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Andrew Dixon necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 40 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
MSO.net was founded 1997, initially delivering innovative web design combined with advanced technical skills, the Company has since evolved into a full service web agency.
CMS Users which includes all sorts of users from novice to expert users.
The existing CMS we have is functionally good however the design a old and looking it's age. The CMS is split into multiple different functional section with the initial screen after login being a "dashboard" of thing for that users, like pages into progress, pages submitted for editing, pages submitted for publishing, requests (e.g. from an editor for new pages or to re-work existing pages), etc...
The main functional sections in the CMS are the Page Manager, Asset Manager, Shop Manager, etc... There are currently 16 main sections and some of these have sub options, however I think this should be grouped into categories of similar functions, so it might require three level navigation (groups, sections, sub items). Most of the sections in the CMS have a folder tree on the left side and a list of items right side. Once an item has been selected to be edited the area is replaced with the appropriate page to edit the item.
The navigation should be easy to understand, very clear and the use of icons would be a plus.
We will require a design for the initial "dashboard" page and a second level page (showing the folder tree).
Like the styling of Apple Mac OS X and Google Analytics.
Designer should be available for ongoing minor changes/updates.
Design to fit 1024 wide screen.
Don't want complex designs with overuse of colours, 3D effects, gradients, etc... Less is more


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Sunrise on Table Rock
Linnville Gorge, NC
Sunrise behind Hawksbill
Secret Cascade
Small falls on Dugger's Creek in North Carolina
Desert Sunset
Chloride, Arizona
Clouds Rising
Photo Tip: Watch for patterns. The clouds seem to build at the tip of the Nicoya Peninsula at the same time each day. As I drank my morning coffee each day I would set up my camera and wait for the light to be just right. The more you know about your subject, the easier it is to be in the right place at the right time to get the shot.
Grand Tetons
Landscape photography is not just for wide-angle lenses. This view of Grand Teton was made possible by the LUMIX 100-300mm lens.
Secret Ceremony
A waterfall surrounded by unexpected stacked stones in North Georgia
Falls along the Raven Cliffs trail
North Georgia
Lake Winfield Scott Recreation Area
Suches, GA
Cascades. BlueRidge Parkway, NC
Taken during the 2012 Blueridge Photo Fest in Boone, NC. OLYMPUS OM-D E-M5

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For product availability and prices call us at 703-941-5042 or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com
DMI Office Furniture - where an office is more than a place to work. It's the womb that nurtures ideas, eases communication, and furthers generations. An office is more than a desk and credenza. It exudes our lifestyles, our work ethic and for many of us, it is our harbor in the fast-paced world of profitability and shareholder equity.
The DMi Collection Portfolio is a true showcase of Traditional, Transitional, and Contemporary office furniture . Each piece of furniture is quality inspected and re-inspected before shipping. Even the finishes are hand applied for a consistent appearance. Beyond the doors and drawers of the offices in these portfolios are technology supportive cabinets, pull-out shelves, cubbies, full office armoires, abundant storage units, and full extension filing with strong steel suspensions.


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India's Answer to Google Glass: The Smartshoe
While they can't buy Google Glass in India yet, Indians will be the first in the world to get access to what could be the next big thing in wearable technology: the smart shoe.
Indian startup Ducere Technologies Pvt. is going to start selling its Bluetooth enabled Lechal shoes for more than $100 a pair in September. The shoes sync up with a smartphone app that uses Google maps and vibrate to tell users when and where to turn to reach their destination.
Just tell your phone where you want to go and then you can leave it in your pocket because the buzzing in your left or right shoe will lead the way.


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hireness necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 150 diseños de 41 diseñadores freelance.
ThinGrins.com **(see attached logo)
ThinGrins.com is a service where users can upload photos and we process the images to make people look thinner. We are a start-up based out of New York City. We are using this site after success with our logo competition and are excited by the amount of creativity we see in designers at this site.
*important* We are really looking for a winning designer who we can trust for near-term future work and we will be making offers at the conclusion of the contest. We are seeking someone who is artistic and can help us determine the layout of a page and can contribute ideas about how to enhance the user experience. Coding is not a strict requirement, but general knowledge of the process is helpful.
Age: 45+ with novice to moderate abilities in using the internet.
Design our landing page (No Coding Required)
• Grab user's attention
• Explain ThinGrins.com service and value proposition within one glance.
• Encourage users to upload their photos or browse ThinGrins content
Design Overview
For our landing page we are seeking clean, uncluttered and simple design. I am very interested in hand drawn elements which help the user feel a closer connection to the site. Also, beyond simplicity we also like BIG FONTS and collage design style. Lastly, take cues from our logo (see attached), since it captures our site's fun loving spirit.
*****Please see attachment "Design Guidelines" for landing page wireframe*****
A couple sites we like:
• http://rediswhite.com/
• http://pasqualedsilva.com/
• http://www.freepeople.com/
• http://artgeex.com/v6/
• http://summer.tnvacation.com/
See attachment. We have two logos to chose from use whichever you feel like.
Please reach out to me with any questions. I will do my best to check the site often throughout the day and give as much feedback as possible.


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If you're a Mac user who's on Twitter, you're in luck. There are a slew of great, native Twitter clients for the Macintosh, not the least of which is offered by Twitter itself.
Windows users, however, don't fare as well. For some reason, there aren't as many elegantly designed, feature-rich Twitter clients for the largest personal computing platform.
Sure, there's TweetDeck, which Twitter just bought, but it's not a native Windows client, running instead on the Adobe AIR platform. There's also Seesmic Desktop, which is fine but for some reason leaves me cold. And, for those who want Twitter to look like Outlook 2003, there's Shared Minds Desktop.
But if you're looking for something more visually interesting for Windows, you might want to try MetroTwit, a Twitter client being developed by programmers in Australia. Among them is Long Zheng, who writes the popular I Started Something Windows blog. While it's still very much in beta, and lacks some key features, for my money it's the most promising Windows Twitter client on the horizon.
The software draws its name from Metro, the design language used by Microsoft for the Zune, Windows Phone 7 and soon Windows 8 interfaces. In fact, MetroTwit is a great way to get an early feel for how native Windows 8 applications may work.
Like TweetDeck, MetroTwit is a multicolumn Twitter client, showing your timeline, mentions/replies, direct messages and more on one screen.
As you can see, the layout is clean and very easy to read, with larger fonts and and black-on-white text. Hovering your mouse over any individual tweet brings up buttons for Reply, Retweet or Direct Messaging. You can get more actions by right-clicking on any tweet – including the ability to block users and report spam.
You get message unread message counters next to the column headings, and an aggregate counter for in the Windows Taskbar button for MetroTwit. The tweet composition window is always visible at the bottom, along with buttons for adding a new column, viewing your lists, refreshing the feed, searching, finding a user and checking Twitter trends.
Click the Add Column button lets you set up new columns for searches, specific users, favorited tweets and others. When the number of columns exceeds your screen width, you can scroll sideways to see other selections. Clicking the List button brings up the lists you've created or subscribed to in an overlay.
MetroTwit lets you view conversations between users and posted media with a similar overlay.
MetroTwit allows you to customize the look. You can change to a dark theme, with white-text-on-black, and change the header color.
The software supports link-shortening services – including bit.ly's API key feature, which provides you with statistics about how many people click on the links you push to Twitter – as well as photo sharing through Twitpic or Yfrog. It supports TwitLonger for those who simply can't stand having only 140 characters to tell their tale. And while it doesn't directly provide a filtering feature, it does plug into Proxlet's service for filtering annoying clients and users.
As I mentioned, MetroTwit is in beta, and it still isn't as feature rich as some of the Mac clients, or competitors like TweetDeck. There are two major feature omissions, but Zheng and his group say they're coming. For now, MetroTwit doesn't allow you to work with more than one Twitter account at a time. And MetroTwit doesn't use Twitter's real-time stream API – it still pulls updates at certain intervals, which means you could end up hitting Twitter's rate limits.
But overall, this has become my favorite Windows Twitter client, and I use it unless I need to access some of my other Twitter accounts. If you're a Windows user on Twitter, you should give it a try.
Note that while MetroTwit works on all modern versions of Windows, it does require that you download the latest version of Microsoft .NET 4.0 and Windows Presentation Foundation 4. You'll be prompted to install them if they are not present on your machine.
Update: Long Zheng just sent me an early copy of a version of MetroTwit that has live streaming of Twitter's timeline, and said it should be released "by the end of the week". This version also reduces the color in the header to a thin strip at the top, making the app's layout look even cleaner.


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Gatorade annually recognize some of the best and brightest in Illinois by naming Gatorade Players of the Year in 12 sports, including Football, Girls Volleyball, Boys & Girls Cross Country, Boys & Girls Basketball, Boys & Girls Soccer, Baseball, Softball and Boys & Girls Track & Field.
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MCHENRY, Ill., March 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A mother's breastfeeding journey can be a rewarding, though often tenuous, experience. To honor those who help moms successfully nurse and reach their breastfeeding goals, Medela is calling for nomination
MCHENRY, Ill., March 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A mother's breastfeeding journey can be a rewarding, though often tenuous, experience. To honor those who help moms successfully nurse and reach their breastfeeding goals, Medela is calling for nominations for its Breastfeeding Hall of Excellence program. Those eligible for recognition include lactation consultants, professionals and community advocates, including those in social media who advance breastfeeding. Inductees will be awarded grants to support breastfeeding-related research, education and charities. The Breastfeeding Hall of Excellence is part of Medela's efforts to support breastfeeding, increase initiation and duration of breastfeeding and improve the health of women and infants.
The World Health Organization and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of an infant's life, with continued breastfeeding along with appropriate introduction of foods up to one to two years and beyond. The experts recommend it, and statistics show that women want to breastfeed. Yet, for many reasons most breastfeeding moms don't reach their breastfeeding goals. In the United States about 76.9 percent of mothers will initiate breastfeeding, but only 25.5 percent will be breastfeeding at 12 months,(i) the American Academy of Pediatrics' recommended minimum duration.(ii)
"Support from the community is so critical to moms who are trying to breastfeed," said Carolin Archibald, president of Medela, Inc. "Our nation needs to support leaders who are helping moms successfully nurse and reach their breastfeeding goals. Our hope is that recognizing advocates and other supporters will help raise awareness of the importance of breastfeeding and of the individuals who dedicate their lives to improving the health of women and infants in the United States."
Those inducted into the Breastfeeding Hall of Excellence each will be awarded a $5,000 grant to fund research, sponsor continuing education, purchase equipment for use in their practice (if applicable) or donate to the breastfeeding charity of their choice.
Call for Nominations Opens March 26
Nominations will be accepted online March 26 - April 30, 2013. Full program guidelines and nomination forms can be found at www.breastfeedinghallofexcellence.com. Nominees may now be eligible in one of three categories:
-- Community Breastfeeding Advocate: The community advocate is someone who
works either locally, regionally or nationally to support breastfeeding.
In their professional position, however, the advocate does not draw
income from breastfeeding support or supplies. Community advocates can
also include bloggers who are dedicated to supporting breastfeeding by
sharing related news and education, and by leading discussions.
-- Professional Breastfeeding Advocate: The professional breastfeeding
advocate is not a board-certified lactation consultant; however, they
fully support breastfeeding in their professional position. Examples may
include WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counselors, RNs and MDs.
-- Lactation Consultant (LC): A nominee in this category must be practicing
and licensed by the International Board of Certified Lactation
Consultants (IBCLC) in the United States.
Inductees are chosen by an independent judging panel comprised of respected lactation consultants and professional and community breastfeeding advocates. The panel is solely responsible for judging entries and selecting the program inductees.
About Medela
Medela provides the most technologically advanced, superior-quality breastpumps and breastfeeding accessories to nursing mothers around the world. A longtime champion of breastfeeding, Medela is the only company to develop products based on research by the world's leading lactation experts. As a result, Medela's breastpumps are the number one choice of healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities worldwide, including more than 80 percent of U.S. hospitals.
Medela has developed an extensive line of products to meet the diverse needs of nursing mothers. These products include hospital-grade, double and single electric and manual breastpumps; breastfeeding accessories such as pump cleaning products, breast care products and specialty feeding devices; and maternity and nursing intimate apparel.
Founded in 1961 by Olle Larsson in Zug, Switzerland, Medela continues to grow under the ownership of the Larsson family. Medela serves customers through a worldwide network of distribution partners in more than 90 countries and its 15 subsidiaries in the United States, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, Germany, Sweden, France, Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg), Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, China, Poland and Spain. The company entered the United States more than 30 years ago; its U.S. headquarters are located in McHenry, Illinois. www.medela.com
(i) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Breastfeeding Report Card--United States, 2012. Accessed January 29, 2013. http://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/pdf/2012BreastfeedingReportCard.pdf (ii) American Academy of Pediatrics, Policy Statement: Breastfeeding and the Use of Human Milk. Accessed January 29, 2013. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/129/3/e827.full
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The town of Richmond is located in Walworth County, Wisconsin. The population is slightly less than 2,000 and the area contains the communities of Lake Lorraine, Richmond, and Turtle Lake. Richmond is not far from Janesville and the Illinois border.Learn More
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Full Speed Ahead for Coal Train Opposition
A broad coalition has mobilized against a massive scheme to export coal from Montana to Asian markets through Pacific Northwest ports. Six export terminals proposed for Northwest sites could, collectively, ship up to 150 million tons of coal a year.
The Obama administration has opened vast new tracts of public land in the Powder River Basin to coal mining, at lease rates far below market value and even further below the true cost of the coal. Coal giants including Peabody and Arch are behind the coal export proposals, with the backing of Goldman-Sachs and other Wall Street partners.
But opposition is widespread. The organizers of the Power Past Coal campaign have been running full speed to keep up with the groundswell of local resistance, from the coal fields of Montana, to communities along the train route, to coastal towns in Washington and Oregon where giant export terminals are proposed.
More than 170 physicians in Whatcom County, Wash., joined "Whatcom Docs" to oppose the proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal where coal would be shipped via the port city of Bellingham. "We believe that the health impacts would be substantial, including increased rates of many diseases and increased death rates directly attributable to this project," said Frank James, a family physician and public health officer.
The coal industry argues that jobs would be created as a result of coal exports, but opponents point to hidden costs and loss of quality of life. The Western Organization of Resource Councils' report Heavy Traffic Ahead forecasts substantial impacts to communities across the region, including billions of dollars in public funding to upgrade infrastructure and mitigate congestion.
Is There Another Way?
The oil-dependent economy Romney supports is a step toward a less stable, more costly future. Renewables and energy efficiency offer real hope.
Power generation from coal, the biggest source of human-caused CO2 emissions, dropped by 19 percent in the United States last year, thanks to the growth of clean energy sources and successful campaigns to reduce coal use. But enormous new investments in coal-burning infrastructure in Asia threaten to send humanity sailing over the cliff of dangerous climate disruption. The International Energy Agency warns that without a dramatic shift in energy infrastructure investment, we will "lose forever" the chance to avoid catastrophic climate disruption.
The coal export battle is a crossroads for the Northwest. Will the region stay its course toward clean energy, sustainable development, and healthy communities, or become a global trafficking hub for the most dangerous fossil fuel?
Find Power Past Coal at powerpastcoal.org.
Bill McKibben used to think that lack of action to stabilize the climate came from widespread apathy, denial, or comfort with the status quo. Here's what made him change his mind.
Occupiers, Tea Partiers, landowners, and environmentalists are challenging construction of the Keystone XL pipeline's Gulf Coast segment—together.
College students across the country are working to eject coal from their campuses and their communities.


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|The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the global international organization developing rules of trade between nations. The WTO agreements are a collection of agreements, negotiated in rounds, and signed by countries involved in international trade. The predecessor agreement to the WTO is the 1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). This section includes the texts of the agreements plus web sites and research guides to assist in study and analysis.
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Call ahead for road conditions. Dial 5-1-1 from your home or cellular phone for the latest mountain pass and major highway conditions statewide.
The winter season and the challenges that nature presents are a part of life in the Inland Northwest. The Maintenance team at the Washington State Department of Transportation/Eastern Region meets that challenge with staff and equipment in an effort to keep the area state highways open and as safe as possible. However, the most important snow and ice safety component is you. You have the responsibility to take extra care during the winter months. Slow down, don't follow too closely, anticipate stops, give yourself extra time, and be prepared for adverse driving conditions.
Snow and ice control efforts are a balancing act between the forces of nature, available staff, and equipment. All of this costs money. Snow and ice control is the largest expense in the annual Region Maintenance budget. To make the most efficient and economical use of our resources, the Department has prioritized all state highway sections and assigned a level of service goal. Of course, achieving these goals is very dependent on the severity of the winter weather. Highway sections have been ranked using traffic volumes, number of steep grades, curves, and other criteria in order to determine the snow and ice control strategy noted in the chart below and the corresponding map.
In the chart below the number 1 items are done prior to the weather event. Item 2 is done during the weather event, and item 3 is after the weather event. View printable version of the chart below (pdf 1.8 mb) View printable version of the map below (pdf 1.8 mb)
The Winter Treatment Level Map above shows the level of service for Eastern Region roadways. Purple is Level 1, Blue is Level 2, Green is Level 3, and Orange is Level 4. There are no level 5 roadways (seasonal closure) in the Eastern Region.
In past years, the primary winter traction aid used on state highways was sand. Now, liquid chemicals have become an important component in the snow and ice control program. In addition, rock salt and salt brine have returned as a tool for highway maintenance crews. All of these products have advantages and disadvantages, but the safety aspect of these chemicals cannot be overlooked.
Sand The Department is using less traction sand than it did in the past. Although sand is still used it has several disadvantages: Sand cannot be applied to a dry highway in anticipation of a storm-it just blows off as a result of vehicle traffic. Sand is pulverized into dust, and during warmer weather creates pollution concerns in many communities. The abrasive qualities of sand act like sandpaper and can remove highway paint markings, plus the flying sand particles can damage vehicle paint and glass.
Liquid Chemicals Over the past few years, the Department has used liquid anti-icing chemicals in its snow and ice control program. Liquid chemicals such as magnesium chloride are used prior to storm events to keep snow from bonding to the roadway, as a de-icing chemical to melt snow and ice after it has fallen, and as a pre-wetting agent to help keep sand from blowing off the roadway. A disadvantage of these liquid chemicals is the possibility of corrosion on some metals. Although less corrosive than salt, magnesium chloride, like any snow melting chemical, can corrode some metals if left on vehicles for extended periods.
Salt The WSDOT also uses salt and liquid salt brine in its snow and ice program. The advantage of salt is its cost and snow melting capabilities. Of course, salt can cause corrosion in some metals.
Protect your investment-wash your car or truck frequently in the winter Either salt or magnesium chloride, if left on unprotected metal, can cause some damage to vehicles. As a precaution, it's good advice to wash your car during the winter months. Many commercial or self-serve car washes are located in our region. Sometimes, during warmer days, it's possible to wash your vehicles at home.
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ELLIS — Thanks to the success of last year's TJ's Memorial Youth Deer Hunt, Hunting Heritage Group and the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) will host the 5th Annual TJ's Memorial Youth Deer Hunt during the special youth and disabled hunting season. This year, the hunt will be held Sept. 10-11. Hunters will hunt from a blind with an experienced guide/mentor on private land that adjoins Cedar Bluff Wildlife Area, in Trego County. Two young hunters will hunt in specially-designated areas on Cedar Bluff Wildlife Area.
The first morning will consist of classroom instruction along with a trip to the range to sight in rifles. Once rifles are sighted in and everyone has had lunch, guides and youth hunters will go afield. All hunters will return to the meeting area that evening. Those youth who are unsuccessful that day will be invited to hunt the following day.
Youth participants for this hunt must be residents of Kansas ages 10 through 16. In addition, candidates for the hunt must complete and submit an application form by August 13. Application forms may be obtained at the KDWPT website, www.kdwpt.state.ks.us (type "TJ's" in the search box) or by contacting Natural Resource Officer II Jason Hawman at 785-743-2942. There is no charge for the hunt.
Special hunts like this are part of the Kansas Hunter Recruitment and Retention Program called "PASS IT ON." This program addresses the need to recruit new hunters and retain existing hunters in order to ensure the future of hunting in Kansas.


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Mon E.G. "The Ghostwriter's" street classic video "Chevy Anthem Remix f/ Yo Gotti and Rick Ross". This video was shot on location in Mon E.G.'s hood southside Kansas City, MO.
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chaaa necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 125 diseños de 30 diseñadores freelance.
need catchy, fun, attractive, modern logo for website launching in a few months
Mona Lisa Style
Mona Lisa Style is an interactive, user-friendly website for wholesale fashion buyers to optimize and visually sort their seasonal merchandise assortments. Mona Lisa Style also indirectly allows designers to showcase their designs and increase their channels of distribution.
1. Something creative, smart, not corporate looking
2. Catchy logo that can be branded
3. Logo that is modern but not too trendy - logo must have shelf life
4. Something original - can be abstract
5. Think of the following words whole making the logo: architect (buyers are building their assortments), grab, pick, choose, facet, portal, connect, unbiased, service oriented, easy to use, friendly to navigate
6. I will need the vector format of the logo afterwards
7. Something TASTEFUL. I have good taste, and I hope you do too.
**Please spend some time and thought on it, I can tell if you didn't. This is the branding of my company, please don't insult me.
1. Anything that looks corporate
2. Any cheesy "fashion" looking icons or graphics
3. Any graphics you have seen somewhere else
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REDWOOD CITY — Milo Imrie of Richmond was a Marine in Afghanistan during a recent deployment when he walked past something he thought looked suspicious. Moments later a colleague stepped on the device — it was an explosive — and was killed, his attorney said.
That incident sowed the seeds for a violent confrontation with Sheriff's deputies in Woodside that now has prosecutors seeking to increase his $25,000 bail, defense attorney Geoff Carr said Tuesday.
Imrie, 23, is due back in San Mateo County Superior Court on Wednesday.
Prosecutors said the trouble started Dec. 12 when Imrie was at his 22-year-old cousin's house in Woodside and allegedly threatened to douse himself and the cousin with gasoline and then spark a fire. He also threatened to use a knife, officials said.
The cousin yanked the gas can away from Imrie and then grabbed some kitchen knives and tossed them onto the roof, prosecutors said. But when the cousin's back was turned, Imrie allegedly clubbed him with a shovel.
Both men ran away and deputies later shocked Imrie with a Taser and arrested him, authorities said. One deputy noted he had a "thousand yard stare."
Imrie now faces one felony count each of assault with a deadly weapon and resisting arrest, which stems from an attempt to snatch a handgun from one of the deputies, prosecutors said. He remains behind bars.
After reading the police reports and visiting his client in jail, Carr said he immediately knew the source of the trouble.
"It's classic post-traumatic stress disorder," said Carr, a Vietnam War veteran.
Carr has since learned that Imrie was deployed in Afghanistan recently and was on patrol when he walked past something that caught his eye. Imrie was part of a unit that disarmed improvised explosive devices. He made a split-second decision not to check out his hunch and moments later an Afghan interpreter stepped on the device, setting off an explosive that killed him.
"It's about guilt," Carr said. "Just for having thought about it, he blames himself."
Imrie's been back in the United States for at least a year and things have not been going well, Carr said. He was in school, but that was not working out. He'd been drinking too much and had sought counseling from Veterans Affairs. But what finally sent him over the edge is unclear, Carr said.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Karen Guidotti said her office is aware of Imrie's claim that he has mental health issues, but added he faces hefty charges.
"Unfortunately there is some serious violence here that needs to be addressed," she said.
Contact Joshua Melvin at 650-348-4335. Follow him at Twitter.com/melvinreport.


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I have been away from the free speech fight against Islamic supremacy and jihad.
But I back I need a little help finding a file about Taqiyya written under the paris2000 or some such name.
It was very good about four pages long If you can help locate it I would be very grateful thanks


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Liberty News
International students hone English language skills
Liberty University's English Language Institute (ELI) has a new home at the Lynchburg Inn and Conference Center. The move to the nearby hotel is advantageous for the program since 90 international students are being housed there this fall.
ELI offers an intensive program in English language studies that helps international students face the challenges of living and learning in an unfamiliar language and climate. The courses give them an opportunity to practice and to learn how to communicate skillfully in English. There are currently 85 students in the program.
Liberty began leasing the hotel, formerly a Ramada Inn, in June and is housing 280 students in 147 dorm-style hotel rooms. The hotel is also serving as an educational center for the Liberty's growing Distance Learning Program.
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Watch an exclusive excerpt from Marie Losier's film portrait of Genesis P-Orridge and his late wife, Lady Jaye
The Ballad Of Genesis And Lady Jaye follows the story of Genesis's childhood, through his time with Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, to his pandrogyne marriage/fusion with Lady Jaye and eventual widowing. In this excerpt, Genesis tells the story of the beginnings of Industrial music.
The Ballad Of Genesis And Lady Jaye is reviewed by Matmos's Drew Daniel in The Wire 326 and will have its UK premiere during Sheffield Doc/Fest, June 8–12, 2011.


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« In Which Fairfield Porter Makes Us Proud »
The Great Spruce
by ALEX CARNEVALE
Use your ego as much as possible for creative efforts because though love is mostly ego, much more than it is sex, right now you are frustrated egotistically in the love direction, so you have to find some substitute. It will not make you any happier, for sublimation is not possible, but it will count in the future.
- Fairfield Porter, letter to Larry Rivers
This summer, the Michael Rosenfeld gallery exhibited a few of Fairfield Porter's paintings of places surrounding his family's summer home in Great Spruce Head, Maine. It was a little underwhelming. For I have always thought that beneath Porter's ostensibly placid paintings lurks something more, evidence of his greatness in the form, if you know the right places to look. Although literature is often easy to enjoy without knowledge of its author, visual art is a different story, and Porter lived passionately in an interesting time and place.
The Roofs of Cambridge, 1927
He was born to a great American family in 1907. Despite the fact that half of Harvard was related to him by blood, Porter ignored his studies during his years there. He resented the introductory art class that allowed him to move on in the field, complaining to his mother that the course "was all theory about colors and so forth and we do silly little painting exercises like making circles of gray, red and blue, etc, varying in value and intensity. And I had to buy $16 worth of apparatus for even that."
with his mother in 1910
That he was failed by our country's educational system doesn't make Porter an iconoclast. Most genuises do terribly in American schools, no matter their background. Nevertheless, he continued his art history education, and near the end of his time at the school decided to become a painter.
Later he reflected on that decision, saying, "When I decided to study art, art was considered of peripheral importance; the artist or poet was thought to be outside of the mainstream of life. I remember a neighbor whom I respected very much, who was disturbed by my decision, and told me so. This man was a businessman, and at the same time an inventor and a poet. He told me that his first reaction to anyone's wanting to be an artist was the thought that this meant deciding in favor of triviality. Then he thought of the Vatican Torso, the piece of antique sculpture which Michelangelo said was his master. Triviality meant to him decorative objects."
After school, Porter immediately went to Greenwich Village. He met many influential figures in the art world, but soon grew tired of so many poseurs. Coming from a distinguished, upper-class family, he had no need to limit himself to pretending that's all he was. Fairfield was also shy. The woman who was to become his wife described first meeting her future husband:
I liked him. He was very simple and direct. Very unaffected. Most Harvard boys talked about how many beers they could hold; Fairfield and I talked about Dostoyevsky. I remember he had a penknife and he was using it on the table, working at it, trying to make the table fall apart. I remember I got on the other end to see if I could do the same. Not to be destructive, just to see if it was possible to make the picnic table fall apart.
Anne Channing also came to be disgusted by higher education, in her case, life at Bryn Mawr. She transferred to Radcliffe and finished her studies there near her parents' Wareham home.
Meanwhile, Fairfield explored the edges of his sexuality on an extended trip through Europe. He always considered himself bisexual, and many of his later friends would be homosexual poets. His first emotional love relationship with a man was with the athletic, fit Oxford student Arthur Giardelli. Much later, he wrote Giardelli reflecting on their time together in Florence:
I think of you very often. You meant a great deal to me, and it means much to me that you remember and write. I don't think that I will write more now. I would like to, but I have lost the sense of who and what you are, and any letter in such a case is like a message in a bottle. You get it - but who are you - now - and did I ever know who you were? Does one ever know another person?
And the doubt must be greater when there is such an inarticulate intimacy as we had; we were shy with each other. I think our importance to each other came from something each of us had to give in the way of support that the other needed and had not really found before. For instance I, as an American, had no interest whatsoever in the social concerns you could not avoid as a poor boy, a scholarship student at Oxford, where as you told me your grandparents' humble origin would have made a curiosity of you if your friends knew it. And what you gave me was something equal and opposite; if you had been an American I would have been afraid of you and considered you beyond me because of your good looks and ordinary athletic abilities. I hadn't such a friend as you at home; but suddenly I had one in Florence, the unattainable became simple. For this I am always grateful. These things count, I hope you know, and I hope what I say will not seem strange to you. I loved you, and I think you loved me.
For Porter to write of this experience endured in his youth again in 1957, says that a part of him never really changed. And, indeed, Porter's combination of callousness and concern for others lasted throughout his life. He hated small talk, and received much from his intellectual equals, including the woman who would become his lifetime companion.
During his travels through Europe, Porter continued to write to Anne. He fell in love with her through her letters, and perhaps his experience with Giardelli helped in allowing him to truly empathize with another for the first time; especially one outside his social class. He was also coming into his own. A young painter named Frank Rogers recalled a chance remark of Porter's made on the high speed train: "Don't you sometimes feel that you're just wonderful? I do. Sometimes I'm so wonderful I want to tell everyone; they ought to know it. It isn't right that they don't."
In May of 1932 Porter returned to New York. He attempted to feel closer to Anne, but soon after they spent a few weeks together he told her "we aren't clicking at all." Nevertheless he proposed to her later that summer at his family's compound, in a rather annoying way. Anne recalled him asking, "Do you think if we got engaged they'd let you stay all summer?" As they pulled away from their September wedding, the car stalled.
Porter's artistic career began in earnest soon afterwards. It was the middle of the Depression, a fact that kept down their rent and buyers away from Fairfield's early paintings. Anne suffered a miscarriage, and was surprised at how little sympathy her husband showed her. Eventually the Porters found they were happier, for a time with Anne in New England, and Fairfield freer to express himself sexually and artistically in New York.
A young Trotskyite, Porter affiliated himself with various associations of artists, but when he was not in the studio, he tried to instruct himself in painting by copying the classics in the Met. Two years after their wedding, Anne had a child, John, and Fairfield was a father for the first time. Although Porter was initially attached to the child, the boy's sickness involved excessive crying, and it drove him out of the house, into various leftist political causes. Among his friends, Fairfield was a rarity - married with child while other bohemians constantly fucked around. The young family moved to the Chicago suburb of Winnetka because of their son's health situation, which would torment the family throughout his schizophrenic adolescence, and even after that.
Porter's first artistic successes came about primarily because of his mother Ruth's influence. His early work in political murals had started to give way to watercolor, however, and his development reached a turning point when he saw the work of Edouard Vuillard.
A 1938 exhibition of Bonnard and Vuillard had a tremendous effect on Fairfield. Porter later told Paul Cummings that "I looked at the Vuillards and thought...Why does one think of doing anything else when it's so natural to do this? ... When Bill was first influenced, you know, by modern art, it was Picasso he was emulating. With me it was Vuillard."
In Justin Spring's fascinating biography of Porter, he describes how the artist also felt a similar kinship with the work of Pierre Bonnard: "They say it's too nice. What do they meant by that? They mean it's too pretty. They might mean it's saccharine. They might also mean that they can't approve of the emotion it gives them." Porter's paintings began to focus on bringing out that same kind of emotion.
In 1940 the Porters returned to New York, now with two children in tow. Anne had thought herself unable to conceive again as a result of Malta Fever, but she became pregnant again. Fairfield was less than pleased by this development, finding the responsibility of the children interfered with his work. Then Porter met the beautiful, flirtatious Ilse Hamm. Hamm was a younger, more exciting version of his wife - they even looked alike. Porter never entered in serious romantic congress with Hamm, but nevertheless told his wife he loved her. (Anne was pregnant at the time with their son.) Hamm enjoyed Porter's attentions, but had no desire to sleep with him.
Fairfield's relationship with Hamm was a precursor to the many nonsexual - and sexual - intimacies he created outside of his marriage. Unexpectedly, Anne Porter and the Jewish refugee Hamm bonded as outsiders to the Porter family, and when Fairfield went to California the following summer, Anne wrote to Ilse and asked for her help with the children. Ilse Hamm later married Fairfield's friend Paul Mattick, causing Porter to slash his own portrait of Mattick with a knife. Fairfield's plan to live with Anne and Ilse "in a triangle way" had died, and then his mother Ruth did, too.
Anne and Fairfield settled into a new life at E. 52nd Street, in a three story house. She began sleeping with another man, and Porter began pursuing the philosophy of free love. He rented an apartment in Chelsea to serve as his studio/getaway. The couple let out the upstairs rooms of their Midtown house to two black students, and the Porters began to lose some of the trappings of their previous lives, as Fairfield's interest in Communism died the true death. For a time, the house was a kind of commune.
Porter took a few lessons from the Belgian painter Georges Van Houten, but his latest inspiration was the paintings of Diego Velazquez. Of the Spanish master, Fairfield commented, "I admired what might be called understatement. Although I don't like that word, really.... He leaves things alone. He is open to it rather than wanting to twist it. I think there's more there than there is in willful manipulation.... I used to like Dostoyevsky very, very, very much. Now I prefer Tolstoy, for the same reason."
By the time Porter was 40, he and Anne were together again in spirit as well as body, for they never stopped having sex even during his affairs. A lack of recognition in the art world bothered him, but he was reassured by the attitude of his friend Willem de Kooning, who dismissed fame as the caprice of idiots and sycophants. Porter tremendously admired de Kooning and purchased many of his paintings, as well as writing the first reviews of his work that would appear in print.
At the end of the forties, the Porters moved to Southampton, buying a seven bedroom home for $25,000. The house met Fairfield's aesthetic approval and would become the scene of many famous paintings. Porter's political views and bohemian lifestyle during his youth had amounted to a rejection of his patrician background, but now he seemed to be making a move towards the bourgeois. As a nod to his former lifestyle, he rarely repaired the house or kept up the substantial grounds. As an artist, he still felt like an utter failure.
Fairfield kept an apartment on Avenue A, and began to integrate himself into the next generation of poets and artists. His attraction to the young gay poet James Schuyler verged on romance, and Fairfield began to explore his bisexuality. The younger crowd looked up to Fairfield and admired his work, and Elaine de Kooning recommended him to Art News, where he began his second life as a critic. Fairfield's politics had influenced the faux working-class realism of his first paintings, but the attraction of the art world to Abstract Expressionism was, in part, a rejection of those communist ideas. Now the painter began creating a new critical vocabulary similarly absent from political value.
Already nearing his late 40s, Fairfield was still pursuing a doctrine of free love, but in this case his target was (for a short time) the poet John Ashbery. Encouraged by his new buddies, Fairfield began writing poetry again, penning the following about Ashbery:
Young man with the narrow waist and thin
Arms, and heavy beautiful thighs of youth,
Whose green eyes under a foxy brush of
Fair hair regard me with insolent love
Porter's friendships with Ashbery and the painter Jane Freilicher would last through his life, but it was the schizophrenic Schuyler who would become a part of Fairfield's young family.
Fairfield enjoyed having the young clique at Great Spruce Head, and his children were particularly fond of Frank O'Hara. With Fairfield's six-year old daughter Katharine, Frank composed the following poem:
They say I mope too much
but really I'm loudly dancing.
I eat paper. It's good for my bone.
I play the piano pedal. I dance,
I am never quiet, I mean silent.
Some day I'll love Frank O'Hara.
I think I'll be alone for a little while.
James Schuyler became a particularly constructive/destructive figure in the life of the Porters, in some ways playing the identical role than Ilse Hamm had filled in the family. The proverbial honeymoon was lovely, but the impoverished poet eventually took advantage of Fairfield, manipulating his affections for financial and emotional gain. Despite other people's opinions of Schuyler, the Porters continue to welcome him as a guest in their many homes.
breakfasting with schuyler in 1942
When Fairfield had an important opening at Tibor de Nagy in March of 1959, O'Hara and Schuyler didn't even show up. Porter responded to this snub by approaching Frank later and telling him, "You're a shit," according to a letter Freilicher wrote to John Ashbery.
Like Frank O'Hara, the Porters were eventually turned off by the 'sleazy' Schuyler's need for control, although he returned to their good graces later in his life. This partial disillusionment with the poets who had been his friends seemed to force a change in Porter's life. He stopped reviewing for Art News in favor of writing for The Nation (they paid twice as much), and began to teach. He sold a few of his de Koonings for a small fortune.
Schuyler's first mental breakdown in 1960 brought him closer together to the Porters for a time, but it would ultimately only set him on a more destructive path. After leaving his New Haven Hospital, Fairfield picked him up. They would get on tolerably well until Schuyler reviewed Fairfield's 1962 exhibition from a psychological perspective. No doubt he could not help it, seeing demons even in places of light that the paintings held. Porter responded to Schuyler's article in a letter: "There is always psychological content. The psychological content may be what it seems, or it may be the opposite. There is psychological content to a slap in the face, or a smile at a baby, but it does not follow from this that there is art." Of Porter's close relationship with his critics, Justin Spring writes that, "Had Porter been more successful during his lifetime, the question of influence might have been raised. But he was not."
Politically, Porter's growing hatred of government, borne out of the way European cultural institutions were treated during World War II, resulted in him refusing a commission from the Art in Embassies program. He was relatively hard up for cash at this point, what with his wife, four children and Schuyler to support, but as was his custom, he never let common sense get in the way of his convictions. He even declined a university appointment in Illinois because he didn't like the architecture of Carbondale.
When Anne came down with hepatitis in 1963, Porter's paintings moved indoors, capturing the play of light in the interiors of his home. These were the most successful paintings of his career, both financially and artistically, feeding off the influence of the artist Alex Katz, who he admired and had reviewed. His masterpiece The Screen Porch became one of his most famous works - in the Porter family it became known as "The Four Ugly People" - and it is a frightening painting, incredibly resonant in its emotional complexity and as revealing as a church confession, with his wife outside watching her children and Schuyler in an homage to Velazquez.
Though there was some critical blowback to what some believed was Porter's bourgeois subject matter, Porter's creative process was anything but lax. He burned so many of his paintings that he had a special incinerator built for the purpose in his backyard. This was something of a blessing to history; for it is only his best works that survive, those imbued with the quiet passion of a man who could set his art in order easier than he could his own family life.
By the end of the 1960s the Porters had their fill of Schuyler and Fairfield asked him to leave the house. (The poet demurred.) His wife felt increasingly uncomfortable around the poet's depression, and made plans to replace him with a golden retriever, Bruno. Walking the dog was recommended for the aging Fairfield's health, but he tripped over Bruno's leash in 1967 and broke his arm, which temporarily limited his ability to paint. At the same time, Fairfield was reaching a mental wall. Spring attributes his lack of new work to his success - he now had money enough to live without worry, and his reputation had to a certain extent "plateaued."
napping with Bruno
Schuyler's behavior became increasingly more erratic. While staying in Fairfield's Southampton home with the poet Ron Padgett, he threatened to kill the Padgett's young son. Friends committed him to the state mental institution, but it wasn't long before he had to be escorted back there, with John Ashbery keeping him company in the back of a patrol car. Ironically, Schuyler wrote some of his finest poetry during this period, but he also wrote savage letters to Fairfield and Anne, criticizing them in the harshest possible terms and then asking them for $5,000 for his married lover's "business."
As he transitioned into old age, Porter's interests became more eccentric. His wife had become a Catholic many years earlier, baptized on the Upper East Side, but, as a subscriber to Fate, Porter's new tastes verged more on the mystic and spiritual. He viewed the rise of technology with some concern, as most seniors do, and he became interested in the paranormal. Still his command of his interests remained fully within his intellectual control. Rather than blame himself for the troubled life of his first born, he blamed science!
The Harbor - Great Spruce Head 1974
And yet when it came to the visual arts, he found much to admire in his contemporaries, harboring a special appreciation for the work of David Hockney. He wrote to a confined, drugged-out Schuyler that "I have painted several sunrises, with the sun in the picture, from the rocks below the house, except one from the porch. It works, more or less. I was trying to emulate the David Hockney painting I saw a few years ago, that amazed me." During a walk with Bruno in September of 1975, Porter suffered a massive coronary and died immediately. He had looked so young for his age of 68 that it came as something of a shock to his friends and family. Schuyler didn't attend the funeral, just as he had not after O'Hara's death in car accident.
A Sudden Change of Wind, 1975
Fairfield's dual role as an artist and critic was something of a rarity. He was as talented a writer as he was an artist, and his collection of art cricitism, Art On Its Own Terms, has become a classic in its own right. His textured renderings of light approach and even exceed the grasp of his Abstract Expressionist peers. His many admirers and friends, many of whom became more famous than he could have imagined at the time of his death, have helped burnish his reputation as an artist.
Even after Schuyler had done many, many unpardonable things to him, the Porters did much for the troubled poet. This is an impressive testament to their good nature; Anne Porter even earmarked money for Schuyler's medical care after Fairfield had passed, as did Kenward Elmslie and many others. In a way, the fashion in which the group treated Schuyler was an attempt to erase guilt that generation felt at living as they did.
Fathers improve with age, and Fairfield's later children for the most part fared better than his early ones. So it was with his painting. He got better at life over time, and this is no small thing to say about a person, let alone an artist whose talent ran against the grain of the non-representational work of the time in which he lived.
Yet calling Fairfield Porter a realist is off the mark. His work does the opposite of abandoning the spiritual, it embraces the mystical, in the everyday expressions and places of his life. He had no other. So many of the finest painters of Porter's generation were immigrants from Europe who became impressive Americans. Despite not having to strive, he strove, working towards a recognition he would achieve only in death.
Alex Carnevale is the editor of This Recording. He tumbls here and twitters here. He last wrote in these pages about Louis CK.
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Back row, from left: Lisa De Kooning, Frank Perry, Eleanor Perry, John Bernard Myers, Anne and Fairfield Porter, Angelo Torricini, Arthur Gold, Jane Wilson, Kenward Elmslie, Paul Brach, Jerry Porter, Nancy Word, Katharine Porter, unidentified woman. Second row: Joe Hazan, Clarice Rivers, Kenneth Koch, Larry Rivers, Miriam Shapiro, Robert Fizdale, Jane Freilicher, Joan Ward, John Kacere, Sylvia Maizell. Sitting and kneeling in front: Stephen Rivers, Bill Berkson, Frank O'Hara, Willem de Kooning, Alvin Novak. Photo by John Jonas Gruen.


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— DOVER: Dover Baptist Church, 151 Washington St., will open today at 7 p.m., and remain open, as needed. The shelter can accommodate service animals, but no pets. Residents seeking shelter are also asked to bring their medication and personal items.
— NORTH HAMPTON School, 201 Atlantic Avenue at opens at noon. This shelter is pet friendly. Bring personal items, including medications, identification, and cash and/or checkbook, in case you are unable to return to your home for a lengthy period.
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— FARMINGTON Parks and Recreation closed, Selectmen's meeting is still on for 6 p.m. tonight
— MADBURY Public Library
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— UNH: Holloway and Philbrook dining halls are open until 1 p.m. today (Oct. 29). Students can pick up a boxed dinner at lunch. Holloway dining hall will reopen 9 a.m. Tuesday; Philbrook is not scheduled to open.
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Fasting would surely come into fashion again at some future date, yet that was no comfort for those living in the present. What, then, was the hunger artist to do?
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|2012 Hunting incident report indicates hunting is a safe outdoor activity
PRATT – A total of 17 hunting-related incidents were reported in Kansas for 2012, a decrease of 73 percent from 35 years ago. Since the implementation of programs such as Hunter Education and Pass It On, the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) has seen a steady decline in the number reported each year.
With thousands of hunters taking to the field each year, incidents are inevitable. However unfortunate, the majority reported were considered preventable.
Last year, hunters swinging on game, namely upland birds, accounted for eight of the reported incidents. Despite most of the parties involved wearing hunter orange, eight incidents related to a hunter firing toward and hitting another hunter in the field.
"Wearing hunter orange is not enough," said Kent Barrett, KDWPT Hunter Education Coordinator. "Communication between hunters must be improved to prevent these types of incidents."
Six of the 17 reports were categorized as careless gun handling, one of the most preventable types of incidents. From hunters pointing their barrels in unsafe directions, to firing what was thought to be an empty gun, it's no surprise Hunter Education instructors are continually pressing their students to remember "load your brain before your gun."
Two incidents were reported last year during spring turkey season in which hunters were mistaken for game, one of which resulted in the year's lone fatality. In addition, KDWPT received one report of a hunter being struck by pellets from an unknown shooter; however this was considered a rarity.
Although even one incident can be tragic, the number of incidents is small in comparison to the total number of hunt days in the field. Statistically, hunting is one of the safest outdoor activities.
"Thousands of hunters take to the field each and every hunting season and return home without an incident to mar their excursion," said Barrett. "We can maintain this legacy of safety by not taking shortcuts in recognized safety procedures and remaining aware of what we do with our firearms."


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Glenn Tallio learned to carve at a very young age from his father. Because of his deep understanding of Nuxalk traditions, many of his pieces are commissioned for ceremonial purposes. His work is in many museums, including the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology. He oversaw the creation of the Nuxalk longhouse in the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
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As Israel slaughters its way through Gaza, it's frustrating to watch discussions get confused by the daily complexities of the conflict, because the underlying truth is incredibly simple: the Zionists that now firmly control Israeli government intend to take permanent control of Gaza, making it a part of their nation. There is no nuance or balance needed to see the big picture. This might be illegal, brutal and savage, but nobody can claim not to understand it. To illustrate the point, here are four maps showing Israel and Palestine at various points in the past century. Gaza is the little strip of green on the coast on the left.
In Israel's colonial plan, Gaza is a minor issue. The real prize is the West Bank, and as the map shows, that is being taken one settlement, one house at a time. Those spots of green are getting smaller every day. They are little spots of misery in a wealthy land, lacking the water, roads and other infrastructure available to the rest of Israel, and facing regular violence from Israeli settlers, who are backed by IDF forces. The biggest prize of all is Jerusalem, and as the map shows, that was once clearly part of Palestine, and is now being surgically extracted and grafted on to Israel.
From a historical point of view, the events in Israel-Palestine are fascinating to watch. Once, such land grabs were commonplace. In fact, every point on Earth was once inhibited by different racial and tribal groups: America and Australia were, of course, not white, England wasn't Anglo-Saxon and China wasn't Chinese. But blatant colonialism has mostly been banished into history. Israel-Palestine is (one can hope) the last example of a once normal class of human behaviour. It is also the only colonial takeover ever to be recorded in such minute detail on social media.
In 2005, Israel withdrew all Jewish settlers from Gaza. At the time, this was hailed as progress; but Israel had no intention of staying out, or of allowing Gaza to operate a normal economy or society. As soon as the withdrawal finished, a savage blockade was begun, ostensibly to prevent terrorist attacks. Gazans (including children) were terrorised, arrested, tortured, humiliated. Gazan fishermen were prevented by the Israeli navy from legally fishing, often coming under gunfire. Denied building materials and fuel, infrastructure crumbled. Disease spread and life expectancy fell. Gaza remained a desperate place, isolated even from the main body of Palestinian life in the West Bank.
The Hamas Myth
So it's no surprise that support for the conservative Hamas grew in Gaza, creating a rift between Gazans and those in the West Bank who largely supported the secular Fatah movement. Hamas' rise was aided by Israel, which benefited by sowing division in Palestine, and by creating for itself an "extremist" enemy. In the propaganda war, Hamas has repeatedly proven itself useful to Israel, as has been seen again in the current conflict, confusing observers into believing that Israel actually needs to defend itself against a mortal enemy.
Hamas was elected to power in Gaza in 2006, much to Zionist delight. Now the Israeli population could be whipped up into an eternal state of fear against the extremists, and the lines between Hamas and all Palestinians could be repeatedly blurred. It is often pointed out that Hamas calls for nothing less than the destruction of the state of Israel, and this is true, but it is falsely claimed that Hamas could never be persuaded to recognise Israel. Hamas has often proven itself far more pragmatic than the "terrorist" image crafted by Israel.
Hamas has come close, at various times, to reaching a peace agreement. But Israel has never wanted peace, and nor does it want a Hamas "monster" that turns out not to be monstrous after all. Conciliatory Hamas leaders have repeatedly been assassinated by Israel: this fact alone exposes the lie that peace has ever been on offer. In 2012, Hamas leader Ahmed Jabari was close to signing a peace agreement, and so Israel, true to form, murdered him. Hamas has never been a serious obstacle to peace: Israel is the only obstacle to peace, because accepting peace would mean abandoning the colonial Zionist project of taking all of Palestine.
Again, in the current conflict, Hamas' demands have not been extreme. Hamas has offered Israel 10 conditions for a lasting truce. The conditions are all reasonable, and in most cases simply demand that Israel complies with international law. And yet, Israel rejects them, and thanks to the lies of global media and governments, the public is allowed to believe the "peace with Hamas is impossible" lie.
Hamas is widely disliked by most Palestinians, and is largely powerless; and yet the ongoing slaughter is presented as a "war" between two sides. Such is the comedy of Zionist propaganda.
The Genocide
Since withdrawing from Gaza in 2005, Israel has alternated between providing slow death and fast death for the people of Gaza. During Operation Cast Lead in 2008/09, around 1,400 Palestinians were killed. Around half of these were civilians; those classed as "fighters" included many Palestinian police, who had been deemed a valid military target by Israel. The UN's report, carried out by Richard Goldstone (a Jew), made clear that Israel had been repeatedly guilty of war crimes and violations of humans rights.
Besides the human cost, Israel destroyed or damaged schools, hospitals and 20,000 homes during Cast Lead. Once the conflict was over, a resumed blockade ensured that these could not be rebuilt. Gaza became increasingly unfit for human existence: in 2009, the UN reported that Gaza's water supply was close to collapse – and yet Israel continued to blockade any investment in infrastructure. This has been nothing less than slow genocide, carried out in full view of the world.
Those Rockets
So Hamas has blindly fired puny rockets at Israel. Didn't Native Americans have the right to fire arrows at white settlers, even if the act was futile? The firing of rockets is futile, and plays into Israel's hands. But what. The fuck. Are Palestinians supposed to do? By way of comic interlude, here's a cat being startled by a scary Hamas rocket.
The Anti-Semitism ShieldAs a Jew, I have no fear in attacking Israel, but many of my non-Jewish friends tell me that they often hold back for fear of the standard "anti-Semite" attack. During this current attack on Gaza, I've been heartened to see increasing numbers of Jews, in the UK, US, Israel and elsewhere, standing up for Palestinians. Ex-IDF soliders too have been speaking out. In doing so, they help burst the myth that this conflict is about Jew against Arab, or Jew against Muslim.
It is true that anti-Semitism is, and has been for centuries, a powerful force, especially in Europe. It may well also be true that European anti-Semitism is on the rise. In part, that rise is the result of Israeli terrorism. Europe's Jews can't expect support from Israel's Zionists; indeed, the Zionist wet dream is that an upsurge in violence against Jews in Europe will drive us to Israel, increase the Jewish population there, and add strength to the conquest of Palestine.
The Final Solution for Gaza
Oh – did I mention that Gaza has an estimated $4bn of gas reserves?
So it has been obvious, for years, that Israel's 2005 withdrawal from Gaza was a temporary step, rather than an acceptance that Palestinians could keep hold of that little coastal strip of land. The question was when, and how, they would seize Gaza.
Today, we began to learn. The map below was tucked away at the bottom of a BBC news article. Israel, which has already killed over a thousand in the current conflict, and maimed countless more, declared a "buffer zone" in Gaza, and advised civilians to leave it. The problem with this announcement being that the zone takes up almost half of Gaza. Or, in other words, Gazans are being squeezed into half the previous space: and Gaza was, already one of the most densely populated places on the planet. Gazans (half of them children) are, as we speak, being driven into the sea.
If this isn't genocide, what is? Will the world wake up? If not now, when?


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Season Eight - Episode Descriptions
Episode 1 - "Pop-Pop: The Final Solution" (Airs October 11, 10:00 pm e/p) - Dennis and Dee's ailing grandfather Pop-Pop is wasting away in the hospital, and they have to decide whether or not to pull the plug. But things get complicated when The Gang learns of Pop-Pop's history as a Nazi, and Mac, Charlie and Frank set off in search of the old man's spoils from the war. Written by Charlie Day & Glenn Howerton & Rob McElhenney; directed by Matt Shakman.


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British actor Daniel Craig is so hot that he makes James Bond movies seem like they aren't just for guys anymore.
007? More like 00Swoon.
I'm not sure when I realized Daniel Craig was hot — okay, I'm lying. It wasn't because of James Bond (sorry, not sorry). It was during 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' remake, when he stands up off the bed after a steamy night with Rooney Mara's character and his tight little black underoos reveal just a little bit of butt business. I think I gasped audibly enough to embarrass every woman in that theater. (Again, sorry, not sorry.)
Anyway, Daniel Craig is sexy, and hopefully you're not like me and it didn't take you 10 years to figure out what everyone else knew. Craig plays James Bond, obviously, and has done so in the last few 007 films, and will probably continue to do so until his teeth rot out. And we're all totally cool with that.
Craig is also now married to the beautiful actress Rachel Weisz, making them one of the prettiest couples in the entire world, and I'm sure their very British convos go something like:
"Oi! What a lovely morning, milady, fancy a cup of tea?"
"Yes we are so very beautiful, gov'nah!"
"Crumpets! We're sexy!"
"Let's go fancy some things in a loo!"
Obviously my British is limited to Monty Python. Now let's all stare at Daniel Craig for a while!


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Maintained by: The LDraw.org Standards Committee
Author: The LDraw.org Standards Committee
Writers: Steve Bliss, Orion Pobursky, Willy Tschager, William Howard
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Outlines the CATEGORY and KEYWORDS Meta statements that provide information for organizing and searching the part library.
The !CATEGORY and !KEYWORDS meta-statements provide information for organizing and searching the LDraw parts library. Before these meta-statements were defined, the only way to organize the library was by the descriptive name and part number. While useful, the name and number do not provide enough information to thoroughly catalog a large library of parts.
The !CATEGORY meta-statement provides a means to place the part in a comprehensive classification system and is used for locating a part within a list of categories, while the !KEYWORDS meta-statement provides a means for associating free-form search terms with the part.
These meta-statements are used exclusively in part files and subparts; they do not appear in models or primitives.
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The !CATEGORY meta-statement, if present, must appear in the part header, as defined by the LDraw.org Official Library Header Specification. A part can have only one !CATEGORY meta-statement. If a part has no !CATEGORY meta-statement, the category is assumed to be the first word in the part name (ie. the first word of the first line of the part file).
The text after !CATEGORY is treated as a single category name. So, if a part contained the meta-statement
"0 !CATEGORY Minifig Accessory" it would specify that the part belongs in the category "Minifig Accessory" (as opposed to belonging to the "Accessory" subcategory of the "Minifig" category or both the "Minifig" and "Accessory" categories).
New categories are added by the Parts Library administrators, and the official list of categories can be found in the Categories and Keywords FAQ on the Parts Tracker.
0 !KEYWORDS <first keyword>, <second keyword>, ..., <last keyword>
The !KEYWORDS meta-statement(s), if present, must appear in the part header, as defined by the LDraw.org Official Library Header Specification. A part may have many !KEYWORDS meta-statements.
The list of words and phrases following the !KEYWORDS meta-statement is delimited by commas. Any white-space should be reduced to a single space, and leading and trailing spaces on the keyword ignored. Multiple lines can be used to structure or group keywords into themes. The lines should be limited to 80 characters. Words and terms from the part name are not allowed; neither is the part number.
The keywords are a list of words and phrases that further describe the part and specify any terms the author feels would aid in identifying the part. Keywords typically include: terms not included in the part's escriptive name; geometric terms; synonyms (for example, if the part name includes the term "rounded", a keyword might be "curved"); the unique set the part appeared in; LEGO official playthemes; other category names that the part is similar to (for example, wheels without separate tyres could also have the keyword "Tyre"); alternate spellings.
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0 !KEYWORDS helicopter, skid, rail, Arctic, sled, ski, sleigh
0 !KEYWORDS Belville, Town
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0 !KEYWORDS western, wild west, spaghetti western, horse opera, cowboy
0 !KEYWORDS bandit, desperado, cardsharper, swindler
0 !KEYWORDS casino, bridge, blackjack, twenty-one, baccarat, chemin de fer
0 !KEYWORDS poker, stud, stud poker, strip poker, straight poker, penny ante
0 !KEYWORDS penny ante poker, high-low, draw, draw poker, pair, straight
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text: The Loudness War: Dynamic Range over the years 2013-02-18 23:05:19 I thought it would be interesting to see how the Dynamic Range (Album DR) has developed over the years, and if this shows a clear picture about the development of the Loudness War. In order to check this, I made a dump of the DR database. I choose to focus on the period 1985-2012. The figure above shows the mean DR-value per year (the error bars represent the standard error). It is clear that, overall, the Dynamic Range of albums has decreased in this period from approximately 13 dB to the 8-9 dB range. It is also interesting to see that the minimum mean value is reached in 2008, the year that Death Magnetic was released. In 2009, we see an increase of +/- 0.5 dB (a double-sided t-test shows that this difference is statistically significant at the 0.01 level). Maybe this has to do with the awareness created by this album with respect to the Loudness War?Furthermore, it seems that the Dynamic Range does not further decrease over the last four years. Has the Loudness War come to an end?Finally, the figure below shows the number of albums per year that were analyzed. In total, 14,680 albums were included in the analysis. Last Edit: 2013-02-19 09:12:04 by db1989


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A strange man falls from the heavens and lands here on Earth--wouldn't you know it, it's the Norse God of Thunder, Thor! Starring Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Kat Dennings, Idris Elba, Anthony Hopkins and Rene Russo. Opens May 6.
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It wasn't even close. That's the unexpected result of the November 6 election. And President Obama and his supporters must wrap their heads around this new reality -- just as their Republican rivals are going to have to adjust to it.
After a very long, very hard campaign that began the night of the 2010 "Republican wave" election, a campaign defined by unprecedented spending and take-no-prisoners debate strategies, Barack Obama was reelected president. And he did so with an ease that allowed him to claim what even his supporters dared not imagine until a little after 11 p.m. on the night of his last election: a credible, national win.
"We're not as divided as our politics suggest," Obama told the crowd at his victory party in Chicago.
And he was on to something.
Despite a brief delay by Republican challenger Mitt Romney, and the commentators on Fox News, Obama claimed his victory on election night not the next day, as Richard Nixon did in 1960, or even later, as George Bush in 2000.
And it was a real victory.
Obama did not have to deal with the challenge of an Electoral College win combined with a popular-vote loss -- as even some of his most ardent supporters feared might be the case..
By the time Romney conceded at 1 a.m., Obama had a 250,000 popular-vote lead, and it grew to roughly two million by dawn.
He was on track to win a majority of states and more than 300 Electoral Votes – at least 303 and, with the right result in Florida, 332.
Obama's win was at least the equal of John Kennedy's in 1960 (303 electoral votes), bigger than Richard Nixon's in 1968 (303 electoral votes), bigger than Jimmy Carter's in 1976 (297 electoral votes), bigger than George W. Bush's in 2000 (271 electoral votes and a popular vote loss).
And, significantly, bigger than George W. Bush in 2004, when Obama's predecessor won just 286 electoral votes, and faced serious challenges to the result in the state that put him across the 270 line: Ohio.
Never mind, Bush claimed a broad mandate.
"When you win, there is… a feeling that the people have spoken and embraced your point of view," Bush said. "And that's what I intend to tell Congress, that I made it clear what I intend to do as the president; now let's work."
Bush told reporters: "I earned capital in this campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it. It is my style."
When Bush tried to spend his capital "reforming" Social Security, he failed. Obama would be wise to avoid making the same mistake.
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Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid do not need to be "reformed."
They need to be strengthened and expanded.
The president could spend some of his capital on that project.
But he ought not stop there.
As he embarks upon the second term that not all presidents are given, Obama would do well to take the counsel of National Nurses United executive direector Rose Ann DeMoro, who said after the election, "The President and Congress should stand with the people who elected them and reject any cuts in Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid, strengthen Medicare by expanding it to cover everyone, and insist that Wall Street begin to repay our nation for the damage it caused our economy with a small tax on Wall Street speculation, the Robin Hood tax."
That reference to the Robin Hood tax is worthy of note.
President Obama ought to get serious, in his second term, about finding the revenues to pay for the strengthening and expanding of necessary programs: ideally by taxing the wealthy as they were in the days of America's greatest economic expansion, and also by imposing that "Robin Hood Tax" on financial transactions.
But Obama's first task should be to fix the broken political system that imposes so many burdens on America democracy.
In his victory speech, Obama referenced the long lines in which Americans waited to vote for him and declared: "By the way, we need to fix that."
That's good. The need of democratic renewal is great after an unnecessarily crude political campaign that was, as Obama acknowledged, frequently "small… and silly."
The place to begin is with a project he mentioned just before the Democratic National Convention: amending the constitution to overturn the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. "Over the longer term, I think we need to seriously consider mobilizing a constitutional amendment process to overturn Citizens United (assuming the Supreme Court doesn't revisit it)," the president wrote, in response to a question about the court decision to allow corporations to spend as freely as they choose to influence elections. "Even if the amendment process falls short, it can shine a spotlight of the super PAC phenomenon and help apply pressure for change."
Seeking to amend the constitution to reform our election system is an ambitious endeavor, especially for a president who has just beaten the combined power of Karl Rove and his billionaire boys club.
But it is a necessary endeavor.
And a president who has been comfortably reelected ought not think small. He should "spend his capital" on projects worthy of the trust Americans have afforded him.