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Gov. Jerry Brown is not known for giving long speeches. Wednesday's State of the State address, his second since returning to office, is not likely to be any different.
But here's what will be different.
Brown has concluded that it makes no sense to negotiate with Republicans in the legislature, as he did in 2011, on a budget deal that includes temporary taxes.
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Brown incorrectly felt that he could draw upon his long political experience to strike a compromise. What he found is that the Capitol culture has changed considerably from when he was governor from 1975 to 1983.
Term limits has done away with relationships of old. Lawmakers are more rigid. The Capitol is much more polarized. It's something Brown should've been more aware of.
Perhaps he was, and simply overestimated his ability to use his personal and political skills to clear partisan hurdles.
A good example of that divide comes from Sen. Mark Wyland, R-Palm Desert, who is denouncing the governor's tax proposals.
"I cannot understand why the governor and the majority party remain committed to growing government and taking more money from taxpayers," Wyland said in a statement.
In 2012, Brown is swapping the insider horse trading at the Capitol for a broad statewide appeal to voters. So his address Wednesday will be to a joint session of the legislature, but he's really speaking to a statewide audience. This will, in essence, be the kickoff of Brown's campaign for a tax package he'll put before voters in November.
We won't know details of what will Brown will say ahead of time. Last year, we were told he was still tweaking his speech up until just before he delivered it. But it's not hard to guess.
Brown's theme will be that there's no free lunch. If voters want to stop cuts to popular programs, such as public education and the state's universities and community colleges, he will argue, then they need to consider paying more in the form of temporary taxes.
Brown knows he has to make a compelling case, in light of critics who say he's making political threats to cut these programs. He'll need to convince the public that he's laying out hard choices, and that voters must make a reasoned decision.
Voters are going to be skeptical, which is why Brown will argue that his administration has taken credible steps to bring the budget into balance, with $13 billion in cuts last year. He'll probably make reference to his moves to eliminate cell phones, reduce take-home cars, and impose a hiring freeze. None of those amount to large savings, but they are symbolically powerful.
Brown may address pension reform Wednesday, as another means of reducing future spending. He may talk about the state water bond on the November ballot, and his support for the troubled high-speed rail system.
But the speech will set the foundation for his tax campaign. That campaign begins immediately. Brown has already announced he's hitting the road, addressing a group at LA City Hall on Wednesday afternoon, meeting with teachers in Burbank later that day, then traveling to Orange County and San Diego on Thursday.
Brown spent much of 2011 in Sacramento. He'll be a lot scarcer at the Capitol in 2012.
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In order to truly understand racism, we need to understand where it comes from. I would guess that many black folks have a basic understanding of the beginnings. And in the same vein, I would guess that most white folks don't.
One of the biggest problems surrounding race relations in this country is that the powers that be have worked really hard to eliminate the harshest parts of the history of racism. We are still close enough to it in time that black folks have the legacy of it in their families through oral traditions, as well as systemic and cultural trappings. They must keep talking about it because it's necessary for their family's safety.
White folks have no need of continuing the discussion of racism. Generally speaking, whites have the privilege of exemption from worrying that one of our children will be killed for their skin color. Clearly, there are exceptions to this rule, like parents of biracial children.
Once slavery and the Jim Crow era were erased from our law books, the educational system began erasing it from our history books. White families didn't sit around talking about the good old days of slavery and segregation (well, not all of them anyway). It has become our shameful past. People rarely discuss shameful histories in earnest.
And while the basics of slavery are still in our history books, we don't discuss the long-term ramifications that it had on the people who underwent slavery. Ergo, we don't talk about how we can fix it.
But in this post, I'm looking far earlier than slavery, because that's not how racism started. Slavery (as well as the Holocaust) in the U.S. was the pinnacle and the boiling point, but there were circumstances that made it possible.
So with that intro, I decided a while back that I needed to understand with more clarity how we got there in the first place.
I recently read, Racism: A Short History, by George M. Frederickson, originally published in 2002.
This book starts long before slavery and examines the reasons why slavery was even able to happen in the first place.
For starters, racism was invented. Yep. It's not evolutionary. It's an invention by mankind. I think this is a powerful thing to know. Because if we can invent it, then that means we are not controlled by it under some genetic force. And if we can invent it, then we can erase it. It's also important to point out because it forces us to all acknowledge that those uncomfortable and/or fearful feelings we get in certain times and around certain places are something that we learned. They are not based on some natural instinctual need for survival.
Next up, this is important to understand. Racism is not just feeling.
"But racism as I conceive it is not not merely an attitude or set of beliefs; it also expresses itself in the practices, institutions and structures that a sense of deep differences justifies or validates."
Racism is still alive and well in our country. Just because our brown skinned brothers and sisters are free and potentially able to have the same opportunities as whites, doesn't mean that they do. Many of our institutions are set up to deny them access based on various sets of factors.
"It (racism) either directly sustains or proposes to establish a racial order, a permanent group hierarchy that is believed to reflect the laws of nature or the decrees of God."
How Racism Started
Sooo, just how did racism begin, you want to know?
One word. Religion.
Yup. That's right.
Shocking, I know.
The origins of racism didn't actually start with hatred toward African people. There is no proof that hatred of dark skin existed in the ancient world. It all started with Christians and Jews.
"The notion that Jews were collectively and hereditarily responsible for the worst possible human crime– deicide– created a powerful incentive for persecution."
That was only the beginning, however. All this did was allow for one group of people to oppress another group of people. Jews were given the option of conversion, which would absolve them of their cultivated crime. This did not meet the criteria to be considered racism because it was something they could change. To be considered racist, the oppressed person must have characteristics that are inherent and unchangeable.
This persecution didn't end with the Jews, however. It was extended to the Slavs and the Irish in Europe.
"As the core of Catholic Europe expanded, conquering and colonizing the periphery of the continent attitudes of superiority to indigenous populations anticipated the feelings of dominance and entitlement that would characterize the later expansion of Europeans into Asia, Antartica and the Americas."
In Medieval Europe, intolerance extended to just about any group, "whose beliefs or behavior smacked of heresy or deviance at a time when religious and moral conformity were being demanded…"
At this point, you may be saying to yourself, "But this has nothing to do with racism. Religious persecution is not the same thing. And we all know that the Jews were persecuted for their beliefs."
Yes, you're right.
It seems at this point that white over black racism did not have direct roots in the Medieval European religious persecution. But in a moment, you will see how it happened quite quickly. Read on.
Throughout the late Middle Ages, there were signs that religious persecution was turning toward racial persecution. During the Spanish Inquisition, there were many Jews who chose to convert rather than be expelled. This created suspicion that they were secret Jews, rather than true converts. This led to what some would say an inevitable consequence of defining those who had "Jewish blood," thus leading to the doctrine, "limpieza de sangre" or "purity of blood." This eventually lead to laws and the necessity of blood purity certificates needed to enter into specific institutions and organizations.
"It is also highly significant that from the very beginning of the settlement of the Americas, only those thought to be of pure Christian ancestry were permitted to join the ranks of the conquistadores and missionaries."
So how does this connect to American racism and slavery?
As you may know, slavery was not a new concept for America. During history, slaves had been kept all over the world. They were also various colors and generally speaking, slavery was not based on skin color, but on your station in life. Even Africans participated in slavery. They had their own slaves and there were African slave traders who helped capture and sold slaves to the Europeans.
But slavery is not the same as racism. However, racism was necessary in order to convert continued slavery into racism.
See, at this point, late in the 17th century, slavery was alive and well in the U.S. And it was also at this point that race began to play a larger factor in who were slaves and who weren't. The Catholics were still working out which set of people were inherently evil sinners. There was some question about whether the Africans were cursed, because initially they were thought to have darker skin due to their climate. But the Brazilians were noted to have much lighter skin, even though they came from a similar climate.
At the same time, it was noted by explorer Alexander von Humboldt that, "In Spain it is a kind of title of nobility not to descend from Jews or Moors. In America, the skin, more or less white, is what dictates the class that an individual occupies in society. A white, even if he rides barefoot on horseback, considers himself to be a member of the nobility of the country."
However, there was a problem. So far, it was considered that baptism could absolve a person from their inherited curses. The Jews had always been given the option of converting rather than being killed or expelled.
This notion of absolution, and impending freedom from captivity, became a major problem for white slave owners.
"Relatively little mission work was carried out among the slaves because of the masters' expectation that baptism would give them a claim to freedom."
So, remember that curse? The one that Africans might have because of having darker skin than the Brazilians?
The curse had been common knowledge among slave traders since the sixteenth century and used as an explanation of why Africans had much darker skin.
"Racial identities were fixed for all time by divine decree… that consigned blacks to perpetual slavery."
The U.S. cemented the curse into law in the late seventeenth century in Virginia a "made it clear that conversion did not entail freedom."
And so slavery was, at that point, clearly defined on race, and nothing else.
The Ending
This book was very enlightening and goes on to explain the rise of modern racism and racism in the twenty first century. The history of religious persecution and how it directly relates to slavery is also outlined in much better detail. I should note, for my Christian readers, that there were some Christian thought leaders of the time who spoke out against enslavement. But they were clearly in the minority and other than writing against it, nothing much else was done in favor of the African slaves.
If you are interested in more on the history of racism, I highly recommend this book .

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We're all happy for Katy Perry now that Brit comic Russell Brand put a ring on it, but keep the sweet nothings to yourself, please.
"I always knew I wanted a great man of God, someone who was going to be an inspiration for people and also be a lovely husband and father," Perry told Harper's Bazaar. "We're at different places in our lives, but we can still grow together. He's thought-provoking, articulate, a real advocate. I also definitely wanted to have a laugh. I have all that in him."
Okay, the 35-year-old "Get Him to the Greek" actor is hilarious. He's likely articulate and he may well be a lovely husband and father. It's the "man of God" part that throws us. Then again, why not?
U.S. & World
The day's top national and international news.
The couple tied the knot in India Oct. 23 in a private ceremony.
Perry, 25, is on more solid ground talking about herself.
"I'm kind of a good girl -- and I'm not," she said. "I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have my sex appeal in my deck of cards."
Selected Reading: Harper's Bazaar, People, New York Post.


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How hack WEBSITE ???
As we know traces are very important. Please don't ignore them otherwise you can be in big trouble for simply doing nothing. so please take care of this step.
The primary form of SQL injection consists of direct insertion of code into user-input variables that are concatenated with SQL commands and executed. A less direct attack injects malicious code into strings that are destined for storage in a table or as metadata. When the stored strings are subsequently concatenated into a dynamic SQL command, the malicious code is executed.
• Search Engines
• Login Forms
• Comment Fields
Cross-site scripting holes are web application vulnerabilities that allow attackers to bypass client-side security mechanisms normally imposed on web content by modern browsers. By finding ways of injecting malicious scripts into web pages, an attacker can gain elevated access privileges to sensitive page content, session cookies, and a variety of other information maintained by the browser on behalf of the user. Cross-site scripting attacks are therefore a special case of code injection.
I will explain this in detail in later hacking classes. So keep reading..
Remote file inclusion is the most often found vulnerability on the website.
Remote File Inclusion (RFI) occurs when a remote file, usually a shell (a graphical interface for browsing remote files and running your own code on a server), is included into a website which allows the hacker to execute server side commands as the current logged on user, and have access to files on the server. With this power the hacker can continue on to use local
exploits to escalate his privileges and take over the whole system.
RFI can lead to following serious things on website :
- Code execution on the web server
- Code execution on the client-side such as Javascript which can lead to other attacks such as cross site scripting (XSS).
- Denial of Service (DoS)
- Data Theft/Manipulation
Local File Inclusion (LFI) is when you have the ability to browse through the server by means of directory transversal. One of the most common uses of LFI is to discover the /etc/passwd file. This file contains the user information of a Linux system. Hackers find sites vulnerable to LFI the same way I discussed for RFI's.
Let's say a hacker found a vulnerable site, www.target-site.com/index.php?p=about, by means of directory transversal he would try to browse to the /etc/passwd file:
www.target-site.com/index.php?p= ../../../../../../../etc/passwd
I will explain it in detail with practical websites example in latter sequential classes on Website Hacking.


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Only the obscurity of the badge stands between this and a place at the top table at the seven-seat MPV party. Looks great, is terrific to drive and packs a VW diesel.
The downside to the Grandis's agility is a certain stiffness in the ride. There's also a fair bit of vibration and tyre noise at speed which makes long distances harder work than they should be in something this big.
There are two engines to choose from, neither of which is a sure fire winner. Both petrol and diesel take around 11 seconds to see off 60mph, but the slightly noisy diesel at least can provide dramatically superior fuel economy.
In the inherently uncool world of the large MPV the Grandis at least looks the part. And the fact that it's half-decent to drive gives it another edge over the usual mumsy fair out there.
Bold, swoopy interior design can't quite hide the fact that some of the plastics are a bit cheap. The diesel engine is sourced from Volkswagen though, so that should be very strong.
You'd be forgiven for thinking we were having you on, but the Grandis actually drives really well. It sits lower than most MPVs, meaning it doesn't roll much, and the steering is sharp and fairly communicative.
This is what it all boils down to with MPVs, and the Grandis isn't to be found wanting. A proper seven-seat configuration that folds and concertinas and all sorts. It's not the biggest or easiest to use, but it's right up there.
Running costs
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Amid the government-funded rush to upgrade America's aging electric system to a smart grid comes a strange confluence of press releases this week by the White House and the University of Illinois.
Tuesday morning, President Obama, speaking at Florida Power and Light (FPL) facilities, announced $3.4 billion in grants to utility companies, municipal districts and manufacturers to spur a nationwide transition to smart-grid technologies and fund other energy-saving initiatives as part of the economic stimulus package.
FPL will receive $200 million to install 2.6 million smart meters and other technologies that promise to reduce energy costs for customers. CenterPoint Energy in Houston, Texas, gets $200 million to install 2.2 million smart meters (.pdf) and more than 550 sensors and automated switches. Baltimore Gas and Electric in Maryland is another $200-million recipient.
Strange, then, that another press release distributed Monday by the Information Trust Institute at the University of Illinois announces a grant of $18.8 million to four academic institutions to fund a five-year research project into securing the power grid. The project is supposed to make certain that the smart meters and other devices implemented by power companies can resist hackers and other attackers.
The latter grant, from the U.S. Departments of Energy and Homeland Security, provides funding to the Institute, along with Dartmouth College, the University of California at Davis in California and Washington State University for a research program called Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid.
"It reflects a strong consensus that cybersecurity and resilience will be critical to the realization of a modernized, reliable, and efficient power grid, so that it will be able to guarantee delivery of electricity to consumers and maintain critical operations, even when malicious cyber attacks occur," reads the press release.
The only problem is, by the time the research project is completed, most of the nation will have already adopted untested and unsecured technologies.
How do we know they're insecure?
Earlier this year IOActive, a computer security firm in Washington state, was contracted to examine the security of smart meters deployed by an unnamed utility company in the northwest. Mike Davis, an IOActive security consultant, and his fellow researchers developed a malicious worm that, in a simulated attack, was able to spread from meter to meter to take out power in more than 15,000 homes in 24 hours. Davis says IOActive submitted his findings to the Department of Homeland Security. DHS, in response to a Threat Level FOIA request, said it can't find the report in its files.
"Given the degree of seriousness that the Obama administration is applying to cybersecurity and the smart grid, we can look forward to the kind of things happening here that happened to Brazil, where hackers successfully brought down the power," says Richard Clarke (at right), chairman of the Good Harbor security consulting firm and former special adviser to President George W. Bush on cybersecurity.
Clarke is referring to veiled reports made last year by the CIA's chief cybersecurity officer, Tom Donahue, that extortionists had taken down the power grid in multiple regions outside the United States. The location of those outages has never been publicly identified.
"Smart grid" refers to the transition from the current, outdated power-grid infrastructure to a more technologically advanced structure that allows expanded real-time monitoring and energy delivery that's more efficient and cost effective for utilities and consumers. The technology promises to solve a number of problems, but it also (as the Illinois press release states) could "introduce new problems, such as increasing the vulnerability to cyber attack as power grid resources become increasingly linked to the internet."
"The concern is that the existing technologies can't offer [security] guarantees, and that we could even open the door to new risks if we carelessly put together new systems that don't have resilience and security guarantees built in from the ground up," explained Ilesanmi Adesida, dean of the College of Engineering at Illinois, in the Information Trust Institute's press release.
So why would the federal government accelerate the adoption of insecure technologies at the same time it touts cybersecurity as one of the nation's biggest national security concerns?
According to the Department of Energy, the government has the smart-grid security issues under control.
Spokeswoman Jen Stutsman said all the entities awarded smart-grid funds under Obama's $3.4 billion stimulus grant were required to submit a cybersecurity plan with their proposal.
"Each application was examined by at least two interoperability and cybersecurity experts, and it was a central component to the selection criteria for each of the awards," Stutsman said.
Stutsman wouldn't identify the experts who reviewed the cybersecurity plans or provide details about the plans applicants submitted.
According to the grant-proposal requirements, each applicant was required to submit a summary of known cybersecurity risks (.pdf) and explain how the applicant would mitigate them. They also had to identify the cybersecurity criteria they used for selecting vendors and technologies and the cybersecurity standards or best practices they planned to follow. And they had to explain how they would adapt to new standards that might emerge – such as those being developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Stutsman, addressing why the government would urge the move to smart meters before researchers had fully examined them, said that DoE "has spent years researching cybersecurity issues" and is "constantly and on a continuing basis ... putting in place policies and programs that will help us gather more information."
While the department is modernizing the electrical grid and using knowledge it already has, she said it will continue to apply new information as it becomes known. The government, she said, will continue to monitor utilities and others "to ensure that we are taking every step we can to secure the country's electric grid."
Himanshu Khurana, principal scientist for the Information Trust Institute's power-grid research project, noted that many of the grants to utility companies and municipalities are for a three-year period.
"So there is still time between something being announced and everything being deployed for making sure that the technologies" are evaluated, he said.
Separate to his Institute's research grant, Khurana belongs to a team that has been contracted by one of the utility companies that received a federal grant. His team's job will be to help evaluate the utility company's network and the technologies it plans to deploy and perhaps develop needed software.
"So people have reached out to cybersecurity experts and formed appropriate teams," he said. "Now, it's hard to provide assurance right now that everything is going to go safe. But the plan is feasible and there has been a lot of weight given to cybersecurity in the administration's grants."
Clarke is not so confident.
"We have no way of having any confidence that there's any cybersecurity plans since we don't know anything about the qualifications of the experts who examined them or the criteria they're using to judge them," he said. "In the absence of someone like the NSA or the cybercenter at DHS [to certify every smart-grid proposal], there's no reason to believe they're taking security seriously."
More important than asking companies to submit a cybersecurity plan for future technologies, he says, is to require that utility companies and energy distributors pass an audit for their current state of security.
He says he's spoken with auditing firms that have examined utility companies and energy distributors and found that – in every case – they were able to infiltrate the company's production SCADA system (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) from the public internet in less than an hour.
"No grant should be given to any company that doesn't pass an audit today with its existing system," he said. "Paper audits are worthless. Real-world audits are what count. So if the company today has flagrantly bad performance with regard to cybersecurity, then it shouldn't win an award for new technology until it fixes that problem."
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co.mon, or a fine pattern is a brand of clothes and fashion sundries, Japanese style of which is of essence, is produced by using original fabrics, kimono materials, obi sash belts cloth, etc. made by Edo traditional dyeing crafters. Funs produce things based upon essence of Japanese marvelous and traditional cultures as well as Food, Clothing and Housing as a matter of course.
There are still some crafters in Tokyo who have inherited Japanese classic cultures. Young successors have been fostered. Skills are used in those commodities of co.mon. Those skills are old but their relation with the crafters handing down WARMTH breathing for a long period of time is important as well in concept of a brand of co.mon.
Meisen is a textile very popular in the early Edo era, a pattern of which is made by dyed warp joined together with dyed weft. Various kinds of sophisticated patterns can hardly be produced today. It took more than two to three months to weave a bolt of cloth. It was time-consuming and painstaking work of conservative and high quality textile, different from dyeing.


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"We simply didn't turn up in the first leg," Sofiane Feghouli said after Valencia CF fell just short in Paris, though Jérémy Mathieu took comfort in knowing his side "gave everything".
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Midfielder Sofiane Feghouli felt Valencia CF "deserved to win" their round of 16 decider at Paris Saint Germain FC, while defender Jérémy Mathieu said his side left the UEFA Champions League with heads held high after they "gave everything" to overturn a 2-1 first-leg deficit – though they could only draw 1-1 in Paris. "We simply didn't turn up in the first leg," reflected Feghouli ruefully.
Sofiane Feghouli, Valencia midfielder
I felt we deserved to win the game. We dominated from start to finish. We just didn't get the little break we needed to score the second goal and put more doubt in their minds. PSG deserve to go through overall and I wish them good luck. We simply didn't turn up in the first leg – it was very frustrating. Tonight we believed we could go through. It didn't happen, though, so now we have to concentrate on the league and try to get back into the UEFA Champions League next season.
Jérémy Mathieu, Valencia defender
We're disappointed to be out of the competition, but we gave everything we could in the second leg. We really played to the best of our ability and we were close to going through. Unfortunately, when you concede two goals at home it becomes very difficult. The first leg cost us in the end. We weren't focused enough and didn't defend their counterattacks well enough.
Ezequiel Lavezzi was a handful again because he's fast and intelligent with it. It's good to test yourself against players like that, but I don't think PSG were brilliant tonight. Everything was decided in the first leg.
Aly Cissokho, Valencia defender
We learned our lessons from the first leg when they did a lot of damage on the break. We knew we needed to be more solid as a unit, keep the ball well in midfield and try to create chances. That's what we did, but unfortunately luck wasn't on our side.
At 1-0 we believed in our chances. We saw they were looking worried and didn't seem to know whether to attack or defend. As a team, they don't have a lot of UEFA Champions League experience, but they're individually strong and they held on. It was a good fast-paced match. Congratulations to PSG – they deserve to go through. Regardless of the fact it sent us out, I think a draw was a good result here.


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FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) Wes Eikmeier scored a season high 21 points leading Colorado State to its seventh consecutive win, beating St. Bonaventure 85-64 on Saturday.
Dorian Green added 19 points and Colton Iverson had his sixth double-double of the season for Colorado State (13-2). Every player scored as the Rams improved to 9-0 at home and matched the school's longest home winning streak at 22.
Matthew Wright led St. Bonaventure (7-6) with 12 points. Charlon Kroof and Chris Johnson had 10 each for the Bonnies, who lost their third straight and fifth in a row on the road.
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Chris Brown showed off the cover of his new album, "Graffiti" via his Twitter account on Monday.
The cover features a spectacle-wearing Brown holding a guitar over his shoulder in a gloved hand, while his other hand – which appears to be part bionic — is holding a spray canister. And in the bottom corner…. Ya know? … Strange cartoon animals (what else?).
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Brown's new album is due out on December 15 on Jive Records.
Also released on Monday were images from Brown's new video, "Crawl," which co-stars singer Cassie in the clip.
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Brown recently began the roll out of his comeback, performing at the Power 105.1 Powerhouse '09 last month in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
In his first major performance since pleading guilty to one count of felony assault against his ex-girlfriend Rihanna in June, Chris reportedly followed openers The-Dream, Fabolous, Day26, Trey Songz, Keri Hilson and Mario with a set that included his new single, "I Can Transform Ya," as well as "Wall To Wall," "Gimme That" and "With You" before closing with "Forever."
Chris took the stage in a sparkling red and black outfit reminiscent of his idol Michael Jackson's "Thriller"-era style, seemingly in homage to the late pop star. The set reportedly featured "high-powered dancing," with Chris showing off his moves alongside backing dancers in motorcycle helmets.
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Other stars at the performance told MTV News they were glad to see Chris back on stage.
"Chris is a performer. In spite of all that's been going on in his personal life, he's gonna get out there and perform," Trey Songz said. "I'm confident in that. As a friend, as a brother, I wanna see him go out there and shut it down. I believe everybody deserves a second chance. In God's eyes, none of us are perfect, and he forgives us every day. He deserves a second chance, and I commend Power 105 for giving it to him."
Producer Polow Da Don also praised Brown's return to the stage.
"Excuse my French, but that muthaf***in' boy killed that s***!" he said. "The energy was crazy. You could tell that's something that's missing in the game. He's the absolute truth. He's the future."
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When I decried Apple's wishy washy stance toward iPhone porn, I was on to something. iPhone porn viewing won't magically disappear because of a lack of official support. And with the constant rise of internet pornography, malicious sites are taking advantage of unwary users. So, rather than avoiding the issue of sex, why not commercialise a safe, phishing-free app or suite of apps for porn users? It has been a long time coming (pun?), but thanks to Sexapp Shop and the Premier App Shop, now there is a way. While not downloadable via iTunes or the App Store, Sexshop apps are real, legal apps which use "Apple-approved technology", but the best bit is that from purchase to play, the process is discreet and mindful of the user's privacy.
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Based on a comparison of corporate governance initiatives in Asia with those in other parts of the world, the notion of an "Anglo-Saxon" or "Asian" governance model is irrelevant. The pace and flavor of corporate governance reform vary from country to country, depending on a country's particular regulatory and legal environment, the extent of government support, companies' recognition of the need for change, and the strength of the country's governance infrastructure. Governments, stock exchanges, and private sector groups across the region, however, have accepted that certain governance standards need to be followed to keep up with the pace of globalization.


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Mexico now seeing wave of immigrants
MONTERREY, Mexico — When Pete Navarro showed up three years ago in this industrial city a few hours' drive from the border, he spoke barely a word of Spanish and hardly knew a soul.
The San Antonio resident, who went to Jay High School, lost his legal residency in December 2009 and was deported to his native Mexico. He hadn't been there since he was a child, and the only people he knew were his aunt and her family. He left his parents and two children in San Antonio.
"So when I got here, my two cousins were my best friends, because they could speak English," Navarro said.
Navarro, 33, has taken part in a historic migration. For the first time in decades, more people are moving from the U.S. to Mexico than are coming to the U.S. from Mexico, the Pew Hispanic Center reported in April. Some, like Navarro, are deported, but the vast majority came to Mexico voluntarily, according to the report.
It can be difficult for those who come voluntarily and involuntarily. Many struggle with the language, have trouble in Mexican schools and find it difficult to integrate into Mexican society.
But they also find opportunity, often thanks to the English they learned growing up north of the Rio Grande.
It took Navarro only a few days to find an industry waiting with open arms to accept workers from the wave of more than a million people who have moved from the U.S. to Mexico in recent years: call centers.
The Monterrey call center industry employs thousands, many of them English speakers who grew up in the U.S. The city, with a population of 1.14 million and with millions more in the metro area, primarily is a manufacturing center. But in the past decade, a burgeoning call center industry has cropped up, said Roberto Fuerte, executive director of the northeast Mexico chapter of the United States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce.
The phone operations provide a range of services and don't all require top-flight English, so many are staffed by students from the area's several universities, Fuerte said.
But the centers provide a landing place for English-speakers marching south.
"When that Pew study came out, it was interesting to see it in an academic format," said Bill Colton, a Washington businessman and the president of a small Monterrey call center. "But it was in no way surprising to people here."
Colton's Global Telesourcing, where Navarro is one of about 300 employees, mostly hires people who spent their formative years in the U.S.
That means they speak excellent English, understand U.S. slang and are familiar with the products they're selling, such as Internet, cable and cellphone services. Many have worked at Monterrey's larger call centers, Colton said.
"Because the level of (sales) agent we're able to attract in Mexico is much better than the same dollars we would be able to buy in the U.S., we're a much better call center," Colton said. "These guys you couldn't attract to work at a call center in the U.S."
No welcome mat
That's certainly true of Navarro, who said he was making a better living as an auto mechanic, a skill he'd learned at St. Phillip's College, before he was deported.
He'd recently divorced his wife and won custody of his children in 2009 when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested him at his South Side home and deported him over a pair of years-old marijuana possession charges. Now, he lives alone in Monterrey while his children remain in San Antonio with his parents.
"The fact that these guys came to my door one day, it changed my life," Navarro said. "It flipped everything around."
He likes working on cars, but in Mexico, it doesn't pay nearly as well as the call center. Navarro said he made about $1,200 a week in San Antonio. Today, he makes about $500, a pretty sum in most parts of Mexico, but not in Monterrey, one of the most expensive cities in the country.
His neighborhood in a suburb is quiet, Navarro said, and his small house is an upgrade from the rat-infested building he'd rented before. Monterrey sees almost daily violence from Mexico's drug war, but it's easy to miss among the millions of people. Navarro said he has come upon the aftermath of shootouts before.
One day, waiting for a train to pass while riding in a friend's car, Navarro said, he heard noises that sounded like someone was throwing rocks at the train.
"Two minutes later, the train passed by," he said. "We started moving through the traffic. Once we got over the train tracks, there was a truck riddled with bullets and there were three or four guys dead inside of it."
He misses the U.S., Navarro said. He's had a hard time adjusting to the culture — for one thing, personal space isn't given a premium in Mexico, he said — and he gets a hostile reaction when people on the bus hear him speaking English. But he has been able to find friends who work at Global Telesourcing and other call centers.
"Outside of this call center, I really don't have a life," he said. "I don't know any Spanish and I don't have friends outside of here."
He's not alone in his struggles. Many return migrants struggle when they leave the U.S. for Mexico, said Ted Hamann, a professor at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln who has studied return migration — particularly students who are trying to enter school. Mexico doesn't have a way to effectively integrate the English-speaking children of its citizens into the school system, Hamann said.
And the number of people facing these problems is growing. The Pew study found that from 2005 to 2010, about 1.4 million people moved from Mexico to the U.S., but during those five years slightly more Mexican immigrants and their U.S.-born children moved south.
"The standstill appears to be the result of many factors, including the weakened U.S. job and housing construction markets, heightened border enforcement, a rise in deportations, the growing dangers associated with illegal border crossings, the long-term decline in Mexico's birth rates and broader economic conditions in Mexico," the report states.
Young people living illegally in the U.S. or immigrants with undocumented family members often see a dim economic future after high school, said Nolvia Cortez, a professor in the English-language teaching program at the Universidad de Sonora. Add in the hostility they see in state laws targeting immigrants, fear of deportation and lack of an opportunity to go to college, and moving to Mexico sometimes looks better than remaining trapped in the American lower class.
"So they decide to leave these shadowed lives and try to start something new in Mexico," Cortez said.
But immigrants who grew up in the U.S. often have mixed feelings about returning to Mexico, Hamann said.
"We have documented a lot of interest in returning to the U.S. and to continuing studies in the U.S., but that interest isn't quite universal," he wrote in an email.
Dream reversed
Jaime Amaro, 39, has climbed the ranks at Global Telesourcing in the past three years. A green-card holder like Navarro, he bought a house this summer in a middle-class suburb big enough for him, his wife, their new baby and his stepdaughter. The light fixtures in the house came from Home Depot, Amaro shops at H-E-B and on his day off he watches NFL Sunday Ticket.
It's the American Dream, in reverse.
"Here, (a sales) agent starts from scratch, and in 2½ years, they can buy a house," Amaro said. "I was able to buy a house in a private community. It would have taken me forever in the U.S. to have that kind of opportunity."
Colton, the Global Telesourcing president, said that's what makes his company successful. In the U.S., call center jobs are at the low end of the economic spectrum. In Monterrey and other parts of Mexico, English- language call centers are competitive with maquiladora pay. And for shops that handle high-end sales in English, the compensation puts employees squarely in Mexico's middle class.
Amaro went to high school in Rosenberg, near Houston, and attended ITT Technical Institute. Five years ago, he left the States to help his brother run a car repair shop in the Monterrey area.
Since then, he met a woman and married, found a job at Global Telesourcing and now is director of operations at the call center.
"When I first moved to Mexico, there were a lot of things I missed from the States, from the food or you just get used to a certain lifestyle," Amaro said. "But I knew if I worked hard I could have that lifestyle. And it's true, I have it."
Difficult adjustment
For family members of those who find employment in Monterrey, the transition can be more difficult.
Sandra Lisbeth Ibarra should be starting her freshman year of high school, but instead she spends her days reading anime books on her iPad.
Sandra, 15, was born in San Antonio. She went to Bonham Academy and was an A and B student, she said.
But a year ago, seeking better economic opportunities for her father and educational opportunities for her brother, Ibarra's family moved to Monterrey.
Her father got a job at his family's auto shop, and her brother has a job as a telemarketer, but Ibarra, her mom and younger sister are stuck at home.
They left a pair of new vehicles in San Antonio because they'd be targets for a car-jacking in their rough neighborhood near downtown Monterrey. The family regularly hears gunfire at night, Sandra said.
Sandra doesn't speak Spanish so she can't go to school, and she doesn't know how to navigate the city.
"At first I thought it was going to be OK, but we spent a year here and we haven't advanced at all," Sandra said. "I really want to go back because I don't want to stay here anymore, but I don't want to leave my mom. We don't have a car. We don't have anything to go out, only my dad's truck, and he takes it to work."
Kenia Hernandez said she felt the same way when she arrived in Monterrey two years ago.
At age 16, she wanted to be back with her friends in Colorado, and live the middle-class existence that allowed her parents to purchase whatever she wanted, even though her family didn't have papers. She tried to sign up for school, but was told she'd have to go back to seventh grade. Hernandez said she is uncomfortable speaking Spanish to anyone but her family.
"Since my dad was still over there, I would call him and cry and say I wanted to go back," she said. "I could see on Facebook what my friends were doing."
When her father left his construction job in the States and joined her and her mother in Monterrey, Hernandez realized she'd have to get a job.
"Now it's harder, now that my dad's over here. He was making $1,000 a week, but now he's making 1,000 pesos (less than $100)," she said.
At 18, she's now the chief wage-earner for her family and a top seller at Global Telesourcing. Hernandez attends school on the weekends and said she will graduate next summer. She's not that interested in moving back to the U.S. anymore, she said.
"Everybody knows that English is the biggest opportunity you can have right now in Mexico, even if you don't have high school (education)," she said.
Navarro, the San Antonio auto mechanic who was deported, isn't as committed to Mexico.
He could afford a house, he said, but prefers to rent and take the bus to work. He's living on the bare necessities, trying to find a way back to the U.S.
"It's like the saying, home is where your heart's at," Navarro said. "My heart is with my two kids and they're in San Antonio."


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So after an odd series of events that I can't quite explain, I'm now going to be a server instead of a cook at my job. I think my boss basically hired someone else to do my job and I was placed in a server position instead. Looking back, I do vaguely remember him saying that he may do that at some point, but my Japanese isn't 100% so I think I didn't understand it at that time. Fuck I'm so awkward in front of people. Hopefully I don't blow it.
This coming semester I'm taking 16 units (not the 18 that I originally thought). Tea Ceremony and Tea Culture, Modern Japanese Lit, Reading and Analysis of Cultural Texts (for GWAR), Japanese American Art and Lit (for Segment 3), and Geology Lecture/Lab. I basically have class everyday so any SFSU people hit me up and we can chill. I'm starting to scan the backlog of snapshots I have. Here's one roll down.
I've been feeling pretty sick today. I think I caught a cold or something. I couldn't even make it to class today. I felt a little better after taking a short walk, but my neck is killing me from sleeping on it wrong. On another note, I'm extremely broke. I think I have $2 in my savings and I've had to resort to using my credit card again. I can't wait to graduate so I can get a job that pays well.
It's been really hard keeping up with the blog recently haha. I've been shooting, but it's mostly dull assignments for class. Not fun at all. On the other hand, I have about 20+ rolls of film that I've accumulated over the past month that need to be scanned. I'll get things together soon.
I've been looking more at Rinko Kawauchi's work (my professor shows quite a lot of her work in class) and that led me to also check out the likes of Keiko Nomura, Yuuki Touyama, Emi Fukuyama, etc. I think I want to make different kinds of photos for a bit. More on that later.
It's been a couple weeks, huh? I've been busy with work and most recently, summer classes. I'm currently taking a beginners darkroom course. I didn't exactly realize how basic the course is, however, and I could tell it's going to be a pretty tedious class. The Prof and TA are very chill, though so I don't think it'll be too bad. I'm having a hard time talking to anyone else in the class, though. Everyone seems to be some fucking hipster who thinks it'll be cool to shoot film or just taking the class to graduate. Besides myself, I think only 1 or 2 other people came to learn. Here's a quote from John Sypal (owner of Tokyo Camera Style) that I found pretty interesting:
"Not every picture is a "Great Shot!" but that's part of the point. I'm exhibiting several hundred one-of-a-kind instant prints mostly out of personal interest but partly as a reaction/challenge to those who preach a kind of photography that's limited to the pursuit of "AMAZING IMAGES", or something like that. "Take your photography to the NEXT LEVEL" ? Really, there's only one level—and that's the base from where you stand with a camera and make your pictures. That's it. The rest is just marketing and the internet is full of it from the photo-imaging industry to Internet Photo Personalities pushing their synergy/brand to sell spots on expensive photowalk-shops. Putting in work is the only way to figure things out. You have to do it yourself, for yourself.
All that really matters is your own enjoyment and insight into what you find worthy of recording with your camera. Why exhibit? Hopefully seeing the work of others openly broadens your own understanding of life and art.
At the same time there's a popular expectation that behind every artistic expression there lies some romantic view about of the agony of creation or the preciousness of the artist's soul-vision made form. Apparently this is supposed to help make an encounter with said expressions somehow more serious or worthy of contemplation. But seriously, clouding up the vibe with pretentious dumb junk isn't worth it.
How's this for an ARTIST STATEMENT: I took these photos; I want to show you these photos."
I did a small series on 4th of July in Salinas called "An All American Affair". Nothing special, but this will probably be my last July 4th in America if I get into JET so why not, right?
I wanna give a shout out to Sean, Cara, and Papa and Mama Culligan. Thanks for welcoming me into your home and treating me good the past few days!
I somehow double exposed nearly this entire roll. I have no clue how, but I guess it's kind of cool.
"I want you to remember me. If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets."


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Every year, officials at the top 20 non-profit aquariums compile attendance data for comparison. The last time the Shedd had the highest attendance in that group was 2006.
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Iglesias Hermanos Menonitas de Colombia
The Iglesias Hermanos Menonitas de Colombia (Mennonite Brethren Churches of Colombia) can be traced back to April 1945, when the Mennonite Brethren sent their first missionaries to Colombia, the Daniel Wirsche family. They established a headquarters in the mountain town of La Cumbre, Valle, near Cali. From there missionaries moved out into the steamy rain forests of the Chocó in northwest Colombia, where medical and evangelistic work was begun among both the black and the Indian population. The first local church was established in 1946 in Itsmina, Chocó. Persecution led to the closing of the Indian work in Noanamá some ten years later. The work begun among blacks in Istmina and among the rural people in La Cumbre also suffered setbacks through persecution in the 1950s, but has continued.
The year 1958 brought political changes to Colombia which resulted in an open door for evangelism and church planting by Mennonite Brethren missionaries. Two other events that year also proved significant for the future of the Mennonite Brethren in Colombia. The Association of Mennonite Brethren Churches (Asociación de Iglesias Hermanos Menonitas) was officially organized, and a decision was made to begin church planting in the city of Cali, which became the headquarters for the national Mennonite Brethren conference until 2003, when it was moved to Bogotá, the capital of the country.
By 1971 the conference had grown to 24 congregations including those in Cali, rural areas of the Valle, and in the Chocó. New outreach since that time has added several new congregations in the major cities of Medellin, Bogotá, and Cali.
The Mennonite Brethren in Colombia have been involved with education from the beginning. Schools were part of the early work in the Chocó. A primary and a secondary school were established in La Cumbre. The primary school was eventually turned over to Colombian leadership and operated until 1969. The high school, College Americas Unidas, was moved to Cali in 1966, and has done well in recent years under Colombian directors.
Theological education has been a big challenge in the nationalization of the Mennonite Brethren Church in Colombia. There were a number of attempts to open theological institutions. Some of these were in association with other denominations: for example, United Biblical Seminary, and the Ecclesiology Centre. Others were of an independent nature, as was the Technological Biblical Seminary. All these efforts came to a quick end for economic reasons. Due to these failures, the Mennonite Brethren in Colombia created small local institutions in order to train leaders theologically, at a very basic level. For higher level study, students were sent to Protestant seminaries or Catholic universities. Thus, the few people who have been able to achieve a Bachelor's degree in theology did not study with an Anabaptist focus, nor in a Mennonite Brethren institution. The goal of developing a clear identity as a church has remained illusive. Having a theologically mature church – one that develops and contextualizes its own theology with Anabaptist roots -- has remained a challenge. Achieving theological studies at a Masters or Doctoral level along with specializations in History, Old Testament, New Testament, Peace Studies, Missiology, Counseling, and others, have been unreachable dreams for the Colombian leadership.
Despite a turbulent beginning, the Mennonite Brethren church in Colombia has grown. With its roots in the jungles and rural areas, its major challenge today seems to be the cities. The three cities of Medellin, Bogotá, and Cali in 2009 had a combined population of more than 12 million people. Several cities remain without an Anabaptist presence. North American missionaries from Mennonite Brethren Missions and Services International (MBMSI) left the country in 2001.
In 2008 the Conference had 40 congregations with 1,700 members.
Kraybill, Paul N., ed. Mennonite World Handbook. Lombard, IL: Mennonite World Conference, 1978: 211-12.
Martens, Phyllis. The Mustard Tree. Fresno, CA: Mennonite Brethren Board of Christian Education, 1971: 174-188.
Mennonite Brethren in World Mission, 2, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1986):3.
Toews, John A. History of the Mennonite Brethren Church, ed. A. J. Klassen. Fresno, CA: Mennonite Brethren Board of Literature and Education, 1975: 427-429.
Mennonite World Conference website
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|Harold Ens
|César García
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|November 2009
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Ens, Harold and César García. "Iglesias Hermanos Menonitas de Colombia." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. November 2009. Web. 15 Aug 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Iglesias_Hermanos_Menonitas_de_Colombia&oldid=137043.
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Ens, Harold and César García. (November 2009). Iglesias Hermanos Menonitas de Colombia. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 15 August 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Iglesias_Hermanos_Menonitas_de_Colombia&oldid=137043.
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