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Saturday, 26 July 2014
'Mummy, why did everyone forget about Syria when Gaza started?'
'Anti-Assad activists protest against a "selective internationalism" which opposes "the collective punishment and mass murder of Palestinians and Arabs in one land by one government and supporting or justifying their collective punishment and mass murder next door when a different government is the perpetrator".'
Nemesis in Iraq
"Although the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and local revolutionary committees have fought to keep alive the vision of a secular and democratic Syria, armed Sunni jihadis, often bankrolled by Gulf sheikhdoms, have increasingly made the running militarily. "
You would take from Callinicos' formulation that the FSA and revolutionary committees are the only good people, while he refers to the Islamists in fairly racist terms, and you wouldn't get the impression that they have done much of the fighting against Assad, just that they are a stepping stone to ISIS. That Callinicos quotes Patrick Cockburn as an authority on the politics of the region shows quite how out of touch he is with the Syrian revolution.
It's Not Complicated
Friday, 25 July 2014
The truth about conspiracy theories is that some require considering
So Cockburn thinks one example, when ISIS came in at the end of a siege with only a few dozen government soldiers left*, weighs more heavily in the evidence than the vast amount of fighting ISIS has done against the real rebels,and that their headquarters is never bombed.
"Predictably, the western media, diplomats and the "moderate" Syrian opposition claimed that Assad not only benefited from the existence of Isis and Jabhat al-Nusra but was secretly in league with them. "Notice Isis doesn't attack government forces," people would say with shallow cynicism in Beirut, though Isis was responsible for the capture of Minnigh military air base north of Aleppo, one of the few rebel victories last year."
Robert Thouless writes in Straight and Crooked Thinking** of a trick used in argument of imputing to one's opponents a stronger proposition than they are defending. This is what Cockburn does here. ISIS has capitalised on the destruction wrought by Assad, and their continuity of interest means that only the real rebels have an interest in their defeat. It isn't Cockburn or the lizards, it is his insistence that the opposition in Syria is little more than the creation of the government in Washington that is the wacky conspiracy theory.
"But it has always been an absurd exaggeration to imagine, as your true-born conspiracy theorist would hold, that Isis and al-Nusra were the creation of the government in Damascus."
A short history of the Syrian revolution
Louis N. Proyect
"Progressive intellectuals, concerned citizens, and humanists were shocked on August 21st but they felt powerless. Their neutrality, under the pretext that both sides are evil, and their silences and inactivity allowed the Syrian regime to isolate and besiege the Syrian revolution. As the revolution became increasingly invisible, the regime's narrative became more hegemonic. Many progressive intellectuals dismissed the revolutionary struggle of several hundred thousands Syrians in a myriad different arenas, and portrayed the situation as a civil war between Shia and Sunnis, a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia, or a violent conflict between global Jihadists and a regular army. As the revolution became unthinkable, the regime propaganda turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy. Sadly, in such a conjuncture the silence of progressive intellectuals became a license to kill Syrians."
Thursday, 24 July 2014
FYI, the Syrian people started a revolution, Assad started a warAbdulrahman al-Masri 'To make it clear to you, simply as it is, the Syrian people started an uprising movement demanding freedom, dignity and political participation and so, the uprising quickly switched to be a public peaceful revolution spreading all over Syria.
Someone sarcastically said: "Ha peaceful? But what is the free army?!!"
Yes dude, a peaceful revolution. Dear, the Free Syrian Army is basically not an army, the FSA is an idea. The creation of the FSA came because of the Assad brutally reaction towards the revolution as a few officers in the Syrian Army decided not to kill their own people and refusing taking orders asking them to become monsters. The FSA started as "The Free Officers Movement" which includes army officers who defected and wanted to protect their people, it is a defense-armed groups not an organized army that in turn does not erase the peaceful nature of the revolution.'
Syrian Civil War is being fought with homemade weapons made of gas canisters and old tank parts"He said that while some FSA groups are receiving supplies from Gulf states, many rebels like this group in Aleppo have received nothing. So the rebels make do with what they can cobble together themselves."
Assad regime kills deserted soldiers in SyriaA régime that cuts the throats of deserters is a metaphor for its own lack of a future.
Wednesday, 23 July 2014
EU Targets Syria Commander,
Oil Companies"However, the EU's sanctions on Syria have faced a growing number of successful legal challenges in the bloc's top courts.
EU judges have repeatedly ruled against the bloc's sanctions decisions, saying the member states have failed to provide confidential evidence that could back up their claims."
They don't seem to be trying very hard. Can they find no evidence linking Colonel al-Hasan to the barrel bomb campaign, or do they just not care if the sanctions are applied?
Syria: So near, so farHassan Mustafa: "If the war ends, Assad's regime collapses and security is restored with no one like Assad in charge, I'll go back to Syria."
Israel plays Assad and Khamenei's game in Gaza
I will get back to this.
"When Israel's government declares the Iranian and Syrian regimes responsible for arming Hamas, and when it accuses Hamas of deliberately putting civilians in harm's way, they make it clear that when they then go on to hit only targets in Gaza, and continue to contain Gaza's population together with a Hamas regime that by the Israel government's own account is happy to see them bleed, then Israel is playing Assad and Khamenei's game in Gaza.
Assad and Khamenei are blessed to have an enemy like Israel, an enemy who will draw the world's outrage while Assad's helicopters and Khamenei's militias get on with slaughtering Syrians across the border. And though Israel has repeatedly demonstrated that they have the ability to hit inside Syria, they'll let Assad's helicopters and Khamenei's supply planes carry on flying.
Syria still needs a No-Fly Zone. It would serve the Israelis' interests too, but they don't seem to have the wit to see it."
"When Israel's government declares the Iranian and Syrian regimes responsible for arming Hamas, and when it accuses Hamas of deliberately putting civilians in harm's way, they make it clear that when they then go on to hit only targets in Gaza, and continue to contain Gaza's population together with a Hamas regime that by the Israel government's own account is happy to see them bleed, then Israel is playing Assad and Khamenei's game in Gaza.
Syria still needs a No-Fly Zone. It would serve the Israelis' interests too, but they don't seem to have the wit to see it."
Syrian death toll and extremist threat increases, but the U.S. does little"The Free Syrian Army forces the administration proposes to support are steadily losing ground to the regime and the Islamists. There's a real risk that by the time the program gets off the ground — if it ever does — there will be no units left to support.
It's not easy at this late stage for the United States to intervene in Syria or Iraq in a way that would be constructive. But if one principle seems obvious, it is that moderate forces willing to fight the Islamic State should be aided — and quickly. Foremost among these are Syria's secular rebels."
Syria - the regime makes people suffer in rebel held areas
Ghayath Naisse
Some bits of this are good, explaining how the régime makes things unbearable in rebel held areas, so as to polarise society so that people think they would be worse off under rebel control. But as I read more, the sense I get is not that the military resistance to Assad's war on Syria should be supported, but that the military struggle is a terrible diversion from a non-violent class struggle that could solve problems in a jiffy.
The reverse is the truth. The revolution armed itself, because that was the only way to resist when the demonstrators were shot at by their government at every demonstration. When the government moved on to the massacres and rapes, it was only by military resistance that Sunni communities could be protected from a sectarian bloodbath. That's actually a truth you can find in this piece, "That means that even in the rebel areas any political activity needs to be protected," but if you didn't already know that, you wouldn't get that from here. The image is presented of a revolution that is nearly extinguished, precisely because it is all about armed men. I think a Marxist analysis would start from the fundamental instability of a régime that constantly erodes its social base, and has lost permanently the consent of most Syrians, how the position of Assad as a client of Russian imperialism leads to a coincidence of interests that might be exploited to overthrow him, how victories on the battlefield open up political opportunities to deepen the revolution, and ensure that no Syrian need ever fear torture for speaking their mind again.
Tuesday, 22 July 2014
Selective Internationalism: An Activist Disorder
"The Saudi and Qatari monarchies are among the most reactionary forces in the world — are the FSA and the Islamic Front wrong or mistaken in accepting or seeking their patronage? How can any of these forces claim to be freedom fighters or revolutionaries given their backers? Don't alliances with reactionary powers run counter to consistent internationalism?
The erroneous assumptions embedded in these questions are that alliances are matters of morality rather than expediency, that political struggle is primarily about first principles rather than advancing the interests of living, breathing constituents, that it is impossible or impermissible for the oppressed and exploited to exploit contradictions between various camps of oppressors and exploiters to win freedom. The history of successful revolutions is a history of unusual and ugly alliances with morally revolting backers."
Syria Speaks
Art and Culture from the Frontline, edited by Malu Halasa, Zaher Omareen, Nawara Mahfoud - book review: A moving testimony to dissidents fighting for democracy
'In his survey of revolutionary literature, the novelist Robin Yassin-Kassab mentions that Yazbek's reward from the regime for her literary courage was to be "walked through a display of meat-hooked and flayed torture victims".'
It's Not Unusual
Free Syrian Army Advances On Military Strongholds Near Damascus
The FSA forces advanced from the Ghouta area, an eastern suburb of Damascus, to Abbasiyeen Square in the capital.
"It is unusual in recent times," Daniel Serwer, a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, said. "In recent history the Syrian military and the extremists have been gaining ground and I don't see that changing any time soon."
If the FSA had the same level of weaponry as the Assad régime or the Islamic State, it would be more powerful than either, as it has the support of Syrian people, and doesn't rely on foreigners to do its fighting.
I'm reminded of Clay Claiborne's post on the changing importance of Qusayr, Syria in the Media*:
'For more than a year, while it was a liberated area, it was a nothing, throwaway city as far as the media was concerned. Since Hezbollah conquered it for Assad and it is back in Syria government hands, the media cannot even print Qusayr without the "the strategic city of" prefix. This is one example of how the mainstream writes to support Assad and undermine the revolution without being up front about it.'
Aldi staff told shopper to empty his trolley because he was spending too much money on tinned food for children in Syria
He seems to know more about Syria than all those commentators who tell us it is such a confusing situation that we have to blame Western interference for the suffering. There are people starving in Syria by the way, including Palestinians in refugee camps. Refugees because Israel forced them from their homeland, starving because Bashar al-Assad wants it that way.
"I was buying stuff to send over to Syria. I am not from there and never really knew anything about the situation but two weeks ago I started seeing all this stuff about these poor children going without food and had to resort to eating cats.
For me that was utterly shocking and I thought I would get as much cheap tinned food as I could to send it over there. It was nothing to do with religion."
I Can't Hear You No More
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GEMS January – History behind garnet and its applications!
by JewelStruck on Jan.25, 2010, under GEMS
Here comes another post on Garnet for Gemstone Each Month Series (GEMS) – January. We would be discussing history behind Garnets and its applications these days.
Garnet are one of the world's most ancient gems, it has been known to Man for thousands of years. Garnets are also found in jewellery from early Egyptian, Greek and Roman times. Many an early explorer and traveller liked to carry a garnet with him, for the garnet was popular as a talisman and protective stone, as it was believed to light up the night and protect its bearer from evil and disaster
Applications :-
- From ancient times the artisans created beautiful garnet beads, bracelets and other jewelry.
- Garnet sand is a good abrasive, and a common replacement for silica sand in sand blasting.
- Garnets are said to have been used by Asiatic tribes in place of bullets.
- They were especially used inlaid in gold cells in the cloisonné technique, a style often just called garnet cloisonné, found from Anglo-Saxon England, as at Sutton Hoo, to the Black Sea
- During the latter part of the 19th century, garnet bracelets and brooches were particularly popular.
- The Garnet group is a key mineral in interpreting the genesis of many igneous and metamorphic rocks via geothermobarometry.
So that was all about Garnets history and its application, wait for more to come on Garnets this month. If you have anything to share on Garnets, do email us at firstname.lastname@example.com
Image credit :- Claudette Isaacs – Jena Lee Creations, jenalee.biz
You might be interested in:
- GEMS January – Basic information on Garnets
- GEMS January – Mines and Types of Garnet
- Gemstone Each Month Series (GEMS) January – Garnet quick facts!
- GEMS January – Metaphysical and healing properties of Garnets
- GEMS December – The history behind Ruby and its applications
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Beautiful necklace!! So delicate. Its red stone gives it nice look. I really like it.

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I joined the March for the Alternative on Saturday 26 March with around half-a-million others. It was an exciting day, and good to see people of all ages, including little children, and all backgrounds dancing and chanting along the Embankment and en route to Hyde Park. I got back to see BBC News coverage of the event, and was angry, albeit not that surprised, to see a very skewed view of what went on. I have had around two-dozen friends say that they wished they had gone on the march, but were concerned about this or that. I have to say that this march was ultra-safe, and the babies and toddlers only cried when they saw Cameron or Clegg's face on placards! If you stayed home and only know about the march from media reports, let me tell you something you have not yet heard: it was a great day out for all the family.
The main contingent of the march were the unions. There were lots of Unison, Unite and GMB banners there. There were firefighters marching in pristine uniforms. Teachers were marching, as were students. A huge Postman Pat was leading groups of posties. Plenty of Labour Party branches were there with banners, as were a few Green Party branches and the assorted other parties of the Left. Campaign groups were out, like Stop the War and UK Uncut. Many spent hours on coaches from Scotland and Northern England to get there. A group of carers for the elderly marched with placards, each bearing a photo of an older person and their message of support for the march — an old woman grasping her zimmer frame: "I would march if I could". It took two hours for those at the back of the march to reach the starting point on the Embankment from which the front moved off. If each of us who marched has a handful of friends who stayed at home yet support us, the march represents many millions of Britons who refuse to accept the government's rhetoric on necessary cuts. This is no minority, this is mainstream.
I didn't go to Hyde Park for the speeches in the end, as I was more in need of something to eat than rallying. Ed Miliband's speech certainly reads better than it sounds on the video recording. However, there was absolutely no chance that he might say anything substantial. More interesting I thought was Ed Balls, Shadow Chancellor, marching (seeing as Miliband decided that marching was not quite appropriate for the Leader of the Opposition (!)) . Perhaps naively, I hope his participation represents genuine political openness to an alternative to these destructive cuts.
Members of UK Uncut (if you can call them members when you just turn up and join in) marched with us, and had publicised that they would be doing there now usual protest against tax-avoiding businesses along Oxford Street. Their protests are always good natured — dressing up and playing games — and totally non-violent. They protest to shame businesses who exploit tax rules to avoid paying their way when public services are being cut to ribbons. UK Uncut also planned a 'top secret' protest against a tax-avoiding business after the protests along Oxford Street. This turned out to be Fortnum & Mason, an ultra-high end grocer part owned by a tax-avoiding holding company that is owned by a 'charity' (in the legal rather moral sense) that has given substantial funds to the Conservative Party (illegally) and a right-wing thinktank. The occupation and protest and Fortnum & Mason was good natured and legal. An insiders account can be read here, and a video can be seen here.
The group that everyone is having problems with is the Black Block, which is a tactic rather than an organisation of those who dress in black, cover their faces and often carry the black and red flag of Left anarchism (specifically that of anarchosyndicalism). They 'joined' some of the UK Uncut protests, broke windows and threw paint bombs. When police kettled Fortnum & Mason they arrested UK Uncut organisers, those who had organised peaceful protest, while the vandalising march of Black Block segments were marching around neighbouring roads. The police arrested the wrong people, likely because of the high profile of the shop targeted and their frustration at not being able to do anything to stop peaceful protest. There is plenty of evidence to show that there are no criminal charges to brought against those arrested and cases will be dropped quietly, but the work of intimidation and media placement of the arrest figures is what the police wanted.
UK Uncut, the TUC and the Labour Party have all criticised the actions of the Black Block, although without such specificity. However, I would like to point out that Black Block 'violence' consisted of smashing a few shop windows, daubing some graffiti on walls, throwing some paint bombs and not letting the police push them around. Today the graffiti is gone, the windows have been repaired, and all at a fairly minimal cost to the tax-avoiding businesses that were targeted.
Then as the night drew on came Trafalgar Square. A number of groups had suggested that we end up there at the end of the day and turn Trafalgar Square into our Tahrir Square. It was a little naive perhaps, but such naivety is an essential part of the revolutionary spirit. After Fortnum & Mason, the police clearly had had enough and kettled the protest in the square. At this point the square was totally peaceful. The police made a number of 'snatch squads' to go among the protesters to make arrests of individuals. One seems to be someone who the police mistakenly thought had been involved in vandalism. Another seems to be of someone climbing on the Olympic Clock, which police reports have fetishised to the extent of describing riot police moving in to defend the sacred object from vandalism. Protesters defended friends from the snatch squads, and the confrontation escalated from there. Arresting the peaceful protesters at Fortnum & Mason was the first police mistake, trying to make arrests on the peaceful protesters in Trafalgar Square was the second. Peaceful protesters have been made scapegoats for violence once more. Laurie Penny's eyewitness account is certainly worth a read.
One other, secretive group was out in force on the march on Saturday. They did not carry banners, dress in black or cover their faces. They attempted to blend in, but they did not want anyone to know who they really were. I call them the Yellow Block — hundreds, if not thousands, of rank-and-file Liberal Democrats who feel their party leadership are taking the party in a direction totally repugnant to them. I wonder if the Yellow Block might have one of the greatest impacts on our politics in the near future.
Related Articles
- Cuts protest: I'm a political prisoner now | Imogen Perry (guardian.co.uk)
- Defend UK Uncut, even if you don't agree with their tactics (newstatesman.com)
- Some food for thought from inside Fortnum & Mason (independent.co.uk)
- Our protest against the cuts was peaceful | Alex Pinkerman (guardian.co.uk)
- Cuts protesters claim police tricked them into mass arrest (guardian.co.uk)
- 'It was my first protest. Now I might lose my job' (independent.co.uk)


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Kandi's Ski Trip by RamonaCoaster
So instead of getting deleted scenes of the Atlanta housewives, we see the Burruss-Tucker family do a big vacation to help blend their families together. I guess someone at Bravo felt Joyce and her sisters were entertaining enough to film a show and the animosity between Todd & Joyce would be enough of a storyline.
Kandi got a free stay at a resort in Colorado which is why they are going on a ski trip. This is why Kandi will stay rich because she takes advantage of a deal. I noticed people who stay rich are thrifty. Kandi and Todd are taking Riley and Kaela shopping for ski gear. Todd has snowboarded twice which apparently makes him more of an expert on the slopes than Kandi. Todd is scared that the girls are spending too much money and he wants to limit how much they spend. The total comes to $1248.90 and Todd pulls out the Citibank card. I'm sure there's enough of Kandi's money there to cover it. You got to look cute on the slopes!
They all start packing for the trip and are wondering why they are going on a ski trip. Mama Joyce questions why a ski trip but reconciled by saying she is looking forward to spending time with her since she hasn't seen much of her since Kandi was married. This is normal for couples to spend time alone together and their kids. Carmen wants to make sure Joyce knows she is going. Just watch out for flying shoes, Carmen. Carmen and Don Juan are going on the trip too. Kandi says it is because they helped put together a musical and a wedding so they are going to help put together a trip. I thought she was going to say because you guys are such good employees – I'm letting you go on a free getaway. It's apparently a work trip. Kandi tells them they are part of the family and Carmen is not sure she wants to be a part of the family while Don Juan says he has his own dysfunctional family. Already Joyce is saying Todd better watch out for her rock inside a snowball. Mind you this is after Sharon, Todd's mother, has passed. I do remember Sharon in the past saying New Yorkers don't take threats lightly. Being from a city where there has been a major terrorist attack, we take every threat seriously. Mama Joyce could teach Al-Qaeda a thing or two. Joyce says she has been trying to have a better relationship with Todd. When has she been trying?
So far the two aunts, Joyce, cousin Weenie, Kandi, Todd, Riley, Kaela, Carmen, Don Juan, Todd's assistant Matthew, Todd's uncle, wife & brother are going on the trip. Carmen is already watching out for any attempted murder scenarios.
Kandi is setting her hair in a bonnet and Todd is complaining. I guess the baby making factory is closed down for now. They pray for Sharon's soul and we see a scene with Mama Joyce bringing flowers to Todd for Sharon's grave and she promises to be a good mother-in-law. Joyce should be happy with a new house since Todd had issues with her living in Kandi and Todd's house. They should have time together as a couple.
Joyce is going to play nice with Carmen even though she still wants to drag her. On the bus, Don Juan wonders if Steamboat Springs has seen any black people. They all take a flight and see the snow from the plane. Todd's family and assistant meet at the airport. Already Matthew is assigning transportation. The Tuckers go in the truck and everyone else goes in the shuttle bus. Already the aunts are complaining. Matthew offers apple cider to the Tucker family and Don Juan says the aunts are going to push him over a cliff for forgetting them. Matthew seems like a better assistant than Carmen with his survival bag.
On the shuttle bus, the aunts think Colorado is about weed and snow. I wonder if they're going to get toe up. They all admire the mountains. Aunt Bertha is complaining about the long ride to the house. The owner greets them and shows them around. They are all impressed except for Aunt Bertha. That long trip without a smoke stop was getting on her nerves. Todd tries to cheer her up and when that doesn't work Kandi tries to placate her. Aunt Bertha is used to planning trips so when things are out of her control she does not have a good time. Bertha is spitting mad and forgot that the trip is free and voluntary. Matthew even offers to give her a foot rub and Bertha's ready to smack him.
Carmen did the room arrangements. Todd's family is on a ground floor in a separate house. The aunts and cousin Weenie are walking up the steps to another house in the back. Bertha's a smoker and she's already wheezing going up the steps. They start complaining about the raggedy-ness of the room and start waving their arms and yelling. It looked nice to me. I do think they shouldn't be walking up the steps in case of ice, not that there was any ice there. Bertha brought a taser for security since there are no locks on the door. It's only them in the house, why would they need to lock their rooms? I'm sure there's a lock from the outside of the house.
Kaela nicely got off her phone to talk to Riley. Riley tells Kaela she broke up with her boyfriend through a friend. It's cute that they can talk about their personal lives this way.
Kandi and Todd walk up the doggy steps to get up to the high bed. They're both short enough to use it. Todd talks too soon about how peaceful the situation is. He doesn't know what's going on in the other house with the aunts. Kandi didn't pack her remote control Bedroom Kandy panties. She needs to advertise her goods. She can't leave them at home. It's time to eat and the aunts are ready to go on the warpath.
Weenie gets into it first and starts yelling at Kandi how they were placed in the back and far away from the main house where they meet for meals. Meanwhile Riley and Kaela are eating elk at the kid's table with Matthew. The aunts and cousin Weenie are very upset at how far they have to walk and Kandi didn't realize what the problem was. It is all very dramatic and crazy. Kandi asks Kaela and Riley to switch and Riley is whining that she doesn't want to. She complains about her hurt knee. Is she going to go skiing with her hurt knee? Carmen and Don Juan volunteer to switch. They seem to be appeased but they are still far away and up the steps so it's not much of a better situation. Did they automatically assume they got the worst living situation despite the lovely views? Joyce finally is reasonable in her TH that they should be happy they were invited on a free trip. I'm getting scared that I agree with her.
Kandi goes to help them pack their stuff and they start laying on their grievances on her. It's like Kandi took Nene's place in the counseling session intervention. It seems rather scripted. Aunt Nora complains she hasn't heard from Kandi the past year and says she doesn't mind not getting money? Kandi gives her money? Joyce says she doesn't see her either and Kandi doesn't return phone calls. Even Weenie says her feelings are hurt. Aunt Bertha says she should reach out more often. They all pretty much have the same complaint that Phaedra had with her. Todd has been away working in Los Angeles so it can't be her new marriage. Kandi is pretty much saying "whatever" to her family too when they don't say what she wants to hear. Kandi, after making her shaky cry voice and giving excuses, promises to be better. Aunt Bertha puts down a broom from the fireplace set so that Kandi can jump the broom and the problems get swept out the door. Kandi obliges them. I thought this would be more of a comedy but so far, only Don Juan has been giving the good punchlines and everyone else has been whiny and not in the funny way. The family seems to be too needy and should find a hobby that doesn't include their world revolving around Kandi.
I have been looking for Todd's name in the credits and don't see it. According to the Zap2It website, "The Real Housewives of Atlanta: Kandi's Ski Trip" is produced by True Entertainment with Steven Weinstock, Glenda Hersh, Lauren Eskelin, Carlos King, Lorraine Haughton, Kandi Burruss and Todd Tucker serving as Executive Producers. If they have control over editing, shouldn't she show her family to be more entertaining than showcasing how needy and entitled they are? Unless she doesn't care as long as they get a paycheck and don't mooch off of her anymore. It's rather ingenious.
Real Housewives of Atlanta Reunion Part 3 has a 2.59 million Live + SD ratings. They lost some viewers but are still strong at the adult 18-49 ratings which are what advertisers look at.
Meanwhile in Atlanta last night …. Kandi celebrated her b-day with some of her ATL co-stars, including Phaedra Parks, Kenya Moore, Claudia Jordan and Demetria. Derek J and Funky were also in attendance.


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IMA® (Institute of Management Accountants) just began the celebration its 100th anniversary year following its 2018 Annual Conference & Expo (ACE2018), held at the JW Marriott in Indianapolis this month. At the conference, IMA announced its centennial tagline, "100 Years and Counting," along with many initiatives designed to support management accounting professionals through the next 100 years.
IMA released an exposure draft of its enhanced Management Accounting Competency Framework, which includes skills that finance professionals will need to remain relevant as new technologies such as blockchain, machine learning, and robotics process automation impact the profession. The framework is the first product of IMA's new research initiative focused on identifying how management accounting is changing and the new skills professionals need.
"When I reflect on how far we've come, it's clear that IMA's longevity and strength come from continuously innovating new programs and services that benefit members," says Jeff Thomson, CMA, CSCA, CAE, IMA president and CEO. "It's inspiring that many of these innovations are owed to the engagement and expertise of our vibrant IMA community."
Additionally, IMA announced its Century Student Scholarship Fund, an initiative to support students in the pursuit of their education as they embark on their accounting and finance career paths. Funding recognizes high achieving students and paves a way for them towards rewarding careers in management accounting.
Commenting on the milestone from a Middle East perspective, Hanadi Khalife, director, MEA and India operations at IMA said: "IMA remains fully committed to supporting the development of the management accounting industry, in which we have seen tremendous growth in the Middle East and Africa region over recent years. As we look forward to the future, it is important that we equip students and professionals with the right capabilities in this age of digital transformation and connectivity. IMA will continue to offer this support and work closely with education institutions and the industry to ensure the accounting profession remains at the cutting edge of technology and innovation."
IMA's centennial celebration will culminate at the next Annual Conference, to be held in San Diego in 2019.
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What happens when you couple an Emmy Award-winning video editor with some Traveling Dads punch-drunk on Orlando sunshine but nonetheless eager to talk about the one thing that's always in their pants when they travel?
A video editor with his work cut out for him.
Fortunately the aforementioned video guy, world traveling photographer JD Andrews, was not only behind the camera but also happens to be one of us (a Traveling Dad) so he understood the unique challenges of eliciting responses that were at once informative and hilarious.
We hope you find the video embedded herein to be a bit of both.


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After countless protests and threats of violence, Haiti's Electoral Council (CEP) announced the cancellation of the presidential runoff election, two days before it was scheduled to happen. Protests against the election were based on perceptions of the election being illegitimate, given the fraud that marred the electoral process in previous rounds. The CEP hasn't yet announced a new date for the presidential runoff but the current president's term is Constitutionally required to end February 7th.
Part of the article is below. Click HERE for the full text.
Haiti Postpones Presidential Runoff as Violence Rises
Frances Robles, The New York Times
January 22, 2016
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A runoff election to choose the next president of Haiti was delayed on Friday, less than 48 hours before it was to take place, as protesters who expected a rigged outcome began to block roads and burn voting centers.
Haiti, the Western Hemisphere's poorest country, has been mired in an election-related political impasse since October, when 54 candidates ran for president in a race that opposition leaders and human rights groups said was mired in fraud.
The current president's handpicked successor, Jovenel Moïse, a banana exporter who was a virtual unknown in Haiti, officially came in first with 32.8 percent of the vote. Jude Célestin, a former state construction company official who was ousted from the 2010 race after election fraud, came in second with 25 percent. Mr. Célestin has refused to campaign and was boycotting the second round.
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From Kevin Smith to Bucky Larson to an Oscar winner, Hollywood has spent a fair amount of time showcasing and/or poking fun at itself in movies throughout recent history. As the highly-buzzed-about Argo prepares to debut in theaters this weekend following huge early acclaim and positioning as a major Oscar contender, we're taking a look back at the wide release movies from the past decade that have broken Hollywood's fourth wall and turned their business into the art itself. We may even get a sense of what kind of mainstream success Argo can find based on this history.
Addressing the elephant in the room upfront seems best: 2011's Oscar-winner for Best Picture, The Artist, didn't turn into a huge mainstream hit. In fact, it had the second-lowest domestic box take ($44.7 million) of any Best Picture winner since 1987's The Last Emperor ($44 million) - the lowest being 2009's The Hurt Locker ($17 million). Adjusting for inflation, you'd have to go so far back into history to find another winner with lower ticket sales that accurate box office statistics aren't even available (pre-1978). Nevertheless, the film not only dominated the awards circuit last year but was also the most profitable "movie about movies" on our list. The valentine to the silent film era made $132.7 million worldwide against a modest $33 million total budget. Domestic audiences just weren't interested.
2011 held up another mirror to the film industry, though, with Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Hugo. Despite glowing critical reviews and its own fair share of Oscar success, the film didn't quite make its combined budget back at the worldwide box office. That said, the film did find a slightly larger mainstream crowd than the film it lost to for Best Picture. Hugo's $73.9 million domestic gross though was still low enough to prevent the international market from being able to make up for the loss as the film banked $180.9 million against a big $190 million budget. A rare financial miss these days for Mr. Scorsese, but he deserves a pass every now and then. With a stronger domestic market and more concentrated advertising, we might be singing a different tune about the film's earnings.
Having covered the opposite ends of the profitability spectrum with 2011 alone, the question is which one is in the minority? Unfortunately, the answer is The Artist. Dating back to 2000, only four films on our list of movies with significant plot elements pertaining to making movies were certifiably profitable during their theatrical runs. Those include 2011's Drive, 2001's America's Sweethearts and 2000's Scream 3. Films like The Aviator and Tropic Thunder also deserve credit here as they likely did profit in the long run, having made 1.47 and 1.28 times their budgets, respectively. More importantly, both were very well-received by audiences.
Outside of those, the remaining 12 films out of 20 in our topic flopped. Nay, bombed. The staggering statistic: all 12 of them failed to even make their budgets back. While Hugo is unfortunately among that group, it also stands as one of the few films to somewhat make up for it with awards circuit success and/or strong audience reception. Another film that barely missed the theatrical profitability mark was Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
The rest, however, simply can't find much redemption. From 2009's Nine and Funny People, and The Black Dahlia to Hollywoodland, each one of them grossed less than 75% of the money it took to make and market them. The worst offender, though, was 2011's Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star. The comedy misfired to the point of grossing just $2.5 million domestically (and, by extension, worldwide) against a $25 million budget. In that one's case, we probably can't blame the inflated budget as we could with many other films on the list.
At first glance, this could paint a pessimistic picture for Argo. Movies about movies clearly do well far less often than they succeed (in terms of dollars), but the story revealed here is that the flicks winning over critics and/or boasting mainstream appeal through a star or widely appealing concept ultimately can become winners in some capacity. Where will Argo land on the spectrum? Although the film isn't expected to open quite as strongly as Ben Affleck's The Town did two years ago, the early screenings indicate it should play strongly throughout the fall and awards seasons. As another critical winner on Affleck's increasingly-impressive directing resume, Argo may be in it for the long box office haul.
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A beloved family member comes back into the fold a changed man. He's withdrawn, apathetic towards the church, and has developed a fondness for philosophical pontificating and fancy books. Could he be... a RED?? That's the gist of the infamous anti-Communist paranoia flick My Son John (1952), which counts as the latest in Olive Films' great unearthing of lesser-known vintage Paramount productions on home video.
For a film with such a terrible reputation (the studio has mostly kept it out of circulation, seemingly since its original release), My Son John isn't as bad as what you might initially believe. That doesn't make it a good or even mediocre film, however. One gets a strong sense that director-screenwriter Leo McCarey (The Awful Truth) had only the best intentions in mind for this project - a cautionary tale of what might happen when subversive beliefs worm their way into a typical all-American family. The end result, however, came out different from what the filmmakers intended, due to a lethal combo of unforeseen tragedy (star Robert Walker died during the film's production) and overstating its message to a ridiculous degree (a script that makes the decent-hearted, devout characters appear more neurotic than the "tainted" lead).
The film begins with a flurry of activity as sturdy midwesterner Dan Jefferson (Dean Jagger) and his flighty but loving wife, Lucille (Helen Hayes), prepare a farewell dinner for their two Army-enlisted sons as they get ready to be shipped off to Korea. The dinner comes off well except for the no-show of the couple's other son John (Robert Walker), who made a break from the town's insularity by pursuing a career in Washington D.C. Clearly this send-off was a big deal to this church-loving, close-knit family, which makes John's absence all the more vexing. When John finally does make an appearance, he's a navel-gazing shell of his former self who avoids the church, buries himself in books and has prickly conversations with his flag-waving, lodge member dad. Although Lucille's generosity and faith in God has been a source of strength for the family, John's strange behavior takes a hit on her already fragile system (she has a heart condition, but prefers to stow away the pills she's prescribed in a jar in the kitchen). The tensions in the family escalate when the parents literally collide with Stedman (Van Heflin), a suspicious outsider in the town. When it becomes apparent that he's there to track John's activities, Dan and Lucille reach a breaking point. After it dawns upon the dim couple that John may in fact have turned into a Communist, the formerly homebound Lucille decides to travel to D.C. to meet with Stedman and reveal for herself the horrible truth about her son.
My Son John is a deadly serious film with a then-powerful message that undoubtedly struck a deep chord in McCarthy-era Hollywood. Leo McCarey botched it big time with this effort, however. Even if one were to take its dated/hysterical premise seriously, the project's disjointedness and plodding, earnest dialogue (the kind that strains to sound casual but ends up coming across like bad Off-Off-Broadway theatre) place it more in filmdom's "fascinating flop" section. Robert Walker contributes a fine, thoughtful performance, one that was derailed by him dying partly through the production. Several of his character's scenes were patched together with doubles and footage of the actor from Strangers on a Train, giving the film a slipshod feel that it never recovers from. It's overlong, preachy and top-heavy with scene after scene of dreary domestic squabbles.
Surprisingly, My Son John does boast a few nice scenes where McCarey accurately portrays the simple goings-on in a country town, but the story soon becomes a muddled and hysterical mess riddled with stock characters and bad performances. While Van Heflin does a fine job as the F.B.I. agent, his character is pretty much a stereotype. Dean Jagger plays the dad like a standard-issue dolt, a glad-handing patriot too enamored of his own social obligations to notice what's going on around him. Nothing can prepare the viewer, however, to the awfulness of Helen Hayes as John's busybody mother. Not a particularly appealing character in the first place, Hayes' approach amplifies the woman's neuroses until she becomes a parody of a sanctimonious, meddling mama from hell. It really is astonishing how bad she is.
Probably the most galling aspect to My Son Jon is the idea that it casts suspicion on the John character for being an intellectual and actually having an interest in matters outside his family's insular, Christian-centric universe. It's bizarre. Leo McCarey was certainly capable of writing multi-dimensional characters, even religious folk with human qualities like Bing Crosby's hepcat preacher in Going My Way and The Bells of St. Mary's. In this film, the smart characters have something to hide while the devout seem almost noble in their willing ignorance. While the film's fevered anti-Red hysteria comes across like the quaint relic of another era, its portrayal of the intellectuals vs. the religious is something that unfortunately resonates to this day.
The DVD:
Olive Films' DVD of My Son John uses a decent looking print of the film in a handsome, well-balanced transfer. The picture has its share of age-related detritus, with several overly grainy shots which were likely present in the original print. There's also a few dark scenes, but overall the picture looks all right.
The film's original mono soundtrack is preserved here in a good mix that doesn't have too much hiss or flaws. No subtitles on this no-frills release.
No extras, with only scene selections present on the disc's blandly-designed menus.
Final Thoughts:
Anti-Red opus My Son John sounds like it could have been a kitschy hoot; in reality it's a leaden-paced bore with cardboard characters and a choppy plot. The committed work of Leo McCarey and actor Robert Walker can't save it from being an ill-conceived curio that is overburdened with brain-melting notions about patriotism and the true meaning of being an American. Michelle Bachmann would probably dig it, others should rent it before committing to buy.


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You Can Now Ignore Your Boss' Emails After Working Hours...If You Live in France
Are you one of the millions of Americans who get cryptic emails from a psycho boss when you should be enveloped in bed with Netflix and a glass of cabernet? Yeah, work sucks and then you die, but not in France, where the government passed a new law that allows employees to disconnect from all work correspondence past a certain hour.
According to the law, which took effect January 1, companies with over 50 employees are required to "negotiate a new protocol to ensure that work does not spill into days off or after-work hours," according to the New York Times.
Now you have more reason to be jealous of the way French culture places a premium on enjoying life. Benoit Hamon, a member of French parliament, explained the rationale behind the law in an especially blunt and French sort of way last spring: "Employees physically leave the office, but they do not leave their work. They remain attached by a kind of electronic leash — like a dog. The texts, the messages, the emails — they colonize the life of the individual to the point where he or she eventually breaks down," he told the BBC.
There's a caveat though, NBC News points out, considering that many French businesses report employing just 49 workers, which is a way of circumventing workforce laws that take effect at the 50 employee threshold. That being said, the new law could very well affect just over half the workforce in France, according to reports compiled by the European Union.
Whether the laws end up affecting half the workforce or not, the ability to mute the deluge of annoying emails, texts and phone calls should sound like divine intervention to the French, who are very good at turning their lamentation into positive action.
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Delegates to the proposed national conference scheduled to begin on March 17, are set to defy President Goodluck Jonathan's directive that they must not discuss Nigeria's unity.
Findings by SUNDAY PUNCH on Friday showed that some delegates across the nation are insisting on discussing any and every issue relating to Nigeria's unity as a country.
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Ayim Pius Anyim, while releasing modalities for the conference on January 30, had said discussions on the indivisibility of Nigeria were off-limits.
Anyim said, "The national conference shall tentatively last for three months and shall discuss any subject matter, except the indivisibility and indissolubility of Nigeria as a nation; therefore the unity of Nigeria is non-negotiable.â€
However, the pan-Igbo organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Friday said it would not be bound by the Federal Government's guideline.
President General of the organisation, Dr. Gary Enwo-Igariwey, told one of our correspondents that Ohaneze would not be restricted at the conference.
"We have a position. All issues will be discussed. We will discuss all things. That is our position on that,†he said.
Similarly, the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra said its leader, Ralph Uwazurike, was going to the conference to table the demand for Biafra State.
The National Director of Information of the movement, Mr. Uchenna Madu, who spoke on behalf of Uwazurike, told SUNDAY PUNCH that, "Everything will be discussed. Seventy per cent of those going to the conference are going there to discuss separation. At the end of the day, if we cannot agree on a united Nigeria, Nigeria will be dissolved.
"Everything has become clear that we cannot continue to be one. Amalgamation has ended. We are going to the conference to discuss dissolution.â€
Speaking in similar vein, National Coordinator of the Odua Peoples Congress, Chief Gani Adams, kicked against the government directive.
He said, "In my view, every section of the constitution should be discussed. On the issue of no-go areas, when we get there, we will discuss it.
"If it is the issue of no-go areas and the issue of ratification by the National Assembly, we will discuss them when we get to the conference.
"I attended the pre-conferences by southern Nigeria leaders and most of the meetings we had before arriving at the Yoruba agenda. Majority of the people disagreed on the issue of no-go areas.â€
Similarly, one of the delegates from Kano State, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, dismissed the statement credited to the SGF.
He said, "The one thing we want to do is ensure that even in discussing the most sensitive issues, there must be a sense of responsibility and once you do that, the no-go areas will take care of themselves. But you cannot say we can't discuss this or that.â€
President of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, Mr. Bobboi Kaigama, equally said issues that affect Nigeria's unity must be discussed at the conference.
Kaigama said, "TUC can never compromise the unity of Nigeria. But still, within the realm of the conference, we should hear the agitations of Nigerians and make a comprehensive presentation at the end of the day that will capture everybody's position so that Nigeria can be stronger. We can iron out our problems.â€
One of the delegates from Osun State, Chief Gbadegesin Adedeji, said his contributions to the conference would be in tandem with the aspirations of the Yoruba people. He added that as an individual, he believed that the unity of the country was negotiable.
Adedeji said, "I personally believe that the unity of this country is negotiable. The unity of this country will not be negotiable if all other things are equal. For all other things to be equal; there must be justice, fairness, peace and equity. You must have regard for my people, my culture and my religion.
"I cannot be a party to a marriage where I and my people will not be respected and will be treated like second class citizens. But whatever I will say at the conference will tally with the position of my group.â€
Another delegate from Osun State, Chief Femi Akande, said he would represent the position of the state and the Yoruba race at the conference.
Akande said, "I will represent the position of the state and the Yoruba race. But let us leave the issue of the no-go-area till when we get to the conference. It should not be the starting point.â€
A former Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Mr. Olawale Abdulsalam, who is a delegate, also said, "I personally believe that it we want to discuss, we should discuss everything and there should be no restrictions, but for now, we will wait till after the inauguration before we can examine whether the issue of the unity of this country would not form part of the debate.â€
On his part, Chief Olu Falae said all contending issues affecting the country and wellbeing of Nigerians must be discussed.
He said, "I think we would be naive if we expect that a topic like the indivisibility of Nigeria would feature for discussion but discussing any of the topics could lead to the issues bordering on the continued existence of Nigeria as a nation.
"Apart from this, the action and inaction of members of the conference could also point to that direction because an issue may come up for discussion and a group might sharply disagree with the position of the conference on such an issue and decide to walk away.â€
The spokesperson for the Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, said delegates should be allowed to discuss the unity of the country to end the killings in the country.
He stressed that while the government was emphasising the indivisibility of the country, some Nigerians were making their demand for their desired country by killing other Nigerians.
Odumakin said, "There are some people, who are presently renegotiating Nigeria with the blood of innocent souls; who are killing people to ask for the kind of Nigeria they want, which is not in the interest of all.
"For those of us who are not killers, who don't suck blood but who are going to use our mouths to discuss, we should be allowed to renegotiate the unity of Nigeria on acceptable terms to bring peace, cohesion and orderliness that will stop the bloodletting and killings in this country.â€
When asked if the issue would be raised if there was an opportunity at the conference, he said, "Definitely, there is no way most of us in Nigeria will come together and we will not discuss the killings that are going.
"Definitely, we will discuss issues around these matters but not towards breaking of the country.â€
However, the radical cleric and President, Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, told one of our correspondents on Friday that he had not been officially informed about his nomination.
Two of the nominees to the conference from Plateau State, former governor, Fidelis Tapgun and former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Gen. Jeremiah Useni, told one of our correspondents in separate telephone interviews that they believed the conference would be different from all other conferences.
Tapgun said, "I have been a strong advocate of the conference because I believe that there is need for us to sit down and discuss. We are not going there for ourselves, but for our children and our country, and I believe that by the end of the conference, we will achieve a lot that will cement the unity of our country.
On his part, Useni, said, "We had this kind of conference before. But this time, it is going to be a different thing from what we had in the past. What happened yesterday should not be used to judge what is happening today.
"There is no agenda. I am looking forward to it because, we are going to discuss frankly and openly.â€


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They placed 13 singles in the charts between 1956 and 1964.their best charts were in 1958 #2 with_26 Miles(Santa Catalina) . and #3 with_Big Man. and in 1959 #13 with_Down By The Station
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New York (CNNMoney) - Women are finding their way back into the workforce.
The economic upswing had until recently been a "hecovery," but the revival is now becoming more balanced between the genders. The number of women employees has jumped by 300,000 in the past six months, nearly the same amount as men. And in September, men and women each saw a job gain of 57,000.FULL STORY
Maybe Romney will use this graph the next he blasts the president about women and jobs. Incidentally, Nate SIlver now has Romney with only a 29.6% chance of winning the general. Goodbye Mittens.
Wonderful News !!! Now lets not forget which party signed pledges, blocked job bills, obstructed the countries progress, vowed to crush Obama, and don't believe in our equal rights. When a party will put it's citizens and it's country at risk to win the game, they can't be rewarded for it.
Bad news for republicans is good news for every other American loving citizen.
Good for Women, but you know what? Romney will cry foul play, Jack Welch will cry manipulation !!!
Let the MIDDLE CLASS reign, Let the WOMEN be women themselves.
Men, take my advice, step back, step way back, Women will answer Tech Romney's swing. DON'T YOU EVER DOUBT IT. This is 2012 not 1812.
This woman is doing just fine. So well, in fact I'm going to open my first small business but this is pending the outcome of the election, which might make a difference.
Obama/Biden 2012
What is very disconcerning is the President is often attack on things that he is doing good at and his campaign isnt knowledgeable about the facts. Why didnt the President correct Romney at the debate about women data job growth? Instead he allows his adversaries pound him on things that can be easily debunked. He is allowing the other side to paint a negative picture of lies without correcting them. This is building a false perception. He needs to know his own facts.
so after 4 years back to square one and this is good??? lets go on comedy centrel and exlpain the lies about the dead Ambassador, unbelievable !!!! hurry respond blame bush and its amazing how all of a sudden all thes numbers are changing
There goes another Republican talking point. Romney needs to get binders of new talking points now.
There is no such thing as a "recovery". For that to be true, the jobs becoming available, would have to be of the same quality, and salary range of the jobs that have been lost.........and that simply is NOT the case.
Most people who are finding jobs, are taking jobs well below those they LOST!
Women are back on the job because the jobs are available after their husbands have been laid off. The women are hired at a lower wage. Also, many, if not most, of these jobs are part time and minimum wage. If you like this way of creating jobs, then vote for Obama...please. I'm actually looking forward to the riots.
I want to ask this question mainly to women and what they teach their children. It has been proven on tv, videotapes, you can even go online and see exactly, precisely, what Mitt Romney has said about taxing the middle class, healthcare against women, getting rid of medicare,getting rid of social security, leaving healthcare including pre-existing conditions up to the insurance companies so they can drop you or charge you so high to where you will never be able to pay, not taxing the rich, but taxing the middle class, and the list goes on and on. What I am trying to say it that this is a proven fact that Mitt Romney only wants the wealthy to have all of the benefits and not the middle class and he only will work for and care for the top 1%............however, in the last two debates Romney has basically said that he has never said that, that he will not do that, etc., etc.,............he has been caught lie after lie. He is extremely a disrespectful bully to moderators and the President.. Yet, many of you that are middle class want to vote for him...........so is this what you want your children to be like.........do you want your children to lie and be disrespectful to people? It is now acceptable to run for president and lie before you get into office? The standards of Americans certainly have changed!!
This news comes out a few days before the election???? How convenient, just like the unemployment figure that suddenly dropped to 7.8% rate but oops a big state forgot to turn in their unemployment figures and now that the state turned them in unemployment is back up.
And how about yesterdays report on CNN that women's priority is Abortion and not jobs or the economy??? And this article is supposed to make those same women that are worried about abortion and not about getting a job happy?????
Just another trick.
Everything is trending positively. GOBAMA
The whole "war-on-women" has been artifically created by the Democrats. Another divisive ploy by the Obama administration. He has never wanted to bring this country – or world together. He's all about dividing. Not healthy, not good – totally destructive. And the way Obama treats women in his cabinet is a disgrace! He sends them out to take the fall for him. He doesn't care about women – only his agenda.
Year of the Women! Mitt is a fraud.
@rosco – so after 4 years back to square one and this is good???
This is actually VERY GOOD, but the right wing lemmings seemingly don't have the intelligence to grasp that fact. They look at absolutes and not cause/effect. Digest that slowly pls... you right wing nuts NEVER ASK WHY!
It's simple – 4 yrs ago (Jan 2009) the country was hemorrhaging 700,000 jobs a month. For those right wingers who haven't made it past 3rd grade math, that's 4 MILLION jobs in SIX months! That the Obama administration presided over stemming the tide, and turning it into POSITIVE numbers – despite ALL of Grand Obstructionist Party did to prevent it – is truly nothing less than a MAJOR SUCCESS!
Are we there yet Eddie? No! But changing the captain in the middle of the race is not a smart idea!
Women are back on the job because the jobs are available after their husbands have been laid off. The women are hired at a lower wage. Also, many, if not most, of these jobs are part time and minimum wage. If you like this way of creating jobs, then vote for Obama...please. I'm actually looking forward to the riots.
If you like this way of creating jobs, then vote for Obama...please. I'm actually looking forward to the riots.
I love your GOP logic , What is with you Bush = Romney supporters . If you don't get your way you want to destroy it , I've never seen such jealousy and disrespect . Wars , Riots , discontent , thats all you people thrive on creating ..
I can only imagine what riots might have acured if Bush had been in office for three terms !
Romney is GW Bush , 80% of his advisers are worked for GW Bush .
The political game that the teapublicans have been playing since Obama was elected have ultimately hurt us as a country. What have they done to help? Do they have any responsiblity besides hoping we fail? I have never in all my 31 years seen such treason and I just don't understand it. I was born after the Civil Rights era and all the ugly in-your-face hatred. However, the last four years have shown me another side of America that breaks my heart. Where is the patriotism? When is the other side going to put the weapons down and help contribute to the solutions we need to continue to move forward in a positive direction?
Are you some out sorced paid GOP poster from Bangladesh ?
How much are you being paid to post stupid fear based conspiracy theories ?
Maybe you and Dean are both looking forward to the riots !
Glad to see these numbers in print. I knew Romney was lying about the number of unemployed women anyway. True be told, if he had it his way, we'd all be home "cooking dinner".
One more thing, glad to see CNN moving away from the right and back to the middle again. Republicans made a huge mistake criticizing Candy Crawley over the debate. I'm guessing CNN will be saying "Forget You" to the extreme right wingers from here on out.
"Most people who are finding jobs, are taking jobs well below those they LOST!"
That's precisely what the GOP/Teatrolls' economic policies are designed to do by relying on bubbles and cyclical recessions...and why middle-class salaries have remained stagnant for 40 years. It's also why those middle-class salaries remained stagnant like that despite the wealtiest among us growing their share of the nation's wealth and income exponentially during the same time period.
Sometimes, you have to starve the doggy so it will truly appreciate the table scraps, right?
This is excellent news!! For Romney!!!


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September 29, 2015 | Agenda 2030: Official USA Policy as of 'Yesterday'!
Our Socialist President, Barrack Obama, has officially committed America to the Agenda 2030 philosophy. This commitment occurred yesterday, Sunday, September 27, 2015. Few Americans are aware or care! This means that Capitalism is now officially OVER and the agenda of the United Nations will prevail going forward. Starting in January 2016 (in three months) America will be committed to Communism as its official policy. Read the U.N. Agenda 2030 development goals for all the details: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld. Communism and a New World Order is the agenda and historical Capitalism is now OVER. What a change has developed…with few Americans aware of this significance!
President Obama addresses the United Nations on 9/27/2015!
Yes, Sunday, September 27/28 (also the day of the 4th Blood Moon and the beginning of Sukkot) was the time for our Socialist President to announce the most significant change in American philosophy since its Declaration of Independence in 1776. Our founding Fathers would turn over in their graves if they were living souls. But they are gone and we now live in a New Age of Central Planning and Global Communism. Few comprehend the significance of this change and what it all means. Tribulation must follow as all these policies mean that our current system must collapse and reemerge under Central Planning and Communism. The beginning of the End has arrived!
It's all smiles for the elite but emerging SLAVERY for the many! What a change!
Our Global Pope (Pope Francis) initiated this new Agenda 2030 and our American President has now committed all Americans to this new Agenda and its goals. It would be wise for every reader of this missive to read the details of this agenda and their goals. Do this now at: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld. What I now realize is that we citizens and voters do not determine the real PHILOSOPHY which rules over us. Our leaders will impose their Agenda upon all via their decisions. Voters are mere ponds with little input on the BIG issues of policy!
Read the words of our Socialist President: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-09/28/c_134665325.htm
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) — U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday committed the U.S. to achieving global development goals at a United Nations summit, vowing to reduce inequality and create opportunities around the world.
"In doing so, we recognize that our most basic bond — our common humanity — compels us to act," Obama said at the three-day Sustainable Development Summit that ended here at the UN Headquarters in New York Sunday.
On Friday, world leaders adopted at the summit the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which includes a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals to end poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and tackle climate change by 2030.
Obama said the world suffers no illusions of the challenges ahead in achieving the goals, but "we understand this is something that we must commit ourselves to."
In his defense of the 15-year plan, Obama said some 800 million people are scraping by on less than 1.25 U.S. dollars a day and billions of people are at risk of dying from preventable diseases.
In his address, the U.S. President also warned against bad governance and inequality, among others, which threaten the achievement of the ambitious goals.
"Governments have to embrace transparency and open government and rule of law," Obama said, calling for combating corruption, illicit finance and promoting civil society groups.
Another report says the following: http://www.ibtimes.com/united-nations-2030-agenda-president-obama-joins-world-leaders-aim-eradicate-poverty-2115911
President Barack Obama joined with world leaders Sunday to commit to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The adoption of the framework, announced at the United Nations General Assembly, means the U.S. will join other nations to eradicate extreme poverty and adopt sustainable policies with long-term impact.
Over the next 15 years, the agenda aims to eradicate poverty and hunger, protect the environment, promote human rights and gender equality, empower women, strive for peaceful and inclusive societies and fight against inequalities. It is the culmination of two years of consultation and development.
Conclusion: The significance of this decision by our Socialist President (without any prior consultation with our Congress or the American people) reveals how our World works. The people are not in control and never have been. We the people are mere ponds in the hands of our corrupt elite…who rule over us. We have no input into these World Changing Events. What a farce on the intelligence of voters who can not discern what is happening. Communism, a failed philosophy, will now be gradually implemented for the entire planet. Central Planning will be the modus operandi. We are all serfs and slaves of our corrupt financial system and our corrupt policymakers. But who cares? Think for yourself! I am: https://kingdomecon.wordpress.com.
P.S. Read and weep (individual enslavement is emerging):
- A/69/L.85 – Draft outcome document of the United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda
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- Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (advance unedited version)
- Letter from the Co-Facilitators of the intergovernmental negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda (dated 11 August 2015)
Preamble This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognise that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development. All countries and all stakeholders, acting in collaborative partnership, will implement this plan. We are resolved to free the human race from the tyranny of poverty and want and to heal and secure our planet. We are determined to take the bold and transformative steps which are urgently needed to shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient path. As we embark on this collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left behind. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets which we are announcing today demonstrate the scale and ambition of this new universal Agenda. They seek to build on the Millennium Development Goals and complete what these did not achieve. They seek to realize the human rights of all and to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. They are integrated and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, social and environmental. The Goals and targets will stimulate action over the next fifteen years in areas of critical importance for humanity and the planet: (this is not supportive of the philosophy of America's Founding Fathers or for Individual Freedom and Prosperity)!!!!!!!!!!!
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Don Swenson September 29th, 2015
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While I love LEGO in general, the Hero Factory lines and Bionicle before it never appealed to me. I'm a brick man. Still, a new LEGO game coming in January to mobile devices and web platform is a wonderful thing, even if it isn't as square as I'd like.
Hero Factory: Brain Attack has players outfitting their Hero Factory creations with various implements of destruction, picking a sidekick from a selection of characters direct from toy store shelves—Bulk, Breeze, Rock and Furno—and then blowing anything that moves to pieces, all in the name of saving Makuhero City from the evil clutches of overly clever naming conventions.
Or brain creatures. Probably brain creatures.
Developed by 4T2, a studio that's been creating LEGO video games since 2007, Hero Factory: Brain Attack should be a smashing good time for fans of the toy line and animated films, and something for me to pick up simply because it says "LEGO" on it in big letters.


text: UBox821 posts since 31 May 2015 12 May 2016 6:24pm Tyne Tees Look North (North East) JDN posted: GMc posted: JDN posted: Alistair Stewart or Tom Bradby should host the debates. Why? Julie has proven herself to be a superb moderator. I think Alistair or Tom would inject some life into a debate. Alistair yes, but not Tom. I'm not a fan and he takes forever to get to the point; at which point youve forgotten what he said at the start of the sentence. I'm sure most people won't want the debate running on for hours. It would be nice to see the debate finish then the News at Ten be presented from the same location with analysts and Julie or whoever does the debate presenting the show aswell. Permalink


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Re: missing from 6.0 documentation
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- Subject: [mg76608] Re: missing from 6.0 documentation
- From: "Kevin J. McCann" <Kevin.McCann at umbc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 06:20:51 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- References: <firstname.lastname@example.com>
I second this. Kevin Murray Eisenberg wrote: > What seems to be missing from the 6.0 documentation are compatibility > guides for categories of things, e.g., graphics, text, list manipulation. > > Of course the home page for each function that has changed since 5.2 has > a link allowing one to highlight what's changed. But that's useful only > if you know the particular function you want to examine. And the > compatibility guides limit themselves to compatibility for individual > packages. And of course you can take a 5.2 notebook and let 6.0 scan it > for possible issues of compatibility. > > Still this does not seem enough when the changes are so pervasive, > numerous, and, in many cases, profound. > > Any comments? >


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Happy Weekend TAY and a Happy Mother's Day weekend to all the moms out there, especially to my wonderful wife who is an amazing mother.
Last week saw my TV tweaking come to an end. I think I'm in a good place with the settings and while I still have to tweak out some individual consoles, I'm finally able to watch and play.
I finished Ryse off last week and it was...ok. For a launch title on a new console, it was maybe better than average, but I don't think anyone's life will be diminished for never having played it. It is fun and competent, but it isn't doing anything nearly as well as many other similar games. At least the story was fun.
Having conquered Ryse, I was eager for something new and something to test out my TV calibration. With all the current press for Outlast 2 and having recently heard the love from Eden-373 about the original Outlast, I decided to finally take the plunge into the first game. Nothing better than a game that has you roaming around in the dark to see if your TV's black levels are set correctly.
I love horror games and I live for games that make me tense, so right out of the gate I knew Outlast was something I would enjoy. It didn't disappoint (until the end; more on that in a bit) but it is far from a perfect game.
Outlast is one of those "hide-and-seek" horror games where there is no combat and the player is tasked with avoiding the enemies. This isn't my favourite game design since this takes away from the terror. Outlast is basically boiled down to a trial and error approach and since you don't have to fight, you know there is always a "perfect" solution or pathway through a scenario. The player isn't responsible for much in the way of interaction with the enemies and you can't have those messy (yet glorious) moments when you take down an enemy with your last weapon or bullet. This doesn't mean that Outlast isn't fun, but the core gameplay is also found in Alien: Isolation. Alien: Isolation is the best horror game I've ever played *because* of the inclusion of combat and the player's ability to screw it all up. It can't truly be scary unless it is all up to you.
I had a blast with Outlast even with the shortcomings. It is at times cheesy and too easy (I played on Nightmare difficulty with no troubles at all). It is the atmosphere that is the glue that holds the sometimes questionable design decisions together. Yes, the rundown psychiatric hospital is overdone and yes, the game borrows heavily from elements of other games, but the overall experience is better than the sum of its parts. The game is short and doesn't wear out its welcome; though had it been much longer it might have turned into a bit of a drag. I also liked the story and the sense of "WTF" that the game provided...that is until the end.
(*minor spoilers for the end content of Outlast, skip the next 3 paragraphs to avoid*)
I don't know what the hell was with the end of Outlast. Eden-373 remarked to me about being disappointed with the end but refrained from any further detail to avoid spoilers. I see now what was the cause of that disappointment.
Most of the story of Outlast was well done and was bizarre and confusing enough to add to the player's sense of unease and dread. This is how the best horror should work; give the audience enough information to make the story coherent but leave enough of the meat of that story unknown so the audience can make up their own conclusions/theories. Outlast was going along just dandy until it decided it needed to explain everything in a rush at the end.
Outlast almost changes genres in the last chapter and it went from a Silent Hill-like vibe to a decidedly F.E.A.R.-like feel. That's doing somewhat of a disservice to F.E.A.R which is a brilliant horror shooter with a great story and presentation. I probably should say that the end of Outlast feels like a rip-off of F.E.A.R. without any of the good bits of F.E.A.R.
(*end spoiler*)
I enjoyed Outlast overall (ending aside), but what it does more than anything is make me want to play Outlast 2. There are definitely issues with the first game (don't get me started about not being able to turn off the music) but there is a heart to the game and an understanding of terror and horror that shows a lot of potential. Hopefully, the second game recognizes the missteps of the original.
I get to start yet another new game this weekend, but I'm not actually sure what that will be. My family is hoping to go see Guardians of the Galaxy 2 over the next couple of days, but I haven't checked seating availability in the theater yet. Regardless of what we end up doing, I am eager for a relaxing weekend.
So, what are you playing this weekend?


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Representing G B Bartlett: bringing alive a letter from the archives
How we brought alive the story of a 1928 resident of Chiswick House Asylum through a digital interactive story and a live event.
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How we brought alive the story of a 1928 resident of Chiswick House Asylum through a digital interactive story and a live event.
Nathan shares the results of his exhaustive study of the residents of Eastbridge Hospital, Canterbury.
Maxine looks at the notes of another resident of Chiswick House, and finds a troubled woman gradually retreating into a world of make believe.
In her second look at the casenotes of one inmate of Chiswick House, Max focuses on her life in the years before she was admitted, and asks whether there are any clues here as to why she developed her illness.
Trade unionist and political activist described as 'the most cheerful man in the Labour movement'.
Phil has been taking part in painting classes at Stoke Mandeville hospital, reflecting on independent living. He explains how his picture associates two Stoke Mandeville residents who wanted to live together with a Chinese legend.
Ann Newman looks at the case notes of a female patient of Chiswick House, finds evidence of Victorian attitudes percolating into 20th century medical thought, and discovers more loose ends than satisfying conclusions…
Maxine uncovers the story of an inmate of Manor House Asylum, Chiswick who may have been suffering from a hereditary degenerative disease. But further digging suggests there may be more to her initial diagnosis…
The story of feminist and champion of the rights of disabled people, Ada Vachell, and how she created the Bristol Guild.
Maxine digs deep into the archives to uncover the poignant story of one of the patients at Chiswick House private asylum.


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By BECKY GILLETTE
MBJ Staff Writer
When most people think about economic development, recruitment of industries like the new Nissan plant comes to mind. But the Mississippi Main Street program, which encourages preservation and redevelopment of downtown areas and other key commercial districts, has helped spark nearly $1 billion in investments since 1993.
"The Main Street program has developed into one of the more successful economic development programs in the nation, and certainly in Mississippi," said Bob Wilson, director of program services for the Mississippi Development Authority's (MDA) Mississippi Main Street program. "In Mississippi we have 39 active programs in communities that range in size from Tunica with 1,100 people up to Biloxi with 53,000 people."
Since 1993 about $977 million in private investment has been seen in cities with Main Street programs, in addition to $93 million in public investments.
The Main Street program started out as a preservation program launched by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the late 1970s and early 1980s because of the decline of downtowns across the country. The downtowns began to suffer because of the exodus of businesses to malls and outlying shopping centers and population migrations to the suburbs. Large sums of money were put into urban renewal efforts.
"As we now know, the urban renewal programs often did more harm than good," Wilson said. "A lot of money went into these things, but not a lot of thought. It was just a reaction to people moving away to the suburbs. The National Trust for Historic Preservation saw the Main Street program as a way to stop the decline by renovating buildings to their original state. What happened is that the business community reacted positively. By paying attention to the preservation aspects of a downtown, it created businesses and jobs, which, of course, is the bottom line of an economic development program."
Ironically, a lot of the things that led to the migration shift away from the downtown areas — crime, traffic, taxation and infrastructure — are now leading people back to downtowns. Downtowns are now more valued for providing a sense of place, engendering pride in the community.
Wilson said more efforts are being made to develop housing in downtown areas on the top floors of businesses. Residents like being able to walk to restaurants, stores and public facilities like the library and post office instead of driving everywhere.
"They can eliminate commuting, which means they can spend more time with their family," Wilson said. "That speaks to the quality of life issues that are so important to people today."
New Albany represents one of the biggest success stories for the Main Street program in Mississippi. In a few short years the downtown area has gone from having one out of three buildings vacant to 98% occupancy.
"We had a lot of people buy into the concept early on who put a lot of money and efforts into renovating buildings," said Cary Weeden, Main Street manager for New Albany. "That showed other property owners the difference renovations could make, so they have followed suit, as well. We have seen a domino effect."
Weeden said it takes community development before you can have economic development. In addition to the direct benefits from revitalizing a downtown or other main commercial district, having a healthy central business district spurs other economic development.
"One thing the economic development prospects want to see is how successful the downtown is," Weeden said. "It definitely helps with industrial recruitment and such."
New Albany recently won an award for being the best-organized Main Street association in the state.
In Ocean Springs there are two other main business corridors that are part of the Main Street program in addition to the city's downtown area. Government Street and Highway 90 are part of the program in addition to the downtown area of Washington Street.
Gaye Aultman, assistant director, Ocean Springs Chamber of Commerce, Main Street and Visitor's Center, said being a Main Street city shows the community has pride.
"A lot of what the chamber does parallels the direction of the Main Street program such as promoting renovation, business retention, commercial development and enhancement of the city's appearance," Aultman said. "Like the chamber, Main Street is a voice for business. Main Street is good business."
Aultman said it all comes down to making the commercial districts appealing places for residents, tourists and businesses.
Stacy Pair, executive director of the Philadelphia Main Street Association, echoes those sentiments.
"We would like to see the downtown area become a community hub again as it has been in the past," Pair said. "We'd certainly like to revitalize the existing businesses and be able to recruit new businesses into this area. Making downtown a viable, attractive place is one of our goals for Main Street."
Philadelphia is one of five new cities recently added to the Main Street program. The other four cities are Leland, Magee, Prentiss and Southaven. Southaven is unique in that it doesn't have a traditional downtown because it evolved as a bedroom community to Memphis. Southaven wants to create a sense of place for community by designing and developing a downtown center.
Diane Hill, manager of Southaven's Main Street program, said that since the city doesn't have an identifiable center, what they hope to accomplish is create a sense of downtown in the original commercial district of Southaven. Businesses that will be impacted are expected to be the biggest supporters of the program, but community volunteers will also be a big help, Hill said.
Contact MBJ staff writer Becky Gillette at firstname.lastname@example.com or (228) 872-3457.
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Today I saw there was an update available for DVBlink Server and TV Source.
So I downloaded the server and installed the TV source update. After that I installed the Server update. No errors but it keeps saying there is an update available. Am I doning something wrong here? How can I install the update so it is really installed?


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A blood alcohol content test resulted in the arrest of man returning home from a University of Michigan football game in Ann Arbor. Police arrested the man for suspected driving while drinking after his vehicle clipped a semi-truck on Interstate 94 close to Mount Hope Road. In addition to the failed blood alcohol tests, the man could face harsher consequences because he had his three children in the vehicle with him.
The incident took place around 2:45 p.m. on Oct. 1 as the man tried to change from the left lane to the right lane on I-94 west. As he was doing so, his vehicle clipped the rear of a tractor-trailer. The impact sheered the man's right front wheel off, according to a Michigan State Police trooper.
Police responding to the incident discovered that man had his sons with him. Their ages were reported as 11, 7 and 3 years old. According to the trooper, he and his partner could detect alcohol on the man's breath. The man failed field sobriety tests and his blood alcohol test revealed a level twice the legal limit, which is 0.08 percent. As a result, he was arrested and his wife was contacted to pick up the children.
This individual may find it hard to garner any sympathy from the public at large, but he is entitled to an aggressive legal defense. There are many factors outside of the accused's control in a drunk driving arrest, such as the conditions where a sobriety test is being conducted or the state of the equipment being used for a blood alcohol content test. An experienced attorney can help ensure that all legal rights are respected.
Source: Citizen Patriot, "Grand Rapids man, returning from the Michigan football game, arrested for suspected drunken driving with three sons in the vehicle," Aaron Aupperlee, Oct. 2, 2011