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Australia ranks 17th in organ donation per million of population.
We believe that global leading practice should be adopted in Australia.
Every day, 3 Australians miss out on a life changing transplant.
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My wonderful, smart, talented, beautiful older sister turned 30 today. She is an amazing woman, strong and opinionated, sensitive and compassionate. She can kick my butt running (well doing anything athletic, really) and trivial pursuit, but is still nice enough to share a bottle of wine or a delicious meal with me. I was lucky enough to be able to celebrate her birthday with her, for the first time in years, here in Chicago and I wanted to send her home with one of her favorite treats: carrot cake.
I cannot think of carrot cake without thinking of my sister and our former backyard neighbors the Sonnabends. They have three kids, and the older two and my sister were inseparable growing up. Carrot cake instantly brings to mind a snapshot of Rian and Sara in matching bikinis with their little pot bellies sticking out, hamming it up for the camera, waiting to take on the suped-up slip and slide my dad concocted. Whenever it was time for a Sonnabend birthday, you could pretty much guarantee that a carrot cake would be blazing with candles. For some reason I always despised carrot cake, and thought it was weird that a kid would want a cake made out of vegetables for their birthday, when they could have their choice of anything. Chocolate, vanilla, fun-fetti, angel food, come on, with all the options, carrot cake? Really??
I have since come around and now really enjoy carrot cake, I even snagged a cupcake or two for myself last weekend. Paired with a rich and not too sweet cream cheese frosting, these spiced carrot cake cupcakes made the birthday girl very happy.
Carrot Cake Cupcakes & Cream Cheese Frosting
adapted from Smitten Kitchen
makes two dozen cupcakes
2 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon ground ginger
2 cups sugar
1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
4 large eggs, room temperature
3 cups grated carrots, I used a micro plane to grate the very finely, but you can use the small side of a box grater
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F, and line two cupcake tins with paper liners.
In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger, and whisk together. In a large bowl, whisk together the oil and sugar until combined. Add the eggs one at a time, whisking to incorporated between each addition. Fold in the carrots, the add the dry ingredients to the wet, and using a wooden spoon, gently mix just until combined, and all dry ingredients are wet.
Spoon into lined muffin tins, until each cup is about 3/4 the way full. Bake for 16-20 minutes on the middle rack, until a toothpick entered into the center of the cakes comes out clean. Let cool in pans for a few minutes, then remove from tins and let cool completely on a baking rack before frosting.


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by Tyler Durden
Mon, 12/24/2018 - 12:45
Authored by Celine Ryan via Campus Reform,
Campus Reform rounded up the top five instances of students and professors branding others "white supremacist" or teaching about the concept in class...
Institutions from Salisbury University in Maryland, all the way to California State University-Dominguez Hills have made the list.
1. That time some conservative students tried to buy coffee in their MAGA hats
Students at Fordham University staged a protest against "white supremacy." The hour-and-a-half-long protest consisted of chants like "hate speech is not free speech" and signs reading "White Supremacy Kills."
"Fordham's policies and protection of white supremacy is putting people at risk," one student shouted into a megaphone. Another explained that the protest was meant to elicit a response from university administration.
When asked to provide evidence of white supremacy on their campus, protesters recalled an incident to The Fordham Ram in which a student in charge of an on-campus coffee shop was disciplined for asking College Republicans to leave because of their Make America Great Again gear.
Protesters said showing up to the coffee house in Trump swag was "threatening behavior" and argued that Fordham's actions constituted "protection of white supremacy."
2. The professor that went full #Resist in her course syllabus
California State University-Dominguez Hills professor Dr. Brooke Mascagni included in her course syllabus an explanation that President Donald Trump "won the 2016 election by appealing to hatred and bigotry."
The syllabus went on to blame the January government shutdown on Republicans.
"Moreover, the Republican Party controls the executive and legislative branches of government, yet couldn't manage to keep the government running on the one year anniversary of Trump's inauguration," it said.
"And, oh yeah, Russia interfered with the U.S. electoral process and our president is under investigation for obstruction of justice," Mascagni added.
"Future generations will wonder how the people of what was once considered the greatest democracy in the world elected a white supremacist, misogynist, narcissistic, volatile, belligerent, uninformed, stubborn, failed businessman and orange reality star to the highest office," she wrote.
3. The 'White Supremacy' checklist
In case you aren't sure whether or not you're a white supremacist, a Linfield College English professor made a handy checklist to help you figure it out.
Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt published her checklist in a January Inside Higher Edop-ed meant to help individuals determine whether or not they were actively "supporting white supremacy."
Transgressions on the list included working "in a position of power in a predominantly white institution" and not making an effort "to change the white supremacist power structures within your departments, committees and institutional decision-making process."
A desire to suggest "'stellar' (mostly men) and obviously 'white'" colleagues for promotions and recognition also helps to aid white supremacy, according to Dutt-Ballerstadt. This type of thinking lends itself to an unacceptable "logic of meritocracy that is built on this racist assumption that everyone has had the same access and opportunities."
4. The 'white supremacy' event held in response to Ben Shapiro's campus visit
Jewish conservative commentator Ben Shapiro paid a visit to the University of Minnesota for a speaking engagement. The event spurred an ample amount of controversy on campus, as Shapiro's speeches often do.
In response to this controversy, the university's Women's Center scheduled its own event titled "White Supremacy in the Age of Trump: An Anti-Racist Teach-In" directly before Shapiro's speech. The event had the stated goal of "mapping the connections between white extremist groups and American conservatism today," as well as "unpacking the ways white supremacy manifests itself in systems, language, and culture."
"We do not know whether Ben Shapiro is a white supremacist," organizers of the event told Campus Reform. "What we know is that we have received an outpouring of support."
5. The 'Pyramid of White Supremacy'
Students at Maryland's Salisbury University are required to take a course called "Diversity and the Self" in order to obtain an elementary education major.
This year, the course employed the use of a "Pyramid of White Supremacy," which ranked different actions that, in theory, allow white supremacy to exist. The actions were placed in a hierarchy, with "indifference" on the bottom, all the way up to "genocide" at the top.
"In a pyramid, every brick depends upon the one below it for support," a caption explained. "If the bricks at the bottom are removed, the whole structure comes tumbling down."
Actions such as "remaining apolitical," saying things like "politics doesn't affect me," and "avoiding confrontation with racist family members" were classified as indifference. The next level was titled "minimization," and included things like speaking over people of color, or believing in a post-racial society.
Step by step, the pyramid increased in severity, from "veiled racism" such as the "bootstrap theory" of lifting oneself up by one's own bootstraps, to "discrimination" such as "stop and frisk," to "calls for violence" such as cross burning, until the analogy comes to a close with the "genocide" section.
Salisbury students were quizzed on the pyramid, which implied that phrases such as "Why can't we all just get along?" were complicit in supporting the mass murder of individuals based on race.
"This class was extremely difficult to get through if you did not think like a liberal. Instead of teaching diversity, this class taught us that being white was a bad thing," one student told Campus Reform. "We were told that we were only privileged because we are white and basically we did not actually work for what we have."
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The Five Most Outrageous Professor Statements Of 2018
by Tyler Durden
Mon, 12/24/2018 - 15:40
Authored by Grace Gottschling via Campus Reform,
Campus Reform rounded up five of the most outrageous instances of college faculty and staff who have made statements describing violent acts and inflammatory rhetoric...
1. Yale law prof encourages people to 'hide immigrants from ICE'
In July, Campus Reform reported on a Yale University professor, Gregg Gonsalves, who suggested on Twitter that "we hide immigrants from ICE if we have to."
The law professor, who did not have a law degree at the time of this initial report, insisted that this would be an act of "civil disobedience," rather than aiding and abetting criminals.
Gonsalves had made multiple social media posts at the time in support of publicly releasing ICE agents' personal information, an act commonly referred to as "doxxing," stating: "I have no qualms about showing up at ICE regional directors' homes. They can leave their jobs at the office and feel free from scrutiny at home. Lucky them."
2. Brooklyn College Prof: Trump's immigration policy goal is to inflate 'body count'
A Brooklyn College professor of Constitutional Rights and Political Science, Anna O. Law, made several social media posts in July regarding her opinion on immigration.
"Trump's immigration policy is about inflating 'body count' stats, not about removing dangerous criminals," Law wrote. "If you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, without proof of citizenship on your person...any brown person will do."
Law later responded to her tweet, adding, "Reason, why I'm pointing this out, is that since Trump has now formed a de-naturalization force, one's citizenship via naturalization is tenuous and apparently contingent on whether the Admin is nativist. Why then tie precious barrels of rights to it?"
Law made a subsequent tweet claiming that "ending birthright citizenship" is a "white supremacist move."
3. Georgetown University Professor: White GOP senators in Kavanaugh hearing 'deserve miserable deaths'
In September, Christine Fair, a Distinguished Associate Professor at Georgetown University, repeatedly posted about then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the GOP deserving to die.
"Look at thus [sic] chorus of entitled white men justifying a serial rapist's arrogated entitlement," Fair tweeted, appearing to reference a video of "Lindsey Graham's tirade," adding that "all of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps."
Fair continued her thoughts on the hearings and the GOP by tweeting, "Bonus: we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine? Yes."
Following Campus Reform's initial report on Fair's comments, she made specific posts on her blog targeting student journalists in Campus Reform's Correspondent program.
As of December, Fair is still employed by Georgetown University, although she is on "research leave."
4. Minnesota State University Professor: Virgin Mary didn't give consent
A Minnesota State University psychology professor, Eric Sprankle, tweeted his opinion that the Virgin Mary, a minor, did not consent to become pregnant with Jesus Christ.
When met with negative criticism of his view on Twitter, Sprankle further explained his position, saying that "the biblical god regularly punished disobedience. The power difference (deity vs mortal) and the potential for violence for saying 'no' negates her 'yes.'"
"To put someone in this position is an unethical abuse of power at best and grossly predatory at worst," Sprankle concluded.
5. Northeastern University Professor and Admin says feminists have 'every right' to 'hate men'
In a Washington Post op-ed, women and gender studies professor, Suzanna Danuta Walters, wrote that men should "step away" to make room for women, as they "have every right to hate you."
The Northeastern University professor begins her article with the question: "Is it really so illogical to hate men?"
"My edge has been crossed for a long time," Walters writes, citing recent #MeToo allegations against high-profile men, rampant sexual assaults and "red pill men's groups and rape camps."
"Seen in this indisputably true context, it seems logical to hate men," Walters wrote, criticizing feminists who "don't hate men."
"Start with this," Walters instructs men. "Lean out so we can actually just stand up without being beaten down. Pledge to vote for feminist women only. Don't run for office. Don't be in charge of anything. Step away from the power."
"And please know that your crocodile tears won't be wiped away by us anymore," Walters admonishes. "We have every right to hate you. You have done us wrong. #BecausePatriarchy. It is long past time to play hard for Team Feminism. And win."
Following Walters' op-ed, a Title IX complaint was filed against her but Northeastern University opted not to conduct an investigation against the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department Chair.
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Race-Baiting CNN Analyst Slams Host For "White Privilege", Then Discovers He's Black
by Tyler Durden
Tue, 01/15/2019 - 15:20
CNN legal analyst Areva Martin had a race-baiting fail after accusing SiriusXM radio host and Fox News contributor David Webb of "white privilege" during a debate on his Monday morning radio show
While discussing a recent controversy stoked by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) over CBS failing to hire any black journalists to cover the 2020 election, Webb asked Martin what she thought.
Martin said she agreed with Ocasio-Cortez that it was unacceptable for media outlets to claim that there aren't enough journalists of color available, to which Webb responded that he had "31 years" of experience in the media, adding "I've seen the coverage, and I've also seen it change, generationally … I have not seen the lack of [diversity], I've seen, actually growth in it"
Webb then asked Martin if Black Entertainment Television (BET) should be forced to hire a white or Hispanic reporter, which Martin said would be up to BET.
Arguing that that qualifications should be the deciding factor over race, Webb said "I never considered my color the issue. I considered my qualifications the issue," to which Martin replied:
"Well, David, that's a whole 'other long conversation about white privilege, the things that you have the privilege of doing that people of color don't have the privilege of…"
Webb cut in: "How do I have the privilege of white privilege?"
To which Martin shot back: "David, by virtue of being a white male, you have white privilege."
Webb then replied: "Areva, I hate to break it to you, but you should have been better prepped. I'm black … See, you went to white privilege. This is the falsehood in this. You went immediately with an assumption … You're talking to a black man who started out in rock radio in Boston, who crossed the paths into hip-hop, rebuilding one of the greatest black stations in America, and went on to work for Fox News, where I'm told apparently blacks aren't supposed to work, but yet you come with this assumption and you go to white privilege. That's actually insulting!"
Martin apologized, claiming "My people gave me wrong information."
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The obsession with 'racism' is destroying freedom and heralding an age of pure tyranny
The anti-white racism of the new left:
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Dirty tricks!
Fake Labour accounts fueling "anti-Semitism crisis"
Asa Winstanley The Electronic Intifada
17 January 2019
From the start, reporting of the "anti-Semitism crisis" in the UK's Labour Party has been characterized by dishonesty, exaggeration and outright fabrication.
The real target of this manufactured crisis is not genuine anti-Semites, but Jeremy Corbyn and the wider Palestine solidarity movement.
But now additional evidence has come to light of a disturbing trend which has been fueling the fire lit since Corbyn's first leadership victory in September 2015.
An investigation by The Electronic Intifada has documented 10 fake Twitter profiles posing as Corbyn supporters who have been posting virulent anti-Semitism.
The accounts share sufficient similarities to indicate that the same person – or group – is running them.
Without police involvement or a court case, it's impossible to know for sure who is behind this troll network.
But whoever it is, they are clearly attempting to smear Labour as an anti-Semitic party.
It is well established that Israel has been running both covert and overt efforts against Jeremy Corbyn since he became leader.
Anti-Palestinian groups working in coordination with Israel are running covert social media campaigns.
A recent example was revealed in the suppressed undercover Al Jazeera investigation, The Lobby – USA.
As that film showed, The Israel Project is running a campaign to infiltrate pro-Israel narratives into popular, and otherwise innocuous, Facebook pages.
"There are also things that we do that are completely off the radar," the lobby group's managing director told Al Jazeera's undercover reporter.
Last month, another covert operation was revealed after its documents leaked – this one run by the British state.
The so-called Integrity Initiative was launched in 2015 and is directed by British military intelligence officials.
Its documents suggest it is involved in what it calls "infowar techniques."
The UK government conceded after the leak that the initiative is being funded by both its foreign and defense ministries – over $3 million to date.
Among the shadowy group's targets has been Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
The network of Twitter accounts investigated by The Electronic Intifada uses a series of fake names and profile photos.
Their followers lists also include many dubious looking accounts, strongly suggestive of bought fake followers.
All 10 accounts have engaged in a pattern of deception, presenting as Labour activists while engaging in anti-Semitism.
Most have also posted violent incitement and death threats, often against Jews.
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'Social Justice': what it really means
Georgia TA: 'Some White People May Have To Die..."
by Tyler Durden
Fri, 01/18/2019 - 20:05
Authored by Eduardo Neret via Campus Reform,
University of Georgia (UGA) teaching assistant wrote Wednesday on Facebook that "some white people may have to die for black communities to be made whole in this struggle to advance to freedom."
UGA philosophy TA Irami Osei-Frimpong made the comment during a conversation on the Overheard at UGA Facebook page. The comment has since been deleted. Osei-Frimpong claimed in May 2017 that Facebook suspended him for quoting from an article which detailed how Texas A&M professor Tommy Curry had said "in order to be equal, in order to be liberated, some white people may have to die."
"Killing some white people isn't genocide; it's killing some white people," the UGA TA explained in a Medium post.
"We had to kill some white people to get out of slavery. Maybe if we'd killed more during the 20th century we still wouldn't talk about racialized voter disenfranchisement and housing, education, and employment discrimination. This should not be controversial."
Osei-Frimpong's Wednesday comment, seemingly inspired by Curry, is far from the first racially-charged remark made by the scholar.
"Fighting white people is a skill," the UGA TA tweeted on Jan. 12, adding that it is why he supports integrated schools.
"You have to get used to fighting White people. It takes practice."
He then quoted American clinical psychologist Bobby Wright, saying, "Blacks kill Blacks because they have never been trained to kill Whites."
Last semester, at a Young Democrats meeting, Frimpong compared Southern whites in America to "sociopaths" and "autistic kids." Later on, in November, he called for Democrats to "wage war on the white electorate" and wrote that white "institutions" that "make crappy white people" such as churches, schools, and families must be "dismantled." Facebook subsequently gave Osei-Frimpong a temporary suspension.
Despite the TA's history with controversial racial rhetoric, UGA has chosen not to take any action.
Regarding his latest comments, a spokesperson at UGA's Equal Opportunities Office said in an email obtained by Campus Reform that Osei-Frimpong's views expressed his "personal opinion," in his "personal capacity," on a private platform.
The spokesperson also asked the recipient of the email to contact their office if any information was discovered that showed Osei-Frimpong made "discriminatory or harassing comments" in his capacity as a member of the UGA community.
Some of Osei-Frimpong's UGA colleagues have gone as far to defend his previous comments about white Americans. UGA Associate Professor of Brain and Behavioral Science Dr. Janet Frick once tweeted that the TA's comments were not hate speech, but rather "hurt your feelings speech."
Campus Reform reached out to Osei-Frimpong for further comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.
Editor's note: Campus Reform encourages civil discourse and acknowledges professors' First Amendment right to free speech. The purpose of this article, like any other, is to present the facts and allow our readers to form their own opinions
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The West's Descent Into 'Cultural Revolution'
by Tyler Durden
Fri, 01/18/2019 - 17:25
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
The goal of the Cultural Revolution isn't to persuade, it's to enforce compliance.
A Cultural Revolution is a movement designed to preserve the political and financial power of a ruling elite by social rather than political or financial means. Thus the primary tools of a Cultural Revolution are not redistributing power via elections (politics) or financial reforms; the primary tools are public shaming and denouncements, purges of those in positions of authority, show trials, guilt-by-association, wholesale denouncements of entire classes and widespread accusations of anti-progressive ("counter-revolutionary") tendencies in which guilt is defined by all-or-nothing litmus tests of one's loyalties to the Cultural Revolution's strict ideology.
You haven't memorized Mao's Little Red Book? Off to re-education camp you go. Or house arrest, banishment, beatings, imprisonment or if the mob's blood lust demands it, execution.
The key dynamic of a Cultural Revolution is the oppressors appropriate the language of liberation as their favored tool of suppressing dissent, denouncing opponents and fueling widespread purges of anyone who might harbor the slightest potential to question the social suppression of dissent.
A Photographer's Quest to Reverse China's Historical Amnesia (New York Times)
Now, more than a half-century after the Cultural Revolution began, there is little public discussion of that period in China. What some have called the nation's collective amnesia has only gotten worse in recent years as leaders have walked back efforts to reckon with the country's modern history.
To those launching a Cultural Revolution, the solution to a diversity of opinion is to crush dissent and narratives that threaten the ruling elites' power. This is of course the exact opposite of democracy and Enlightenment-era liberalism. But the point of a Cultural Revolution isn't to broaden political enfranchisement or representation--the point of the anti-Deplorables / anti-Brexit / anti-yellow vest campaigns is to strip dissenters (those who disagree with the ruling neoliberal elites) of political and social representation.
The goal of the Cultural Revolution is to render all those who resist the ruling elites politically and socially invisible. The goal isn't to play nice and share power and wealth with the losers of financialization-globalization; the goal is to liquidate their influence in politics and society via relentless negative stereotyping by the elite-controlled mass media and an Orwellian reversal of identity that makes the dissenters into threats to democracy while elevating the elitist oppressors into selfless guardians of democracy--the exact opposite of reality.
In China's Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards mindlessly destroyed much of China's priceless cultural heritage as part of the deranged agenda of destroying whatever was traditional and valued by "counter-revolutionaries." Out with the old, in with the new--the time-honored pattern of power grabs masked by utopian goals.
If in doubt, purge, destroy, denounce. This is the Inquisition nature of all Cultural Revolutions.
China's ruling elites don't want any unedited history of the Cultural Revolution to leak into the public sphere because virtually everyone who was killed, tortured, imprisoned or denounced was innocent. Virtually every one of the millions of victims of the Cultural Revolution was a loyal cadre or average citizen going about their lives. "Counter-revolutionaries" were an illusory, fabricated threat.
Since we have many friends in China, we've heard the reality of the Cultural Revolution in private conversations, spoken in low tones even in the U.S. Nobody dares speak openly about what happened or the Party's role. One friend's father was an officer in the People's Liberation Army, a man whose loyalty was unquestioned. He was imprisoned. Another friend's father was put in house arrest for years because he'd visited Eastern Europe (at the Party's behest, of course) and was therefore suspect.
In Cultural Revolutions, the "crimes" are fabricated but the destruction is real.Take a look at the mainstream media coverage in France, the U.S. and the U.K. of the yellow vest dissenters. Make a list of all the public officials, intellectuals, actors, media pundits etc. who publicly defend the yellow vests and how many denounce them. Did you find any articles on the yellow vests on Page One? What percentage of the corporate-state media depicted the yellow vests as violent, unreasonable, and so on?
If you pursue an objective survey, you'll find few public figures supporting the yellow vest movement and little mainstream media coverage that presents the yellow vest movement in a positive light.
That's how Cultural Revolutions roll. The Nobility in our neofeudal system will work all the levers of power to marginalize, demonize, stereotype and disenfranchise any threats to their power.
The goal of the Cultural Revolution isn't to persuade, it's to enforce compliance. Virtue-signal your compliance in social media every day (i.e. wave your Little Red Book publicly) or you become suspect. Nobody cares what you actually believe, the point is to prove your compliance and complicity to those enforcing compliance and complicity.
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the hypocrisy of the progressive fake-left
Tucker Carlson Tonight 2/7/19 - Breaking Fox News February 7, 2019
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False Flags blamed on white people
Carlson on 'fake hate hoaxes' after Jussie Smollett fake attack developments
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So how can they get away with these false flag attacks? with the help of the complicit 'liberal' CORPORATE media of course!
"I'm Committing Professional Suicide": CBS Star Reporter Admits "Mostly Liberal" Journalists Are Now "Political Activists"
by Tyler Durden
Tue, 02/19/2019 - 09:01
CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent Lara Logan has broken ranks and admitted that journalists have lost their objectivity and become "political activists."
"85% of journalists are registered Democrats," Logan said. "How do you know you're being lied to? How do you know you're being manipulated? How do you know there's something not right with the coverage? When they simplify it all [and] there's no grey. It's all one way. Well, life isn't like that. If it doesn't match real life, it's probably not. Something's wrong. For example, all the coverage on Trump all the time is negative. … That's a distortion of the way things go in real life."
"There's no grey. It's all one way," said Logan.
CBS Laura Logan ~All coverage of Trump was negative -that's distortion We abandoned our pretense to be objective pic.twitter.com/MvH16FE692
— Ruthann (@TeaBoots) February 19, 2019
Logan says that the heavy bias has warped people's ability to know what's really true.
"When you turn on your computer, or you walk past the TV, or you see a newspaper headline in the grocery store If they're all saying the same thing, the weight of that convinces you that it's true," said Logan. "You don't question it, because everyone is saying it."
She also admitted that journalists today are more or less lobbyists for liberal interests, adding that the weight of the liberal media machine overwhelms "the other side" unless people actively seek outlets such as Breitbart.
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Now that Jussie Smollett has been arrested for manufacturing a "hate crime"—his duplicity was obvious from the start—it is time for the corporate media to move on to the next manufactured act designed to make all white males out to be racist homicidal maniacs.
Hours before Smollett was arrested for his vicious hoax, one Christopher Paul Hasson was arrested and accused of wanting to kill just about every human on earth, especially black people.
It is public knowledge the FBI has for years trolled the mentally ill and naive Muslims and framed them for terror plots like something out of a Tom Clancy novel. The agency has gone so far as to have "informers" arrange to sale of weapons and inert bombs to folks who should be on anti-psychotic meds, and then rolling these orchestrated fantasies out every few months as examples why the government should continue and expand the war on terror.
The Muslim "threat" is now well past its expiration date. The infrastructure—the NSA, DHS, fusion centers, police militarization, anti-terror public-private partnerships, etc.—is now in place and the real enemies of the state (constitutionalists, libertarians, antiwar activists) are to be targeted and liquidated in a rerun of COINTELPRO.
For the intersectional identity politics crowd, Jussie Smollett is an embarrassment. It shows how these people are vindictive liars and their "smirking privileged white male" nonsense is nothing more than a hateful fantasy that has—thanks to the state's propaganda media—managed to brainwash millions of Americans.
The Hasson case—real or imagined—will further radicalize a growing number of intellectually impotent progressives who believe white people (especially straight males) should not only be made to pay reparations for sins against "marginalized communities," but should in fact not exist at all.
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Institutional racism against straight white males will only deepen showing that the progressive agenda was never about 'equality'
hite heterosexual males face discrimination everywhere, man says after winning employment tribunal
'Had I lied on my interview form and said I was bisexual, there's a strong possibility I would be working for Cheshire Police now'
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A potential police recruit who was rejected from a force because he is white, male and heterosexual has said he believes many other men may have been similarly discriminated against.
An employment tribunal found Cheshire Police was guilty of discrimination against Matthew Furlong on the grounds of sexual orientation, race and gender after his application to join was unsuccessful.
The 25-year-old particle physics graduate, who applied to be a constable in 2017, discovered he had been turned down because the force needed more diverse candidates.
"It has completely shattered my confidence in the police force recruitment system," he said.
"The irony of the whole thing is that throughout the whole process I was required to demonstrate my honesty and integrity and they have completely undermined that.
"Had I lied on my interview form and said I was bisexual, for instance, there's a strong possibility I would be working for Cheshire Police now based on a lie."
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LONDON — October, month of surprises: We have come to expect the unexpected.
Whether it's Black Tuesday (the Wall Street crash of Oct. 29, 1929), news of an impending deal to end a long, unpopular war (Henry Kissinger, "peace is at hand" in Vietnam, Oct. 26, 1972), or just the unlikely revival of a team with a well deserved reputation for choking (Boston Red Sox, October 2004), the term "October Surprise" has entered the dictionary, and rightfully so.
This year, the question hanging over the contest between Republican challenger Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama is particularly poignant: Will Israel strike at Iran's nuclear program before the election? That scenario, Republican advisers fear, could result in an election eve surge of support for the sitting president by 5 to 7 points — the traditional reaction when US forces gird for possible action.
Republicans today are white hot about what some see as yet another example of the October surprise phenomenon: last week's Labor Department revision to unemployment figures that tugged them conveniently down (for President Obama, at least) from 8.1 to 7.8 percent.
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But the results of an Israeli decision to strike Iran between now and Nov. 6 would not only deal a potentially fatal blow to Mitt Romney's presidential ambitions; it could also tip the entire world into something economists universally fear: a coordinated global recession prompted by a huge spike in global oil prices.
Robert McNally, who was senior international energy advisor in the White House's National Security Council during the last administration, says a dangerous gap has developed between what he calls "planet officialdom" and "planet market" on the likelihood of an Israeli strike in the very near future.
In effect, McNally says, past experience — the Gulf War and more recent Iraq War — has convinced oil traders and other market players whose activities move prices that the US military would quickly restore the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz should Iran take steps to interrupt that narrow channel, through which 17 million barrels of oil move per day, or 17 percent of all "sea-traded" oil.
But a decade of war games by US Navy planners have showed that is not a given. According to a source at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, who asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitive nature of the information, several recent simulations showed it could take up to a month to re-open the Strait, and that Iran could inflict significant damage to US naval vessels attempting to do so.
There's another problem: the vast majority of so-called "surplus capacity" — the extra production-ready capacity to increase global supply — lies north of Hormuz in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf facilities. For years, Western efforts to prevent a catastrophic increase in energy prices as result of a Persian Gulf crisis have relied on two levers: surplus Saudi production capacity, and release from US and European strategic petroleum reserves (SPRs).
Those two elements appeared to meet economists' definition of an effective counterbalance to a panicked, supply starved market: the ability to replace up to 5 percent of global demand within 30 days and sustain it for 90 days.
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Today, most oil experts agree, the numbers just don't add up. Jim Krane, a Cambridge University expert on Gulf oil, says Saudi Arabia has lost its ability to be the "swing producer" who controls oil prices — the very essence of the protection-for-production alliances it has enjoyed with the United States since the mid-1970s.
"With domestic electricity demand rising 10 percent per year in Saudi Arabia, the kingdom now devours more than a quarter of its oil production — nearly three million barrels per day," Kane wrote in The Wall Street Journal. "In the medium-term, Saudi Arabia is in danger of losing its all-important 'reserve margin' of oil production that so often calms market volatility. Loss of this spare capacity would remove a crucial safety mechanism from the global economy, to say nothing of tying America's hands when it comes to future moves against oil states."
All of this is a prescription for market panic, record oil prices and a sharp dive for all of the world's major economies back toward the economic abyss.
Given the nuclear question at the heart of the Iran standoff, perhaps it's not surprising that more light is being shined on the military and political aspects of an October crisis in the Gulf.
Then again, there is a compelling precedent.
In 1980, officials of Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign feared that President Jimmy Carter, then holding a slim lead, would announce a last-minute deal to free American hostages being held in Iran to seal his re-election. According to Iranian officials involved in those talks, Reagan campaign emissaries won a promise from Iran, which by that point loathed Carter, not to release the hostages before the vote. Congressional investigations subsequently disputed the charges, but questions remain.
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Could Romney's campaign, on far better terms with Benjamin Netanyahu than Obama's White House, be trying to engineer something similar?
It's quite possible. But the fact is that Netanyahu can add the numbers, too, and faces his own dilemma. Yes, a strike before the election could help ensure a second term for a president he clearly finds hard to deal with. Yet there will never be a moment when Barack Obama is as likely to stand unquestioningly behind an Israeli action as on the eve of a tight re-election battle.
With all this swirling, and with a third US carrier task force in the Gulf along with a French carrier, uncertainty prevails. With even the most perfectly designed and executed Israeli attack likely to set back Iran's nuclear program only a few years, many are hoping that Iran's current economic collapse will convince Israel and its hawkish American supporters to be patient.
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|Thomas and Leona Dougherty nee Ganss, Calvary Cemetery, Drums, PA
Rather than just throwing up the tombstone for Thomas and Leona, I decided to do some quick research. After all, I'm trying to see if they are any relation...not just someone that shared a surname. The first place that popped up was the 1940 US Federal Census. Gosh, I'm loving that it's been indexed (Thanks indexers!). In 1940 Thomas and Leona was living in Hazleton on Wyoming Street and had two children: Thomas (Jr), and Conrad. There was gold in that thar' census (although not for my line)...in the form of a 76 year old gentleman living with them by the name of Conrad Ganss. Conrad is listed as Thomas' father-in-law. So now we know (theoretically) that Leona's maiden name was Ganss.
Thomas' tombstone have a military marker for 1941-1945, but I found no enlistment records for him. I also did not find him in Hazleton in earlier census records and frankly he would have been in his fifties during WWII. A possibility, but WWI would have been a better fit. That doesn't mean he wasn't there (or didn't move there after 1930)...and I'll be the first to admit that I only did a cursory search. If he is one of my Doughertys then he would have (most likely) lived in the Hazleton area.
Leona, was found in other census records and was living in Hazleton with her parents, Conrad and Catherine. Conrad and Catherine had (at least) eight children: Rosal, Anna, Conrad, Walter, Catherine, Hilda, Albert, and Leona. Judging by the 1900 US Federal Census Conrad and Catherine had 2 children (names unknown) that died young.
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Maxine Elizabeth (Gunderson) Nobiensky, 91 of Janesville passed away on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at Evansville Manor. She is now able to once again skip, jump rope, and do cartwheels in heaven. Also known as Max or Mackie, she was born on May 25, 1921, in Orfordville, WI, the daughter of Alvin and Stella (Thompson) Gunderson. Max graduated from Janesville High School in 1938 and was very proud to have worked her way through the University of La Crosse, graduating in 1942, with a degree in Physical Education. On June 18, 1948, she married Stewart C. Nobiensky and they had four children: Terry, Dale, Connie and Lee. He predeceased her on June 13, 1988. Max taught at Janesville High School from 1942 until 1950, when she was required to stop teaching because she started a family. She resumed teaching at Marshall Jr. High (the old Janesville High School) from 1963 until her retirement in 1983. She loved her job and coaching girls swim, volleyball and basketball. Maxine was an active member of First Lutheran Church and in retirement worked for many years on the Altar Guild. She also loved to golf and could be found on the golf course as soon as the snow melted in the spring until it closed in the fall. In 1985, she received the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award. She is a life member of Wisconsin Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance; member of Kappa Delta Pi; Janesville Area Retired Educators' Association; Wisconsin Retired Educators' Association; and Charter member of Jefferson Elementary School's Breakfast Club. Maxine had a positive attitude and was always willing to help others and she will be greatly missed.
Maxine is survived by her children: Terry Nobiensky of Janesville; Dale Nobiensky of Janesville; Dr. Connie (Dr. Jim) Winter of Edgerton; Lee (Susan) Nobiensky of Stoughton; grandchildren: Sam Nobiensky of Milwaukee, Max Nobiensky of La Crosse, Stewart Winter of Madison and Mikki Heckman of Stoughton; brother: Vince Gunderson of Florida; sister: June (Phil) Gaarder of Florida; special friends; Lyle and Bernice Amundson of Orfordville; many nieces, nephews and cousins. In addition to her husband and parents, she was predeceased by her brother: Lawrence Gunderson, and sisters-in-law: Lois Gunderson and Yvonne Gunderson.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 AM on Saturday, November 17, 2012 in the Chapel at Milton Lawns Memorial Park with Rev. James Melvin officiating. Memorials would be greatly appreciated if they were made in Maxine's name to First Lutheran Church Foundation or Evansville Manor.
Mackie's family would like to thank all the wonderful staff at Evansville Manor, Agrace HospiceCare and Home Health United for their wonderful care and support they have provided the last few months.
Memorials would be greatly appreciated if they were made in Maxine's name to First Lutheran Church Foundation or Evansville Manor.
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Ashton Kutcher and his legal team have taken aim at a tabloid after it published a cover story claiming he cheated on his wife, Demi Moore.
On Wednesday, the actor hit his Twitter account to lash out at Star magazine, which claimed in its latest issue that the celebrity couple's marriage "is in danger of falling apart" because the mag claimed the actor was allegedly "caught cheating with a sexy, young, 20-something."
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"I think Star magazine calling me a "cheater" qualifies as defamation of character. I hope my lawyer agrees," Ashton Tweeted on Wednesday.
"STAR magazine - you don't get to stand behind 'freedom of the press' when you are writing fiction," he added.
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Ashton's wife, Demi, backed him up, reTweeting her husband and adding her two cents.
"No question!," she wrote in response to his defamation of character Tweet.
Demi also called her husband's Tweet, an "Excellent point my love!"
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On Thursday, Access Hollywood spoke with Ashton's attorney, Marty Singer, who called the story an "absolute lie" and said they are "demanding Star issue a retraction and an apology."
Singer also claims that Ashton was never in the restaurant Madeo in the month of July, which is where Star alleged the cheating occurred.
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If the magazine does not issue a retraction, Singer added "we will evaluate all of our legal options at that time."
When contacted by Access Hollywood, a spokesperson for Star said the magazine "stands by its story."
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However, like Daniel in the Bible, the spirit of excellence upon him did make the difference. Chibuike will never hesitate to tell whoever cares to listen, that though he emerged from a below-par economic background, his survival instincts cannot be dismissed. According to Chibuike Achigbu, I was born into a poor background. Survival was no mean task. I had to do all manner of odd jobs to survive. It was that tough. But I had an uncle who was a principal as a role model. I saw his children eating good food and wearing nice clothes, so I wanted to be like them. Role Modeling or Self-Inspiration Unlike today, where young ones no longer have role models, he inspired himself through his uncle, whom he saw as one. He was a pioneer student at the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO), where he read Petroleum/Petrochemical Engineering Technology, graduating in 1988 with laurels as overall best student in Petroleum Engineering and with a departmental award. Not willing to settle for less, Chibuike did a Masters Degree program in Public Administration, specializing in Political Economy at the University of Lagos (UNILAG). In 2009, he was at the Harvard Business School, Boston, USA for a three-year program in Entrepreneurship and Leadership. Again, in 2011, he was awarded a postgraduate certificate in Business Strategy and Leadership Development. Cutting His teeth As a young graduate of Petroleum / Petrochemical Engineering Technology, Chibuike cut his professional teeth as a Youth Corper with Mobil, where he learned the ropes. I did my NYSC in Mobil. As a young graduate, I went to work every day in helicopters. They would pick us from where we lived in the bush, drop us at the offshore platform. Imagine a 24-year-old in a place, with dolphins and fishes as companions. And if it was raining, I would hold one of the pipes to keep warm. I would remain there till the helicopter came for me at 5 p.m, he recalls. His venture into startup business was not without its usual challenges. He had to look elsewhere outside his professional calling to raise capital. He leveraged his relationship with his brother who resided abroad. I raised fund by selling football boots. I had a brother in Russia in the era of Perestroika, who used to send football boots to me every week. Every Monday, I would go to the airport, pick them and race to the National Stadium, Surulere to sell. I earned his trust, because I was honest, remitting his money appropriately. He was encouraged and did introduce his friends to patronize me. This emphasizes integrity and honesty as cardinal points in earning the trust of others, either in business or life in general. From selling boots, Chibuike went on to selling wristwatches, chandeliers, earrings, etc. Within 2/3 years, I was able to save some money, he reminisces. And then, he started brainstorming on what kind of business to go into. He says, For sure, I know what I wasnt going into. I wasnt prepared to be like the regular trader. Focus and Conquer As a qualified Petrochemical professional also highly trained and skilled in the art of business and entrepreneurship, the marketing cliché focus and conquer became his guiding mantra as he decided to go into something along the lines of his professional competence. I always wanted to go back to my profession; I decided to go into LPG business by setting up my first company, Chimons Limited, a gas refilling plant in 1994. In view of the companys growing profile and demonstrated competence, in 2006, Chimons successfully managed a bid team that won the first ever contract for the successful lifting of LPG from NLNG into the domestic market. The company became one of the first six off-takers selected by NLNG which was a no mean feat for the young indigenous company. In collaboration with other stakeholders, the company has advanced from 40,000 metric tonne LPG consumption in 2007 to 400,000 metric tonnes in 2015. It is projected that by the end of this year, the figures will be in the borderline of 500,000 metric tonnes. Aside this landmark growth, the company looks forward to the completion of its terminal in Delta State, in the coming year. From one refilling plant, it expanded with several plants, parading state-of-the-art installations and equipment. The company has also expanded its offerings, to birth a sister company in construction industry. As a businessman, when you see an opportunity, you move in. It is very important to diversify and consolidate, he counsels. Success begets Success His enviable business acumen and entrepreneurial ingenuity goes before the Chimons CEO. This, perhaps explains his recent appointment as a member of the advisory board of the Commonwealth Economic and Investment Commission (CWEIC). I didnt lobby for it. It came to me as a surprise, he says while explaining. Sometime last year, I went for a conference in Malta. President Buhari and the Queen of England were there. I dont know the parameter they used in selecting members for the board. I just got an email that I was needed by the management of the Commonwealth. CWEIC has been in existence for quite a long time, but was reformed in 2014. At the Chimons boss maiden meeting with the CWEIC, they said they were impressed by what we do and my qualifications and that I had been selected to join the board and that was it, Chibuike Achigbu says, trying to figure out what earned him a seat on the board of the commission. The CWEIC Mandate CWEIC is a not-for-profit organization, with a mandate from the Commonwealth Heads of Government to promote trade and investment across the 53-member countries. The CWEIC has a small secretariat based within the Commonwealth Secretariat office in London. The purpose of the council is to promote trade and investment, by facilitating engagement between government and the private sector within the Commonwealth. It is the apex organization representing private sector businesses within the Commonwealth and it is the only institution with a remit to promote intra-Commonwealth trade and investment. The CWEIC is also responsible for organizing the Commonwealth Business Forum alongside the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwumi Ambode also sits on the board of CWEIC, as Vice President. Benefits to Nigerias Business Community In the face of the current economic recession in the country, the goal for Mr. Achigbu is to ensure that more Nigerians and organizations become key players in the Commonwealth region. We have to work hard to help them connect with the opportunities out there, he explains. Eventually, CWEIC will set up an office in Nigeria, so that the commission can begin to create awareness, with a view to aiding businesses in Nigeria and finding out how they can access the market within the Commonwealth through export of goods/services. The American President, Barak Obama, talks about markets all the time. That is how countries develop. In Nigeria, attention and focus on crude oil should be reduced. The minister of trade should be the most important minister because trade is what gives you a favourable balance of payment as a country, he enthuses. No doubt, the story and achievements of Chibuike Achigbu, despite all odds, should build some confidence among enterprising Nigerian youths. One will agree that in someone such as Chibuike Achigbu, Nigeria has a hope of becoming a great nation, once again.
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IB Times: The next-generation PlayStation 4 is a long way off and the PlayStation 3 is here to stay, according to Sony UK Vice President Fergal Gara, adding that consumers will decide when a new console is needed.
Yes, the consumers will decide and I think it's safe to say that the vast majority of them have decided that they are ready for the Playstation 4.
And I don't think they are concerned with:
"...continuing to innovate with the PS3, making it smaller, lighter and offering better value entry-point consoles. There's been a big engineering push in Tokyo to give it a facelift and a spec revitalization, too, so that's good to see"
Unless of course Gara isn't referring to already established consumers of the PS3 and merely late adopters, in which case, he is wrong- the current owners of the PS3 should be the ones that will decide on the Playstation 4.
I decided a new console was needed so I built a gaming computer. Crazy how that works.
In all honesty, I have had my PS3 since Feb. 2008 and I really wouldn't mind another 2-3 years out of it. Last of Us, God of War: Ascension, Beyond, Ni No Kuni (first party alone) is more then superb line up for me.
I believe we could see similar games offered for the next 2 years.
There is only so far graphics can go. Good quality games are another story and for that alone, PS3 is sufficient.
"The next-generation PlayStation 4 is a long way off and the PlayStation 3 is here to stay"
I hate PR talk.
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The Enterprise Systems Center (ESC) is a Lehigh University research center in the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science that is located at 200 West Packer Avenue, in Mohler Laboratory. It has been a national center of excellence in systems engineering and leadership development through experiential learning for several decades.
Since its inception, more than 1,125 research and development projects with over 450 industry partners have been completed. More than 4,125 undergraduate and graduate students from the engineering, business and arts/science colleges collaborated to help achieve a high rate of return on investment deliverables. Research efforts are driven by industry needs and historically have been focused in the areas of operations research, analytics, supply chain and logistics, management science, product innovation, sustainability, and agile manufacturing.
The ESC engages students along with professors, senior fellows, subject matter experts, and industry partners, who utilize a layered-mentoring approach. This helps companies use existing or develop new technology tools to grow and compete in a global marketplace. Commonly, research teams are interdisciplinary and engage both undergraduate and graduate students.
Educational goals include developing world class practitioners as well as future leaders. The ESC enables leadership skill set development which helps students to transition from an initial role of individual technical contributor to managerial positions directing the efforts of others in global organizational settings. This is accomplished through course content, projects emphasizing experiential learning, a leadership minor, hosting the student chapter of the National Society of Leadership and Success, and programs such as the Innovation and Leadership Residency (ILR). Students with ESC experience report a great advantage when interviewing with corporate recruiters.


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The Braves' move to Cobb County is no done deal. No contract has been signed, no financing secured for a new stadium. But Braves VP of business ops Mike Plant says he's "100 percent certain it will happen," and Atlanta's mayor is behaving like it, promising to tear down Turner Field rather than let it sit vacant.
Mayor Kasim Reed said the city has been planning a replacement for the stadium for months, indicating that Atlanta has long known it wouldn't match the reported $450 million in public funds being offered by Cobb County.
"We're going to have a master developer that is going to demolish the Ted and we're going to have one of the largest developments for middle-class people that the city has ever had," he said.
Remember that Turner Field is a conversion of the Olympic Stadium for the 1996 games, so at least by blowing it up or tearing it down Atlanta will avoid adding to the growing collection of Olympic ruin porn.
And, best case scenario, we get a stadium implosion. The Braves plan to move out for the 2017 season, so if Atlanta times things correctly, we might have the perfect 20th anniversary celebration of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium coming down.
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Kendra Wilkinson thinks Kelsey Grammer is ''disgusting'' for bringing his baby daughter to the Playboy Mansion
Kendra Wilkinson thinks Kelsey Grammer is ''disgusting''.
The former Playboy model and 'The Girls Next Door' star lashed out at the 'Boss' actor for bringing his three-month-old daughter Faith to a party at the Playboy Mansion last month because he couldn't get a babysitter and says he knows exactly what she thinks about his actions because she left the party in protest.
The 27-year-old star told gossip website TMZ.com: ''Oh, he knows how I feel, trust me. I gave him that eye and I left because of that.
''I think someone said that he wanted to say and I said absolutely not and, like, this is disgusting.
''It has nothing to do with the Playboy Mansion it has to do with where you bring your baby.''
The 57-year-old actor previously defended his decision to bring his daughter and his wife Kayte, 32, to the party and sources close to the family have hit back at Kendra calling the mum-of-one - who is married to Hank Baskett and has a two-year-old son Hank Jr. - a hypocrite.
A spokesperson for Kelsey mockingly told The Huffington Post: ''Then, that settles it. He must be disgusting.''
A friend close to the former 'Frasier' star also said: ''It's remarkable that Kendra would judge anyone's life. Who does she think she is? Kelsey doesn't judge her life or the fact that she once worked as a stripper.''


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Electronic Arts' recent attempt to "focus" Spore developer Maxis—which was a nicer way of saying some people got laid off—includes one of its more rant-ready folks, Chris Hecker, a Technology Fellow at the company. Remember him?
If not, he's probably best known—in addition to his contributions to Spore—for one of his Game Developers Conference talks, in which he described the Wii as "a piece of shit" and slammed Nintendo for its hardware design choices. He later apologized for those remarks.
He may also be recognized from his rant Do Your Job Well, Please, an editorial delivered at this year's GDC on video game journalism.
By Hecker's estimate, the cutbacks at Maxis numbered 24 (he thinks). He estimates in his personal list of contributions to Spore that some 80 people were working on the game as development wrapped up.
Hecker announced on his personal site his follow up project, an indie game called SpyParty, which he describes as "a very different multiplayer espionage game" that apparently offers a level of excitement on par with ski jumping away from massive explosions.
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text: Message from the Director I. David Goldman M.D. Director, Albert Einstein Cancer Center Professor, Departments of Medicine and Molecular Pharmacology Susan Resnick Fisher Professor Since the start of the 20th century, scientists have sought ways of harnessing the immune system to attack cancer cells. The challenge has been enormous. The immune system is designed to destroy foreign elements such as bacteria and viruses. Cancer cells are not sufficiently different from their normal counterparts to elicit an immune response; when there are differences, the cancer cells "learn" ways to block an immune response. So the goal is to teach the immune system to attack the cancer without attacking normal tissues. Recently, a group of collaborating scientists at the Albert Einstein Cancer Center began to develop a novel immunological approach, based on a recent exciting finding: the identification of a protein molecule on cancer cells, B7x, that blocks the normal functions of immune cells, thereby protecting cancer cells from immune attack. What makes this approach particularly promising is that B7x is present on many different human cancers but apparently not on normal human tissues. When an antibody, for example, blocks B7x in a tumor-bearing mouse, there is an antitumor effect but little or no damage to normal tissues. These studies by Einstein scientists are a promising step toward achieving what has been an elusive goal in cancer immunotherapy.


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ELECTIONS are supposed to give us choices. We can reward incumbents or we can throw the bums out. We can choose Republicans or Democrats. We can choose conservative policies or progressive ones.
In most elections, however, we don't get a say in something important: whether we're governed by the rich. By Election Day, that choice has usually been made for us. Would you like to be represented by a millionaire lawyer or a millionaire businessman? Even in our great democracy, we rarely have the option to put someone in office who isn't part of the elite.
Of course, many white-collar candidates care deeply about working-class Americans, those who earn a living in manual labor or service-industry jobs. Many are only a generation or two removed from relatives who worked in those fields. But why do so few elections feature candidates who have worked in blue-collar jobs themselves, at least for part of their lives? The working class is the backbone of our society, a majority of our labor force and 90 million people strong. Could it really be that not one former blue-collar worker is qualified to be president?
My research examines how the shortage of working-class people in public office affects our democracy and why there are so few former blue-collar workers in government in the first place. The data I've studied suggest that the working class itself probably isn't the problem. It's true that workers tend to score a little lower on standard measures of political knowledge and civic engagement. But there are many more workers than there are, say, lawyers — so many more, in fact, that there are probably more blue-collar Americans with the qualities we might want in our candidates than there are lawyers with those traits. If even only half a percent of blue-collar workers have what it takes to govern, there would still be enough of them to fill every seat in Congress and in every state legislature more than 40 times — with enough left over to run thousands of City Councils.
Something other than qualifications seems to be screening out people with serious experience in the working class long before Election Day. Scholars haven't yet confirmed exactly what that is. (Campaign money? Free time? Party gatekeepers?) But we're starting to appreciate the seriousness of the problem.
If millionaires were a political party, that party would make up roughly 3 percent of American families, but it would have a super-majority in the Senate, a majority in the House, a majority on the Supreme Court and a man in the White House. If working-class Americans were a political party, that party would have made up more than half the country since the start of the 20th century. But legislators from that party (those who last worked in blue-collar jobs before entering politics) would never have held more than 2 percent of the seats in Congress.
And these trends don't stop at the federal level. Since the 1980s, the number of state legislators whose primary occupations are working-class jobs has fallen from 5 percent to 3 percent. In City Councils, fewer than 10 percent of members have blue-collar day jobs. Everywhere we look in government, almost no one with personal experience in working-class jobs has a seat at the table.
Their absence, moreover, has real consequences. Lawmakers from different classes tend to bring different perspectives to public office. John Boehner is fond of saying that he's a small-business man at heart and that "It gave me a perspective on our country that I've carried with me throughout my time in public service." And he's right. Former businesspeople in government tend to think like businesspeople, former lawyers tend to think like lawyers, and (the few) former blue-collar workers tend to think like blue-collar workers. Edward Beard, a house painter from Providence, R.I., who was elected to Congress in 1974, always carried a paintbrush with him and tacked one to the wall outside of his Washington office — as a "symbol of who I am and where I'm from, the working people."
Former house painters are the exception in Congress, of course. And although there are many white-collar lawmakers with good intentions, with so few leaders with experience in working-class jobs (from 1999 to 2008, the average member of Congress had spent 1.5 percent of his or her adult life in working-class jobs), economic policy routinely tilts toward outcomes that help white-collar professionals at the expense of the working class. Social safety net programs are stingier, business regulations are flimsier, tax policies are more regressive, and protections for workers are weaker than they would be if our lawmakers came from the same mix of classes as the people they represent.
The key is finding more lawmakers like Mr. Beard, politically adept working-class Americans. Or people like Representative Stephen Lynch, who worked as an ironworker in Boston for nearly two decades before attending law school and becoming a legal advocate for workers — politicians who worked their way up to white-collar jobs but who still remember what it's like to push a broom.
My experience suggests that finding them will be the easy part. The hard part will be persuading the people with resources to help them. Many political gatekeepers still cling to myths about how there's something "the matter with Kansas," how workers are too backward to know what's best for themselves politically. And people who value political equality already have their hands full with big challenges: mainly, the explosion of money and interest groups in Washington, and the large social class gaps in routine forms of political participation, including voting.
Even if we somehow stem the tide of money in Washington, even if we guarantee equal participation on Election Day, millionaires will still get to set the tax rate for millionaires. White-collar professionals will still get to set the minimum wage for blue-collar workers. People who have always had health insurance will still get to decide whether to help people without it. If we want government for the people, we've got to start working toward government by the people. The 2012 election offers us a stark choice between two very different approaches to economic policy. But it's still a choice between two Harvard-educated millionaires. Even in an election that is supposed to be about the future of our economy, we don't have a working-class option in the voting booth.
It's time for citizens who care about political equality to start investing in working-class candidates. We know how to do this. In 1945, the House and the Senate were each 98 percent men. In the decades since, party leaders and interest groups have deliberately recruited many female candidates, and today women make up 17 percent of Congress.
If the old boys' club isn't invincible, the Millionaires Party probably isn't, either. Changes like these aren't rocket science. They just take a little hard work.


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Today my friend Ben posted this HILARIOUS video on Facebook today and I was seriously DYING laughing. Wait for the last 10 seconds. It will be so worth it.
My aunt yesterday was telling me about this You Tube Video where a jazz ensemble plays for a herd (is that what they are called?) of cows and they get mesmerized by the music. I pride myself on being "in the know" and had never heard of this before and it was a really cute video, so I thought I would share it with you guys who hadn't seen in yet either. (Please tell me I am not the only one in the dark.)
The video reminded me a lot of this story that was a sermon probably 3-4 years ago at church. The world's greatest violinist, who sells tickets to his concerts for over $100 a seat, set up shop in the Washington Subway. He was greatly ignored. Most people who stopped and listened were children who were scurried on by their parents. The moral of the story was that we often overlook the beauty in our day, the beauty that kids still innocently see. (Read the full story at the Washington Post.) When you think about all the beauty we overlook each day, it helps give your day a little perspective. (I promise to be back to less self-helpy posts soon :).


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Sleep problems are always the result of other health problems, such as asthma.
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Children who don't get enough good quality sleep may have trouble learning and developing socially. They may be tired during the day and not able to pay attention in school.
And a child's sleep problems can affect parents' sleep. Parents may be in the child's room during the night trying to get the child back to sleep—or the child may try to get in bed with the parents to get back to sleep. Lack of sleep can make parents tired during the day, affecting work and family life.
When a child has sleep problems, parents may feel the effects in their own lives.
If your child's sleep problems are keeping you up and causing you stress, you may be too tired during the day to do your best at work and at home.
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Parents shouldn't worry about making things worse by being frustrated and stressed out, because babies who are crying a lot don't notice things like that.
It's important to stay calm. Young children are very sensitive to a parent's feelings of
It's a good idea to try to wake up your child during night terrors.
Do not try to wake your child during a night terror. Instead, reassure and hold your child to prevent injury.
Even teenagers need bedtime routines.
Have your teenager go to bed at the same time every night and wake up at the same time every morning.
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