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**A warning, there is strong language in this story.
SIMON SANTOW: It's often said the teenage years are the toughest.
Hello I'm Simon Santow and this is a Radio Current Affairs documentary.
The transition to adulthood can be challenging, to say the least, particularly when you're unsure of yourself. Add to that a sometimes bruising neighbourhood and fractured family structures.
Gina McKeon recently spent a month in the inner Sydney suburb of Waterloo.
With the neighbouring suburb of Redfern, the area is known for youth riots, drugs and domestic violence.
Gina looks at how young people survive.
(Sound from within a youth centre)
AMY: Every single kid here, I can guarantee have been through more things than I've told you about tonight. I don't see my life as hard, I don't because I only had an abusive mother.
I was only sexually abused once but that wasn't anything to do with the area or my family. Like, these kids, I don't know what they're going through, we don't know what they're going through.
No one will ever know what they're going through until they get to my age and it is whether they turn out my age like me or whether they touch drugs and shit is whether they're going to be able to handle it.
That's why I want to stop it. I want these kids to know my life. I want these kids to know that I went through the same (bleeped) shit they did and I want to show them that life is fun without drugs.
GINA MCKEON: Is there no one around that has shown a positive?
AMY: There is no one to show you that life.
(Music, sounds from within youth centre)
GIRL RAPPING: Shabulya, sha, sha, shabulya, roll call, my name is, yeah I like to party, yeah and when I shake it, yeah it is like an earthquake, yeah (laughs), to introduce yourself.
GINA MCKEON: The Fact Tree Youth Service is spread across a big two level terrace on the corner of Elizabeth and Wellington in Waterloo, one of the most infamous street corners in Sydney. It looks as though it was painted a pale blue colour when it first opened more than 20 years ago and pretty much hasn't had a coat of paint since.
(Sound of traffic)
SHARNE: It was an old butcher's residence way, way back in the day. So this was originally the butcher's shop and the residence and people walked past it, some of the old timers and go, "Oh, that's where I used to get my meat and that's where I get, what is it now?" (Laughs)
It's great, it's being part of the community I guess having such an old premises.
GINA MCKEON: Sharne is both a youth worker here and the centre's CEO. She's standing on the corner smoking a cigarette just outside the Fact Tree's entrance. She's rail thin, wears a practical get up - t-shirt, blue jeans, Converse - and when she talks you get this sense she's always watching out of the corner of her eye for something, just in case.
SHARNE: So at this set of lights when the cars used to stop here, there used to be quite a few bag snatchers and they'd run down at that back alleyway.
So, yes it was a bit of a hotspot here for a while and unfortunately and I used to come and clean the needles and the fits down the alleyway every day and weeks. I don't need to do that anymore but yeah.
GINA MCKEON: That boy just rode his bike into the Fact Tree.
SHARNE: Yes, (laughs). So in summer it can get a bit hectic and the whole down the sideway is actually full of bike after bike after bike because they're too lazy to carry them upstairs (laughs).
GINA MCKEON: Upstairs is the drop in centre. This is where kids aged between 11 and 18 hang out.
Downstairs is Sharne's office.
(Sound of door closing)
SHARNE: The funny thing is that I was head hunted a little bit from another organisation when I got here and the place was in a little bit of a mess and had a bad reputation and was looking at being closed down.
I sort of said I'll go in, I'll give you 12 months and then I'll be out of there and I'll move on and near 19 years later I'm still here but the main reason is that I find this community a very warm and welcoming one and one, once they know you that is (laughs).
GINA MCKEON: What are they like before that?
SHARNE: Very harsh. They were very harsh on me when I first got here. Very, very harsh and I was called the white do-gooder and basically a lot of them said straight to my face, "If you're around in two years time we might bother to learn your name".
And I thought well I'll just plod along and I'll just keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully that will show some results.
GINA MCKEON: You've plodded along for?
SHARNE: Nearly 19 years now. I know! They're going to bury me in this place if I'm not careful (laughs).
GINA MCKEON: Around this time as the sun goes down, Sharne usually clocks off and two other workers get ready for the night shift upstairs.
The first thing you notice is the noise.
(Sounds from within the youth centre)
At any given time there's about 10 to 15 kids in a fairly small space. At one end the girls watch TV at full volume.
(Sound from the television)
At the other end of the room the boys play FIFA and they try to turn it up to hear it over the girls.
(Sound from a video game)
Other kids sit at a couple of computers along the wall and in the middle there's the pool table.
(Sound of teenagers talking)
They yell, scream and swear more than you can imagine.
Sharne warned me they'd turn it up a notch because I was a new face there, see if I could handle it.
(Sound of teenagers talking)
She told me that eventually it becomes more like a permanent hum and there's a difference between good noise and bad noise but it is constant and there's a high turnover of staff, some lasting only two weeks. For some staff though there's nothing to get used to.
AMY: C'mon put that back on the wall otherwise you're not allowed back up tonight. No, leave that, leave it, leave it, leave it. Why are you doing that?
GINA MCKEON: This is Amy.
AMY: I'm a lot happier here being a shit head with all of these kids than I am in my button up shirt and my high heels working at David Jones putting up with all those snotty nosed little f***s.
GINA MCKEON: Amy is 21 and she's one of the night shift workers. She's just come on board as a staff member here but she's actually been coming to the Fact Tree since she was 13 years old.
AMY: I know the looks, do you get me. I know when they come up the stairs and they've got a scarf on or they're wearing long pants on a 48 degree heat it's because they got bruises on 'em and shit like that. I know that because I was that kid. I know that look of not talking to anyone because that's you, I know, I was in that position.
GINA MCKEON: Amy spent the first part of her life growing up in a country town in New South Wales with both her parents, living with the "whole deal" as she calls it, including the white picket fence. Then her parents split and her mum took the kids and moved to Sydney. This is when she first came to the Fact Tree.
AMY: And then my mum decided to move us to Redfern with all our family and didn't tell us we were black.
GINA MCKEON: So your mum's Aboriginal?
AMY: Yeah, and then I found out all these cousins that I didn't know and stuff and then they started bringing me up here.
GINA MCKEON: With your mum coming here, was she comfortable with you being out all the time?
AMY: It was mum's fault why I was out. Mum was a single mum who drowned all her sorrows and issues into weed and alcohol. So she didn't know, and if we were out it was because she's chucked a tanty and I had to get my sister out of there.
GINA MCKEON: Chucked a tanty, what do you mean?
AMY: Going off her nut, throwing things, f***en, I've had my fair share of black eyes. My tooth is wobbly because of my mum. I had to, my sister growing up mistaking me for mum all the time, would call me mum all the time because she didn't know.
GINA MCKEON: Amy takes me out the back to the courtyard so she can have a cigarette and she tells me about how she dropped out of school in year 11 which is something she says she regrets but there was just too much going on at the time.
AMY: I got to age where I didn't want, I didn't want to take the packed lunches I would've had to because if I would have had to pack the lunches it would have been literally just a buttered sandwich and maybe like those really cheap packet of chips and that would be my lunch and that's too embarrassing.
GINA MCKEON: Amy counts the Fact Tree as the place that saved her life.
AMY: It fed me, my brother and my sister when my mum didn't. I'd come up here and I'd sit in Sharne's office and I'd cry to her that I can't feed my sister and I haven't eaten in three days because we had like a loaf of bread left and I was saving that for my sister. And Sharne would come upstairs and get a box of food and I'd take that home and I'd stash it and we'd eat.
And even now I don't, I don't know how to say this, I'm disappointed in everything that she did to us. I think it was wrong and she shouldn't have but at the same time I'm glad lived the (bleeped) life I did because I wouldn't be who I am today if I didn't.
I'm a shit head. I'm as tough as (bleeped) nails.
(Sounds from within the youth centre)
TEENAGER: Are they still good Di?
GINA MCKEON: Di is one of the night shift workers here. Almost every evening during the after-hours care, you'll be able to find her in the kitchen preparing something for the kids.
TEENAGER: Di, the blackboard broke.
DI: Okay.
GINA MCKEON: When I first saw Di I actually thought she was someone's mum. She was giving one of the girls a real talking to. I turned and asked her if she was her mum and Di looked at me and smiled. I think she was flattered.
DI: It wasn't open, was it? Oh, that's okay, yeah. Absolutely.
GINA MCKEON: And believe me, she can be just as embarrassing as anyone's mum.
DI (singing): We're a happy family, with a great big hug and a kiss from me to you...
TEENAGER: Di cannot sing!
DI (singing): ...won't you say you love me too?
GINA MCKEON: It's at this point the workers Di and Amy serve up dinner. The kids drop everything and come into the kitchen. At times like this, these kids look like just any other teenagers.
After they've been playing X-box, watching TV, surfing Facebook, now they're crowding in the kitchen and scrambling for dinner.
It becomes easy to forget what they're leaving behind.
DI: I've been in a lot of their houses and I know what's there or what isn't there.
GINA MCKEON: What isn't there?
DI: Food. They live on takeaway. Money goes to other resources, drugs and alcohol, poker machine. A lot of them press.
AMY: They're not leaving anything to come here. This is stopping anything from happening because there is nothing else to do in this area because you don't have enough money to go down to the arcades or whatever you did as a kid, we didn't have the money to go do that.
We don't have food and a nice home to go home to so why are we going to go home? Because all your friends are in the same (beeped) position. It is not as if you can go to your mate's house and get away 'cause your mates are your cousins and they're in the exact same (beeped) boat.
GINA MCKEON: One of the other things that I've noticed is that a lot of people talk about their mums and their nans but the older men...
AMY: The dads. The dads, yeah.
GINA MCKEON: Where are they?
AMY: Jail. Jail or they're with their other kids looking after their other kids. They're just not there.
GINA MCKEON: As the youth centre's CEO, Sharne says this has been one of the toughest parts of the job. That even after 19 years and now looking after the kids of the kids who used to come here, one particular idea in the young boys has been hard to counteract.
SHARNE: I think unfortunately still for the males jail is seen as a bit of a right of passage and that they're going to be okay because the black fellas in jail will look after them.
I'd have to say there have been some very, very hard times and I think it's not the sort of job that you can just leave at work. You know that that - are we getting anywhere? Has there been any change? Are we banging our head against a brick wall? And are things just too difficult for these kids to get ahead no matter what we do? And that's hard and when you lose young kids to very long jail sentences as well.
You know, I hate to say it but I've had kids that have, that are murderers, who are in jail for 10 to 15 years from the age of 18. So that's really their whole life and that's not to say that I don't feel a great deal of sympathy for the people that have been injured, it's horrific, but there are two lives lost often in those scenarios.
GINA MCKEON: Given that it can be so tough and Sharne has witnessed this stuff every day for almost 20 years I wondered what kept her going.
SHARNE: Because I've had the advantage of being here so long you can see changes and you can see significant changes and I've fortunately been in the position where young people have come back and said thank you and this is, you know, the day that you said this to me. I can't actually remember saying it but they can remember it word for word and it has been a significant moment for them.
So you can watch that change and I think generationally I am getting to see some of those changes as well. Their children are not doing it quite as hard as they were doing it or they are instilling slightly different values, the importance of education and trying to stay out of crime and trying to stay away from the drugs.
GINA MCKEON: And even though Di hasn't been working here long enough to see the changes across the generations, for her it all comes back to the basics.
DI: Everybody stuffs up in life at some point and we learn from our mistakes. If you're dealing with 20 young people and one of them you have a success where they become a great leader, a role model to their peoples, their community, it's all you need, you know, because you actually start seeing things that, positive things you've instilled in them. You know?
Or social skills that they've gained while you've been dealing with them, you know, that basic respect, basic acknowledgement. You know, I have a have really big thing where when they come in, acknowledge. It's respect. It's rude if you don't. You know, just acknowledge, "Hi". That's all you need to do and so you then can have these conversations with them on how it helps them out there in the real world, you know.
GINA MCKEON: There was one particular moment when it all fell into place, when I realised what Di was doing.
DI: One curry pie for you.
TEENAGER: Thank you.
DI: You're welcome.
(to reporter) Before I said to him you're going to start using your manners with me boy because I'm telling you now you won't get anything from me without manners.
GINA MCKEON: And what did he just do?
DI: Just then he went, "May I have a curry pie," or "Can I have a curry pie please?" Yup, okay and then I went, "Oh beautiful manners there," and he went, "Yeah, thank you". Ha! Ha!
You are going to get so much further in life if they can speak to people like this, you know. You can get anything I reckon in life with manners, anything.
GINA MCKEON: Do you reckon they walk out of here though and use their manners or is it just with you to get the pie?
DI: Um, no I think that it ends up being instilled. Honestly I do. So you go on about it enough, it is going to be automatic because you look at, you look at young Koori kids and often it is when they've been brought up by their elders, right, by their grandparents, nan and pop.
(To teenager) Who rears you?
TEENAGER: My mum, my aunty, my uncle and my nan.
DI: Is that all?
TEENAGER: She passed away when I was four.
DI: Who?
TEENAGER: My nan.
DI: Your nan?
TEENAGER: Yeah, but she taught me how to, um, hunt and all that.
DI: Who lives at your home?
TEENAGER: My mum, my aunty and my uncle.
DI: Oh, so you've got an aunty and uncle there, too, eh.
GINA MCKEON: She taught you how to what?
TEENAGER: What?
GINA MCKEON: What did you say, she taught you how to what before?
TEENAGER: She taught me how to make spears and all that.
GINA MCKEON: Make spears?
TEENAGER: Yeah.
GINA MCKEON: Where?
TEENAGER: Out in the bush where I come from.
GINA MCKEON: How do you make spears?
TEENAGER: What?
GINA MCKEON: How do you make a spear?
TEENAGER: Get sticks and sharpen them.
GINA MCKEON: But how do you do that?
TEENAGER: Like you find trees and you look for a straight, like a straight branch and then you break it down. Then you've got to like snap it on the thing and then get the rock and like make it straight and then you've got to just sharpen it with, you've have to sharpen it with rocks because they didn't really have cement back then.
GINA MCKEON: Cool way, that is so cool.
(to worker Di ) And that's what you're talking about, that's the cultural knowledge that you feel some of these kids aren't getting?
DI: Yep, absolutely. And look at that. What is he? All of 11, all of 11 and at four he was taught how to make spears. It's how it should be.
GINA MCKEON: Given Amy, the other night shift worker here, spent her teenage years growing up in Waterloo, I wondered what happens when you turn 18 - the age when kids can't hang out at the Fact Tree anymore and why Amy was different.
AMY: Hopefully some of them will get jobs but most of 'em just end up pregnant or on drugs and that's your life. That's it, you're stuck. That's what I'm trying to stop, the stuckness, the cycles because I hate cycles that much. I'm like, it's from this area because everything is just a cycle. Everything is just a cycle.
GINA MCKEON: Amy reminded me of one girl who comes here. Out of all the kids her name kept coming up, Jess. She's the eldest of all the kids that come here by a few years, she's always got a small entourage of younger kids following her around and she never loses a game of pool.
One of the younger girls here told me that Jess was the 18-year-old she looked up to because Jess wanted something different. She wanted what this young girl called a good life.
SHARNE: Yes, and I think that's the difference with the young woman that you're speaking about is that�
GINA MCKEON: Having worked her for 19 years, Sharne has watched Jess grow up. She points out that she's is one of the few kids in the area who's finished school, has the ambition, but is finding it hard to get work.
SHARNE: And that's what I was also saying. I hate to say it but, you know, a lot of the young people are maybe third or fourth generation sort of welfare dependent. Their aspirations haven't been high.
Their parents might not work or haven't worked, their grandparents may never have worked at any stage so they don't grow up thinking oh, I want to be this or if I go to school I can be a nurse or I can be a teaches or retail or anything. They're not used to that environment where you get up, go to work, get a pay packet, come home.
So it's interesting and for that young woman too, she's not been in any trouble, so it is quite a major achievement or she hasn't been arrested and she does want things for herself. She's just at that stage where how do I make it happen?
GINA MCKEON: It was almost impossible to get a hold of Jess to speak with her. She was constantly in and out of the centre and with the entourage of younger kids in tow, it was even harder to get her alone.
But on the last night I was at the Fact Tree Jess and Amy were out the back talking in the courtyard. They started to discuss life in the area and what it's been like for them growing up here.
JESS: Because my parents and my cousin and all that were underage mums and like, I can, my cousin now, she's got three kids and she's only 21 but like she had her two when she was younger. And like, it just seems like all the shit that she had to go through and like she had to drop out of school and like, most of my friends aren't kids now and most of the boys I used to hang around, they all like ice freaks and shit.
AMY: I've lost a lot of friends because I've said no to everything and I'm not cool like they are and I just want to be a straightie 180 and ner, ner, ner, ner, ner.
GINA MCKEON: Have you lost friends because of that?
JESS: Not really but they just, I don't hang around my friends. All they want to do is just get stoned and like. I don't know, honestly I feel like every time like when you get stoned and that you just feel like you're just sitting there just doing nothing, like wasting time and shit when you could be out doing shit with your money and like.
AMY: All of your friends, right, you turned out the way you did because of the way you are saying you did like by your family and by coming here and getting away from it all right?
Now all these kids, all your cousins and shit man, like you're up here all the time, you're making sure they are all home at certain time, you're making sure they are not dressing skimpy and is that because you think that they will listen to you and hopefully you can do to them whatever everyone else has done to you?
JESS: Yeah, like brought up like brothers and sisters practically.
AMY: Yeah.
JESS: My older cousin's not going to do it and like she's the oldest out of all of us and then it's like me. So, you just want them to do good and like when I used to think what my aunty used to growl at me and shit, like now like I realise and that's how come I'm so growly�
AMY: And just spin out when you get older, eh?
JESS: Yeah, like now that's why I'm so growly towards my little cousins 'cause otherwise they don't listen. They go wandering off. Well, like now they're starting to go to school.
Every time like, every time we see 'em and there're not at school, like, I'm "Get to (beeped) school," and it's like wow, "That's how DOCS are going to get on you and shit," and like, that's why we like "Do you want to get taken away from us?" and they're like, "No," and then they start to realise.
AMY: Is there anything you wish that you could just pluck out of thin air for these kids?
JESS: A better life probably, like I don't know.
AMY: Because like the older ones, I'm sorry guys but everyone else older just keeps trying the way they were taught and it's obvious it's not (beeped) working. We're younger, we're different. We need to be taught differently.
JESS: I don't know.
AMY: Is it because the parents don't care?
JESS: They probably care but they just probably, like they care about their kids but there probably is just drugs there that is always there too, like, so they probably you know.
AMY: Just gets too hard doesn't it?
JESS: Yeah.
GINA MCKEON: It became obvious that for kids like Jess, the Fact Tree was more than just a place to play pool and get a free meal.
AMY: We're not just a service to most of these kids, we're home. And we're not poor me because we don't realise that it's wrong. Like we don't realise that what we go through is hard until you get through the other side like me and you're like (bleeped), we went through a lot, man. I'm (beeped) strong.
But it is not until you get to that point and usually a lot of people are into drugs and shit like that so they never get to that point.
GINA MCKEON: Amy says one of the main problems still lies in a basic lack of awareness.
AMY: Our way of living, you don't live. We live completely different even though we are living right next to each other. You guys just see the violence and all of that. You don't see that it is actually poverty and actual full on problems.
Like you guys don't think that you have starving children around the corner. You think we have starving children over in Africa. You guys don't realise that we have black starving children here.
I would love to bring every single one of those politicians into this area. I would love for them just to confront me and just tell me what they actually think happened in this community and what they think goes on here because the understanding that everyone else has outside of this area is (beeped) ridiculous and it is upsetting and it is very hurtful.
There is more heart in this community than anyone knows. There is more heart here than anywhere else, than anywhere else, but we're not educated. We're not educated and we're not helped.
SIMON SANTOW: Amy, one of the youth workers at the Fact Tree Youth Service in Waterloo. Gina McKeon was our reporter.
If you missed some of this documentary or just want to listen again, the audio and transcripts can be found on our website, www.abc.net.au/pm. You've been listening to a Radio Current Affairs documentary.
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Getting Better With Age - The 20th Annual Silver Springs Ford & Mustang Roundup doesn't disappoint
For many Mustang fans, the annual Silver Springs Ford & Mustang Roundup, hosted by National Parts Depot (NPD) and sponsored by Source Interlink Media's Ford-based magazines, is the "kick off" for each year's car show season. Held every January at the Silver Springs nature park in Silver Springs, Florida, we've attended this show every year in some capacity or another (attendee or media member and now a sponsor) and we've seen license plates from as far away as Indiana, New York, and even the occasional tag from Canada. Of course, NPD helps make that decision easier by footing the bill for the first 1,000 registrants! Not a bad deal at all—a show with free entry for two at a nationally registered historic natural landmark—if you can get your registration in quickly. Unfortunately, a lot changed for 2014's show, an event that almost didn't happen.
Silver Springs is one of Florida's oldest tourist attractions, opening in the late 1870s and becoming a popular tourist destination. The privately operated attraction featured the now famous glass-bottom boat rides (which offered tours of the Silver River and the springs), an amusement park, and more. Through the decades, Silver Springs served as a filming location for movies and TV shows (including James Bond and Tarzan movies, plus the Sea Hunt TV series). Ownership changed hands several times over the years, but in 2013 the current owner, Palace Entertainment, made the decision to relinquish the property to the state of Florida. Silver Springs is now part of the Silver River State Park adjacent to the property and the entire area was renamed the Silver Springs State Park last October. With the change to state ownership, the remaining animals on the property were sold off and rides/attractions dismantled.
NPD vice-president Rick Schmidt tells us there was a lot of speculation throughout 2013 as to whether the 20th annual show would even happen. With the change to state ownership, there was little time to get the Ford & Mustang Roundup plans approved with the new state ownership. Schmidt explained, "Having never worked with the State Park system, or the new subcontracted concessionaire controlling all the services within the park, it was like starting over again with all new faces and all new terms. I didn't know them and they didn't know me. I had a lot to explain, justify, and assure. In retrospect however, I couldn't be more pleased with how it all turned out. I'm confident that moving the show forward into the next 20 years will be very positive."
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As I've said before, unrestored Mustangs typically drive better than restored Mustangs, and Morley's '66 was a case in point. With only the usual maintenance, the convertible drives more like a three- or four-year old Mustang than one that was built 48 years ago. The steering and front-end are tight, the engine fires up at the first twist of the key, and the gauge needles held strong and firm, including the temperature gauge that never reached the halfway point in the warm Florida weather. In fact, after grabbing a grouper sandwich at Cedar Key's Steamer restaurant, we dropped the top for the return trip and cruised back to NPD in 1966 style. –Donald Farr


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"The ongoing and growing popularity of Apple's iTunes Music Store now positions the company as a leading music retailer, and continues to legitimize legal digital music retailing," said Russ Crupnick, music and movies industry analyst for The NPD Group. "With the growing interest in digital music, forecasts of more iPod demand this holiday, plus the stocking-stuffer appeal of iTunes gift cards, we can expect Apple to increase its share even more by year's end."
Apple is now ranked 7th, up from their position of 14th last year. The news of Apple elbowing their way into the company of music-retailing powerhouses was quickly followed by rumblings that Apple has sold a boat load (or two) of iPods. According to a report on TechWhack, Apple announced (although not present on their PR page) that since the iPod's inception in 2001, they've sold nearly 30 million units. This news comes at a time where iPod usage/ownership seems to be out of control. I make several trips to Chicago a year and I've always noticed the high percentage of iPod owners using the public transit system. Case in point, just yesterday I looked around the train I was riding and noticed at least 6 people in my field of vision who were listening to iPods. Nuts!
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DE-Stansly Maponga, 6-2, 265, TCU, currently ranked #171 overall at cbssports.com.
I can't seem to find any game tapes for this guy and I didn't watch TCU play at all this year. He's a junior coming out early and has been described as TCU's best defensive player by some writers. In 2011, Maponga had 13.5-TFL, 9-sacks and 5-FF. This year he was double teamed a lot and his production dropped to 6.5-TFL & 4-sacks. From what I've been able to find online, he is considered short & light for an NFL DE, however maybe he could be a LEO????
The only 40 time I could find was 4.78, it was also mentioned that he has a very quick get-off at the snap, extremely long arms and he gets them up in the passing lanes causing even more problems for opposing QB's. His pro-day or the combine should help with more specifics about his potential. Has anyone seen this kid play or checked him out? Maybe a round 6/7 flyer in the draft?


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I am a bad passenger, airlines don't like me.
I am a magazine hog who snatches every in-flight magazine, pile them up in my seat, never return them back to the rack, and then I rip off interesting pages on these magazines. (Oops, did I just confess my dirty secrets?!)
Yes, I am one of those passengers that flight attendants and fellow passengers sneer at, especially when they hear the suspicious noise as I tear off pages.
I really can't help it. I am addicted to magazines; I can't sleep on planes; and I absolutely CANNOT resist mouthwatering food and recipes on magazines. They whisper "tear me tear me" in my ears, I swear.
This pound cake is the result of the above acts. It's a classic pound cake recipe on Better Homes and Garden, May 2009 issue.
The pound cake photos look velvety, deliciously dense, moist, and just perfect. I had to tear the pages off and try the pound cake recipe at home. Sorry airline!
My pound cake turned out quite good. It was a good pound cake recipe.
Here is my adapted pound cake recipe. Happy baking!
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Quote# 91803
Evolution can be split into two: Evolution Theory and Micro-evolution.
One of those is entirely faith based, which even started via a hoax - it's far from sciences.
Human DNA/Chromosomes is more related to the tobacco plant over ape/chimp. If we are allowed to "continue evolving" we may someday be tobacco plants, or even better maybe even the ultimate life form, a fern with 480 chromosomes!
If Evolution is real, we would be actually be de-evolving at a slow rate? Natural selection would just be slowing down this rate. According to the Evolution Theory (and Hoax from which it started) we where originally ape like creatures, we de-evolved into humans - losing most our ability to grip with feet, our tail for support and extra hold, becoming slower, lazier, fatter, defenseless creatures compared to the apes which happen to still be around?
The evolution theory was created for fame and greed starting off as a hoax. Any one with a slight education and half a brain cell can see that - sorry, Evolutionist Ape-Man followers, go back to watching your "Planet of the Apes" movies.
Micro-evolution however has some facts/research behind it, this however is just the fact that a creature can ADAPT and change to it's environment. This is the good researched side of evolution which starts to make logical sense, however we currently know: DNA mutations cause more damage that good. The only differences is the religous believe the DNA is already encoded and it is simply toggled to adapt.
This however supports religion even more... so they must still follow the hoax of the apeman, it's their faith to consider themselves a monkey without purpose in life.
Yahoo Answers
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Quote# 91800
A Catholic priest in Italy has created a firestorm by claiming that women bring violence on themselves by serving cold food and dressing provocatively.
Father Piero Corsi of Liguria sparked outrage after members of his congregation posted his Christmas bulletin onto Facebook. The flyer, entitled "Women and femicide – healthy self-criticism. How often do they provoke?" said victims of domestic and sexual violence should question if they were themselves to blame for the incident.
The flyer said women "provoke the worst instincts" and "should search their consciences and ask: did we bring this on ourselves?"
"The fact is that women are increasingly provocative, they become arrogant, they believe themselves to be self-sufficient and end up exacerbating the situation," Corsi added. "Children are abandoned to their own devices, homes are dirty, meals are cold or fast food, clothes are filthy."
He later added fuel to the fire by suggesting an Italian reporter must be gay if he wasn't enticed by a picture of a nude woman.
Father Piero Corsi,
The Raw Story
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Quote# 91786
It is hard to rationalize, but I know hell is a real place because I have experienced it's keepers... I have seen them more than once, and they really hated me like they hate all humans..
Humankind was alread destined for total termination because of it's wickedness, and we all already deserve hell..
If you don't believe this, then perhaps the righteousness you are attributing to yourself will save your soul.. good luck with that one..
Only because of Christ can you be pardoned... believe or don't believe, no one is forcing anyone to believe it..
It's easy to jump on the bandwagon and not believe, it is much harder to believe.. It does begin with faith, but it isn't only limited to just blind faith, because many alive today have been visited by Christ himself in this current age..He had mercy on me, although I often wonder why.. I just hope I can fulfill my mission and do my part because I know hell exists and I definitely do not want to go there..
If any of you ever see hells minions you will know immediately who they are and you will be able to feel their hatred like a terminal disease.. because of what I know, I will never tell someone to go to hell, I wouldn't wish that place on the worst of the worst, it is that bad.
Knowing what I know:
1: Hell = very bad
2: I don't want to go there.
3: I'll do whatever it takes to not go there:
4: All I have to do is believe in Christ as a first step or just proudly live life and disregard all accountability...
Ill take the first option...
I fear God and I fear being sent to hell, and I apologize very often.. Humility is a virtue that the proud do not possess..pride is what happened to hells boss, didn't work out very well..
No, it doesn't seem rational, but neither does a whole lot of things..
Above Top Secret
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Quote# 91784
Since "science" the scientific principle and the scientific approach are all creations of man and man is an imperfect creature, then it lends to thought that man's theories are also imperfect. This is proved by man as he has yet to create any "perfect" item. (and I do mean any) If "man" with our imperfect minds is somehow right about evolution then our lives are fruitless, amounting to nothing, and death should be no more than a moment's passing thought When man dies he returns to dust having not improved anything...he has just moved along the evolutionary time line.
If Christians are right, then at death man without belief will find his soul in one hell of a hot place.
Since neither theory can yet be proven correct or incorrect your use of the word "fact" is erroneous, once again proving that man and his theories are imperfect.
You will note that man's science books are outdated in 5 years and are constantly being updated to "fit" new "evidence". Religion has no such updating now does it?
Those who fail to challenge idiocy are destined to be governed by it!
George Paddeck,
Live Science
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Submitted By: Telekon
Quote# 91766
(a news report about Russian underpopluation)
This is the end result of a Communist/atheistic state that hated the Jews and wanted no part of God. They are a dying culture because women no longer what children! The family unit was destroyed by sin, just like what is happening in America. Every year, the Russian population is shrinking by nearly one million and aging. Very soon, it can never recover and just die. This is the fate of the entire West with Russia leading the way.
I believe that Russia's attack on Israel as described in Ezekiel 38 must come soon, or Russia will never be able to mount such an attack.
John Mcternan,
John Mcternan's insights
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Submitted By: Tony
Quote# 91762
Ever notice that reptiles are a rare breed as a species in that they are one of the few species that
stop growing throughout their entire lifespan? According to the Scripture they also did not eat meat in the beginning but rather the green herbs and plants. Suppose for a moment the possibility of an evil fallen race of angelic-spirit beings coming down to earth and altering the genetic code of the living creation of YHWH 'Elohiym until they finally discovered that reptiles never stop growing? or that perhaps even their own alterations caused this anomaly? They apparently altered reptiles for their own purposes: to feed their own Titan-Giant offspring which 1-Enoch states that they had hoped would live five hundred years or more. Apparently one of the adverse side affects of the genetic manipulation was that some of the reptiles like T-Rex also began eating flesh instead of herbs.
Grace Centered Christian Forums
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Quote# 91760
The Times opposes bans on same-sex marriage because they are "based on nothing more substantive than a belief in the immorality of homosexuality."
My word, immorality is not a good enough reason to ban sodomy? If morality is not the bedrock of our laws, then they all rest on shifting sand and we might as well recognize as "normal" adultery, polygamy, prostitution and the like. After all, proponents of these aberrations have as valid a claim to discrimination as do homosexuals.
Rafael Villa,
LA Times
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Quote# 91758
Technology is a fruit of one's world view, and I think world history will bear out that as a society is just and free, technology skyrockets.
Where a society becomes unjust, atheistic and/or pagan, technology takes a dive.
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Submitted By: PT
Quote# 91755
Every single thing that is wrong with the world is due to the filthy Jew. Every war that has ever been started is because of the Jew-vermin, and it is only the kikes that benefit.
Jesus had them pegged exactly right when he called them the children of Satan. The Jew is Satan personified.
Hitler's biggest mistake is that he didn't gas the Jews.
The fire next time!
three in one,
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Quote# 91744
No commemoration of the day that 3,000 people were murdered by Muslim terrorists would be complete without more Muslim whining that they are the real victims of their own attacks.
CNN has decided that the best way to commemorate September 11 would be with an editorial from one Sumbul Ali-Karamali with the obscene title, "American Muslims live in fear 11 years after 9/11?.
Right. They do. It's not Americans who have to live in fear. It's not Americans who are targeted for terrorist plots by Muslims in America every single year. It's not Americans who are afraid of being killed, it's Muslims, who have to "live in fear" because someone somewhere said something mean to them.
Shall we compare the number of Americans killed by Muslims in the last ten years with the number of Muslims in America killed for reasons of prejudice? The numbers would be lacking to the point of absurdity.
This shameless whinefest isn't about fear, it's about political influence. It's devoid of even the faintest tinge of human decency. Like the Ground Zero Mosque, the goal is to hijack the dialogue and make it all about Muslims. On September 11 and on Ground Zero, there is this egotistical obsession with defiling even the graves of the dead.
"The defamatory rhetoric directed at Muslims and Islam in this country has little to do with the actual religion or its adherents and everything to do with fear of the Other," Sumbul Ali-Karamali asserts.
Clearly. Today we commemorate an event that had no basis in reality, just fear of the other. The World Trade Center, Fort Hood, Times Square, the Portland Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, the Christmas Flight Bombing Plot and so many others… just fear of the other.
There's nothing about Islam that leads its adherents to commit violence. And when terrorist after terrorist gets up in court and quotes the Koran, that has nothing to do with Islam. Over a thousand years of horrifying atrocities never happened either.
Daniel Greenfield,
FrontPage Magazine
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Quote# 91742
Anonymous asked: My boyfriend recently asked me if we could have sex. I tried to explain to him that asking me to have sex with him counts as sexual assault, but he couldn't understand it that piv sex is ONLY okay if I am the one who asks for it. Can you help me try to explain why what he's doing when he asks for sex is misogynistic?
It seems he doesn't understand sexual harassment to such a degree for all intents and purposes is basically sexual assault.
This is normal; men in general don't understand even the most basic tactful ways to approach women.
A rule of thumb is that if you can see him, hear him and feel him it's most definitely sexual assault. Now does that mean that just because you can't feel him it isn't sexual assault? No. That's just something rape culture says. Going by that line of reasoning it wouldn't be sexual assault if you simply couldn't feel him as you'd been administered some sort of anesthesia.
So through absurdity reduction we rule out that it's necessary to feel him. If you can hear him, see him and you feel sexually assaulted then you have been sexually assaulted.
He's being misogynistic for saying he doesn't understand. Declarations of boundary are to be followed, not necessarily understood. What he's saying by replying that he doesn't understand is that he needs to understand why he shouldn't violate your boundaries and that's deeply misogynistic; he wouldn't need that justification from another man.
Feminism Rising
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Quote# 91741
" But my hairdresser is so CUTE, and he always tells me how cute my outfit is. I can't judge him! But my nephew is such a sweetie, and he always played with dolls, even when he was little. How dare you say he can't have sex!"
Because what your hairdresser and your nephew do with other men when you aren't there, namely jamming their penises up into each other's feces-laden colons and mouths and using that as a point of masturbatory friction, is so depraved and so incredibly evil, inhuman and disgusting that it makes Our Lord NAUSEOUS, and is so twisted that even the demons choose to withdraw instead of staying around and witnessing it.
Remember 20 years ago before you allowed yourself to be desensitized to sodomitical behavior by the agitporn on the teevee? Remember when the sight of two men or two women in even the slightest homosexual activity, or even the IMPLICATION of homosexual activity, made you nauseous, frightened, sad and disgusted all at the same time? That is healthy. That is the way it is supposed to be. If you have become desensitized to this evil, beg God to regenerate that part of you so that you once again can have a right-ordered and Godly response to it. Because if you are indifferent to it, satan wins, because not only will no one help people with same-sex attractions carry their cross in chastity, but now we will have the very people who should be helping them (the Church) actually sticking their foot in their back and PUSHING THEM down the road to hell.
So, when you see and hear people on the so-called "right" saying that we have to throw in the towel on this, understand that they are fully in the service of satan, whether they realize it or not. And STEER WELL CLEAR.
Ann Barnhardt,
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Quote# 91740
No mention of a return to discipline in the schools? What about our Godless culture, fomented by teachers on behalf of their socialist unions? No men at home, no men in the schools, no men in daycare.. What ELSE does everyone expect from lawless, fearless boys raised with no discipline, no direction, no respect for authority?
As usual, the left is going after the WRONG issue. It's not about guns, it's about CONTROLLING CHILDREN THROUGH DISCIPLINE, and it MUST start at a young age or it's counterproductive.
Free Republic
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Quote# 91738
Liberals want ALL humans as defenseless as a fetus.
And you know why.
Liberals love murdering the defenseless. They get sexual pleasure from it.
Mass murderers and serial killers are liberals. ALL OF THEM.
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Quote# 91293
They [missionaries] claim to have witnessed cases of repossession among converts of ancient idolatrous cultures, such as in China and India, and also among aboriginal peoples and primitive civilizations, who live in servile fear and abject bondage to Satan and demons. The claims of these missionaries appear valid
Merril Unger,
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Quote# 91015
[Scott Lively on Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni]
The Museveni prayer is a model for all Christian leaders in the world. The leaders of the West have declined in proportion to their degree of rejection of God," Lively said. Lively also believes Uganda will rise as a major African power as America continues to decline. He uses Britain as an example. "Britain was at its height as a world power when it honored God as the Ugandan president has just done. America's greatness has similarly diminished as we have shifted from a Christian to a secular-humanist country. But watch now for Uganda to be blessed by God for their desire to be His," Lively said. Lively added that Museveni is definitely drawing a contrast between Uganda and the West. "This incident is also important as a contrast to the picture being painted of Uganda by the godless left of a backwards, violent and savage culture intent on murdering homosexuals," Lively said. "On the contrary, Museveni is calmly and confidently setting the course of his nation by the guidance of the Bible, in a way that also shows great courage and resolve," Lively said.
Scott Lively,
Joe. My. God.
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Submitted By: Aspergus
Quote# 91723
[In response to a comment about sending liberals to Guantanamo]
That's fine with me - Guantanamo I mean! The Liberal, Progressive Socialists are indeed terrorists as far as I am concerned. They should be able to relate well to the jihadists already there. Perhaps they will convert and no longer be infidels like many or most of us.
The Spectator
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Quote# 91717
(Context: A poll asking if one would visit a church that was giving out free pot to first time visitors as an incentive.)
I don't agree with everything on that page, but it makes great points about cannabis in the Bible, and that Jesus healed using it. Jesus was a medical marijuana practioner.
US Election Atlas Forum
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Quote# 91706
Linda Harvey, a host of the Ohio based Christian radio station WRFD has warned that the passing of same-sex marriage laws might cause Jesus Christ to marry another man.
The Christian radio host this month said that same-sex marriage encourages children to have gay sex and that gay people aren't human and should therefore not be protected under the US constitution.
Now discussing the fact that under the implementation of same-sex marriage in some states have caused the words 'bride' and 'groom' to be replaced with 'person A' and 'person B', the host considers what would happen if Jesus came back to earth.
She began :"On official marriage documents, the words 'bride' and 'groom' were going to disappear. When advocates of homosexual marriage say how would two men or two women being allowed to marry change your marriage, here's one way. Nonsense like this starts showing up and the legitimacy of man-woman marriage is automatically on defense against pretenders to the throne."
She warned: "Homosexuality, far from being marriage, is always a grave sin in Scripture."
Switching to Jesus, Mrs Harvey said: "A Christian concept that illustrates the unchanging standard of man and woman as the model for marriage: in the New Testament, Jesus is referred to several times as the 'bridegroom.' And when he returns, he will return as a bridegroom seeking his bride: the church, which is the body of all believers, also called the Bride of Christ. It's a beautiful analogy.
"What happens to such a concept in a same-sex marriage? Does Jesus as bridegroom seek another groom? No, that would be a twisted and frankly offensive spin on a profound and marvelous concept."
She concluded: "As Christians, we must never accept the idea of same-sex marriage. It certainly doesn't work as sound Christian doctrine and it will be shown before long not to work as revolutionary secular law either."
Linda Harvey,
Pink News
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Quote# 91705
Maybe because I have daughters that I really worry about but I am not liking this line of thought. Granted they are female and thus evil but I would hope that if some nutjob attacked one of them and there were people around that could help without putting themselves at risk that they would help. They are just too many crazies out there for us to have this callous attitude.
Men Going Their Own Way
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Submitted By: Balthazar The Wise
Quote# 91689
The pope took his opposition to gay marriage to new heights Friday, denouncing what he described as people manipulating their God-given gender to suit their sexual choices — and destroying the very "essence of the human creature" in the process.
Benedict XVI made the comments in his annual Christmas speech to the Vatican bureaucracy — one of his most important speeches of the year. He dedicated it this year to promoting family values in the face of vocal campaigns in France, the United States, Britain and elsewhere to legalize same-sex marriage.
In his remarks, Benedict quoted the chief rabbi of France, Gilles Bernheim, in saying the campaign for granting gays the right to marry and adopt children was an "attack" on the traditional family made up of a father, mother and children.
"People dispute the idea that they have a nature, given to them by their bodily identity, that serves as a defining element of the human being," he said. "They deny their nature and decide that it is not something previously given to them, but that they make it for themselves."
"The manipulation of nature, which we deplore today where our environment is concerned, now becomes man's fundamental choice where he himself is concerned," he said.
It was the second time in a week that Benedict has taken on the question of gay marriage, which is dividing France after proponents scored big electoral wins in the United States last month. In his recently released annual peace message, Benedict said gay marriage, like abortion and euthanasia, was a threat to world peace.
After the peace message was released last week, gay activists staged a small protest in St. Peter's Square.
Church teaching holds that homosexual acts are "intrinsically disordered," though it stresses that gays should be treated with compassion and dignity. As pope and as head of the Vatican's orthodoxy watchdog before that, Benedict has been a strong enforcer of that teaching: One of the first major documents of his pontificate said men with "deep-seated" homosexual tendencies shouldn't be ordained priests.
"When freedom to be creative becomes the freedom to create oneself, then necessarily the Maker himself is denied and ultimately man too is stripped of his dignity as a creature of God," Benedict said.
Pope Benedict XVI,
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Submitted By: Kevin Klawitter
Quote# 91677
No but I mean if humans CAME from monkeys than the monkeys would be gone but there are still monkeys and PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE SEX with monkeys anyway!! One thing also the evolutoinists say is that the mokeys came from a POOL of slime!! I KNOW Richard Darwins even said that he decided he dint believe in evolution before he died.
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Quote# 91672
The explanation already exists- you just have to know where to look to find it. The New Age channelers out there in the world have been ramping it up lately, they say loads of things that explain our disappearance. I would point you to the links where you could read for yourself, but I don't think that is a wise thing to do- since these are channeled messages from demonic sources. You really need to be prepared spiritually to look into it. So if you decide to go searching on your own- please seek God's counsel first- pray and be in the word.
But here's the gist
These channeled messages say much about the ascension that is taking place as we speak. Mankind, according to them, is embracing his divinity, the divine nature that all beings possess. They are ascending to godhood- the next phase in the evolution of the earth. They use all kinds of terminology that sounds spiritual- and mystical, but in essence what they are saying is that man will soon become gods. This happens through a process, and part of that process is a movement into a different "vibration" or plane of existence. When mankind ascends- some people will not be ready for it, they will not be ready to move into the next dimension and will be left behind in the old paradigm or dimension. They have so much as said that those who hold to religious dogma will be among them. I have also read that these will be removed to a different dimension aboard spacecraft, where they can take their time and evolve at their own pace. So what they are claiming is that we will be left behind and the rest of the world will move into a new vibration/dimension/plane whatever you call it. This new dimension is the new world- they even use scripture to explain it all- of course taken out of context and interpreted completely wrongly.
This explanation already exists and the New Age influence is growing around the world, in my opinion it is the new age teachings that at least at the moment fit like a glove on the prophetic hand. It is truly cunning and the deception so cunning. It is after all doctrines of demons. Just as Paul wrote to Timothy.
resurrection torchlight,
rapture ready
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Submitted By: Tony
Quote# 91670
[Regarding the upcoming Supreme Court marriage equality decision]
Basically marriage will be completely destroyed, families will be destroyed, children will be hurt by this and freedom of speech and freedom of religion, including in the pulpit itself, will absolutely be bulldozed over. This would open a floodgate of unimaginable proportions. That's why with those kinds of consequences to have five of the nine justices ultimately have this kind of power in their hands, that's not how this court and this country was established, to have five individuals to be able to have that kind of catastrophic, social reengineering power in their hands, that's just not something that was envisioned by the founders.
This is the thing that revolutions literally are made of. This would be more devastating to our freedom, to our religious freedom, to the rights of pastors and their duty to be able to speak and to Christians around the country, then anything that the revolutionaries during the American Revolution even dreamed of facing. This would be the thing that revolutions are made of. This could split the country right in two. This could cause another civil war. I'm not talking about just people protesting in the streets, this could be that level because what would ultimately happen is a direct collision would immediately happen with pastors, with churches, with Christians, with Christian ministries, with other businesses, it would be an avalanche that would go across the country.
It's stunning. That's why I am very concerned that this has made its way to the United States Supreme Court because only five of those nine can make a decision and so five people, potentially, in the United States, only five out of the hundreds of millions that we have, have in their hand this opportunity to literally wreck marriage, to destroy the very foundation of our family and the biblical definition of marriage. The consequences are staggering. This could be the Roe v. Wade of marriage and family. If we ultimately say as a court and if the country follows it that marriage is between two people of the same sex and it's now how common sense, history and the Bible ultimately defines it, that has catastrophic consequences. That is staggering and it is actually something that we ought to be in significant prayer about because this could be the unraveling of the United States.
Mat Staver,
Right Wing Watch
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Submitted By: Zagen30
Quote# 91657
Supreme Court the problem because of taking God out out of our lives.
When they had the ten commandments it said you shall not commit murder signed God. Supreme Court is right up there with Stalin and Hitler on their causing the murder of people. In Israel the the IDF carries their weapons with them and teachers also are armed.
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Opinion: GOP Misfires on Filibuster
Columnist Kim Strassel on the gun control legislation that is likely to emerge from the Senate this week. Photo: Getty Images
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... Washington ... or are you floating the idea that they may use ... political stocks to prevent boats ... are many of these reforms ... think about that ... the the ... the same noble goal on ideas that almost all American support ... there is a ... bill ... to make and even prevent ... any books ... on these provisions ... there's a new opinion doesn't matter ... I ... that is not right ... welcome to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... that was President Obama denouncing Republican plans the filibuster in any gun control legislation ... and my next guest is going to denounce the idea to ... just for differ reasons Potomac watch columnist Kim straw soul joins now from Washington can ... why would the GOP filibuster gun control legislation don't they want the Democrats to vote ... to show that the Democrats are divided on this issue ... we had exactly right and that's why it's it's denounce or are they end ... up until now all of the headlines and then about how the presence proposals are largely going down and then going down ... at the hands of his own party Senate Democrats don't want is for his assault weapons ban ... they don't want limits on magazines ... there even divided over what background check provisions they might come up with ... now in coming out and pre empt early saying that they could filibuster legislation ... all they do is allow the president to make that kind of speech that he was all ready to slap the legislation come to the floor ... the Democrats fight out played out and then you can really comes down to something like that the euro up a filibuster but to take in the matter in the target doesn't seem like the smartest politics so what are the Democrats actually want to do ... I he I do focus on non background checks anyone about ... privacy concerns ... while that isn't that the central aspect of this Mary which is that the presence proposals have now been watered down to almost nothing there that ... provision in there that will weigh that ... up to the penalty is um what's known as straw purchasing of guns is already illegal I there might be some grant money for schools ... the Democrats are still trying to decide about the background check in you have a number of senators from ... red states who are Democrats were very concerned about any provisions ... that might require an average Americans to have to undergo background checks or do background checks when they are going to engage in a private sale of a gun and keep records for that which is brought up a lot of fears about a national ... database and registry of gun owners ... it also seems to support managers ... may go against what the Supreme Court ruled about the second amendment in the Heller decision explain ... that's the one the more remarkable aspects of the presence ... proposals from me ... only recently the Supreme Court came out and clarify the second member of the first time ... that agreeing that you do have an individual right to own firearms actually quite probably ... on leaving the door open for broad definition of what their four counts of illegal firearm ... what you're seeing the presence proposals and also some of these new Gundam didn't pass by states ... in the last few months ... is that the actual total pushback of the Supreme Court that ... and and and ignoring what that actual decision was a constitutional merited it's very difficult to believe ... that the president's proposal for a quota love ban on assault weapons could actually pass constitutional muster ... can we can debate on Iraq and page about the mental health aspects here ... terms of preventing mass killings likely starter or we saw at New town ... um has that discussion just been completely sidelined on Capitol Hill ... yet some of the greatest games of this debate is that so much attention has been sucked out that he would expect and what on this question of limiting firearms ... I've that we had stepped aside from what there was actually some agreement on which is that you need to do something about mental how ... the problem of course Mary is that it be hopping today because the kids in the federal privacy laws ... the kids and all kinds of questions about privacy rights and people's ... mental health status whether dovish the bar from guns ... machetes Congress doesn't necessarily want to take up those issues and the complicated so that has been moving ... much more slowly this season discussion of a in the house but by and large it depends on its website ... Congress doesn't wanna take on tough issues and neither does the president surprise surprise ... in some of my calmness came straw soul ... thank so much for joining ...


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Trayvon Martin's Parents Shocked by Verdict
Trayvon Martin's parents say they're still in shock and disbelief that jurors acquitted George Zimmerman in the 2012 shooting death of their 17-year-old son.
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Martin's parents made appearances on network morning news shows Thursday.
On NBC's "Today" show, Sybrina Fulton questioned whether jurors looked at the shooting from her son's point of view. She says the verdict failed Trayvon, a teenager who was scared.
Martin's father, Tracy Martin, says they believed the killer of their "unarmed child" was going to be convicted.
It's the first time they've spoken publically since the verdict was announced Saturday following a three-week trial in central Florida.
Zimmerman faced second-degree murder charges. Prosecutors accused Zimmerman, who identifies himself as Hispanic, of profiling Martin, who was black. Zimmerman claimed he shot Martin in self-defense.
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Well, this is just ridiculous! A lunch lady at a school in Sweden was actually reprimanded by administrators for serving food that was "too good."
At lunchtime, Annika Eriksson used to serve students freshly baked bread and an assortment of up to 15 vegetables. Sounds delicious, right? Apparently not! Eriksson came under fire by school officials because they said her meals are so yummy that it's "unfair" to other schools with less appetizing cafeteria food.
Now, they are ordering her to bring her meals down a notch in quality and cut down her menu in order to comply with the local healthy diet plan. What?! How does that make any sense?
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Eriksson, for her part, rebukes claims that she has "spoiled" students with her meals and says that her cooking expertise has not added to the expenses of the school. Meanwhile, parents and their hungry kids are obviously furious about the decision and have launched a petition in favor of Eriksson in protest.
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I can't say I blame them! Aren't European countries supposed to be ahead of America in terms of health and education? Why would the school take away nutritious food that kids actually like just to match the meals in other schools, which are apparently much worse? Do they not realize how hard it is to get kids to eat their vegetables and that the lunch lady was actually doing everybody a favor (especially the students!) by serving healthier and yummier meals? Instead of reprimanding Eriksson, administrators have been praising her and using her cooking as an example for other school cafeterias to follow.
Do you agree with the school district or with Eriksson?
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AMD Radeon R9 280X, R9 270X and R7 260X Review
The AMD Radeon R9 280X
Today marks the first step in an introduction of an entire AMD Radeon discrete graphics product stack revamp. Between now and the end of 2013, AMD will completely cycle out Radeon HD 7000 cards and replace them with a new branding scheme. The "HD" branding is on its way out and it makes sense. Consumers have moved on to UHD and WQXGA display standards; HD is no longer extraordinary.
But I want to be very clear and upfront with you: today is not the day that you'll learn about the new Hawaii GPU that AMD promised would dominate the performance per dollar metrics for enthusiasts. The Radeon R9 290X will be a little bit down the road. Instead, today's review will look at three other Radeon products: the R9 280X, the R9 270X and the R7 260X. None of these products are really "new", though, and instead must be considered rebrands or repositionings.
There are some changes to discuss with each of these products, including clock speeds and more importantly, pricing. Some are specific to a certain model, others are more universal (such as updated Eyefinity display support).
Let's start with the R9 280X.
AMD Radeon R9 280X – Tahiti aging gracefully
The AMD Radeon R9 280X is built from the exact same ASIC (chip) that powers the previous Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition with a few modest changes. The core clock speed of the R9 280X is actually a little bit lower at reference rates than the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition by about 50 MHz. The R9 280X GPU will hit a 1.0 GHz rate while the previous model was reaching 1.05 GHz; not much a change but an interesting decision to be made for sure.
Because of that speed difference the R9 280X has a lower peak compute capability of 4.1 TFLOPS compared to the 4.3 TFLOPS of the 7970 GHz. The memory clock speed is the same (6.0 Gbps) and the board power is the same, with a typical peak of 250 watts.
Everything else remains the same as you know it on the HD 7970 cards. There are 2048 stream processors in the Tahiti version of AMD's GCN (Graphics Core Next), 128 texture units and 32 ROPs all being pushed by a 384-bit GDDR5 memory bus running at 6.0 GHz. Yep, still with a 3GB frame buffer.
Continue reading our review of the AMD Radeon R9 280X, R9 270X and R7 260X!!!
The most important change for the R9 280X is price. Starting at $299 for reference clocked models this is essentially giving Tahiti a discount of $60-80 compared to prices from just last month. (BTW, you will likely find deals on Radeon HD 7000-series cards while inventory is cleared, so you might want to jump on them.) Let's also consider than the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition card launched in June 2012 with a price of $499, $200 higher than the cost for essentially the same product today.
Because we are basically looking at the same ASIC and board design for the R9 280X as with the HD 7970, board partners like ASUS are ready with custom designs out of the gate.
For our R9 280X testing AMD sent along an ASUS TOP model that comes overclocked out of the box at 1070 MHz core and 1600 MHz memory. Obviously for our testing today I turned down the clock speeds to match reference specifications but we'll spend more time with the ASUS model in an upcoming review.
The R9 280X requires a 6+8 power configuration and ASUS has made the decision to turn them around 180 degrees to keep the cooler shroud from interfering with installation or removal.
The output configuration is ideal with the ASUS R9 280X as well - with a pair of DL-DVI outputs, a full-size HDMI port and a full-size DisplayPort.
AMD Radeon R9 270X – Pitcairn to Curacao
The next card down the updated AMD Radeon products stack is the R9 270X and will hit a price point of $199. The analog card from the previous product stack is the Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition, otherwise known as the Pitcairn GPU. The reference card I received from AMD actually had a label on the back that indicated a new ASIC name of Curacao, though when prodded for an answer AMD finally admitted that it was in fact NOT a new chip at all. Oh well, take that for what you will.
The core clock speed of the R9 270X is 1.05 GHz (up to, thanks to Turbo clocks) which gives it a 50 MHz increase over the HD 7870 GHz Edition. As a result, the theoretical peak performance jumps a bit from 2.56 TFLOPS to 2.69 TFLOPS as does board power from 175 watts to 180 watts. The 256-bit memory bus is running at a noticeably higher speed though: up to 5.6 GHz from 4.8 GHz which should push memory bandwidth up to 179.2 GB/s.
But again, the other specifications remain the same. That means a 2.8 billion transistor 28nm chip with 1280 shader cores, 80 texture units and 32 ROPs. The memory bus is backed by 2GB of frame buffer by default but you can expect to see 4GB options for about $30 more.
I mentioned the price of $199 above, and while that is lower than the HD 7870 GHz Edition was selling for last month, it's not by much. A quick look at PC Part Picker showed several models selling for $215-225 in early September.
Our AMD Radeon R9 270X testing was done with a reference sample that keeps the rather nice black/red design theme shown off at the GPU14 tech day event and live stream last month.
The 270X only requires a 6+6 configuration for power.
AMD is definitely pushing this updated output configuration as the R9 270X reference card uses it as well.
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isn't it 512 bit for Memory interface (or something)??
That's the 290x which will be unveiled a little later on.
Has anyone not figured out that Bioshock uses more then 2 gigs of ram yet at ultra? Those performance hitches are the ram swapping constantly. I have gtx 670 sli 2gb and a single gtx 770 4gb in two different systems. The gtx 770 plays completely hitch free on ultra using over 2.4 gigs at times smooth as butter. I have to drop texture quality and ambient occlusion to even get close to the same smooth results with my gtx 670 sli even though framerate is almost doubled. Why nvidia is even bothering with 2gb on high end cards is beyond me.
Thanks for the tip - hopefully this is something NVIDIA can address sooner rather than later.
Yes, memory is becoming a bigger issue all the time. In my case Rome Total War II. The rendering of myriads of objects has gotten to the point where the game points out the graphic memory inadequacy of my 1.5GB board and degrades the battle rendering accordingly. A title like this would invalidate some of these tests.
The skip the skip the frame rating explanation link on page 5 takes you to the 7990 review.
Also the transistor count on the 7970 and the 280X is wrong is should be 4.3 billion not 2.8
Fixed this last night, thanks!
Also on the 3DMark page, last sentence...
"...it gets beat at the Normal preset by a $100 more expensive GPU."
LESS expensive??
any release date specified yet?
Looks like 10/11.
this will be my first crossfire build. i currently already have a FX8350 and a HD7870. i will not be able to buy a second 7870 for at least 4 months;
If newegg is not selling the 7870 anymore could i pickup a R9 270x and crossfire it to a 7870?
they are the same GPU or is it locked to the same generation of card?
Why not just buy another 7870? They're identical.
his question is related to the fact that 7870 may not be available by the time he has the money. discontinued basically.
I believe in the article Ryan says that you can CrossFire the different generations of cards. So the R7 270X will be compatible with the HD 7870.
thanks, after you said this i went and read the pages i did not read. i found it on page 3.
Noticed your value for money graphic doesn't have the 7970?
An opps we forgot moment or Amd are big advertisers and we will help them make this relaunch of old cards seem exciting.
Clearly people with older cards not in the know could well purchase these cards as an update, when they are not.
You should be shouting from the roof tops this is a con job of the highest order.
Having said that there is no doubt they are a value option in their respective segments and as such should stand alone on that point alone. Not Rehashed.
This comment is in memory of my 7990 which caught fire and died three days ago. (Yes I do mean caught fire, flames and all)
you didn't read the article. Ryan: "(BTW, you will likely find deals on Radeon HD 7000-series cards while inventory is cleared, so you might want to jump on them.)"
that is after clearly stating they are essentially the same card. with a different eyefinity setup.
Nvidia did the same thing: GTX760, GTX770 are not new.
but, at least you are accusing them of pay-offs from AMD, while most claim it's Nvidia.
Yeah, we must be dong something right if we are being accussed of pay offs from both sides hah!
Since you didn't answer the question then I take it the answer is yes?
As an AMD fan I was expecting too much from these new cards. It turns out that we have nothing new and I would have to wait for Nvidia hopping that they will do something better. Disappointed....
A true AMD fan would know these are refreshed cards. Nothing new has come out as of yet.
Dayum, step up your fanboyism.
A true AMD fan is expecting more from his favorite company. If not better hardware at least a price war. Nothing happened. Now Nvidia is lowering the prices of Ti boost and 660. Instead of AMD being on the offensive you have Nvidia doing that. I guess AMD can not give fast HD7000 cards at lower prices than.... yesterday AND Mantle together to the PC user. It will be a disaster for Sony AND Microsoft in the end a disaster for AMD.
The R9 280X is competing with the 770 and is 100$ cheaper. The 270X is competing with a card that costs 50$. Were you expecting them for free maybe?
R9 280X is the same as 7970, 270X is the same as 7870, 260X is the same+audio as the 7790 and the smaller cards are worst than 7770/7750/7730.
Also this is 2013, not 2012.
If you like buying last year's cards with new names at the same prices they where yesterday, well, it's your money, no problem for me.
again, Ryan stated that the 280X is lower in price than the 7970 Ghz edition it replaces, compared to last months pricing.
it's like you guys just want to hate, fuck reading
I am not talking about 280X only, but you are write, F%^& reading just go and find hate in a post that you don't approve.
understood, the 280X was an example. the article lays out, how and what, they match up to (280X, 270X, 260X) from the previous cards (7970...etc.)
the article is clear that these are rebrands and that the 290X is the real card we are waiting on.
hence, RTFA
PS. Like the photo spread of the cards....size and shots.
Very good work.
I am looking at those slides from AMD comparing R9 and R7 to HD5000 and HD6000 for 10 minutes and I try to understand what the hell is going on here? Was HD7000 never existed or is AMD feeling that it's customers have the memory of a goldfish and no brain at all?
This 290(x) better not be stillborn, I really want some top-end competition.
Something odd about these prices, if the 280X is around $300 and the 290X is according to rumours around $600-700 what will fill the large gap? Could there be a 290X cutdown chip on the horizon?
I'll bet the 290X come in at $500-550. no way they price it equal to higher than the GTX780.
unless, they are retarded.
That is my concern as well. A huge price gap between the 280X and 290 series would leave a gap in product stack that NVIDIA could go after.
Did they really lower the price when you don't get 3-4 AAA games now? NV cards still come with Batman Arkham Origins (AAA surely and not even out yet) and a few with Rise of the Triad also (evga's come with both).
Not to mention only a fool buys stock when you can get 3 cards on newegg that are 100mhz faster for $249, and for $259 you can get the Zotac that is 140mhz faster and has memory OC'd 200mhz too over what you're testing here. So basically add another 12% to your scores and remember 1 or 2 free games vs 0. When I can get an OC card that is the same price as a company's set price I call that the new ref card :) You wouldn't buy a ref clocked card for the same price would you? $249 is the cheapest.
Evga, MSI, Gigabyte ($249) and Zotac at $259 at newegg, all are over 100mhz faster. Who buys these ref clocked cards? Newegg displays the speeds for everyone to see on one page. I'm surprise anyone can sell a ref clocked card. Zotac's is 1111/1176 as opposed to your tested 980/1033 probably.
At the same time, I suspect most card makers will clock 280x the same as ghz editions anyway. Having said that, people should just buy OC'd 7970's and take the games if they want AMD. But I don't think the situation is quite as bad as said here considering the games and price for an OC 760 card out of the box (many brands). NV will just adjust prices, uplock a model or two and drop everything else down in a few weeks (before black friday no doubt). They have profits they can take a dip on, AMD cutting just means break even or losses yet again. AMD on the other hand owes $200mil note to GF in Dec which will likely wipe out any profits from these cards and xmas console sales. I hope for their sake, Hawaii is phenomenal.
There are rumors of a "R9 290" but I haven't read much on the rumors except the name.
Hrm, good to see that the 280x is at least on par with the GTX 770. But doesn't seem like i need to upgrade from my GTX 680 yet.
after 2 years we receive the same cards again. what a yawn fest.
Do you think that vendors will continue selling the "soon to be forgotten about" cards such as the 7950? I don't see any mention of the cards in between the cards "released" with this new series.
They will continue to sell them as long as they last but I think the HD 7000 series is soon going to MIA and EOL.
I'm wondering why they would release they're slower-rehashed cards first and sit on the 290X/290. With the big games coming soon you would think they would be pushing them as much as possible now as the green team has nothing to counter. I hope I'm wrong but maybe AMDs upcoming flagship won't compete directly with Nvidia's existing top end chips, hmm, but that has to be wrong right. It's got to be more powerful then the GTX 780, we hope for the sake of the consumer anyway. I guess AMD could be waiting to see what Nvidia is going to do about these new parts. Let's play the waiting game again! Anyone know when we'll have (exciting) news or release dates on new AMD top end card(s)?
Since the article mentions that the video outputs of the 280x have changed to similar to the 700 nvidia series,can a 280x do 120hz eyefinity with the use of only one dual link display port to dvi adapter -or is it the same like the 7970 which required 2 adapters-?
Interesting question, I'll check!
Except for the 290X these cards are very underwhelming. I was really hoping for something different instead of more 7000 cards.
It's amazing 2 years later they still can't get multi gpu configurations right but they can re release old hardware as new. None of the offerings can compete with sli 670s or higher. Gtx 700 series may not be quite the new but they directly replaced their elders with price while boosting performance. What good is releasing new cards with crossfire capabilities when it still doesn't work.
What good is eyefinity when no amd card has enough power to play newer games at that resolution and multi gpu just plain don't work correctly at any resolution. I always bought amd cards since it was ati when 3dfx folded. I always believed they were the better value but their has been trash support the past years and to believe they just recently acknowledged crossfire to be a problem is beyond me. So glad I spent saved a few extra and went with the company who provides real support and real fixes for their problems. Scary to think amd is leading us into a new console generation with sub-par gpus. Eeek
To be fair AMD has addressed frame pacing CrossFire issues on single monitor (2560x1600 and under) configurations since August 1st. It's not perfect yet, but it's much better than it was.
I don't supposed they mentioned anything about Crossfire + Eyefinity working correctly this time around?
I do mention that in the story. CF + EF still isn't fixed on these cards yet.
Ryan, your next article should just be blank with instructions
to fill out the information as we please. That way we can all be satisfied we are glorious opinions.
ugh, pre-order sites have it at $650-729.
this is not good. hope they are wrong
Great Review and Video Showcase Ryan. That Asus 280x looks amazing. The price /performance of the 7970, I mean the 280X makes it even better as Im looking to upgrade from my 1gb 7850 to play Battlefield 3 at Ultra at 1080p, which is essentially the only game I play. Bf4 beta isnt to kind to it(7850) either, hopefully I will upgrade son.
Anyhow, keep up the great work, waiting anxiously for the Juggernaut 290X and 290 review!
I don't understand what all the hate with these cards is about. If you are someone that is coming from say a card 3 gens ago then this is a good deal. The price is 300 for a card that can max out any game right now at 1080p and even at 1440p depending on the game.if your not going to buy it then just Waite for the 290x which is expecting to be 600. Not everyone has that type of money
Agree 100%.
i heard the r9 280x can be crossfired with the 7970
is it true?
I wish AMD would get there shit to together and fix their drivers before bring out a new card I am very disappointed with AMD having said that I do like the way the new cards look.
does msi r9 280 include mantle?
The wait is over. Right now there is a 7770 in my system.
And i was waiting for the new chips so the 7970 would drop in price.
I dont mind that it is called a 280x now.
Finaly my rig is complete, high end cpu, SSD and now a good GPU.
(lol a complete rig.. that does not exist..)
I always find it strange how close these cards are. I find it hard to believe that this by chance. Clearly AMD and Nvidia are working together, at least at some levels, to ensure maximum profit. There is no competition here.
I think you are right.
But when the prices are to high for to long there will come a thirth party.
Maybe Intel wil come in a few years with good parallel processors.
Who knows
No Hawaii...false advertising by AMD...BOO !
Ryan has my dream job.
Mantle is a diversion for their not fixing their frame rating issues.
Believe or not I don't play any games, however, I do a lot of animation, which is best NVIDIA OR AMD, I can't find an answer anywhere? Do you know. Thanks Steve
I understand you put work into this, But why did you have to use graphs like that to show FPS, Many people are just going to search for other reviews that show simple numbers instead of having to strain their eyes following a stupid line just to learn a cards performance. C'mon man!


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