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- Kat_Kit2000
- 8 years ago
- Wedding: July 2016
Hello everyone, this is my first post, though I've been stalking this board for about a month now. I'm sorry this is so long, but I don't think I could have left anything out to make my point.
I'm going crazy. I don't even know where to start so it will make sense. But please bare with me, I need some advice from people who have been there 🙂
I've been with my BF for 2 years and 9 months now. We don't live together. I'm 23 and he's 25. I live with my parents, and go to grad school in another state (where I live with other family members for half the week). He graduated from grad school in the winter, and is now working part time, also living with his parents.
We've talked about our future in hypotheticals. He wants to get married in a church, I want my honeymoon in Hawaii, and where we want to live in the future (geographically). The thing is, we are both very careful using "when" and "if" and we don't necessarily include each other. We sort of tip-toe around it. A few weeks ago I asked him where he sees himself in 5 years, and he described many aspects of his life, never mentioning me. And then he asked me the same. It was scary, but after we were done I asked why he didn't mention me as part of his future and he said that I didn't either lol (but of course I was just following his lead trying not to get ahead of myself or freak him out).
This conversation took place after "it" all started. Around my birthday a month and a half ago he started bringing up the topic of engagement. Up to that point, even though it seems weird now, I never thought about it seriously. Not whether I could see myself marrying him or not, but thinking of it as something happening soon. When I did think about it it was always in terms of something I'd think about years from now after I'm done with school (I just finished my first year in a 5 year doctoral program). One thing we constantly talked about was living together. There was no question that if we had the money and could be in the same state 24/7 we would live together (he lives and works in the state where my parents and I do on weekends – during the week I'm a few states over – about 70 minutes driving).
Anyways, last month out of nowhere he started talking about engagements. Not ours, just in general. His friend is getting married in the fall, and he brought about the e-ring his friend chose and how much fun we're going to have at their wedding. He also told me about a dream he had where he actually proposed to me and i accepted. Then, on the night we celebrated my birthday her "fake-proposed" as I've been calling it. We had been drinking prior to (though not drunk), and when I was getting ready to go home (as in literally about to get in my car and drive), he got down on one knee, said my full name, and used my car key-chain ring to propose. BUT, this wasn't really serious. The mood was joky as we were cracking jokes for a while and laughing. As he was doing it I was laughing, and after he got back up we continued to laugh. He did ask what my answer was, but being in complete shock (though trying hard not to show it, or any seriousness at all) I laughed it off and said we can talk about it after he buys the ring. – I didn't say this because I badly want a ring, but because he caught me so off guard it was the first thing I thought of. It was also a way for me not to give a direct answer in case he was completely joking and would have flipped out if I gave a serious answer. I have no idea what he was acually thinking (like if he thought he was being funny or it was a clever attempt to gage my thoughts).
Since "the incident" he's mentioned engagements several times. He's made joke about "noting" things I say about e-rings (if I say I dislike yellow gold for example, he'd laugh and say "noted"). And he even shared the story of the fake-proposal with our friends, though adding that he was drunk (I've seen him drunk, and that night he was not).
Okay, time to get to the point. Sorry it took so long. I don't know if I should be in this "waiting" phase, or if it's unrealistic in our given circumstances.
He says he plans to move out of his parents house in a year or two (after he has sufficient funds). I'm in school for a lot of the time. We only see each other at night, when I'm back home. Granted, this summer that's 5 out of 7 nights. But starting the fall, I'll be out of state for the entire work week and only back home for weekends. He's said that he would move to my school state if he could find a job there. But his field is difficult to get into in metropolitan cities, not to mention more suburban ones. And even if he did find a job, he still can't afford to move out just yet. Also, I've been trying to pay attention to any efforst of his to try to save up serious money, and see none (meaning if he were to buy a ring, he couldn't afford it right now). He's buying a car now, which he needs for work, so I understand the priority. He has also told me that he is very much into following "the rules" related to how much to save up for a ring. He never said he was going to buy me one, but on one occasion he said I got lucky (or in his word, "hit the jackpot" lol) because he'd spend 2 months wages on my ring. Regardless, he has a lot of expenses, and sees nothing wrong with spending extra cash at dinners and on random items, which leads me to believe he's not trying to save up for anything serious right now.
Before this whole business started last month I had never even looked at e-rings. Now I can't stop. Not to mention all the posts I've been reading on this site and every other. Most days I can get through pretty easily, but some days it has me completely distracted, like today, to the point where I can't get any work done (I was supposed to be doing work for the last 2 hours but have been doing this instead). On some days it also gets me extremely depressed. I get that thinking that even though I want this so badly, it might not happen for a very long time. But most days it's just the not-knowing. It makes me anxious that I don't know either way. And it's not something I feel I can ask him point blank (as in, "are you planning on proposing any time soon?" lol) Mostly because I wouldn't want to ruin any potential surprise, but also because I don't want to freak him out in case all of these "incidents" I've been counting have been coincidences of sorts or just things he's said without thinking.
I can't tell if this is something he's seriously thinking about or if the crazy switch just turned on in my head. Do you think there is merit to my curiosity or am I blowing a few jokes out of proportion? Does a proposal seem on the near horizon for me?
p.s: I used to think that we would live together before thinking about marriage. But then I started reading all these things that say how living together before marriage could lead to divorce (mind you I'm not religious at all). This is a topic I keep going back and forth on. I can see all the benefits of both living together and not before engagement/marriage. I also think I would be okay with getting engaged, then live together, then get married. Though I wouldn't be opposed to any of the other combinations of the sort. I think my BF is more inclined to live together first. This is also an indication to me that maybe a proposal is very far away, since he's not moving out for a few years.
Help please? Thank you so much for all of you who made it through my entire post. I really appreciate it =]


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Michal Zahradníček, one of the founders of PrimeCell Therapeutics, is an investor and acts as a key figure in several high-tech companies in the Czech Republic and the Central and Eastern European region. He began his career in 1993, working as an economist for several international companies. Since 2001, he has been involved in investments in areas with high innovation potential. He acted as an advisor of the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic, also taking part in health reform preparations. In 2004, he was awarded the title Manager of the Year for a Medium-Size Company and he was listed among the TOP 10 most successful Czech managers. Michal Zahradníček graduated from the Brno University of Technology. He then continued his studies at the Technical University in Darmstadt in Germany and at the Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK.


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I started to reshape a handsaw with my normal sight and then with my reading glasses (1.25 Power…Maybe prescription glasses for higher power would work instead of these). Both were not up to par for the tiny delicate work that was needed. I thought about jewelry professionals that use those monocles and that should be exactly what would work! Out searching I go… I eventually found this magnifier. Found out, can not use monocles as the item has to be a couple inches away from your face, which would not work for saws. But you can use these.
All made of cheap plastic but what do you expect for $15.
Has interchangeable lenses of 1.0X, 1.5X, 2.0X, 2.5X, 3.5X.
Has a handy 2 bulb LED light via batteries.
Can angle/move both the lenses and LED light at adjustable angles.
I can see using this for many things in the wood shop: chisel sharpening, saw sharpening, accuracy related measurements & marking, etc.
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#1 posted 12-24-2017 09:42 PM
Thanks for the review. We were complaining of the same problem. Ordered two for our shop. Again thanks for the heads-up.
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#2 posted 12-25-2017 04:04 PM
Good to know thank you.
#3 posted 12-25-2017 04:12 PM
What really got me about these are the interchangeable lenses and LED light. I think I was using 2.0x and my eyes lose focus if I turn away to look at something else. I had to put my finger up close and draw it away to the saw teeth to keep my eyes focused :)
-- The Carpenter Bee is derived from the Ancient Greek word wood-cutter "xylokopos/ξυλοκὀπος"
#4 posted 12-28-2017 11:10 PM
Thanks for the review. I ordered one!
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Corporatist pseudo-news creates false equivalencies and narratives to confuse about the issue of human-influenced climate change. Joe Rumm argues in this April 17 ThinkProgress.org article the so-called credible media sources often are not to be relied upon for accurate information about climate change. He cites recent articles in The New Yorker and the New York Times. Rumm adds anything written by George Will or published in a Murdoch-owned news outlet such as the Wall Street Journal as time-wasters. Just as corporatists have captured the Republican Party and some of the Democratic Party, they have also captured the news media.
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via How To Tell If The Article About Climate You Are Reading Is B.S., In Four Easy Steps | ThinkProgress.
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Last time we covered content, and this time LINK is the word.
google.com/insidesearch/h… Very simple but effective explanation of how Google search works.
— Aileen Hunter (@BothyBiz) March 19, 2013
Search engines, as you can imagine, have a limited amount of information available to help them find the best matches for any search terms. When someone searches, one measure of how 'useful' a site is in relation to that search is to count how many other sites link to it.
Simply put – the more sites that link to your site, the better your search ranking will be.
Here are some ways you can maximise the number of external site pages linking to your pages.
- Get listed in as many free website directories as you can. Note the word free! You may decide there's value in paying for a listing on a particular site, but for the purposes of link building this really isn't necessary. Use search engines to find suitable directories and get listed. One excellent directory to use is Free Index.
- Add your website/business to Google Places. This instantly puts you in line for being found on location based searches. You can ad lots of relevant information about your business and invite customers to review your business. From within your account you can also gather information about the number of people that are finding your business this way and the search terms they used.
- Comment on other blogs. Most blogs invite you to include your website link when you comment. Therefore the more you comment, the more links you are building. However it's important that whilst commenting you also add value to the discussion!
- Build reciprocal links with other website owners you know. Agree to scratch each others' backs and give other businesses a link from your site in exchange for a link to your site from theirs.
- You can pay to advertise on other sites – and we will cover this in more depth in another article – but if you do, it's vitally important that your advert links back to your own site.
How do I know how many sites/pages are linking to my site?
The best place to find out how many external sites link to yours is via Google Webmaster Tools. Once you've signed up and verified your site, there's a host of information at your fingertips, including a list of all external links to your own site.
Here's a quick introduction video to webmaster tools.
To find out more, or to sign up visit the Google webmaster tools site.
One final note – whilst the quantity of links is important to your SEO activities, I can't stress enough the importance of the quality of the links you build. If you already run a blog, you will have been pestered by spammers commenting on posts purely for the chance to build a link. In moderation I spam any comments that don't add value to the discussion, and I'm sure all legitimate website owners do the same.
So, go forth and get linking and enjoy more traffic to your site. Why not start by commenting on this post and sharing your own link building tips


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Europeans have not felt this excellent about costs in 16 years.
That bodes well for business concentrated on consumers. The MSCI Europe Consumer Discretionary Index, which has generally tracked enhancements in belief, has up until now lagged gains in the wider local procedure this year. That might change, with the euro-area customer self-confidence in June rising to its greatest level since early 2001.
"There is a favorable connection in between the customer self-confidence index and the customer discretionary sector," stated Daniel Morris, London-based senior financial investment strategist at BNP Paribas Asset Management. "As long as the index continues to increase you would anticipate seeing continuous gains."
Belief about the euro area is enhancing simply as it's getting worse in the U.K. The June reading of the area's customer self-confidence beat even the most positive of the 32 projections in a study by Bloomberg, while in British families it was up to the most affordable since simply after the Brexit vote. Euro-area financial self-confidence is likewise at a 10-year high.
While MSCI's customer discretionary step is reversing in 2015's decrease, its advance of about 3.7 percent is lagging the 5.2 percent-increase in the MSCI Europe Index, indicating more space for gains.
Experts at Societe Generale SA see such costs enhancing the area's financial development, and advise concentrating on business offering discretionary products instead of staples. The bank's basket of 17 such stocks has exceeded the benchmark Stoxx Europe 600 Index this year, inning accordance with the June 23 note.
They consist of Spanish grocery store chain Distribuidora Internacional de Alimentacion SA, French hotel chain Accor SA and Air France-KLM, all which depend upon the euro zone for a bulk of their sales. DIA and Accor have climbed up about 17 percent each, while Air France shares have more than doubled in 2017.
"Post the monetary and euro-area crises, customers have been postponing a few of their discretionary costs," Societe Generale equity strategists consisting of Kevin Redureau composed in the note. "SG's economics group anticipates usage to be the primary factor to euro area GDP development in the coming years."


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Sunday, March 27, 2011
Seas subside for season ending intro...
From our eyrie here in Paris, it all looked noice. While we've been here (three days in Paris after a week darn sarth), spring has arrived (see right). Now we know why scientists say the seasons change on the equinox, because this one certainly did. Paris is greening as we watch it, and the railway corridor yesterdee from Paris to Orleans was a corridor of emerging colour.
We swam on Fridee in a pool in Paris, and that was an experience that we'll blob about in the next couple of days. We'll have Aquagirl's report from Bonbeach, last weekend's season ender in Victoria, up very soon. But tell us about your swims this weekend...
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This was a great 1km swim - lucky I'd been out 'training' at North Bondi the previous day where the waves were up, the wind was up, the rain was coming down, oh and the water was wild. Never'less, it was great prep for a day when it looked gloomy to start (but I got up anyway) and even a little intimidating for a rookie red cap like me - but I followed some locals in at the far right point, used the sand bar to make some headway, took on the big waves by ducking well under and finally (whew) made it past the white can to turn. Then a truly lovely swim it was ... I just relaxed and tried not to think of getting back in. But that bit proved easy, tho' that little drag took me to the wider gutter - which just meant more running at the end. Then the sun came out! I had a coffee (ahhh) and all was truly right with the morning. Noticed the waves seemed much calmer for the 2.8km - but them's the breaks! Next year.ReplyDelete
- MaitlandSwimmerMarch 29, 2011 at 10:04 PM
Made the 3 1/2hr trek to South West Rocks for the Gaol Break Swim on Sunday.ReplyDelete
From the surf clubhouse, the conditions looked beautiful, with a light offshore wind and small swell. The registration was well organised and the volunteers friendly and welcoming. I spoke to one of the organisers who said it would be a deep water start this year. Great! Love a deep water start.
Caught the bus around to the start point under the shadow of Trial Bay Goal and swam out to the starting bouys as a bit of a warm up. Back to the shore, then the 140 or so starters gathered around for the pre-start briefing. The official pointed out the very small buoys (with little flags attached) laid out about 30 metres offshore around the bay. The briefing created a bit of an uproar as the official explained that the swimmers needed to keep all of the bouys on their left hand side. Everyone quickly realised that this meant that a shortcut straight across the bay was going to be the quickest option. Not sure how long this made the swim, but it was much reduced from the round the bay route.
The start, from the beach (apparently the bouys that I swam to were for some other purpose), left turn around the 1st marker, then head for the pine trees on the other side of the bay. The water was crystal clear, with the sandy bottom visible all the way across. The finish featured lots of watermelon and even very expensive bananas!
Amazing that a swim with manual timing can also produce finish certificates with names, times and places before the end of the presentation.
Overall it was a really good day, but the organisers need to put some thought into the most important part of the event, the swim.
Funny, I got smashed by the break way more on the 2.8km swim than the 1km swim at North Steyne on the weekend. Once past the first buoy, the 1km felt like a pool swim compared to the chop down to Shelley on the longer swim - just shows how much the timing between wave starts can vary the conditions!ReplyDelete
Despite the rapidly changing weather - rain, wind, lovely sunshine, oh and rain again - it was a lovely morning, results were up quickly (although, accuracy a ?), and the best marked out course of the season... plenty of buoys short distances apart, I could always see a couple ahead of me and thats reassuring on a long swim.
Thanks North Steyne, will be back next year when hopefully the sun might come out and stay out!
Yeah I noticed some of the red caps from my wave went off early with the previous wave, that would have thrown out some of the times.ReplyDelete
I don't blame them though. Rather a few troublemakers in the red caps wave.
One led a conga-line of swimmers on a southern migration, looking for a perfect path thru the surf, until most of the field was almost out of range of the starters gun.
Another was amusing the crowd by faking his starting run into the water with the wrong wave, trying to trap some unwary swimmers in false starting.
That's half the fun of these swims, the shenanigans that go on behind the start line.


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Medical Minute: Wellen's SyndromeLeave a comment
July 30, 2014 by dailybolusoflr
By Julie Rice, MD
- Symmetric deeply inverted t waves (Type A- more common) or biphasic T waves (Type B – less common) in V2 and/or V3 that are predictive of proximal LAD coronary artery lesion
- These are found during pain free episodes
|Ref: Mattu http://ekgumem.tumblr.com/post/19943034448/wellens-syndrome-episode
- Reflects high degree of stenosis that will soon result in anterior MI.
- Patient needs urgent PCI
- Wellen's Syndrome is a contraindication to having a stress test
Bean D, et al. Chest Pain: Diagnostic Strategies to save Lives, Time and Money in the ED. Emergency Medicine Practice. June 2003
Mead NE, O'Keefe KP. Wellen's Syndrome: An ominous EKG pattern. J Emerg Trauma Shock. 2009 Sep;2(3):206-8


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How to Draw a Dragon for Kids
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Task force to Team
We have a new official team, or committee if you prefer that term. In July council approved making the Creative Design Team an official team. As some may know, this team was originally formed as a task force by Pastor Ed Rosenberry for the planning of the Christmas season services and events.
I quickly recognized the benefits of the team and decided to keep the group together to help plan and design creative elements of our special services and events through the year. Additionally, this team develops ideas for creative elements to use during the sermon series.
Graphics and design, the look and feel of our materials partners closely with the look and feel of our facilities. It may seem like a word that doesn't have a place in ministry, but the truth is that we have a brand. Branding is simply the impression our church gives to the community as well as how visitors and attenders perceive us as an organization. That being the case, it became obvious that our group would be the logical home of what used to be the "Building Appeal" group.
Enhance, Inspire, Communicate
Moving forward we will endeavor to use creative elements and design to enhance, inspire, communicate, and support the ministry here at Central Manor Church.


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Beverley Church Hogan was born and raised in Montreal, Canada.
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The sixty-day siege began in the middle of July:
President Obama eagerly took on critics of the Iran nuclear deal on Wednesday, inviting question after question on an agreement he suggested that many of his political adversaries had not even read.
Mr. Obama used a formal East Room news conference to begin what White House officials said would be an aggressive effort by the president and his top advisers over the next 60 days to combat critics in both parties and to sell the Iran deal to members of Congress, the public and allies in the region.
While Mr. Obama is expected to win enough votes to sustain a veto of any legislation rejecting the deal, his goal over the next two months is to persuade enough Democrats to support the accord so that he can paint opponents as driven by politics rather than diplomacy.
Everyone knows how this turns out. Even the Republicans know. The Republicans have enough votes in the House and Senate to pass their legislation that formally disapproves of this deal. The deal with Iran is not an actual treaty – it's a set of agreements between Iran and the United States, and five other nations – an understanding of who will do what, when – so there's nothing to ratify, nothing that would then become law, defining what we must or must not do. Congress can only say they disapprove. That's it – but Obama agreed the United States will pull out of all the agreements if the Republicans have enough votes to override his veto of their legislation saying the United States should not have even started to talk to the Iranians in the first place. The Republicans don't have enough votes for that. They never will. At the end of these sixty days the deal will stand. Obama will end up where he started, holding onto what he had in the first place.
This is political siege warfare – you win if you end up where you started, holding onto what you had in the first place. In between, you wait, there are sudden attacks, then you wait some more, there are more sudden attacks, and then you wait some more. There is no victory. There is only survival, after a whole lot of talk. It's rather boring, actually.
Mike Huckabee tried to fix that:
Mike Huckabee is not backing away from his strident criticism of President Barack Obama and the Iranian nuclear deal – even as his fellow Republican presidential candidates distance themselves from his remarks.
A day after making an explicit comparison to the Holocaust in denouncing the agreement, the former Arkansas governor continued to make his case on Twitter.
In an earlier interview with Breitbart News published Saturday, Huckabee said that Obama is "naive" in trusting Iran to uphold its part of the deal. "By doing so, he will take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven."
Obama is Hitler. He wants to exterminate the Jews. How else can you read this? Huckabee simply had the courage to say this, but he got slapped down – every Jewish group in the world told him to knock it off, and polls show that American Jews favor the Iran deal at a twenty percent higher rate than the rest of us. Huckabee has since been saying that Real Jews agree with him. Someone should ask this ordained Baptist minister who these folks are and where they're hiding – but it doesn't matter. Mike Huckabee is who he is – an excitable fellow – and he needs to steal some thunder from Donald Trump. Fox News has set the rules for which folks get to participate in the first Republican presidential debate – the top ten in the polls they choose – and Mike Huckabee might not make the cut. He needs to be noticed – by someone, anyone. The Iran deal may be a done deal. His getting on stage with the big boys, rather than being relegated to the kids' table – Fox News' secondary "candidates forum" for the losers and weirdos – is not a done deal yet. He has work to do.
This done deal is, however, generating all sorts of odd talk:
The actors Morgan Freeman, Jack Black and Natasha Lyonne have leant their support to Barack Obama's nuclear agreement with Iran.
The stars feature in a new video designed to help persuade legislators to get the agreement through Congress when it goes to the vote in September. Alongside them are an eclectic mix of camera-friendly experts including ex-CIA agent Valerie Plame, Queen Noor of Jordan and retired US Ambassador Thomas R Pickering, who urge Americans to support the agreement lest they wind up "super dead".
Morgan Freeman has played God in a number of movies. Jack Black was the voice of that lovable Kung Fu Panda. Natasha Lyonne was brilliant in Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You and But I'm a Cheerleader – a cult favorite – but this is very odd:
As Freeman explains, "the agreement on the table is the best way to insure that Iran doesn't build a fucking bomb" before going on to suggest "the alternative is war". The actor has been a prominent supporter of Barack Obama, voicing campaign ads and giving substantial donations.
Lyonne, who starred in American Pie and recently returned to the public eye with a part in Orange is the New Black, chips in with: "Do me a favour, OK, don't let some hot-headed member of Congress screw this up", while Black adds "playing politics with our national security isn't all that funny".
Valerie Plame and Queen Noor of Jordan agree – watch the video and you'll see – but something strange is going on in our politics. On the other hand, anything with the open and direct and gorgeous and smart as a whip Natasha Lyonne in it is a delight. It's just that what she has to say about Iran might be irrelevant. And the Kung Fu Panda has spoken?
On the other hand there's this:
The Clarion Project is hoping to convince US Congress to vote no on the Iran deal by enlisting the help of the American public. …
In March, the non-governmental organization unveiled the first video in its series of seven short films warning about the dangers of the Iran deal. Ever since world powers signed the nuclear agreement on July 14, the NGO has shifted its gears to focus on the vote in the US Congress to urge politicians to vote 'no' on US approval of the deal.
Here we go again:
Ryan Mauro, the Clarion Project's national security adviser, spoke with The Jerusalem Post to discuss the videos, each of which is in a distinct style. Some satirize the deal with cartoons, others invoke Adolf Hitler and past failed peace agreements, while another one envisions a dystopian future where the US has sunk into chaos and rioting because of a nuclear battle in the Middle East.
These aren't sly, and the most watched video in the series is Super Power Poker – Live from Iran, an insulting cartoon depicting a poker match between Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini, President Barack Obama, looking like a pimp, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi King Salman. It's rather awful. This whole thing isn't a badly-drawn fifties cartoon either.
Meanwhile, in the real world, Steve Benen reports this:
The Senate Armed Services Committee held its own hearing today on the international nuclear agreement with Iran, which regrettably went about as well as the other congressional hearings on the issue. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a Republican presidential candidate and one of his party's most unyielding hawks, got especially animated during an exchange with Defense Secretary Ashton Carter:
GRAHAM: Could we win a war with Iran? Who wins the war between us and Iran? Who wins? Do you have any doubt who wins?
CARTER: No, the United States…
GRAHAM: We win!
Yeah, we do, but Benen adds this:
The senator seemed pleased with himself, though this doesn't exactly help the Republican cause. For proponents of the agreement, the concern has long been that GOP lawmakers want to kill the diplomatic deal because they want a military confrontation with Iran. Republicans usually make a point to deny this, instead saying they prefer a "better" diplomatic solution.
Graham, however, is less subtle – his line of questioning suggested the United States would win a war, which makes war an appealing alternative.
The administration's cabinet secretaries seemed visibly irritated with Graham's grandstanding, and they didn't make much of an effort to debate the South Carolina senator…
Why bother? Kevin Drum adds this:
So there you have it: (a) the Ayatollah unquestionably wants to destroy Israel and attack America, and (b) there is no doubt America would win this war. This sounds like mighty poor strategic thinking on the Ayatollah's part to me, since presumably he knows as much as Lindsey Graham about the relative military strength of Iran and the United States. But I guess his pesky religious views compel him to commit national suicide anyway.
This is as nuts as those videos:
Now, you might be skeptical that Graham knows the Ayatollah as well as he thinks he does, or knows his religious views in any depth either. But even if we give him the benefit of the doubt on that score, his apparent view of things still doesn't make sense. If the Ayatollah is as committed to war as Graham thinks, why would he bother with this deal in the first place? According to conservatives (I'm not sure what the CIA thinks these days), Iran is currently less than a year from being able to build a nuclear bomb. So why not just build a few and start the war? It can't be because the sanctions matter. If war is inevitable thanks to the Ayatollah's religious views, but America is going to win the war by reducing Iran to a glassy plain, then who cares about a few more years of sanctions? Most Iranians are going to be dead a few hours after the war starts anyway.
So… it's all still mysterious. Conservatives don't like the deal Obama negotiated. Fine. But we can't go back to the status quo. If we pull out of the deal, economic sanctions will decay pretty quickly and Iran will have lots of additional money and be a year away from building a bomb. The only other alternative is war. Graham is more open about this than most conservatives, but even he realizes he has to be cagey about it. He can't quite come out and just say that we should go to war with Iran before they build a bomb. So instead he tosses in an oddly pointless question about who would win a war between Iran and America. Why? Some kind of dog whistle, I guess. Those with ears to hear understand what it means: Graham wants to see cruise missiles flying. The rest of us are left scratching our chins.
Drum finds all of this getting weirder and weirder:
The deal on the table, imperfect as it might be, doesn't restrict American freedom of action at all. Plus it has a pretty stringent inspection regime and would prevent Iran from building a bomb for at least ten years – probably longer. That's better than what we have now. So why not go ahead and sign the deal and then use the next ten years to figure out what to do next? What's the downside?
I can't really think of one except that it makes a shooting war less likely over the next decade. I call that a feature. I guess Graham and his crowd call it a bug.
The General had to straighten these people out:
While the nuclear agreement with Iran will not stop it from funding organizations the United States considers to be terrorist groups, the pact reduces the chances of a near-term military conflict between the two countries, the top American military leader, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, told Congress on Wednesday. …
General Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the nuclear deal did not prevent the United States from striking Iranian facilities if officials decide that Tehran is cheating on the agreement. But if it sticks to the terms of the pact, such a strike – with attendant retaliation – is far less likely, he said.
In his trademark to-the-point style, General Dempsey answered a barrage of questions from Republican senators that appeared intended to make him criticize the pact. The general – appearing alongside Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter, Energy Secretary Ernest J. Moniz, Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew – neither praised nor condemned the nuclear agreement.
Instead, he gave an assessment of both the potential and the limitations of the pact. "If followed, the deal addresses one critical and the most dangerous point of friction with the Iranian regime," General Dempsey said. "But as I've stated repeatedly, there are at least five other malign activities which give us and our regional partners concern," including the pursuit of ballistic missile technology, weapons trafficking, the use of surrogates and proxies, the use of naval mines, and undersea activity.
Ah, they thought they had him, but they didn't:
When Senator Roger Wicker, Republican of Mississippi, accused General Dempsey of "damning" the pact "with faint praise," the general was again brief.
"First, Senator, I would ask you not to characterize my statement as tepid, nor enthusiastic, but rather pragmatic," he said. "Relieving the risk of a nuclear conflict with Iran diplomatically is superior than trying to do that militarily."
They seemed surprised that a general would say that, but they managed to do their thing anyway:
When Mr. Kerry, who along with Mr. Moniz negotiated the agreement, spoke, the hearing at times got antagonistic.
Toward the end, Mr. Kerry and Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, got into a heated exchange over whether Mr. Kerry should apologize to families of American military forces who were killed in Iraq by Shiite forces using weaponry provided by Iran.
Mr. Cruz, a presidential candidate, misquoted Mr. Kerry, saying the secretary of state had apologized to those families. Mr. Kerry corrected him, and Mr. Cruz then pressed Mr. Kerry about why he had not apologized to them.
Yeah, it was weird, and meanwhile, down the street:
At the White House, the Democratic lawmakers were given Champagne and soft drinks and were briefly entertained by a piano player before filing into the East Room around 4:30 p.m. to hear the president give an intensive 30-minute seminar on the details of the Iran agreement. Several cabinet members were in the audience.
The president promised that he would explain the details of the agreement to everyone in the room for as long as anyone wished, and he said he would get more detailed answers from others if any were needed.
"He is leaving no doubt that this is his top priority," said Representative Jan Schakowsky of Illinois. "I've never seen anything like it, except maybe during the Affordable Care Act debate in 2010."
The president's message, lawmakers said, was the same as he has given elsewhere: While not perfect, the deal is better than any alternative.
Despite the abrupt end to the meeting, many in the room were persuaded, Ms. Schakowsky said.
"I feel very confident that we will have sufficient votes to sustain a veto," she said.
This really is a done deal, and the Los Angeles Times' Doyle McManus points out that there is no real alternative:
The simplest option – and the one least likely to succeed – has come from Marco Rubio: escalate U.S. sanctions until Iran cries uncle.
"The only option we have is to re-impose the American sanctions," the Florida Republican said on CBS last week. "Give Iran a very clear choice: You can have an economy or you can have a weapons program, but you will not be able to have both."
The problem is, U.S. economic sanctions alone have never compelled another country to surrender. And there's little chance Obama or his successor could persuade the world's other economic powers to join in sanctions if the United States walked away from the current deal.
And there's this:
Some conservatives have proposed a slightly more sophisticated option: ask Iran and the other five countries in the negotiations to reopen the talks.
"The alternative is for Congress to reject this deal and demand a better deal, to send our negotiators back to the table with both tougher sanctions and [threats of] military force," Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said in a television interview.
"Arms control agreements are renegotiated all the time," said Ray Takeyh, an Iran expert at the Council on Foreign Relations. "You just go back and say: We couldn't get a bipartisan consensus. At that point, the Europeans and Russia and China have to decide whether to go back to the table too."
That, however, is not as easy as it sounds.
"Do you think the ayatollah is going to come back to the table if Congress refuses this, and negotiate again?" Kerry asked. "I mean, please. I would be embarrassed to try."
Kerry called it a "unicorn arrangement" – "a fantasy, pure and simple" – because international willingness to impose sanctions would erode, reducing U.S. leverage on Iran.
There is that:
Even Takeyh, who favors this course, believes sanctions would weaken. "Yes, there will be leakage," he said. "China may want to buy oil from Iran. India will want to reopen trade. It will mostly happen in Asia. But at least Iran won't get access to the biggest markets."
If the U.S. could keep Europe in line, he argued, Iran would come back to the table. That's a big if, a European diplomat told me; French and German business delegations have already visited Tehran to look for new trading opportunities.
And then there's military action against Iran:
Few of Obama's critics promote that option, in part because U.S. military officials say it wouldn't end Iran's nuclear research but merely set it back two or three years. Also, it could start a major war.
But one forthright proponent of airstrikes is John R. Bolton, who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush.
"If the real objective is stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons, preemptive military action is now inescapable… Some critics of Obama's plan advocate scuttling the deal and increasing economic sanctions against Iran instead. They are dreaming.… There will be no other, better deal."
That argument oddly puts Bolton in the same absolutist camp – rhetorically, anyway – as Kerry: If the deal doesn't succeed, the most likely outcome is war.
And that's it:
There are other alternatives. But none of them are easy, none are cost-free and none are guaranteed to work. If Obama's deal with Iran is something of a gamble, his critics' proposed alternatives are gambles too, and their outcomes would be even less certain.
Wasn't that what Natasha Lyonne was saying? This is going to be a strange sixty days, ending where everyone knows it was going to end anyway. At least the YouTube videos are amusing.


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The 34-year-old midfielder made his first appearance since the Gers ripped up his contract in November
RANGERS flop Joey Barton was booked and booed on his Burnley return.
The 34-year-old midfielder made his first appearance since the Gers ripped up his contract in November and was jeered by rival fans.
Barton looked beefed-up from his time out of the game in anticipation of his comeback.
And he held his own in midfield against Sunderland youngster Donald Love in their 0-0 FA Cup third round clash.
The former Ibrox badboy managed the full 90 minutes for Sean Dyche's men as he slotted back into the role for which he was awarded Player of the Year last season.
Whether Barton will have such a big impact on the side this season remains to be seen.
The ex-Newcastle and Manchester City ace currently has an FA betting charge looming over him for placing 1,260 bets on matches in the past 10 years.
Barton's disastrous spell in Glasgow controversially following a training ground bust-up with team-mate Andy Halliday in the wake of the Light Blues' 5-1 defeat to Celtic.
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Bow and arrow are one of the oldest tools of hunt and war. They were known to almost all civilizations since before the written history and are still in use today although not in such extent. Read about history of bow and arrow.
Composite bow, although a bow if a pretty complex design, is old weapon and many civilizations knew about it and used it above others. It can be made to be much smaller and stronger but it could last for a shorter time if exposed to humidity.
Japanese archery is an old tradition which is perfected for centuries. It appeared as the military class took the power over the country and it lasted until firearms appeared and became more effective.


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Yesterday, January, 27. , 2015 Microsoft has released a extra security update KB 3035034 for Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and it's Server pendants. This security update patches the vulnerable Adobe Flash player.
I've discussed the Flash player security issues last week within my German blog post Stopp: Flash-Sicherheitslücke, Flash-Player deaktivieren!. Based on findings in the article Unpatched Vulnerability (0day) in Flash Player is being exploited by Angler EK I recommended, disabling Flash player in Google Chrome, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. It took a few days, before security updates are available.
Adobe has rolled out Flash updates last weekend
Adobe has rolled out a security update for Flash last weekend (see my German blog post Adobe Flash-Player Sicherheits-Update). There I wrote: The following versions of Adobe Flash player are vulnerable.
- Adobe Flash Player 126.96.36.1997 and earlier (Windows and Macintosh)
- Adobe Flash Player 184.108.40.2062 and earlier 13.x versions
- Adobe Flash Player 188.8.131.528 and earlier for Linux
Adobe has updated Flash player to version 184.108.40.2066 on January, 24. 2014 (see this Adobe page). Version 22.214.171.1246 includes (according to Adobe) also a fix for vulnerability CVE-2015-0311. Flash user under Windows up to Windows 7, Linux and Macintosh are recommended to update immediately.
This update isn't available for a) Google Chrome (you need an updated Chrome browser build) and b) for Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 (because Microsoft issues Flash updates).
Microsoft Flash Security-Update KB 3035034 for Windows
Yesterday, January 27. 2015, Microsoft has issued Security Update KB 3035034 for Windows. Microsoft's KB 3035034 page details this update. This update will be distributed by Windows Update. But Microsoft provides also download packages via Microsoft Download :
- Windows8.1-KB3035034-x86.msu: 32-Bit-Update for Internet Explorer Flash Player for Windows 8.1 (KB3035034)
- Windows8.1-KB3035034-x64.msu: 64-Bit-Update for Internet Explorer Flash Player for Windows 8.1 (KB3035034)
- Windows8-RT-KB3035034-x86.msu: 32-Bit-Update for Internet Explorer Flash Player for Windows 8 (KB3035034)
- Windows8-RT-KB3035034-x64.msu : 64-Bit-Update for Internet Explorer Flash Player for Windows 8 (KB3035034)
- Windows8-RT-KB3035034-x64.msu: Update for Internet Explorer Flash Player for Windows Server 2012 (KB3035034)
- Windows8.1-KB3035034-x64.msu: Update for Internet Explorer Flash Player for Windows Server 2012 R2 (KB3035034)
Also Windows 10 Technical Preview and Windows Server Technical Preview are affected. But Microsoft will distribute KB3035034 for these platforms only via Windows Update. I just have tested it in Build 9926: Instead of controlling new updates via control panel, you need to open startmenu and select Settings. Within the Settings windows you need to select Update & Recovery (I still have a German build installed).
Install update KB 3035034 via category Windows Update. Beside the Flash update, my machine received also a definition update for Windows Defender and another stability update KB3035129.
According to neowin.net, this update will force Windows 10 Technical Preview to load (unintendently) the next Build 9932.


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What if I spoke to my kids the way God would speak to them? What if I spoke to my spouse that way? What if I spoke to my friends, neighbors, and (perhaps most importantly) what if I spoke to myself that way?
In our stake conference a few months ago, one of the speakers shared a quote that has stuck with me. I have looked for the source so that I can quote it exactly and give a reference, but either I have the wording off or it's not available online, so I'll just restate it as best as I can. He said "Fathers, lower your tempers; Mothers, lower your voices." I remember nodding along to the first half of the statement, and then feeling very chastised by the second half. Because, in my case, my voice is usually the outlet of my temper. I'm a very verbal person, and respond to most things in a vocal way.
So this month I am resolving to lower my own voice, and to try to let the Lord speak through me.
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It's not clear why Pew seems so intent on characterizing the American public as "polarized." That is the message in the headline of the latest such Pew claim ("Partisan polarization, in Congress and among public, is greater than ever"). And that was the message in late 2003, when Pew issued a report with the title, "The 2004 Political Landscape: Evenly Divided and Increasingly Polarized."
The 2004 report's claim of an "increasingly polarized" public was eviscerated by Morris P. Fiorina and his colleagues in their book Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America.*
They note (p. 63) that
"On the whole, the report was excellent, a highly informative summary of extensive surveys conducted between 1987 and 2003.
"But despite the claim embodied in the title, one strains to find evidence consistent with increasing polarization in the body of the report or in the myriad tables and figures that accompany the text." (emphasis added)
After going through the Pew tables and charts, the authors conclude (p. 66) that
"In sum…rather than indicating 'further apart than ever,' small increases in the size of opinion differences are intermixed with small decreases and numerous fluctuations without any real pattern."
They add in a footnote, that rather that a subtitle of evenly divided and increasingly polarized, "Pew would done better to give its report the subtitle of an earlier report: 'An Ambivalent Majority.'"
If Fiorina and his associates found little evidence to support Pew's claims of public polarization in 2004, they would find it even more difficult to find evidence to support Pew's latest claim.
That Congress has become more polarized is not in dispute, but that doesn't mean – as Pew argues – that "Congress reflects an America that has been growing further and further apart ideologically for decades."
What is the evidence for this assertion? See the table below, courtesy of Pew:
The most telling change is the increase in the size of the green bars. The number of independents over the past thirteen years has increased from 28% in 2000 to 37% in 2012. That change by itself challenges the notion that Americans are growing "further and further apart ideologically."
The chart shows 33% of Americans were Democrats in 2000, 31% in 2012. For Republicans, the comparable figures are 27% and 25%.
Overall, then, there has been a slight decline in party identifiers (- 2 percentage points for Democrats and Republicans each), and a significant increase (+9 percentage points) for independents.
What about the number of people of any party who claim to be conservative, moderate, or liberal? Adding the numbers of conservatives in 2000, we see 8% among Democrats, 8% among independents, and 16% among Republicans – for a total of 32%. In 2012, the comparable numbers are 6%, 11%, and 17% — for a total of 34%.
We can make the same calculations for liberals and moderates. (Because "moderate/liberal" Republicans are grouped together in the chart, for this exercise we can just divide those figures in half. When the numbers are uneven, we can give the "moderate" category the higher number.)
The results: The percentage of liberals in 2000 was 20% and in 2012 was 24%. The comparable figures for moderates are 36% in 2000 and 35% in 2012.
Given these data, are Americans really moving apart ideologically? The evidence here is slight: a 4 percentage point increase in liberals, and a 2 percentage point increase in conservatives, with a one-point decline in moderates.
But suppose we compare 2008 with 2012. Using the same calculations, we find liberals increasing by 2 percentage points (but only among independents), conservatives declining by one point, and moderates staying the same at 35%.
This is hardly the evidence for a claim that Americans are moving "further and further apart ideologically."
No, what's really notable here is not that there has been a discernible trend toward polarization, but rather that the figures have remained so consistent over the thirteen years. The only significant exception is the 9-point increase in independents, which suggests less – not greater — polarization.
Fiorina and his colleagues summarize their arguments (p. 77) against the notion of a polarized public:
"Reports of a culture war [driven by ideological polarization] are mostly wishful thinking and useful fund-raising strategies on the part of culture war guerrillas, abetted by a media driven by the need to make the dull and every day appear exciting and unprecedented." (emphasis added)
We need to keep that caveat in mind the next time Pew and others in the press try to convince us the public is becoming more polarized. The claim is sensational, but hardly justified by the data.
*See Morris P. Fiorina, with Samuel J. Abrams and Jeremy C. Pope, Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America, Third Edition (Longman, 2011).


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Someone spent over $30K on these game-worn kicks.
Kobe Bryant has received countless exclusive Nike sneakers over the years, including a plethora of Lakers inspired Air Jordans.
During the 2002-03 NBA season, Jordan Brand blessed Kobe with a special pair of Air Jordan 3s featuring the Lakers' purple and gold, which he later wore in a couple of games.
Those very kicks, a game-worn size 14, recently went up for auction on eBay and they sold for an outrageous amount.
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Earlier this year Jordan Brand dropped a Kobe Bryant Air Jordan 9 which opens the door for them possibly releasing more Lakers-inspired Js in the future.
And if there's one Kobe x Air Jordan retro that sneakerheads have been asking for it's the rare Air Jordan 3 that just sold for over $30K.