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I've always wondered why American success has eluded the all-female pop band Girls Aloud, one of the biggest reasons to love British music in the past ten years.
The reason: the girls didn't want to put in the work.
Member Nadine Coyle once said, "We're asking ourselves whether we really want to start off from scratch doing all the crap to work our way up again or are we happy at the level we're at now – where we have a safe haven in the States where no one knows who we are or what we're doing?"
So basically the girls could come to the U.S., act completely slaggy, and avoid the harsh paparazzi scrutiny that plagues them in the UK. Sounds sensible to me.
However, Nadine's bandmate Cheryl Cole wants to change all that.
Cole, who moonlights as a judge on X Factor in Britain, has been rumored to be pursuing a solo career, even cozying up to Black Eyed Peas mastermind Will.i.am for a collaboration.
Was she simply making a play for Americans to accept her all on her lonesome? Or was she simply setting the stage for a belated Girls Aloud invasion on our shores?
Cheryl thinks now could be the time for the ladies to consider Stateside success. "I think any artist would like to break America," she told OK Magazine. "If you break there, you can break anywhere. It's a big, big deal and a lot different to us. I'd like the success of breaking in America, but we're not the Spice Girls – we're not musically like them, we don't look like them."
That's certainly true: The Spice Girls were built on a canny but disposable gimmick: their American success back in the late '90s was an example of smart packaging to teenyboppers. But teenyboppers are notoriously fickle.
Girls Aloud, however, make no excuses for being overtly sexual. (They were tarting it up long before Nicole Scherzinger and The Pussycat Dolls.)
And their partnership with pop producers extraordinaire Xenomania (the folks behind Cher's "Believe") has yielded some of the greatest pure pop singles of the past decade. Here are my top 10, but each one is brilliant:
10. "Sound of the Underground"
9. "The Promise"
8. "No Good Advice"
7. "Call the Shots"
6. "Something Kinda Oooh"
5. "Can't Speak French"
4. "Whole Lotta History"
3. "Love Machine"
2. "The Show"
1. "Biology"
Also: Cheryl says it's a challenge to not be thin and beautiful: "I challenge anyone to do the ridiculous amount of exercise and dancing we do day in day out and not lose weight and tone up."
In other news:
- Is the UK finally on its last legs? That's what one writer claims in today's Times of London: "Britain's bout of reflection on its last gasps of empire comes at a natural point in its history. The Great Recession came as a surprise and has accelerated the trend, but the rise of China, India and Brazil, and the changing ties to a declining America, have been visible for many years. As America turns to building new ties with the advancing powers of Asia and Latin America, Britain can only feel less special. The nation is in the totally predictable grip of the ennui and grumpiness that accompany the end of a political era."
- Sienna Miller nearly had an early morning wardrobe malfunction on Live with Regis and Kelly.(The Sun)
- The BBC is giving you a headstart on all the new UK bands.(Telegraph)
- P. Diddy moshed at the Arctic Monkeys concert here in NYC last night.(NME)
- Has Lily Allen finally gotten over her Daddy Complex and roped in a man her own age?(Daily Mail)
- Sir Paul McCartney is not retiring from performing.(NME)
- Meanwhile, Roger Daltrey will tour North America sans The Who.(Yahoo!)
- Did Ian Brown, He of the Not-So-Elegantly Sunken Cheekbones, bribe cops with beer during his Stone Roses days in Manchester? "When we started in 1986 very few people lived in the city center, so we used to have massive warehouse parties in Fairfield St. When the police came along and tried to stop us, we used to give them a crate of ale to keep it going." (The Sun)
- Former Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker has contributed material to the sequel/spinoff to Forgetting Sarah Marshall.(Reuters)
- Peter Andre to Jordan: I never liked yo a** anyway.(Mirror)
- Actress Dyan Cannon is writing a tell-all about her ex, British film icon Cary Grant.(New York Post)
- Remember actress Neve McIntosh, who played the doctor who was schtupping Max Beesley's character on the hospital drama, Bodies? Well, she's fallen on some hard times. She blames the recession for making this a "lean year" in her career, but she adds, "There's no escaping from the fact that I am getting to that age where women don't get cast as much. Even though there is quite a lot happening to try to change it, the fact is that once you are the wrong side of 40 you tend to drop off the face of the Earth."(Daily Record)
- BBC AMERICA's upcoming comedy The Inbetweeners has already been commissioned for third season.(The Stage)


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All of us have some kind of design that we wish to go for. Architectural canopy in Manhattan is something you have to work on and will give you whatever you need in every step of the way. By going through it, you will know exactly what it seems that you could do and how you could manage it properly.
We tend to go about the whole process of learning and give yourself some positive impacts to allow yourself to learn more about it. Giving yourself some ideas, you are basically putting some pressure into it and hope that it changes the way we are doing something in every way. For sure, you will learn some few things out there.
When you rush on something, you will understand what it is you are going to do. If we are getting into that direction and moving closer to what we are aiming to have, we can surely get to it and know what are the basics things we may need to discover. Getting into it is always a choice that we could make every single time. Just do what you think is quite important and hopefully change the way you are able to perceive things.
Some of the questions we wish we could ask is to know exactly how we could manage that properly in any way that is possible. Think about what are the proper questions you may have to look forward into and be sure that it changes the way we manage things. You are there ready enough to do something and somehow, it will change things differently.
Mostly, we have to answer questions based on the ideas that something has to work out for it. Always reconsider your choices and hopefully maximize what you are trying to do. Get to where you wish it would be and hopefully change the way you are going through the whole concept. Even though, it looks really cool, it is always a good shot to know what it is we are going to do.
There are some cases where we tend to not be too sure on what we are going to handle. Every type of data you work on gives you some points to handle about. The more data you are able to manage, the easier for you to come up with common aspects to get those things going. By having that kind of position, we will know exactly what it is that we are going to do.
Try out what you have in mind. Even though you think of it is as not that good, there are still some great things that we may need to accomplish that for. It is always vital that we can try those things out well enough or change the way we manage those things. The more we try those information, the better we tend to realize it.
Finally, we should consider what kind of evaluation that would take us into places. For sure, the evaluation that we do are not only relevant, but it can also be an issue that we may have to incorporate about in every way.
Get to where you wanted to be and follow through with some other concepts that will assist us whenever that is possible. For sure, that would be a good thing too.

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With Elizabeth Hurley's farming show in the trash bin and Planet Green deciding not to renew "The Fabulous Beekman Boys," there's certainly a void in the market for city slickers-turned-farmers reality programming. Enter County Music Television.
The network has announced a new series, titled "I Love Jennie," that will chronicle Jennie Garth ("90210"), her husband, Peter Facinelli ("The Twilight Saga,") and their three daughters as they transition from Los Angeles to a 7-acre farm in California. According to Deadline, the cameras will capture Garth trying "to put the pressures of Hollywood on the side burner and experience a new way of life."
Granted, this "new way of life" is one that the 39-year-old actress has been promoting for quite some time. Last year, she launched a new Web series with NBC Universal called "Garden Party." In it, she focuses on various farms, vegetables and how parents can promote healthy eating habits in their children.
In an interview last year with Are You Screening, Garth said that growing up on a ranch in Illinois set the stage for her to one day return to her roots.
"We lived way out in the country, and we didn't have a lot of money so my mom — we always had our, you know, our vegetables grown in our garden and we would be out there taking care of them and growing them and gardening."
"And I really enjoy, you know, I can remember when I was little walking in the corn fields in Illinois and just having fresh corn whenever you wanted it right outside your door," she added.
Look for Garth and her family to get their feet and hands dirty once more sometime next year on CMT.


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Blog Archives
Is there such a thing as Constructive Criticism?
Or is it, "Hey, can I give you my opinion"? OR here are some ideas for next time?
Does constructive criticism lower the other person's sense of value?
Are you judging their ability?
If you don't want feedback, don't ask! If you ask, be able to handle it- positively!
I know I am not the worse critic, however I don't disguise the truth, and I'm not going to sugar coat it. I think people are better than that!
I have been thanked, heard excuses, and I have even heard, it's not my fault!
Tells me a great deal about their ownership!
The problem with constructive criticism is you have just challenged them to get it right the next time.
You have brought to their attention, and you're expecting it to change now.
Feedback is necessary; I once heard that complaints are blessings. Why? Because if you don't know, you can't change it.
How do we learn, change, and grow, without constructive criticism. Yes, it hurts, but we want to be successful, so getting feedback can be a good thing. I have recently been involved in a big event; there were a lot of good changes.
Venue, emcee's, menu…some pretty big stuff.
They asked me to join them at a wrap up meeting. BIG MISTAKE! I had a list, two pages! It wasn't meant to be "this is everything wrong" it was meant to be "we can be better".
In my list I included the items that were awesome and I always leave it on a good note, of you did a really great job. You never want them to think you have lost confidence in them. It isn't about being hurtful or just complaining, they need to be recognized for what was done very well, and what we can do to be better.
But be careful, the question asked to me at the end of the meeting was; would you chair this event next year! Eekkk!
No!! Don't you get it isn't about me it is about how WE can all do better.
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While you can opt in for a really high loan amount you can be rest assured that your payback amount will be as low as possible because you can extend it for a number of years which is not possible with any other loan. There are a number of companies for toronto mortgages that you can get in touch with and once you find a reliable company you can always pick out a loan amount that you think will work in your favour. If you need a loan for some reason and you aren't able to arrange for the money any other way then a Mortgage Loan might help you however you need to keep a few things in mind before you take a Mortgage Loan.
One of the most important things that you should always remember while opting in for a Mortgage Loan is to always make sure that while you are getting a loan for a really high amount you only take the amount that you require and not desire. Remember that the higher the loan amount the more you need to pay back so always take only what is needed. Choose a reasonable payback time because taking something that is too little will extend for many years and it will make it difficult for you to pay the loan back regularly.


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Dip-buyers were too lazy to do much on a summer Friday, which caused the market to drift lower on anemic volume. Breadth was about 2 to 1 negative with ugliness in semiconductors and Amazon (AMZN) causing a bit of worry. Small-caps floundered, and they continue to be the most worrisome sector of the market.
I've been complaining about how the action under the surface has been much worse than on the senior indices, so it was positive to see the indices down today to confirm that things aren't all rosy. We still don't have any significant pressure or technical damage, but the action in individual stocks has been increasingly choppy and sending warning signs.
The bears were excited late in the day about a slightly bearish call from Goldman, but they still expect equities to be up 1.8% over the next three months. That doesn't seem like much of a reason to rush and sell.
The biggest problem with the market is that stock-picking is hard. We've had a few earnings reports, like Chipotle (CMG) and Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) that have had sustained momentum, but it is a small group.
Typically, the market continues to find good support no matter what the negatives are. There are plenty of international events to worry about and Goldman is raising the issue of higher interest rates, but there still is no run for the exits. It isn't a great market, but the trend is holding.
Have a great weekend. I'll see you Monday.
Keep an Eye on Day Lows
- There isn't much support for dip buying today.
We are seeing support after the gap down at the open, but the dip buyers are merely holding us steady so far. Breath is two-to-one negative and we are seeing weakness in semiconductors, chips and biotechnology. Precious metals are leading. Other than a few earnings plays like Baidu (BIDU) and Deckers Outdoor (DECK), there aren't many pockets of momentum so far. Facebook (FB) and Apple (AAPL) are holding steady, but there isn't much interest in chasing.
I've not liked the trading in this market much, as there isn't much to do but play "small ball." You have to be quick to take some profits and it is quite easy to be surprised by suddenly reversals like we have in Spansion (CODE) today.
I added to a position in BioFuel Energy (BIOF) this morning and am playing with a few other odds and ends, but right now my main focus isn't on building up good positions but on making sure that when I have gains I don't let them slip away. This is not a market in which I want to be overexposed for very long.
Keep an eye on day lows. We don't seem to have as much dip-buying support today and that could cause some issues when day low stops are triggered.
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The Bulls Focus on Indices
- But individual stocks send very mixed signals.
"One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions."
--Friedrich Nietzche
Good earnings reports form big cap names such as Apple (AAPL), Facebook (FB), Under Armour (UA) and Baidu (BIDU) are keeping the senior indices close to their highs, but there is some shaky action under the surface that is keeping things tricky. The biggest problem is that the strength is narrow. Small caps continue to struggle and the number of stocks making news highs is quite small for a market hovering at all-time highs. Of course volume has been lackluster, but that has been the case for ages.
The bulls shrug at the nitpicking and stay focused on the indices. If that is all you care about, then there is nothing at all wrong with this market. Trying to use ETFs to short the indices has been a terrible trade unless you are content with catching a few pennies now and then. The smart move is to stick with the indices and ignore the pessimism.
If you trade individual stocks, it is a different story. The great bulk of stocks are not acting like the indices. There is enough strength among big caps to keep the indices near highs, but there is a tremendous amount of choppy and inconsistent action in individual stocks. Buying a standard breakout has been a coin toss lately, and many traders are complaining about the lack of follow-through.
This mixed action in many individual stocks explains why sentiment remains so soft, although the folks in the media constantly point out how we are at all-time highs. Market players simply don't feel the love, unless they are simply holding on to indices.
This sort of action makes it very easy to cultivate a bearish bias. Many traders want the market to come down, because they are having such a hard time trading it. I find myself trying not to be overly negative, although I see so much poor action among small caps. I always let individual stocks be my guide to my overall market bias and they are sending very mixed signals. A few will work, but the fades come fast and hard and it is very easy to give back some good gains if you aren't flipping quickly.
In a strong market uptrend it should be easier to hold positions and not be stopped out. With a few exceptions that hasn't been the case lately, and that makes me wonder how bullish things really are.
We have a little early weakness this morning as Amazon (AMZN) and Starbucks (SBUX) disappoint, but Baidu and The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) put up solid reports.
The situation in Ukraine is heating up and economic reports have been mixed, but so far this market is not looking for excuses for aggressive selling. With the indices at all-time highs, the big frustration continues to be fear of being left behind.


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Some things stay the same, and some things change. I've made a lot of birdies over the years, and celebrated them all in their own way. Last month in Nebraska was no exception.
Sometimes I don't make so many birdies, but I'd still like a photo, so I played around with a few ideas for a par dance. I can't imagine I'll be doing this too often. The pars, yes. The dance, probably not.
I was on such a long trip I almost forgot when it started. I went to Japan twice, and the second time in Japan I got on television. I'd rather not have.
Then when I came back to Thailand I checked carefully the potato chip flavors. Sure enough, there was a new one. When my trips are long enough, I almost always find a new potato chip flavor in Thailand that wasn't available when I departed.


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When you think of your life, what kind of vibe do you get in your stomach?
What person do you see yourself as?
What's the story you say to yourself every morning you wake up?
It really all boils down to who you think you are.
And in the game of Life, people fall in only two categories – heroes and losers.
And then come the excuses.
"But I grew up with 5 other siblings in a basement"
"But my father was hitting my mother"
"But I don't have XYZ"
"But this guy had XYZ"
Fuck off. It does NOT matter.
You must FIND THE way to win anyway.
Heroes don't make excuses.
That's what all those "buts" above are. Bullshit excuses you tell yourself (and others) to TRY and feel better about not changing what you don't like in your life.
Guess what though little brother or sister… The sad truth is that everybody else is playing the game.
You've definitely taken a different approach.
Instead of playing the game, all you're doing is you are wasting your time making excuses. As a result you are losing the game.
Stop repeating those stories about why you can't make it and start figuring out ways you can actually CONQUER your life and dreams.
Adversity is the mother of SUCCESS.
It won't work automatically though,
You'll only be able to reap the befits if you use it as the TOOL it's meant to be.
Trust me when I say, you should thank God and feel incredibly lucky about these obstacles, the adversity and the struggle in your life right now.
This may sound counterintuitive, but I wouldn't be here telling you all this, had it not been for all the sh*t I've been through.
The only reason I am typing these words away from my crazy London crib (ultra luxurious penthouse overlooking the City of London),
[feel free to drop by for tea and cookies]
is that I got DISGUSTED of living in a sickening tiny room with no hot water.
The only reason for my millions and success, is that I got sick and tired of all the poverty I had to shove down my throat because I wasn't born rich.
Instead of whining like a little b*tch about how my parents were not rich, I decided to become affluent.
Do you think those rich assholes are going to ever be successful?
No, that's impossible since they have everything you can ever wish for already.
For the rest of their whole miserable lives, these douchebags are going to be living in the shadow of their rich dad or mom.
Why do you think is it that MONEY DOES NOT BUY HAPPINESS? It's not entirely true sure, but people entertain themselves cause it makes them feel complacent if you have not won your OWN money through sweat and tear.
Wealth must be a byproduct of adversity and struggle. It must NOT be given to you. It must be earned. You must make a shit ton of sacrifices.
It's not the money that makes rich people miserable, it's the lack of purpose and meaning in their life, which you can *only occasionally* find by chasing a better life and more zeros in your bank account.
But when you are already driving an SUV, living in a villa and buying your girlfriend food with your dad's cash then you don't have any motivation to chase anything.
Even if your parents were not exactly wealthy, but merely financially comfortable, that sucks.
That sucks because it allows you to be mediocre, to settle for less, to give up on your dreams for the same shit ass middle class average life.
I see it everywhere around me. You can see it everywhere around you if you open your eyes and look carefully.
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Look at who is actually succeeding. It's those that've been through some kind of struggle and adversity that eventually get further ahead than all those average Joes.
I am so thankful I had to survive on sleeping with insects and having no hot water, because I couldn't afford even buying a bed. I am so grateful for this gave me an insane amount of inner game, aka motivation if you will.
You need to experience this for yourself to understand its real power. It basically transforms you so that the only word that you think is GO!
Listen to me. If you are in deep shit right now, you have a choice.
Use your troublesome everyday life, your sorrow and your worries to SMASH through each and every obstacle like the people you admire, or sit back, relax maybe do some yoga or drugs and talk about energy until you realize you need to actually do something about your pathetic existence.
Until Next Time,
In rebellion,
JC Vitalis
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n Health SA Gesondheid - Referral criteria for school-based hearing screening in South Africa : considerations for resource-limited contexts
Background: School-based hearing screening is likely to be the first opportunity to identify childhood hearing loss in South Africa. Criteria for school-based hearing screening requires balancing the targeted degree of hearing loss while ensuring that referral rates are sufficiently low for a cost-effective and sustainable programme. The study aim was to investigate the effect of screening intensity (loudness) levels on the referral rate and to establish the effect of an immediate rescreen in reducing the referral rate.
Methods: A within-subject study was conducted in two phases. Phase 1: compared the referral rate in a counterbalanced sequence at screening levels of 20 dB HL, 25 dB HL and 30 dB HL across 1, 2 and 4 kHz for 135 children. Phase 2: determined the effect of an immediate rescreen on referral rate for 337 children screened at 25 dB HL. If a further referral was obtained on rescreen, diagnostic audiometry was subsequently conducted.
Results: Referral rate was reduced to 6.7% from 17% when using 25 dB HL as opposed to 20 dB HL as screening intensity. Referral rate was reduced to 4.4% when employing 30 dB HL as screening intensity. An immediate rescreen reduced the overall referral rate by more than one-third. Diagnostic audiometry confirmed that almost half (47%) of the referred children had a hearing loss.
Conclusion: A screening intensity of 25 dB HL and immediate rescreen reduces the referral rate significantly and will limit the burden of the screening programme on health care resources.
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M WAQAR..... "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary.Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." --Albert Einstein !!! NEWS,ARTICLES,EDITORIALS,MUSIC... Ze chi pe mayeen yum da agha pukhtunistan de.....(Liberal,Progressive,Secular World.)''Secularism is not against religion; it is the message of humanity.'' تل ده وی پثتونستآن
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Pakistan Shiites face rising militant attacks
Biden draws on personal tragedy at 9/11 memorial
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaks of his own personal tragedy at a 9/11 memorial event at the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site in Pennsylvania. Deborah Lutterbeck reports
Obama marks 9/11: 'This is never an easy day'
India makes history with 100th space mission
Scientists celebrate milestone mission with the launch of French and Japanese satellites via Indian space vehicle.India's national space organisation has marked its 100th mission by successfully launching two new satellites which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has lauded as a "spectacular success". Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) celebrated the launch of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C21 on Sunday as it blasted into the sky carrying a French observation satellite and a Japanese microsatellite. India has had an active space programme since the 1960s and has launched scores of satellites for itself and other countries. Singh congratulated the team at the ISRO at Sriharikota hailing the achievement as "a milestone in our nation's space capabilities". "India is justly proud of its space scientists, who have overcome immense odds to set up world class facilities and develop advanced technologies. We owe a great deal to pioneers like Dr Vikram Sarabhai and Prof Satish Dhawan," Singh said. Future missions India is one of the few developing countries with a space programme and the government has spent billions of dollars on the project. "I would also like to congratulate European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) Astrium of France and Osaka Institute of Technology of Japan for the successful launch of their satellites," Singh said. "The launch of these satellites on board an Indian launch vehicle is testimony to the commercial competitiveness of the Indian space industry and is a tribute to Indian innovation and ingenuity," the prime minister added. India has recently announced plans to join a small group of nations already exploring Mars by sending a satellite via an unmanned spacecraft to orbit the planet. A rocket will blast off from the south eastern coast of India, dropping the satellite into deep space, which will then travel to Mars to achieve orbit. The nation's space exploration programme has come a long way from its humble beginnings. When it was first established resources were so scarce that some scientists had to operate out of a cow shed. Four years ago, its Chandrayaan satellite found evidence of water on the moon and India is also looking at landing a wheeled rover on the Moon in 2014.
As 9/11 anniversary reminds us, national security always an issue
Performance of Punjab govt is zero
Chairman Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan has said that the performance of the Punjab government in the current tenure is zero. Addressing a press conference along with President PTI Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Central Secretary Information Shafqat Mehmood at party's central Information Cell on Sunday, Imran Khan said that contrary to the claims of the Punjab Government regarding the 3.4 per cent growth rate in province, the statistics showed that the real growth rate was 2.5 per cent. The deteriorating economic condition of the energy sector and other departments including agriculture, law and order situation, health and education had proved that the performance of the Punjab government was zero, Imran Khan said. Constitution does not restrict any province to produce energy, Punjab government did not produce even a single unit of electricity, he added. He said that the crime rate in Punjab had increased with the ratio of 12 per cent including a 37 per cent rise in dacoity incidents. To a question about the education policy of the Punjab government,he said that the closing down of the 5700 schools in Punjab was indicating the poor education policy of the Punjab government. The PTI Chairman said that the Punjab government wasted Rs21 billion on futile projects like rapid bus transit system while the budget of health and education was abysmal. He said that the people of Pakistan wanted change and PTI was the only party which could bring change in the country. He said that PTI was the first party which presented its economic agenda. He vowed to raise the tax network to build up the national economy. Commenting on the Local Government Ordinance in Sindh, he criticised it and rejected the ordinance.
Life under burqa inspired struggle for democracy
http://www.dw.deLiving conditions have improved in Afghanistan, especially for women. But many wonder what will happen when NATO troops leave in 2014. That year, Afghans also vote for their next president - who just might be a woman. Under the Taliban, she dreamed of being out in the streets of Kabul without a burqa. Life then was reduced to "looking at the huge world from the small window - that's how life was for a woman," Fawzia Koofi,
ISI considers US its worst enemy, says Dr Afridi
Chinese, Pakistani PMs reaffirm strengthening traditional friendship
Kurram people switch over to Afghan cellular service
DAWN.COMThe prolonged ban on cellular phone service and occurrence of technical fault in landlines have forced the dwellers of Kurram Agency to switch over to Afghan cellular service. The tribal people of Kurram have no other option but to use Afghan cellular companies' service as the government has imposed ban on services of Pakistani cellular phone companies since 2008. Presently MTN, Etisalat are operating in Afghanistan and its signals are active in Kurram Agency. "Users pay five times more to Afghan companies as compared to Pakistani cellular companies," an official told Dawn on condition of anonymity. He said that owing to road construction and sabotage activities the fibre optic cable had damaged at several points. "Presently we are using DRS system, which usually develops fault," the official said. Asif Ali, a resident of Kurram, told Dawn that the landline in his house always remains dead. He said that they were facing difficulties in contacting their relatives. "One of my brothers is a daily wager abroad and anther is a student in Peshawar so we have no other option but to use the service of Afghan cellular companies," he added. Political Agent Syed Shahab Ali Shah said that cellular phone service in Kurram had banned owing to its misuse in carrying out militant activities. He assured that soon the ban would be lifted and the service would be restored to facilitate tribal people.
Tourists are back in Swat valley
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Win a Trip to Tokyo from Brother Philippines
Win a Trip to Tokyo from Brother Philippines
Beginning December 8, 2013, you can submit entries to Brother's "10 for Tokyo!" challenge for a chance to win a trip to the capital city of Japan.
We've seen only a few details from Brother Philippines so far, but based on what's written on the official Facebook page, it should be a fun challenge. Interested parties need to print 10 words on 10 separate pieces of paper, telling Brother why you should be chosen to go to Tokyo, Japan.
More details and contest mechanics will be disclosed on www.brother10fortokyo.com by the end of the week. Till then, we suggest you begin getting your creative juices going, since this isn't a prize that comes by too often.


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Backup task: progress bar "time remaining" not at ALL accurate
Need to have reasonable estimations of how long a backup job will take, but ABR 10 is not providing accurate data in the job detail progress bar. I have seen in many threads over last year that there have been various permutations of the progress bar not indicating accurate or useful information. Acronis promised fixes in "next version" as per usual. I don't think it is fixed. I was long-time user of Acronis Echo Workstation, and earlier, and the progress indicator on those earlier versions would settle into a fairly accurate estimate of time remaining quite soon after a job started.
I am using the upgrade to Backup and Recovery 10 Workstation, (help "About" shows Agent (build 10.0.12457 which is the latest release.) My backups do not register accurate Time remaining, see attached image, which is 4 screenshots of progress bar at different times, combined together. Regardless of whether I use an internal, local drive or an external (USB or Firewire) drive, the progress bar does not show correct information. Usually, on larger backups, the Time remaining simply increases in parallel with the Time elapsed bar, clearly never being able to determine an accurate estimate. This is not trivial. Does anyone, using ANY current verision of Acronis (Home or Business) have accurate Time remaining indications?
This problem still exist in True Image 2016! I'm using Windows 10.
Just started using Acronis and while I do like the application, this baffles me too.
The estimate is just all over the place and just goes up and up. Except when its almost finished and still reports more than 30 minutes to go. And then it just finishes.
Very annoying ! I dont expect exact timing, but this is just ridiculous ...
Hello Michael,
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Generally backup progress depend of: data size, available disk IOPS, available HW and bandwidth resources. Since backup process is more like creating a ZIP archive, then accurate time estimation depend even on zlib algorithm, where compression is used. ( KB https://kb.acronis.com/content/16791) With lots of factors involved it's not always possible to show the accurate estimation, though the product team is constantly working on improvements in this field.
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Why Don't Miracles Happen More Often?
Podcast: Play in new window
Frank continues his series on Miracles by examining the very difficult question: Why Don't Miracles Happen More Often?
He opens this podcast talking about his dear friend and fellow apologist Nabeel Qureshi who converted from Islam to Christianity and was one of the most effective defenders of the Christian Faith, yet he died from stomach cancer at the young age of 34.
This is a podcast you don't want to miss.
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Get the first chapter of "Stealing From God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case" in PDF.


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The Yarmouth Art Society, which was founded in the 1950s and has a membership of 70, supports the construction of a new arts and cultural centre at the Collins Street downtown site.
Society president Margriet Knubben says the society has 230 interested parties on its web notification list, with members representing visual arts like painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpting, cinematography, fibre arts, mixed media and jewelry making.
"All of these artists could benefit from being able to participate in space and programs in a new centre," she said.
The art society is dedicated to bringing visual artists - amateur as well as professional – together to exchange ideas and information to promote art in the community by exhibitions, courses, workshops and other events open to the public. Children's art is also encouraged.
Th'YARC (Yarmouth Arts Regional Centre) is a facility managed by an executive board and has a membership of 512. YARC members receive a discount on seating in the theatre, sponsored workshops and at local businesses. YARC management would prefer to see a new arts & culture centre at its site on Parade Street.
At its June 24 meeting, the Yarmouth Art Society approved a document clarifying the relationship between the separate entities:
"It has come to our attention that the arts council (Th'YARC) is claiming that they represent artists and artisans in our community and, therefore, we collectively support a Parade Street facility. We did participate in the study done by the arts council when James Colbeck was president. However, we consciously said we support a new arts and cultural centre with no location implied."
The art society supports Th'YARC by having a membership, running a print facility and holding an annual show in the lobby.
It does not use the facility for meetings or workshops because of time or activity conflicts and lack of appropriate space.
The following comes from the minutes of the June 24 Yarmouth Art Society meeting:
"Using space at Th'YARC (a building) does not imply that we feel we are well represented and supported by the Yarmouth Arts Regional Council (an organization). The facts are that over the years the YAS has lost control of the gallery space which is now decorated as a theatre lobby, lost control of the upstairs arts room to storage, and lost representation on the board with the (James) Colbeck period restructuring.
"In addition there are no initiatives on the part of the council to support our society or any consultation with us on what our needs might be. We only represent a portion of the artists and artisans in our region but we think they are in the same position of not being represented by the arts council."
The Yarmouth Art Society has launched a membership drive and Knubben says they would love to involve more young people in the society.
"It gives them a great opportunity to show their work and participate in workshops and courses for minimum costs," she said.
The art society meets every month, (mostly the last Saturday) at 1 p.m. Meetings are held at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia on Main Street. The annual membership due is $15. The art society arranges for workshops in a variety of techniques and formats and has also coordinated courses of six to eight weeks in different media, taught by experienced and professional visual artists. Members qualify for a reduced workshop or course fee.
The art society has annual shows at the Yarmouth County Museum and Th'YARC. There are also shows at different locations in town, for instance, at Bread and Olives this fall. Members also have a chance to be featured at the Yarmouth Waterfront Gallery, visited by over 3,000 local people and tourists during its six-month season.
To become a member of YAC
For more information about membership in the Yarmouth Art Society, call 902 761 2181 or email


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S02E10: Is the violence of war more justifiable than the violence of terrorism?
Can we legitimize terrorism? What distinguishes an act of war from an act of terrorism? If wars can be just, can acts of terror be just too? Can we stipulate … Continue reading →
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Could it be? Did Mark (age 3) fall asleep for his nap, on the first try, and before 1 p.m.?
I am having some deliciously enjoyable time at my computer, so I sure hope he is asleep. Almost 1 1/2 hours until Adam gets home from school!
Could it be? Did Mark (age 3) fall asleep for his nap, on the first try, and before 1 p.m.?
I am having some deliciously enjoyable time at my computer, so I sure hope he is asleep. Almost 1 1/2 hours until Adam gets home from school!
Could it be happening? Is Mark (age 3) just going to fall asleep for his nap with no ifs, ands, or buts?
Is he getting back into the nap habit? That would be lovely. Even though I know it would last only a few days, maybe a week, at the most, it would be so nice for him to get back into the nap rhythm. That way, he will get more rested, and therefore sleep better at night (we have nicknamed him the Midnight Cryer lately, due to the crying he does at night when he's been over-tired), and I will get a break during the day, and I will have some hope of being able to plan (I use that word loosely) my day.
It gets pretty rough when I don't think he's going to need a nap, then I realize at 1 or 2 p.m. (perhaps in the middle of Target) that Oh crap, he does need a nap today! Or when I'm just sure he's having a nap kind of day, but then after lots of time and energy invested into making a nap happen, a nap does not in fact happen. At that point, I am more tired and crabby than ever, and Mark is also tired and crabby but wired and we have a good chunk of the day ahead of us.
Before I became a mom, and especially a mom of not-the-most-easygoing-child-in-the-world, I had no idea how exhausting and all-consuming something like The Nap could become. I suppose I thought that naps just happened, sort of like…. I dunno…. breathing. I had no idea how miserable things could become when a child is on the verge of needing to give up The Nap, but not quite there yet. Mark has been teetering on this edge for months now, and just when I think we're solidly in one camp or the other, things change yet again. It's hard enough to keep things straight in my own mind, never mind trying to keep Hubby or grandparents up to date.
Something about the last few weeks has made me lose my sense of self a bit more than usual. Maybe it's the severely messed-up preschool schedule for Mark (age 3), which has cut back the grown-up time I am accustomed to three mornings per week.
Ah well, Hubby is home from errands with the kids now. Wish I had time to write more.


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By: Truth Pills
This is your Patriot Act at work in America, I mean the New World Order. There's no such place as America according to President Bush. First, it will be North America Union (This will be a big issue on 2008 election), then the New World Order.
Bush doesn't think America should be an actual place
The police love the taser because it tortures you without killing you to show you who is the boss. The police says jump, you say how high. If you don't do what the police says, he will give you some taser. The police are having so much fun with the tasers, it's like the little boys with squirt guns.
Here's the articles and YouTube video. It was very difficult for me to watch this video without feeling angry and to plead for mercy.
UCLA Police Taser Student in Powell
Student to file suit in Taser incident
Taser Incident at UCLA Under Review
If you don't complain about these government injustices, they'll think it's okay. They'll turn up the heat a little bit at a time until you are cooked.


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By Andre Vltchek
August 3, 2017
It often appears that "true Afghanistan" is
not here in Kabul and not in Jalalabad or Heart either; not in the ancient
villages, which anxiously cling to the steep mountainsides.
Many foreigners and even Afghans are now
convinced that the "true" Afghanistan is only what is being shown on the
television screens, depicted in magazines, or what is buried deep in the
archives and libraries somewhere in London, New York or Paris.
It is tempting to think that the country
could be only understood from a comfortable distance, from the safety of one's
living room or from those books and publications decorating dusty bookshelves
and coffee tables all over the world.
"Afghanistan is dangerous," they say. "It
is too risky to travel there. One needs to be protected, escorted, equipped and
insured in order to function in that wild and lawless country even for one
single day, or just a few hours."
When it comes to Afghanistan, conditioned
Western 'rational brains' of tenure or emeritus professors (or call them the
'regime's intellectual gatekeepers') often get engaged, even intertwined with
those pathologically imaginative minds of the upper class 'refugees', the
'elites', and of course their offspring. After all, crème de la crème
'refugees' speak perfect English; they know the rules and nuances of the game.
The results of such 'productive interaction' are then imprinted into countless
books and reports.
Books of that kind become, in turn, what
could be easily defined as the 'official references', a 'certified way' to how
our world perceives a country like Afghanistan. Their content is being quoted
and recycled.
How often I heard, from the old veteran
opinion makers (even those from the 'left') – people that I actually used to
respect in the past:
"The Soviet era in Afghanistan was of
course terrible, but at least many girls there had access to the education…"
It is no secret that 'many girls had access
to education' in those distant days, but was it really "terrible", that era?
Was it "of course, terrible?" Baseless clichés like this are actually shaping
'public opinion', and can be much more destructive than the hardcore
Most of those old gurus never set foot in
Afghanistan, during the Soviet era or before, let alone after. All their
'experience' is second or third-hand, constructed mainly on sponging up
bitterness from those who betrayed their own country and have been
collaborating with the West, or at least on the confusion and mental breakdowns
of their children.
Based on such recycled unconfirmed 'facts',
bizarre theories are born. According to them, Afghanistan is 'officially'
wrecked; it is hopelessly corrupt; it is beyond salvation and repair. It is 'so
divided, ethnically and otherwise', that it can never function again as one
Then come liberals, and the children of
corrupt Afghan diplomats and exiled 'elites', who commonly justify their
passivity by blaming the entire world for the destruction of their nation:
"every country in the world just wants to harm Afghanistan, take shamelessly
advantage of it."
Naturally, if everybody is responsible,
than nobody truly is. Therefore, as expected, 'the grand conclusion' is –
"There is absolutely no hope." Everyone who can is trying to leave; who in his
or her right mind would want to dwell in such mayhem?"
Let's just write the entire place off!
Chapter closed. One of the greatest cultures on Earth is finished. Nothing can
be done about it. Goodbye, Afghanistan! Ciao, bella!
For some, especially for those who left the
country and slammed the door, it is a tempting and 'reassuring' way of looking
at the state of things. It justifies their earlier decision. If one accepts
such views, than nothing has to be done, because no matter what, things would
never improve, anyway. For many, especially for those who are benefiting (even
making careers) from doing absolutely nothing to save Afghanistan, such an
approach and such theories are actually perfect. Very little of it matters to them,
that almost all of this is total rubbish!
I never saw any of those professors from
the MIT or Cornell University anywhere near the dusty roads cutting through
Samar Khel or Charikar. I never saw any reporters from the Western mass media
outlets here, in the deepest villages that keep changing hands between Taliban
and the government forces, either. If they were here, I'd definitely spot them,
as they tend to travel 'in style', like some buffoons from bygone eras: wearing
ridiculous helmets, bulletproof vests, and PRESS insignias on all imaginable
and unimaginable parts of their bodies, while being driven around in armored
vehicles, often even with a full military escort.
It would be quite difficult to talk to
Afghan people looking like that. There is not much one could actually even see
from such an angle and perspective, but that's the only one they are choosing
to have, that is if they come here at all.
Let me back-track a bit: in case my readers
in the West or elsewhere have never heard about Samar Khel. Well, it is a dusty
town not far from Jalalabad, a former 'grave' for the Soviet forces and the
National Afghan Army. During the "Soviet era", the US and the Saudi-backed
Mujahedeen used to fire between 500 and 1,000 missiles from here, all directly
towards the city of Jalalabad, day after day.
It is very hard to imagine what went on and
what went wrong in Afghanistan during the 1980's, without feeling that 430C
heat of the desert, without chewing dust, without facing those bare, hostile mountains,
and without speaking to people who used to live here during 'those days', as
well as people who have been existing, barely surviving here now.
It is also absolutely impossible to
understand the Soviet Union and its 'involvement' in Afghanistan, without
driving through the countryside and all of a sudden spotting in some ancient
and god-forsaken village, a mighty and durable water duct built by Soviet
engineers several decades ago, with electricity towers and high voltage wires
still proudly spanning above.
By now I know that I don't want to write
another academic book. I wrote two of them, one about Indonesia and one about
that enormous sprawl of water dotted with fantastic but devastated islands and
atolls of the South Pacific – "Oceania". To write academic books is time
consuming and it is, in many ways, 'selfish'. The true story gets buried under
an avalanche of tedious facts and numbers, under footnotes and recycled quotes.
Once such a book is read and returned to its place on a shelf, no one is really
inspired or outraged, no one is terrified and no one is ready to build
barricades and fight.
But most academic books and are never even
read from cover to cover.
I see no point in writing books that
wouldn't inspire people to raise flags, to fight for their country and
I don't work in Afghanistan in order to
compile indexes and footnotes. I am there because the country itself is a
victim of the most brutal and ongoing imperialist destruction in modern
history. As an internationalist, I'm not here only to document; I'm here to
accuse and to confront the venomous Western colonialist narrative frontally.
Afghanistan is bleeding, assaulted and
terribly injured. Therefore it deserves to be fought for and not just to be
analyzed and described. No cold and detached historic accounts, no texts
written from a safe distance, can help this beautiful country to stand on its
own feet, to regain its pride and hope, and to fly as it used to in the not so
distant past.
It doesn't need more and more nihilism. On
the contrary, it is thirsting for optimism, for new friends, for hope.
Not all countries are the same. Even now,
Afghanistan has friends, true friends, no matter how much this fact is being
obscured by the Western propagandists, no matter how much pro-Western Afghan
elites are trying to prove otherwise.
This is not what you are supposed to be
reading. All remembrances of the "Soviet Era" in Afghanistan have been boxed
and then labelled as "negative", even "toxic". No discussion on the topic is
allowed in 'polite circles', at least in the West and in Afghanistan itself.
Afghanistan is where the Soviet Union was
tricked into, and Afghanistan is where the Communist superpower received its
final blow. 'The victory of capitalism over communism', the official Western
narrative shouted. A 'temporary destruction of all progressive alternatives for
our humanity', replied others, but mostly under their breath.
After the horrific, brutal and humiliating
period of Gorbachev/Yeltsin, Russia shrunk both geographically and
demographically, while going through indescribable agony. It haemorrhaged; it
was bathing in its own excrement, while the West celebrated its temporary
victory, dancing in front of the world map, envisioning the re-conquest of its
former colonies.
But in the end Russia survived, regained
its bearings and dignity, and once again became one of the most important
countries on Earth, directly antagonistic to the global Western imperialist
Afghanistan has never recovered. After the
last Soviet combat troops left the country in 1989, it bled terribly for years,
consumed by a brutal civil war. Its progressive government had to face the
monstrous terror of the Western and Saudi-backed Mujahedeen, with individuals
like Osama bin Laden in command of the Jihadi genocide.
Socialists, Communists, secularists as well
as almost all of those who were educated in the former Soviet Union or Eastern Bloc
countries, were killed, exiled, or muzzled for decades.
Most of those who settled in the West
simply betrayed; went along with the official Western narrative and dogma.
Even those individuals who still claimed to
be part of the left, repeated like parrots, their pre-approved fib:
"Perhaps the Soviet Union was not as bad as
the Mujahedeen, Taliban, or even the West, but it was really bad enough."
I heard these lines in London and
elsewhere, coming from several mouths of the corrupt Afghan 'elites' and their
children. From the beginning I was doubtful. And then my work, my journeys to
and through Afghanistan began. I spoke to dozens of people all over the
country, doing exactly what I was discouraged to do: driving everywhere without
an escort or protection, stopping in the middle of god-forsaken villages,
entering fatal city slums infested with narcotics, approaching prominent
intellectuals in Kabul, Jalalabad and elsewhere.
"Where are you from?" I was asked on many
"Russia," I'd reply. It was a gross
simplification. I was born in Leningrad, now St Petersburg, but an incredible
mixture of Chinese, Russian, Czech and Austrian blood circles through my veins.
Still, the name "Russia" came naturally to me, in the middle of Afghan deserts
and deep gorges, especially in those places where I knew that my life was
hanging on a thin thread. If I were to be allowed to utter one last word in
this life, "Russia" was what I wanted it to be.
But after my declaration, the faces of the
Afghan people would soften, unexpectedly and suddenly. "Welcome!" I'd hear
again and again. An invitation to enter humble homes would follow: an offer to
rest, to eat, or to just drink a glass of water.
'Why?' I often wondered. "Why?" I finally
asked my driver and interpreter, Mr. Arif, who became my dear friend.
"It's because in this country, Afghans love
Russian people," he replied simply and without any hesitation.
"Afghans love Russians?" I wondered. "Do
"Yes," he replied, smiling. "I do. Most of
our people here do."
Two days later I was sitting inside an
armoured UNESCO Land Cruiser, talking to a former Soviet-trained engineer, now
a simple driver, Mr. Wahed Tooryalai. He allowed me to use his name; he had no
fear, just accumulated anger, which he obviously wanted to get out of his
"When I sleep, I still sometimes see the
former Soviet Union in my dreams. After that, I wake up and feel happy for one
entire month. I remember everything I saw there, until now…"
I wanted to know what really made him so
happy 'there'.
Mr. Wahed did not hesitate:
"People! They are so kind. They are
welcoming… Russians, Ukrainians… I felt so much at home there. Their culture is
exactly like ours. Those who say that Russians 'occupied' Afghanistan have
simply sold out. The Russians did so much for Afghanistan: they built entire
housing communities like 'Makroyan', they built factories, even bakeries. In
places such as Kandahar, people are still eating Russian bread…"
I recalled the Soviet-era water pipes that
I photographed all over most of the humble Afghan countryside, as well as the
elaborate water canals in and around cities like Jalalabad.
"There is so much propaganda against the
Soviet Union," I said.
"Only the Mujahedeen and the West hate
Russians," Mr. Wahed explained. "And those who are serving them."
Then he continued:
"Almost all poor Afghan people would never
say anything bad about Russians. But the government people are with the West,
as well as those Afghan elites who are now living abroad: those who are buying
real estate in London and Dubai, while selling their own country…those who are
paid to 'create public opinion.'"
His words flowed effortlessly; he knew
precisely what he wanted to say, and they were bitter, but it was clearly what
he felt:
"Before and during the Soviet era, there
were Soviet doctors here, and also Soviet teachers. Now show me one doctor or
teacher from the USA or UK based in the Afghan countryside! Russians were
everywhere, and I still even remember some names: Lyudmila Nikolayevna… Show me
one Western doctor or nurse based here now. Before, Russian doctors and nurses
were working all over the country, and their salaries were so low… They spent
half on their own living expenses, and the other half they distributed amongst
our poor… Now look what the Americans and Europeans are doing: they all came
here to make money!"
I recall my recent encounter with a
Georgian combatant, serving under the US command at the Bagram base. Desperate,
he recalled his experience to me:
"Before Bagram I served at the Leatherneck
US Base, in Helmand Province. When the Americans were leaving, they even used
to pull out concrete from the ground. They joked: "When we came here, there was
nothing, and there will be nothing after we leave…" They prohibited us from
giving food to local children. What we couldn't consume, we had to destroy, but
never give to local people. I still don't understand, why? Those who come from
the US or Western Europe are showing so much spite for the Afghan people!"
What a contrast!
Mr. Wahed recalled how the Soviet legacy
was abruptly uprooted:
"After the Taliban era, we were all poor.
There was hunger; we had nothing. Then the West came and began throwing money
all around the place. Karzai and the elites kept grabbing all that they could,
while repeating like parrots: "The US is good!" Diplomats serving Karzai's
government, the elites, they were building their houses in the US and UK, while
people educated in the Soviet Union couldn't get any decent jobs. We were all
blacklisted. All education had to be dictated by the West. If you were educated
in the USSR, Czechoslovakia, East Germany or Bulgaria, they'd just tell you
straight to your face: Out with you, Communist! At least now we are allowed to
at least get some jobs… We are still pure, clean, never corrupt!"
"Do people still remember?" I wonder.
"Of course they do! Go to the streets, or
to a village market. Just tell them: "How are you my dear?" in Russian. They'd
immediately invite you to their homes, feed you, embrace you…"
I tried a few days later, in the middle of
the market… and it worked. I tried in a provincial town, and it worked again. I
finally tried in a Taliban-infiltrated village some 60 kilometres from Kabul,
and there it didn't. But I still managed to get away.
I met Mr. Shakar Karimi in Pole Charkhi
Village. A local patriarch, he used to be a district chief in Nangarhar
I asked him, what the best system ever
implemented in modern Afghanistan was?
First he spoke about the Khan dynasty, but
then referred to a left-wing Afghan leader, who was brutally tortured and
murdered by Taliban after they entered Kabul in 1996:
"If they'd let Dr. Najib govern in peace,
that would have been the best for Afghanistan!"
I asked him about the Soviet invasion in
"They came because they were given wrong
information. The first mistake was to enter Afghanistan. The second, fatal
mistake was to leave."
"What was the main difference between the
Russians and Westerners during their engagement in Afghanistan?"
"The Russian people came predominately to
serve, to help Afghanistan. The relationship between Russians and Afghans was
always great. There was real friendship and people were interacting, even
having parties together, visiting each other."
I didn't push him further; didn't ask what
was happening now. It was just too obvious. "Enormous walls and high voltage
wires," would be the answer. Drone zeppelins, weapons everywhere and an
absolute lack of trust… and the shameless division between the few super rich
and the great majority of the desperately poor… the most depressed country on
the Asian continent.
Later I asked my comrade Arif, whether all
this was really true?
"Of course!" He shouted, passionately.
"100% true. The Russians built roads, they built homes for our people, and they
treated Afghans so well, like their brothers. The Americans never did anything
for Afghanistan, almost nothing. They only care about their own benefits."
"If there would be a referendum right now,
on a simple question: 'do you want Afghanistan to be with Russia or with the
United States, the great majority would vote for Russia, never for the US or
Europe. And you know why? I'm Afghan: when my country is good, then I'm happy.
If my country is doing bad, then I suffer! Most people here, unless they are
brainwashed or corrupted by the Westerners, know perfectly well what Russia did
for this country. And they know how the West injured our land."
Of course this is not what every single
Afghan person thinks, but most of them definitely do. Just go and drive to each
and every corner of the country, and ask. You are not supposed to, of course.
You are told to be scared to come here, to roam through this "lawless" land.
And you are not supposed to go directly to the people. Instead you are expected
to recycle the writings of toothless, cowardly academics, as well as servile
mass media reports. If you are liberal, you are at least expected to say:
"there is no hope, no solution, no future."
At Goga Manda village, the fighting between
the Taliban and government troops is still raging. All around the area, the
remnants of rusty Soviet military hardware can be found, as well as old
destroyed houses from the "Soviet era" battles.
The Taliban is positioned right behind the
hills. Its fighters attack the armed forces of Afghanistan at least once a
Almost 16 years after the NATO invasion and
consequent occupation of the country, this village, as thousands of other
villages in Afghanistan, has no access to electricity, and to drinking water.
There is no school within walking distance, and even a small and badly equipped
medical post is far from here, some 5 kilometers away. Here, an average family
of 6 has to survive on US$130 dollars per month, and that's only if some
members are actually working in the city.
I ask Mr. Rahmat Gul, who used to be a
teacher in a nearby town, whether the "Russian times" were better.
He hesitated for almost one minute, and
then replied vaguely:
"When the Russians were here, there was
lots of shooting… It was real war… People used to die. During the jihad period,
the Mujahedeen were positioned over there… they were shooting from those hills,
while Soviet tanks were stationed near the river. Many civilians were caught in
the crossfire."
As I got ready to ask him more questions,
my interpreter began to panic:
"Let's go! Taliban is coming."
He's always calm. When he gets nervous, I
know it is really time to run. We ran; just stepping on the accelerator and
driving at breakneck speed towards the main road.
Before we parted, Mr. Wahed Tooryalai grabbed
my hand. I knew he wanted to say something essential. I waited for him to
formulate it. Then it came, in rusty but still excellent Russian:
"Sometimes I feel so hurt, so angry. Why
did Gorbachev abandon us? Why? We were doing just fine. Why did he leave us? If
he hadn't betrayed us, life in Afghanistan would be great. I wouldn't have to
be a UN driver… I used to be the deputy director of an enormous bread factory,
with 300 people working there: we were building our beloved country, feeding
it. I hope Putin will not leave us."
Then he looked at me, straight into my
eyes, and suddenly I got goose bumps as he spoke, and my glasses got foggy:
"Please tell Mr. Putin: do hold our hand,
as I'm now holding yours. Tell him what you saw in my country; tell him that we
Afghans, or at least many of us, are still straight, strong and honest people.
All this will end, and we will send the Americans and Europeans packing. It
will happen very soon. Then please come and stand by us, by true Afghan
patriots! We are here, ready and waiting. Come back, please."
Andre Vltchek is a philosopher, novelist, filmmaker and investigative
journalist. He has covered wars and conflicts in dozens of countries. Three of
his latest books are revolutionary novel "Aurora" and two bestselling works of
political non-fiction: "Exposing Lies Of The Empire" and "Fighting Against
Western Imperialism". View his other books here. Andre is making films for
teleSUR and Al-Mayadeen. Watch Rwanda Gambit, his groundbreaking documentary
about Rwanda and DRCongo. After having lived in Latin America, Africa and
Oceania, Vltchek presently resides in East Asia and the Middle East, and
continues to work around the world.
URL: http://www.newageislam.com/war-on-terror/andre-vltchek/afghanistan's-lies,-myths-and-legends-–-part-one/d/112081
"It is no secret
that 'many girls had access to education' in those distant days, but was it
really "terrible", that era?"
The above "hardcore
propaganda" could also be questioned about many countries in the Middle East...
Was it really "terrible?"!


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This program delivers free admission to the Evansville Museum and to lectures, family activities, workshops, and other fun activities every Thursday. This program is made possible with a generous grant from the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana.
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Chances are, you understand the value of life insurance. In the event a loved one dies, coverage can help pay off final expenses, debts and loans; provide steady income for a period of time; fund college tuition and more. However, according to LIMRA, only six in 10 Americans own life insurance*.
In a continued effort to promote the importance of Life Insurance awareness, NEA Member Benefits would like to help debunk six common myths about life insurance coverage:
1. Only breadwinners need life insurance. If you're not the main wage earner in your family, you might think you don't need coverage. Think again. Even if you're not the breadwinner, you still earn valuable income or provide services to the household. Stay-at-home parents perform tasks that will either need to be supplemented or replaced. The breadwinner might also need to work less or take a different job while the family adjusts to a one-parent household.
2. Investing my money is a smarter move than buying life insurance. If you have a million dollars in liquid assets, then you might not need life insurance; however, relying solely on your investments can be risky, especially if you have children or a spouse who depend on your income.
3. You don't need more coverage than your district provides. School districts, like many employers, may provide a great free or low-cost supplement. However, these policies may not provide enough coverage for most situations.
4. I don't need life insurance if I don't have dependents. Upon passing, funeral expenses, medical bills and debts are transferred to the next of kin. Having coverage will help protect your legacy by helping to ensure you don't leave a financial burden for your loved ones.
5. Life insurance is expensive. Many people overestimate the cost of life insurance. When you're researching what kind of policy to purchase, think about why you need the coverage and what the money would replace. Depending on your answers, a lower-cost plan that carries minimum coverage might be ideal for you. Make sure you compare quotes to ensure you're getting the best deal. Know that the buying power of large groups, like the National Education Association, can help make coverage more affordable.
6. I'm healthy. I don't need life insurance. The best time to buy life insurance is when you are young and healthy. Premiums only increase as you age and have more health problems. And even if you are healthy, you never know when the unexpected, such as a car crash, can happen.
Keep in mind that all insurance is not alike. A financially sound company will more likely be there to pay claims when needed. You can click here to view the insurance programs offered by NEA Members Insurance Trust, and learn more about this coverage designed with NEA Members and their families in mind.
* Source: http://www.limra.com/uploadedFiles/limra.com/LIMRA_Root/Posts/PR/_Media/PDFs/2015-LIAM-Fact-Sheet.pdf, LIMRA website, 2015
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From April 2018's Jazz Journal
"Meagher's the most interesting new guitarist on the scene since Pat Metheny. Any resemblance tends to be fleeting. The north-westerner uses more blues and fewer country-rock inflections than Pat, but brings the same depth of detail and the same ability to spin out single-note lines with unflagging imagination and originality. 'Heart-Whole' is the freshest and most sheerly exhilarating thing you'll hear this season, but the clue to Meagher's art is probably the self-titled track, right before as unexpected, twangy reprise of the Rio-tinged opener. It might seem odd to name a tune after yourself, but it was originally written and named for saxophonist Matt Otto, who took a look at it, nipped out its more pretentious elements and sent it back. Its 'Inner Urge' lineage is immediately evident, but it's a perfect example of how lyrically Meagher writes, even in odd-numbered time-signatures.
Meagher likes to model himself on Peter Bernstein rather than Metheny, and there is something of the New Yorker's Criss Cross masterpiece, 'Heart's Content', about 'Lost Days.' Bernstein had Brad Mehldau on the strength; Meagher has George Colligan, who's absolutely no slouch, either. Writing and playing are alike skillful, complex in tone and (thanks to Otto) unfussy. The bouzouki on 'Lost Days' was added in post-production and offers solid proof that this is a guy who now knows exactly how to get and sustain his intended sound. McHenry, Higgins, and Ferber offer unfailling support." - Brian Morton


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Everybody knows beards are trendy. Why are beards so obviously trendy? Well, I have a beard and I'm a trend setter so they must be in vogue. That being said, if you want to maintain your fashionable facial hair, you're going to need the hottest beard trimmer there is. We here at The Trendliest recommend using the Remington MB-400 Titanium Precision Pro Rechargeable Vacuum Mustache & Beard Trimmer .
While it's name might be a little on the long side that doesn't mean your fuzz has to be. The Titanium boasts 9 preset lengths to make sure your goatee is good to go and that your five o'clock shadow doesn't resemble midnight muttonchops. Our "Trendly" recommendation, stick to the 3 or 4 preset. Anything less and you'll look like Mickey Rourke; anything more and you may run the risk of looking like former WWF Superstar Hillbilly Jim or one of the guys from ZZ Top whose last name isn't Beard. The Titanium beard trimmer also has a neat vacuum feature that sucks up the hair you just shaved and sometimes flings it around the proximity of your sink…assuming you're standing over your sink, making for easy disposal as you wash away your former bristles down the drain. That's convenient and downright Trendly!
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The growing energy boom in the United States will make it the largest global oil producer by the end of the decade, temporarily exceeding Saudi Arabia, and a top exporter of natural gas, according to a new report. Released Monday, the International Energy Agency (IEA), a French research group for oil-importing nations, published data showing that by 2030, the United States will be energy self-sufficient on net and North America will become a net oil exporter.
"North America is at the forefront of a sweeping transformation in oil and gas production that will affect all regions of the world, yet the potential also exists for a similarly transformative shift in global energy efficiency," asserted IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven. "This year's World Energy Outlook shows that by 2035, we can achieve energy savings equivalent to nearly a fifth of global demand in 2010. In other words, energy efficiency is just as important as unconstrained energy supply, and increased action on efficiency can serve as a unifying energy policy that brings multiple benefits."
Not since 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell and the "peace dividend" of military spending cuts was propelled, has the United States derived such an abrupt economic boost. According to the IEA report, as long as "fracking" technology — a hydraulic drilling technique that injects water, sand, and chemicals deep underground to crack shale rock formations and extract oil and natural gas — is determined environmentally safe, the rush in unconventional oil and natural gas will offer exceptional benefits to the U.S. economy, including, according to the Christian Science Monitor,
• Jobs: The sector currently supports 1.7 million workers directly and indirectly and that will rise to nearly 3 million by 2020, according to IHS Global Insight, an economic forecasting firm based in Lexington, Mass. Many of those jobs will become available in some of the most rural and, until recently, economically depressed areas of the US.
• Infrastructure spending: Wells will have to be drilled; pipelines and railroads built. In all, IHS Global Insight expects the US to spend more than $5.1 trillion in capital expenditures between 2012 and 2035 on unconventional oil and natural gas activity. That's a huge surge of investment. Nearly $3 trillion will be devoted to natural gas alone.
• Trade balance: Currently, the US relies on imports for 20 percent of its energy needs. Last year, as the world's largest oil importer, it spent a net $327 billion to bring in foreign oil. As the US moves toward energy efficiency, that's money that will no longer be spent overseas and will flow, instead, largely to domestic producers.
• A boom in gas production: Low prices and huge amounts of supply will increase natural gas use to the point that by around 2030 it overtakes oil as the dominant fuel in America's energy mix, according to the IEA forecast. With gas plants cheaper to run than coal-fired facilities, natural gas is already starting to supplant coal to produce electricity. But how much the surge in unconventional gas undercuts the future growth in coal depends, in part, on what happens in other parts of the world. At the moment, the US is exporting coal to Europe because it's cheaper than higher-priced natural gas on the continent.
The IEA details the strategic advantages of this energy revolution, one being that the country will become far less vulnerable to foreign oil embargoes, natural disaster disruptions, or other interruptions in energy supplies. The environmental impact of the U.S. energy surge will spur a transition from coal to cleaner natural gas, helping to slash carbon dioxide emissions in the first quarter of 2012 to levels not experienced since 1992.
Still, environmentalist groups and many liberal Democrats are not satisfied with this transition to cleaner fuel. Instead, they contend that increasingly scarce oil supplies, which would make conventional energy sources more expensive, will make so-called "green" energy alternatives cost-competitive, leading to a more dramatic cut in emissions.
However, according to the IEA report, a rapid expansion in renewables hinges heavily on continued government subsidies, which in 2011 amounted to a towering $88 billion. From now until 2035, the report notes, government subsidies for renewable energy would have to exceed $4.8 trillion, and more than half of this sum has already been committed to current projects or is being used to reach 2020 targets.
The IEA's analysis remains contingent on U.S. energy policy, especially those policies dealing with regulations on domestic energy producers. Burdensome government rules on fracking and other unconventional energy-extraction methods would likely curb these projections, which would sustain vulnerabilities in America's national security while keeping energy prices high.
"Security always trumps economics in U.S. foreign policy," notes David Goldwyn, a former U.S. State Department special envoy for international energy affairs. "The country's commitment to global security and its vulnerability to global oil prices will keep Washington engaged for the foreseeable future."


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Product Information of The Last Ship Seasons 1-3 DVD Box Set
Actors: Michael Sheen, Lizzy Caplan
Format: Multiple Formats, Box set, Subtitled, NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French
Dubbed: French
Region: Region Free
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Number of discs: 9
Rated: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment
DVD Release Date: 2016
The Nathan James is trapped between a sub and the civilian blockades set up by the Immunes; Chandler sends Dr. Scott and the cure off the ship under Slattery's protection. The Nathan James engages the Immune sub, the Achilles but exhausts all of its ammunition for all but the ship's forward cannon which is a surface weapon. Recognizing this, the Nathan James lures the Achilles near shore,The Last Ship Seasons 1-3 DVD forcing the Achilles to the surface and rendering it vulnerable to the Nathan James cannon. The Achilles is nearly able to fire torpedoes before the Nathan James is ready, but Slattery, Tex and Green take over an Immune shore missile battery and fire upon the Achilles. Three teams are dispatched to carry out these varied tasks. While there, they come under attack by escaped Al-Qaeda prisoners and enlist the help of a grizzled private contractor who's been surviving for weeks.


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Alton School District announces new start, end times
Changes made to accommodate paired schools
ALTON — Alton School District officials has announced proposed start and end times for next year – part of the planning for the new paired elementary school system.
The district is moving to paired elementary schools, with one school in each pair serving kindergarten through first grade, and the other second to fifth. The move is a cost-saving measure, and is expected to save the district more than $560,000 annually.
The new times will allow the district to run a single bus for both the primary and intermediate school routes in the pairings, as well as give parents who might have children in multiple schools a chance to drop their children off.
"It took some time, but we worked with administrators," said Superintendent Kenneth Spells. "We also took a good look at the survey."
The survey was sent out to parents earlier this year, and dealt specifically with start times and bus schedules.
"We tried to take into consideration parents, staff and bus schedules," Spells said.
The only major changes are Alton Middle School will start and end 15 minutes earlier, and the start times for primary and intermediate schools will be split, with intermediate schools starting 15 minutes before primary schools.
Start and end times are expected to be: Alton High School, 8:45 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.; Alton Middle School, 8:45 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.; primary schools, 8:15 a.m. to 2:40 p.m.; intermediate schools, 8 a.m. to 2:25 p.m.; early childhood morning classes, 8:25 a.m. to 10:55 a.m. with afternoon classes 12:25 p.m. to 2:55 p.m. and the Motivational Achievement Center, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
The pairings mean North Elementary students would move to Lewis and Clark Elementary, Gilson Brown to West Elementary with Eunice Smith and East Elementary going to Lovejoy Elementary.
Spells said the last "big piece" the district is working on are student placement letters. He noted that there were some minor changes in school boundaries.
"They will be mailed next week," he said.
The actual move will begin as soon as school is out for the summer.
Affected teachers will have to pack up their classrooms. Movers will take those materials to the new buildings, and teachers will then have to reassemble their classrooms.
Spells said they have a lot to do in a short time, and all of that must be coordinated with the normal extensive cleaning and maintenance work done over the summer.
Reach reporter Scott Cousins at 618-208-6447.


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Erekat Denies Reports Abbas Agreed to Concede on Borders
JERICHO, June 25, 2013 (WAFA - PO news agency) – Reports that President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to make concessions on the 1967 borders are unfounded, said member of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its negotiator Saeb Erekat on Tuesday...He said Abbas is holding on to the two-state solution on the 1967 borders.
If "territorial compromise" is the basis, why won't they compromise?
Israel has to do all the compromising?
I was always taught - never get caught in a compromising situation.


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A gorgeous gentle but energising practice that is suited to all trimesters, especially as you come into the later stages of your pregnancy. Take some time to up the entire body and to connect with breath and bub.
Props: cushions/blocks for savasana
Produced by Paula Lay & Mischa Baka
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Get another chance to get your face into Max Payne's multiplayer
posted: 7/5/2012 1:33:00 PM
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It's bad enough that your avatar gets shot in the face on a near constant basis when you play online multiplayer. That wasn't enough for
Max Payne 3
, however. They wanted your literal face to be the one constantly shot full of graphic holes, and they did this by selecting random people that use Twitter, then putting the ones that didn't have puke-faces in the game as avatars.
"But that promotion ended months ago", you say.
"It's back, I respond."
That's right. According to the Rockstar newswire, they will be once again trolling for those of you without puke-faces to help round out their stable of avatar face-skins. This time, however, instead of trolling Twitter, they'll be trolling their own multiplayer with special
Max Payne 3
multiplayer events. Twice a week, for the next four weeks, you'll find them under the new "Social Club Event Playlist" heading. You'll have to complete one full game with a Social Club-linked account first, then you'll be automatically considered.
For full details, you can check out the article
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