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To quote Billy Joe Shaver, "It was fun while it lasted, but it didn't last long." Ah, well.
"Africa is, indeed, coming into fashion." - Horace Walpole (1774)
To quote Billy Joe Shaver, "It was fun while it lasted, but it didn't last long." Ah, well.
Wow, what a sad week. Volma Overton, former president of the Austin NAACP passed away overnight. Volma was responsible for the integration of the AISD -- he filed the desegregation lawsuit in his daughter's name.
So the president has, as expected, nominated Scalia-lite to the Supreme Court in order to appease his base in a time of, shall we say, personal need for his administration.
In the Crass Christian Product of the Week category, I give you the iBelieve. unBelievable is more like it.
Kyle Lake, pastor of University Baptist Church in Waco, passed away after a terrible accident during this morning's service. Please keep the Lake family, and the UBC family, in your prayers.
Texas won. After scaring us half to death in the first half.
Vince, darlin', we need to talk. You know that I believe you can do no wrong. You're leading our team to their best season in years, and I fully expect you to take us to Pasadena so we can enjoy those sideline passes. And I know that you do your best work in come-from-behind situations, especially when it involves teams from Stillwater. But my heart can't take many more first halves like tonight's against OSU. OSU! The team that couldn't do anything against the other OSU last year at the Alamo Bowl. Baby, please. Turn on the magic in the first quarter in the next few games. Okay? Thanks.
How on earth can Yale shut down tailgating at The Game at halftime? The Yale Bowl only holds 64,000 fans, and there are usually another 50,000 outside who never go in. I certainly agree that it's a good idea to cut down on the binge drinking, but the way to do that is to stop allowing the undergraduate colleges to bring moving vans full of kegs and hard liquor, not to kick out the wealthy alumni and their beautiful, elaborate tailgates (Gilmore Girls didn't cover the half of it). I'm really mad, especially since I'm finally getting to go back to The Game this year. I probably won't be able to get a ticket inside, but I could've spent a lovely afternoon catching up with old friends in the golden autumn light outside the stadium. Instead, we'll be forced to retreat to Anna Liffey's or, goodness help us, Richter's. Darn you, Betty!
It's not as good as a whole new album, but the preview tracks of Wilco's upcoming live album, Kicking Television, are fantastic. Why they pushed it back to November 15 is unclear, but it'll be worth the wait if they've managed to capture the feel of a live show on CD. AND, I got an email today saying that my tickets to Tweedy's solo show in Kingston are on their way to Austin!
Oh, Wonkette...
It's fun to see the White House get its come-uppance, but this is a really sad day for America. Tom Delay is wrong - it's not a crime to be conservative. It is a crime to behave as though you are in any way above the law, even if you fully believe that your cause is just. What makes America great is that we abide by the rule of law -- and the laws are developed not by fiat, but by a representative, collaborative process. When our leaders start behaving otherwise, as both Delay and Libby are accused of so doing, we run the risk of eroding that principle. And places where the rule of law doesn't prevail are not fun places to live. I don't want my country to be a place like that. I want my country to be a place where public officials are held to the highest standards of ethical behavior, where the rule of law prevails, and where we develop policies that give all people the chance to pursue their dreams.
So Karl Rove is off the hook, for now, and says he's looking forward to a "fantastic weekend." I'm assuming he won't be running in the Marine Corps Marathon, but it is supposed to be lovely in DC this weekend. I'm sad not to be there for my usual last weekend in October trip! Good luck to all the runners, and Karl, since we run into each other everywhere (more on that if/when he gets indicted), I'll see you at CityZen on the 11th.
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Burnt Orange Report (several of whose posters are my former students - way to apply those reasoning skills!) posts online and files an election law complaint concerning the unbelievable letter on Prop 2 that Representative Chisum sent out ON TEXAS HOUSE LETTERHEAD to pastors in his district.
Darn you, Attorney, for getting me hooked on this silly site. But this list of "The names of the president and the members of the presidential cabinet according to the etymological backgrounds of their first and last names, and of their middle names when available" is just too funny.
Completely unsurprisingly, Harriet Miers has withdrawn her nomination to the Supreme Court. Why the White House decided to do this in the week that it's very likely that one or more senior White House officials may be indicted on Plame affair-related charges is beyond me. It was obvious at least two week ago that Miers needed to withdraw -- why wait until a totally horrible week (in which, sadly, US deaths in Iraq also topped 2000) to get it over with? Has Karl Rove lost his mojo?
There won't be much news on Texas in Africa today, primarily because I stayed up way too late last night trying to figure out who Barbara Bush's date to the Astros game was. Oh, yeah, and watching them not capitalize on a number of opportunities to end the thing with a win. Just when I was starting to get over my bitterness about the Astros eliminating my Braves from the playoffs and cheer for them again, they let us down. Houston.
Rosa Parks passed away this evening at the age of 92. Her simple act of defiance against injustice sparked changes that undermined a whole system of fear and hatred.
So putting aside the fact that Prop 2 is a mean-spirited attempt to legalize discrimination, it looks like Representative Chisum and company really messed up the language on this one. Save Texas Marriage is arguing that passage of the constitutional amendment will make all Texas marriages illegal because of the failure to separate "marriage" as something separate from "identical to ... marriage."
Texas is ranked #1 in the BCS standings!
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Want to know why I don't like Tom Delay? It's not because of the ethics committee violations (he ain't the only one, and that applies to both sides of the aisle), or the fact that he dragged my alma mater's name through the dirt a couple of years ago at First Baptist Pearland. No, the reason he upsets me is this map. It was not right for a national figure to interfere with the state legislature to force through unnecessary and unfair redistricting. There is no reason I should have liveed in a Congressional district last year with people who are 200 miles away in Houston! And there's no reason Austin shouldn't have a Democrat representing the whole city. Austin is largely Democratic, and we deserve to have our interests represented in Congress.
WHAT a day!!! Up before sunrise and on the road by 8. Ben and I staked out our spot for the tailgate at 8:30, then walked over to Meyers Stadium to meet Patrick to see ESPN's College GameDay Live. It was SO much fun! Patrick jumped up and down with my sign enough that you could see the bouncing "Vince" over Herbstreit's shoulder. Getting to see Lance Armstrong up close was a treat, too. But the best part was the fun signs that people came up with. My favorites: "My grandma could put up 70 against Sam Houston State," "All I want for my birthday is a kiss from Lee Corso," and "Vince Doesn't Need a Push."
It's my favorite weekend of the year. When I was growing up, the third weekend in October (whether actually the third or not) was the big Tennessee-Alabama game weekend. It was always so pretty, the leaves were changing, it was crisp and cool, and everyone was excited about the big game, whether they cheered for the Vols or the Tide. (By the way Ken Mobley, wherever you are, whatever you're doing (oooh! apparently professional golf!), you still owe Kristen and me $10 for that bet we made in carpool over the results of the 1986 game (Alabama 56, Tennessee 28). We won't charge interest.).
My attorney informs me that the word is "tortious," not "tortial." It's fancy lawyer-speak for "someone did something really rotten and now I have to clean up the mess." Or something like that. It is NOT related to fancy, cake-like desserts served at high-falutin' lawyer parties. Thank goodness he's working pro bono.
This has been something of a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad week for me. I won't bore you with the details, but suffice it to say that it involves 1 unfinished dissertation proposal, 5 sleepless nights, 2 possible lawsuits concerning defamation of character and/or something called "tortial" something (who knew that was a word?), 1 leaking toilet that will theoretically be replaced by 7pm, 3 incompetent human resources employees, 4 meetings with disgruntled supervisors, and a lot of time on the phone with 1 very friendly customer service representative who can do absolutely nothing to answer the question. And that doesn't even cover tonight's dinner with ex-fundamentalists, planning for Saturday's tailgate, attending a high school play, and critiquing three friends' dissertations, which are not terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad things, but are things that need to be done, along with the laundry, cleaning up the mess in the bathroom from the above leak, talking to the Advisor, and sleeping.
He smiled for the cameras. But, wow, the lighting in the Harris County Jail certainly is unflattering. (Photo credit: someone who was probably not Holly Hunter and who probably did not say, "My fi-ance left me," with a tear, to Nicolas Cage).
Wow am I glad I got my tickets to see Jeff Tweedy's solo show in Kingston instead of fighting this mess. Fifth row, center seats are hard to beat, and getting them didn't involve spending the night on a street in lower Manhattan. Thank my lucky stars.
Okay, not really. But today is one of the happiest days of the year -- the release of the newest Lemony Snicket novel in the Series of Unfortunate Events. I LOVE these books! They only come out once a year (usually in September or October) and Ginger and I always make sure to go to the bookstore on the release date. Today was extra-special because I got to stand in a long line to get a wristband to hear Lemony Snicket speak at the Texas Book Festival next weekend! Ginger heard that he plays the accordion and sings gloomy songs when he speaks! And he'll be signing books!
My friend Eddie Sanders' piece on mining in the eastern Congo appeared in today's Los Angeles Times. It's a really good explanation of the root of most of the DRC's problems. Notice the bit on the "illegal taxation." This - and thousands of things like and unlike it, some good, some bad - is what my dissertation is about. As good as Eddie's words are, though, Wally Skalij's pictures of the crisis, including this one, say more than words ever can about just how sad it is.
"'I'd trust her with my wife and with my life,' former Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice John Hill told reporters on the White House driveway after a meeting with President George W. Bush." - In today's WP. Huh?
...you can still help Vince win the Heisman by voting here. Yes, it's early, but I'm not even pretending. Our boy deserves this, even if Reggie Bush is a "more exciting" player according to those silly ESPN analysts who seem to be campaigning for all things USC every week. Vince has proven that he can deal with whatever running backs and receivers he's got. Let's see how Reggie does without Matt around next year.
So it's a year after the election. America's working poor are still suffering, opportunities are still uneven across the country, and John Edwards is still on the campaign trail. He's speaking on poverty issues at UT on Monday, October 24. You can get free tickets (and see my former student/future UT student body president) here.
People who love Target as much as me! I am a Target addict. No, seriously. I'm there five times a week. Where else in this world can you get toilet paper, deoderant, AND cute shoes-that-last-two-years -- all in the same red cart? My entire outfit for church today was from Target. I used to be able to walk to Target, before moving to the Ranch, which is a tragic, ten-minute drive from the nearest Greatland. But I just thank my lucky stars that I live within 20 minutes of at least 8 different Targets. Skye has to organize her weekends around trips to the 'burbs to go Targeting up there in the big city. Anyway, this week I discovered the fabulous Slave to Target blog. All things Target by two crazy moms who apparently go there more often than I do. And they link to a word that's been needed for awhile...
Here's a site to check out: Church Marketing Sucks. While I agree with the title sentiment, the goal of the authors is apparently to help churches market more effectively, not to actually outright disagree with the idea because their goal is to help churches be more authentic in their advertising, although to be fair, they say that it's a tricky question.
My team won. They won big. They won convincingly. They're going to be undefeated when the regular season ends, should be able to crush Colorado again at the Big XII Championship (in the "neutral" site - Houston) and will definitely be playing in a BCS game -- hopefully the championship.
I've had a generally miserable week (preparing a proposal draft to turn in last night, insurance cancelled by mistake, someone wrote a dissertation that's way too close to what I'm doing, advisor saying I can't defend this semester, dreaming about my proposal, issues with mr. stupidity, generally aware that The Advisor is disappointed in me and my unlofty goals, etc.). So this afternoon, between having my proposal, um, shall we say, dissected by The Advisor and letting my wonderful research group attack it (thanks, y'all!), I wandered over to the Harry Ransom Center to check out the wonderful Ansel Adams exhibition that's on right now. It is so good - if you are anywhere near Austin between now and January 1, you owe it to yourself and all that is right and good in this world to get over to campus and check it out. It's free and fantastic. Details on hours and all that here.
I am really disgusted (but not surprised) that the Executive Director of the BGCT appears to be taking sides on Proposition 2. Shouldn't Baptists be free to disagree on political issues? Texas in Africa feels strongly that Texas Baptists are getting themselves into a mess by getting involved in issues like this - a silly, frivolous, hateful, and most importantly unnecessary constitutional amendment. Gay marriage is already illegal in Texas. And prop 2 will apparently throw some civil contracts (like common law marriages) into the loop, which seems like a dumb thing to do if you're trying to strengthen marriage. If people would spend more time strengthening their own families and communities, we wouldn't have this nonsense. To quote a bumper sticker my friend Jess has on her car from Nebraska's "Defense of Marriage Act" battle: "Our marriage doesn't need defending. Sorry about yours."
Because no one knows just when it will happen, and the ushers won't be there to direct...
This UNICEF campaign is apparently supposed to help raise funds for the Congo. How I'm not sure, but I'm willing to bet that my friends at MONUC didn't come up with it. They're too busy disarming real insurgents in a real war.
UT released next fall's football schedule today. Looks like our season tickets will be pricey - we are playing seven home games, including two OSU's, the Aggies, and Baylor. But I'm not complaining, after this year's boring home game schedule.
When Dave first mentioned Explosions in the Sky last fall in a discussion about the Friday Night Lights soundtrack, I didn't think much of it. Their music was the perfect acompaniment to the film's wonderful evocation of the West Texas I know and love, but I didn't really get it until the winter, when Stephen started going on and on about how wonderful their last album, The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place, is and, well, he was right. Now lucky us - today EITS has reissued its first album, 2000's How Strange, Innocence, of which only 300 copies were burned. It's not yet available on iTunes (curses on you, Apple!), but your local independent record store should have it, even outside of Austin, Texas.
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Aside from corporate-sponsor nonsense on the nomenclature, this weekend's 100th Texas-OU game should be fantastic. The Horns seem unstoppable this year (at least until the Rose Bowl) and there's good reason to believe that our recent string of bad luck (please! five years is NOT a curse) will end in less than 48 hours. (If I'm wrong, well, at least I don't have to go home to Mobilehoma.)
"Now, for all its failings and its perversions over the last 2,000 years—and as much as every exponent of this faith has attempted to dodge this idea—it is unarguably the central tenet of Christianity: that everybody is equal in God's eyes. So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa. America will be judged by God if, in its plenty, it crosses the road from 23 million people suffering from HIV, the leprosy of the day.
So, Americans don't understand the establishment and free exercise clauses. Shocking. It is mind-boggling to me that people don't understand how dangerous it is to set the precedent of allowing the U.S. government to favor one religion over another, whether it's by posting sacred texts in public spaces or by allowing government-sponsored prayer in public buildings. "But ours is the right one" is the common fallback as to why the New Testament should be allowed but the Qu'ran shouldn't. Maybe, but the problem is that almost no evangelicals argued that when evangelicals weren't in possession of so much power. Being a religious minority makes you view religious rights quite differently. Do people not understand that evangelicals are not the fastest-growing demographic group in the U.S.? Do you really want to set a precedent that would, somewhere down the line, result in having prayers that are not of your faith said in Texas public school classrooms?
I traveled to and lived in the DR Congo (and elsewhere in central Africa) in July/August 2005, and February - June 2006. The eastern city of Goma is the main place I lived and worked. Posts from the main trip are in the archives; here are some of the most interesting:
The track listing for Wilco's upcoming live album is out! It looks suspiciously similar to most of their live shows lately. That's why they call it a live album, kids.
I had a fantastic time in Franklin. It was nice to get away to a place where 1) mama's cooking and 2) it's 40 degrees cooler than Austin. Seriously. Friday night as Whit and I were headed to the Bluebird, I saw a temperature sign that said 54, meaning it was exactly half the temperature of Austin last Sunday. It was so nice. Daddy and Mama and I went to my favorite restaurant, the Loveless Cafe, for some of their super-fantastic biscuits on Wednesday when I arrived. I went to the funky new record shop on South 8th, Grimey's, and caught an in-store by Matisyahu, who is doing something totally unique: Hasidic Reggae. It was really cool and as an added bonus, you'll be able to see the set on MTV2 sometime soon.


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The first blockbuster hit came from an unlikely source: Irish talk radio.
In 2010, Michael D. Higgins, then a foreign-policy spokesperson for Ireland (and now its president), went on the radio in Galway and excoriated a conservative American talk show host for opposing President Obama's plan to enact universal health care. For a long time, the audio file of the berating lingered in Internet purgatory. Then, in August 2012, Mansur Gidfar uploaded the audio to the new, rapidly growing site Upworthy.com in August 2012. He tried the headline, "A Tea Partier Decided To Pick A Fight With A Foreign President. It Didn't Go So Well." The article went certifiably berserk, eventually becoming the site's first million-hit story.
Today, Upworthy is a million-hit machine for heartfelt, progressive content, and it is trying to use this alchemy—spinning hearty fiber into viral gold—on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. On Tuesday, the company announced it is launching a global health and poverty section backed with Gates money, suggesting a future for not only the site's editorial strategy but also for its business.
Upworthy has mastered the dark viral arts with a unique blend of A/B technology and lily-white earnestness. The staff scours the Web for "stuff that matters," writes multiple headlines for a test audience, selects the top-performer, and blasts it out on social media. It's a deceptively simple plan that's devouring the Internet, one Facebook Newsfeed at a time. The site nearly surpassed 50 million unique visitors in October, which suggests traffic comparable to giants like Time.com, and Fox News.
Upworthy has run paid content, like a Microsoft-sponsored video of a Ugandan man talking to his family over Skype. But this is the first time that an organization like the Gates Foundation has paid to popularize a particular concept like global health and poverty. In a way, the partnership harkens back to Upworthy's founding idea to be a bullhorn for non-profits, amplifying their research and message, and then taking a cut. This pilot partnership will provide one full-time "curator" to trawl the Web for stories about toilets (Everyone Poops, But 2.6 Billion People Do It In A Really Crappy Way) and global disease (When Future Generations Look Back On Us, They'll Say We Had The Opportunity To End 3 Awful Epidemics).
"We've always wanted to draw attention to the most important issues," co-founder and CEO Eli Pariser told me. "The health and poverty of the lower third of the world's population is one of the least covered issues of our time. There are people who put incredible effort and creativity into making a YouTube video on malaria, and it just gets 5,000 views. We're hoping to go out and find those things and bring them to a much wider audience."
... And Made Me a Little Sick
Upworthy's vertiginous success isn't without criticism. The site's pleading, occasionally histrionic, gooeyness has inspired criticisms of so-called "glurge" and a popular parody account, @UpWorthIt. Here, for example, is a list of Upworthy's 11 greatest hits, whose pageviews are downright otherworldly.
There is an amygdala-tickling genius here, but also a kind of movie-trailer mawkishness. What's the "secret"? An entertaining slideshow of Upworthy's headline-writing strategies last year repeatedly references the "curiosity gap." The idea is both to share just enough that readers know what they're clicking and to withhold just enough to compel the click.
Upworthy rankles some journalists partly because, even as it innocently coos Web readers with tender headlines, the repetitiveness of its style suggests a rather cynical ploy to lasso cheap attention rather than fully engage an audience hunting anything more than a dopamine rush.
But Pariser has heard these critiques and has a ready rebuttal: What special virtue is there in letting great videos, articles, and images fall into the Internet's abyss simply because nobody thought of the right combination of words to unlock its audience? What's more, when readers find themselves hating a headline picked by a testing audience and shared by 10 million people, whose tastes are we really objecting to—Upworthy's or ours?
Pariser, who honed his data-driven chops at MoveOn.org, said the media's obsession with Upworthy headlines misses half the story. "Some of the stories about us have focused too much on the headlines, but to have content that's really shareable, it has to be something people actually want to share," he said. "We look at how much people click, but also how much people share [after they click]. The only way to get something that does really well is to deliver on the quality that you're promising in the headline."
As for his critics, Pariser said that a handful of journalists with Twitter bullhorns shouldn't get to out-vote 50 million (and growing) monthly unique visitors. "I'm not going to pay too much attention to some snarky New Yorkers who see [our headlines] too many times in their feed," he said. "Part of the ambition is to build something that isn't a niche product. And for folks building great content that is more for a specific NYC elite audience, the sensibility is not going to mesh."
The Gates Foundation's sponsorship has already inspired posts that will feel familiar to both Upworthy's fans and skeptics. Marketing a video by Water Is Life to promote the accessibility to drinking water, you have the supplicating headline: "The Things This 4-Year-Old Is Doing Are Cute. The Reason He's Doing Them Is Heartbreaking." It is classic Upworthy. Unapologetic, sentimental, cliff-hangery as heck, and two sentences long. And video itself? Pretty touching, really. I can't say I regret the click.
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A new car for the price of a second hand one is always a tempting prospect and when it's as smartly styled and capable as Dacia's Duster, the concept becomes particularly appealing. Undercutting rival models in the small SUV segment by an enormous amount, this Romanian budget brand uses proven Renault engineering to create a very likeable product that could prove ideal as back-up family transport. This second generation version gets more technology and a bit of extra polish, otherwise, the basic recipe's pretty much unchanged. Dig down the back of the sofa for some money and join the queue to try one.
The original Duster SUV was the car that really built the Dacia brand. Launched in 2009, it was far better than any model in this class had a right to be for less than £10,000 but it did have a few rough edges - enough to keep some buyers in the compact SUV segment loyal to more established brands. You always felt that if this Renault-owner manufacturer could add a bit of extra quality, technology and polish to this value-orientated recipe, then it would be well set. We're told that this is exactly what's happened in creation of this second generation model. There are now features that Dacia buyers won't be used to - things like climate control, curtain airbags, blindspot warning, keyless entry and much more. And it's all been put together with a bit more love. Sounds promising.
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Cut back on cost and you also cut back on expectations. Admit it - you didn't think the Duster was going to be any good at all to drive. It may well come as quite a surprise then, to learn that the market consensus in Europe, where this car has been a huge sales success, is that this Dacia has the sort of ride/handling compromise that would shame rivals many thousands of pounds more expensive. Engine-wise, first up is the 0.9-litre Tce 100hp unit familiar from other compact Renault and Dacia models. It's a decent choice, far more efficient than the old Sce 75 unit and offering a lot more pulling power. There's also a more modern 1.3-litre Tce turbo petrol unit, available with either 130 or 150hp. If you need more torque, you'll be directed towards the 1.5-litre Blue dCi 115hp diesel. The Tce 150 and Blue dCi diesel units can be ordered mated to 4WD. There's also a 1.0-litre petrol turbo Bi-Fuel LPG engine option. The 4x4 set-up is the same Nissan-engineered three-mode system as was in the previous model, selectable via a rotary controller in front of the gear stick. Most of the time you'll be in '2WD', but in wet or icy conditions, there's the peace of mind of being able to switch seamlessly to 'Auto' so that extra traction will automatically cut in when necessary. For mud-plugging meanwhile, you'll want to keep all wheels turning permanently by switching to the 'Lock' setting.
Design and Build
Though this second generation Duster model looks familiar, Dacia says that not one body panel has been carried over from the previous generation car. A redesigned bonnet flows into a more distinctive grille extending to the head lights that makes the car look wider. This is flanked by a more distinctive lighting signature that includes LED daytime running lamps. A larger, mass-coloured, scratch-resistant front skid plate reinforces Duster's adventurer credentials. A higher belt line adds to the impression of robustness and protection while the windscreen has been brought forward 100mm and is more steeply raked, which makes the cabin appear more spacious. Ah yes, the cabin. That's been redesigned too. The smarter centre console accommodates a higher-positioned MediaNav multimedia touchscreen display viewed from more supportive seats. The window glass is thicker for greater refinement and there's extra cabin storage too. Of course, if you look for them, there are signs of cost-cutting, but everything's been decently put together and the boot's a decent size, offering 445 litres for the 2WD version and 376 litres for the 4WD variant. That's the same as the old model. As for rear seat accommodation, well, there's actually more space here than you'd find in most compact 4x4s, with reasonable levels of head, leg and shoulder room for two and, on shorter journeys, even for three.
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While the thought of owning a trendy compact SUV/Crossover-style model for less than £11,500 might be the thing that gets people into Dacia showrooms, the car that satisfied prospective buyers end up driving out of them will probably require a very differently-sized cheque. Still one though, that'll offer a considerable saving on comparable models from other brands. Dacia's ethos is to keep things simple and no-nonsense - so the line-up is no different. There are five trim levels to choose from; 'Access', 'Essential', 'Comfort', 'SE Twenty' and 'Prestige'. 'Access trim', available from just over £11,000, features 16-inch steel wheels, electric front windows - and not a lot else. You'll probably want at least to find the £1,500 premium for 'Essential' trim, which adds 16-inch 'Fidji' steel wheels, body coloured front and rear bumpers, manual air conditioning, a DAB radio with steering-column mounted controls and Bluetooth connectivity. 'Comfort' spec adds 16-inch 'Cyclade' alloy wheels, a front-seat armrest, a leather steering wheel, a rear parking camera and sensors, electric rear windows, heated and electrically adjustable door mirrors, MediaNav 7" touchscreen multimedia system with navigation and an on-board computer. The 'Prestige' version gives you 17-inch 'Diamond-cut' alloy wheels, a multi-view camera, blind spot warning, climate control and keyless entry.
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You'll find the Duster not only inexpensive to buy but similarly cheap to keep on the road. Let's get to the WLTP-rated figures. The base TCe 100 petrol model manages up to 46.3mpg on the combined cycle and 138g/km of CO2. For the TCe 130 and TCe 150 4x2 variants, the figures are 42.8mpg and 149g/km. For the TCe 150 4x4, it's 39.2mpg and 162g/km. For the Blue dCi 4x2, it's 57.7mpg and 128g/km. And for the Blue dCi 115 4x4, it's 51.3mpg and 145g/km. All Dacia models can now also be ordered in LPG form, badged 'Tce 100 Bi-Fuel', featuring a 1.0-litre turbocharged dual-fuel powertrain combining petrol and LPG capabilities. As for peace of mind, well Dacia has chosen to cock a snook at the Koreans by - and I quote - 'deciding not to force buyers into paying a premium for a longer warranty they might not want'. You may disagree, but at least if you do, you've the option of extending the standard 3 year/60,000 mile cover with an affordably-priced five or seven year policy.
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Periods mark the end of declarative sentences and usually imperatives and optatives. They are sometimes used with fragments of the conventional sort (e.g., 'kama pona.')
Exclamation marks are also used sometimes at the end of imperatives and optatives and regularly with interjections and vocatives standing alone.
Question marks are used at the end of questions of all sorts ('seme'. 'x ala x', 'anu', those done with intonation only).
A colon is used between sentences -- or a sentence and an expression -- when the first sentence contains 'ni' referring cataphorically to the following expression either as the event or the message or the words intended by 'ni standing alone or expand the description of of the object modified by 'ni'. This calls for some example:
'mi toki e ni: sina wile kama' "I said that you should come", the message intended.
'mi kama tan ni: ona li wile.' "I came because she wanted me to." event intended
'nimi mi li ni: Kipo' "My name is 'Kipo'. The word intended
'jan ni li awen: ona li kama tawa moku' The man who came to dinner stayed. expanding the description (Note that this can also be done the other way 'round: 'jan li kama tawa moku, jan ni [or just 'ona'] li awen.', without a colon.)
The colon does not have to come immediately after the 'ni': 'mi toki e ni tawa ona: jan suli li kama'
Quotation marks are used around direct quotations, either after 'nimi' within a sentences or after 'ni:' in a separate sentence, 'mi toki e nimi 'jan suli li kama' tawa ona' or 'mi toki e ni tawa ona 'jan suli li kama'' I use (when my typing cooperates) single quotes (raised and inverted commas in some faces) for tp expressions. Others use doubles. And some use one for basic quotes and the other for quotes within quotes.
There is a longstanding suggestion that foreign names in their native spelling be enclosed in "foreign quotes" (double or guillemets), si 'ilo "Skype"', 'jan "Clifford"' and so on (these words are proper names, so need supporting adjectives). This is not done consistently, if at all.
If you want to talk about a linguistic expression (as we seem often to do), the easiest way is to enclose it in quotes (I use single for tp, double for English, etc.). Such expressions, complete with quotes, are proper names of the expression and so, in tp, needs a noun, usually 'nimi. No one does this consistently (Sonja included) with the resulting literal nonsense ('nimi mi li Kipo' being the most common type, even in pu, and 'nimi kepeken li namako' being a particularly blatant case).
The other punctuation marks don't seem to yet have even as loosely fixed a place in tp. Mato uses dashes analytically to mark idioms in his parser, so 'jan-pona' for "friend", but not in regular use. No one has suggested dashes to interruptions in the usual flow of a sentence. But then, no on has suggested interrupting the flow of a sentence. Similarly for parentheses in both senses. And so on.
Except that commas have had a few suggestions and seen some actual use, more or less regularly. And the point of all this is to look at a few possible uses for comas (and semicolons if the need arises).
The chief actual use of commas has been to set off 'la' phrases. While these are already set off pretty clearly by 'la', something more is felt necessary, probably following L1 habits. pu usually does this, occasionally omitting the comma with no pattern I can discern. pu -- and others probably following it -- also put the comma before the 'la', even though the 'la' is an essential part of the phrase (the alternate view, that every tp sentence has an initial 'la' which is dropped when nothing -- except 'taso', 'anu', and 'o' and whatever else we may find -- precedes it, is discredited both by repeated 'la' phrases and the general complexity it introduces).
Given that commas are unnecessarily on either side of 'la' in general, they might still have a role in some cases. The general idea for using commas is to break up certain sorts of ambiguities, mainly in grouping. The most common suggestion is for use between a DO and a final PP, to resolve the 'ona li pana e sitelen tawa mi' ambiguity, leaving "my motion picture" intact, but doing "give the picture to me" as 'ona li pana e sitelen, tawa mi'. This has been often proposed but rarely used.
Other possible places for use are in modifier strings, particularly around 'pi' and its right-hand end. 'pi' means that at least the next two words are to be taken together, but places no outer limit on how many more may be involved, although sometimes more are automatically included because of the 'pi' rule. For example, in 'tomo pi jan pi sona pi unpa pipi', "house of an entomological sexologist" , each successive 'pi' is the second word of the 'pi' before, so it and all after it must be included in the scope of the previous 'pi'. But matters are rarely so clear: does 'tomo pi jan lawa mute' mean "house(s) of many rulers" or "many houses of the ruler(s)"? (In this case, if we think ahead, we may decide to break modifier-order patterns and write 'tomo mute pi jan lawa' for the second case. But this option is not always available, though we can always go back to the basic "use more simple sentences" advice.) A comma. presumably before the 'mute' in the second case, helps a lot, But is not a generally successful strategy, since complexities multiply: 'kulupu pi jan lawa pi ma tomo suli', where the 'suli' can be intended for 'kulupu' and 'jan lawa' as well as 'ma tomo' and a comma does not decide between the first two (but does reduce the possibilities but one and -- it consistently used -- its absence decides definitively for 'ma tomo'). Nor does context help much in such cases, since all may seem plausible, including that the 'suli' quite properly goes in all the possible slots (which may, of course, be part of the point). Further, several of these problems can arise in a single string, suggesting the need to call upon semicolons to deal with some cases, when commas no longer clarify much (maybe even in the case above: getting back to 'kulupu' by 'kulupu pi jan lawa pi ma tomo ; suli'. I have little hope of any of this being used regularly and consistently (and some hope that we will come to find it generally unnecessary).
Going back for a moment to 'la', there are clearly some cases, especially when sentences are involved, where the grouping of 'la' phrases makes a difference. In 'p la q la s', if the grouping is to the right '(p(qr)' this amounts to saying (as we cannot in tp) 'if p and q, then r', but the left grouping (native to tp?) '(pq)r' is the more obscure "If if p then q, then r" or "if p implies q, then r" , which turns out to be useful in math, but less so in life. We don't have an official rule about grouping, but I would suggest the right grouping as standard and then allow the other with a comma. (Whatever the grouping, the order of 'la' phrases is often important 'tenpo pini la ken la' cannot generally be exchanged with 'ken la tenpo pini la': It may have been possible once that I run a mile, but, since I didn't, it is not now possible that I did do it.)
Semicolons are also available for another task, that of connecting separate sentences which are more closely joined that a period suggests. The colon is already use for these in the special cases involving 'ni': indirect and direct discourse and restrictive relative clauses, as we would say for English. But there are other sentence pairs (and more?) that cling together more tightly in our minds, cases where our English sense demands an "and" but tp doesn't offer one. For example, some may happen as the result of a confluence of events: 'utal li open tan ni: jan Papi li nasa; jan Sali li wile unpa' "The fight started because Bobby was drunk and Sally was horny", where a period would leave Bobby's state as the whole explanation and Sally merely an incidental fact. there several idiomatic acases where this cvonnection is also useful, e.g., comparative, 'jan Papi li pona mute; jan Sali li pona lili' "Bobby is better than Sally". There are probably many other such.
All of these remarks are about writing conventions. It is assumed that there are differences in speech that convey the same information (and maybe much more). However, no one has suggested what these differences might be in detail, other than to say that they are probably suprasegmental, matter of pauses, pitch and stress changes, and the like. Exactly what may not be easily answered, since different people from different L1s may have different ideas of what would be appropriate (even the rising final inflection for bare question may be mainly an English habit). For now, the writing is used on its own (and is still the principle form of tp communication) and the spoken version remains to be seen (or, rather, heard).


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Futures Regulator Goes After J.P. Morgan 'Whale' Trades
New rules mean the government will have an easier time pursuing J.P. Morgan over its so called "London whale" trades. WSJ's Colin Barr explains.
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... I ... the regulators make a big push and JPMorgan over the so called the whale trades ... will have an mall man on this new sub extra can afternoon I'm Simon Constable and joining me now is Wall Street Journal Markets editor Colin Barr ... can explain what's going on here ... the whale trades ... was the big trade that J P Morgan lost billions of dollars on ... hands ... has been a change in the law resigned this time that that means government regulators can make an easy a case against JPMorgan explain well so this is a lot ... that changed with the dawn Frank Dodd Frank is the ... financial regulation overhaul that occurred after the financial crisis ... the idea is to be up there is a belief I think widely shared among policy makers that one of the things that cause the crisis was that bank ... employees were ... able to take risks in ... if they ... made the right that they made millions of dollars ... and if they can make the right that then the bank one hundred taxpayers picked up the check and we were told were all happy with the so-called socialize losses on private and privatized Krugman writes the city's rules give regulators greater leeway in bringing cases in an attempt ... to make everybody who's working in the financial system ... see that there is indeed a risk to to doing things that ... that might be cold manipulative or or on the word dollar not ... prior to the doctor and Rose way you have to basically is that having the intention to manipulate the market will have to be will show the band the new intended for human tissue that was right and and what with the new rules basically you just have to say what you should allow you should know about what you did was gonna mess things up right ounce of muscle all having the best and easiest things a little barn were fighting a civil case network on the case in which the SB the CFTC the commodities futures trading Commission ... we bring the case of unclean which they would say ... these J P Morgan traders missed market their books ... and the reason this is interesting one of the reasons is interesting to us this month at the base Lee said that the profit loss that they have on their account was not correct ... right right and in one of the of the things about the markets of these are derivatives markets the contracts based on the action in other financial assets they are like stocks or bonds that are listed on exchange where anybody ... can go in the Wall Street Journal SEO the person that is eighty seven twenty four ... these things God that ... typically trade in a way that the only way of getting a quote by talking to dealers and you know people can create them ... so this murky nastier ... and that means that there's a nuclear right or wrong oh you're price was wrong there they're not saying they can save your price ... is impossible to establish what the right price and that that that is most central clearing of all of these rights the rule ... so all of the over-the-counter eye right the trees between two parties two parties agree to do business with a certain price and so is that is the place you can be worthy of the market is that the right place to do a trader ... all that said just because it's murky it doesn't mean that that people can say ... I think that you have a certain of the way of marking a book and I think the you went to the far end of that leeway mythic past glories or even beyond that might not as bad as one of the issues that they will be trying to ... decide on the faces potentially go on to will or will be pursuing map thank you Brian much the colon well ...


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SAN DIEGO -- Alex Jackson spent more than two weeks in Marietta, Ga., in late June through mid-July and then spent another week in the Phoenix area in late July, all while playing ball for the San Diego Show. Finally, for two days here in mid-August, he gets to perform in his own backyard.
Jackson is a highly recruited, 6-foot-2, 215-pound top catching prospect from Escondido, Calif., who is beginning his junior year at Rancho Bernardo High School. On Monday he could be found at Triton Ballpark at the University of California San Diego participating at the two-day Perfect Game National Games, one of PG's premier West Coast underclass showcase/tournament events.
"It's great to have a showcase right here in our local area and not have to drive two hours up to L.A. or leave the state," Jackson said Monday morning after taking part in a short workout session. "The weather is really good right now, and all the talent out here is really good."
The weather certainly was flawless Monday morning and the abundance of talent was evident as close to 70 top 2014 and 2015 prospects from all across the country were divided into four teams to play two games in the next two days.
Most of the prospects are from California, but the East Team features players from Florida, Georgia and Virginia and the USA Team has players from 11 states. The California and West teams' rosters are comprised exclusively of California kids. They're all here for the same reason that Jackson drove 15 minutes from his home in Escondido.
"I just come out here to be seen by all the scouts," he said. "I want to put my name out there and see what happens with them. That's just pretty much all that I try to do is get my name out there, get it flown around, and that's the main goal. If I do a good job, then that will really help a lot."
Jackson is already well-known. He made his Perfect Game debut at this event last August, and this summer has played-up with the San Diego Show at the PG WWBA 18u and 17u National Championships in Marietta and at the inaugural PG 17u World Series in Peoria, Ariz.
"I've had a really busy summer and I've had some really good experiences," Jackson said. "It's been great overall and I'm just looking forward to next summer to see what that brings me."
With all that exposure came a climb in the national rankings; he is now ranked 57th nationally in the class of 2014 and is the No. 6 catching prospect.
"Alex is a great kid with a very good work ethic who goes about his business in a professional manner. In any phase of one of our workouts he does it in a professional manner," Brian Cain, Jackson's coach at the Show, said Monday. "He's always got a smile on his face and he likes to have fun. He enjoys the game a lot."
Jackson said he had caught most of his young life but as a freshman at Rancho Bernardo he was moved to the outfield so he could be in the everyday lineup. Cain inserted him at catcher at this event last year, and has also played him the outfield and at third base.
"It's been kind of been a growing process since then, and it's gotten good," Cain said of Jackson's progression at catcher. "Like every 16-year-old he's got work to do , but it's all there: the arm, the glove and the athleticism. He can play anywhere on the field, so from a pure athletic standpoint, he's probably one of the most gifted athletes at this event."
Jackson is pleased that he learned to play the outfield so fluently only because it opens even more doors.
"I've been catching my whole life and when I made the switch to outfield I saw that I actually did have potential out there," he said. "I would say catching is my favorite position -- I love catching, I love be backing there, I love being in the game every pitch -- but outfield is a great position, too, and where ever I can help out my team, that's what I like to do."
Jackson's ability to hit the ball has never been questioned. At the 2011 PG National Games -- where Jackson was a 2014 playing primarily with 2013s -- a PG scout noted that he had a "nice right-handed swing, good extension, some present bat speed; has power potential to develop."
He hit .400 (38-for-95) with 17 home runs, 36 RBI and 37 runs scored as a sophomore at Rancho Bernardo in the spring.
"He's amazing at the plate; he's got great pop," Cain said. "He's a natural, and the ball just jumps off his bat."
Jackson said his summer spent playing-up one or two age groups with the Show served as a valuable learning experience. They came up short in their bid for PG national championships in Marietta and Peoria, but that in no way diminished the experience.
"Playing for Brian, he's a great guy and he's there for us and he takes care of us as players," Jackson said. "We build a great bond with our team and all of our teammates get a long and we're all out there wanting to play because we love the game of baseball."
With two more years of high school still ahead of him, the uncommitted Jackson said he's in no hurry to make a college decision. Born on Christmas Day in 1995, he won't turn 18 until mid-way through his senior year in high school, and college just isn't anything he needs to be concerned with at the moment.
"Right now I'm just going to take my time and see how it all plays out," Jackson said. "Right now I'm just relaxing out there, having fun, doing my thing and trying to take as much stress off as possible."
Like most of the other top underclass prospects living in the San Diego area, Jackson spent Sunday night at PETCO Park attending the 10th annual Perfect Game All-American Classic presented by Rawlings, a national all-star event aimed at the year's top incoming seniors. That means Jackson would be eligible to be named a PG All-American next summer.
"I like that game and it's a fun atmosphere," he said. "I had a lot of friends that were playing in it this year and last year, and it's really fun to go out there and support them and show them that there are people that watch them and want them to succeed.
"It's just great overall going out there, having fun, watching your friends and possibly being able to play in it (next year)," he continued. "That would be a real cool thing to accomplish and I'm looking forward to that if I can."


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The old town of Orio, "Goiko Kale", was built in medieval times - in the 12th century. It starts at the Church of San Nicolás and goes up to the surroundings of the Chapel of San Martín. The streets are steep, stepped, almost labyrinthian, climbing on the rocks. Coats of arms, well-cut sandstone, balconies of bright colours, cobbled streets… this town has a medieval flavour. Orio also stands out because of the rich landscape composed of the sea, the estuary and the mountains. All kinds of sports can be practised in the town and in the surrounding area, such as fishing, hiking, cycling, kayaking and rowing.
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Also known as the History of the Great Rebellion. Warning: Do not take this seriously. Also, to whomever was on the Republic's side, I apologize if I was a bit mean with some of my comments.
A History of the Rebellion Against James the Benevolent
On the Ides of March, Lady Wu and Kong Wen collaborate with seditious intent. They quietly remove James the Benevolent, the rightful leader of the Scholars of Shen Zhou, from power and exile him.
The next day, the two traitors announce their deeds and form the "Republic" of Shen Zhou. They create a Senate and appoint the honorable Rhiannon the Just to the position of Tribune. The righteous Shi Tong begins calling for the return of James, while Sun Gongli, the Bastion of Justice, creates a Collation against the Republic along with Judas Ezekiel, DynastyWarriors6, and other heroes. He briefly skirmishes with Adam Sizemore, who is loyal to the traitors.
On the seventeenth, unrest begins to grow. The traitors attempt to satiate the unrest, but their efforts bear no fruit. The common members begin picking sides. The despicable lessthanpleased, who has been appointed as Speaker of the fraudulent Senate, begins to slander James the Benevolent.
On the eighteenth, the growing Collation begins to openly question the legitimacy of the Republic. The villain Kong Wen attempts to slander the Coalition, but fails. Meanwhile, the corrupt Lady Wu appoints Mindless Minion as an Administrator after being bribed by urbanterrorist.
On the nineteenth, Rhiannon the Just is pressured into denouncing James and calling for the surrender of the Coalition. Despite pressure to the contrary, she extends protection to James.
On the twentieth, Ranbir and Sun Hua break away from both factions and become independent. Meanwhile, Kong Wen attempts to satiate the population with false promises of elections.
On the twenty-first, the villains Kong Wen and Lady Wu attempt to permanently remove James the Benevolent from the member list, but Rhiannon the Just continues to protect him. Meanwhile, Catalyst, one of the rebels' supporters, joins in calling for elections. Lion's Mane voices his support for the traitors.
On the twenty-second, Ranbir and Sun Hua, the independent leaders, join the righteous in decrying the traitors. lessthenpleased suggests that Rhiannon will become a tyrant just as the villains claim James the Benevolent had. She briefly contemplates joining the Bastion of Justice Sun Gongli.
On the twenty-third, Lessthanpleased suggests that Rhiannon be exiled, as James had before. In response, Rhiannon the Just breaks from the Republic, reforming the Scholars and taking the temporary title of Empress-Regent. The villains attempt to slander Rhiannon for taking this course of action. Sun Gongli continues to call for the restoration of the Scholars proper and the return of James.
On the twenty-fourth, the Coalition, believing that the traitors will take no action against them, begins increasing their verbal campaigns. The Bastion of Justice even dares the villain Kong Wen to make him a martyr and appoints the Honorable Knight DynastyWarriors6 as his successor.
On the twenty-fifth, the villain Kong continues his rally against the Collation, but refuses to face them. There are no skirmishes this day.
There are no records of the twenty-sixth, undoubtedly because the traitors committed a heinous act and had to cover it up. Scoundrels.
On the twenty-seventh, Kong Wen, having become power-crazed and driven mad by the Coalition, removes Lady Wu and declares himself dictator. He also removes Rhiannon the Just and replaces her with lessthanpleased.
On the twenty-eighth, in an attempt to quash dissent once and for all, Kong Wen bans Bastion of Justice Sun Gongli. Honorable Knight DynastyWarriors6 vows to continue the Coalition's work. Judas Ezekiel defects to the traitors, but is rejected and bans himself in shame. The Coalition begins to break up despite the attempts by Honorable Knight DynastyWarriors6 to keep it together.
On the twenty-ninth, the battle continues. The villains Kong Wen and lessthanpleased declare the absolute victory of the fraudulent republic.
On the thirtieth day, lessthanpleased slanders James the Benevolent and the Coalition, along with Kong Wen. Some traitors in the Coalition do not recognize Honorable Knight DynastyWarriors6 as leader and thus defect.
On the thirty-first day, the villains lessthanpleased and Kong Wen continue to gloat over their supposed victory. Despite suffering setbacks, the Coalition continues the attack.
On the first day of April, James the Benevolent is beaten in the battle of KMA and is forced to flee there well. Kong Wen decides to take over it as well, and change it to Kong Wen's Archives, a site completely dedicated to himself. The Coalition, defeated, surrenders.
On the second of April, James the Benevolent returns to power along with Rhiannon the Just and all of the other heroes and destroys the rebels. Thus was the Scholars of Shen Zhou saved from the edge of the abyss.


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Man accused of impersonating police officer
Suspect would use 'police-like' light on highways
Police say a man impersonating a police officer followed a young woman to her boyfriend's home, while utilizing a blue light similar to the ones found in police cars.
According to Webster Police, 24-year-old William Ferrante would use the light to slow cars down when they were speeding past him on the highway. Police said he would also come across accidents and use the light to warn traffic until police arrived.
Investigators said Ferrante followed a female victim on Interstate 395 utilizing the blue light. Fearing for her safety, the victim drove to her boyfriend's house, where Ferrante reportedly approached the victim and demanded her license.
He then apparently identified himself as a military police officer.
Ferrante was arrested for impersonating a police officer was set to be arraigned Thursday at Dudley District Court.


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For now, at least, the "ground zero mosque" in New York and threats to burn copies of the Quran are no longer front-page news. But Americans remain wary of Islam as the FBI and other law enforcement agencies investigate a growing list of attacks on mosques and threats to Muslims.
The picture on public attitudes is mixed, according to a recent report by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, which finds that opinions about Islam are less favorable now than they were five years ago.
For example, a plurality of those surveyed (42 percent) say Islam does not encourage violence more than other religions. Still, a substantial minority – 35 percent – believe Islam to be more violent than other faiths.
VIDEO: Build a mosque near ground zero?
While the reasons for this have not been pinned down, two factors likely are involved: Recent terrorist threats and attempted attacks in the United States (the Fort Hood shootings, the Christmas Day and Times Square bomb attempts, the fatal shooting at a US Army recruiting office), plus controversies around the country involving new mosques.
Most recent available figures show a 57 percent increase in the number of mosques in the United States over the past ten years – from 1,209 to 1,897. While opposition often is tied to local zoning and traffic issues, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division said this past week that it is monitoring 11 cases of potential land-use discrimination against Muslims – eight of those cases opened since May.
At the same time, the number of instances of vandalism at mosques and the threats to those involved in proposed new mosques continue to increase, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
The burning of a car in the parking lot of an Islamic community center in Lafayette, La. last week is being investigated by the FBI as a possible hate crime. Burned copies of the Quran recently have been found at the Islamic Society of San Francisco, the Muslim Community Center in Chicago, the Annoor Mosque in Knoxville, Tenn., and the Islamic Center of East Lansing, Mich.
Meanwhile, the New York Times reports that "a record number of Muslim workers are complaining of employment discrimination, from co-workers calling them 'terrorist' or 'Osama' to employers barring them from wearing head scarves or taking prayer breaks."
"Although Muslims make up less than 2 percent of the United States population, they accounted for about one-quarter of the 3,386 religious discrimination claims filed with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last year," the Times reports.
As for the proposed mosque and Islamic center new ground zero in New York, 80 percent of likely voters in New York State say a Muslim group has the right to build there, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Friday. But 57 percent say doing so would be wrong.
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life reported Friday that 35 proposed mosques and Islamic centers have encountered community resistance in the last two years.
"In many cases, the opposition has centered on neighbors' concerns about traffic, noise, parking and property values – the same objections that often greet churches and other houses of worship as well as commercial construction projects," reports Pew. "In some communities, however, opponents of mosques also have cited fears about Islam, sharia law and terrorism."
At the same time, new mosques have been welcomed in several communities around the country, including the Philadelphia suburb of Berwyn where a new mosque is next door to a Jewish synagogue and across the street from a Baptist church.
The mosque and the synagogue share parking lots, and Muslims help with tasks that Jews cannot perform on the Sabbath, reports the Associated Press.
"We're just good friends. We're really good neighbors," said Yossi Kaplan, a Lubavitch rabbi at Chabad Jewish Center. "There's never been any issues."
Mosque president Mohammad Aziz echoes that sentiment.
"We have much more in common than not in common," said. "We are blessed with very good neighbors."
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This was mainly a very lazy day. I was thinking of going to Ginza or Asakusa, but in the end we stayed in.
In the evening after sleeping most of the day, we thought to walk into Shinjuku from Yotsuya. I thought it was far way, but it was probably only 45 minutes to an hour walking slowly.
On the way there I got a printout onto my passbook of my first pay. I wanted to immortalise how much I was paid. It's a cool trick. All you do is put in the book and it knows where to print. It didn't even ask for a PIN number which is weird.
We walked the streets of Shinjuku going past many streets of restaurants, one more appetising than the next. Unfortunately there were also a few UFO catcher arcades that yes, I couldn't refuse and I had to try to win another prize.
After trying a few times to get a Super Bros Mario, I tried my hand at a little "Gachapin".
For anyone who doesn't know, this is a cute little green dinosaur that can do ANYTHING.
He can ride a dirt bike, do karate and other amazing feats. I put in about 500 yen all up, so I pretty much paid for it anyway, but it was worth it I think.
Sunday, 22 July 2007
A Second Prize
This was mainly a very lazy day. I was thinking of going to Ginza or Asakusa, but in the end we stayed in.
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Whip up fun, fashionable bags, purses, and totes in no time! Stuff! Everybody has stuff they need to carry around with them. Make life prettier when you sew any of these 10 delightful purse projects: Handbags for fun and flair. Messenger bags for working people on the go. Shoulder bags for busy moms. Backpacks for the kids. Eco bags for shopping. Tote bags for everything else. The book includes easy-to-follow instructions plus full-size patterns on the CD for no fuss construction. Great for gifts, too!
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- Purses Bags and Totes — Review by Marianne Brown
This book has lots of great patterns, photos and directions that are somewhat useful. I just made the Moon bag and it took me and 2 other experienced seamstresses three hours to figure out the installation of the top zipper. I have sewn for 58 years and the combined experience in years was 150 years. There are six steps missing in that zipper process. I am making the three layer bag this week and will let you know. The moon bag is a beautiful finished product, but it was an agonizing trek to the end.
Since your are selling the book over the internet you need to understand the internet's reach as international. I live in Panama, I do not have washable tape or those little "clippy things". Alternate solutions to high tech supplies would be helpful. Also, 35 million Hispanics live in the U.S. Sewing is huge in Latin America, your books need to be translated for that market. It is enormous and the women LOVE to sew. (Posted on 6/21/13)
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- The most striking feature among the ten bags are the fabrics. They are bold, bright and graphic, and several bags show unexpected combinations of geometric prints. Another great feature of the book is the CD. The full-size patterns eliminate the need to enlarge patterns in the book either at home or at the copy shop. (Posted on 1/6/13)
- Purses, Bags & Totes — Review by pjmartin
- I used to carry nice, leather purses until my back kept going out. Then I discovered how lightweight fabric purses are and I make all of my purses now. This is a great book, with not only purse, patterns, but also a backpack, tote bags, messenger bag, and several others. The patterns are all included on a CD. The instructions are very detailed and what I love–there are lots and lots of photos that show you how to get thru each step. It's going to be difficult deciding which bag I should make first. I think it will be the Fresh Shoulder Bag tho. (Posted on 12/31/12)


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The traditional opening night event for press at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is the "CES Unveiled" gathering at the Mandalay Bay, a ballroom filled with card tables of select vendors that will be showing their wares on the floor.
This evening's festivities, three hours of free hors d'oevres for press and pitches gy the companies, featured some familiar faces: Parrot, the makers of the remote-controlled drone systems, 3M (MMM) with its touch-sensitive table-top technology.
But there were also some relative newcomers who were back with some updated wares. This is the second CES appearance for home remodeling giant Lowe's Companies (LOW), which was showing the home automation kits that it has had on the market for 18 months. The idea is that instead of cobbling together a home security system, with digital locks and switches to turn alarms on and off and such, Lowe's is able to out it all together for you. The company was showing off two new offerings for its Iris brand of kits and companents, devices designed to measure and regulate water flow and turn off valves automatically.
And San Francisco security camera out fit Dropcam was showing off the "Pro" version of its home monitoring Web came, which can give you a surprisingly sharp view into the guest bedroom, using night vision, all from the screen of your iPhone.
In the smarter health category, Medissimo was showing off iMedipac, a pill box that includes a reader for NFC wireless tags. A patient goes to the pharmacy and gets a tray of pills that have NFC tags embedded in them. They then pop the tray into the reader, which can decipher the instructions in the tag for when each day's bill is supposed to be taken. The pill reader can set off a flashing light and sound for each pocket of the pack when it's time to take a pill. But it can also send alerts to the Internet to let a family member know that, say, mom or grandpa have not taken their pill. The company is French, based in Versailles, and has been working on the technology since 2004. It hopes to launch commercially in France in March, having already struck up relationships with more than half the pharmacies nationwide. It is working on the U.S. market, and many other countries.
Home audio folks ClearView Audio were showing off something it calls an "invisible speaker," branded "Clio," made from "ultra thin, slightly curved' and optically clear acrylic glass" that "allows it to disperse sound waves in multiple directions." It certainly looked pretty.
Ultra HD television set makers Seiki of Diamond Bar, California were showing off a solution for the lack of Ultra HD programming: A $40 converter cable that will up-convert plain old, 1080P video sources to be worthy of the higher-resolution TVs. The sets themselves go for about $4,000 for a 65-inch model, or $1,300 for some 50-inch models.


text: Andrew Davie #1 Posted April 6, 2004 In tutorial 22, we learned that to horizontally position a sprite, we need to trigger the RESPx register at the appropriate position in the scanline, at which point the sprite will display immediately. To move to an arbitrary horizontal position, we need to trigger RESPx just before the TIA is displaying the appropriate colour clock. Our solution has been to use the desired X-position of the sprite as the basis for a delay loop which starts at the beginning of a scanline, delays until roughly the correct position, adjusts the HMPx fine-tune horizontal position register and then 'hits' RESPx to immediately position the sprite. Since the minimal time for a single loop iteration is 5 cycles (involving a register decrement, and a branch), and 5 cycles corresponds to 15 TIA colour-clocks, it follows that our delay-loop approach can only position RESPx writes with an accuracy of 15 TIA colour-clocks. This is fine, though, as the hardware capability of fine-positioning sprites by -8 to +7 pixels perfectly allows the correct position of the sprite to be established. The approach taken previously has been to effectively divide the position by 15 (either through a table-lookup, or 'clever' code which simulated a divide by 15 using a divide by 16 (quick) + adjustment) and use that value as the iteration counter in a delay loop. This approach works, and has been fairly standard for a number of years. This is the approach presented in our earlier tutorial. A recent posting to the [stella] list of an independant discovery of a 'new' method much improves on this technique. In actual fact, the technique was already known and documented in the list... but for various reasons these things don't always become well-known. The 'new' technique of horizontal positioning rolls the divide-by-15 and the delay loop into a single entity. sec .Div15 sbc #15 ; 2 bcs .Div15 ; 3(2) Now that may not look like much, but it's absolutely brilliant! Every iteration through the loop, the accumulator is decremented by 15. When the subtraction results in a carry, the accumulator has gone 'past' 0, and our loop ends. Each iteration takes exactly 5 cycles (with an extra 2 cycles added for the initial 'sec' and one less for the final branch not taken). The real beauty of the code is that we also, 'for free', get the correct -8 to +7 adjustment for the fine-tuning of the position (which with a little bit of fine-tuning can be used for the HMP0 register)! Read the relevant post on [stella] here... http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archiv...3/msg00260.html For this brilliant bit of coding, our thanks go to R. Mundschau ; Positions an object horizontally ; Inputs: A = Desired position. ; X = Desired object to be positioned (0-5). ; scanlines: If control comes on or before cycle 73 then 1 scanline is consumed. ; If control comes after cycle 73 then 2 scanlines are consumed. ; Outputs: X = unchanged ; A = Fine Adjustment value. ; Y = the "remainder" of the division by 15 minus an additional 15. ; control is returned on cycle 6 of the next scanline. PosObject SUBROUTINE sta WSYNC ; 00 Sync to start of scanline. sec ; 02 Set the carry flag so no borrow will be applied during the division. .divideby15 sbc #15 ; 04 Waste the necessary amount of time dividing X-pos by 15! bcs .divideby15 ; 06/07 11/16/21/26/31/36/41/46/51/56/61/66 tay lda fineAdjustTable,y ; 13 -> Consume 5 cycles by guaranteeing we cross a page boundary sta HMP0,x sta RESP0,x ; 21/ 26/31/36/41/46/51/56/61/66/71 - Set the rough position. rts ;----------------------------- ; This table converts the "remainder" of the division by 15 (-1 to -15) to the correct ; fine adjustment value. This table is on a page boundary to guarantee the processor ; will cross a page boundary and waste a cycle in order to be at the precise position ; for a RESP0,x write ORG $F000 fineAdjustBegin DC.B %01110000; Left 7 DC.B %01100000; Left 6 DC.B %01010000; Left 5 DC.B %01000000; Left 4 DC.B %00110000; Left 3 DC.B %00100000; Left 2 DC.B %00010000; Left 1 DC.B %00000000; No movement. DC.B %11110000; Right 1 DC.B %11100000; Right 2 DC.B %11010000; Right 3 DC.B %11000000; Right 4 DC.B %10110000; Right 5 DC.B %10100000; Right 6 DC.B %10010000; Right 7 fineAdjustTable EQU fineAdjustBegin - %11110001; NOTE: %11110001 = -15 One interesting aspect of this code is the access to the table with a (conceptual) negative index (-1 to -15 inclusive). Negative numbers are represented in two's complement form, so -1 is %11111111 which is *exactly* the same as 255 (%11111111). So how can we use negative numbers as indexes? We can't! All indexing is considered to be with positive numbers. So if our index was -1, we would actually index 255 bytes past the beginning of our table. The neat bit of code at the bottom sets the conceptual start of our table to 241 bytes BEFORE the start of the actual data so that when we attempt to access the -15th element of the table, we ACTUALLY end up at the very first byte of the "fineAdjustBegin" table. Likewise, when accessing the -1th element, we ACTUALLY access the last element of the table. It's all very neat! Finally, since we need to account for every cycle in this code very carefully (as the horizontal position depends on exactly where we write the RESP0 value), we need to take into account the possibility that an extra cycle is being thrown in when we access fineAdjustTable,y and that access crosses a page boundary. By positioning the table being accessed exactly on a page boundary, the code guarantees that every access incurs an extra cycle 'penalty' and is therefore consistent for all cases. I don't take any credit for this, I just admire it. I consider this a BRILLIANT bit of coding, so hats-off to R. Mundschau and thanks for sharing! Another "BRILLIANT" bit of code, but this time from yours truly, is the 8-byte system clear. We touched on this earlier in Session 12, but I thought I'd give a quick run-down on exactly how that code works... ldx #0 txa Clear dex txs pha bne Clear We assume that when this code starts, the system is in a totally unknown state. Firstly, X and A are set to 0, and we enter the loop. The loop begins: X-register is decremented (to 255) and this value is placed in the stack pointer (now $FF) the accumulator(0) is then pushed onto the stack, so memory/hardware location $FF is set to 0, and the stack pointer decrements to $FE since the tsx and pha don't affect the flags, the branch will be based on the decrement of the x register if non-zero, then we repeat the loop. 0 will be written to 256 consecutive memory locations starting with $FF and ending with 0 (inclusive). Loop will terminate after 256 iterations. On the final pass through, x would be decremented to 0, and this placed in the stack pointer. We then push the accumulator (0) onto the stack (which effectively writes it to memory (TIA) location 0) and as a consequence the stack pointer decrements (and wraps!) back to $FF At the conclusion of the above, X = 0, A = 0, SP = $FF, a near-perfect init! That could be the best 8-bytes ever written 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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During the late 19th century, the man who perfected the Republican Party organization and managed it in the interests of Senator Anthony was Brigadier General Charles R. Brayton, a native of Warwick. …
During the late 19th century, the man who perfected the Republican Party organization and managed it in the interests of Senator Anthony was Brigadier General Charles R. Brayton, a native of Warwick.
Brayton was a member of a family that had lived in Rhode Island since 1643 and most often played key roles in politics and business. Brayton's grandfather was the Honorable Charles Brayton, a justice of the Supreme Court from 1814-17 and 1827-30. Brayton's father, William Daniel Brayton, was a member of Congress from Rhode Island from 1859-61, and his uncle, George Arnold Brayton, was chief justice of the R.I. Supreme Court in 1868. Brayton's father was in the lumber business in Apponaug and East Greenwich and served as town clerk of Warwick.
Gen. Brayton entered Brown University in 1859, and at the end of his sophomore year he left to volunteer in the Civil War. He recruited a company of the Third Regiment of Rhode Island Volunteers (Heavy Artillery) and offered it to Governor Sprague. HE was appointed a lieutenant of the Third Regiment on Oct. 9, 1863. Brayton was known as an excellent disciplinarian during his military career and, although he was severe, he was popular with the men because of his gruff, easy manner. He distinguished himself on a number of occasions and, at the close of the war, Brayton, at age 25, was made Brigadier General of Volunteers.
Brayton built his political organization primarily on the votes of the rural and small town Yankees who feared the incursion of the foreign populations in the cities. Brayton was director of several corporations and the careful guardian of the interests of the state's economic elite. He was the representative of both business interests and rural Yankees and elevated many small town men to positions of leadership in the state. The power of the Anthony-Brayton machine came from what Brayton referred to as "old codgers" from country towns. Thanks to Brayton, they held all "key posts." Brayton made sure that no committee chairmen were all from the country and not from the cities. Through these methods, Brayton became the a;;-powerful "boss" of the Republican Party and a nod from the general was enough to kill a bill.
When Anthony died in 1884, Nelson W. Aldrich took his place in Rhode Island political leadership and Brayton worked for him. Tradition states that when Brayton had become angry at one of the party regulars who wanted to run for Congress, the "boss," looking for a new candidate, spotted Aldrich and threw his support to him.
In 1877, Brayton feared that Aldrich might join forces with Henry Lippitt, the only possible threat to Sen. Anthony's total control, and offered young Aldrich the governorship to win him over. Aldrich realized that being governor of Rhode Island at the time was at most an empty honor and turned down the offer. Brayton then offered him the chance to run for Congress in 1878. With the help of Sen. Anthony and "Boss" Brayton, Aldrich was elected. In 1881, when Sen. Ambrose Burnside died, Brayton and Anthony chose Aldrich as his successor. That same year, U.S. senators were selected by the state legislature rather than by popular election and, as Anthony and Brayton controlled the state legislature, Aldrich's election was assured.
Aldrich received the opportunity to begin the career that over the next 30 years would earn him titles such as "General Manager of the U.S.," Boss of the Senate," Commander-in-Chief of the forces of protective tariffs" and "the most powerful man in U.S. politics." When he entered the Senate in 1881, it was estimated that his financial assets totaled about $50,000. When he left the Senate in 1912, his worth was calculated as upwards of $30 million and his estate was completed.
In the early 1890s Sen. Aldrich found Warwick Neck, with its quiet beauty, an ideal place to spend his summers. In 1896 he decided to make this his permanent summer home and purchased the Governor Hoppin farm and about 15 acres. Almost form the start, the senator envisioned a magnificent complex that would grow and develop over the years. Aldrich eventually purchased seven farms in the area to make this possible. He began this vast enterprise when he was 56 years old and it was not completed until he was in his 70s.


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Toy Story 3
All children take their play very seriously, and you might be one of the many adults who look back on playtime as one of the most engaging and memorable aspects of your youth. Children create a world and mimic what they see when they are playing, and this activity is, without a doubt, a fundamental building block for our species. When Toy Story came out in '95 it was a big success. The story of a group of toys who were loyal to their owner and overcame outlandish obstacles was brilliant. Seeing toys that actually felt emotions and had attachment issues helped me understand and define my relationship to my mother. It also urged me to take care of my toys and stop chopping off Barbie's hair. The family featured had a single-mother, which was an interesting dynamic and something that many children can relate to. It also gave me a silly curiosity growing up; I checked on my toys to see if they actually had a life of their own. The documentary The Pixar Story explains the company's success with its animation techniques and its first film, Toy Story. Toy Story 3, made over a decade later than the first, would become one of the highest grossing animated films, and one of three to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
For those of you who haven't seen Toy Story 1 or 2, let me indulge myself with a brief synopsis. The first film is about the anxiety of being replaced. Woody and his preschool-appropriate buddies fear that Andy will get a new toy for his birthday and replace one of them. He gets a Buzz Lightyear action figure and goes through a brief phase of being obsessed with space and the new toy. The quarrels between the delusional Buzz (who thinks he's a real space ranger) and the former favorite, Woody, leads to a huge accident. The two end up outside and in the hands of a kid who likes to torture toys. They decide to work together in order to get home before their family moves to their new house, or the sinister kid across the street blows them up.Continue Reading