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Widnes: Fan response 'overwhelming'
Widnes have reported an "overwhelming" response from supporters to their appeal for information following Sunday's violent pitch invasion at the Tetley's Challenge Cup semi-final.
A number of supporters stormed onto the field immediately after the Vikings were beaten 28-6 by Castleford in a televised clash at Leigh Sports Village and approached rival supporters in a provocative manner.
Castleford fans appeared not to respond to any goading but violence did break out as police and stewards attempted to restore order.
Widnes Vikings have condemned the crowd trouble which overshadowed their Challenge Cup semi-final against Castleford
Many pictures of the trouble have emerged via social media, including one of the head being removed from one of Castleford's tiger mascots and kicked away.
Widnes chief executive James Rule described the scenes as "sickening" and "shameful" and vowed to work closely with the Rugby Football League and the police and carry out a full investigation.
Widnes also asked for supporters to report what they had seen via a special email address, email@example.com.
Rule said in a statement on the Widnes website: "It's evident from the overnight response that our genuine supporters are as disappointed and frustrated by the scenes as everybody is within the club.
"We've had an overwhelming response and the information we have received will be invaluable in conducting a thorough investigation.
"I wish to thank the supporters for supplying this information and would encourage anybody with any details to continue to supply that to the club, which will then be submitted and utilised within the investigation process.
"Together we can begin to take the first steps of rebuilding our reputation."
The RFL is awaiting reports from all relevant parties before deciding on its course of action but the governing body's chief executive Nigel Wood also spoke out.
Wood said: "The sport has every right to be disappointed with the behaviour of a minority of Widnes fans. We will work with the clubs to identify any supporters who encroached onto the pitch. There is no place for such behaviour in rugby league."
The match had attracted a sell-out 12,005 crowd and had mostly been played in a good atmosphere, despite appalling weather.
The victory earned Castleford a first trip to Wembley since 1992 and a final date with their West Yorkshire rivals Leeds.
Meanwhile, Widnes player Willie Isa has been charged with two disciplinary offences following incidents in the match against Castleford.
Isa has been charged with grade B dangerous contact on Kirk Dixon in the 62nd minute of the game, and the same offence against Andy Lynch a minute later.
Isa will face an independent disciplinary tribunal on Tuesday.
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All right. Y'all know I'm a pretty active lady. I like the outdoors. I like adventures. Camping, ATVing, hiking, fishing; I'm into it. I dig it. I am at one with Mother Nature. So much so, I'm quite comfortable at using nature's garden as my personal latrine. And I think I've mastered the art of outdoor urination!
Natalie's 10 steps to the perfect outdoor pee:
- Location, location, location! You need a spot where you can stand horizontally level but has a slight vertical downward slop. This is paramount to ensure a pant-protection pee stream occurs. Standing on a large tree root, at the top of a slope, or on a large rock works fine. Try to avoid ant hills. Although they do display perfect outdoor urination grade, certain species of ants can bite and it's better safe than sorry on this one. Trust me. Lesson learned the hard way.
- Drop your drawers! That's right; this is no time for modesty. Strip those pants and undergarments down to your ankles. Trying to hide your naked butt from the bears is only going to ensure a piss-poor urination incident (pun intended).
- Go deep! It's all about the squat and tilt my friends. First, you gotta go wide in your stance and deep in your squat. Get right down there. The closer to the ground you can get, the less likely for unwanted backsplash.
- Sit back. Yip, you read that right, now it's time to tilt your pelvis slightly forward. It'll feel like you are almost sitting back into your squat. The idea is to aim the firing squad down the slop. Trust me, in this squat pose; it won't be a little tinkle coming out. If you point straight down this will only ensure nasty backsplash not to mention a urine puddle protruding into the shoe zone. Protect the shoe zone at all cost!
- Grip and grin! Just before you "let go," grip the outside of your pants and pull outward to keep your pants out of the line of fire. This will also help stabilize you in your exposed stance.
- Relax and let go! Enjoy the freedom of watering nature's garden.
- Let nature run its full course. Your thighs are shaking, your balance is precarious, and you're looking around to see if someone's going to "come up on ya". I understand your urge to cut the stream short and stand back up. Don't let anxiety or poor physical conditioning get the best of you or you'll wind up with urine stains marking your misfortune. Hold your perfect pee pose. If it helps, think of the toning you are getting.
- Drip dry. Once your perfect pee is complete you must hold the stance for another few seconds to drip dry slightly. Personally, I like to add a slight bounce at this point. It helps shake off excess and also helps get the circulation back into my feet and legs.
- Rise up half way and wipe.
- Discard tissue (biodegradable of course) into the trees and reassemble.
Voila – my secrets to the perfect outdoor pee pose.
But even with this expertise there are times when all the squat skills in the world won't save you from urination incidents. Squatting deep and steady after a few drinks can prove to be very challenging. Any slight wobble and the next thing you know you've got a damp pant leg to deal with. Or what about those outdoor concerts with their nasty port-a-potty's where you have to hover. I mean, I can hold a deep, tilted back squat "pas de problem" but a half-poised hover after 3 beers, give me a break!
I mean, even my good friend Amber West encountered an uncomfortable urination situation on a trip to Mexico. She was touring the countryside when she found herself in high need to relieve and the only option; a sketchy outhouse with no door, just a bowl (no lid, no seat), a cock-eyed rooster, and the hover. Eeekeee!!!
We've all been there!
Well, Myndi Shafer turned me on to a perfect solution to all our urination woes: the GoGirl, a female urination device (hubby calls it an FU device – female urination device – definitely another blog post) that enables women to pee while standing up.
I shit you not!
You just hold GoGirl against your body, forming a seal, aim, and let er' fly! This would greatly simplify my outdoor urination adventures but it'd also come in very handy at concerts, traveling, etc.
GoGirl is made with flexible, medical grade silicone. So you can dispose of it after use if you want…or clean and reuse. Their patented splash guard eliminates messing and spilling and GoGirl fits easily in your purse, pocket, or glove compartment for those "ya just never know" moments!
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You can order your very own GoGirls here. They come in pink (love that) and camo and come in a variety of order packs; $12.99/single, $34.97/3-pack, $134.99/13-pack etc.
You Go Girl!!!
What do you think, are you an outdoor urination expert? Would you give peeing outside a try? Will my 10 steps help? Think you'd give GoGirl a try?
It's Twisted Tuesday and that means it's time to enjoy a smile, giggle or laugh…here's hoping I've provided it in spades…enjoy!
More blog deliciousness here:
- OMG did you READ Margie Lawson's guest post at Jenny Hansen's on writing heart-pounding visceral responses. Lord, I nearly fainted the examples were so HOT!
- As writers, we can be known to be a wee bit over dramatic and grand. Harry and Susan Squires wrote a great post over at Writers In The Storm about how changing your questions to smaller, more succinct questions, could get you the answers you've been waiting for!
- Kait Nolan did a great post on the reason why we should absolutely consider brainstorming with people who don't know every detail about our WIP!


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Glee Club Concert 'Unlike Any Other'by Steve Charles • May 1, 2012 Share:
Donovan Bisbee '12 set the bar pretty low in his publicity for the Glee Club Seniors' Final Concert, although he got the lighthearted tone exactly right.
"A program of songs that will surpass your mildest expectations," he promised. Perhaps. But the students, faculty, staff, family, and friends in Salter Hall Sunday were also treated one of the most entertaining Salter Hall concerts in recent memory.
With the assistance of accompanist Cheryl Everett and with director Richard Bowen lending encouragement from offstage, the thirteen seniors showed the love of music, camaraderie, and requisite sense of humor you'd expect from guys who have sung and traveled together across the country and halfway across the world in their four years at Wabash. And they always seem to bring a little something extra when the show is theirs—the previous senior concert 4 years ago had similar energy and surprises.
Sunday's show opened with the tongue-in-cheek "Brotherhood of Man" from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, (concluding with the Glee Club's version of a kick line—the Rockettes have nothing to fear). Andrew Kunze '12 put a Wabash spin on Into the Woods' "[Little] Giants in the Sky," and the First Tenors placed diminutive in stature but great in talent Kelvin Burzon '12 on a riser and sang "Positoovity" from the Little Mermaid. The entire group elicited some of the biggest laughs of the afternoon with "At the Lew," their tribute to the now defunct Lew Wallace Inn, sung to the tune of the Beach Boys' "In My Room," and the Glee Club seniors from the Kappa Sig house sang Billy Joel's "For the Longest Time" a cappella.
Burzon provided the biggest surprise of the concert, playing piano and singing 'That's Life," a song made famous by Frank Sinatra, Bisbee and Michael Trevino '12 were hilarious singing "Guy Love," (from the TV show Scrubs) and the group returned to the stage in beachwear and sunglasses for their rendition of the Beach Boys' hit "I Get Around" (with beach balls making their first appearance ever at a Glee Club concert.)
A barbershop version of "Happy Together" and a multimedia presentation featuring photographs and video of the group and their travels by Professor Emeritus John Zimmerman brought the afternoon to a moving and fitting conclusion.
"The concert the seniors do is unlike any other program the Glee Club does," said Professor Bowen. "It's a much more collaborative project than the highly directed concerts we typically perform. I throw some things on the table, and they bring their own ideas. For example, the "Guy Love" number came from Donovan and Michael: this is part and parcel of the particular kind of intellectual energy and humor these guys have, and that we only occasionally get a glimpse of. That's certainly one of the pleasures of the senior concert, along with seeing the camaraderie and joy they find in singing together."
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The introduction to Anointing makes sound suggestions for the preparation of the celebration, including the assistance of family, friends, and faith community:
The priest should inquire about the physical and spiritual condition of the sick person and he should become acquainted with the family, friends, and others who may_be present. The sick person and others may help to plan the celebration, for example, by choosing the readings and prayers. It will be especially helpful if the sick person, the priest, and the family become accustomed to praying together.
Note the emphasis on the Word, that readings and a homily are an expectation:
In the choice of readings the condition of the sick person should be kept in mind. The readings and the homily should help those present to reach a deeper understanding of the mystery of human suffering in relation to the paschal mystery of Christ.
The rite may be celebrated at bedside, if necessary. But the rite is very concerned with the pastoral aspects: comfort of the ones being anointed, space for loved ones and the faith community, and concerns for the dignity of the sacrament and the impression given to non-believers:
The sick person who is not confined to bed may take part in the sacrament of anointing in a church, chapel, or other appropriate place. He or she should be made comfortable, and there should be room for relatives and friends. In hospitals and other institutions the priest should consider all who will be present for the celebration: whether they are able to take part; whether they are very weak; and, if they are not Catholic, whether they might be offended.


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A new addition to the Golden Eagle roster in 2012-13, Mitch has the potential to have a major impact on the team during his career...an Honors student in high school, he also enjoyed a successful playing career and looks to add to his legacy in the collegiate ranks.
2012-13: Mitch made an instant impact for the Golden Eagles in the fall, shooting a team-best 76.3 average...scored a season-low round of 70 in his first collegiate round at the Mason Rudolph Championship (9/21)..tied for 31st at the Skyhawk Classic, carding a 71-73-76=220. In the spring, Mitch made a splash at the ASU Red Wolves Intercollegiate (4/1) as he carded a third-round 66, the lowest of any Tech golfer since Scott Stallings in 2006 and was then the lowest of any OVC golfer this year. His 77+71+66=214 earned him a 7th-place finish out of the 112 golfers in the field. He followed that tournament up with a 75+74+69=218 at the TSU Big Blue Intercolleigate, tying for 30th. Mitch was named the team's Best Putter and shared the Impact Award with two fellow teammates.
HIGH SCHOOL: Mitch was a four-year letterwinner
at Knoxville Farragut High School where he played golf under former
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Extra Team...was the 2011 Region 2 medalist...helped his team win
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PERSONAL: The son of Cary and Libby Thomas...full name is Mitchell Lee Thomas...birthdate is September 27, 1993...studying in the medical technology pre-professional program.


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FORT COLLINS, Colo. - President Barack Obama, appealing to students who powered his first White House run, swooped onto college campuses Tuesday to remind those returning to class that they hold a unique power to determine the election.
"I just want all of you to understand your power. Don't give it away - not when you're young," Obama told about 13,000 people gathered on the campus of Colorado State University. "Right now, America is counting on you. And I'm counting on you."
In Colorado and Iowa, Obama told the students that they had much at stake in the Nov. 6 presidential election, panning Republican rival Mitt Romney as a candidate without a plan to move the country forward. "Last week my opponents' campaign went so far as to write you off as a lost generation. That's you according to them," the president said at Iowa State University, referring to a Romney news release last week that referred to college students as the "Obama Economy's Lost Generation."
"What they hope is that by telling you these things, you'll get discouraged and you'll just stay home this time," Obama said in Ames, Iowa. "But you can't believe it. I don't believe it."
Romney's campaign dismissed Obama's remarks, saying he had "brought the same policies to Iowa that have failed to help young Americans across the country" and left many of them "facing higher unemployment, mounting debt, rising costs, and fewer opportunities."
With Republicans gathering in Tampa, Fla., for their party convention, Obama sought to tap the same enthusiasm that propelled millions of young people to campaign and vote for him in 2008. He noted that many of the students on campus were in high school four years ago. "For the first time in many of your lives, you'll get to pick a president," Obama said.
The president, who once led a voter registration drive in Chicago, tried to motivate the young people to register to vote, telling them that "everybody else is waiting for you, if they see you register, they'll register."
Obama aides see college campuses as fertile ground for registering and recruiting some of the more than 15 million young people who have become eligible to vote since the 2008 election. Following stops at Iowa State and Colorado State, he was making a similar appeal on Wednesday in Charlottesville, Va., home to the University of Virginia.
Romney's campaign sees an opportunity to cut into the president's support among young people by pushing a three-pronged economic argument focusing on the nation's high unemployment rate, soaring college costs and the national debt.
The courtship of young voters is an essential part of Obama's campaign plan. Four years ago, Obama won two-thirds of the vote among 18- to 29-year-olds, compared with just 32 percent for his Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, according to exit polls.
Polls show him leading Romney with college-age voters in this year's race but the president faces an undeniable challenge as he seeks to convince young people that he is the right steward for the economy as they eye a shaky post-graduation job market.
Seeking to overcome that economic uncertainty, Obama's campus volunteers tout the president's positions on social issues, like gay rights, that garner significant support among young people. Obama has stressed his work to freeze interest rates on new federal student loans.
Obama campaign officials say the start of the new school year is a particularly crucial time to ramp up college registration and make sure those new voters get to the polls. In many of the battleground states, about 50 percent of the college students register to vote on campus after Labor Day - and even those who are already registered may need to change their address after moving to new dorms.


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LuvCup's goals are to create sustainable beverage accessories with keen attention on not only the environment but also sustainable development.
Our products simultaneously reduce the waste produced by the beverage industry while also providing an economic benefit to other regions of the world.
We support fair trade manufacturers by contributing a percentage of all sales back into the community of origin while also insisting on using sustainable, fair trade materials.
LuvCup was created by two young entrepreneurs with the goal of transforming a common yet essential product into one that both benefits the environment but also helps communities around the world.
-Both male and female customers but our assumption is that women will be the early adopters. Should be gender neutral
-Initial target age will be 25-35yo with expansion into the 35+ and 18-25
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In the past I have played with images of Magpies but nothing got my interest.In November 2015 while in Rome I saw a piece of an ancient Roman stone carving plastered into the entryway of a church. The bird had his head turned toward some hanging fruit. I photographed it and did a series of drawings which became magpies or in New Mexico Uraccas. I cannot find the original photo, I must have deleted it not remembering what it was. Anyway that was the start and maybe we will see Magpies in different positions as well.


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New normal: $9M for rural House seat
The Billion-Dollar Buy: About this series
Like never before, big dollars are having a big impact on politics and governance. This series examines how the new wide-open fundraising landscape will affect the 2012 campaigns.
See also: Inside Koch world | GOP groups plan record $1 billion blitz | Rove hits big: Birth of a mega-donor | Myth of the small donor | Sheldon Adelson: Inside the mind of the mega-donor | IRS's 'feeble' grip on big political cash | Secret money funds GOP door-knockers | The billion-dollar bust?
HAMPSTEAD, N.C. — Mike McIntyre's first congressional race in 1996 cost $450,000, which he got mostly from friends, neighbors and a loan.
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Then came the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision.
Just two years later, nearly $9 million has been spent on the race for the conservative 7th District and the 733,500 residents represented by McIntyre in the southeastern corner of North Carolina.
GOP-allied super PACs are spending more on the airwaves than both candidates combined, and you can't turn on the TV without seeing their ads linking Blue Dog Democrat McIntyre to President Barack Obama or House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. The Koch brothers-backed nonprofit Americans for Prosperity has been spending big to mobilize conservative voters here with bus tour rallies, phone banks and door knocking.
This is the new normal in congressional politics, where money, power and control have shifted away from party committees and candidates to deep-pocketed outside groups that — thanks to Citizens United and other recent court decisions — aren't restricted by contribution limits.
Benefiting from the outside cash is McIntyre's GOP challenger David Rouzer, a state lawmaker who has been far outraised by McIntyre and who, on his own, would lack the resources to compete vigorously across the sprawling district.
"It's turned what otherwise would be a slam-dunk win for McIntyre against a very, very weak opponent into a hotly contested race," said McIntyre's main strategist David Heller.
To stay relevant in the new landscape, congressional candidates and their party committees are trying to raise more cash from larger donors, including special interest political action committees, and adjusting their spending strategies to complement the super PACs and nonprofits, with which they are legally barred from coordinating.
The change is most pronounced on the right, where a loose network of GOP-allied super PACs and nonprofits intends to spend more than $1 billion before Election Day trying to defeat Obama, capture the Senate for Republicans, expand the GOP House majority and advance conservative causes generally.
With those groups anxious to prove to billionaire backers that their record donations weren't wasted, House races have increasingly emerged as a platform upon which the groups are jockeying to show tangible results. It's simply far more expensive — and harder to claim credit — playing on a presidential battlefield anchored by expensive media markets than it is to try to swing House races in backwater media markets where a couple million bucks can lift a challenger who might otherwise have no chance.
Which leads directly to North Carolina.
McIntyre was considered especially vulnerable after the district was redrawn in the wake of the 2010 Census to include many more Republicans. It's now the second most GOP-leaning district represented by a Democrat (the first, a Utah district represented by fellow Blue Dog Jim Matheson, has also seen a deluge of outside spending). Polling in McIntyre's race is all over the map, with a conservative group last week putting Rouzer up six percentage points and private polling shared with POLITICO showing McIntyre with a lead just beyond the margin of error.


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I don't often agree with your editorials, but I agree with your October
30, 2012 editorial "CACR 26 will do great harm." I have been a member
of the House Redress of Grievance Committee during the past legislative
session, and this experience taught me the importance of an independent
and impartial judiciary. The legislature has no business meddling in
the internal workings of the court system.
Currently, the state constitution states that court rules "shall have
the force and effect of law." This basically means that if you refuse
to follow court rules, you can be found guilty of contempt of court.
This seems like simple commonsense to me. The amendment would give the
legislature the power to override the court rules by statute. We could
theoretically have a court rule which says one thing and a statute which
says something totally different, which would create massive confusion.
Even when the court rules and the statutes aren't actually in conflict,
pro se litigants (and even actual lawyers, for that matter) have a habit
of misapplying one chapter of the lawbooks to a related but different
area of the law. To name one simple example of laws being misapplied,
one House petitioner wanted us to reprimand two judges for disregarding
a long list of certain state laws regarding health and life insurance
policies. It turned out that the insurance policies in question weren't
even covered by New Hampshire law: her exhusband got them from his job
in Massachusetts.
The committee heard 28 petitions in 2011 and 2012: by my count, 24 of
those petitions were related to individual cases, and were filed in the
hopes of overturning specific decisions. Only 4 petitions were about
legitimate public-policy questions. Many of the 24 aggrieved
petitioners believed that their cases had turned out wrong because the
court rules were wrong. There certainly are some court rules which need
to be changed, but it is unclear to me if any of those 24 particular
cases could have turned out differently if the court rules had been
The prime sponsor of CACR 26 is Rep. Paul Mirski (R-Enfield) who is very
close to Speaker O'Brien. Mirski claims that CACR 26 was the
judiciary's idea. That is not exactly true: the language which will
appear on the November 6th ballot was a compromise put together by the
Senate Judiciary Committee, with some input from the judicial branch.
Mirski and O'Brien originally wanted to eliminate the courts'
rule-making power altogether.
I urge the people of New Hampshire to vote NO on CACR 26, which will
appear on the November 6 ballot as Question #2.
I also urge the people to vote NO on the other two constitutional
questions. Question #1 (also known as CACR 13) would create permanent
fiscal chaos in the interests of preventing the legislature from passing
something (i.e., a broad-based income tax) which currently has no chance
of passing. The most recent income tax bill failed in 2010 to get even
a majority of a relatively liberal House Democratic caucus: HB 642 lost
242-74. Even without a constitutional amendment, an income tax bill
still has to pass the full House and the full Senate before being signed
into law by the Governor. Maggie Hassan and Ovide LaMontagne have both
pledged to veto such a bill.
Question #3 would call for a state constitutional convention. Such a
convention would cost roughly the same amount as the State House of
Representatives, whose operating budget is about $4 million per year. A
"con-con" would serve no obvious purpose: the legislature already
considers many proposed amendments every year.
Rep. Timothy Horrigan
Yes, CACR 26 will do great harm
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Adam Lefkoe is a sports anchor with WHAS in Louisville, Kentucky who decided to spice up an otherwise routine segment by peppering in as many 'Seinfeld' references as possible. Here's a report that's real…and it's spectacular.
From reporting on University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino being inducted into the Hall of Fame to showing highlights of NFL games, Lefkoe wows his viewers with his wit and proves he is indeed master of his domain. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
Lefkoe has gone down this road before. Earlier this month, he filled his sportscast with a bunch of wrestling references (which you can see below), leading us to wonder what could possibly be next on his agenda.
All we know is whoever is doing his writing should probably think about applying for a gig with the J. Peterman catalog.
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Dear friends,Just to keep you informed of your diploma's whereabout. Diplomas where sent by Hombu dojo in January, stayed somewhere in a post office Italy until the 3d of March and are on their way back to Japan. The reason given is "unknown address" although the address indicated is perfectly correct. The problem is obviously with the italian post office. See the attached document.I feel sorry for all those who have been waiting for their diplomas for quite a long time but I can only ask you to be patient.Stéphane Benedetti
Dear friends,At last, and after returning to Japan, diplomas are in italian custom's hands. We should get them without problems this time and shall do our best to deliver them as soon as possible.RegardsStéphane
He died on April 29. The french Aikido, the european Aikido, the world Aikido bear his seal. His fiery and passionate personality brought him many friends and many enemies. He was born under the sign of Scorpio, he was the archetype. He was able to handle the worst bad faith with the innocence! When he was caught by the fire of passion the blue of his eyes shone. It was the race of the person who create and destroy, of the person who went to the Crusades, knight and pilgrim. He wore no armor, but a hakama and a bokken.Goodbye Peter, old warrior, finally rest in peace.Stéphane Benedetti
A new roof for the showers has been build at Mutokukai Hombu Dojo
Please take note of the new conditions for enrolling in DAN grade examinations organized within the framework of the MUTOKUKAI. These conditions are the application of the international regulations established by the AIKIKAI.
Mutokukai is structured as an organism that is non-bureaucratic, decentralized and organized as a network for exchange between Martial Arts practitioners. Each national branch organization possesses a complete administrative autonomy so that it can deal freely with the conditions and particularities according to its own local situation. (For example, it is obvious that the administrative questions in France concern in particular french people). The technical direction of Mutokukai is assured by a 'technical committee' co-opted by the founders. Since we do not wish to be a federation, nor to become one, we reserve the right to select all of our members who may be in the form of a dojo, a group of dojo(s) or individual members. The fact of being a member of Mutokukai does not, in any way whatsoever, exclude participation within other organizations be they federal or other.
Mutokukai is apolitical and has no intention of being involved or in competition with federations. Federations everywhere are administrative organizations with the responsibility of organizing sports practice and the representation of sports practitioners within the ministry of sports or the equivalent (Olympic Committee etc.) In France these organisms receive a delegation (recognition) from the ministry in order to organize exams for national grading and/or national teaching diplomas. It is not our intention to be involved in these processes. Mutokukai considers that sports activities (the framework, the spirit & objectives) have no place within the practice of Aikido or other traditional Budo. Mutokukai simply does not consider that the practice of Aikido (though based on physical activity) can, in any way, be considered "sport activity". We promote 'traditional practice' based on the teachings passed on by Tamura Nobuyoshi Shihan and numerous other teachers with similar outlooks (all students of the founder of Aikido) who have deliberately avoided ministries of sports and rightly preserved the spiritual and the cultural elements in Budo. We wish to leave 'sport' in its place as sport.
We have opened a main dojo in Arenys de Munt to the north of Barcelona (Catalonia) in Spain. The dojo itself will have 500m2 (400m2 of tatami), a reception area for the practitioners and the possibility for extended term lodging. Mutokukai is presently awaiting official recognition by the Aikikai - Aikido so Hombu.
Yamada Yoshimitsu Shihan is the technical advisor and Malcolm Tiki Shewan and Stephan Benedetti are the founders and technical directors.
Mutoku, Selflessness.
The Heart Sutra (Hannya Shingyô) puts forth the very essence of buddhist teaching and the activity of the bodhisattva (an awakened being). One of the virtues of a bodhisattva is that the desire for personal gain (得) or acquiring for oneself, is absent (無). Wisdom and compassion are not means for acquiring awakening but rather are part of the Buddha-Nature. Thus it is this 'selflessness' (無得 - mu-toku) that makes the bodhisattva an awakened being. In this same manner, the practice of Aikido cannot justify itself through the desire for grades and titles - this only strengthens a state of 'attachement' of the individual and is contrary to the self-developing nature of 'free spirit' in Aikido. The most important thing is 'selfless' practice - this will bring true freedom.


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(TeaParty.org) – Rush Limbaugh, the godfather of conservative punditry, has a hait of being right.
And he's well aware of this.
During a recent show, the commentator pointed out that Hillary Clinton had recently confirmed everything he's been saying about Democrats for years.
Clinton, whose recent interview with CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour made headlines for many of the stunning things she said, also made a call for non-civility because the Democrats are not in power.
"You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about," she said. "That's why I believe, if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and or the Senate, that's when civility can start again. But until then, the only thing that the Republicans seem to recognize and respect is strength."
"(Hillary) pretty much admitted everything I have been trying to warn people of about the American left and the Democrat Party!" Limbaugh responded on his show.
"She went out and in her best Maxine Waters impersonation," he continued. "She was encouraging people to be uncivil, and she was saying that it was justified being uncivil, given the opposition, the Republicans."
Rush is well-aware that Democrats have only been feining civility whenever it suits their desperate pursuit of power.
"(I)f they win the House, then they can go back to being civil. If they win the Senate, then they can return to civility," he summed up Clinton's position.
"I mean, they're making the case, they're proving the point .… In all of this crazy, deranged, unhinged behavior of left-wing activists, I haven't heard one elected Democrat denounce it," he explained. "I haven't heard one elected Democrat attempt to distance himself or herself or the party from it."
The behavior he speaks of has been on full display in the attempt by an angry mob to disrupt Ted and Heidi Cruz's dinner last month, and the angry mob that tried to knock down the 30-ton doors to the Supreme Court when Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in.
This is not a change in the tenor of Democrats, Limbaugh explained, but only them showing their true colors.
"They are all encouraging it. My point is: This is who they all are — and with Hillary Clinton now advocating this incivility," he said.
"What did I tell you yesterday? We're not in a battle of ideas anymore. We're not in an argument over ideas," he continued. "They don't… They're not even looking at any of this as about ideas."
He explained that the right and the left vary not just in ideology, but in their fundmantal view of America.
"They see America today as flawed and illegitimate and, therefore, in need of a new set of defining values that will serve to unify the people who want to be part of America," he continued.
"Not anything to do with our founding. Not the Constitution. Not the Declaration. That's out the window 'cause all that's tainted," he said, explaining the way the left sees things. "All of that was written by a bunch of privileged white guys who were setting up a system for themselves and their families and their descendants."
But we don't even need Limbaugh to explain this…this comes right from the horse's mouth:
Rush Limbaugh: Hillary Literally Just Came Clean on Everything I've Been Saying About the Left https://t.co/7zzoMcfNRN
— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) October 14, 2018
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently declared that "America was never great."
Michelle Obama claimed to have never been proud of her country until they elected her husband.
Her husband openly admitted he wanted to "fundamentally transform" our country.
Maxine Waters refuses to backtrack on her call to harass GOP lawmakers in public.
All this while Antia wages war on anyone they disagree with, armed with whatever makeshift weapon the can scrape together.
They're telling is what they're up to. It's time to start listening.


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ROMEOVILLE, Ill., June 10 (UPI) -- An Illinois woman who accidentally mailed her wedding ring to Arkansas with a shipment of U-joints said the precious item was mailed back to her.
Barb Kasang, 51, of Romeoville said the ring given to her by her husband of 28 years, Steve, vanished while she was working at Lovejoy, a transmission parts manufacturer in Downers Grove, the Chicago Tribune reported in Monday's print edition.
"I was worried, hurt and sad," Kasang said. "It was traumatic. I didn't even want to tell my husband."
Kasang said Steve was understanding, but she was distraught.
"[Steve] was pretty calm," Kasang said. "He said, 'Don't worry about it, we'll replace it.' But it's not the same."
Kasang said she was overjoyed when a salesman in Little Rock, Ark., called to say he had discovered a gold ring in his shipment of U-joints.
"I've been doing this for 27 years, and I've never come across something like that," said the salesman, Steve Smith. "I thought if it was real, someone would be really upset about it."
Kasang said the ring arrived home Friday.
"My heart's still pounding," Kasang said. "We got lucky. He deserves a big blessing."


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A group of hitherto unpublished letters by William Makepeace Thackeray [(part III)]
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About fifteen years ago, my roommate and I developed a classification system for TV and movies. Each title was slotted into one of four categories: Good-Good; Bad-Good; Good-Bad; Bad-Bad. The first qualifier was qualitative, while the second represented a high-low binary, the title's aspiration toward capital-A Art or lack thereof.
Some taxonomies were inarguable. The O.C., a Fox series about California rich kids and their beautiful swimming pools, was delightfully Good-Bad. Paul Haggis's heavy-handed morality play, Crash, which won the Oscar for Best Picture, was gallingly Bad-Good. The films of Francois Truffaut, Good-Good; the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men, Bad-Bad.
America's Constitution was once celebrated as a radical and successful blueprint for democratic governance, a model for fledgling republics across the world. But decades of political gridlock, electoral corruption, and dysfunction in our system of government have forced scholars, activists, and citizens to question the document's ability to address the thorniest issues of modern political life.
Does the path out of our current era of stalemate, minority rule, and executive abuse require amending the Constitution? Do we need a new constitutional convention to rewrite the document and update it for the twenty-first century? Should we abolish it entirely?
This spring, Harper's Magazine invited five lawmakers and scholars to New York University's law school to consider the constitutional crisis of the twenty-first century. The event was moderated by Rosa Brooks, a law professor at Georgetown and the author of How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon.
For time ylost, this know ye,
By no way may recovered be.
I spent thirty-eight years in prison and have been a free man for just under two. After killing a man named Thomas Allen Fellowes in a drunken, drugged-up fistfight in 1980, when I was nineteen years old, I was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. Former California governor Jerry Brown commuted my sentence and I was released in 2017, five days before Christmas. The law in California, like in most states, grants the governor the right to alter sentences. After many years of advocating for the reformation of the prison system into one that encourages rehabilitation, I had my life restored to me.
In a Walmart parking lot in Portsmouth, Virginia, in 2015, a white police officer named Stephen Rankin shot and killed an unarmed, eighteen-year-old black man named William Chapman. "This is my second one," he told a bystander seconds after firing the fatal shots, seemingly in reference to an incident four years earlier, when he had shot and killed another unarmed man, an immigrant from Kazakhstan. Rankin, a Navy veteran, had been arresting Chapman for shoplifting when, he claimed, Chapman charged him in a manner so threatening that he feared for his life, leaving him no option but to shoot to kill—the standard and almost invariably successful defense for officers when called to account for shooting civilians. Rankin had faced no charges for his earlier killing, but this time, something unexpected happened: Rankin was indicted on a charge of first-degree murder by Portsmouth's newly elected chief prosecutor, thirty-one-year-old Stephanie Morales. Furthermore, she announced that she would try the case herself, the first time she had ever prosecuted a homicide. "No one could remember us having an actual prosecution for the killing of an unarmed person by the police," Morales told me. "I got a lot of feedback, a lot of people saying, 'You shouldn't try this case. If you don't win, it may affect your reelection. Let someone else do it.' "
In 1973, when Barry Singer was a fifteen-year-old student at New York's Yeshiva University High School for Boys, the vice principal, Rabbi George Finkelstein, stopped him in a stairwell. Claiming he wanted to check his tzitzit—the strings attached to Singer's prayer shawl—Finkelstein, Singer says, pushed the boy over the third-floor banister, in full view of his classmates, and reached down his pants. "If he's not wearing tzitzit," Finkelstein told the surrounding children, "he's going over the stairs!"
"He played it as a joke, but I was completely at his mercy," Singer recalled. For the rest of his time at Yeshiva, Singer would often wear his tzitzit on the outside of his shirt—though this was regarded as rebellious—for fear that Finkelstein might find an excuse to assault him again.
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A recent earthquake in Chile was found to have shifted the city of Concepción ten feet to the west, shortened Earth's days by 1.26 microseconds, and shifted the planet's axis by nearly three inches.
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"Nowadays, most states let just about anybody who wants a concealed-handgun permit have one; in seventeen states, you don't even have to be a resident. Nobody knows exactly how many Americans carry guns, because not all states release their numbers, and even if they did, not all permit holders carry all the time. But it's safe to assume that as many as 6 million Americans are walking around with firearms under their clothes."


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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) -- Cyprus' president said Saturday that the decision to force bank depositors to share the burden of a €10 billion ($13 billion) bailout package from its European partners and the International Monetary Fund was done to save his country from financial ruin.
Despite that assurance, nervous depositors rushed to ATM machines in Cyprus on Saturday to drain their accounts.
President Nicos Anastasiades said Cyprus had little option but to accept the bailout deal, which imposes a levy on the country's bank deposits -- an unprecedented step in the eurozone crisis. Without it, he said, Cyprus' banking system would have collapsed on Tuesday.
Anastasiades said that's when the European Central Bank would have stopped providing emergency funding to Cyprus' troubled banks. Such a collapse would have driven the country to bankruptcy and possibly out of the eurozone, he said.
The president said the deposit levy rescues banks, keeps the country's debt load manageable, and avoids the risk of deeper pay cuts and tax hikes.
"We're not aiming to gloss over the situation," he said in his first public statement after the EU-IMF meeting in Brussels agreed on the bailout early Saturday. "The solution taken may be painful, but it was the only one" worth taking.
News of the levy stunned the public because Anastasiades and his top ministers had vehemently rejected any suggestions of going after deposits to save Cyprus' banks that lost billions on bad Greek debt.
Lines formed at many ATMs as people scrambled to pull as much of their money out as they could, a development that Cypriot and European officials feared would happen. Another key concern was that the bailout would buckle investor confidence in Cyprus and other weaker eurozone economies.
Trying to head off a full-blown bank run when banks reopen on Tuesday after the long holiday weekend, Bank of Cyprus Group chief Andreas Artemis called for "calm and a level-headed assessment" of the situation.
"Developments are painful and startling. That's why the public's concern is completely understandable and justified," he said.
The levy is expected to raise €5.8 billion.
European officials said people with less than €100,000 in their accounts will have to pay a one-time tax of 6.75 percent, those owning more money will lose 9.9 percent. Cypriot bank officials said that depositors can access all their money, except the amount set by the levy.
Details of how the levy would be implemented remain sketchy. For instance, it's unclear how joint bank accounts would be calculated.
Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble called the levy part of the "fair" distribution of the bailout's burden. "The Cypriot banking sector will be significantly reduced to a sustainable level and business model," he said.
The Cypriot bailout still needs parliamentary approval by euro area countries, and Schaeuble said it will be brought before the German parliament in the second half of April.
But Cypriots continued to withdraw cash from ATMs until the machines ran out on Saturday, unsure what or how much would be taxed. The country's cooperative banks also shut their doors after depositors scurried in hopes of protecting their savings.
Christos Demetriades, 58, who milled outside a closed Nicosia cooperative bank branch, said: "Politicians and senior bank bosses have covered each other's backs for years. Now it's ordinary people who are paying the price and are being punished."
One disgruntled customer at a branch in the southern coastal town of Limassol briefly parked his tractor in front of its shut doors in a show of frustration.
Spain's economic ministry said Saturday that the Cyprus deal would not set a pattern for other countries. "This is a specific agreement for Cyprus, with its complex situation and an oversized banking sector, a ministry statement said. "Because of this, Cyprus' situation and this agreement are not transferrable to any other country in the eurozone."
Cypriot lawmakers are scheduled to vote on the levy on Sunday in what is likely to be a stormy session in Parliament.


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| August 16, 2012, 4:04 pm
"Book of Mormon" lottery tales: We tried it, and while our names weren't picked, we're going to try again!
When we found out the "Book of Mormon" was doing a day-of lottery for $25 front-row tickets, we knew we were going to try it — once, twice, until we got picked.
The whole day-of ticketing experience is something I love. It levels the playing field. Some friends and I waited outside the Buell in college for eight or nine hours at a time to secure "Rent" rat tickets. We've done it in New York for an assortment of other musicals, too.


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- Premier League
Wenger: Arsenal squandered title shot
Arsene Wenger feels that Arsenal squandered a "fantastic opportunity" to win the Premier League title this season, and that he still doesn't envisage the team finishing outside the top four.
Alluding to what he perceives as the lower quality of the two Manchester clubs this season, the Emirates boss said that neither side were "untouchable".
"I saw Tottenham against Manchester United and you think the difference between us and Manchester United when you see them play. It was a fantastic opportunity this season. To catch Manchester United now is out of sight at the moment.
"We have to get closer to the people in front of us first before we can think that. Man United is far but there is no untouchable team in the country at the moment. That is for sure."
While many may think Wenger's comments fanciful and that he has enough of a fight to even get into the top four, let alone challenge for the title, the Arsenal manager did acknowledge the problems his team have as well as the difficulty of getting into the Champions League places this season.
"It should not be difficult but it will be tough ... tougher than before. It has been always tough but you have plenty of candidates. Tottenham, Everton who are fighting in there as well but I think we can do and that we will do it. "What the last two results have created is we cannot waste any points now."
Wenger also described the next three games, feature home matches in the league against West Ham and Liverpool, punctuated by a trip to Brighton in the FA Cup, as a one of the most important weeks of the season.
"It is a massive test, a big test. First of all to see how we respond tomorrow and then we have a cup game as well as Brighton. Then we play Liverpool and Stoke and it's a very important moment of the season for us."
Wenger also admitted that, due to the stretched nature of a thin enough squad, it is imperative his side avoid absences.
"If we have no injuries we are alright. If we have big injuries we are a bit short."


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Currently, the federal reserve interest rate is 0-0.25%, and the inflation is 2-3%. Does this contradict the no-arbitrage principle? (The arbitrage being: borrow money at 0.25% and invest it in the "basket of goods" or other non-inflating assets). Essentially, the borrower gets paid to hold assets. Why?
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$\begingroup$ Is this an attempt to be humorous? I'm not sure this qualifies as a quant finance question. $\endgroup$ – Tal Fishman Jul 20 '12 at 20:03
This is not an arbitrage because the transaction costs of the basket of goods is too high. Ever try to sell an item on eBay? I doubt you'll get 2-3% more for it next year, even new in box. Some of the items in the basket are current consumption goods. Good luck selling those fresh fruits and vegetables next year for 2-3% more than you paid. Others are mere estimates of costs people incur, not actual goods. How on earth are you going to resell a year's rent? Also, the 0.25% interest rate only applies for overnight loans if you are a prime bank. For individuals borrowing "unsecured" (as I doubt your basket of goods counts as proper collateral), the rate is much higher.
Separately, this is also not an arbitrage because it is doing exactly what the Fed is trying to encourage, namely more borrowing and more current consumption. This is known as having a policy of negative real interest rates, and it has happened many times in many places in the past.
As for why the Fed is trying to encourage this behavior, that is a very complicated question on the goals of monetary policy, and is out of the scope of this site.


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Wednesday, 22 May 2013 01:58 PM
The campaign, which so far appears on the Internet and in Washington-area newspapers, is Dish's most public lobbying effort yet against Japan-based SoftBank Corp.
Dish has been pushing the national security angle hard in Washington. Since April, it has filed several documents raising alleged national security risks tied to SoftBank, while also promoting its own $25.5 billion bid for Sprint.
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A full-page color ad ran on A5 of the Washington Post on Wednesday comparing SoftBank's proposed acquisition of Sprint to the 2006 Dubai Ports World controversy. In that case, legislators helped block a deal to buy several U.S. ports by stressing the national security concerns.
"In an ever advancing world, 'ports' may change," the newspaper ad says, "but keeping them in American hands never should. Don't outsource our national security."
The ad has a photo of shipping ports sitting above a photo of networking equipment. Dish's accompanying website, Nationalsecuritymatters.com, claims SoftBank spends "significant amounts with Chinese equipment manufacturers for its wireless network in Japan."
Dish also said on the website that China is the leading source of cybersecurity breaches. Dish's online ads link to that webpage, which was set up earlier this week.
In response, SoftBank says on its own website about the deal that it is "committed to using only network equipment that is acceptable to the U.S. government." SoftBank also made a pledge at the end of March that it would not use equipment from China's Huawei in Sprint's network.
Jeff Blum, Dish's Washington-based deputy general counsel, said the newspaper ads also appeared in Washington trade publications such as Politico, The Hill, Roll Call and the National Journal. Digital ads appear online in the National Journal and Politico, as well as news sites such as Reuters.com.
James Burger, an attorney who focuses on lobbying and policy at Thompson & Coburn in Washington, is skeptical the ads will be effective, especially because Japan is a U.S. ally and not viewed as a threat.
"I'm not convinced that the ads will convince the decision makers," he said.
Burger, who lobbied for Apple in the 1990s, but does not do work for SoftBank, Sprint or Dish, added that the ads will fall on deaf ears if SoftBank follows its pledge to use no Chinese equipment in its U.S. network.
"It seems to me that Dish is harping on the China bashing," he said. "But if SoftBank swears not use Chinese equipment, I wonder how well this will work."
Yet Dish has said its lobbying effort in Washington appears to be working. At a congressional cybersecurity hearing on Tuesday, the SoftBank deal made its way into the debate.
When asked by Virginia Representative Morgan Griffith if he had concerns about the deal, Mike McConnell, former director of national intelligence, said he would not be in favor of a U.S. communications company controlled by a foreign entity.
The ad campaign comes one day after SoftBank said it would grant a waiver to Sprint to allow it to consider Dish's bid.
On Tuesday, Sprint said its recommendation in favor of the SoftBank agreement had not changed. But some major Sprint shareholders, including Paulson & Co. and Omega Advisors, have said the Dish offer looks better than SoftBank's deal.
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World premiere: new video from pop sensation Sabina Ddumba
She started as a backup singer, but we believe she is destined for superstardom. As Sabina Ddumba is about to release her debut album, she speaks to H&M Magazine about why she deserves to be where she is.
Growing up in Stockholm with her dad and brothers, Sabina Ddumba was taught Ugandan nursery rhymes and songs and joined the choir at a young age. But it wasn't until she discovered Lauryn Hill that she believed she could become an artist.
She even has a tattoo on her arm picturing the American singer and when Lauryn Hill was visiting Sweden this summer, Sabina got a chance to show the artwork to the singer's stylist.
"What I love about her is that her voice sometimes cracks and that you can hear how she almost cries when she sings", says the 22-year-old singer. "Beyoncé is also an artist I've listened a lot to, but she was never my role model. When I was young all the girls were playing Destiny's Child and I'm darker than Beyoncé so I rarely got to be her. Lauryn Hill was just as dark as me and it was nice to see that someone who looked like me could be an artist. She is everything to me."
I have allowed myself to focus on singing and I have never been afraid to fail.
Sabina Ddumba
You may have heard Sabina Ddumba's soulful singing on Katy Perry's Walking On Air or her own singles Effortless, Scarred for Life or Not Too Young. The Swedish singer is now set to release her first album Homeward Bound, and it's filled with pop gems. She's worked with Wolf Cousins – collaborators of Ariana Grande, Jennifer Lopez and Taylor Swift – as well as LunchMoney Lewis, the man behind songs by Nicki Minaj and Jessie J.
"I have always been very stubborn", Sabina says. "I am very thankful for this opportunity and that I'm able to work with people like these, but I think I deserve it. And I have spent a lot of time developing my voice. That's what I care about."
Sabina still lives in Stockholm and thinks her family and friends have helped her stay true to herself. Her mother left the family when she was only eight years old, but Sabina's managed to keep what happened separate from her singing and career.
"I'm proud that I didn't let her absence define me", she says. "I have allowed myself to focus on singing and I have never been afraid to fail."
Still, going down the record label route wasn't always the evident choice for her.
"I was in a meeting one day, and I was really sceptical," the singer remembers. "Record label? How does that work? Some people told me not to sign and said: 'You'll sell your soul.' But [in the end] I laughed at them, there's no escaping the record labels. So I signed and now I'm here."
Sabina Ddumba's album Homeward Bound will be released in a couple of days. In the meantime, watch the world premiere of the music video for Time, exclusively here on H&M Magazine.
Sabina's top five songs
1. Lauryn Hill – Everything Is Everything
LOCATION Born 1994 in Stockholm and is still living in the capital of Sweden.
WHAT Sabina started out as a backing vocalist for Katy Perry and Swedish singer Jenny Wilson. Her own music has influences from soul, gospel, and R&B. She's now releasing her first album Homeward Bound.
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YouTube Homepage Gets a Makeover
YouTube gave its homepage a slight makeover yesterday, moving placement of certain videos and streamlining other sections.
"We've redesigned this page to better reflect what's currently popular on YouTube, as chosen by you. We hope it's more visually appealing now, too," Brian Glick, product manager for the YouTube team, wrote in a blog post.
Spotlight videos will now be given greater prominence on the page.
"It won't appear every day, but when it does, videos will be organized around a theme, such as today's Earth Day videos, or a community trend," Glick wrote.
The Most Popular section, meanwhile, will include the hottest video in each category at that moment, and will also include the Most Viewed and Top Favorited video "to help surface a wider variety of videos," he said.
Finally, the videos being watched right now got a makeover to place a "greater emphasis to the videos that are rising up right now, according to what people are watching."


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Or the Koran, etc. etc.
My choices would be,
1. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the looking glass and what alice found there. By Lewis Carroll
2. The Complete Hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy, by Douglas Adams.
3. Cats Cradle, By Vonnegut Jr. (Or almost anything by him, also particularly Sirens of the Titans)
What about you? What book or narative do you think presents a better understanding of Morality/reality/sexuality/ and/or spirituality, then the trash presented by the pig religions?
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Oh Great question I will throw my own rules in here that I have raised my kids by and there are only 2 and they can be applied to everything , It wouldn't even need to be a book
Just a fridge magnet !
It would say
Be Kind! Learn Lots!
That's it because I figure If it's not kind or you can't learn from it you probably shouldn't be doing it!


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Kids & Money
Consumers may be gaining the upper hand with cable, internet services
I was heading home from work several weeks ago when a call came from my wife.
"Heads up," she said, explaining that an AT&T sales rep would be coming by the house that evening to pitch the company's triple-play package of cable television, Internet and phone service .
AT&T? You might say I was stunned. After all, this wasn't going to be a cold call from a neighborhood Girl Scout selling peanut butter cookies.
Sure enough, the salesman arrived as scheduled, made his case on my doorstep for U-verse and ended on this note: He needed my answer that night. None of this look-over-the-brochure stuff and think it over.
My decision was a no-brainer because the cost was actually higher than what I was paying Time Warner Cable.
While this scene may not be playing out in every neighborhood, this door-to-door pursuit of business left me with a loud and clear impression: The market for cable, high-speed Internet and telephone services might finally be turning ever so slightly in favor of consumers. In short, there may be more supply than demand.
In my neighborhood, for example, Time Warner Cable has long ruled the roost. But both AT&T and SureWest have recently moved in, and Google is coming up the road with its grand Kansas City fiberoptic experiment that is in the national spotlight. Satellite companies, of course, are options, too.
This is great news given that cellphones, cable and the Internet have become a major line item for many household budgets, surpassing electricity and water.
With more competitors, the deals are getting better and there's more flexibility to negotiate.
Unhappy with pixilated images on the big screen or tired of paying twice as much as new customers, who seem to get the best package deals? Bypass regular customer service and deal with the retention department. That's a trick I've learned.
For every outage with your cable box, keep track of the minutes and then demand a few days' credit on your bill.
Being a longtime paying subscriber with service options should put more muscle behind your request.
Still, it's been my experience that it's no easy task to compare rate plans unless you are retired and can spend a lot of time on the phone
Some providers offer competitive basic service, with lots of sports channels. But if you're trying to round out family programming, costs can quickly escalate.
Dan Mathews, a financial planner with Stepp & Rothwell in Overland Park, recommends that you only spend 3 to 5 percent of your budget on technology. Good luck, given the increasing sophistication and costs of the gadgets and services.
Option B? Take a look at what you really use and need and make cuts.
What's the message in all this for your kids?
Save your money — and sharpen your negotiating skills. You're going to need to do both if you want to keep up with technology in the years ahead.