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Radical Islamists see Egypt as proof that violence is only way to power
Whatever signal the Egyptian military wished to send with its reboot of the 2011 revolution, which led to the nation's first democratically elected president, the decision to remove Mohammed Morsi from power and the subsequent arrest of many of his party officials is resounding throughout the world of political Islam.
The verdict? The proponents of Salafi jihadism and other ideological underpinnings commonly referred to as al Qaida-style have taken pleasure in the failure of their more moderate co-religionists from the Muslim Brotherhood to hold on to power.
The lesson these Islamist groups appear to be drawing from events in Egypt is that democratic engagement with opponents is pointless. And that doesn't bode well for countries with strong Islamist movements as they push, and often fight, to end autocratic rule by elites in favor of more representative governance.
Sheikh Abu Abdullah Ahmad al Jijali, a noted ideologue in North Africa's al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, issued a reminder to his followers on the pitfalls of mankind ruling itself on several prominent jihadi Internet forums in the wake of Morsi's fall.
"The expected happened, and the military turned on the choice of the Muslim Egyptian people, with international collusion," he said, singling out the United States, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates as the nations that wanted Morsi to fall.
He went on to compare what happened in Cairo to what had taken place earlier in Algeria, where an Islamist victory at the polls was overturned by the country's military, ushering in years of brutal civil war that killed thousands. "The Egyptian military committed the stupidity of turning upon a popular revolution, with a revealed cover, and a symphony that was played in the streets of the Algerian capital 22 years ago," he wrote.
The comparison will resonate among like-minded Islamists as they note that the Islamist group Hamas also came to power in parliamentary elections in the Gaza Strip in 2006 only to see the region and the world unify to marginalize it.
Those elections had been pushed by the United States, and they were universally declared fair. But when Hamas, a virtual political and military offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood that the United States has labeled a terrorist organization, defeated its Fatah Party rivals in a rout, the United States and Israel imposed an economic blockade.
Jijali prescribed patient but violent action to pull the community of Muslims from the Egyptian military's grasp.
"The youth of Egypt should learn that the price of applying principles on the ground is a mountain of body parts and seas of blood, because evil must be killed and not shown mercy," he wrote.
Will McCants, an expert on international Sunni Muslim groups and their ideology who teaches at Johns Hopkins University, put it in less bloodthirsty but still dire terms.
"Since the beginning of the Arab Spring, al Qaida and other jihadi groups have argued that the Muslim Brothers and the Salafis are fools to engage in electoral politics because the West and its local proxies in the Middle East will never allow them to govern," he said. "The events of the past few days in Egypt have made that argument far more persuasive."
Morsi's sudden fall may have ramifications in Jordan, where Islamists are being pressed by the country's ruler, King Abdullah, to engage in democratic reforms. Sheikh Hamzeh Mansour, the leader of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood, voiced outrage at what had taken place.
"What happened in Egypt was clearly a military coup with all the meaning of the word," he told McClatchy from his home in Jordan. Asked whether this might end the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood's willingness to engage with the king on democratic reforms, Mansour was noncommittal but hardly optimistic.
"The matter requires revision and thought, and it is too early to be given an answer," he said.
Thomas Hegghammer, a researcher on radical Islam at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment, said these deliberations might well lead to somewhat moderate elements taking a violent stand, particularly if the Egyptian military crackdown led to oppression and violence, as it appears from early stages that it might.
"I think a lot of radicals have been sitting on their hands these past two years and wouldn't mind getting their equipment out," he said. "The threat can be contained, but at the cost of human rights. I see a distinct risk that the new regime will be drawn into a downward spiral toward Mubarak-style authoritarianism as it tries to manage the security threat."
Syrian jihadists responded with some smugness, with one follower of the al Qaida-linked Nusra Front pointing out in a forum that "We have never seen a jihadi group finished in 48" hours. Addressing the Muslim Brotherhood, the unidentified posters said it was "your time to rethink. The solution is Islam, not democracy."


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After finishing the 2011 IRONMAN World Championship in third place, followed by a win at IRONMAN 70.3 Miami, a runner-up finish at the ITU World Long Course Championship and her first IRONMAN win in Arizona, Leanda Cave had a difficult start to her 2012 season. Today, though, she proved that once it comes to the fall, she is one of the toughest triathletes on the planet. Just five weeks ago Cave held off a stellar field at the IRONMAN World Championship 70.3 in Henderson, Nevada to take her third world title. Today she overcame an even stronger field to with her return to the Island of Hawai`i.
As she did a year ago, Dr. Amanda Stevens (USA) exited the water first followed closely by Meredith Kessler (USA), Gina Crawford (NZL), Cave and Mary Beth Ellis (USA). It didn't take long, though, for a strong group of women to move to the front of the bike portion of the race. Each of the top three (Ellis, Cave and Switzerland's Caroline Steffen) were given four-minute penalties. Steffen led into T2 just ahead of Ellis and about four-minutes up on Cave. 2010 champion Mirinda Carfrae appeared to be in contention, too, as she came off the bike just over eight minutes behind Steffen and seemed to be ready to unleash one of her patented run splits to take another world title, but Cave a different idea on how the day would unfold.
Steffen managed to stay in front through much of the marathon as Carfrae moved into third and came within a few meters of Cave. The Brit dug deep, though, and managed to hold off the Australian's charge to the front. With just a few miles to go, Cave passed Steffen and never looked back, running hard to the win here in Kona.
"I saw Mirinda on Ali'i and a few swear words crossed my mind then," Cave said of Carfrae's charge to the front. "I came off the bike with an four-minute lead and I couldn't believe she'd got half of that. When I saw her at the bottom of the energy lab, I thought she was going to get me then. I was surprised that coming into the last mile she still hadn't caught me. I thought this could finally be my day."
It certainly was. After having led for much of the way in each of the Steffen managed to hang on to the runner-up spot, while Carfrae got to the line in third. After coming out of the water 28th, Germany's Sonja Tajsich biked and ran her way to fourth, passing Ellis with less than a mile to go.
Top five professional women:
1. Leanda Cave GBR 9:15:54
2. Caroline Steffen SUI 9:16:58
3. Mirinda Carfrae AUS 9:21:41
4. Sonja Tajsich DEU 9:22:45
5. Mary Beth Ellis USA 9:22:57
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text: Late-night genius Jimmy Fallon was a comedy devotee practically from birth. His kindergarten school photo was captioned "Most Likely To Take Over For Letterman." He started performing standup when he was still in high school and eventually dropped out of college to pursue his quest for laughter full-time in Los Angeles. In the late '90s, he returned to NY and fulfilled his lifelong dream of auditioning for "Saturday Night Live," which obviously went well as he joined the cast in 1998. He was known for impressions of Robert DeNiro, John Lennon, and Mick Jagger as well as co-hosting "Weekend Update" with Tina Fey. He announced he was leaving the series in 2004 to transition to film, a move of mixed results as "Taxi," "Fever Pitch" and "Factory Girl" all had tepid box office sales and reviews. His first late-night hosting gig debuted in March 2009 and his boyish charm, musical spoofs, and celebrity competitions/stunts won viewers over. He took over "The Tonight Show" from Jay Leno in February 2014. The show tapings were moved to New York where Fallon lives with his wife, producer Nancy Juvonen (m. December 2007), and his daughter Winnie Rose (b. July 2013).


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Does Google's removal of the following paragraph mean that creating static copies of dynamic pages is no longer necessary?
"Consider creating static copies of dynamic pages. Although the Google index includes dynamic pages, they comprise a small portion of our index. If you suspect that your dynamically generated pages (such as URLs containing question marks) are causing problems for our crawler, you might create static copies of these pages. If you create static copies, don't forget to add your dynamic pages to your robots.txt file to prevent us from treating them as duplicates."
Until today, Google suggested creating static versions of dynamic pages. Reason being, Googlebot had difficulty in crawling dynamic URLs especially URLs containing question marks and/or symbols. To prevent duplicate content issues caused by sites with both static and dynamic versions, Google suggested "disallowing" the dynamic version via robots.txt. While this tactic helped engines, some would say using both thinned PageRank as well as the relevancy of anchor text in inbound links. Either way, it will be interesting to see how this move impacts Flash sites with a "static" version. Safe to say, Google is quickly advancing in the ability to crawl content!


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I finally reached the 173rd page, felt like I hit a milestone or something! haha
I have a few questions for you, but I'll start with this one:
What do you think of this pre contest aas cycle, mainly looking at the compounds now.
Week 16-12 (4 Weeks) : Test E + EQ Blast + Tren + NPP
Week 12-5/6 (5/6 Week) Test Prop + Mast Prop + Tren + NPP
Drop Prop 5-6 weeks out
Week 5-1 Mast P + Tren +Winny +NPP *Optional add Anavar 4 weeks out through show day
Drop Inj last 5 days- orals up to show date
I recall you mentioned you ran a long ester cutter, but didn't specify what it was.
What's your thoughts on the compounds listed, the lay out, and what long ester were you referring too & where would you place it at?
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During Heli-Expo, the International Helicopter Safety Team (IHST) held a town hall meeting open to all pilots, safety managers and anyone interested in helicopter safety issues. Attendees raised a number of concerns, including the lighting on wind towers and heliports that is currently invisible to night vision goggles (NVGs) in LED green, blue and red. Infrared transmitters are being fielded for placement on towers, but until then flight crews are forced to look under goggles.
The recent decision to allow unmanned aerial vehicles to fly in the National Airspace and the risk it will pose to general aviation was also addressed. A joint task force has been formed between the U.S. Air Force and FAA, and the group is currently working on the issue.
Pilots who have experienced intermittent GPS signal interruptions during flight also voiced their opinions.
IHST stated that there are a number of visual devices under production that can identify wires several thousand meters in front of the aircraft and display them for early detection by aircrews. Another device in development would allow pilots to transition from IFR to VFR in live time and use the visual display to land the aircraft.
Several pilots at the town hall mentioned they would like to have a central website to access and identify tower light status that is not shown on Notams. IHST representatives said they will address all of these issues.
Following the Town Hall, IHST announced an agreement with Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) to create IHST-CIS. The CIS is comprised of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. After studying similar organizations in Europe and the U.S., Viktor Ruklinski, director of the CIS Interstate Aviation Committee, said the group elected to partner with IHST.
"We've chosen the direction we want our [organization] to work, based on the experience of IHST," said Ruklinski, adding that the IHST-CIS initiative has been presented to the aviation administrations of the region for their support. After a year, the IHST-CIS plans to present a report on what the organization has been able to achieve in lowering the helicopter accident rate in Russia and the CIS.


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Master & apprentice: Folk art for the MTV crowd
We all know about apprentice programs– young men and women shadowing a master plumber or plasterer or human resource guru to learn their trade first-hand. Well, the Virginia Folklife Program at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH) has an apprentice program, too, only this one is for people like mandolin makers, North Indian Kathak dancers, and hearty Brunswick Stew makers.
The program is designed to encourage the survival of traditional folk culture, lest it be forgotten by the MTV generation. In this program, unlike, say, roofing, the history of the individual arts is a big part of the apprenticeship.
At the Boar's Head Inn Sunday, September 19, an exhibition and demonstration of traditional art, music, crafts, dance, and stew celebrated the successful completion of this year's program by the young crafters who spent nine months learning from the state's folk art masters.
Plentiful tasty treats and the relaxed atmosphere reflected the pleasure of the apprentices' endeavors. During the event, masters and their charges took center stage.
Who knew canning fruits and vegetables would go so well with traditional African dancing? The VFH sponsored a true cultural salad bowl of arts and crafts for all to enjoy– apprentices and masters alike.
Old-Time Banjo Master Joe Ayers and apprentice Patrick Hester jam out some Civil War tunes for the Boars Head crowd. [In our print publication, there was an error in this caption; it has been corrected here.]
What's a folk festival without baskets?
Brunswick Stew Masters John D. Clary and Lonnie Moore hand the paddle off to young Chiles Cridlin.
Janhavi Kirtane can Kathak with the best of them.
Tabla drumming master Broto Roy and apprentice Sunil Chugh


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Good review, glad the PCH team finally got some reg love (so to speak).
As stated, new firmwares are always on the agenda, and as a mater of fact a new RC was released to the beta team last night (due friday I believe).
Hopefully with a new GUI on the horizon, with a "rich object based graphical" style, rather than the current HTML style interface, things on that front should improve.


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The American standard "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" has received no shortage of noble ministrations since it was composed, by the Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey, some 80 years ago. Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin are most famously associated with the song, but there are also popular recordings by Elvis Presley, Jim Reeves, Nina Simone and many others, and what they all have in common is a reverential pathos, the suggestion of human frailty in the face of the divine. The song's second verse cuts to the heart of mortal supplication:
When my way grows drear
Precious Lord linger near
When my life is almost gone
Hear my cry, hear my call
Hold my hand lest I fall
Take my hand precious Lord, lead me home
Those lyrics haunted my head as I encountered the instrumental version of "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" that opens Come Sunday, a new Emarcy release from bassist Charlie Haden and pianist Hank Jones. The reasons should be obvious: Jones, who was 91 when the album was recorded, in February of 2010, died just three months later. His passing was widely mourned in the jazz community, especially by those musicians, like Haden, who had counted him among their dearest elders.
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The Big 12 Conference concluded its spring business meetings Friday in Las Colinas, Texas. The Conference announced its total revenue for the 2013-14 season as a record $221 million, which is an increase from last year's distribution of $198 million and $8.1 million more than projected.
The conference will distribute approximately $212 million to its member schools. Eight of the Big 12 schools each will receive approximately $23 million. The revenue distribution that each school receives doesn't include the money each institution gains from third-tier media rights. That revenue varies from $3 million to $15 million.
TCU and West Virginia, which are about to start their third season as Big 12 members, received a 67 percent share in revenue distribution for the 2013-14. Those schools will receive nearly $14 million each in revenue distribution. A year ago, those two received $11 million. Both schools agreed to the lesser distribution as part of a four-year phase-in agreement put in place when those schools joined the Big 12.
Oklahoma State president Burns Hargis, who is chair of the Big 12 board of directors, noted that the revenue increase is one of just several positives for the Big 12.
"The Conference has never been stronger," he said. "It's all about the future and making it better. Adversity builds strength. Everything is a positive focus. It's about making a better future for student-athletes. We had a successful two days of meetings on a variety of topics and pressing issues."
The board of directors met for less than two hours Friday; about half the time that was on the agenda schedule.
"From my perspective, the fact that we're done a couple of hours early is indicative that we're comfortable about what's going on in our conference," Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said.
Bowlsby said the total revenue being higher than expected could be attributed to placing a second team in the Bowl Championship Series along with receiving units from the NCAA Tournament, which are distributed on a six-year rolling basis.
"The revenue we have in place will put a lot of vitality in place on our campus," Bowlsby said.
Bowlsby also said that $7.8 million of the revenue – a figure based on the revenue that was higher than expected minus $300,000 in operating expenses - would be added to the Big 12 reserve fund that will be on hand for the uncertainties currently being faced due to ongoing litigation. Bowlsby said the $7.8 million could be distributed to the schools at a later date.
The commissioner expects that the per-school revenue distribution will increase by about $3 million thanks to increases in the Big 12 television contracts plus income from the new college football playoff. He also said that after budgeting $400,000 for legal fees last year, the Conference has increased that line item in the budget to $1.5 million.
Bowlsby said earlier in the week that the Big 12 will continue to use an eighth official for its Conference football games. The Big 12 received permission to experiment with the extra official to help with the pace of play. The Conference coaches deemed it a success.
Other conferences are following the Big 12's lead. The American Athletic Conference announced Friday it would use an eighth official for its league games in 2014. The Southeastern Conference will experiment with one eight-person officiating crew while the Big Ten and the Atlantic Coast conferences have said they also might use an eighth official.


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WWJD? Leslie Greene Bowman's 21st-century Monticello
In Charlottesville, a popular variation of WWJD is "what would Jefferson do?" For Leslie Greene Bowman, a variation weighs as she goes about her new job: What would Jordan do?
That would be Dan Jordan, for 25 years the head of Monticello, whom Bowman succeeded a little over a year ago as president and chief executive of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. Even while getting recruited for arguably the best job to which an American historian could aspire, she admits, "My first reaction was, no one can follow Dan Jordan."
Bowman lists some of Jordan accomplishments: archeology, library, acquisition of Montalto (Brown's Mountain), and the new Visitor Center, the latter of which opened just eight days after Jordan retired.
"What a magnanimous man," she says. "I stand on Dan's shoulders."
Bowman was director of another historic home, the Dupont estate called Winterthur. There, too, was a historic home, gardens, and a nifty catalog. But the differences are major.
Monticello's staff is not as large, but is more productive, says Bowman. Winterthur gets about 150,000 visitors a year; Monticello has around 450,000.
"Monticello is smaller, but much more prominent on the world stage," says Bowman. "It's in a class by itself."
As a history major at Miami University in her home state of Ohio, Bowman also loved art history, so she got degrees in both. Her master's degree in early American culture came from her first stint at Winterthur in its museum program. In between returning as its director, Bowman worked at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and served as curator of the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
She'd already met Jordan while serving on the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and she's been associated with another important house: the Committee for the Preservation of the White House.
If Jordan left the infrastructure for a successful 21st-century historic landmark, it's up to Bowman to take it to the next level– at a time when Monticello, like everything else, feels the pinch of lower revenue and the tanking of economic markets which chopped the foundation's endowment 15 percent in 2008.
While her board supported the new hire even as revenues dropped, Bowman created a bit of a controversy beyond freezing positions and firing three staffers.
Last October, she okayed random drug testing of Monticello employees, a move widely seen as tone deaf to the whole spirit and community of the birthplace of independence.
"I thought the staff understood the whys and reasons for that," says Bowman. "Obviously, we didn't do that well, and sometimes you get a black eye."
Despite the misstep, which she says was to ensure safety, Bowman bubbles with ideas to keep the national landmark viable. She talks up "friend-raising" as well fundraising, and plans on more community involvement, such as the Montalto 5K race, renting out rooms in the Visitor Center to local groups like garden clubs, and augmenting the hired help.
"We've opened the doors to volunteers," says Bowman, who counts 60 so far. "It's a great way to build rapport with the community."
This year, UVA graduates can celebrate with dinner on "the other Lawn." She envisions partnering with the Smithsonian for an exhibit, and hopes to see the NBC's Today Show broadcasting from Monticello on the Fourth of July.
By June, an upstairs/downstairs tour– official name "Behind the Scenes"– begins.
"The crossroads were under the house, where everyone would have intersected," explains Bowman. "You start in the cellar and go up" to the now-closed second and third floors.
Bowman has no trouble predicting how Monticello will be different in 20 years: Mulberry Row will be back.
"Today you see this iconic, beautiful house that's so peaceful," she says. "That's not what it was. It was bustling in the cabins, workshops, a nailery... There was a lot going on."
Bowman's honeymoon at Monticello may be over, but the awe at living on Jefferson's mountaintop has not diminished.
"I think the breadth of his genius is always a surprise," she says, adding violinist and art collector to the more familiar monikers, such as architect, author of the Declaration of Independence, and founder of the University of Virginia. "He was sort of an American Leonardo," says Bowman, who reveals one little-known aspect of Jeffersonian genius: cat doors five to six inches in diameter cut into the attic so the felines could get to the mice.
Coming soon to the tour of Monticello?
Age: 53
Why here? Thomas Jefferson
What's worst about living here? The New York Times will not deliver to the mountain (where we live).
Favorite hangout? With my horses.
Most overrated virtue? Virtues cannot be overrated.
People would be surprised to know: I make a great apple pie.
What would you change about yourself? Grow six inches taller so I can be seen behind the podium without a riser!
Proudest accomplishment? Becoming a steward of Monticello.
People find most annoying about you: One of my staff members calls me an "idea factory."
Whom do you admire? Thomas Jefferson
Favorite book? The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Subject that causes you to rant? The loss of farmland and open space.
Biggest 21st-century thrill? Moving to Monticello and living on the mountain.
Biggest 21st-century creep out? Global warming
What do you drive? I walk to work, but off the mountain, a Jaguar, a Jeep, or a 3-ton horse van with a 5-speed split shift.
In your car CD player right now: Russell Watson
Next journey? Historic St. Mary's City, Maryland's 17th-century capital– a wonderful historic site on the Chesapeake Bay.
Most trouble you've ever gotten in? Scheduling a Board of Trustees dinner on Valentines Day!
Regret: Not living abroad.
Favorite comfort food: Chocolate
Always in your refrigerator: Real cream for my tea, and a good Virginia chardonnay
Must-see TV: I hardly ever watch television.
Describe a perfect day. At daybreak on Jefferson's trails with my daughter and our horses; then to the office for a brainstorming session with great, creative minds; followed by leading a tour to share Jefferson's genius with a friend, old or new; and concluding with a stroll through Monticello's garden at dusk with my husband. I have many perfect days.
Walter Mitty fantasy: To meet Thomas Jefferson.
Who'd play you in the movie? Jody Foster
Most embarrassing moment? Fnding myself the only woman in a mosque in Turkey during a prayer service; the very sight of me required that they all go outside and re-cleanse themselves.
Best advice you ever got? From the Greeks: Gnothi seauton– know thyself.
Favorite bumper sticker? Well-behaved women rarely make history.
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"Biggest 21st-century creep out? Global warming
What do you drive? I walk to work, but off the mountain, a Jaguar, a Jeep, or a 3-ton horse van with a 5-speed split shift."
Ha! What a juxtaposition!
What would Jefferson do? He would own slaves, have them build Monticello brick by brick, garden the fields, clean his chamber pot, and write a little ditty about human equality, and then upon his death, he would leave the farm so in debt his daughter had to sell the farm and the slaves, all except those he freed, those he was related to. Thats what Jefferson would do
All human beings are flawed. Some manage to do great things anyway. Could you, Joe Cecil, do in your entire lifetime what Jefferson did in one year??? One week??? Writing and signing that "little ditty about human equality" meant certain death if the colonials had lost the war - which at the time seemed much more likely than that they would manage to defeat the most powerful empire on earth at the time. Would you have had the cojones to sign, much less write, the thing? It's pretty easy to sit here surrounded by our 21st century comforts and criticize an 18th century man who was born & raised in a time when owning slaves, evil as we now know it to be, was a common and accepted practice.
So Thomas Jefferson utilized the current system...
We all know cars pollute... very few of us are willing to give them up and live in poverty when when that is the choice.....
The guy was extraordinary by all accounts and there is no simon legree accusations in his past...
The relationship with sally was by most accounts mutual (although I know some woman want to argue it could not have been) and if the guy fell in love withg a black woman than that only proves further that he was ahead of his time...
its amazing to me how easy it is to justify slavery, especially in Charlottesville Virginia, my family were slaves, your family must have owned them
Joe, I don't think you understand what the word "justify" means.
," my family were slaves, your family must have owned them"
and my family was robbed by a black guy so it must have been one of your relatives....
Blacks are as cupable as whites in the slave trade... the BLACKS that sold them KNEW what they were doing. Blacks owned slaves too.
Get over it... there is ablack president, a black on the supreme court, a zillion blacks on the basketball courts and quite a few driving around in BMWs....
so all in all you are still better off than ducking bullets in the congo...


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His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh hosts a dinner at Frogmore House on Monday. The Duke welcomes representatives of the Outward Bound Trust, an organisation that helps young people develop teamwork, leadership and communicating skills. Frogmore House is located close to Windsor Castle and used regularly by members of the Royal Family for official functions and to privately entertain guests.
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The Earl of Wessex visits the London Borough of Croydon on Thursday. Prince Edward is marking 25 years of The London Mozart Players' residency at Croydon's Fairfield Halls arts centre. The Earl, Patron of the Players, will see a performance of the 'Fairfield Orchestral Series'.
On Thursday The Countess of Wessex carries out engagements in London. Her Royal Highness is attending a prizegiving lunch at the RAF Club as Patron of the Combined Services Winter Sports Association and a dinner at The Cavalry and Guards Club as Colonel-in-Chief of the Corps of Army Music.
The Princess Royal is working in Essex and London on Thursday. In Essex, Princess Anne is touring extensive renovations at Colchester Castle and visiting home improvement suppliers Kent Blaxill and Company Limited to mark their 175th anniversary. In London, The Princess Royal is hosting The Butler Trust's Annual Award Ceremony at Buckingham Palace and a Special Forces Club event at the Tower of London's Royal Armouries. The Princess is Patron of both organisations.
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The Duchess of Gloucester visits the Royal Academy of Music in London on Thursday. As President of the Academy, Her Royal Highness will see a production of Royal Academy Opera Ariodante.
Friday 21st March
On Friday Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh are opening new premises in London for the touring contemporary dance company Rambert.
The Princess Royal is attending a service at Croydon Minster as Court Assistant of The Fishmongers' Company. The service marks the 400th anniversary of Whitgift Foundation Founder's Day. Founder's Day marks the anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone at Croydon's Hospital of the Holy Trinity. After the service The Princess attends a lunch at the Old Palace of John Whitgift School.
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hmmwv wrote:Anyone else gonna go to the Nissan hosted dinner on Oct 14th for the new LEAF?
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Summerfield, NC
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Hickory, NC
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Clemmons, NC
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The Majestique Center
Charlotte, NC
Event Center
Starting from $2,010 to $3,850 for 50 guests
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The SMS Catering Atrium
Charlotte, NC
Park/Garden, Outdoor
Starting from $3,520 to $7,678 for 50 guests
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Durham Arts Council
Durham, NC
Historic/Landmark Building, Museum/Gallery
Starting from $2,439 to $4,884 for 50 guests
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Ayr Mount Historic Site
Hillsborough, NC
Historic/Landmark Building, Private Estate, Plantation
Starting from $600 to $1,497 for 50 guests
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River Bend Country Club
New Bern, NC
Private Club, Golf Course, Park/Garden, Outdoor
Starting from $1,391 to $6,712 for 50 guests
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Maggiano's Durham
Durham, NC
Banquet Hall/Restaurant
Starting from $1,859 to $3,343 for 50 guests
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NC State University Club
Raleigh, NC
Private Club, Ballrooms, Outdoor
Starting from $3,910 to $4,557 for 50 guests
The NC State University Club has been serving the faculty, staff, and alumni of NC State University for over 50 years, and is the ideal place for you to celebrate your wedding day. With many venue options, the University Club will accommodate every wish of even the pickiest bride. The University Roo...
Statesville Country Club
Statesville, NC
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Obituary Ed Turney, a co-founder of AMD responsible for building the company's first sales team, died Wednesday in Cupertino California. He was 79.
The cause was brain cancer, his brother George said in a statement.
Born March 26, 1929, Turney joined the US Navy at the age of 18 after graduating high school. He was trained as an electronics technician and served in the Korean War.
Turney's work in the semiconductor industry began in 1963 after a meeting with Jerry Sanders, a regional sales manager for Fairchild Semiconductor. The two struck up a lasting friendship, and Turney joined the firm as a salesman.
Sanders and Turney, along with seven other ex-Fairchild executives, left Fairchild in 1969 to found Sunnyvale-based AMD. One of his first roles at the firm was overseeing the construction of the firm's first chip fabrication plants.
Turney "was instrumental in our securing the best distribution network in the United States," said Sanders in a statement. "He built those critical relationships at the distributor level that were key to our business."
Turney left AMD in 1974, two years after its initial public offering. He spent the rest of his career working for a series of small semiconductor companies and later, as a consultant to start-ups.
He was buried October 18 at Gates of Heaven Cemetery in Los Altos, California. ®


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In Memoriam: Maureen O'Donnell July 6, 1952 – December 11, 2012
Iconic and ironic, O'Donnell releases Rogue Element
This article first appeared in the Chronicle in 2009. It is republished here in her memory.
by Bethany M. Dunbar
ALBANY — In these days of excitement about renewable energy, it just might be the perfect moment for Maureen O'Donnell to release her new compact disc.
Years ago, Ms. O'Donnell was a local celebrity as part of a band called the BTUs. The BTUs rocked out at the Valley House in Orleans and other local venues, back in the days when dancing was the preferred weekend aerobic exercise in the Kingdom.
"We were ironic as hell and iconic," says Ms. O'Donnell, when the timing is pointed out to her.
Ms. O'Donnell has been making music by singing and with a guitar and harmonica and other instruments since she was a small child. She remembers thinking that someday she would get rich and have a place in the country. It's all true except for the rich part (so far).
This is the introduction from Ms. O'Donnell's notes to be included with her new compact disc, Rogue Element.
"Listening to another 'final mix' thru JBL's in a 20' X 24' room with a large window view of beautiful meadows, free of all traces of human endeavor. A moose gazing in at me, so close I could count the flies on her magnificent mouth. Fifty or so wild turkeys strutting in a line through the yard; crows cackling, calling; hawk soaring, swooping, elegant, effortless in the totality of its being, nothing more, nothing less."
The cover photo is Ms. O'Donnell practicing — not with her guitar. She is shown in a black T-shirt and cap, ear and eye protection in place, holding — with what appears to be complete comfort — a rather large rifle. The photo was taken by David Bradshaw, a shooting friend.
Ms. O'Donnell's album could be described as rock or folk, alternative, or something like that. She has written all the songs except for "Cover Me" by Bruce Springsteen, which was recorded live with the Reused Blues Band at Burlington City Hall.
Ms. O'Donnell's voice is, on some tracks, Bonnie Raitt-esque. It's full of soul and life, and life experience. It's less frightening and more forgiving than the cover art.
She produced the CD herself. Its sound is homegrown and authentic. On the intro, she puts it this way:
"This slim collection represents my first solo process relying almost entirely upon my own skills (or lack thereof), as writer, musician, engineer, producer, singer, objective witness and executioner…
"Honest and raw as November, sonic imperfection becomes part of the charm of this offering, no opting for technical preciousness."
At age four, Ms. O'Donnell first saw a Telecaster guitar and remembers it in perfect detail.
"It was kind of a blondish vanilla with a white maple neck, and I was just gone. I didn't want anything else ever," she said.
One issue right away when she was growing up was that girls did back up. Ms. O'Donnell had talent, but people kept telling her "chicks didn't play lead."
They wanted to put her in tall, white go-go boots and a short skirt with a tambourine. She said she thought she would prefer her Carhartts.
"When I saw the Beatles, I wanted to be one. I didn't want to marry one," she said.
The Beatles were a huge influence on her because it seemed possible for music to be a career.
"All of a sudden you knew you didn't have to go to home ec. You knew you didn't have to be Betty Crocker or a Barbie Doll."
Ms. O'Donnell grew up in Brookfield, Connecticut, which she said was — in those days — a lot like Vermont is now.
"It was a great place to be a kid," she said.
"The Moody Blues were my parents," she said. It might be a slight exaggeration, but her actual parents were dysfunctional and abusive. Her mother was married six times, her father was married four times, and they married each other twice. Ms. O'Donnell went to ten high schools due to her parents' moving around. Her father was a Teamster. She got into drugs at age 15.
But music kept her interest.
"When I was ten I joined the drum corps," she said. She learned drumming from a man named Earl Sturtz, who was drum champion 36 years in a row. He had an "impeccable sense of meter," and she soaked it up.
She dropped out of school but was reading voraciously. She would go to college campuses and argue Nietzsche and Kierkegaard with the students and professors. She tended bar in a Veterans of Foreign Wars hall and met a band there called Spiral Country because all the songs were written in a spiral notebook. She joined them, they got on the radio and got fan mail from all over — including truck drivers in Colorado.
She came to Vermont with a former lover who was going to Goddard. Ms. O'Donnell graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology and theater from Goddard.
"She and I had done a lot of feminist theater," Ms. O'Donnell said, including at Yale Drama School. She found more music in Vermont.
"Denny Clifford taught me the fundamentals of how to do the dobro," she said. And then there were the BTUs.
She recently went back to Ohio and got to play with old friends and some up-and-coming musicians, including one woman she had mentored out there years ago. The shows were a blast — 1,000-seat venues, some with a packed house.
"I always knew I was meant to be on the big stage," he said. "I made good use of it. I didn't just stand there."
Music has kept her going in hard times and good times.
"It's just really nice to feel that you have something in your life that gives you a sense of self-respect and dignity, that you have something to offer the world," she said.
"The tunes on this album kind of picked me," she said. "I was really shocked at the serendipity."
She said she used to "push the river" a lot because of her own aggression and compulsion, but these days she's trying, with some success, to let the music just come through.
"Now I've learned to empty yourself out and get out of your own way," she said.
Ms. O'Donnell has a web site at https://InHouseMediaWorks.com, and by April 15 Rogue Element will be available for sale through CDBaby.com. Anyone interested can also reach her by snail mail (1535 Creek Road, Irasburg, Vermont 05845) or e-mail ([email protected]).
"The response to the CD has been amazing, considering so far it's only been word of mouth," she said.
"I wanted to just thank everyone for remembering."
contact Bethany M. Dunbar at [email protected]
An obituary of Maureen O'Donnell appears here: /bartonchronicle.com/category/obituaries/
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Recently reunited Los Angeles hip-hop group Jurassic 5, who's highest ranking album "Power in Numbers" reached No. 15 on the Billboard charts in 2002, will have a home-field advantage when it performs Saturday at the Greek Theatre.
Joining the group at the Los Angeles venue will be Dilated Peoples, The World Famous Beat Junkies and MC Supernatural. J5's DJ Nu-Mark answered questions about the group's future, the latest music release and what the Greek Theatre means to the band.
Q: Was the group in the studio working together on the new song "The Way We Do It" or was it made via sending the track over email? How smooth was the process of recording and how long did the song take to record? When was the last time the group had recorded a song?
A: Actually, this song was recorded right before we disbanded in 2006. We were experimenting quite a bit before we went our separate ways. Heavy D. was one of the producers we hit it off with, and he produced the track right around the time the White Stripes released the "Doorbell" song. It was all just a little too new for us to release, and it seems that it was meant to be shelved for a while. I wouldn't label our recording process as smooth. It's more like trying ideas and finding out what works and what doesn't. This was the last time we recorded together.
Q: Is the group going to put out an album? Will all the members be taking part if you do? What are the next solo (or group) projects from individual members?
A: We don't know yet what we plan to do as a group. People ask about an album from us, but does anyone listen to albums? Or is that question a figure of speech due to the collapse of the music industry? We'd like to record more with all members, but we're trying figure what would make sense during this state and time in the industry. The Internet and YouTube have shortened attention spans, and so we need to evaluate the playing field and record something from our hearts, if we plan to take this seriously. I can't speak for individuals' solo projects. I can only speak of my own. I have a new project with Slimkid3 of Pharcyde coming out this summer. Our first single, "Bouillon," features Del (Hieroglyphics) and Murs (Living Legends). This self-titled LP will be released on Delicious Vinyl.
Q: What can fans expect from your live performance if they've never seen you live? Will it be similar to the Coachella set with the big turntable?
A: We take pride in our show and believe in keeping hip-hop solid. Big Wheel will make a return. By the way, that turntable took three months of me wrestling with the set designer, trying to figure out the physics on how to make it functional. I earned a few gray hairs on that one, but it was worth it!
Q: How special is it to be performing at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles in your hometown? When was the last time you performed at the Greek?
A: This will be the most important show I've planned for to date. The entire group is really taking this show seriously. The Greek is very near and dear to our hearts because we remember seeing legendary acts like Run DMC and the Def Jam Tour take place there during the early years of hip-hop's explosion. This will be our first performance at the Greek. We can't wait to entertain our hometown. Plus the system bumps tough there!
Q: What are your thoughts about the state of hip-hop in 2014? Is it in a good place?
A: It's up and down, just like every other genre right now. All forms of music are having to adapt to this unjust music business. Piracy has stripped all musicians of what little royalties we were earning to begin with. This environment has made every musician I know step up their live performance, because this is truly how we earn our living. The creative side of hip-hop is a mixed bag for me. I think more young heads are trying to push the boundaries in the production department. I hear a lot of unique beats right now. Lyrically, I'm not impressed because I was born and raised on Rakim, Kool G. Rap, Big Daddy Kane, KRS One, Chill Rob G., etc. They're kind of a hard act to follow.


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MIDDLEBURY — In the cold depths of winter, people have long turned to indoor pastimes. But recently, two traditional Canadian games have made a steady rise in popularity on this side of the northern border, right here in Vermont — say hello to "Crokinole" and "Pitchnut."
MIDDLEBURY — Patrick Reen can officially take the word "interim" off his title as principal of Middlebury Union Middle School. Reen recently signed a two-year contract to serve as the school's leader following a search that drew 36 applicants.
MIDDLEBURY — The Rude Mechs, an acclaimed Austin, Texas-based ensemble theater company, will come to Middlebury College for two performances of their play "The Method Gun" on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 18 and 19, at the Mahaney Center for the Arts, Seeler Studio Theatre.
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College next week will hold a symposium to discuss the college's endowment policies and practices. The 90-minute panel, to be held on Jan. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the McCullough Social Space, is to be the first in a series of talks about the endowment to address the possibility of reinvesting elsewhere the $32 million of the endowment that is currently invested in fossil fuel companies.
MONTPELIER (AP) — Gov. Peter Shumlin devoted his second inaugural address Thursday almost entirely to education, calling for stronger high school math requirements and college tuition breaks for science, technology and math students.
"Success in the new economy depends on an educated workforce with skills beyond high school in science, computer technology, engineering and math," the Democratic governor told a House chamber packed with lawmakers, state officials, Vermont's congressional delegation and others.
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I met with my tax guy the other day. I'm tragically a victim of my own success; this year I will pay enough in taxes to fill the tanks of an F/A-18 with enough Jet-A fuel for a single mission. (And yet the damn Navy won't let me ride along! It's only fair -- I paid for the gas, I should get to ride back seat.) So we go through the whole rigamarole, determining which exclusions and deductions are reasonable and lawful and which are not.
While doing so, I cast my mind back a month or so to a blog post by Edwin Leap, in which he opined that "if we [elect] a Democratic president, that president, he or she, will surely raise taxes. I explained that I was really unhappy with that idea, and that I like the current tax cuts." Well, I can't entirely disagree; I too like low taxes, and my taxes, as a fraction of my overall income, are the lowest they have ever been.
Edwin runs in a different direction with his thoughtful post, and I refer you to read it for yourself. He touches on what most of us would consider a reasonable area of discussion -- whether government should be large or small and how far the scope of government should extend into the private sphere. There's a lot of vibrant debate taking place on these topics at both the national and local levels, and there are valid points on both sides.
What bothers me about the government's policies of the last seven years, and the virulent strain of conservatism, commonly described as "anti-tax activism," is that it conveniently ignores the reality that, once the government we are debating actually exists, once the money is spent, whether for good or for ill, that government must be paid for. "Anti-tax" is not a valid governing philosophy. "Small government" is a valid philosophy, though I don't particularly subscribe to it, but whether the government is big or small, it has to be paid for. The only way to pay for the government is taxes. Taxes today are unpleasant. Deficit spending inevitably results in higher taxes, with compounded interest, to be paid in the future, by us and by our children.
And this is what I find the most reprehensible about the Bush government's policies: they have expended federal entitlements enormously, quadrupled earmarks and pork-barrel spending, and engaged in a very expensive war, while pretending that it simply does not need to be paid for. You probably know that I, like almost two-thirds of Americans, think going into Iraq was misguided. The most recent estimates I have seen indicate that the direct costs of the war exceed $500 Billion. Even though I opposed and oppose the war, I do acknowledge that it has got to be paid for! But not the republicans.
Dick Cheney famously growled that "deficits don't matter. Reagan proved that." Perhaps, in the narrow sense that an administration can max out the national charge card without paying an electoral price; Bush's re-election seems to have confirmed this tenet. But do deficits really matter? Is the dollar's recent collapse in some part related to the national debt? What other real world consequences are there to this debt? There are a lot of really smart economists out there who debate this passionately and in terrible, mind-numbing, boring detail; I'm humble enough to admit that I don't have any claim to expertise or authority in this field. But the common-sense conclusion is inescapable: large structural deficits, escalating over time, are unsustainable in the long term.
In addition to the economic risk of a national debt that exceeds 40% of GDP, there are strategic risks. China's central bank owns about $1.3 Trillion in US Treasury notes, and has threatened to liquidate these, should the US try to impose any sanctions. I don't know about you, but I find it very unsettling that a not-exactly-friendly power like China has, should it choose, the ability to devastate our economy and trigger a collapse in the value of the dollar.
In response to this point, Edwin wondered if we couldn't balance the budget just by cutting spending. Unfortunately, about $2.1 Trillion of the $2.9 Trillion budget is off the table -- national defense, social security, interest on the existing debt, medicare, etc. There doesn't seem to be room in the remaining budget for cuts to offset the $500 Billion-ish annual deficit. Bush has been content to run out the clock on this fiscal catastrophe. McCain disingenuously promises more tax cuts. The Democrats, mindful of Walter Mondale's fate, studiously say nothing.
I think Edwin is right: if we elect a Democrat, taxes will go up. I'm not jazzed about that. On the other hand, I went through some pain to pay off my credit cards and I am glad I did. Now I've got more discretionary income to play with. Bill Clinton stared down the republican congress, raised taxes, and balanced the budget. It can be done, though with some pain. It's necessary -- if any politician has the stones and the maturity to do it. If we put it off, we just hasten the day of reckoning.
Bill Clinton bequeathed to Bush and America a budget that was balanced and solvent. Bush and his enablers in the Republican congress squandered that. I'd be pretty pissed, if I were Clinton, since the balanced budget was his most tangible and important legacy. Of all Bush's many crimes against the American people and the Constitution, his recklessness and irresponsibility with the nation's future may not be the worst, but may ultimately prove to be the most intractable.
The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, lest Rome become bankrupt.
Marcus Tulls Cicero, 63 BC