
The final reason Mr. Reid's comments were so inapt and offensive is that the battles for women's suffrage and civil rights he referred to were about expanding freedom. That's not what the 2,074-page health care bill being debated in the Senate today does, with its 118 new regulatory boards and commissions. Mr. Reid may reach his needed 60 votes to pass his bill this month, but he is pursuing it using the most tawdry and deplorable of tactics.
Comparing race rights w/ health care is ludicrous. In one case people are protesting about what someone else does with their own lives; in the other, people are protesting about an action that literally can mean the difference between life and death for themselves. I believe people are in a better position to determine what's best for themselves both in whom they marry and choosing their healthcare. If this healthcare legislation was serious about controlling costs and making healthcare more affordable there would be tort reform included and the repeal of the restriction banning sale of health insurance across state lines. These 2 actions alone would take care of most of the problem. However, this has very little to do with improving the overall level of healthcare in our country. It is about the increase in power to politicians that goes along with another massive intrusion of Big Brother in our lives. In fact, I would equate the politicians (read Democrats) to the unenlightens who believed that Big Brother should have a say in "Race Mixing".
I haven't posted here in a while, but when I did I usually appreciated your willingness to spend time talking through issues at length, WCJ.
That said, I think this original post was always likely to backfire. Even without caption or comment the two images offer themselves for comparison. The idea of repetition present in the framing thread title ("A Little Bit of History Repeating...") strengthens the invitation to make this kind of comparison. And the obvious comparison is, unfortunately, that the use of the same anti-communist scare-mongering creates equivalence between both campaigns pictured. I would give you the benefit of the doubt that you meant to suggest intellectual(ly bankrupt) rather than moral(ly bankrupt) equivalence, but I can see why others might not, and would accuse your post of, metaphorically, holding up a "Healthcare Protesting is Racism" placard.
A picture can sometimes say as much as a thousand words, but often it can simply set loose a thousand monkeys into a roomful of typewriters.
Point noted, and it's good to see you around here again. Happy 2010!
You're right WCJ, people shouldn't use comparisons to communism to protest against this healthcare bill. Instead they should call out Obama, who promised "change", but has approved "95%" of this bill, which is made up of Senator's and Representative's buying each other out (e.g. Nebraska medicare) and fighting over getting their BS loaded onto it. Why aren't you outraged at that? Are you not pissed that Nebraska gets a free ride on medicare simply because they were the last to vote for the bill? I'd think if you found public healthcare to be so important, you'd want that BS to be as far away as possible from it.
Secondly, the govt has no right telling a health insurance company who they have to cover (unless we're talking racial discrimination). They have no right deciding how much they can and cannot charge said person for coverage, or that they have to charge the same amount across the board. The govt has no right requiring someone to have mandatory health insurance (which is different than mandatory car insurance). That's like requiring them to have life insurance.
Sure, I have tons of objections to the current state of health care reform. Most of what you said is the bipartisan product of our government-for-sale form of lobbyism that we have in place. While you are asking why I'm not pointing my finger at the Chief Executive of this country, I could in turn, ask why you have not read Art. II of the constitution? It's not the President's ROLE to make the laws. Period. Bush may have worn a hybrid hat and dallied where the document disallowed, but President Obama was a Constitutional Law professor. I think he understands the separation of the branches more clearly than any of us do.
All that said, we CANNOT continue to be the only Western democracy that does not provide health care to its citizens.
The public option--before it was scuttled and gutted--was proposed as a way of avoiding the very situation that you describe, in which a private firm is giving government instruction on how to handle its business operations. We can both agree that ham-handed government interference is a huge disaster. It historically has been a fiasco for the same reason repeated throughout our nation's history: A good idea sours because the gubmint doesn't know when to back off. That the government is not the best steward of its citizen's health care hardly a point of contention. Where I differ is that I'm not a fan of obstructionism masquerading as ideas. The right (and Lieberman) seem to believe that blocking any and all potential solutions will benefit the republicans in 2012. Great....but what about US citizens between now and the next election? It's not all politics for us real folks.
What we have now not only doesn't work: It is proximately causing the needless death of American men, women and children. We need to fix the broken system, and soon. We need to put politics aside and come to the table willing to look at the problem in a realistic and pragmatic manner.
I think I agree with the main thrust of your assertion, that private firms ought to be able to run their business according to their own wishes, with the following caveat: Let the government COMPETE with the private firms. That's what the "public option" was intended to provide. A public option--or public buy-in, government option, whatever you call it would allow the government to act as an additional force in the marketplace that would serve as a countervailing force to the profit-at-all-cost MO of the current players. That's where and why I'm all in favor of a robust public option. The insurance companies have repeatedly and unflinchingly shown that they will not and cannot "police" themselves--so having an alternative means of acquiring healthcare is hardly even an arguably "bad" thing, let alone the end of 'merica that some protesters make it out to be.
I don't follow how requiring a person to take care of themselves by acquiring some form of access to healthcare, whether it is through private or public insurance, etc. is even remotely akin to forcing a person to purchase a life insurance policy. In fact, I think that's a faulty assumption through and through. Health care can be argued as an essential service, part and parcel of the constitutional "promot[ion] of the General Welfare" called for in the preamble (and then charged as the bailiwick of Congress in Art. I). Life insurance is a way of hedging your bets against the unexpected, and is more similar to auto insurance than health insurance. In fact, the government requires you to purchase auto insurance because you're driving on the roads, exposing others to risk by your operation of a vehicle. So it is in some industries that, because of the nature of the work, the purchase of life insurance by the employer for the benefit of its employees is mandated.
Beyond that, it would seem that each citizen being responsible under the law for procuring and maintaining health insurance of some form is nothing short of personal accountability...and isn't personal accountability the alleged cornerstone of the modern conservative movement*? Sure, there would be punitive attachment to going without. But as it is, those without insurance and with the means and ability to purchase it are a HUGE drain on the taxpayer resources. The changes proposed in this (awful, bloated, earmarked, and vile) legislation DO address that very issue. In fact, the cost to the taxpayer is actually projected to be LESS under the Senate plan (which is awful) than if we do nothing. Why is that? Because ignoring the issue or pretending like emergency room care IS a form of a public option ignores the nature of that cost spreading given the high cost of trauma care and emergency services versus the allocation of tax dollars to provide for non-emergency medical and health care services (e.g., prophylactic checkups). While I think that there are issues with such a mandate--just look at what happened to Romney's attempt in MA--I like the conversation, because that seems like the area in which a truly non-partisan and constituent-focused solution would arise from.
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Lawmakers considering expanding Medicaid for more low-income people will hear a new report concluding Idaho would see financial benefits that exceed earlier estimates. House and Senate Health and Welfare committees will meet today to discuss, though not vote, on a plan to broaden Medicaid coverage. House Minority Leader John Rusche says Medicaid expansion is arguably more important for Idaho than the exchange issue.


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Sammy Hagar's Atlantic City Bar & Grill Will Not Re-Open
If you were hoping to visit Sammy Hagar's Beach Bar & Grill in Atlantic City this summer, you're out of luck. The Red Rocker has revealed that the bar will not be re-opening after suffering extensive damage from Hurricane Sandy in October.
Hagar posted the following update to his web site on Friday (March 8):
Following months of ongoing discussions, Sammy Hagar has regretfully been unable to come to terms with Caesars Entertainment on the rebuilding of the Sammy Beach Bar & Grill at Bally's Atlantic City Hotel and Casino. Since opening in May 2010, the restaurant had been a popular boardwalk destination until it was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. While Hagar continues to explore a new partnership in the region, he and his Hagar Family Foundation will remain committed to the Atlantic City community through which he has supported local children's charities for the last several years.
The energetic rocker won't have too much time to sit around and mourn the loss, though. He's hoping to release a new album in 2013, and has also hinted at a possible reunion with the surviving members of his early group Montrose.


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- Put your words in their mouth. Don't bother with elitist concepts like actual reductio analysis. That takes effort and consideration to accurately and honestly summarize the logical implications of a position or argument. Besides, the more absurd or outrageous the dishonest misrepresentation of your critic's position, the better. Phrases like "So what you're saying is..." and "In other words..." are quite handy, especially if you follow them with something completely different than what your critic has actually said. You can never go wrong by betting on your audience's ignorance or lazy unwillingness to verify your claim. Bonus points awarded for accusing others of "dishonesty" when they point out the strawman slaying that's occurring.
- Look! Over there! Something that they haven't condemned! You'd be surprised how many bloggers (by virtue of their lack-of-post-or-response) support Genghis Khan. Absence of proof is proof of absence, and a vacuum begs the assignment of attributes of convenience. The sillier you can make the accusation, the more of a conundrum it will present to your critic: Will they deny it, and divert discussion away from the topic to whether or not the accusation you've made is accurate, or will they let it stand without refutation, presenting you with a "didn't deny it" prize to parade around in the future? Either way, you win!
- Isn't there something that someone else belonging to some nebulous entity that you invent out of whole cloth (hey, they all look alike, don't they?) has posted in the past that you can misrepresent/cite out of context to hold your critic accountable for? No one will ever even notice that you're no longer addressing the the point they raised!
- There's no better time to resurrect past blogging grievances than now. It doesn't matter if your critic was involved or not. Why not let your contempt for your audience's intellect show by tossing that bright, shiny object with the expectation that they'll chase it away from the topic or critique at hand?.
- Phrases like "Oh my lord", "good lord", and "good fucking god" are your friends. Combined with ALL CAPS and ellipses... after... each... word, they are devastatingly effective argument winners and indicative of a superior intellect.
- Misrepresent sarcasm, mockery, or snark for actual position. No one's ever going to bother to check the original context, especially in the face of repeated assertion. If your critic objects, simply duplicate the misrepresentation in response... You'll always be one up on them!
- If asked for specific citations or actual data, don't ever, ever comply! Data, page numbers, and proper quotation attribution are your enemy. Instead, accuse the person making the request of being a liar or dishonest. Burden-of-proof-shift FTW! Primary school children may not even catch on to what you're doing!
- Wrap your position with an authority that overwhelmingly disagrees with it, then attack those that object to your position as being at odds with that authority. This might seem at face value to be problematic, but remember, strong, intelligent individuals bend authorities like science, jurisprudence and political studies to their will rather than submit to their "alleged" expertise.
- If all else fails, try to shift discussion away from what your critic is saying to whether or not they can say it.
Repeat combinations of the above as often as possible. Distractions repeated are distractions with traction!
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House Republicans will no longer defend a law that bars married, same-sex couples from receiving veterans' benefits available to married heterosexual couples. On Thursday,Buzzfeed reported that the House, responding to a Thursday deadline in a federal lawsuit challenging the veterans' benefits provision, asked to "withdraw as a party defendant" from the case.
The Title 38 definition of "spouse" in the U.S. Code that governs veterans' benefits specifies — twice — that the person in question must be of the "opposite" sex in order to qualify. For married veterans and their partners, that effectively limits spousal benefits to straight couples. It's very similar to the language of the DOMA provision struck down in the Windsor decision, which is in part why the Department of Justice hasn't defended the law since 2012, after the administration's decision to stop defending DOMA itself. The Legal Advisory Group of the House of Representatives, controlled by the GOP, has been defending the provisions ever since. Until today.
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The Windsor decision [of the Supreme Court] necessarily resolves the issue of DOMA Section 3's constitutionality in this case. While the question of whether [Title 38] is constitutional remains open, the House has determined, in light of the Supreme Court's opinion in Windsor, that it no longer will defend that statue. Accordingly, the House now seeks to leave to withdraw as a party defendant.


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On a sunny afternoon, under cobalt blue skies, our cruise ship docks at Rhodes, the fourth-largest island in Greece's Aegean Sea.
Rhodes has been luring westerners to its green shores for at least 800 years, and our first stop is the medieval castle of the Knights of St. John.
As we walk along the cobblestoned main street, we notice all the changes since our backpacking days in the Greek islands: souvenir shops, pubs and sun-burnt English tourists nursing boot-shaped glasses of beer at shaded outdoor tables. It all seems a far cry from the ancient order that ruled the island from 1309 to 1522.
But once we leave the main drag, heading up the aptly named Knights Street, quiet reigns, and crowds all but disappear. Before leaving the city centre, we'd noticed a sign pointing to a synagogue. Assured by our guide there is indeed a historic synagogue on Rhodes –which we could visit at leisure after our tour of the castle – we determine to stop there on our return.
In ancient times, Rhodes was famed for its Colossus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. This stone and bronze giant bestrode the entrance to the harbour, so that boats approaching the island sailed underneath its 100-foot high legs. When an earthquake destroyed the Colossus in 226 BCE, islanders took the advice of the Delphic oracle and did not rebuild, for the gods had been offended by its size.
Today the Greek economy is wobbling as dangerously as the famed Colossus. "We made the mistake of voting for the same people for 30 years," a local man says. Bemoaning Greece's fiscal crisis is a popular subject on the islands. It seems change – and crisis – has long defined this part of the world.
Twenty kilometres from Turkey and close to Africa, there are African-inspired crocodile gargoyles on the knights' castle, as well as carvings of "holy" snakes that speak of islanders' beliefs in the snake as a holy animal, although they imported deer – more good advice from the Oracle – to control the viper population.
Greece fell, the Romans came, then the Byzantines, Christians, Arabs and again the Byzantines, who, we're told, sold the island to the Hospitaller Knights of St John, who'd fled the Holy Land, relocating to Rhodes to build a fort and a hospital, fighting off successions of invaders. Two and a half miles of walls exist from the period when the knights ruled, along with three moats. The knights came from England, Italy, France and Spain – and they all spoke French.
Only nobles rose in the knights' ranks, and the Grand Master was elected on Rhodes; his red throne is still on display. In 1522, Suleiman the Magnificent and his enormous army at last conquered the feisty knights, forcing their departure for Malta.
For 400 years their castle was used as a prison, and part of it stored gunpowder. Lightning struck in 1856, with explosive results. Today's castle may look like the real thing, but is only 70 years old. This version was rebuilt by occupying Italians in the 1930s, the Italian Fascists having assumed control over the Dodecanese Islands in 1912.
Although Jews had lived on Rhodes for millennia, it was the Spanish expulsion in 1492 and the Ottoman Empire's decision to welcome Jewish refugees that boosted Rhodes' community. By the 16th century, it was flourishing: eventually the island boasted three rabbinical schools, six synagogues, and a community of 10,000. Under Italian fascism with its antisemitic laws, many "Rhodesli" started new lives elsewhere.
Today the island's Jewish community numbers 50 at most. When we rejoined the crowds on the plaka, a large medieval square, we found ourselves in what once was the heart of the Jewish quarter, now marked by a memorial to those killed in the Holocaust. Our guide tells us that if Jews had not escaped by 1944, they were taken to the death camps, where more than 1,500 died. Their houses had been left open in hopes of return. Eventually, the houses were donated to the poor.
After so many tales of turmoil and tragedy, we are unprepared for the sight of the 16th-century synagogue at the end of a narrow lane off the main square: the ineffably lovely Kahal Shalom. Built in 1577 and recently restored, the Sephardi synagogue is used only for summer services, but it sparkles like new. Adjacent museum rooms display cases of religious objects, original clothing, and photographs from the island's Jewish past: picnics, weddings and youthful musical groups.
The luckiest visitors happen, as we did, on one very special Kahal Shalom guide. Samuel (Samy) Modiano introduces himself as "la dernière generation de Rhodes."
Upon learning we're from Canada, Samy speaks to us only in French (oddly, like the medieval knights), lending a kind of frantic buoyancy to our conversation – our French being only so-so.
But such are Samy's powers of communication that we emerged feeling we've encountered a living embodiment of a vanished community – which indeed we have. In 1944 he was shipped to Auschwitz-Birkenau, two months shy of his 13th birthday. He celebrated his bar mitzvah in the Polish camp, in a secret ceremony arranged by older prisoners. While the ebullient Samy doesn't tell us about his bar mitzvah – we learn about it from other museum staff – he does show us the number tattooed on his arm.
In 1945 "l'armée russe" liberated the camp. But no one knew about Greek Jews, so the young teenager was taken to Rome with "les juifs italiennes." He lives there to this day, returning every summer (May to October) to guide visitors through the oldest synagogue in Greece.
As the only "original Jew" from 1944 Rhodes, Samy naturally speaks fluent Ladino, the Judeo-Spanish language in which many Kahal Shalom signs are posted. Clearly thrilled by the synagogue's restoration, he praises its "bon état." Opening his arms in welcome, he proclaims: "C'est ouvert pour tout le monde!"
For more information about Kahal Shalom, visit www.jewishrhodes.org.


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Fabrizio Ravanelli: My Secret Vice
I started cycling a few years ago when I was out of action with a back injury and cycling was the only sport I could do. Initially it was part of my rehab, but soon it became a way to stay in shape in the off-season too.
Then in my last year with Perugia I had to have a hernia operation and I was forced to retire from football. Every cloud and all that – all of a sudden, I had more time and I could dedicate some of it to my bike.
I'd always liked cycling and I always admired the pros for the sacrifices they made. My brother, Andrea, was already a keen cyclist and he'd always told me what an amazing feeling it could be to ride a bike. Like most Italian kids, I'd grown up watching the Tour of Italy – the Giro – and the Tour de France at a time when the rivalry between the two leading Italian riders of the day, Giuseppe Saronni and Francesco Moser, pretty much split Italy down the middle. But I was always too preoccupied with football to get really interested.
That started to change when I was at Marseille in 1998, and Marco Pantani, an ardent Milan fan, did the Giro-Tour double. I'd met Pantani at Juve; he was prematurely bald, I was prematurely grey, so we got on famously. It was a tragedy when he died [of a cocaine overdose] in 2004. Marco was a legend.
The fact that I was racing on Pantani's home roads around Rimini made my first win, this January, extra special. The bunch was together for the first 100km, then I broke in a group of 11 with about 20 kilometres to go. I chased down an attack 2km from the line, and countered on my own on a short uphill section. I rode the last kilometre at about 45km/h and crossed the line well clear, with my arms aloft. Unfortunately they make cycling jerseys too tight to replicate my old shirt-over-the-head goal celebration!
I couldn't believe what joy I felt. You don't expect such an intense feeling at my age. Now I want more: this season, my brother, a few mates and I have started a team – 'Umbria Cycling Team' – and I'm really looking forward to us getting some good more results and enjoying ourselves. Last week my brother and I finished 14th and 15th out of a couple of thousand, some of whom were top amateurs and ex-pros, in a gran fondo – a mass participation, long distance race – in Emilia Romagna. We have a sponsor, Passoni, who supplies us with state-of-the-art, multi-thousand-euro bikes, and even a Chrysler service vehicle. It's almost like a pro team.
I ride almost every day, usually in the hills around my house in Umbria. Today I was supposed to do three hours, but my wife left me with our three kids and I couldn't go out. I ride upwards of 20,000km a year. I often train with Daniele Bennati, one of the world's top riders, as well as another couple of pros based near me, Eros Capecchi and Giampaolo Caruso.
Last year I went with Caruso to the Swiss border to climb two of the most famous and hardest mountain passes in Italy – the Passo dello Stelvio and the Mortirolo. The Stelvio is nearly 3,000m above sea level, and, at the top, we were riding between two vast walls of snow. The jubilation I felt at getting to the summit wasn't dissimilar to winning the Champions League. It's the same rush.
As a rider, I'm pretty strong on the flat and on short power climbs, but not great in the high mountains. In terms of riding style, I'm similar to the two riders dominating the single-day Classics on the pro scene at the moment, the Swiss Fabian Cancellara and the Belgian Tom Boonen. When I train with the pros, I'm OK on the flat but they leave me for dead on the climbs. I certainly don't think I made the wrong career choice – I would never have dreamed of achieving what I did in football, and the joy that brought me was indescribable.
As you'd expect, I get recognised a fair bit by the other riders. Everyone's really friendly, though. I'll be chugging along and all of a sudden I'll hear 'Ravanelli, was football not hard enough for you?! Why are you putting yourself through all this pain?' They're right, too: I suffer a lot more on a bike than I ever did on the football pitch.
I suppose my dream now is to win a gran fondo, but it may well be an impossible dream; as I said, you often get ex-pros in those races. I just want to carry on enjoying myself and, of course, steering clear of danger, which is no foregone conclusion these days.
As for watching sport, if it's a game like the Arsenal-Liverpool Champions League quarter-final I summarised for Sky Italia, I'd take the football over cycling; but if it's a boring nil-niller, I'd rather watch a big single-day Classic like the Tour of Flanders or Paris-Roubaix.
I'm studying for my coaching badges at the moment, and, when I've qualified, one day I'd love to train Middlesbrough. I suppose my only worry would be the North East weather and the havoc it'd wreak with my cycling!
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This week I've spent some time with my grandparents, as my grandma has been recovering from a stay in the hospital. My grandparents are two of my favorite people in the whole world, and even under disappointing circumstances, I always feel happy and blessed to spend time with them.
My grandparents have a huge and wonderful backyard garden - apples, figs, oranges, tangerines, green beans, kale, asparagus, plums, tomatoes, and the list goes on and on. When I came by on Wednesday, my grandpa was especially happy to see me. Their grapes were almost past the limit, and they couldn't stand to see such yummy food go to waste. Now, that's obviously something I inherited from them - I hate wasting any food, but most especially produce! So my grandfather and I went out and pruned all the grapes off the vine. We filled two entire 5 gallon buckets:
The one on the right is a little empty because I had already started rinsing them before I remembered to take the picture. These are the amazing & flavorful Concord Grapes. Have you ever had them? They have thick, dark skins with a bitterish flavor, filled with super sweet light green insides - and lots of seeds. It took quite some time to rinse all these babies off - and it was no small feat of veganhood to escort all the spiders from my kitchen out into the backyard. There must have been at least 12 in each bucket. Mostly they were sweet little harmless critters, so I didn't mind at all.
My mom came over on Wednesday night and helped me make my way through the first bucket. We picked all the grapes off their stems, set aside the wrinklies or yuckies, and then got to work mashing the grapes up! I wanted to make some grape juice. All you have to do is mush up the grapes, and then bring it all to a boil, and then simmer for 10-15 minutes. The straining is a bit of a job ( and messy too! watch out for your clothes!). Pour some into a strainer (placed over a big pot or bowl) and then use a big spoon to start pressing the juice through. I also found it useful to press into the strainer with a bowl.
I did the second 5-gallon bucket last night, put it all in the fridge, and then jarred up the juice tonight. I saved 5 1/2 cups to make some jelly, and then also jarred up 5 quarts of fresh Concord Grape Juice. Isn't it beautiful? So dark and it's soooooo good! Full of flavor. So fresh tasting. There's actually another quart in the fridge, that I didn't bother canning since we'll drink it right away. So that's 6 quarts of juice + another 5.5 cups... from 10 gallons of grapes!
After I made the juice tonight, I washed out the pots and made some grape jelly. I always use the "reduced sugar" variety, although it's still got 3 cups of sugar (to 5.5 cups of juice). Whoa! I got 7 jars of jelly (only 6 pictured here... one had a white lid which I found to be aesthetically unpleasing - ha!). It's really great. So fun to make jelly too... I love canning & preserving and would like to learn even more about it.
In addition to all those grapes, my grandpa also gave me a some GIGANTOID butternut squash. Butternut squash are one of their bumper crops, year after year. This year they harvested 141!!! So, you can see why he was feeling generous enough to spare some. I put a quarter in that picture so you can see how big they are.
Also this week, one of my lovely yoga students (hi Andy!) gave me a big bag of pears from his garden. Wow, they are really beautiful. Pears are Musty's favorite fruit, and I was hoping to make him a pear pie. However, I'm taking off on a trip tomorrow, and all the urgency of the grapes got the better of me (not to mention packing and all that jazz)... So I'll take some and leave some for him. :)
I'm headed down to L.A. for a 9-day workshop with my painting teachers, who are coming over from Italy. It has been a few years since I've seen them, and I am really looking forward to it. I've already packed up a bunch of car snacks for my long solo drive - carrots, hummus, licorice, homemade apple-hazelnut bread, a vegan cinnamon roll from our local health food store, grape juice (of course!), apples from our tree... And I've also mapped out all the veg restaurants near where we'll be (Cal State Fullerton) - so hopefully I'll have some good stuff to blog about.
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - EF Bandung, Solo, Yogya Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in EF Bandung, Solo, Yogya Goto page 1, 2 Next Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Indonesia View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message gugelhupfJoined: 24 Jan 2004Posts: 575Location: Jabotabek Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 8:26 am Post subject: EF Bandung, Solo, Yogya Tuan-tuan (dan puan-puan), I would appreciate it if anyone has any recent experience to share about working for EF franchises in Bandung, Solo and Yogya. I am aware of the general, shall we say, features, of EF as a whole but I'm also aware that there can be a world of difference between individual franchises. While I have a degree and teaching experience (and will have a Trinity House cert. shortly) I don't actually have any recent EFL teaching experience so I may not be in a strong position to pick and choose the very best employers in Indonesia. I have been told that TBI in Bandung are a professional lot and well worth working for but don't know anything about other schools in the area. I live just two blocks away from EF's central recruitment division so it is very easy for me to deal with them. On another, quite bizarre, subject: I am a former biologist with fascination for fireflies and glow-worms. Does Java have plenty of these beasties? Many thanks. Back to top ls650Joined: 10 May 2003Posts: 3484Location: British Columbia Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 9:52 am Post subject: Chalk me up as one of those rare folks who has actually had a reasonably good experience with EF. (WHAT?!? Is that possible? ) What can I say? the franchise I work for is okay. Is there any way you can talk to the teachers there first? As for glow worms and fireflies, I've never seen any such beasties here... Back to top gugelhupfJoined: 24 Jan 2004Posts: 575Location: Jabotabek Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 4:38 pm Post subject: [quote="ls650"]Chalk me up as one of those rare folks who has actually had a reasonably good experience with EF. (WHAT?!? Is that possible? ) That doesn't surprise me at all. Some people seem to have a good time with EF while (judging from the horror stories elsewhere on this site) some have living nightmares. The difference in professionalism between individual franchises within the same area seems quite extreme, and I'm sure that erstwhile good schools can deteriorate very quickly if something goes *beep* up. If anyone out there has RECENT experience of an Indo. EF establishment I'd be grateful to hear about it. I know that in many towns EF pay less than the others, but frankly I'm not choosing to go to Indonesia as a place to get rich - far more important to me right now is to find somewhere supportive to gain experience for a year and decide whether to stay longer. That said, I'm nobody's doormat and don't intend to get badly ripped off. As regards geography, i've rather set my heart on Bandung, Yogya or Solo but would consider elsewhere. Back to top willyJoined: 29 Mar 2003Posts: 215Location: Samarinda,Kalimantan,Indonesia(left TW) Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 6:51 pm Post subject: Well as for those places I cant say; the EF teachers in BOGOR seen to be happy although they are some of the rudest people I have ever met, a friend of mine got hit by her DOS in baksi. I can say stay out of Jakarta if you want to keep your shirts white. Fireflys here? Maybe they got barbequed; glowworms, last ones I saw were in New Zealand. Back to top ls650Joined: 10 May 2003Posts: 3484Location: British Columbia Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 11:30 pm Post subject: gugelhupf wrote: If anyone out there has RECENT experience of an Indo. EF establishment I'd be grateful to hear about it. I'm talking about the EF school I'm at right now. I'm about 8 months into a 1 year contract. No job is perfect, but so far this one's going okay. Back to top willyJoined: 29 Mar 2003Posts: 215Location: Samarinda,Kalimantan,Indonesia(left TW) Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 3:16 pm Post subject: JUST TO SET THINGS RIGHT, YOU SAID YOUR MAKING 10,000,000. A MONTH? AND YOURE WORKING AT EF? I HAVE NEVER OF ANY ONE GETTING MORE THAN 7,000,000. Back to top ls650Joined: 10 May 2003Posts: 3484Location: British Columbia Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 4:18 pm Post subject: willy wrote: JUST TO SET THINGS RIGHT, YOU SAID YOUR MAKING 10,000,000. A MONTH? AND YOURE WORKING AT EF? I HAVE NEVER OF ANY ONE GETTING MORE THAN 7,000,000. Please don't shout... At my school the starting wage is 7.25 juta per month. I'm an AC so I make 10 juta. Back to top willyJoined: 29 Mar 2003Posts: 215Location: Samarinda,Kalimantan,Indonesia(left TW) Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 9:08 pm Post subject: O` thanks for the clarification, 7.25 thats good for EF. AC, is that =Academic Coordinator Academic(adj) irrelevant in practice: theoretical and not of any practical relevance and or Academic(n) professor, instructor, teacher, lecturer, researcher, college lecturer, scholar, tutor, don Coordinator(n) manager, director, planner, controller, coordinator, arranger And if we are teaching grammer do all the above apply, if so should it be AAC? Back to top bayabuleJoined: 05 Feb 2004Posts: 82Location: East Java Indonesia Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 1:00 pm Post subject: I saw millions of fireflies in the jungle in South Kalimantan about two years ago. It were right pretty... ahhhhh! Back to top guruengerishJoined: 28 Mar 2004Posts: 424Location: Australia Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 3:04 am Post subject: Teaching with EF, Bandung, Solo, Yogya Hi there. I've worked for two of the three schools you mention. If you're still chasing information, drop me a line. Back to top WinmarJoined: 11 Feb 2003Posts: 125Location: Melbourne Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 9:18 am Post subject: I worked at EF in Bandung, which was aok as far as I was concerned. I've written about it quite a lot in previous posts. I'd happily go back and work there again. I left there in January last year, so I don't know if that's recent enough for you. I doubt much has altered since I left though. If you have any more questions, fire away. There are fireflies in Bandung. Id' go back there in a flash actually. Back to top gugelhupfJoined: 24 Jan 2004Posts: 575Location: Jabotabek Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 5:43 pm Post subject: Thanks for the help, much appreciated! Back to top willyJoined: 29 Mar 2003Posts: 215Location: Samarinda,Kalimantan,Indonesia(left TW) Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 4:32 pm Post subject: a king??? maybe but that wes 7 years ago now that would omly buy food in a street stall. fried rice with very little meat. Back to top guruengerishJoined: 28 Mar 2004Posts: 424Location: Australia Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 8:43 am Post subject: living like a king... I heartily agree. Maybe the writer hasn't heard of 'krismon', where the rupiah went down to Rp10,000 to one U$1.00 for a long time. In Yogya, we were paid Rp3.1million a month less than two years ago, and we were broke by the end of the month, if not before. To rent a house (payable a year up-front) and pay the inevitable 'tourist prices' expats get stung for, you would need at least Rp5 million a month to live reasonably, albiet a little frugally, and hopefully, the school would supply a small house, but there's a good few who don't. Working in Indonesia is a great experience, but you're not going to save anything. Back to top GuruStipJoined: 24 Jun 2004Posts: 47 Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 4:36 pm Post subject: HeyHey, this is my first post (cheers Dave) and it's a positive one. I'm just coming to the end of my second contract with EF Bandung (I started as you were leaving, Rob), and I have to say the last couple of years have been quick and fun. The first year wage is 6.2juta, negotiable if you're a bit special. Don't expect too much though- if you're well qualified, they probably can't afford you! Holidays are OK, cover isn't too good though. Judging by many of the posts on the Cafe about EF, I think Bdg must be one of the few good schools. The DOS is laid back but on top of things, the senior teachers work really hard and you have a lot of freedom to try out your ideas. The students are really cool, if a little lazy, and most of the bule teachers are reasonably sane and pretty social. At the moment, the staff is quite young, and not too weird. The main rival, TBI, seems to be going through some management/ staff issues at the moment, and is staffed mostly by nutters. From the outside I'm happy to be earning (only slightly) less for much less stress and a happy staffroom. The cons are probably the same as any other money-making institution in Indonesia- the ethic seems to be maximum profit, minimum spending, and sometimes the school management are a bit frustrating when it comes to spending money or fixing things. If you're patient or have any amount of initiative, it's easily handleable. The area is really nice, and lots of decent wee houses ar springing up to accommodate the Meesters. One thing to note is that it IS NOT HOME! Anyone who's been here before will understand, but we have had a couple of teachers break contract recently, as they were going insane. Things don't work the same, and common sense is not abound, but hey, it's life and it's fun. Just bear in mind that if you can't take it when the Starbucks girl at home ****s up your order and you get mad, maybe you should go somewhere a little more disciplined. It's fun. The school is good. Life is good. It's a good way in, but maybe not a career. soon there'll be a website for Ef Bandung, if you want to have a look: www.geocities.com/efbdg Take it easy. 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In last month's installment we pushed the performance of the B16A engine to the tune of 155.2 hp to the wheels with three simple bolt-ons. The B16A engine is like the Energizer Bunny, it just keeps going and going. Our B16A tester is more than 15 years old (going from the date stamp on the cylinder head) and already logged more than 50,000 miles since its acquisition from the local used engine depot.
If you account for the mileage on the engine before we purchased it, we probably have an engine that has logged more than 80,000 miles. If you consider the mileage on our B16A engine you'd appreciate how impressive the numbers the engine generated on the dyno. That is nearly 100 hp per liter to the wheels!
For this installment we got serious with the help of Peak Performance products from Dynamic Autosports. The easiest way to increase power in a DOHC VTEC engine is by adding a set of performance camshafts.
There are three different stages of camshafts available from Peak Performance. The Stage One is the mild street variant while the Stage Three is the most aggressive, meant for built engines and hard street use. We, of course, elected to use the Stage Two version.
Using the Stage Two camshafts entails upgrading the valve springs and retainers as well. We used Peak Performance's high-performance dual-spring valve-springs and heat-treated titanium retainers. By upgrading the valvetrain we are avoiding two major problems. The most important problem to prevent is coil bind, which can be caused by high-lift cams. Besides worrying about coil bind you also need to make sure the valve springs are capable of preventing valve float at high rpm. Valve float can not only decrease power output but worst-case it can cause major engine failure.
The titanium retainers are an option for the Stage Two cams but we went ahead and installed them too for peace of mind. The titanium retainers are not only stronger than the stock piece but are also lighter.
Installing valve springs and retainers on a cylinder head while it is still attached to the block is a tricky proposition. If you remove the valve springs the valve will drop into the cylinder due to gravity. To prevent the valves from dropping, we pressurized the cylinder with compressed air before removing the valve springs and retainers. Once the cams, springs and retainers were installed the top end was buttoned up.
A set of Peak Performance adjustable cam sprockets were installed to help fine-tune the powerband once we got back to the dyno. Whenever installing a performance camshaft follow the manufacturer's procedure for proper break-in. After break-in our B16 purred like a kitty. Surprisingly, the car's idle felt relatively stock with the exception of a small rumpity-rump caused by the overlap due to the cam's longer duration.
On the dyno the Peak Performance camshafts kicked serious butt. Our last dyno run with the stock camshafts generated 155.2-peak hp. The Peak Performance Stage Two camshafts registered 168.8-peak hp, which is an increase of 13.6 hp.
Also, the stock cams would quickly run out of breath by 8000 rpm. The Peak cams pulled all the way to 9200 rpm. At 8000 rpm there was a difference of 20-plus hp with the Peak cams over stock. Hearing the B16A sing at 9000 rpm is quite addicting but also scary at the same time.
Our next bolt-on was manufacturing a test pipe for dyno purposes. Since the original stock exhaust manifold was attached to a gutted catalytic converter we wanted to see the difference in power between a high-flow cat and a test pipe. Once the test pipe was fitted it was back on the dyno. The exhaust definitely got louder since there was less restriction. The test pipe registered 171.0 hp, an increase of 2.2-peak hp but at 6500 rpm we witnessed an increase of 7.7 hp. Throughout the powerband the test pipe generated about 3 to 4 hp more than the high-flow cat.
Our last modification this month was the Peak Performance intake manifold. The cast-aluminum intake manifold is similar to the Integra Type-R with the exception of a much larger plenum and runners. Our guess was that the Peak Performance manifold would generate power up top but lose in the mid-range due to the loss of air velocity from the larger plenum and runners.
Our theory was somewhat correct. On the dyno the Peak Performance manifold soared from 8000 to redline but lost some from 7000 to 8000 rpm. We were positive the manifold would lose more power below 6000 rpm but it didn't.
Now redline on the engine is in the neighborhood of 9400 rpm. Yes, the block is stock! At 9000 rpm the manifold showed an increase of 16.6 hp. Now peak power checks in at 177.0 hp, 6.0 hp more than the stock manifold.
All in a days work-three bolt-ons and 21.8 hp...on a B16A engine that has loggedmore than 80,000 miles at that. We are now producing more than 110 hp per liter to the wheels. The engine is producing roughly 195 hp at the flywheel, estimating a 10 percent loss through the drivetrain.
For our next installment we'll be doing a port and polish job fon the cylinder head for better flow. With the proper cylinder head tricks our buzzin' bumble bee Integra could very well break into the 190-hp barrier. Until next time, see you at 9000 rpm.


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Handbags for Spring: #THIS. w/ Elizabeth Holmes
Spring is finally here, and new bags are in bloom. To get a glimpse of the latest in satchels, clutches and totes, Wall Street Journal reporter Elizabeth Holmes headed to Bloomingdale's flagship store in New York City.
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Parcells Retires
Bill Parcells has retired Monday, according to a press release from the team.
"I am retiring from coaching football. I want to thank Jerry Jones and Stephen Jones for their tremendous support over the last four years," Parcells said in a statement. "Also, the players, my coaching staff and others in the support group who have done so much to help. Dallas is a great city and the Cowboys are an integral part of it. I am hopeful that they are able to go forward from here."
"I am in good health and feel lucky to have been able to coach in the NFL for an extended period of time," Parcells said. "I leave the game and the NFL with nothing but good feelings and gratitude to all the players, coaches and other people that have assisted me in that regard."
The Cowboys went 34-30 and 0-2 in the playoffs in Parcells' four seasons in Dallas.


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Power to the Consumer
Digging Digital IncubatorsJupiterResearch analyst Barry Parr, responded to our recent post about innovative, new media developments at the around-the-clock student network, mtvU, including its "œDigiltal Incubators" program for student video creators in which Cisco is a partner."Regarding the MTVU story, it's beginning to look like online audio and video crossed some kind of threshold last year," Parr wrote."With new options like Google Video, YouTube, podcasts, and vlogs, real people are beginning to realize that "publishing" on the Web no longer means HTML and that you no longer need access to a TV or radio station. That is breakthrough."œThe parallel breakthrough in video in particular will be the creation of new forms of video programming," Parr added."You could argue that we haven't seen one of those since the invention of the music video." Dan Scheinman, senior VP of corporate development for Cisco, said something similar recently in describing disruption now occurring in the consumer, home networking market. It's no coincidence that Scheinman is spearheading Cisco's partnership with mtvU."The media business is in a disruptive era and consumers are being empowered to create and share their own content," Dan Scheinman, senior VP of corporate development for Cisco, told CNET recently. "It's important for (Cisco) to see where the trends are going so we can build capabilities into our products to enable it." The exact nature of the development of future content creation and its delivery "is still evolving," said Rob Enderle, president of the Enderle Group. "But many people think that there will be a significant expansion of that market, and Cisco," Enderle said, "as a seller of everything from network gear to set top boxes, is in a unique position to be the supplier of technology into the home."
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Well, not President Ass, which is what this board is officially for, but Eagle-DNA, the comic which I never gave it's own board for whatever reason, and still refuse to do so that I may continue to receive un-tarnished advice from other boards.
Anywho, new Eagle-DNA's from March 18-24, as it says on the front page of the site. But if you've ended up here instead of there, and you didn't know, then you just stumbled onto GOLD!
It's the six-part epic I wrote throughout a day, and then compiled that same night... THIS VERY NIGHT!!! OOOOH!!!! Spooky.
Bob "And so on!" Scott


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Michelle Williams & Mila Kunis Cover 'InStyle' March 2013
Michelle Williams, Mila Kunis, and Rachel Weisz glam up on the cover of InStyle magazine's March 2013 issue, on newsstands February 8.
Here's what the Oz the Great and Powerful co-stars had to share with the mag:
Michelle, on boyfriend Jason Segel: "He is nice… I didn't actually realize who he was before I started dating him. I mean, I saw the Muppets movie, and I thought, 'oh, that's cute,' but the truth is I didn't realize he made a lot of very popular, funny movies or was on a TV show. But maybe more important, I didn't realize he was so tall [6'4"]. I thought, 'Hey, man, you're cramping my style!' I tried wearing wedge heels for a while to compensate, but it wasn't me and I just gave up."
Mila, on an embarrassing article of clothing: "I've been wearing the same pair of dark green Old Navy cargo pants, like, non-stop, for 15 years. I think I paid $4.99, on clearance. My friends hate them so much they hide them from me. When those pants fall apart, I swear I'm going to get someone to copy them for me."
Rachel, on her favorite part of filming Oz: "Michelle's daughter [Matilda] and my son [Henry] are about the same age, so they went to camp together, and we took them bowling. It was really fun for me and Michelle too, because you don't get that many mommy playdates in our business."
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Best posse ever?
Open-water swimmer Adam Walker was swimming New Zealand's Cook Strait April 22 as part of the Oceans Seven mission when he noticed a fairly unwelcome guest accompanying him on a swim: A great white shark.
Fortunately, someone – or rather, several someones – had his back.
Cook said he was surrounded by a pod of 10 dolphins, who continued swimming with him until the shark – no doubt intimidated by the show of strength – took off. "I'd like to think they were protecting me and guiding me home," Walker wrote on his Facebook. Walker's mission partially benefits Whale and Dolphin Conservation, so maybe the dolphins knew Walker was a friend.
Walker crossed the Strait in 8 hours and 36 minutes. Walker has already successfully swum the English Channel, Strait of Gibraltar, Molokai Channel, Catalina Channel and Tsugaru Channel. Walker's final swim will be in August, when he will attempt to swim the North Channel, which separates Northern Ireland from Scotland.
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Man Charged for Biting Off Girl's Finger at Lady Antebellum Concert
Lady Antebellum's music isn't exactly the type that should incite violent behavior in listeners. Unfortunately, that didn't stop a man from attacking a young girl at their recent show in Burgettstown, Penn. As if that isn't strange enough, police reported that the gentleman actually bit off the tip of her right ring finger in the process.
Concertgoer Zachery Leone, 22, was arraigned by Hanover Township police on charges of aggravated assault and reckless endangerment. Leone became violent after he had a verbal altercation with a man who was accompanying a 17-year-old girl Leone had been involved with. The teenage girl tried to step in between the two guys, and Leone lost his temper. According to police, he knocked the girl on the ground and struck her several times before biting off the tip of her finger.
Even though Leone denies biting off the girl's finger, police filed charges against him on June 7.
Despite the violent fight, the Lady A show went on as planned. It is unlikely that the band heard about the unfortunate incident before their performance. The popular 'Wanted You More' trio will take the stage in Bethel N.Y. tomorrow (June 13), and hopefully, all of the concert attendees will be able to keep their hands to themselves.


text: In ancient Bagdad, the young prince Ahmad (John Justin) is betrayed, deposed, and imprisoned by his vizier Jaffar (Conrad Veidt), an evil and calculating man who is also a master of the Black Arts. But Ahmad is saved from prison, and certain execution, by Abu (Sabu), a young thief who has made his way in life by stealing whatever he needs. Together they escape from Bagdad and make their way to the port city of Basra, where they hope to sign to sail with the renowned sailor Sinbad. But Ahmad chances to catch a glimpse of the daughter (June Duprez) of the Sultan (Miles Malleson, who also co-wrote the screenplay), and falls hopelessly in love with her. Sneaking into the garden where she spends most of her days, she meets him and the two are bound together forever in that moment, he the first man she has ever seen, and she the most beautiful woman he has ever beheld. But no sooner have they declared their love for each other then Jaffar arrives in Basra, seeking the princess' hand in marriage -- and to secure the blessing of her father, a fanatical collector of toys, he offers the aging Sultan a fantastic mechanical flying horse that bears him into the clouds at will. The sultan agrees to the marriage, but the princess flees the city. Abu and Ahmad are captured and before either can tell the sultan of their plight, Jaffar works his magic, leaving Ahmad blind and transforming Abu into a dog -- conditions that will remain until he holds the princess in his arms. Everything in the movie up to this point has been told in flashback, by Ahmad, as he is lured to the palace of his enemy. Jaffar has captured the princess, but she has fallen into a deep sleep that will not end -- so his doctors assure him -- until she is reunited with Ahmad. He achieves this goal, and the princess awakens, only to be parted from Ahmad again by Jaffar, who sails for Basra with her as his prisoner. But she won't love him, and the kind of love he wants from her can only be given by her, not taken by him. When Ahmad and Abu -- now restored by Jaffar's regaining the princess -- try to follow him, he calls up a storm that sweeps them from the sea. Abu finds himself on a beach alone, and while searching for Ahmad he finds a strange bottle, which he opens, and out comes a real genie (Rex Ingram), hundreds of feet tall. The genie means to kill him, but Abu outwits the genie and secures from him three wishes. Abu must find Ahmad, but to do that he must go to the Palace of the Goddess of Night, half a world away, and steal the All-Seeing Eye. Abu does this, getting past guards, both human and monstrous, and from there it is on to Ahmad. But a misunderstanding between them leaves the two friends separated, Ahmad captured by Jaffar and sentenced -- along with the princess, who will not love Jaffar -- to death. Meanwhile, Abu is stranded countless miles away. And then one desperate act by the boy suddenly sends Abu into a magical, golden kingdom, the Land of Legend, where he is greeted as their new king. The old king (Morton Selten) shows him the symbols of his rule, which include magical arrows forged to destroy injustice. Abu still must save his friend, and to do it commits one last act of theft -- but can he arrive in time? ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide


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Bruins lock up Patrice Bergeron in 8-year deal
Earlier this month, Patrice Bergeron contemplated the idea of being a life-long Bruin.
"It would mean a lot,'' Bergeron said on July 2. "That's the goal since the beginning. It's the team that believed in me when I was 18 and I was coming up. Now, it's my home. I feel like it is. I love the city. I love the people. I definitely love the organization. It would mean a lot to me. Hopefully we can work something out.''
Bergeron is set up to achieve that goal.
On Friday, the Bruins signed Bergeron to an eight-year, $52 million extension. The eight-year term, like the one Tuukka Rask signed on July 10, is the maximum to which a team can re-up its own players.
"I want to retire as a Bruin,'' Bergeron said Friday after the Bruins announced the deal.
And the Bruins seem ready to make that happen.
"He embodies a lot of what the Bruins stand for,'' general manager Peter Chiarelli said. "He's a responsible player. He's a hard player. He's a leader. He's a clutch player. And he's just got a kind of classic way of carrying himself that I like to be part of and the Bruins like to be part of.''
The contract will expire after the 2021-22 season. Bergeron will be 36 years old. The alternate captain, if he remains with the Bruins through the end of the deal, would have been in Black and Gold for half of his life.
Bergeron's extension will be effective in 2014-15. This season will be the last of his three-year, $15 million contract.
Chiarelli admitted that Bergeron could have gotten more money had he gone on the open market. But he didn't, deciding that staying in Boston — and still getting a contract that will pay him an AAV of $6.5 million — was more important than getting every last dollar.
"We love the organization, we also love the city,'' Bergeron said. "It really feels like home now. We don't want to go anywhere else. So it was an easy decision for me and my family.''
Bergeron, who turns 28 on July 24, has established himself as one of the NHL's elite two-way centers. Chicago's Jonathan Toews may be Bergeron's closest rival. In 2013, Bergeron was the runner-up to Toews for the Selke Trophy as the NHL's best defensive forward. Bergeron won the Selke in 2011-12.
This past season, Bergeron scored 10 goals and 22 assists in 42 regular-season games. He centered the second line, mostly between Brad Marchand and Tyler Seguin.
Bergeron won 62.1 percent of his faceoffs, the top mark in the NHL, and averaged 19:17 of ice time per game, most among team forwards. Bergeron played 2:12 per game on the penalty kill. On the power play, Bergeron averaged 2:10 of action. The Bruins deployed Bergeron in multiple man-up roles: net front, half boards, goal line.
But in the playoffs, Bergeron elevated his performance. He scored nine goals and six assists in 22 playoff games. He played a critical role in the Game 7 rally against Toronto in the opening round. Bergeron scored the tying six-on-five goal in the third period, and scored the winning goal in overtime. For most of the postseason, Bergeron centered Marchand and Jaromir Jagr.
In the Stanley Cup Final, Bergeron suffered a battering of injuries. In Game 4 at TD Garden, Bergeron most likely tore rib cartilage after absorbing a thump from Michael Frolik. In Game 5 at the United Center, Bergeron broke a rib. After Game 5, Bergeron was admitted to a Chicago hospital because of concern about an injured spleen. Tests were negative.
Before warmups prior to Game 6, doctors gave Bergeron a nerve-blocking shot to dull the pain on his left side. In the first period, while protecting his ribs, Bergeron fell into the boards and separated his right shoulder.
He also suffered a punctured lung along the way.
After the first period, Bergeron was given another nerve-blocking shot. Doctors believe it was either the shot or the broken rib that punctured one of his lungs. Bergeron finished the game, but had trouble breathing after the loss. He checked into Massachusetts General Hospital, where doctors diagnosed the center with a collapsed lung. Bergeron stayed at MGH for two nights. But he will not require surgery for any of his injuries.
For now, Bergeron is restricted in his activities as he recovers his injuries. He plans to start working out again at the end of next week, and expects to be ready for training camp.
"It's more about the lung and making sure,'' Bergeron said. "They put a hole through my rib cage to I guess get the air out and make sure that my lung was going back to its place and staying there.
"So now the four weeks is to make sure that everything heals and that it doesn't collapse again. So it's more for my lung than anything else. My shoulder and my ribs are feeling better. It's still not 100 percent obviously.''
Bergeron also played through an injury to close out 2011-12. He pulled an oblique muscle in Game 5 of the first-round playoff loss to Washington. He dressed for Games 6 and 7, but Bergeron took only one faceoff in each game.
The primary concern of Bergeron's extension is his concussion history. He suffered the fourth concussion of his career on April 2. Bergeron was engaging Ottawa's Colin Greening in a puck battle. Greening clipped Bergeron behind the right ear with an inadvertent elbow. He then missed six games because of the concussion.
Bergeron's major concussion took place on Oct. 27, 2007. The injury ended his season.
In 2013-14, Bergeron will most likely center the No. 2 line alongside Marchand and new Bruin Loui Eriksson. It will be used as a matchup line that will create offense from defense.
Bergeron could also represent Team Canada for the second straight time. Bergeron was a spare forward on Canada's gold-winning team in 2010. The NHL is expected to allow its players to participate in the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.