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Hague tells world leaders that failing to impose sanctions against Assad allows Syria's brutal regime to carry on killing
- Assad ally and close friend Manaf Tlas defects to Turkey
- Western leaders met in Paris for 'Friends of Syria' conference
- Hillary Clinton: 'Russia and China must pay price for supporting Assad'
- French President Francois Hollande wants stiffer sanctions against regime
- But Russia replies by saying Clinton's assertions are 'not correct'
- Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov says she goes against what has already been agreed
Britain yesterday warned countries which are refusing to impose sanctions on Syria that they are effectively allowing killings of civilians to continue.
At a meeting in Paris of Western and Arab states that back the rebel uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, Foreign Secretary William Hague's blunt message was aimed mainly at staunch Syrian allies China and Russia.
He said: 'There is no way of sitting on the sidelines on this.
Strong words: Foreign Secretary William Hague with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of the 'Friends of Syria' talks in Paris
'If you don't impose sanctions and implement them thoroughly you are allowing the provision to the Assad regime of the means to go on killing the Syrian people.'
On Thursday the Syrian army pushed into the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun, adding 11 victims to a death toll that is estimated at more than 15,000.
And the United Nations said yesterday that thousands of families have been forced to flee their homes in the past two weeks because of heavy fighting between government forces and rebels, and many face food shortages.
Mr Hague was speaking to foreign ministers and diplomats from the Friends of Syria group, as they agreed to 'massively increase' aid to rebels.
Allies: Assad (left) pictured with his close friend and colleague Manaf Tlass (right) who has defected
Allies: Manaf Tlas (right) was a high-ranking military supporter of President Bashar Assad (left). But he has now defected from the regime
His warning to Syria's allies was echoed by many among the representatives of about 100 countries at the meeting in Paris – which China and Russia did not attend.
Mr Hague's comments came on the day one of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad's closest friends and key allies defected from his regime.
In what would be the most high-profile defection from the leader's inner circle, Manaf Tlas is said to have fled to Turkey.
Tlas, whose father Mustapha was defence minister under Assad's father for 30 years, is reportedly now on his way to France where world leaders met today to try and solve the crisis.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) and German Foreign Affairs Minister Guido Westerwelle (L)
The conference, which kicked off early this morning, saw French President Francois Hollande call for stiffer sanctions against the regime.
And U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that Russia and China must 'pay a price' for supporting Assad in his time of need.
She urged world powers to show the two nations would pay a price for impeding progress toward a democratic transition in Syria.
She said: 'It is frankly not enough just to come to the Friends of the Syrian People (meeting) because I will tell you very frankly, I don't think Russia and China believe they are paying any price at all.
Defection: General Manaf Tlass, who has gone on the run from his regime
'Nothing at all - for standing up on behalf of the Assad regime.
'The only way that will change is if every nation represented here directly and urgently makes it clear that Russia and China will pay a price because they are holding up progress - blockading it - (and) that is no longer tolerable.'
It led Russia to hit back at the U.S. criticism by saying Washington's suggestion that Moscow should 'pay a price' for helping keep Assad in power was 'incorrect'.
Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov told Interfax news agency that Clinton's statement went against the strategy for ending the bloodshed in Syria that was agreed by world powers last Saturday in Geneva.
Russia, which is sensitive about outside interference in any sovereign state, lobbied hard against efforts by other powers at the Geneva talks to include a precondition that would have excluded Assad from a proposed national unity government.
'The statement (by Clinton) was incorrect,' Gatilov was quoted by Interfax as saying.
'What worries us more than anything is that such remarks go against the final document of the Geneva talks, the adoption of which was approved with the participation of the U.S. secretary of state.'
Tlas is a rare representative of the Sunni Muslim majority in a political elite and officer corps dominated by Assad's fellow Alawites.
His break with his friend may reflect an erosion of support for the president among wealthy Sunnis, slow to join an uprising driven by their poorer co-religionists.
The Syriasteps website quoted a 'high-level security source' confirming his flight, who also played it down by saying it 'meant nothing'.
Troubled: Destruction in the restive central city of Homs can be seen
Blockade: A wall of of tyres burns in a street in Damascus' al-Midan neighbourhood
But a source in the exiled opposition to Assad said: 'It's a very important defection. His brigade is very attached to their general, so we can say the true defection has started.'
That source said Tlas had fled Damascus on Tuesday and was in Turkey en route for Paris. The French capital is also the home of Tlas's sister, widow of a billionaire Saudi arms dealer.
A witness in Damascus said Tlas's house in the Syrian capital had been ransacked by security agents yesterday. He said: 'They took away everything.'
Another opposition source said Tlas was expected to issue a video message soon announcing he was joining the opposition.
Injured: Rebel soldiers from the Free SyrianArmy lie in bed recovering from the injuries to his leg and broken elbow, which he says were the result of regime tank fire
Down: Aber al-Ghareed, 11, (left) and Shahd al-Ghareed, four, (right) after being hit by projectiles
His departure alone is unlikely to affect greatly the capability of the Syrian army but will be seized upon by Assad's enemies in the West as well as at home.
A Western diplomat who knew Tlas in Damascus, where the general and his wife pursued a glamorous society lifestyle with interests in the arts, said: 'Manaf doesn't give impression he is a thug.
'But he mattered in the military. His defection is big news because it shows that the inner circle is disintegrating.'
Tlas commanded a brigade of the Republican Guard, an elite, praetorian force commanded by Assad's feared brother Maher.
Maher was one of the architects of a bloody crackdown on 16 months of dissent and rebellion in which more than 15,000 people have been killed.
Friends have said for some time that Tlas, who attended military college alongside the 46-year-old Syrian leader, had grown disillusioned with the crackdown.
Upsetting: This image released by the Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network shows mass burial of people allegedly killed by Syrian government forces in Douma
Grim: The nightmare in Syria continues as the body of a young girl is held by local residents
It has hit particularly hard on his ancestral home town of Rastan, where many of his fellow Sunni Muslims have joined the rebel Free Syrian Army.
Al Qaeda militants are crossing from Iraq into Syria to carry out 'terrorist attacks' in support of anti-Assad rebels, it has been claimed.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari, who has long criticised Damascus for not stopping terrorists from entering into his country, said the flow had now turned the other way.
He said: 'Most of the suicide bombers, foreign fighters, elements of Al Qaeda used to slip into Iraq from Syria. So they know the routes and the connections.
'This is our main concern - about the spillover, about extremist groups taking root in neighbouring countries, to have a base.'
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has urged Sunni Muslim militants to join the fight against Assad, whose Shi'ite-rooted minority Alawite sect dominates the army and security forces.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said he believes Al Qaeda was responsible for two suicide car bombs in Damascus in May that killed at least 55 people.
Tensions on Syria's northern border with Turkey have also soared since Syria shot down a Turkish reconnaissance F4 plane over the Mediterranean on June 22 in disputed circumstances.
Turkey said it had retrieved the two pilots' bodies from the jet's wreckage on the seabed and had flown them back to their base
His father and a brother, who is a prominent businessman, had already left Syria since the uprising.
The first opposition source said: "He took this decision because since last year he has been in conflict with Assad over the Syrian regime's decision to use a military solution against the Free Syrian Army.
'He's is furious about that. Because of this, he has been almost a prisoner at his home in Damascus. Assad reinforced security to stop him leaving.'
The defection came as the U.S. this morning also called for tougher United Nations sanctions against Assad and his inner circle at the 'Friends of Syria' meeting of over 100 Western and Arab nations in Paris.
But despite the estimated killing of more than 16,500 people in the 16-month uprising, key Syria allies Russia and China - both with UN veto rights - did not attend.
The Paris meeting follows a gathering in Tunis and another in Istanbul, both of which called in vain for tougher action against Assad's government.
China did not attend either of those meetings in which the United States, France, Britain, Germany as well as Saudi Arabia and Qatar led a group of more than 60 members, including most EU states and many Arab League nations.
UN Security Council members the United States and France lead calls at the Paris talks for tough new UN sanctions to be imposed on Assad and his inner circle.
Speaking as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton flew to Paris for the meeting, one U.S. official said it was time 'to put this all together under a Security Council resolution that increases the pressure on Assad, including having real consequences', such as economic sanctions.
'We, and we believe most of the countries represented in Paris, think that has to include Chapter 7 economic sanctions on Assad,' said the official aboard Clinton's plane.
'Many of the countries in Paris already have those sanctions but globalising them will be very important. That is the argument that we will continue to make to Russia and China.'
'There's already a lot of work being done in New York in terms of thinking through what this resolution might look like,' said another US official.
'The idea is to... go right away to New York, there's no wait-time. How long it will take for this all to be agreed, it's hard to anticipate. But the work is already under way and the focus will be in New York next week as soon as we finish in Paris basically.'
Chapter 7 of the UN charter, which allows for sanctions ranging from economic measures to an arms embargo, and if necessary military force, was last used against Libya in 2011.
Worrying: A young Syrian boy holding a Kalashnikov is comforted by a rebel during fighting with government forces on the outskirts of Homs
Tears: The young Syrian boy holds a hand to his face as he cries after witnessing the horror of a comrade being shot dead in battle. He also shouted the dead man's name
But it could be highly controversial at the UN Security Council, given Russia and China's veto powers.
China backed Russia at talks in Geneva last weekend, insisting that Syrians must decide how the transition should occur, rather than allowing others to dictate their fate, and did not rule out Assad remaining in power in some form.
The West insists that Assad should not be part of any new unity government and the Syrian opposition rejected the Geneva talks as making concessions to Damascus under pressure from Russia.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov confirmed yesterday that Western nations had asked Moscow to offer Assad asylum and that Russia had thought it was a joke.
Rebel fighters carry the dead fighter away after he was shot, one of a possible 15,000 victims of bloody conflict
Violence: Smoke can be seen rising from a neighbourhood in Homs
The diplomatic source nevertheless insisted that 'Russian political and security circles are changing their position, they agree that the situation is deteriorating... even if they continue to defend Moscow's policies.'
Monzer Makhous, the opposition Syrian National Council's Europe coordinator, said he also wanted the Paris meeting to call for the United Nations to force Damascus to apply Annan's peace plan.
'We demand the Syrian file be sent to the Security Council with a Chapter 7 resolution to force the regime to implement the Annan plan,' Makhous said.
'If 100 countries say they want Assad to go that's real progress,' he said. 'The Syrian regime feels protected by the Russians and the status quo.'
Makhous played down expectations of such an outcome given fractured opposition talks in Cairo. 'Let's not fantasise about a unified position. The challenge is to agree on a transition plan,' he said.
Wrecked: Damage can be seen in the district of Juret al-Shayah in Homs
Devastation: A burning shop can be seen on a road covered in debris in the al-Khalidya district in Homs
Meanwhile, on the ground, Syrian troops pushed into the rebel-held northern town of Khan Sheikhoun yesterday, activists said.
They claimed the security forces killed at least 11 people in an armoured assault from the south at dawn after a fierce bombardment.
'They are burning houses and farms,' local activist Abu al-Ghaith al-Khani said, adding that 80 per cent of residents had fled.
In a defiant interview with a Turkish newspaper, Assad blamed the revolt on Islamist militants from hostile Arab states and a Western plot to break up Syria or stoke civil war.
'The big game targeting Syria is much bigger than we expected,' he told Cumhuriyet daily. 'The fight against terrorism will continue decisively in the face of this.'
'Everybody was calculating that I would fall in a small amount of time. They all miscalculated,' he said. 'If I didn't have the people behind me ... I would have been overthrown. How come I'm still standing?'
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Birmingham is among five cities chosen for the America Online founder's latest initiative aimed at championing innovation ecosystems in the U.S. The Rise of the Rest bus tour arrives in Birmingham May 9, but the deadline for startups to apply for the six-figure prize is March 20.
Interested companies are encouraged to go to the website and apply.
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin said having Rise of the Rest in Birmingham is great exposure for what is happening in the Birmingham entrepreneurial scene but the $100,000 could make a major difference for a company on the rise.
"This is an amazing opportunity for local startups because now we get a chance to highlight and showcase what they're already doing so well," Woodfin said in the video below. "They deserve national exposure."
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin on Rise of the Rest coming to Birmingham from Alabama NewsCenter on Vimeo.
Bill Smith, founder and CEO of Shipt, said having Rise of the Rest in Birmingham is a sign of the momentum happening here.
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He, too, encouraged companies to go for the prize money.
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I was born and raised in Calgary, AB. I completed my B.A. in Psychology and then my B.Ed. in Elementary Years at UBC in Vancouver. Prior to joining SET-BC, I was a classroom teacher for 3 years in Calgary, and taught grades 3 and 6. As a classroom teacher I had experience working with ELLs and students with special needs in a collaborative team environment.
I started working for the Vancouver School Board in September 2016 as a TOC and shortly after took on a role as a Provincial Teacher at SET-BC. As a consultant my focus is to provide support to classroom teachers and the diverse needs of their students through assistive technology. I believe in helping teachers empower their students with the tools and confidence to become life-long learners. I'm excited by all the learning opportunities this new role has to offer.
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Jesus Is For Everybody (Sermon)
A few weeks ago, I had the distinct privilege of preaching God's word at the DiscipleNow Student event and Sunday morning service of First Baptist Church (Justin, TX). This church is pastored by Dr. Roger Ferguson. The Adult and Student Minister is Shawn Finney. It was a joy to worship and fellowship with this wonderful group of believers.
If you are interested, you may listen to my sermon here.
Posted on December 1, 2015, in Preaching, Teaching. Bookmark the permalink. 5 Comments.
Pastor Johnson what a amazing word about how we as believers should get out of the mindset, of just thinking that we need to stay within the parameters of the church to minister to others, but we should have the mindset of Christ and go where people are to share the gospel of Jesus Christ, and then once we do that we need to bring them to the church. So they can be further discipled by other authentic believers. Thank you for the word.


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The New Yorker website has posted this reporter's obligatory end-of-year list. Emily Nussbaum, our television critic, is probably right in decrying such lists as an intellectual mistake, especially as they pile up in unreadable heaps. Still, it's always a pleasure to review the year and savor a few memorable moments. Also on the website: an interview with Esa-Pekka Salonen about Patrice Chéreau, the year's most painful loss. Already posted below is a list of notable music books.
I am pleased to announce that the Rest Is Noise Person of the Year is Joyce DiDonato. She is a model artist of our age, an enlightened politician of beautiful sound. She's also great fun to drive across Kansas with, although this was not necessarily a deciding factor. The Medal of Musical Valor goes to the Minnesota Orchestra Musicians, who turned down what many considered an acceptable offer in the name of preserving their dignity. In an unprecedented repeat performance, the Turkey of the Year Award goes once again to the Minnesota Orchestral Association, which, it seems to me, has no business running a lemonade stand, much less a symphony orchestra.
As in past years, I'll add some items outside my area of nominal competence. In another Wagnerism-saturated year — if you saw some fool reading Huysmans on the subway, it was probably me — I did find time for Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's marvelous Americanah. My favorite film of the year was Terrence Malick's To the Wonder. Richard Brody, one of very few critics who understood Malick's vision, wrote beautifully about the movie here and there. (The fact that the soundtrack made profound use of the Parsifal Prelude may have affected my response.) As for TV, household favorites were Veep, Breaking Bad, and — forgive me, Emily — The Walking Dead. Happy holidays!
December 18, 2013 | Permalink
Marco Blaauw, the high-flying hero of Ensemble musikFabrik's Michaels Reise at the Lincoln Center Festival last summer, has a riveting new CD called Angels, containing "sound images of winged creatures" by Liza Lim, Richard Ayres, Rebecca Saunders, GF Haas, Carl Ruggles (supplying the title), Agata Zubel, Martin Smolka, Martijn Padding, the jazzman Jimmy Rowles, and Blaauw himself. There's a preview on SoundCloud.
December 17, 2013 | Permalink
An interview with Esa-Pekka Salonen.
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"You can't see Venice unless there's a little Venice inside you first."
— Edward Burne-Jones, quoted in Fiona MacCarthy's The Last Pre-Raphaelite
Prompted by Tim Page.
The winter-solstice festival returns on Saturday. Highlights of the schedule are a reprise of Chris Herbert's Winterize (a chilly pleasure last year); a bicycle-bell piece by Merche Blasco; a new version of James Holt's Bach-on-the-G concept; a percussion procession led by TIGUE (the core of the amazing Wall Street Vexations); and, of course, a boombox opus by Phil Kline.
The Canadian Opera Company recently announced that it had commissioned a new opera, entitled Hadrian, from the singer-songwriter-turned-opera-composer Rufus Wainwright. Reactions in the Canadian new-music community have not been entirely positive, as Robert Everett-Green indicates in a Globe and Mail article. In the past fifty years, the COC has managed to mount only five Canadian works on its main stage — a record that outdoes the Met's in spottiness. Was Wainwright the most deserving candidate for such a rare commission? Everett-Green contemplates that question, and he also examines the very different case of Opera Philadelphia, which, under the direction of a Canadian impresario, David Devan, has thrown itself into contemporary opera — including Ana Sokolović's Svadba, first seen at Toronto's Queen of Puddings Music Theatre. "We decided that, if we want to remain viable, we need to move from being Turner Classic Movies to being HBO," Devan told Everett-Green. A metaphor for others to ponder.
Not surprisingly, many self-described leftists have rejected John Halle's thesis that the vast majority of pop music serves as a tool (wittingly or not) of élite capitalist forces and that classical music has a role to play in resisting them. He is accused of defending "old white people's tastes nobody gives a shit about." Take that, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, and Nelson Mandela. On the Minnesota matter, Halle is sadly right in observing that many on the nominal left have accepted "the right's rhetoric, viewing classical musicians as a 'coddled' workforce receiving an unjustified exemption from market discipline." The collectivist model of the orchestra, the chamber group, or the chorus is unfashionable; instead, our heroes are mega-rich superstars who peddle populist fantasies while residing on a plane far removed from ordinary life.
I've placed my Ira and Luranah Aldridge piece online. This is a personal favorite among articles I've written; deepest thanks to The New Yorker for letting me do it. The third volume of Bernth Lindfors's Ira Aldridge biography is now out. Red Velvet, Lolita Chakrabarti's play about Aldridge, arrives at St. Ann's Warehouse in March, with Adrian Lester in the lead.
Tim Page and John Rockwell on the Bernstein letters; James Wood on the Britten biographies.
Wolf Harden is the soloist, with Heribert Beissel conducting the Slovak Radio Symphony; from a Marco Polo recording. In my library are Walter Gieseking's 1943 account and a cpo release with Volker Banfield at the keyboard and Werner Andreas Albert leading the Munich Philharmonic. The latter disc includes a fascinating liner note by Hans-Christian Schmidt, with liberal quotations from Wolfgang Rihm's essay "Zur Aktualität Pfitzners," which states, among other things, that Pfitzner resides in a "secure position of uncontested complete contestability." One can scarcely argue with that.
The Chicago Reader asks whether Yo-Yo Ma and Renée Fleming are being taken for a ride by Rahm Emanuel.
December 13, 2013 | Permalink
Researchers cast yet more doubt on the so-called Mozart Effect, the notion that Mozart makes you smarter: "There is very little evidence supporting the idea that music classes enhance children's cognitive development." Good riddance — I'm convinced that such soulless, utilitarian arguments on behalf of music education damage the cause in the long run.... In The Nation, Marina Harss has a finely detailed portrait of the marvelous Mark Morris.... Ethan Iverson celebrates the hundredth birthday of Morton Gould, another anniversary composer overlooked in the Wagner-Verdi-Britten stampede. There are all kinds of odd and interesting things in his varied output. Back in 1992, I interviewed the kindly Mr. Gould about, among other things, his piece The Jogger and the Dinosaur, a "theatrical concerto for rapper and orchestra".... Bob Shingleton assesses Jonathan Reekie's stewardship of the Aldeburgh Festival.... There's an international petition to stop the "fusion" of the SWR orchestras in Germany.... Will Robin forwards this remarkable account of the "sex magic" scandal that brought down Eugene Goossens.... Anne Midgette and Charles Downey meditate on Deborah Rutter's move to the Kennedy Center. Charles also has a lovely remembrance of the late Marion Lignana Rosenberg, whom I first encountered, from an awed distance, as the operatic arbiter of WHRB. David Elliott, WHRB's éminence grise, recorded a tribute here; other memorials can be found at New York Classical Review.
December 13, 2013 | Permalink
The Minnesota Orchestral Association gives a dumbfounding report of its financial situation. This increasingly Borgesian entity managed to spend $13 million in its performance-free year, including $885,000 on "negotiations and negotations related" — one assumes that this sum went to the firm of Felhaber, Larson, Fenlon and Vogt, experts in union lockouts — and $616,000 on "advertising and promotion." Jon Campbell, the board chair, reaches a brain-teasing conclusion: "The fact that the organization's deficit is substantially smaller in a year without any performances indicates the degree to which this business model is out of alignment." Meanwhile, ten state legislators have called for the resignations of Campbell, his fellow board member Richard Davis, and Michael Henson, the CEO. Save Our Symphony's report on the orchestra's collapse reaches this ironclad conclusion: "MOA leadership has no remaining credibility." The Minnesota Orchestra Musicians, running on a budget comparable to the MOA's "advertising and promotion" expenditures, present their next concert on Saturday. Their spring season will include appearances by Osmo Vänskä, Joshua Bell, Itzhak Perlman, and Hugh Wolff — a lineup that suggests the isolation of the MOA from the remainder of the musical world.
More: Robert Levine is also amazed at some of the figures and statements in the MOA's report. He writes: "The story of how the board of the Minnesota Orchestral Association allowed three men to drive one of the great American orchestral institutions into a deep, deep ditch will be studied—with fascination and horror—for as long as there is an American nonprofit sector."
December 11, 2013 | Permalink
Little fanfare greeted the bicentennial of Charles-Valentin Alkan, on Nov. 30, but next Sunday the British pianist Jack Gibbons — seen playing Le Festin d'Ésope above — will honor the great Romantic outlier by performing the complete set of Twelve Studies in All the Minor Keys, Op. 39, at Merkin Hall. Back in 1996, in the same space, Marc-André Hamelin played the Concerto for Solo Piano, from the Op. 39 set. Gibbons may not match Hamelin's extreme virtuosity, but he seems to have technique commensurate to the task.
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Like most things the political left does around the world, mass distortions and hijacked reality are among their panicle interests—and that could never be truer than it is over their issue of global warming. Our modern sciences are completely taken over and ruined by these sloppy minded idiots and when you know the facts, it's quite disgusting. This never hit home more powerfully than it did when I recently visited the English Channel at Dover and Brighton, England and considered that just 12,000 years ago to about 9,000 years ago—the span of time for which our modern civilization was born and nurtured to its current state—human beings not much different from us were able to walk the vast grassy plains easily between the islands of Britain and France. In fact, there were land bridges all over the world at that time because the ocean levels were 300 feet lower as the massive amounts of ice during the Ice Age displaced those levels enormously—and there wasn't any man-made climate change back in those days from planes, trains, and automobiles. Rather, it is very disgusting to learn with hard evidence that the modern scientists are lying to everyone about global warming—because there never has been such a thing. The earth goes through many cycles of warming and cooling—and eventually it will cease to exist altogether. And without question, the sea levels will continue to rise as they always have meaning most human cities along current coastlines will be under water—but manmade carbons are not the cause. It's part of the geologic cycles of our planet and they will occur with or without us.
I've always known about the ocean levels, but when you see such vast expanses of open water and think about people walking under them, it really goes a long way to explaining how people populated the world in such mass as they did—and much earlier than previously thought. It wasn't just the Bering Strait that allowed people to walk from Russian into North America but also down through Indonesia into Australia and obviously from Great Britain all the way over to Russia. Even from Northern Ireland to Greenland wasn't difficult for a small boat to cross there meaning the journey from east to west into North America from that direction would not be out of the question as Greenland was essentially a part of the North American continent. Florida and Texas nearly touched with one complete landmass and much of the space between Florida and the Bahamas were on land. I've covered before the topic of the many supposed temples and pyramids under the ocean especially off the coast of Florida and the map below really shows what those ancient coastlines looked like and shows how human civilizations set up along those ancient oceans would have easily been under water as the Ice Age closed and the levels rose up again. But even so, oral traditions would have remembered how to get to those distant lands once they were cut off from each other by rising oceans—so taking the journey across would not have been so scary. From 14,000 years ago to about 5,000 the space between continents spread but the memory of them drove intercontinental trade and global diffusion.
What we call ancient is essentially a flash in the pan in geological time and that is the only way to measure global warming or cooling. If you apply some measly human lifetime to the topic, you'll get distorted data about what's really going on and it is there where you see that the political left attempts to use these natural earth cycles as a way to protest capitalist endeavor so they can carry civilization back to the Vico Cycle where they are most comfortable. And to my way of thinking 10,000 years ago—or even 20,000 isn't that long. The earth has gone through far more transition prior to all that—our understanding of the sciences is really infantile at this point. We certainly are not mature enough to grasp a concept about global warming caused by human beings. It doesn't pass the smell test of hard science. Rather the science offered has been corrupted by grant money given to produce a political result which lashes out against human productivity because things are moving too quickly for the power-hungry leftist who claims of themselves to be free-living and open minded—but desires more than anything to return back to aristocratic ways or even the secure religions of a theocracy. In that world they understood their role in the world more than they do today, so they use these fears of ocean levels as a way sell their politics. And that's all global warming is—its politics run amok by scientists willing to compromise integrity for grant money.
I was four years old when I was so terrified of the next Ice Age that my mom had to calm me down enough to go to bed. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was starting to play at reading books and I watched a documentary on television about the Ice Age and I learned that the ice had come down from the great north distances as far south as my house in Butler County, Ohio and the understanding that it would happen again was the scariest thing I can remember from my childhood. That was when I had to come to the understanding that all would not remain the same in the world and it bothered me for weeks. When I did start having to ride a school bus to school I'd look out the windows at the countryside outside and think about mile high ice that had carved out and flattened everything I could see and in thousands of years it would happen again. That meant every house and road that I could see would be gone once again and wiped clean from the earth and that was a tough concept for a little guy to understand—yet I grappled with it for a long time.
A few years later an earth sciences teacher wanted to stump our class on the nature of the Hawaiian Islands and I was the only kid who knew they were the tips of massive mountains and not just floating on the surface of the water the way that some modern Democrats believe. ("cough"………..Hank Johnson) I had been thinking about ocean levels rising and falling most of my life and I never visit an ocean where it doesn't cross my mind. But even way back into my grade school years I understood it and none of my teachers did. And they were supposed to be the smart ones. I really think to this day many of our mythologies whether it's the Epic of Gilgamesh, or the Noah story could be confirmed if we had a better way of performing underwater archaeology. I'm not a big fan of taking the Bible in an historic sense because its a mixture of history and mythology filtered to use through a Roman Empire and a crazy Medieval Church but if Noah was the 10th son of Adam and all his linage lived for a thousand years or so, the timing would have been about right for the end of the Ice Age. Noah was after all 600 years old when the flood came and he lived for 300 years after. I'm just sayin'. I think the Garden of Eden as we think of it in the biblical sense is now underwater in the Persian Gulf which like the English Channel would have been mostly large flat land easy to settle by mankind because it had once been the bottom of the ocean only recently revealed as dry land during the Ice Age.
In my own neighborhood before the glacial ice came the Ohio River ran much further north well above the 1-70 corridor. The spot my home sits on now was a part of the Teays River system—which is why the farming was always so good in and around the Fairfield area—because the area flooded often as the river ran north through there leaving great fresh top soil. I had a grandfather who had a farm on Seward Road and I always marveled at the soil there which was almost milky soft compared to the soil at my home a few miles away on higher ground that contained a lot of clay. The soil at the farm was so nice because it was the bottom of an ancient riverbed—then a lake nearly the size of modern-day Lake Erie. I tell this story to people who visit the Union Center Blvd exit these days and I show them the ridge lines of Beckett Ridge and the high ground of Muhlhauser and off to the west in Fairfield and try to paint a picture for them of the ancient river that flowed over our heads and they listen as if interested, but it's hard for them to get their minds around. To most people the Ohio River always flowed where it does in its present location but when the ice came it reshaped the landscape and actually reversed the flow of the river pushing it south. As this occurred large lakes would have formed for at least centuries until the ice would have won the battle and the present day Ohio River was formed. That was only 2 million years ago during another Ice Age—not that long. All this happened without the influence of human beings. They were around, but they certainly didn't cause it.
Advocates of global warming are blissfully ignorant of these facts—instead they hope to take a snap shot of the earth as it is today and to freeze it literally in the time of their human occupation—and use that as the measure of earth's health. Their grasp of history geological, and archaeologically is that shallow—like Hank Johnson. People who believe in global warming are typically stupid people who are too lazy to grapple with the facts. When Hank Johnson expressed fear that Guam would become overly populated in the Pacific and tip over from the weight he was showing his level of understanding about the way the world worked, and people like that are the first to believe all this global warming crap. But obviously there isn't any relevancy to the charges—because they don't exist. Earth will do what it will with or without us—and if we want to live as a species, we'll move off the earth and into space to shape our own destiny, and divorce ourselves from the sun and the moon—and the position of the stars. And it's only then that we will have done what humans were always supposed to do—and not limit ourselves to a jealous earth that is always changing and is unreliable over its geologic history. For human beings, it's time to move on and colonize space because the next Ice Age is coming—and no liberal protests will stop it.
Rich Hoffman
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• Tara Beth discusses her weekend adventure to the Mother Earth News Fair. Before she shares a bit of her notes she had taken while attending some of the workshops, she introduces the listeners to Dr. Weston Price and his vital research in nutrition.
• Sally Fallon, who has taken it upon herself to pass on Dr. Price's work, is also introduced so people can understand how important it is that we get back to the culinary traditions that nourish our bodies with much the much needed nutrients not found in today's mainstream diet.
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• Tara Beth's notes from an 'Organic Gardening for Newbies' workshop are also shared to help avoid some common mistakes. The instructor of this class was Barbara Fleming who is contributing editor of the Mother Earth News Fair Magazine.
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A gesture speaks a thousand words. There was a moment during the swearing in ceremony of Uttar Pradesh's next Chief Minister, Yogi Adityanath, when former Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav leaned in to whisper something in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ears - a moment perfectly captured by the press photographers present at the venue.
Former UP CM Akhilesh Yadav was seen standing right next to his father on the dais at Lucknow's Smriti Upvan complex, as Modi loosely held the seasoned politician's hands and leaned in closer to hear what he had to say. The body language seemed friendly to a casual observer, warm even, and speculations are now rife as to what Mulayam could have told the PM after the months-long bitter campaign by his party, in alliance with the Congress, against Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during the assembly elections.
Telegraph has a theory. Reportedly a BJP politician, who refused to be named, told the paper that he overheard Mulayam telling Modi to take care of his son Akhilesh. "Thoda Akhilesh ka khayal rakhiye," were the words uttered.
Mulayam's relation with his son was soured during the run-up to the assembly polls over a family dispute that involved his brother Shivpal Yadav. While many in the Opposition camp have alleged that the feud was staged to give Mulayam a way out, there were several days of drama that culminated in Akhilesh taking charge of the party.
On stage, as Mulayam gestured, Akhilesh walked up to Modi and shook his hand. Mulayam reportedly told Modi, according to Telegraph, "Inko sikhaiye" (teach him). During the campaign, both Akhilesh and Modi traded barbs, with the latter ridiculing him for "making a new friend" in Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, while the former countering with a jibe on actor Amitabh Bachchan endorsing "donkeys of Gujarat".
However, all that was forgotten during the 90-minute ceremony when Modi was seen patting Akhilesh on the shoulder as gesture of warmth.


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Young Women More Career-Driven Than Men, Survey Finds
In a startling reversal, more young women than young men now rank a high-paying career as one of their life priorities, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center. Sixty-six percent of women ages 18 to 34 said a well-compensated career was "one of the most important things" or "very important," compared to 59 percent of their male peers.
Not only are young women more ambitious than young men, they're more ambitious than anyone has been in the last 15 years.
In 1997, young men placed a high-paying career higher-up on the life list than women, at 58 percent to 56 percent, but neither of them come close to the drive of young women today.
For Love Of Money
"You could argue that money is more important for men," said Wisconsin State Sen. Glenn Grothman, after the state's equal pay law was quietly repealed last week. "I think a guy in their first job, maybe because they expect to be a breadwinner someday, may be a little more money-conscious."
You could argue that, perhaps, if you're looking just at Grothman's generation.
Fifteen years ago, 41 percent of middle-age men felt that a big bucks job was very or very, very important, but only 26 percent of women faced the same. These days, this age group is in almost dead heat, at 43 percent and 42 percent, respectively.
But young people today are more money-focused than generations past, and less concerned with community, charity and politics, according to a recent study, which analyzed 9 million young adults over four decades. The Pew numbers agree: Young men are a little more salary-driven than their fathers, but young women out-strive everyone they know.
The Coming Matriarchy
Young women today certainly care about education more than their moms or dads or male peers. Last year, 50 percent more women than men graduated from college, and women now earn 60 percent of master's degrees. They seem to get their value. Half of the female graduates surveyed by the Pew Research Center considered the price of their diplomas money well spent, while only 37 percent of men agree.
Are women really set to dominate in our postmodern, postindustrial knowledge economy, as Hanna Rosin suggested in The Atlantic? An economy that prizes social intelligence, communication skills, and extended focus over muscle density and the ability to stomach five martinis over lunch? Are women really going to be "the richer sex," as Liza Mundy posits in her recent book? Paying the bills, marrying down and liberating both sexes in the process?
For Love Of Family
Maybe, but you can always count on babies to get in the way. Women still give birth, and still care for those babies more than fathers, which tips the playing field ever-so-slightly in men's favor. At least when the goal is a high-rolling career that doesn't like you coming in late on the days when your baby has a strange rash.
And young women today have no desire to ditch family life on the road to success. In fact, more young women say marriage is "one of the most important things" in their lives than 15 years ago, according to the Pew study, 37 percent to 28 percent. And men aren't forgoing the high-paying career for a more fulfilling partnership. 27 percent of men ranked marriage at the top of their priority list, compared to 35 percent 15 years ago.
But if young women today manage to tackle the old work-family balance, then maybe they will be able to smash that glass ceiling, take over the board rooms, storm the Capitol, take command of the Federal Reserve, manipulate monetary policy, cause the price of groceries go up, and leave millions of stay-at-home fathers grumbling at the check-out.
In which case, young men, nostalgic for a simpler time, can take some solace. According to the most recent cover of Newsweek at least, the more success women gain in their careers, the more they want to be submissive in the bedroom.
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Balancing Developmental Needs and Academics in the Early Years
In this era of the common-core academic standards, early-childhood educators around the country are grappling with how to balance preparing the youngest learners for the challenges of the new standards in K-12 with their needs for strong social and emotional development.
The Erikson Institute, the nation's only graduate school focused exclusively on improving care and education for children from birth to age 8, hosted an event last week to try and help educators work through this thorny issue.
Titled "High-Quality PreK-3rd in the Age of Common Core," the forum features a number of speakers who talk about how early-learning standards can be aligned with the rigorous new standards without sacrificing the emphasis on the social and emotional skills that preschoolers really need.


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This 10 panel, two layered accordion book presents Eliot Weinberger's translation of Octavio Paz's A Tree Within.
A Tree Within
A tree grew inside my head.
A tree grew in.
Its roots are veins, its branches nerves,
thoughts its tangled foliage.
Your glance sets it on fire,
and its fruit of shade are blood oranges
& pomegranates of flame.
Day breaks in the body's night.
There within, inside my head, the tree speaks,
come closer – can you hear it?
~Octavio Paz
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Unit 1 Assignment 2: comparing and contrasting the theoretical perspectives of social psychology
The historical root of social psychology can be summarized into three basic concepts that originate from well-known psychologists, such as Freud, Kohler, Skinner, and others, in the early 1900s. These theories are as follows: Psychoanalytic Theory focuses on the powerful inner drives, impulses, and motivations of the individual mind and how those motivations are formed by sexuality and aggression. A second challenger called Behaviorism offered that motivations are subject to environmental factors and that learning shapes and determines future responses. To conclude, the perspective of Gestalt psychology regarded itself as a democratic and humanistic view of motivation. The theory says that individuals form coherent and meaningful perceptions and determine their responses based on the "whole", not individual parts.
While social psychology has its roots in psychology, the following major contemporary theories are used to understand and study the behaviors and problems of today.
Motivational Theories (influenced by psychoanalytic theory) general approach concentrates on the individual's own needs or motives that influence perceptions, attitudes, and behavior. In short, when an individual is presented with adversity, these conditions create or provoke needs that trigger behaviors in the individual to satisfy those needs. For example, the experience of moving away from home to join the military, created feelings of loneliness.
Cognitive Theories (influenced by Gestalt psychology) emphasizes that a person's immediate perception of a situation and how their behavior and decision-making is shaped by those perceptions in a social situation. Further, a core idea in this theory is that people tend on impulse to group and categorize objects and focus attention on the most noticeable environmental factors. For example, I want to retire from the military I perceive...


text: There are occasions in medicine — dentistry, in particular — when it is desirable to focus a laser beam to a small, intense spot some distance behind a small aperture. Root canal surgery is one example, and the treatment of dental caries is another. Figure 1. The inside diameter of this hollow taper was 700 μm at the input end and 200 μm at the output. Reprinted with permission of Optics Letters.Even with high-quality beams from today's lasers, a simple lens cannot perform the task. In practice, a fiber optic tip commonly is used to get the light into the small opening, but these are expensive and they introduce a high insertion loss. Recently, scientists at Tohoku University and at Sendai National College of Technology, both in Sendai, Japan, demonstrated that a hollow, tapered waveguide can provide the necessary focusing with very small insertion loss.Tapered waveguides have been explored previously as focusing elements but proved too lossy for many applications. The scientists in Sendai performed a ray-tracing analysis of various taper shapes and found that a straight linear taper is more efficient than the exponential taper created when a glass capillary is stretched under a steady heat source. To form the linear taper, they scanned a torch back and forth across the length of the taper as they stretched it from a glass capillary.Figure 2. Calculated and measured insertion losses are shown as a function of taper length for three tapers: one with a 100-μm opening at the small end, one with a 200-μm opening and one with a 320-μm opening. All three tapers had a 700-μm opening at the input end.They fabricated tapers with 700-μm-diameter input openings down to apertures as small as 100 μm, over taper lengths from 10 to 30 mm. They maintained a linear taper to within a 3 percent tolerance. After fabricating the tapers, they coated the inner surface with a thin silver film (Figure 1).The scientists measured the loss of the tapers at 2.94 μm with a pulsed Er:YAG laser. The measured losses for the tapers were larger than the losses they calculated by ray tracing, but otherwise were in good agreement (Figure 2). The discrepancy between measured and calculated losses resulted from imperfections in the taper and the silver coatings inside the tapers. The losses, as low as 0.7 dB, are well within the acceptable range for nearly all applications.Figure 3. The scientists increased the energy of pulses injected into the tapers until they observed damage. (They were not able to damage the largest taper.) The tapers can deliver energy densities significantly greater than those required for dental surgery (do = output diameter).To calibrate the power-handling capability of the tapers, the scientists increased the pulse energy injected into the tapers until they observed damage (Figure 3). From these data, they calculated that the damage threshold for the 200-μm taper was 278 J/cm2, and 290 J/cm2 for the 100-μm-diameter one. The energy density necessary to ablate even hard dental tissue and dentin is between 50 and 180 J/cm2, well below the tapers' damage threshold.Optics Letters, April 15, 2007, pp. 930-932.


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Our friendly neighbouring pop duo and our friendly neighbourhood superhero have joined hands to spin a musical web. Na jaane kyun, a track from Pakistani pop band Strings' recent album Dhaani, will feature on the Spider-Man 2 soundtrack, according to an announcement by Sony Music and Columbia TriStar Films of India.
"When we were approached by Columbia to do this track for Spider-Man 2, it was unreal," said Strings member Faisal Kapadia. "Spider-Man has been a favourite character of ours for a long time, so to sing a track for the worldwide film is an amazing opportunity," added partner Bilal Maqsood.
Kapadia and Maqsood, who hail from Karachi, have been touring Indian cities this month promoting their new album.
The Strings song will be a bonus addition to the 15 tracks on the Spider-Man 2 soundtrack, which Sony Music and Columbia will release on July 7.
"Spider-Man is truly a global phenomenon, which has also struck a chord with the Indian masses," said Shridhar Subramaniam, MD, Sony Music. "We are convinced adding a local language song increases the scale of the project by taking it to a new and larger audience."
Strings, he said, was a natural choice. "Not only are they extremely talented, the lyrics to Na jaane kyun seem to have been written for Spider-Man."
While devising the marketing plan for the Spider-Man sequel, Columbia TriStar was conscious of the superhero's global image that transcends religion, language, age and nationality, said Columbia TriStar Films of India marketing manager Harshvardhan Gangurde. "Hence also the decision to dub the film in three Indian languages Hindi, Tamil and Telugu," he said.
"Spider-Man is a name familiar to the Indian masses, and what better way to reach out to the masses than a Hindi song? And seeing Strings' current popularity, they seemed to be the best choice," Gangurde added.
He hoped the association with sister company Sony Music would give Spidey "the big leap."
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The Boston Marathon was last won by Americans in 1983 for the men and 1985 for the women. When was the first Boston Marathon win by a non-American?
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The first non-American winner of the Boston Marathon was Ronald J. MacDonald of Canada who won the 2nd Boston Marathon in 1898 with a time of 2:55:10. He was one of two Canadians who dominated the first 5 years of the race the two of them winning 3 times (1 for MacDonald, and 2 in 1900 and 1901 for Canadian John Caffery).


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It seems the romance might not be over after all…After it was reported that Niall Horan was back on the market after splitting from gorgeous model Barbara Palvin – she appears to have been pictured wearing HIS shirt. The Hungarian stunner is visiting London and posed for a snap with an adoring fan last night in a bar. Barbara, 20, is rocking the same dark green and blue checked shirt Niall has previously worn, a favourite of Niall's during their recent Take Me Home world tour. Niall, also 20, has been enjoying his fleeting two-month romance with the Victoria's Secret beauty but recently friends said their relationship had cooled. She had relocated to Paris to focus on her career while Niall underwent knee surgery to fix an ongoing complaint ahead of their stadium tour this year.
They must still be together then! lmfao at anyone thinking this is the same shirt.


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Happy Birthday Nora
My baby turns 1 today. Nora is no longer a baby but now officially a toddler. I can't believe that this time last year I was extremely pregnant and getting ready to have my baby. My pregnancy was a tough one but it seems how easy it is to forget.
There has been so many milestones and beautiful memories that I will cherish for the rest of my life.. My favorite memory was when she first arrived and the doctor put her on my chest and the look in her eyes was - Hey I know you!. It was crazy and extremely emotional and think about how powerful that moment was when everything changes. Everyday she makes me laugh and inspires me to be a not good but great mommy.
Weight: 24 lbs
Size: 12 months- she still fits into some of her 9 month onesies
Baby Milestones: She is about ready to walk! She can stand by herself and walks around furniture. She has gone a few steps on her own but hasn't taken the plunge yet. I think it's a confidence thing but she still crawls really fast and I know which she does walk.. she isn't going to walk she is going to run. Her vocabulary has grown quite a bit and is a little chatter box and has imitated a lot of sounds like mama.. dada. row row row. doggy, choo choo etc. A big milestone last night is that she grabbed a picture framed with her and Tim and pointed at Tim and said Daddy. It was the first time I think she really got it versus imitating sounds or calling everyone Da Da.
Loves: Oranges, Strawberries and Hugs. All her favorite :) I think Daddy is her favorite this month, when he comes home she starts squeal and bounce up and down with delight and then follows him around the house.
Hates: The dreaded Vacuum and sitting in shopping carts. I started having to buckle her in and has already figured out how to escape from the buckle.
I can not believe she is one year old and this weekend having some of her baby friends come over for a pizza party. Hope you are having a wonderful day!


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Cirque du Soleil has decided to postpone Melbourne performances of its show KURIOS until 15 April, 2020
Following the declaration of a Public Health Emergency in South Australia, Adelaide Festival Centre venues will close to the public and all performances will be suspended from midnight until the 30th of April.
In response to the unfolding health situation, Theatre Works have made the difficult but necessary decision to temporarily close our venue until 1 May.
Scheduled to be programmed this winter, the Melbourne International Jazz Festival (MIJF) in its current form will be cancelled in response to ongoing developments regarding the threat of COVID-19.
Opera Australia has regretfully cancelled the upcoming Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, La Traviata, in line with the government ban on static public gatherings of more than 500 people to try to limit the spread of the COVID-19 virus.


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Fall 2011 Ready-to-WearChalayan
Spring was called Sakoku, or "closed country," referring to Japan's deliberate policy of cultural isolation. For Fall, Hussein Chalayan titled his collection Kaikoku, meaning "open country," a reference to the way Japan was compelled to open up to the world in the traumatic aftermath of World War II. Phew! That's context.
Chalayan himself insisted he was shying away from anything literal. He was more inspired by the notion of a place—once isolated, now exposed—where new ideas could be explored, where wildly diverse elements could manifest in peculiar ways. That place sounds a lot like his own near 20-year career in fashion, which he has been tapping into more and more. Wise move—the world missed out on those Chalayan genius moments from the late nineties and early naughties. There is also no time like the present to be reminded that fashion's most cerebral designer has always been absorbed by the body. You could feel that obsession in the fluid lines of the tops and dresses that had scarves flowing from their lapels, or in the sinuous asymmetric bias-cut pieces.
Despite the designer's protestations to the contrary, the Japanese connection was inescapable. And explicable, because the rigorous thinking that goes into every Chalayan collection is something he instinctively shares with Japanese culture. Here, he was utterly mesmerized by Japanese form: the kimonolike sleeves and wraps, the delicate dévoré texture used on a coat and jacket, the oversize man-tailoring, even the robot dress that acted as the finale of the film that Chalayan directed in lieu of a show. And, not least, the model he chose for that film. She had the huge eyes, bud mouth, and flowing hair of a manga heroine made flesh. Plus, there was an abstracted photographic print the designer visualized as the view through a Japanese window of an American bomber.


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This week - Amazon to push advertising, Twitter Analytics for all, and a Hershey's rebrand.
Amazon Advertising Ahead
Rumors are swirling that Amazon.com has an advertising platform in the works to rival that of Google Adwords. If you are familiar with the digital marketing industry then you probably know that you can advertise on Amazon currently through product listing ads either as a native listing on the shopping platform itself or as "Product Ads from External Websites". These PLAs are notoriously difficult to set up if you aren't familiar with some level of code, by the way. This will not only make it easier for businesses to set up advertising campaigns, but is also another key move for Amazon's ever expanding bottom line.
As one of the future potential users of this rumored interface, I just hope that the dashboard and reporting are more user-friendly than the Amazon PLAs. Pretty sure smashing a finger in a car door was more exciting and useful.
More Data For Everyone!
Twitter announced on Wednesday that its internal reporting dashboard, Twitter Analytics, previously available to business accounts is now available for all people. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, every teenager with thoughts that spill out of them 140 characters at a time can now analyze the demographic information associated with their followers.
From my own personal Twitter, which you can see I care very little about.
Translation, this is completely useless to the average Twitter user and it's just a press release in a long pile of Twitter press releases. So unless you, like me, are a data-hungry #supernerd with a never-ending need to view the statistics associated with everything you do (full disclosure, I calculate the average CPU of each shoe purchase), you have no need for Twitter Analytics.
A Few Fun Finds
If you are a #designnerd instead of the super version, you will probably enjoy reading this review of the new logo and identity for The Hershey Company (conveniently located a mere 12 miles from our offices here at Inovāt).
photo: BrandNew.com
If you also enjoy torturing your pets with photo and video while simultaneously harnessing them into something, then you may also appreciate the fact that GoPro is launching a new dog harness called Fetch. Fetch allows for mounting of a GoPro camera either to the chest or back of your dog. Now you can really know what your pup is up to all day (warning: probably involves a lot of crotch shots).
photo: GoPro.com
And for those #applenerds out there who are speculating heavily on the potentially to-be-announced iPhone 6, you can now purchase speculative iPhone 6 covers on Amazon. Nevermind the fact that we don't know for sure what size it will be or if any of the buttons will have moved. And when you're done ordering your case, I have a beachfront property in Arizona to sell you.


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The morning the Tony nominations are announced, phones start buzzing with texts and calls for the happy few who get nods. As usual, Broadway.com is among the callers offering congratulations and getting responses. Here are the first reactions from 2012 Tony nominees. Congrats to all!
Michael Cerveris
Nominated for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical, Evita
"I feel delighted and also exhausted because it's been a crazy few weeks. I am also excited because I am getting this news while I'm in the studio recording the Evita cast recording, so it's really the best way to celebrate news like this—to go to work with the people who are part of the whole thing. It's nice that I get to share it with them. I was en route to the studio and I got a phone call from my agent. I called my dad and shared it with my family first of all. Then, I had really lovely messages from Ricky [Martin] and Elena [Roger], almost as soon as it was announced. It's funny: [Getting a Tony nomination] does feel fresh and new every time it happens. I am particularly pleased and proud [of this nomination] because it feels like a little bit of an acknowledgement of the new things that we've discovered in the role of Peron."


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Okay – my son knows about politics and the things that occur in the world via CNN, the regular news stations and the things that I discuss with him – It is going on 9 pm and I am fussing at him in regards to getting himself together for school and he is ironing his clothes while chatting with me all at the same time……
Then from out of no where – he says mom remember every time there is a new POPE for the Catholic Church it is all over the news for days and it takes over the programs on television. I said yes, he said isn't the POPE in another country and again, I answered yes.
Yall ready for this 11 year old's child DISCOVERY!! >>>> His next statement / question to me was this…..
Well mom, I don't get that President Nelson Mandela died and he did so much for blacks and whites, was in jail and forgave the people for being mean to him then ran for president right? AGAIN … I said yes baby – He states, why didnt the media cover Nelson Mandela's funeral on most of all the news channels like they do when they vote for a new POPE or when PEOPLE FROM ENGLAND GET MARRIED!!!!!!!!!!
Okay y'all, that was enough for me right there!! Whew – my son is indeed amazing! I taught him good and God surely is molding his little mind for such a time as this!
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|This is an archive of Talk:Fansites.
More subsections
This list could do with more subsections in my opinion. The "Fansites" listing especially could be broken up. --Mikk (T) 17:00, 26 September 2006 (EDT)
Removed listings
- Project D-WAR - An ongoing Web comic and WoW Machinima series currently in developmet
- World of Warcraft Stuff - cheat sheets and tools
- dotWarcraft - Daily WoW posts of news, strategy, rumors, discussions, guides, experiences, and loads more.
- World of Warcraft @ rumbaar.net - Community, News, Info, Forum and Download.
- www.wow-quests.com
- Valid site but in the wrong place (was placed above Thott and Alla). HOWEVER the frontpage of the site has a RL-work-for-wow-gold scheme, which, to me, is the same as buying wow gold, just with a different currency. --Mikk (T) 11:01, 11 October 2006 (EDT)
- Blog no longer exists. --Hexapuma 02:47, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
- Blog no longer exists. --Hexapuma 02:51, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
- Blog no longer updated and never contained any info at all. --Hexapuma 02:55, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
- Blog last updated september 2006. --Hexapuma 02:55, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
- No longer exists. --Hexapuma 02:57, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
- Site exists but is no longer updated
- Site exists but has not been updated since sep 2006. --Hexapuma 05:32, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
- Site exists but has not been updated since 2005. --Hexapuma 05:35, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
- Blog/site doesn't exist anymore. DaAznSaN 20:57, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
Popular sites edit war
This has got to stop. A good idea is to check http://www.alexa.com for the traffic rankings for the websites.
- Thottbot - 611 [1]
- Alla - 961 [2] (72% WoW traffic)
- Wowhead - 16,834 [3]
- Goblin Workshop - 15,064 [4]
- WoWGuru - 30,179 [5]
- TenTonHammer - 23,187 [6] (~50% WoW traffic)
- Gameamp - 17,888 [7] (15% WoW traffic only)
- WoWd - 1,000,000 [8]
I'd say it's pretty obvious what belongs 'up there' and what doesn't, no? -- Kirkburn (talk) 05:08, 5 October 2006 (EDT)
- I stopped editing anyways , also a good measure is the google pagerank , which is also quite relevant and should be factored in , here is the aggregated order.
- Thottbot - PR 5 ~is exclusively a search engine
- Allakhazam - PR 6
- WoW Guru - PR 5
- Goblin Workshop - PR 5
- Wowhead - PR 3 ~is exclusively a search engine
- WoWd - PR 5 ~is exclusively a search engine
- TenTonHammer DB - PR 4
- Gameamp - PR 2
--Mancini 05:40, 8 October 2006 (EDT)
- The Google Pagerank as displayed in the toolbar is a integrer in the range 1 to 10 , for extensive detail see http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank.html --Mancini 15:50, 8 October 2006 (EDT)
- The only reason why he suggests Google Rank is because it favors WoWd, if Google Rank had been chosen and Alexa favored WoWd he would have said lets use Alexa. The constant vying for position by squeezing the links in anywhere he can get them is really getting annoying. -- Gryphon 12:26, 9 October 2006 (EDT)
- *shrug* even though it has an ok google pagerank, the Alexa ranking is so far off that there's obviously a huge discrepancy between sites pointing at wowd and people actually using it. I agree that the google PR can be used to solve close calls, but in this case it's clearly irrelevant. --Mikk (T) 12:49, 9 October 2006 (EDT)
- I couldn't care less what is used, my frustration is with his constant editing of pages in order to promote WoWd. -- Gryphon 12:54, 9 October 2006 (EDT)
- Like i said , i stopped edditing anyways , i take it you are with ign too , or with wowhead directly since the same behaviour by its promoters does not "frustrate" you.--Mancini 14:00, 9 October 2006 (EDT)
- I am not with anyone at all, though I prefer to use Thottbot mainly because I am comfortable with it and it has a good additional comment information. I just hate biased self promotion. -- Gryphon 14:04, 9 October 2006 (EDT)
- Yea , well , imagine how much more frustrated you would be and how much you would hate it if that biased self promotion affected you directly , that is links suddenly being brushed aside by new beta databases out of nowhere , i would had not started to monitor this damn page if not for that , and i have no pleasure in it either , and you have no say in this because you have no implication.--Mancini 03:17, 10 October 2006 (EDT)
- Well the fact that wowhead is moving up in popularity isn't because of where it sits in a wiki listing. It is a very clean, fast and readable, I would use it myself if it had more comments which is more useful than just a database of items alone. WoWd has been around a long time, and personally I think it is very ugly and hard to read and not memorable. That is my opinion. I know exactly what it is all about, I may not be affiliated with these sites but I own and run plenty of other sites under other venues to understand what the frustration and goal is. Make a palatable site and the traffic will come, make one that isn't so pleasing, good luck. -- Gryphon 13:08, 10 October 2006 (EDT)
- I'd have to slightly disagree with you on wowhead.com, yes, it's clean and nice and i understand why it's popular, but speed has definitely taken a dive. I wont tout my own site here, because i'm sure traffic and popularity (hopefully :) will crush that aswell. We're seeing approx. 1500 users daily and it's still very fast. I'm sure sites like thott, khaz and wowhead are 20k visitors daily, probably more. --Brunis 15:05, 30 January 2007 (EST)
- I guess i was aiming a bit low.. but a million ? somehow i doubt it. Since they're all here, maybe they could put some numbers up? :D --Brunis 13:55, 31 January 2007 (EST)
New WoW resource
Hello Wowwiki editors,
I've created a World of Warcraft resource along the lines of Thottbot and would like it listed here.
The 'edit page' button advised me to open a discussion about it first, so that's why i'm here :)
The website is found at wowpeek.com
I'm not sure if you have to like it to be listed or what the criterias are ?
--Brunis 14:44, 30 January 2007 (EST)
Messed up listing
Accidently reordered the listing of fan site when I was trying to add blizzplanet.com - I didnt realize they were organized by Alexa and just reordered them alpha-order. My apologies - I will try to figure out how Alexa ordering works and repair it.
I just came to update the link of my site, taking out the www, and noticed that someone had edited it changing the link from .com to .net. Is there any way to avoid people from abusing other sites like this?
I'm not really sure who did it :(
--Gahlok 17:32, 27 March 2007 (EDT)
A new german fanpage
May inwow.de be added here as it is one of germany's largest fanpages and home of the two largest fan-audio-plays (in german and perhabs english if there's enough feedback from the english speaking community)...--Maibe 12:38, 29 March 2007 (EDT)
new site - what category?
i'm not sure this is important enough to get its own conversation topic but oh well here goes - The Murloc is Lonely should be on here, it's the wow fanfic novel this guy's been working on for two years now. updates weekly. what category should it go in, though? technically speaking print is a kind of media, so i'm sticking it under media for now. it could be more like a comic that just uses words though, in that it's an ongoing story kinda thing
--Dport 21:34, 18 April 2007 (EDT)


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As part of plans to extend its compact SUV lineup, Porsche is releasing the entry-level model of the new Porsche Macan. It comes with a specifically tailored four-cylinder turbo engine. Moreover, the Porsche Cayenne will also have the latest Porsche Communication Management (PCM).
The Porsche Macan's turbocharged 2-liter engine offers 252 hp or 185 kW from 5.000 to 6.800 rpm. Like all Macan models, it comes with a standard seven-speed PDK dual-clutch transmission. As a result, the vehicle accelerates to 100 km/h in just 6.7 seconds.
With the optional Sport Chrono-Package, it can even be reduced down to just 6.5 seconds. The Porsche Macan boasts a top speed of 229 km/h.
Furthermore, it offers outstanding fuel efficiency. According to the NEDC, the new vehicle consumes about 7.2 liters to 7.4 liters per 100 km depending on the mounted wheel and tire combination.
The entry-level Porsche Macan is now available in Germany starting at €55,669 inclusive of market-specific equipment and VAT. It is expected to have its market launch in June 2016.