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Accident sets off protest by Thousands
Thousands of residents protested in the southeastern Chinese city of Fuan after a traffic accident, smashing police cars and overturning three police vans, police and residents said. The reason for the protest was unclear. Police said it was instigated by "a handful of lawless people." One resident said people became angry because police and paramedics took nearly an hour to arrive to help the injured. The Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, a Hong Kong-based human rights group, said it was to do with corruption. Such protests have become increasingly common in China, and Saturday's violence is another reminder that the country's new leadership has to deal with underlying social discontent that often boils over. People are fed up with corruption and high-handed officialdom, pensions that have not kept pace with inflation, and families being forced from their homes to make way for developments.
Astronauts return from space station
Three astronauts touched down today in the dark, chilly expanses of central Kazakhstan onboard a Soyuz capsule after a 125-day stay at the International Space Station. NASA's Sunita Williams, Russian Yury Malenchenko and Aki Hoshide of Japan's JAXA space agency landed northeast of the town of Arkalyk. Three astronauts remain onboard the station and are to be joined by an incoming trio late next month.
Greece needs more aid, banker says
Greece will need yet more international financial assistance beyond the agreed bailout programs through 2014, a European Central Bank board member said Sunday. The government in Athens probably won't be able to return to finance its debt on financial markets in 2015 and 2016, thus requiring another assistance program, Joerg Asmussen of Germany told German public broadcaster ZDF. Many of Greece's partners in the 17-nation eurozone oppose granting it more funds.
Missing worker from oil rig sought
The owner of an oil platform that caught fire after an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico last week said Sunday that it has expanded its search for a missing worker. Three dive boats are working around the burned platform and Plaquemines Parish sheriff's deputies are checking beaches, Black Elk Energy of Houston said. Doctors said one man burned in Friday's fire is in fair condition, one is in serious condition and two are in critical condition.
Egypt: The new pope of the Orthodox Coptic church was enthroned on Sunday in an elaborate ceremony lasting nearly four hours.
Jordan: The military prosecutor has charged 89 activists with inciting revolt after protests last week, an official said Sunday.
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German Vocal Ensemble Singer Pur Performs "Fields of Gold" November 10
October 25, 2013
Recital Program Sweeps Through Nine Centuries of Vocal Music
Middlebury, VT—The Middlebury College Performing Arts Series will host the internationally-acclaimed vocal ensemble Singer Pur for an afternoon recital on Sunday, November 10 at 3:00 P.M. at the Mahaney Center for the Arts. The a cappella recital program, entitled "Fields of Gold: Vocal Music through the Centuries," will span nearly a thousand years of music, starting in the middle ages with works by composer Hildegard von Bingen; moving on to the Renaissance with music by Palestrina and Orlando di Lasso; then on to the Romantic era with songs by Brahms and Schumann, and finally arriving in the 20th century with works by Irving Berlin and Sting, among others.
The Group's History
Singer Pur is renowned as the world's leading German-speaking vocal group. The group was founded in 1992 by five former members of Germany's famous Regensburger Domspatzen Cathedral boys' choir. A fortunate love affair brought a soprano into their ranks, resulting in a vocal sextet with an unusual combination of voices (a soprano, three tenors, a baritone, and a bass). Singer Pur won first prize in the 1994 Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, and the 1995 Grand Prix for vocal ensembles at the international Tampere Music Festival in Finland. Since then, their international career has included numerous television and radio appearances, CD recordings, invitations to major festivals, and concerts in over 40 countries. In 2013, Singer Pur was awarded the prestigious Caecilia Prize (Belgium) and the Bavarian State Prize for Music (Germany).
Style and Sound
Singer Pur's repertoire defies easy categorization. Their performances resist stylistic limitations, boasting "anything performable by voices from medieval times to the avant-garde." Their work also spans several new compositions and arrangements written specifically for the group, improvisation, and collaborations with a diverse group of musical partners, including the well-known early music vocal group The Hilliard Ensemble, composer and jazz clarinet player Michael Riessler, and the young clarinet player David Orlowsky, plus orchestras such as the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and the Sinfonieorchester des WDR Cologne. Their signature sound has caught the ear of critics and audiences worldwide. Ivan Hewett of BBC Music Magazine noted, "What seizes the ear are the thick weaves of counterpoint, and the dense and dissonant harmonies. To make this music speak the singers need a razorsharp sense of pitch and a focused, pure tone, which the young German vocal sextet, Singer Pur, certainly have."
Recordings and Awards
Singer Pur's discography consists of 20 CDs, several of which have received awards, including two Choc de l'Année awards by the French music magazine Le Monde de la Musique, and three ECHO Klassiks awards (2005, 2007, and 2011). In 2008, Singer Pur received the Culture Award of the City of Regensburg. One of its two volumes with arrangements by and dedicated to Singer Pur was honored as "best edition of the year" during the 2009 Frankfurter Musikmesse.
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For several years Singer Pur has supported young musicians taking part in its international workshops for Europa Cantat, AMJ and Rhapsody in School. In 2013, Singer Pur performs in eight different countries including four workshops for vocal ensembles in the United States.
The Middlebury College Performing Arts Series concert by Singer Pur will take place on Sunday, November 10, 2013, at 3:00 P.M., in the Concert Hall of the Kevin P. Mahaney '84 Center for the Arts. The Mahaney Center is located on the Middlebury College campus, at 72 Porter Field Road in Middlebury, just off Route 30 south. Free parking is available. Tickets are $20 for the general public; $15 for Middlebury College faculty, staff, alumni, emeriti, and other ID card holders; and $6 for Middlebury College students. For more information, call (802) 443-MIDD (6433) or go to http://go.middlebury.edu/arts.
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Milpitas woman found dead in overturned car
(05-04) 18:34 PDT Milpitas -- A 63-year-0ld Milpitas woman was found dead Friday in her overturned car at the bottom of a 250-foot embankment near Milpitas after she failed to navigate a turn in the road, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Exactly what caused the 2003 white Saturn SL4 to drive off Calaveras Road north of Felter Road in rural Santa Clara County is unclear, authorities said.
There are no known witnesses to the crash. The CHP said it was alerted shortly before 6 p.m. Friday after a passerby spotted the wrecked car. Investigators believe the woman had crashed 24 to 72 hours before her car was found.
The woman, whose name was not released pending notification of her family, was believed to have been driving north on Calaveras Road at an unknown speed when she "failed to negotiate the curvature of the road," according to a CHP statement.
The car plunged down a 250-foot embankment, overturned and eventually came to rest on its roof in a ravine east of Calaveras road, the CHP said.
The cause of the crash, including whether drugs or alcohol were involved, is under investigation, the CHP said.
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Benefit - How to look the best at everything!
Benefit have done it again. That's all I can say. I received this Benefit set from some lovely family friends for my birthday and I love everything in it.
It comes with 4 face products including Porefessional, Hello flawless foundation and powder, and Boi-ing concealers (X2). My set is in the shade light is you were interested, I am as a pale as an alpaca.
Porefessional was on my wish list ever since it came out, there was so much hype over it and of course being a blogger I wanted to see what it was all about. I have used this several times and it defiantly lives up to it. It makes my face feel unbelievably smooth, and minimises the look of my disgusting pores really well! 10 out of 10 Benefit, well done!
Hello flawless foundation and powder was a great discovery as well, I say discovery even though 90% of bloggers own and have reviewed this. The foundation has great coverage, stays on really well. The only con is that the powder doesn't keep my oily skin matte for every long. So that would be my only negative.
Concealer is something I love, I don't know whether I've mentioned that before but I really do. My all-time favourite is of course the much-loved Collection (no longer 2000) lasting perfection concealer, but this Boi-ing concealer is just as good, maybe even better. I love the way it looks once applied, lasts all day and I mean all day. The colour match is great, I use 01 for under my eyes and 02 for blemishes. This was defiantly my favourite product out of the set!
I absolutely love this set, and doesn't actually belong in my makeup storage its just permanently on my desk waiting to be used aha! It is just over the £20 mark but is worth every penny.
This week has just been mental. Homework, homework and more homework. That's the only way I can sum up this week. I popped into town this morning but didn't pick up anything, shock horror. The rest of the day was spent doing revision, and sipping on hot blackcurrant one after another. They're my addiction *sips hot blackcurrent*. How's your week been?
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Details: Illustrated (B/W), Boxed Set, 8.5 x 11" 2 lbs
Containing ten books, this is an early intervention program for children with communication disorders such as specific language impairment, developmental verbal dyspraxia, pervasive developmental disorder, and autism spectrum disorder. The program provides multidisciplinary intervention to children, in the age range of 0-6 years, with the goal of integrating them into regular school by the school entry age of 6 years.
The complete set includes nine intervention manuals for toddlers and preschoolers that target skill building in children across the domains of motor skills (gross, fine and activities of daily living), communication (receptive and expressive language as well as Alternate and Augmentative Communication) and cognitive, social and emotional development. Lesson plans for each skill are described with clear targets, materials required and simple instructions along with illustrations. An additional program manual with checklists describes this process, the underlying rationale and what the program is all about.
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Our moneymaking plans for this holiday
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- Only eight pupils came accompanied by their parents who begged us to admit them with a promise to pay before end of the holidays.
If wishes were horses, I would be a beggar riding one – in London.
You see, had things gone as expected, this August, I was supposed to be leading a high-powered delegation of Mwisho wa Lami people in London.
Unfortunately, something happened, and I am here for holidays, without much to do.
Many years ago, we would be doing holiday tuition, but you know this government, it banned tuition.
Students were happy because they would now get some rest; parents were happy since they wouldn't be asked to pay anymore. The only people who did not like the ban were the HMs like Bensouda.
Although she never teaches any class, during holidays, she would come to school every day – to collect money.
This money however never reached us. She would then claim that Mwisho wa Lami parents never pay. "Mwisho wa Lami parents walirogwa (bewitched), they never pay fees."
Following the ban of holiday tuition, our performance has been going down year in year out.
Every term a teacher suggests that we do holiday tuition, but the idea is shot down. Even last term. This term, the suggestion came from some parents – through Bensouda.
Bensouda asked me to introduce the motion in a staff meeting. I did not feel like it, but how could I go against Bensouda?
"I agree with Dre, we should give it a try in August for one week and [see] if it works," she said, after I had introduced the topic.
"That will only happen under my dead body," said Saphire. "I don't want to be arrested."
"I will be visiting my husband in Nairobi this August, so count me out," said Mrs Atika. "I think we need to give it a try. All of us will be happy if our school emerges top in KCPE," I added.
Saphire laughed out loud. "Dre, don't pretend you are concerned how we perform in KCPE."
"Do you think anyone will remember you even if we perform well?" wondered Madam Ruth.
The matter proceeded for voting and only Bensouda, Kuya and I voted for it. The nays had it. A day before schools closed, Lena and I talked.
"Dre, although we refused to teach during holidays," she started, "I agree with you that most parents are still interested in tuition. What do we do?"
When I told her we could not do much, she said: "Since many of these parents are willing to pay and we can't assist them here, why don't we think about starting our own private tuition at home?"
I told her that I didn't think it was a good idea. "Dre, we will make money; I tell you," she said.
That evening, I carried out an opinion poll to establish if parents would be interested in holiday tuition.
"You teachers should have holiday preps," Nyayo told me as soon as I arrived at Hitler's for evening classes. I told him that the government had banned tuition.
"We are not ready to sit with the children at home," said Alphayo. "You teachers should deal with them. Si mnalipwa?"
"Me, there is no way I will sit with this rude boy around," said Rasto. "I am ready to pay anyone to be with that rascal over the holidays."
The evening the school closed, I went to see Lena and told her that the Holiday tuition opportunity was massive.
"I told you!" she exclaimed. I suggested we do tuition from Class One to Eight.
"Don't invite everyone," Lena advised. "Let us focus on Class Six to Eight only so that we are taken seriously."
That evening, we started arrangements to open the tuition centre: Dre-Lena Academic Ventures.
Since my former house in my father's compound was unused, we converted two rooms into classrooms. We procured another room from my brother Ford's simba.
I wrote a few posters which I placed at strategic places in Mwisho wa Lami and Lena and I informed any parents that we met about our tuition plans.
Our charges were very modest: Sh400 per student per week for Class Eight and Sh300 for Class Six and Seven.
We put up a large blackboard in my parents' home: Drelena Academic Campus: Experts in holiday tuition, exam setting, marking; and mock revision.
Come last Monday, only eight pupils came accompanied by their parents who begged us to admit them with a promise to pay before end of the holidays.
We admitted the pupils and started the tuition in earnest. On that day, we put all in one classroom.
On hearing that we had allowed pupils who did not have money, more students came on Tuesday. In total, I think we had about 25 pupils, which grew to 40 on Wednesday, most coming from neighbouring schools.
We now had three classes. I handled Class Eight, Lena took over Class Seven, and on that Wednesday, we invited Fiolina to handle Class Six. Any other pupil who came was put in Class Six.
We came to learn that parents did not care whether teaching was going on or not – all they cared about was that the students were away from home.
By Thursday, the numbers hit 50, and we started smelling Sh45,000 – albeit from far. Only Sh2,320 had been collected.
Last Friday evening, Mrs Atika, who had said she had a trip to Nairobi, came to see us.
She said she was very idle and asked if we could let her handle one of the classes. We told her we had sufficient resources.
Of all the people, Saphire also called me that evening asking to be considered. "I know you have no teachers for lower classes. Huku nje kumekauka brother," he pleaded.
Saphire was clearly looking for some money for a drink. We could not admit any other teacher. I had already budgeted for this money.
Since her contribution was minimal, I would give Lena Sh2,000. The rest will be for me and Fiolina, the laugh of my life.
And you all know once I get it, she would have got it as well! Let's talk in late August when I am loaded!


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Date of Birth- 5 August 1987. Birth Name- Genelia De Souza. Nickname - Cheenu
Height- 5' 6½" (1.69 m)
Genelia is all sugar and spice, purring in content, as her 'meow' quotient in Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na has made her the cynosure of all eyes. Genelia D'Souza, also known as Harini to close friends, was born on 5 August 1987 in England to a Mangalore Catholic family. Her parents are Jennifer and Neil. She has an older brother. She grew up in Mumbai. Her school days were spent in Apostolic Carmel High School, Mumbai while she spent her college days at St.Andrews College to pursue a degree in management studies. She is known to be a state level athlete and a national level player. Her claim to fame started with commercials like Parker pen with Amitabh Bacchan and Fair & Lovely with Krishnamachari Srikanth. She is supposed to be dating Riteish Deshmukh.
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Nine months ago today, Finn was born. Babies have been created and born in the span of time he has been gone. Tonight Jaxton put a toy stethoscope against my belly and said he was going to listen to baby Finn's heartbeat. He always enjoyed listening to Finn's heartbeat and feeling him kick. I told him Finn isn't in my tummy anymore, but he said we can pretend he is still there. Last year Finn really was in my belly dressed up as baby skeleton for Halloween. How I wish he was still with me moving and growing!
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Offensive: Who makes things happen in the offense side of the ball. Making good passes to teammates or scoring goals and also doing positive play with the ball by playing the Omega Way. Motion players who give and run or go.
Defensive: Be first on the ball, winning the 50/50, challenging on the ground and in the air. Making great and tough slide tackles. Be tough and fearless. Blocking shots and simply winning the ball.
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Paris (again! I know)
This is our new big idea. We thought Beijing would be a major hub airport and we'd get direct flights to pretty much anywhere we wanted. Not so! The new plan is to make a virtue out of this and use the stopovers as mini-holidays on the way to the main event. Generally, this seems to work out fairly cheap too!
This time it was back to Paris. Having not been for years and years, I've now been twice in the last month. Better planning is needed, me thinks!
We planned to use this to get over our jet-lag before landing on the rellies for Christmas. This meant that we were all wide awake, but not energetic, way before dawn. Once we had got out acts together and got out the door, we were greeted by a lovely December sunrise.
Just off the Champs Elysee are the two pavilions built for the Great Exhibition in 1889. They also built some tower thing for it but more of that later. Below is the roof of the Grand Palace which housed all kinds of industrial equipment.
The river Seine with the afore-mentioned tower thingy in the background. With that we decided to head back as there is only so much walking the little ones can do before they start moaning and we had several more days to fill any way.
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Economos, Morelli honored in Men's Ice Hockey; Allaire tabbed in Women's Diving
PLYMOUTH, N.H. – Three Plymouth State University student-athletes were recognized Monday with weekly recognition from the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC) and the Little East Conference (LEC) for their performances in Panther contests last week.
Senior Michael Economos (Crystal Lake, Ill.) was named MASCAC Men's Ice Hockey Player of the Week, sophomore Evan Morelli (Reading, Mass.) made his third straight appearance on the MASCAC Weekly Honor Roll, and freshman Casey Allaire (Mattapoisett, Mass.) was named LEC Women's Rookie Diver of the Week.
A 6'1, 215-pound forward, Economos collected three points in a 2-0 week for the Panthers with two goals and one assist. He tallied a goal and an assist in Thursday's 5-4 overtime win over Framingham State and tacked on a third-period insurance goal on a power play in Saturday's 4-2 triumph at Fitchburg State. Economos ranks fifth in the MASCAC in scoring with 18 points and ranks third with 11 goals.
A 6'1, 190-pounder, Morelli made 30 saves with a .938 percentage in Saturday's 4-2 road victory over Fitchburg State. He turned away a game-high 16 shots in the second period in what was at the time a one-goal game. Morelli leads the MASCAC in winning percentage (.688, 5-2-1) and ranks sixth with a 3.08 goals against average and eighth with an .891 save percentage.
The Panthers, 10-5-2 overall and 8-1-1 in the MASCAC, play conference games Thursday at Worcester State University (8:30 p.m.) and Saturday at home against Westfield State University (6:00 p.m.)
A freshman diver, Allaire set a school record while posting three victories and one runner-up in four diving events last week as the Panthers split a pair of Little East dual meets. She captured both diving events in PSU's win over Western Connecticut State University, scoring 203.0 points on one meter and a season-best 217.25 on three-meter. Allaire then set the school record with a score of 248.80 on one-meter in a meet against the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and took first place on the high board with another season-high score of 229.60.
The Panthers swimmers and divers completed the dual meet season with a 5-4 record. The remaining meets are the Little East Conference Championships at UMass Dartmouth on Feb. 4, and the New England Intercollegiate Swimming & Diving Association (NEISDA) Championships at the University of Rhode Island from Feb. 17-19.
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MWW Agent Fest Take 2: November 20-21, 2020
Friday 12:30 pm through Saturday 5:00 pm. {Cost: $259}
Prepare. Pitch. Publish. #preppitchpub
You want agents. We've got agents.
Here's an opportunity to pitch your book directly to vaunted agents in search of new voices! Advocate for your book in a high-energy environment, and you might just become another MWW success story.
Connect with literary agents who are actively searching for the next big thing across all genres including fiction, nonfiction, children's, young adult and more. During the Agent Fest, you'll have a chance to meet agents one-on-one and capture their attention with the basic concept of your book.
We've assembled a dynamic roster of top-tier agents to participate in our Agent Fest. We have two days of valuable sessions on how to write a query letter and a synopsis, what agents are looking for, what makes an agent/editor stop reading your manuscript, and more. No matter what you're writing — fiction or nonfiction — the sessions will help point you in the right direction. Writers of all genres are welcome.
Our Agent Fest is designed to squeeze as much into two days of learning as possible. You can ask any questions you like during the sessions, and get your specific concerns addressed. The literary agents will give feedback and take pitches from writers. We also have a Query Letter Critique Team — an opportunity for a one-on-one consultation! Our faculty includes: (Read their bios & wish lists)
- Jennifer Grimaldi, Charlberg & Sussman
- Eric Myers, Myers Literary Management
- Abby Saul, The Lark Group
- Latoya Smith, LCS Literary Services
- Cherry Weiner, Cherry Weiner Literary Agency
- Shannon Kelly, Associate Editor, Abrams
- Loan Le, Assistant Editor, Atria Books
You'll meet one-on-one with at least two agents and possibly three depending on the number of registrants. Each pitch lasts three minutes, composed of a 90-second pitch and a 90-second response from the agent with feedback.
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Keys to Agent Fest Success:
- Do your research. There will be eight agents attending and some will be a better fit for your writing than others. Be sure to study the list of faculty and target those who handle your genre or interest.
- Practice makes perfect. This is your chance to sell your book, so write it out, practice it and perfect your pitch. Use a stopwatch so you can keep time—and their attention!
- Get expert advice. To help you prepare, we have a room with willing volunteers where you can practice. You can hone your pitch and get more comfortable with presenting live. You'll also gain the confidence you need to make a great impression.
- Read this blog post by Jane Friedman — How to Pitch Agents at a Writers Conference.
What to Bring:
- Your pitch — for our Practice Pitch
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Bush's big-bucks donors pick Romney over Perry
WASHINGTON - Fewer than one in 10 of the big-bucks fundraisers who helped George W. Bush shatter presidential campaign money records in 2000 and 2004 have donated to Texas Gov. Rick Perry's 2012 presidential campaign, a Houston Chronicle analysis of Federal Election Commission data has found.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney holds a wide lead over other GOP presidential candidates in donations received nationwide from the 939 "Pioneers" and "Rangers" who raised at least $100,000 each for the Bush presidential efforts. Romney has received 148 donations totaling $351,250 from Bush's top money people, compared to Perry's 87 contributions worth $213,000 and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty's 47 donations for $102,867.
Georgia businessman Herman Cain, who is competing with Romney for first place in recent polling, has not received support from former Bush fundraisers, the study found.
Two of the former president's siblings, sister Dorothy and brother Marvin, have donated to Romney, according to FEC data. None of Bush's immediate family had contributed to Perry by the Sept. 30 disclosure deadline.
The results of the analysis underscore the political distance between the camps of Texas' last two governors. Longtime Bush advisers such as Karl Rove and Tony Fratto have criticized Perry's statements during his 10-week-old run for the White House. And now it is becoming clear that most of the financial "bundlers" who were responsible for bringing the 43rd president hundreds of millions of campaign dollars are keeping their distance from the man hand-picked by Bush to serve as his 1998 Texas ticket mate.
Bundler for Romney
"What this means is that the Bush team feels more policy and practical kinship with the Romney approach," said Bruce Buchanan, a government professor at UT-Austin.
Les Csorba, a former senior staff member to President George H.W. Bush and bundler for George W. Bush, said he feels Romney is the only candidate able to defeat President Barack Obama in 2012. Csorba, who now works as a Houston-based consultant, gave the maximum $2,500 individual contribution to Romney before Perry entered the race, and he continues to support the former Massachusetts governor.
"He has impeccable integrity, has strong family values, and (is) the only one in the GOP field who can really bring people together and can get things accomplished," Csorba said.
Donors went elsewhere
A major reason for Romney's advantage is that Perry insisted for months he was not running for president, so many fundraisers signed on with other candidates - particularly Romney and Pawlenty, who has since left the race.
Romney, who won the backing of some of the Bush fundraisers during his failed 2008 presidential effort, "was able to tie up some of those supporters before people thought seriously that Perry was running," said Brendan Glavin of the nonpartisan Campaign Finance Institute.
Romney, who has been running for president for nearly six years, has raised nearly twice as much money for his 2012 campaign as has Perry. But the Texan netted more than Romney in the weeks following his mid-August entry.
"Perry was well behind in picking up Bush money, but he's not out of the picture," said UT's Buchanan.
Indeed, Perry, who has received more than 60 percent of his $17 million in contributions from Texans, dominates among Bush's Texas-based fundraisers. Fifty-two of the Lone Star State's Pioneers and Rangers have donated to Perry and 22 have given to Romney. (Seven have written checks to both of them.)
Campaign cliques
But among Pioneers and Rangers in other states, Romney has an edge of more than three to one over Perry.
Romney's $2.1 million raised in Texas is less than President Barack Obama's $2.7 million take and far behind Perry's $9.7 million in home-state support.
Bush's "Pioneers and Rangers" network, the brainchild of Rove, set fundraising goals for more than 900 total bundlers participating in his 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns. By creating status rankings - bundlers raising more than $100,000 were dubbed Pioneers, more than $200,000 became Rangers - Bush established an elite membership clique that raised $550 million during his two White House runs.
"In its day, they were the most powerful fundraisers in Texas history," said Craig McDonald, director of the watchdog group Texans for Public Justice.
The Perry campaign did not respond to a request for comment.


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Director: Jan P. Matuszyński
DoP: Kacper Fertacz
Editor: Przemysław Chruścielewski
Composer: Atanas Valkov
Producer: Marta Lachacz, Cor Leonis Production
Co-Producer: Anna Wydra, Otter Films
Producer: HBO
Janusz, a self-confident 60-year old, an incredibly active person and an accomplished diver, suffers a stroke which leaves him paralysed. Rehabilitation and assistance of his partner Asia help him regain mobility and improve his functions. He is still struggling with speech and the only person who understands what he says is Asia who interprets
him for the world. What keeps Janusz going and motivates to carry on is his big dream – he would like to dive again, despite major hazard for his health and life. His goal is to travel to beautiful but perilous Blue Hole in Dahab, Egypt which poses a challenge even to fit divers.
JAN P. MATUSZYŃSKI - the director of short films, music videos and commercials. Graduated from the Film Directing Department of Krzysztof Kieslowski Radio and Television Faculty University of Silesia in Katowice and a Documentary Course in Wajda School. His films have been screened and awarded in numerous festivals in Poland and abroad. www.janpmatuszynski.com
Selected filmography:
2012 'Offine' - fiction, 27' - director
2011 'Heaven' - documentary, 13' - screenplay, director
2009 'Afterparty' - fiction, Super16mm, 15' - screenplay, director
2008 'I Know Who Did It' - fiction, 27 - screenplay, director
2007 '15 years of silence' - documentary, 20' - screenplay, director
2007 'The Carwash' - fiction, 20' - screenplay, director
SILVER HOBBY-HORSE for the Director of the Best Documentary Film – Jan P. Matuszyński - National Competition - Krakow Film Festival - Krakow, Poland - 2014
- DOK Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 2013
- AM DOCS, Palm Spring, USA, 2014
- Krakow Film Festival, Karkow, Poland, 2014
Polish Film Institute (http://www.pisf.pl/en/)


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1. The Eagles losing to the Seahawks and pretty much eliminating themselves from playoff contention.
2. WVU falling flat (yippie!) to Pitt on Saturday. What an awesome game! That was Pitt's biggest win in years. Awesome! It's not as sweet as a win over ND or PSU but I'll take it. Since Joe refuses to play Pitt, WVU is the rivalry right now.
3. The doom and gloom forecast of snow, ice, and freezing rain for yesterday which, of course, turned out to be about half an inch of snow, no freezing rain, or ice. Maybe Township Warming neutralized the storm. I went to the store on Friday, like I always do, in the morning to beat the panic that would unfold in the afternoon. Saturday I realized I was low on rock salt and decided ride it out with the little bit I had because there was no way I was going to the store on the first of the month with a forecast of bad weather. It turns out, I only used a little salt on the front steps because, as I suspected, the storm was nothing more than a brief annoyance. I'll give them some credit though, they were right about the wind forecasts for today; gusts to 45mph they say and it sure is windy right now.
4. The economy? Wait, GDP rose 4.9% over the third quarter, beating estimates. Not only can't weathermen get it right, economists can't predict very well either and it seems they are (well at least the news is) rooting for a poor Christmas shopping season to boot.
5. Windows Vista? So that's the buzz. I haven't used it other than helping with some out of the box setups for a few people. Someone commented to me, referring to the look and feel of the desktop, that "it looks like the Mac." All I know is that I'm happy with Slackware. Slackware 12 with XFCE is much faster than any XP machine I've ever used. I would assume the same holds true when compared to Vista.
Number one - oh well, there's always next year. Good to see number two happen. The hype in number three usually happens and number four is just wishing thinking of doom and gloom by the MSM. Number five - looks like Vista is turning out to be a bona fide dud.
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Foge Fazio and Jamie Dixon amongst others who were probably also fairly prominent in the local sports or business scenes. Foge sat in front of us and we chatted often during the course of the second half. Coach Dixon was on the other side of the suite engaged in conversation but I was able to sneak in a quick "Coach Dixon, best of luck for another good season" and shake his hand. Coach Fazio is very personable and my friends and I had quite a pleasant time engaging in the normal chatter people engage in while watching a football game. I was never formally introduced to Foge and it wasn't until after the game I discovered it was him.
The stadium only provides the box. The catering staff, which included a chef, and food are hired by the box's owner. The spread included crabcakes, coconut shrimp, ham, prime rib, and other fine foods. The drinks included the usual beer and soda, 12-15 bottles of the most popular types of liquor and some wine. My friend suggested I have a glass of wine and I declined but when he told me what it was, I changed my mind. I couldn't resist drinking a glass wine that costs $200 a bottle. There was more than one bottle of it on the bar too.
I never thought I'd encounter, certainly not within an hour, a former Pitt football coach, the current basketball coach, and get within about four feet of Coach Wannstedt on the sideline. Actually, he got close to me as I wasn't about to intrude on the team's space but as the course of the game dictates, the head coach does have to traverse the sideline quite a bit.
Pitt played well during the first half and led at halftime 14-10. Once we left the sideline and went upstairs, they fell apart. The final was 48-37 USF with USF getting two scores directly off interceptions and setting up a third with one too. Aside from the Pitt-PSU game in 1987 (Pitt won 10-0) yesterday's game was the most memorable but more for the extracurriculars.
Some other notes: it's 287 miles from the Sheetz in Monroeville to my house. I got on turnpike in Monroeville at 5:05 and I was in my driveway at 9:45. I made two quick stops and went through the Wendy's drive-through in Carlisle.
Certainly a fun experience and something I didn't expect as I didn't know I'd be able to use an all-access pass. I won't be able to sit in my regular seats again!
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Linux Link Techshow podcasts (Ogg, of course) and discovered a great new game to play while driving - spell out cities, towns, and other words you encounter in Morse Code. See the Carlisle exit, and just blurt out dash-dot-dash-dot dot-dash dot-dash-dot dot-dash-dot-dot dot-dot dot-dot-dot dot-dash-dot-dot dot. Really, it can be fun and it keeps your mind going. It's easier to say than to type.
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Over three inches of unpredicted snow fell over our area yesterday into today. The forecast was for a rain and snow mix with little or no accumulation. It actually worked out well since it wasn't predicted, there was no pre-snow panic.
As you can tell, my apple tree still has most of its leaves, which are much easier to deal with when they fall than the pine needles that cover about 50% of my yard and fall on the roof and completely fill the gutters. If you've never had the joy of raking and blowing pine needles and clearing gutters of them, you are missing out on one of life's great treats.
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Link] Of course, CNN has done this in the past with an equally silly question. [Link]
Diamonds or pearls? What's up with that? Is that question indicative of the decisions a cabinet usually asks a president to make? Is that a matter of national importance?
I did not watch the debate so I cannot comment on the content and the alleged pro-Clinton tilt. But I can say that questions about jewelry are silly and unlikely to be topics of discussion when Iran takes Americans hostage again, or when China moves some capital ships closer to Taiwan, or when Democrats are scratching their heads as the War on Poverty quagmire moves closer and closer to year 50 with no end in sight.
Let's end this charade so that B.O., Joe Biden, and Denis Kucinichovich can get back to doing what they were elected to do - representing and working for their constituents. I mean, really, these guys should be in 1) Washington or 2) their state/district working for the people; not flying to Vegas and Iowa and Philadelphia, and everywhere else. As for Edwards, he can go back to suing big companies for doing mean things like making money. The MSM is rooting for Hillary and making no real effort to conceal it. So, boys, get back to work! If the economy is in such dire straits like you all say, you'd be doing everyone a favor by not accepting any more money from the waiting-in-the-soup-line public. Hillary's money only comes from straight-shooters like Norman Hsu or dishwashers in NYC who love her so much they have no problem shelling out $1000 for her campaign. I remember when I was making $6 an hour. I just couldn't wait to give some millionaire candidate a month's pay. Take my money! Please! Every dish I scrub is another penny just for you!
As for Yucca Mountain, you won't see me moving near there any time soon. I suggest you don't either.
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The victors do not determine when a war ends, the vanquished do - by laying down their arms and giving up the fight.
Aside from having a pro-American attitude, another way to help is to donate to one of the myriad of charities set up to help soldiers and veterans in many ways. Here is a link from a DoD site with links to some of these charities that help wounded troops: [Link].
Now, for something more fun, I ran into this page from the Carl Hammer Gallery in Chicago which has interesting pictures which are characterized as conceptual photography. Since I am a Pitt Alum, I have seen the Panther photo before but I had never seen the others. All of which are quite impressive. [Link]
Update: Lo and behold, Google did a special logo for Veteran's Day. There's a first time for everything! I sent a tip to Newsbusters.org and within 40 minutes Noel Sheppard had emailed me back and had a post up.
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I am trying to learn Morse Code and Tap Code. Tap Code is real easy in that all you do is draw a 5x5 box and letter A-E on the first row and continue down four more ending with Z. C and K are the same and included in the first row. The taps work row-column so it's easy to set-up and visualize. Thus, tap-pause-tap is A, tap-pause-tap-tap is B, tap-tap-pause-tap is F and so on. When tapping is not an option, eye blinks, light flashes, or just about anything that has an on/off state can work.
Morse Code is more complicated so I built a Morse Code buzzer per these instructions and I decided to use both the buzzer and LED. So, now I practice and it's hard. I need to find someone to practice with so I can practice both sending and translating. I am also way too slow. I've read that some people can hit over 50 wpm, the record is 75 wpm, and claims of over 100 wpm have been made. Wow.
I don't know if I'll every need to use or decipher Morse Code but it can't hurt to know it. Same goes for Tap Code. One can never know too many ways to communicate.
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So it goes, then, it's only natural that the other Democratic candidates hit her hard (even if it was slow-pitch softball) during the debate a few days ago. Mind you, these other candidates are not world leaders who aspire to develop nuclear weapons or who do nothing to prevent its citizens from crossing the Rio Grande en masse, these are just some guys who are fading rapidly and will return to their regular jobs soon enough and know it.
Her campaign is playing the "guys beating up a girl" card and they know many will be critical of this but her camp also knows that this tactic will garner a few more percentage points as this is directed towards other "victims" of our evil society that really demands little of us. Hillary is a strong woman. She can handle herself and its unlikely any opponent or any moderator, even if they stop tossing softball questions, can shake her.
I don't agree with this crybaby tactic but she does aspire to be president. She needs to be hammered day in and day out and if she can't handle it from Americans, surely she can't handle it from the world. This applies to all the candidates, boy or girl.
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this story this morning and it reminded me to try to find the actual quote attributed to Lenin that says, in effect, "The capitalist will sell you the rope you intend to hang him with." I wanted to find the actual quote and when it was said or where it was published originally. In searching, I found some other salient quotes attributed to Lenin.
A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.
Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
Destroy the family, you destroy the country.
The Cold War is over and now we've declared war on ourselves.
Lenin clearly understood the masses. The masses are only as smart as the lowest common denominators among them and these LCD's have also infiltrated American business.
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Continuing its trend of helping out victims of disaster, The Wal-Mart Foundation has pledged $1 million to the American Red Cross. According to CNNMoney, the foundation also gave $32 million to Katrina relief efforts. Frankly, I am surprised that CNN actually published the article since Wal-Mart is often seen as the enemy by many liberals and the mostly liberal media.
Corporations are not required to do such deeds and many do not. While this doesn't necessarily prove that Wal-Mart is altruistic, no one can deny that Wal-Mart is a fine corporate citizen when it comes to helping those in need.
People also forget that Wal-Mart wasn't incarnated as the largest company in the world. Yes, it's hard to believe but it's true. There was a time when Wal-Mart was a small fledgling company that other retailers probably laughed at. Sam Walton is the embodiment of the American Dream. Sam started small, worked hard, and over a period of time kicked his competitors' asses back to the Stone Age while completely schooling them on the business of retailing. Everybody wants to be number one but only a very few every get there. Sam Walton was one of those few.
Alas, the Wal-Mart bashing will undoubtedly continue so let's just all remember that we are free to bash Wal-Mart, free to shop elsewhere, and corporations are free to help those in need as they so choose. Many people will continue to despise Wal-Mart, ignoring the hard work Sam Walton and the benevolence of the Wal-Mart Foundation. No one ever said being number one was easy.
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Slackware 12 on the other. I have had a few problems and the biggest is getting LILO to work properly. When LILO is set properly, the WinXP side gives me a BSOD shortly after it's turned on and just hangs there with a system is shut down type message. However, when I use Bootmagic to select the Windows partition, the machine boots directly to Windows with no LILO screen. I can still boot to Slackware by inserting the Slackware CD and typing this at the prompt:
hugesmp.s root=/dev/hda2 rdinit= ro
which works but it's a pain to do. The second problem was the wireless connection. The module loaded on boot (ipw2200) but I could not start eth0; with the standard "eth0: error fetching interface connection: device not found" error. I did a "dmesg | grep ipw" showed these errors:
# dmesg | grep ipw
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.0kmprq
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ipw2200: probe of 0000:06:04.0 failed with error -5
I found a fix on a Suse forum and that suggested updating the firmware would work; the firmware can be found here:
and I downloaded and installed version 3. I unpacked the tarball, changed to the directly and typed as root:
cp ipw2200-* /lib/firmware
and reloaded the ipw2200 module and restarted the network and wireless now works. Now, if I can only fix that LILO problem...
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story carried by the Sydney Morning Herald is easily accessible thanks to the Intarweb. You'd be hard-pressed to find this story in any US papers or US-based media's websites even though the lecture was given in North Carolina by a prominent American in his field.
A lecture the media didn't miss was a retired US general who bashed our policy in Iraq, even if they shoved the first part of it into the memory hole. When Lt. Gen. Sanchez, a former commander of American troops, is critical US of policy, it's horns-a-blowin' and trumpets-a-blarin' time by the MSM. Of course, the media hasn't always received Sanchez with open arms, (see below), and they didn't seem too interested in reporting on the first part of Sanchez' lecture.
But if someone in the climate and meteorology field, an expert and authority in that field nonetheless, questions anything the Goracle has said, well, <crickets chirping>. Liberal bias in the mainstream media? Nah........
But you're thinking, "yeah, but Iraq is the bigger news story now."
Alas, perhaps, but Al himself said that climate change (yes, I know that term is redundant) is the most important issue in the world:
He told Sky News television that global warming is "the most important issue in the world."[ Link]
Oh, but did the media believe General Petraeus' report? After all, he is the current commander of US forces. Surely they would put as much belief into his story as they would for Sanchez. Maybe things were as bad as Sanchez says but it's possible they are improving. Yeah, right, good luck finding that in your local paper or on a cable news channel. Good news out of Iraq is strictly prohibited by the MSM, just like anyone who questions Al Gore, even if that anyone is a real meteorological expert.
Since Al has been in the news of late, surely the MSM would welcome debate and analysis by experts who hold opposing views to Gore's stance on the issue of climate change. After all, aren't dissent, debate, and the questioning of our leaders, even if they are no longer elected officials, the first duty of the citizenry?
Another thing the media missed what that Sanchez also blasted the media for their reporting of Iraq and in fact, tossing back some phrases the media has used to describe him like: "most inexperienced LTG ever" and "liar" and "not a strategic thought" in addition to really calling the media on the carpet for their lack of adherence to journalistic ethics. [Link]
Bravo Dr. Gray. Bravo Gen. Sanchez.
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Men in their forties and over have been served notice that they can access free prostate screening being provided by the Dominica Cancer Society in collaboration with the Ross Medical School.
The organisers say the screening on Saturday March 10 will take place in Roseau at the Ross University facility at the Princess Margaret Hospital.
Men in the Portsmouth area will also get a chance to check their prostate, according to the Cancer Society.
They are arranging for screening there at the Clinical facility of Portsmouth General Hospital three weeks later on March 31.
The screening activities will include "Digital rectal examination" along with relevant medical check-ups, according to the Cancer Society's Patrick Henderson.
He has indicated that "starting from 9 am in the morning men will be seen on a first come first serve basis".
"The Doctors and medical students hope to continue through the afternoon until they have managed to screen all those who attend. There will be a choice of genders of medical students. At the end of the examination a report will be given to the attendee with recommendations for his Doctor to take appropriate action, if any," Henderson said.
The Cancer Society has indicated that over 80 men received free exams last year through this initiative.
"Since men generally seek medical care without any kind of regularity, by the time a man experiences symptoms and gets checked it can be too late. This initiative seeks to get men to be proactive as far as their prostate health is concerned," a release from the society says.
It is encouraging men over 40 to take advantage of this opportunity to check on that aspect of their health.


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|Rediff India Abroad Home | All the sections
Bihar: Maoists blow up railway track to protest Nandigram violence
Anand Mohan Sahay in Patna | November 20, 2007 13:25 IST
Train services between Patna and Kolkata were disrupted for hours after the blast, a railway official said in Patna. Some trains were halted at Lakhisarai station while other trains were halted at various other stations.
According to police sources, teams from the state police and the Railway Protection Force rushed to the site.
Railway officials are supervising the repair work, said railway sources.
"The sabotage was caused to stop the movement of trains during the 48 -hour bandh in Bihar and Jharkhand," police sources said.
Last week, the CPI-Maoist had threatened to fight against the 'fascist' Communist Party of India-Marxist for perpetrating violence and unleashing terror on the people of Nandiram.
The CPI-Maoist stated, "The red flag-bearing government of West Bengal has openly supported capitalists. It has started uprooting farmers and their families to make room for industrialists."
The outfit said that Nandigram was not an isolated case; the situation was the same in Orissa, Jharkhand and other states where Special Economic Zones are being set up at the behest of the Centre. The CPI-Maoist alleges that multi-national corporations are the reason behind mass murders of innocent people.
The CPI-Maoist also appealed to people living around SEZs across the country to join their agitation to oust MNCs.
The group added that self-defence was the only option left to people threatened by state-sponsored displacement in Nandigram.


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Dessolve III is a prospective, single-blind (patient), randomized, controlled, multicenter trial. Approximately 17 sites in Europe will participate. The enrollment required for this trial is 1,400 patients and as this is a 1:1 randomization, it is anticipated that 700 patients will be treated with the MiStent and 700 patients will be treated with the control XIENCE.
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Content Strategy: Industry Specific Insights
- content strategy
- April 16, 2018
In the past, I had published a series of content strategy conversations where I invited some of the world's leading content practitioners to share their thoughts and experiences on content strategy.
Now, I plan to resume the series with a difference. This time, I have guests sharing their content strategy experiences for a specific industry. For example, the state of content strategy and the opportunities and challenges in healthcare, in a non-profit organization, in a university, and others.
The first post goes live in a few days. Watch out.


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Age: 33
When Oxana Chusovitina competes in her fifth Olympics something no other female gymnast has done she is going to be old enough to be the mother of most of her competitors. But Uzbek-born Chusovitina proved on several occasions that there is more to her sport than supple muscle and young bones, most recently at this year's European championship where she won gold at vault, beating 15 year-old Russian wunderkind Ksenia Semenova. The athlete's extraordinary career has partly been driven by a harsh blow of fate: her son Alisher, now 9 years old, was diagnosed with lymphocytic leukemia in 2002, which prompted Chusovitina to move to Germany in order to be able to provide medical treatment to him. But saving Alisher's life is not her only motivation, as she recently told German weekly Der Spiegel: "There is nothing in the world I enjoy more than gymnastics".


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I once had the acquaintance of a group of Uniting Church types who used to get together to do 'Good Works'. (Normally I don't capitalise key words but these people were so upright, they resembled capital letters themselves as they strode into their church hall, once home of the long-gone choir, to discuss their next charitable expedition 'abroad'.)
Mostly they were upper middle class widows from Kew and East Hawthorn who could afford to travel but some were gentlemen, retired woolly academic types or timid pastors who hadn't quite made it as zeal-filled missionaries, but still liked the travel aspect. They all got on together like a house on fire, of course. At their monthly meetings the ladies discussed the agenda fiercely – which third world country should be the next destination - while the men silently made tea in the corner, and with slender pale hands put out not enough stale biscuits on a tray. Hopeless.
I used to drive one of the men to the airport from Camberwell so he could save on taxi fares. The trips were hardly pilgrimages. They stayed in hotels, although they did fly Qantas economy where they'd eat the pre-prepared Neil Perry fare rather than the first class chef and sommelier deal. However, once arrived, the travellers were careful to eat only the correct regional cuisine for the area visited as a kind of gastronomical correctness. On return to Australia they'd hold dinner parties and put around plates of punugulus as if they were Smiths crisps. "Oh, just one of the things we ate in India," they'd say airily, plonking down giant bowls of pindi chole and Kerala mutton.
At one of these dinner parties, an old dear - we'll call her Mrs Jellyby - sipped her glass of mineral water and told me about the well they had provided in some scummy village in a part of India. They had travelled overnight on two buses and a crowded train from the city into which they had flown. The well was communal, of course. "It takes a village to raise a bucket," explained the old dear gravely, which was either gag of the day or she was demented, or maybe both. The well would allow the women of the village to lower a bucket on a rope and drag up some filthy artesian water with which they could cook chick peas or rinse garments or whatever it was that Indian women did when they weren't burning cow dung in their huts to stop their babies dying of cold, or walking around with pots on their heads. Or was that the African expedition? The stories all ran into one after a while, like the tigers turning to butter in Little Black Sambo.
Time and many monthly meetings passed in the old Uniting Church hall, now a 'refugee centre'. One night, someone raised a motion that they adopt a new way of being kind to poor people. Maybe they had tired of standing around in an Indian field while watching an Indian guy operating a drill in the back of a Hindustan truck. An ingenious new system had been developed, said the member, whereby you made a credit card payment and donated a goat, a duck, a piglet, or an entire farm if you had deep pockets. You could even give a Hindustan truck. Whatever. It would still be cheaper than your airfare to India. This had two key benefits. One, you could attain the moral high ground without leaving your house; and two, you could give the card proclaiming what you had given to a friend in lieu of a Christmas or birthday gift. Or for no reason at all, other than to signal that you were a Charitable Person, in capitals again.
More time passed and it was clear that token gestures would never have the effect of sheer scale, the kind of scale only possible through serious industrial undertaking. India's Adani approached Australia to run a Queensland mine, with resulting infrastructure bringing employment to Australians while providing power for an India for which a million wells, goats or Hindustan trucks are never enough.
Blow me down if I didn't see the old Uniting Church types getting in on the act. Opposing the mine. No power for cowpat-burning Indians! The dementia had clearly advanced.


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The scholarship covers expenses such as course and accommodation costs.
The applicant must be an Australian citizen or permanent resident in the Ripon or Lowan area and work on a farm or is a farm owner.
They must be studying an agriculture-related course, have been working in the industry for at least two years and able to complete the course within 12 months.
Mellow in the Yellow spokesperson Leila Sweeney-McDougall said more information can be found at liveruralaustralia.com, and applications close on April 27.


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Monday, February 13
Simon Says: Use Your Favorite Tool!
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I love these bookmarks!!! They would make awesome gifts for friends or for any book lover!!!! <3ReplyDelete
These tags are GORGEOUS, Maura! I have such a love in my heart for doodle art. I actually do it quite often. Its so relaxing to me and brings me back to my childhood. When I wasn't in school or sleeping, I was doodling. I love how you dripped the paint on the hearts and I love all the added doodling to each bookmark. You have such a talent for this and when I saw it, I simply melted. Love, Love Love!!ReplyDelete
Cathie ♥
These are beautiful!!!!!ReplyDelete
your bookmarks are such fun...love the effects you achieved with your watercolour brush and wow amazing doodling...hugs kath xxxReplyDelete
These are fantastic Maura!! Wonderfully alive and fun! Your first tag has the straightest drip ever - none of my drips ever behave as well as that lol! Fantabulous doodling too. Have a lovely week. Nicola xReplyDelete
COOL techniques on the bookmarks, Maura! Loving them! :)ReplyDelete
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LOVE these vibrant bookmarks and yes, also a big fan of the Peerless colors!ReplyDelete
These look super fun! The doodling really enhanced them!ReplyDelete
Oh my....these are the most beautiful bookmarks ever made!ReplyDelete
Love the beautiful and bright colors on these bookmarks, Maura. Such a brilliant design! :)ReplyDelete
Wow! What an amazing set of bookmarks! I love all of them and can not decide which is the most pretty! The colors you chose are fabulous and so vibrant! It's an absolutely explosion of colors. But I guess that what make them so fantastic is the black doodling! What a great job, Maura! Hugs, MarzenaReplyDelete
These are flippin' fantastic! The hearts with the drippy points are pure genius and all of these make me want to ask why YOU are not creating stamps?? What a talented artist you are and I love how you made each bookmark so unique. The colors make me smile and I especially liked seeing your skill at combining those fibers and yarns into the perfect tag toppers! ;)ReplyDelete
Gosh, these are pretty! And made ten times more special by your doodles (art always seems more genuine to me when there's a visible touch of the artist's hand).ReplyDelete
Wow...these are gorgeous Maura and I love, love, LOVE those dripped hearts, they are just stunning! I think this might be one of my favourite projects from you, they are stunning! <3ReplyDelete
These are stunning, Maura! Love them all! The doodling takes it to the next level! Gorgeous! Hugs, SandraReplyDelete
Maura you can't imagine how I love your creativity! you are so eclectic! love this work and love so much the hearts you've created! Great project! barbaraReplyDelete
Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment, it is so appreciated, and I love reading each and every one!


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Mas Sajady Program Reviews on Mental & Emotional Health
A Testimonial from A Mental Health Facility:
I work in an outpatient psychiatric clinic which reviews Individuals with behavioral issues severe enough to necessitate partial hospitalization in a program Monday thru Friday from 8:30 – 3. I had amazing results from no talent nor intention of my own with one person who was 6'2″ and weighed 110 lbs. He had relapsed from alcohol after 8 yrs sobriety last fall when he stopped eating and decided to drink himself to death. Physically he had been diagnosed with AIDS and had given up on life. Before he attended the group his agoraphobia set in and he was having challenges interacting with people. I put the final meditation from January on a loop and played it continuously for me & was interrupted at work, turned the volume down and forgot it was playing. Within 4 days this client was walking one mile to the store and one mile home. He was going to buy groceries. He was eating 2 meals a day and had gained weight. He continued to progress and in the course of his treatment his T-cells (which dropped dangerously low after 6 weeks of his only sustainability being based on Alcohol) were retested and his MD stated his progress was 'remarkable'. Over the last 4 years he had been hospitalized over 15 times for suicidal ideation. Ever since his 4 day exposure to the meditation healing for 6 hrs a day he was no longer suicidal and his panic attacks were diminished to feeling anxiety!
I scheduled a group healing program session with Mas Sajady, for April 11th in which I asked Mas to help my niece who suffered of grand convulsions and migraines and lately they found something unidentified in her brain.
My niece lives in a poor rural area in Colombia, where she has no resources to obtain medical treatment.
Today she told me the following review:
Last night she suffered by far the most painful migraine she has ever had, while her family was trying to help her and almost unconscious, she saw a man on white clothing massaging her head and calming her down, she fell asleep and when she woke up at the early hours of today, she was asking for the man on white, her family explained her that there was never a man in the room. Stunned that her excruciating pain was gone and that she feels so light, like a big heavy baggage had been removed from her shoulders she keeps saying that the man had such a soft hands and calm her down taking her migraine away.
I don't know if I should be telling this, if it is appropriate, but I have to tell Mas that from the bottom of my heart I know it was his influence that caused this beautiful miracle, a big THANK YOU from all her family, no words are enough to thank him!!!!!!!
Hi, I had bloodwork review done before and after the cleanse and it was such a dramatic shift (triglycerides from 270 to 78 in 11 days) I wondered if it might have something to do with the 6 week Healing Mastery program I'm in. Could the Purium Cleanse be that powerful or is it some of the clearing happening on the course? Doing both at the same time makes it tricky to understand where I'm getting the fabulous results from.
Thank you, Pamela Ziemann
I just had a remote session with Mas Sajady, and told him how one of his medi-healings healed me! He asked if I would mind sharing my testimonial review:
In February, I purchased the medi-healing about half-way into the month. On the night of February 18th, I was hit with with a terrible stomach flu, that sent me into non-stop vomiting, convulsions, shaking, spasms, trembling, high fevers, and a feeling like my head was being squeezed in a vice! I couldn't sleep, eat, or sip the 3oz. water every hour, that the doctor wanted me too. Sometime within the restless tossing and turning, an extreme pain shot thru my back from my lower right flank region…which I truly felt, at the time, was a kidney stone. I have always had a high tolerance for pain, so when this had me on the floor in tears, unable to move, I knew I needed to go to the hospital for help. I crawled to the phone in-between the waves of excruciating pain, to call my husband.
I laid on the floor for the next 30 minutes, until my husband and mother showed-up to take me to the emergency. Immediately placed on heart monitors and IV fluids, for my vitals were extremely low, and I was extremely dehydrated (which was a danger for me, since I have Hypokalemia…which can cause cardiac arrest in people, when very low). Through my stay of testing and monitoring, they came to the conclusion that I tore something in my back, from all the shaking, vomiting and twisting of my body, thru the stomach flu. I was soon released, sent home with high dosages of pain medicines, which I did not like the concept of having to take. I never had to depend on pain medicines, and never wanted to. The next day, I was suffering from back pain, and I set the intention that I was not going to be down with back issues like so many other people I knew. I started listening to one of the Medihealing sessions that covered back pain. I did not know what to expect, but also knew I had nothing to lose. So, I continued to listen repeatedly for two days, as much as I could between resting(sleeping), and trying to eat something. By the third day, it was like the back incident had never even happened. I had no back pain, and was not taking any pain medicines either. My husband (who was more worried than ever, about me being debilitated with back pain forever) …was "totally shocked" on how I had healed so quickly; and showing no residual signs and symptoms of even being in the hospital for anything. Life returned to normal, and it all felt like a dream.
Still being totally new to Mas and his work, I swear that the Medihealing meditations, and his healing sessions… "truly work".
Even my energy field feels much more expansive. I am forever grateful that I was guided to Mas and his work!
I love you Mas! Thank you again!
Regina Moore, 56
Burlington, Vermont
I met Mas Sajady about two weeks ago at the Chicago Health Expo program. My back had been pretty sore due to arthritis in my lower lumbar area. Mas worked on me for a total of 30 minutes. The extreme soreness and stiffness in my back is gone. It gradually dissipated in the time since I saw him. When I wake up in the morning, I can bend my back without stiffness.
By the way, I've been drinking a lot more water than I used to. I don't know why. In fact, after you worked on me, I think I drank more water than I ever had before.
Hello! You gave me your card following my time with you at the Health expo at the Convention Center program in January. I came to you asking you to review my fertility issues and you were able to ease my anxiety about it. You told me that you were able to see me getting pregnant in about a month and a half. Well, you were correct. I wanted to thank you and let you know I've been spreading the word about you to others. Thanks!
- Alfred R., Palm Springs
"After the my session with the Mas Sajady program I have not touched a cigarette nor have I had cravings. Wow I've tried quitting for 10 years."
- Ryan P, Encinitas
"Finally after years of pain and medication that messed up my mind you gave me relief in just half hour. I don't know how to thank you enough. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!!!"
Maggie T, Chicago
"Dear Mas,
I met you last night. I wanted you to know that when I went home I felt much better.
My belly was calm. I also could walk with ease. Almost like floating or walking lighter.
You told me you could help. I believe it. It has been so long I cannot remember when I have had relief in this body until last night. ( I got out of bed this morning with less pain, and I feel so happy, I cannot believe this , I feel lighter ).
Can you do further healing for me ? I knew I was hurting but I never realized how long I have been hurting and caring this terrible pain until some of it left last night. I forgot what it felt like not to hurt. Thank you deeply."
- Bridget L, Texas
"First I want to thank you sooooo much for your help the other evening. My legs / hip sockets feel very much better. And you gave me so much more information, past life, many lives, long life…. It was all good."
- Candice B, New York
"Oh wow, I just had a one to one with you an hour ago on Skype. And the session actually started 2 or 3 hours before its time…I started to feel the spirit guides very close around. And as I was praying for a clients little daughter, who fell off a horse and went in a coma yesterday. Somehow I got to talk to her telling her to come back, I hoped she would. And another time I felt the spirit coming close and my heart opens and subbed it out. But ,when you came on the Skype and started to talk and work with me….the power came again really strongly and felt not only relaxed but very strong with my spiritual link .Tears and laughter came . I don't know what the effect will have yet on me. But I feel very much lighter than I am normally…So I am wanting to have a session every month with you and see what effect can have on my life on all levels. Will keep you posted. Thanks very much and keep up the good work. It was very much worth the waiting for it….LOL .♥♥"
"Thank you…After I had my first one to one, feeling lighter and brighter….When I am out…I passed the back garden as I do every day. But that day the trunk of the trees, the leaves and the flowers, all looked so alive and I could swear that the flowers talked to me saying what a lovely day, and what I noticed it was in a different sounding voice. It was great…But what was the best was when you asked me do I have any question or some thing to add and I cheekley asked you if you were to help through me a little girl who was in a coma for 3 days after a fall from a horse and you kindly stayed with me to do that although it was after time. Well, I wanted to tell you she is back with us moving and coherent, thanks very much for your gift of love to the world ♥"
Abla E, London
I'm new to Mas Sajady's program work, only discovered him this last year, but I LOVE his work!! His free PTSD medi-healing is helping me so much, even my pain levels are down ! So, this is my special treat just "for me", and I'm hoping I can re-invigorate a few of those places the constant pain has kind of "drained" 😉 Bless you guys for all you do...
I just wanted to reach out to you and Mas Sajady to let you know that my husband that is the biggest skeptic that I know, can not stop talking about his review of the Mas Sajady program and how his lower back pain that he has had for years is gone...He keeps talking about it and says he can not deny that whatever Mas did worked! He keeps wondering if it will return once he does something to tweak it...so he wanted to hold out a bit before he was sure it was gone, but I had to reach out and let you know! So please send Mas a big thank you from us! He worked on some things with me, which I felt a big shift emotionally and physically for the first couple of days, I think mine is shifting with more time. Also I just went to schedule 2-30 minute appointments for us, but did not see any dates popping up for availability. I saw that it said April 29th June would open up...is that when I should go in and book them? Any chance Mas is coming to the East Coast this summer (Mass, NH, Maine, Connecticut) We would love to see him again in person, if you have any possibilities let me know! It was a great event! I am so glad that my husband came, he normally does not join in on any of these with me!
Great meeting you both, look forward to seeing you again soon-Thank you for your help Fay!
WoW! I'm still getting downloads and upgrades, amazing, this is so healing to me. Thank you all so much for bringing your Mas Sajady programs to Sedona. This is life changing for me to review as I have had extreme frequency issues since my nde three years ago, finally, yes, someone who understands frequency and can help me in such an awesome way. I am most grateful. healing so far, white coating on tongue is gone, eyes greatly improved, spine moved, more peace, frequency stabilizing and maintaining. and lots more still hapenning. oh, yes, i have had an issue with a type of paranoia.... since a NDE,,,,so freaked out by laws and rules and time and doing something wrong..... today when i drove home after workshop, i was free of concerns....so this was all trauma related and that is deep healing for me. I am so blessed. I am responding in a huge lovely way, like more oxygen. I know there's more and more, keep sharing the love and healing to all. You guys are an amazing team. Love you Jane, Fay and team. Thanks for sharing your gift Mas.
It's beautiful what you are doing. Much love,
Here's to the new heaven, the new earth, Carly


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1 October 2013
Indigenous peoples' organizations have submitted a complaint to the United Nations concerning the violations of religious and cultural rights of indigenous peoples due to denial of installation of Buddha idol in Kakre Bihar, a monastery in Surkhet district of mid-western Nepal.
Representatives of indigenous peoples' and Buddhist organizations, on Monday, emailed the complaint in an urgent communication to the UN Special Rapporteurs on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in the field of cultural rights and on freedom of religion or belief. The complaint details obstructions by the Government to install the idol even after fulfilling all necessary procedures, including police intervention on the rally taken out on 25 May 2013 for installing the idol. More than 50 devotees were reportedly injured or looted of their belongings in the brutal police assault. More


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This film has a relatively low Rotten Tomato score, which is not unsurprising. I was a little apprehensive about watching it because I didn't think it would be good. I was pleasantly surprised. Some scenes were chillingly creepy and produced some chills and genuine excitement, which made up for the films shortcomings of average performances and predictable and dull in places storyline. Ryan Guzman was a thoroughly convincing certified weird psychopath with superficial easy to fall for charm.
It is easy to see why this film was overlooked and it isn't particularly a game changing in it's genre but for a chill out easy to watch film that is somewhat exciting whilst not regarding you to think to much, it's a good film worthy of any rainy day.


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The 10 most popular Zen Pencils comics of 2013
Hey everyone, I hope you all had a nice Xmas holiday (if you celebrate it). To see out the year, here are the 10 most popular Zen Pencils comics of 2013. This list is based purely on page hits and traffic. Is your favourite comic here? Read on to find out!
A fantastic quote always makes my job a lot easier and this Leary quote does a lot of the work for me. I'm not sure if people got that I was paying respects to one of the fathers of the pscheydellic era by drawing those trippy images. Either way, those panels were a blast to draw.
A remarkable story that I just had to acknowledge and I was glad to bring attention to Malala to some people who weren't aware of what happened to her. It's my most violent and confronting comic – shame that it's based on real events.
It was so cool that Chris Hadfield tweeted this comic from space! He loved it and has been very supportive of my work since. I pinch myself when the people I'm featuring acknowledge my work and sometimes even reach out to me. This was a great quote that resonated with a lot of students. If you would like more great astronaut advice, Chris's autobiography An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth was released a few months ago.
Another very popular 'life-advice' strip. I've gotten a lot of positive feedback from students or people just entering the work force from this comic and it's always nice to hear when a Zen Pencils comic turn's on a switch in someone's head or makes them see life in a completely different way.
Some people were highly offended that I compared social media users to drug addicts. Oh well, I've learnt that I can't please everyone with my adaptations. Judging from it's popularity, it looks like most people agreed with my comparison, or at least got what I was trying to express. Marc Maron did see it (he retweeted it on Twitter) but I'm not sure what he thought of it. I hope that I at least turned a few new people onto his awesome podcast. This comic was adapted into a cool animated video by reader Jess the Dragoon.
This comic produced another 'pinch myself' moment as not only did John Green like the comic, he even got in touch with me and we had a very pleasant Skype chat. As if that wasn't enough, he even offered to sell the poster version through his DFTBA online shop! What a guy. I really enjoyed trying to capture a steampunk look and I can't wait to feature the little boy genius inventor again.
I knew I would adapt Carl Sagan's most famous quote as soon as I thought of creating Zen Pencils. It took me over a year to be confident enough to finally do it. It's one of my favourite quotes and I still get chills when I listen to Sagan recite it.
It was daunting trying to adapt this poem as Taylor Mali's spoken word performance of it is already so powerful. That's why I really tried to push the 'cartooniness' of this strip and use comic devices that could never be replicated in a real-life performance. Hence the steam coming out of Taylor's ears, the snapping of the spoon and fork, the running over the table, the giant bully etc. It's the ultimate compliment that Taylor now uses the images from the comic in a slideshow behind him while he's reciting his poem. When he told me that, I just had to (you guessed it) pinch myself :). To add to the pinch factor, here's a picture of Taylor with the poster hanging proudly in his office.
I'm honoured that this comic got shared so much as I'm definitely no expert on either women or love (as my wife would attest). It was probably not the most popular decision to end their relationship in last week's comic. I'm eager to see what happens with the girl next. Will she find love again? Or will these two get back together? I have no idea.
I was blown away by how popular this comic was – I was honestly not expecting it. It was picked up by the HuffPost, Gawker and various other outlets. One thing's for sure, it's definitely my most personal comic (well this and last year's Advice for Beginners). Not only did I pay tribute to my cartooning hero and the comic strip that made a deep impression on my childhood, but the story of the man leaving his corporate job to start a more fulfilling career on his own is obviously very close to my own story and the creation of Zen Pencils. It's hard to explain, but that all combined in a weird alchemy to produce a comic that a lot of people could connect with. I guess the struggle for the perfect work/life/passion/money balance is one we all share. That, and the fact that Calvin and Hobbes has millions of fans just like me around the world. It was also amusing that a lot of people not familiar with Zen Pencils thought Bill Watterson actually drew it!
Well, that's it, the best of 2013. Was your favourite here? If it wasn't, share your fave comic in the comments. Zen Pencils will be taking a little break over the holiday season – I'm heading to Singapore and Burma for a couple of weeks. My heritage is Burmese, but my parents migrated to Australia in 1975 (I was born in '82) and I've never visited. So I'm looking forward to 'going back to my roots' and have my parents show me where they grew up and what my life could have been like.
Zen Pencils will return in mid January. I'm not sure exactly when because I haven't figured out what my next comic will be. I don't have any comics done in advance – I wish I did, but I just can't work that fast. I hope you have a safe and happy holidays and I will catch you in the new year!
– Gav