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Miley Cyrus' Twerk Will Be Topped, Dallas Cowboys Will Make the Playoffs + More – Dave Makes Predictions For 2014
As we leave 2013 in the dust and look forward to another year of possibilities, there are some things that I believe are certain to happen. So, ripped from futuristic headlines, here are my incredibly bold predictions from the world of entertainment, sports, technology and politics.
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A Pop Artist Will Do Something More Shocking Than Miley Cyrus' TwerkingIt's kind of like falling for the same practical joke, over and over again
Just as Miley's "controversial" behavior begins to bore us, another teenage entertainer will come along to remind us that the decline of western civilization continues, full speed ahead. While I can't identify this person by name now, I suspect the new shocker will be younger, wear fewer clothes, and have strange parental issues.
I won't comment on whether or not the Miley 2.0 will have any actual talent. That seems to be an afterthought these days. Case in point: The entire Kardashian family. And Paris Hilton.
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The Dallas Cowboys Will Make the PlayoffsPossibly my most bold prediction of the year
After three straight seasons of heartbreaking letdown on the final day of the regular season, the Dallas Cowboys will finally break through and make the playoffs. Bank on it.
You can also bank on a first round loss in the playoffs. I'm bold, not stupid.
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There Will Be a New iPhone, and it Won't Be Much Different From the Old iPhoneIt will be just special enough to make your old phone look silly
Somethings will never change. The sloth-like evolution of one of technology's greatest creations is no exception.
Will the next generation of iPhone be slightly more curved? Will it be slightly larger or smaller? Will it talk to you in a variety of voices? Whatever the "upgrade", the most life-changing aspect of the newest Apple smart phone will be the fact that you'll need to buy new accessories to go with it...because your old ones won't fit.
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Donald Trump Will Run For Public OfficeThis one actually has fact to support my prediction!
Out of sheer boredom, and lack of anything else to accomplish in his life, Donald Trump will invest his fame and fortune in a run for public office. He poked his combed-over head into the 2012 presidential race, and may still be interested in making a serious run. Trump is also being mentioned as possibly taking a shot at becoming the next governor of New York. Heck, if former wrestler Jesse "The Body" Ventura and Arnold "The Terminator" Schwartzenegger can run a state, why not "The Donald"?
The only thing standing in the way of this prediction coming true? The pay cut Trump would have to take as a public servant.

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Former ER actress Kellie Martin, 36, has added a new title to her resume: Internet Entrepreneur. Best known for her role on TV's Life Goes On and Ricki Lake's documentary More Business of Being Born, Kellie announces her takeover of ROMP, an innovative and modern children's boutique.
Kellie opens up to Celebrity Baby Scoop about her online store that is "right up [her] alley" with "non-toxic, non-plastic, no batteries type of toys." The actress also talks about her 5 year-old-daughter Maggie and thoughts on baby No. 2: "Honestly, I just haven't felt ready yet!"
CBS: Tell us about your recurring role on Army Wives.
KM: "I'm so excited about it! I play Captain Nicole Galassini who is very intelligent, driven and ambitious. She's an expert on a certain region in Africa where there's a lot of turmoil. Basically she's very instrumental in working out some political strife there. She's kind of a badass!
Actually the character reminds me a lof of Jodie Foster in Silence of the Lambs. She's super focussed and just a really fun character to play. I've never played anyone in the military, so just putting on that gear was pretty interesting! It adds a layer to the character. And they're such a lovely group of people to work with.
And my other show for Hallmark, Almost a Bride, is airing in July. It's a romantic comedy where I play this uptight woman who ends up getting 'accidentally' drunk in Vegas at her bachelorette party and she ends up marrying the wrong guy."
CBS: Tell us about taking over the children's store ROMP.
KM: "ROMP was this fantastic company that I was a customer of for about 4 years. I started shopping at ROMP when my daughter was 8-months-old. They were this great online shop that had this tightly curated group of toys and it was so up my alley. I was searching for safe, non-toxic, non-plastic, no batteries type of toys for my daughter. A friend of mine who's a photographer told me about this little wooden camera that she'd gotten for her daughter at ROMP. So I found it, I ordered it, and that was it — I was a longtime customer!
So last June, I got an email that ROMP was closing down. And I just decided that I couldn't let that happen! I just said to myself, 'I have to take this over….or I had to find out if she'd let me take it over!,' simply because I didn't know where else I would shop. It just turned out to be a really great thing for me. The woman that I bought the company from was really happy to have me take it over. It was just one of those things that fell into place very easily. And I've been really enjoying it.
I didn't want to come in and change everything because I loved the way it was. So I basically quietly took it over last year and I didn't want to make a big deal about the fact that I was the new owner, because I know so many customers were happy with the way it was, and I wanted to continue the way it was. But now that I actually know what I'm doing, I'm ready to tell people that ROMP is now mine!
I just got off the phone with a customer who was telling me she started shopping at ROMP when her daughter was 1, and her daughter is now 3. That's what I love about it — there's a very loyal base of customers who just love the products.
I have such a cool kid and I have loved to see her grow. And I also love to see the way she engages with her toys. That little wooden camera I was telling you about that I got her when she was 8-months-old, to this day – she's now 5 – she still plays with it. She saw these caterpillars who were going into their cocoons and she said, 'Mom, mom, I have to go get my camera.' She ran into the other room, grabbed her camera, and took pictures of the caterpillars.
So I love the fact that these toys are so open-ended that they will span years. And then you will want to hand them down. I hope she'll pass them down to her kids. These toys really stimulate their creativity, their minds, and encourages them to use their bodies and be part of this world. As opposed to being plugged into anything technological. I've fought like mad to keep her away from my iPhone and we don't let her touch the computer. I just feel like she has her whole life to do that.
And I ship everywhere! I just shipped something to Singapore and St. Petersburg. I love seeing where people are accessing the site – it's really fun for me. At this point, I'm selling toys and decor. In the future we might add clothes, but I'd want to have our own line and I'd want to do it really well. So right now, I'm devoting everything to toys, and then eventually we'll add things.
It's fun for me now that my daughter's going into Kindergarten. I've been able to wrap my head around a business. Because before then, I wasn't ready to do anything like this. She can be in my office with all of these toys, and she can be in here having fun and be with me while I'm still doing my work and I love that. It's a really nice thing for me."
CBS: How's Maggie doing? Wow, she'll be in Kindergarten this September!
KM: "She's great! She's so ready for school. It's been fun to see her grow into this amazing little person. She's really into exploring the world and she loves to learn, so Kindergarten is something she's really excited to start this fall."
CBS: What's your favorite part of motherhood?
KM: "For me it's discovering the world through her eyes and learning from her every day. I just love being with her and spending my time with her. She's the greatest thing that ever happened to me."
CBS: Are you hoping for baby No. 2?
KM: "Honestly, I just haven't felt ready yet! I know that as she gets older, I also get older, and I should really get started on baby No. 2. But I'm just honestly not feeling ready yet and I've wanted to devote my time and energy on her. We'll see if I start to feel ready soon…"
CBS: We loved you in More Business of Being Born! Any future projects with Ricki Lake?
KM: "I was so honored to be part of More Business of Being Born! Funny story: Melissa Joan Hart, who also appeared in the film, is one of my best friends and we went to the screening together. We were both laughing that we were part of this film alongside a whole group of supermodels! But we were so happy to share our stories and be part of something so important.
Melissa had a really tough experience with her first birth and I basically talked her into taking hypnobirthing for her second delivery. When I first got pregnant, I didn't know much about the birthing process, but I knew that my mom had me naturally and I wanted that experience. I soon learned that it's all about becoming informed and empowered to make the right decision for yourself. So I became interested in hypnobirthing and did the prenatal classes to prepare myself emotionally and physically for the birth.
And as for any future projects with Ricki, all she would have to do is ask and I'd be there in a heartbeat! In fact, it hasn't been officially announced, but I will be writing for Ricki's upcoming magazine. I can't wait!"


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1. idroidequis (Posts: 103; Member since: 23 Jan 2013)
I want specs not pics.
10. imsickwithsmartphone (Posts: 153; Member since: 28 Jan 2013)
me too...
this is not an apple products which show only their part, pic, leaks whatsoever
11. dickwyn (Posts: 621; Member since: 07 May 2012)
i can see that this is a fake because why would they feature the app drawer on the box, and there is third party apps like PPTV
16. thelegend6657 (unregistered)
Oi agree this is fake , samsung likes to put their horrible touch wiz on every phone they make , this one features stock android with 3rd party apps like PTV
19. cR203 (Posts: 209; Member since: 27 Jan 2013)
This is fake the galaxy tab 3 would most likely run touch wiz. Which isn't horrible by the way.Touch wiz happens to be the best ui other than just stock android. Get it together thelegend6657.
21. thelegend6657 (unregistered)
Touch wiz doesn't have the simplicity of stock nor the beauty of sense
28. cR203 (Posts: 209; Member since: 27 Jan 2013)
Touch wiz isn't better than stock android but its way better than sense. Sense is what kinda holds back htc phones if you ask me.
31. umadd (banned) (Posts: 40; Member since: 25 Jan 2013)
wake up, it's 2013. stock android is irrelevant now and have terrible battery life.
touchwiz may be too cartoonish but offer more functionality than stock.
also, sense is butt ugly.
25. donfem (Posts: 708; Member since: 30 Mar 2011)
And why sould anyone thumb you down?
2. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10457; Member since: 14 May 2012)
I rather know about the specs than see what it looks like.. I guess beggars can't be choosers.
6. wendygarett (unregistered)
Funny, when average user want to see pic more than spec tho... Why is it other way round?
15. Peter98 (Posts: 119; Member since: 01 Aug 2012)
If u say iPad is boring, I would say I'm super bored of this design and their material!
17. ama3654 (Posts: 295; Member since: 27 Nov 2012)
what do you want?, a hexagonal tablet made out of ice? smh...
22. CorianU (Posts: 27; Member since: 22 Jan 2013)
That's what I want
3. MartianMe (unregistered)
They should drop the 7" and stick with the 10" tab n the note 8 i think.
4. imsickwithsmartphone (Posts: 153; Member since: 28 Jan 2013)
lets hoping these tablets have a good price.....
5. Domino (Posts: 6; Member since: 02 Feb 2008)
Is there going to be a Samsung Galaxy Note III?
8. abdane (Posts: 502; Member since: 07 Oct 2011)
more likely... but not untill Q4 of 2013
9. imsickwithsmartphone (Posts: 153; Member since: 28 Jan 2013)
too early...
wait for ifa
7. WinC76 (unregistered)
Looks fake, the screenshot on the box shows stock Android.
12. baza58 (Posts: 19; Member since: 30 Jul 2012)
Boooring... Samsung won't obviously do 7" tablet because market is dominated by Nexus 7 in 7".
14. wendygarett (unregistered)
Choice are always good :)
27. baza58 (Posts: 19; Member since: 30 Jul 2012)
Choices are good. But who wants to make product that no one will buy?
13. chrisk (Posts: 4; Member since: 28 Jan 2013)
Oh look, another variation of a variation of a variation ... And in 3 years we'll have the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Plus (but with lower specs but Android Update!!!)
18. umadd (banned) (Posts: 40; Member since: 25 Jan 2013)
Oh look, another retard
20. vandroid (Posts: 404; Member since: 04 Sep 2012)
Looks the same to me but I wonder what it's packing under the hood
23. CorianU (Posts: 27; Member since: 22 Jan 2013)
A processor and if your lucky, internal memory
30. __Toprak__ (Posts: 6; Member since: 31 Jan 2012)
24. rustyimtiaz (Posts: 44; Member since: 16 Oct 2012)
By seeing the second pic i can say that the front camera is towards the top right which means this tab is meant to be held in a portrait position which is quite weird for a 10.1 inch tab!!!
26. heyDUDE (Posts: 1; Member since: 28 Jan 2013)
to me its nonsense that these are the real pics....tell me one person who takes shoots of a box and a part of the screeninstead of deatailed photos of how it is gonna to look like?


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The MIT men's fencing team went unscathed in its first competition since December this past weekend at Boston College. The Engineers posted victories over the host Golden Eagles (14-13), Brown University (15-12), Brandeis University (15-12), and Dartmouth College (23-4).
The epee squad dominated the field as it won every match, resulting in a 24-12 ledger. Trevor Chang had the best showing for the Engineers as he finished with a 10-2 mark, while Matt Gethers went 8-4.
A 9-0 win over Dartmouth helped lead the foil team to a 23-13 record. Jason Chen posted a pair of 3-0 victories en route to a 9-3 ledger while Spencer Sugimoto notched a total of 8-4.
With a 20-16 finish, every member of the sabre squad posted at least a .500 record. Brian Quattrochi led the way with a 7-5 mark, followed by William Walsh (6-4), Igor Kopylov (6-6), and Raymond Wu (1-1).


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- 1 lb ground beef—brown and drain
- 1 pkg. taco seasoning—mix with drained ground beef
- Add:
- 4 cans of tomato soup don't add water
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- Simmer for ½ hour until heated through.
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Solitary confinement in immigration detention centers across the nation is often overused and arbitrarily applied. According to data obtained by the National Immigrant Justice Center, as many as 300 immigrants, or about 1% of all detainees in the 50 largest facilities in the country, are confined to small cells on any given day, even though many pose no security risk. In many cases, they're held there for 23 hours each day without a break, often for weeks.
The use of solitary confinement is troubling enough in regular state and federal prisons, where inmates held in such conditions for prolonged periods are at risk for severe mental illness and suicide, according to medical experts. But its use in immigration facilities is even more alarming because those detainees aren't serving criminal sentences but are awaiting civil deportation hearings.
Moreover, prolonged solitary confinement not only puts detainees' health in jeopardy but undermines their ability to fight their cases. Access to telephones and contact with attorneys are often severely restricted because detainees are allowed to spend just one hour each day outside their cells. That is unfair and a violation of basic human rights.
Earlier this week, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the department would review its policy on solitary confinement. Officials have said that it is used only when detainees have broken the rules, pose a danger to others or request protective custody (as gay and transgender immigrants sometimes do). But solitary should not be used as a punishment for such infractions as talking back to guards; it's too cruel. And if detainees need to be protected from others in the system, surely there's a better way than locking them up, alone, for weeks at a time, in a manner that puts their mental health at risk.


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WASHINGTON — Irked that Goldman Sachs appears to have reaped a $2.9 billion taxpayer-aided windfall on an investment of a mere $20 million, some experts and watchdogs say the Wall Street giant should return the money to the U.S. Treasury.
"It's a very simple call to make," said Sylvain Raynes, a frequent Goldman critic who's an expert in the kinds of deals in which the investment bank landed an apparent jackpot. "They should never have been given this money, and they should give it back."
The assessment by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission also exposed a potentially huge regulatory omission in the rescue of the insurance giant American International Group, which was the conduit for more than $90 billion in tax dollars to U.S. and European banks.
It's now clear that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which quarterbacked the hurried, $182 billion bailout of AIG to avoid a meltdown of global financial markets, did little to guard against windfalls for major banks and investment banks.
The financial crisis panel's final report late last month found that Goldman's $2.9 billion payout came on "proprietary" trades — investments in which the firm used its own money rather than the more typical deals completed on behalf of clients.
The panel, inquiring into a McClatchy report last June, said that Goldman got $1.9 billion of the payoff after the taxpayer bailout of AIG began.
Critics say that in the rush to save AIG and avert systemic collapse of the financial markets, regulators treated Goldman like everyone else. But Goldman was different.
While most banks that got billions of dollars from AIG simply relayed the money to clients they'd insured against losses, Goldman got to collect a more than 100-fold return on a number of securities that soured, because none of its clients was involved.
The prospect of a repayment by Goldman — the firm that drew the most outrage over Wall Street's role in the financial crisis — would be welcome news now as President Barack Obama has been forced to propose huge cuts in federal programs as a way of dealing with a $1.6 trillion budget deficit for fiscal 2012.
Steve Ellis, of the government waste watchdog Taxpayers for Common Sense, said that "It's up to the federal government to demand accountability and transparency" regarding Goldman's payout.
"We can't afford to shell out cash without asking hard questions and demanding that the very same actors that got the economy into this mess take some of the burden on themselves," he said.
Congress could try to impose a tax on banks' profits from the bailout or adopt some other legislation to "claw back" the money, but it would be difficult because Goldman received it unconditionally, said Michael Greenberger, a University of Maryland law professor who specializes in complex securities. The New York Fed attached no strings to the money and let AIG decide how much Goldman would get.
Goldman, which paid a whopping $31.6 billion in employee bonuses in the past two years, denies that the trades in question were proprietary, signaling that it has no plans to send more money back to Washington.
In 2009, Goldman was quick to repay a $10 billion loan from a Treasury Department program to bail out banks. Last summer, the firm paid an additional $550 million to settle a related civil fraud suit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Goldman spokesman Michael DuVally rejected the characterization of the AIG payment as a windfall.
"We used the money we received from AIG to meet our obligations to clients with whom we hedged on the other side of these trades," he said.
Joseph Mason, a finance professor at Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge who has advised federal banking regulatory agencies, said that most large banks manage their risks with so many contrary trades that assertions they profited from a particular deal "can be obviated very quickly."
The issue, however, goes to the heart of the controversy over whether any of the megabanks that helped cause the crisis got sweetheart deals as part of the bailout.
"In the heat of the moment, the Treasury and the Fed weren't worried about who was participating in the housing bubble . . . or their level of involvement" when they shelled out money, Mason said.
"You run up the market, you cause a nationwide crisis and you're given money to continue. That sounds to me like an incentive to go out and do it again."
The New York Fed said in a statement that the bailout protected Americans, as well as AIG's policyholders and trading partners "from the catastrophic consequences of AIG's disorderly failure during the worst financial crisis in generations, (and) allowed AIG to meet its contractual obligations without discrimination." A New York Fed spokesman declined to comment on whether taxpayers backstopped any other proprietary trades
Greenberger, however, sharply criticized the handling of the AIG bailout, naming Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, the former New York Fed president; and Larry Summers, until recently Obama's chief economic adviser.
"This wasn't rocket science, what was going on," said Greenberger, who was a senior staffer at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission during the Clinton administration. "Anybody who understood this market knew that there was the potential for Goldman to later unwind proprietary trades. But the Obama administration and the Fed simply never inquired.
"They had all the power at that point. Goldman needed that money. They were on their knees, and that was the point at which hard bargaining should have been taking place."
However, Greenberger said he worries less about recovering taxpayer money than about preventing a future financial meltdown, because the banking industry is lobbying fiercely against rules implementing recent congressional overhauls by improving market transparency and limiting risk-taking.
AIG's big debts to Wall Street emanated from the decision of its highflying London-based Financial Products unit to write insurance-like protection for major banks and investment banks on some $78 billion in offshore securities, most backed by subprime or similarly dicey home loans. In many cases, the banks had written identical insurance protection for the buyers of the securities.
When the housing crash sank the securities' value, AIG was sent reeling toward bankruptcy by a chorus of banks demanding payment of tens of billions of dollars under the terms of the contracts, known as credit-default swaps.
Geithner, Treasury secretary Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke elected to save AIG from bankruptcy, partly to keep banks afloat. As part of the rescue, the New York Fed directed AIG to cover the full face value of $62 billion of most of its swap contracts with Goldman and other U.S. and European banks.
Goldman, which collected $14 billion of those funds, said it merely forwarded the money to investors for whom it had written the same protection.
But the inquiry panel concluded that Goldman cashed in on another $5 billion in more exotic bets on so-called synthetic securities that weren't back-to-back trades. With AIG Financial Products unworried about a housing downturn, Goldman paid 0.1 percent of the securities' face value, or about $5 million annually, to bet in 2005 and 2006 on the default of a set of securities that neither party owned.
DuVally, the Goldman spokesman, said that the deals "were client-related, not proprietary transactions," emphasizing that, "The idea that we received a . . . windfall is wrong."
DuVally declined to detail the hedges — bets in the opposite direction — and wouldn't say whether Goldman had anything close to $2.9 billion at stake.
Another $1 billion in Goldman-AIG trades had yet to be unwound as of July.
It's still unclear whether other banks also collected windfalls for proprietary bets.
The French colossus Societe Generale, investment bank Merrill Lynch (now owned by Bank of America) and Germany's Deutsche Bank collected a combined $22 billion from AIG as part of the 2008 settlements. Deutsche Bank also insured billions of dollars in securities backed by commercial real-estate loans.
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Men of the Year 2011: King: Jay-Z
They're waiting for him at the gallery. They're lined up in the foyer, as if for inspection. Ealan Wingate, who runs the place, nutty-professorial in a bow tie and blazer, stands with some gallery staffers, young women in heels and complicated blouses, their demeanor poised and professional, their eyes flashing OMG, OMG as the gallery doors open to let in the hard fall wind off the Hudson and also Shawn Corey Carter, better known from the Marcy Houses to Marrakech as Jay-Z. He's wearing Timberlands, just-this-side-of-baggy jeans, a plain dark blue hoodie, and a look of regal amusement. Like, For me? He shakes everybody's hand, introduces himself as "Jay."
Jay is among the first rappers to name-drop his contemporary-art holdings in the same you-ain't-up-on-this tone that other MCs employ when discussing their watches. He shouts out art-world superdealer Larry Gagosian in his verse on "That's My Bitch," from Watch the Throne, the collaborative album he and Kanye West released a few months ago. So we're at one of Larry's places, the warehouse-sized Gagosian Gallery on West 24th Street.
Wingate leads us into the main room, which currently houses Junction/Cycle, two mammoth sculptures by he-man minimalist Richard Serra (who happens to live around the corner from Jay in Tribeca). Curving walls of rust-brown steel cut the gallery into canyons. Wingate says we're supposed to walk through them and think about memory, so we do; it's kind of like an existential corn maze. Jay is clearly impressed by the sheer scale Serra's working on, but he doesn't linger. It's not until Wingate takes us into a side room and shows us a big Cy Twombly triptych that I see him actually stopped short by what he's looking at.
The Twombly is all scrawl and half-erasure, violent like a bus window keyed by an army of scratch-taggers, if scratch-taggers bombed public transit with the names of Greek heroes like AGAMEMNON and AJAX and ODYSSEUS and JASON. Also—and once Wingate points this out to us, it's hard to see anything else—there are a lot of exuberantly crude drawings of vaginas and balloon-animalish dicks.
Jay digs this one. It reminds him more than a little of the Basquiats he collects, the ones he's referring to on the Throne track "Illest Motherfucker Alive" when he rhymes House like a museum with see 'em when I'm peein' with Usually, you have this much taste, you European. (Classic Jay: culturedness as swag, class snobbery brushed off like so much shoulder dirt, and a relatability-enhancing reference to taking a piss just like a regular dude, all in the space of three lines.)
He stands ten feet back from the Twombly, and for a long minute nobody says anything and the wind rattles the gallery's windows and he briefly ceases to be the focus of everybody's attention.
"You hear that silence right there?" he finally says, laughing. "That's art workin'."
Good art doesn't always breed contemplative silence. Take Watch the Throne, on which two grandiose motherfuckers explore the theme of grandiose-motherfuckerdom from vastly different perspectives, stacking dubstep on top of opera on top of Otis Redding, triumphalism on top of sorrow on top of more triumphalism, striving for a sound as vast and strange as the world they've come to inhabit. It's glorious and obnoxious and pointedly self-aware, and it was more fun to argue about than any hip-hop record since, I don't know, Kanye West's 808s Heartbreak or Jay-Z's widely jeered Kingdom Come.
The gist of a lot of those arguments: In an economic moment as bleak as this, is it not sort of a dick move to drop an album—even a great one—about what it feels like to be richer than a fifteenth-century pope? On what turned out to be the day of a stock market crash? Even the Watch the Throne T-shirts were limited-edition Givenchy and sold for $300.
There was some backlash; when Kanye showed up at the Occupy Wall Street protests in mid-October, he seemed almost chastened, to the extent that a millionaire wearing a gold grill and an I'd-rather-be-having-a-threesome expression standing mute while Russell Simmons spoke on his behalf could seem chastened. Whether he really had anything to atone for is debatable.
Watch the Throne is an honest record about trying to find your moral compass when insane wealth and success have knocked down every boundary that once gave shape to your world. Write what you know, y'know?
Jay says it's his best post-unretirement record and that underneath all the Oprah-money trappings, it deals with universal questions: "What I'm doing now, where I want to go? What are we going to do next in our lives? We all have that. Everyone has that on their mind."
The record is about having a good time in fancy hotels, because they made it while having a good time in fancy hotels, at the Mercer and the Tribeca Grand in New York, the five-star Le Meurice in Paris. They laughed a lot, Jay says, drank a lot of wine. If they argued, it was over music. "Only about what's best for the song," Jay says, "which is great." When they first started working together, a decade or so ago, Kanye would just slip Jay beats without asking to be consulted on how they got used; during the Throne sessions, he was a perfectionist, obsessing over microdetails. "I think he just can't help himself," Jay says. "He puts so much into everything, and he's like, 'You have to treat it like I treat it.' It drives you crazy sometimes—like when you've put seventy-five versions of a snare on one song and he's like, 'No!' and you're like, 'Come on, man.' "
Jay says that even songs like "Niggas in Paris"—the one with the Blades of Glory samples and the crazy-consumptive What's Gucci, my nigga? What's Louis, my killa? hook—or "Otis," where Kanye actually refers to what they're doing as "luxury rap," effectively handing detractors a stick to beat the record with, come from a humble place. "It's not, like, 'We're here! We're balling harder than everybody,' " he says. "It's like, 'I'm shocked that we're here.' Still being amazed, still not being jaded. Having so much fun and then stopping and saying, 'What are we doing here? How did we get here?' "
The key line, Jay says, is the one that goes _If you escaped what I escaped, you'd be in Paris getting fucked up too. _
"I've known so many people that didn't make it," he says. "Most people can look at a picture of the kids they grew up with and it's like, 'Oh yeah—Adam went away to Harvard.' This is a whole different conversation."
Nearly every rapper tells a version of that story. But nobody tells it better or to a wider cross section of the population—children, rap nerds, corporate America—than Jay-Z. No hip-hop artist who owes his credibility to the street has moved farther beyond it and into the rarefied air of twenty-first-century high society than Jay has. But at 42, he remains, precedent-defyingly, a rapper people still care about, because he's managed to frame all his achievements—his front-office stint at Def Jam, his ownership stake in the NBA franchise soon to be known as the Brooklyn Nets, the $150 million deal with LiveNation that's said to rival Madonna's, even the pop star he put a ring on—as we-shouldn't-be-here victories for a kid from public housing, and for hip-hop, too.
There's a table waiting for us at Torrisi Italian Specialties, down by Little Italy. Jay says it's his favorite place to eat right now. But tonight is the first night of the Feast of San Gennaro, this big tourist-trap street festival, so Mulberry Street is closed to cars and clogged with ambling tourists, and we have to ditch the Maybach a few blocks away and walk. Jay doesn't actually wade into the mess; he sticks to the sidewalk, putting the carts and stalls from which vendors hawk sunglasses and food-shaped magnets and deep-fried Oreos between him and the crowd. And his cruise-missile-shaped bodyguard, Peter, stays close in case anyone freaks out. But no one does. People smile and say, 'Sup, Jay? when they see him. Jay, not Jay-Z, Jay points out later—that first-name-basis treatment. He's famous, but also New York famous, like Derek Jeter or Woody Allen or Lou Reed. Everyone who lives here gets to feel like they know him a little, grants him some neighborly personal-space respect in return. Jay's tourist-bureau anthem, "Empire State of Mind," comes on somebody's radio, and for a block or so it's like we've strolled into a montage.
The decor inside Torrisi is high-concept pork store. Grocery-style counter up front, shelves full of the kind of Italian stuff you find in an American supermarket—Progresso "Italian Style" breadcrumbs, canned tomatoes, Stella D'oro cookies. We sit under a portrait of the young, angry Billy Joel, and truly luxury-rappish amounts of fine food are laid before us. Striped bass with pickled tomatoes. Roasted baby beets. Fresh mozzarella as soft and pale as an angel's boob. When Jay-Z tastes something really good, it's like he almost gets mad at it for a second; the first time he says, "Are you serious right now?" after consuming a Blue Point oyster, I'm briefly convinced I've said something to offend him.
We talk about business and we talk about hip-hop, and by the time we get around to real life, Jay is ordering mint tea and leaving a dessert sampler untouched. There's a song on Watch the Throne called "New Day," where Jay and Kanye address their unborn sons over a beat by the Wu-Tang Clan's RZA and an Auto-Tune-warped Nina Simone loop. Kanye riffs on his own rep—he promises not to let Lord Yeezy the Second become a telethon-interrupting ego-monster looking for love in all the wrong strip clubs and says he might make his son be a Republican, so everybody know he love white people. Jay's verse cuts deeper. It starts with an apology (Sorry, Junior, I already ruined ya / 'Cause you ain't even alive, paparazzi pursuin' ya) and ends with a promise—_Promise to never leave him, even if his mama tweakin' / 'Cause my dad left me and I promise to never repeat him / Never repeat him / Never repeat him. _
It was speculative when he wrote it, Jay says, but now he's actually about to be somebody's father. In an uncharacteristically public gesture for a couple who've never said much on the record about their relationship, they broke the news on this year's Video Music Awards—Jay's wife, Beyoncé Knowles, confirmed her pregnancy to photographers on the red carpet, then all but circled her baby bump with a Telestrator onstage. One of the gossip shows had the story, Jay says, claiming he doesn't know which one, although he probably does. "It was actually Bey who wanted to [announce] it," Jay says. "You want to be in control of your life."
So now Jay's going to be a father, and he's thinking about his own father. He's thinking about his roots in a nonmythological way, what he's carried with him from Marcy to here, what he's escaped. What's relevant about Adnis Reeves, Jay's dad, is not so much that he left when Jay was 11 but that he was present up until that time, long enough that when he left, it was worse than not having a father at all.
"If your dad died before you were born, yeah, it hurts—but it's not like you had a connection with something that was real," Jay says. "Not to say it's any better—but to have that connection and then have it ripped away was, like, the worst. My dad was such a good dad that when he left, he left a huge scar. He was my superhero."
Reeves loved all the things Jay-Z loves today—sports, food, and especially music. He had the best record collection in the neighborhood; the classic-soul-derived beats on Jay's 2001 album The Blueprint are in part a tribute to the music that filled their house when Jay was young. But when his brother was murdered, Reeves imploded. Slipped into alcoholism and other forms of substance abuse. "He was gone," Jay says. "He was not himself." Jay's mother, Gloria Carter, tried to push him to see his son; there were meetings scheduled that Reeves didn't show up for. They didn't see each other again until 2003.
"[I talked about] what it did to me, what it meant, asked him why. There was no real answer. There was nothing he could say, because there's no excuse for that. There really isn't. So there was nothing he could say to satisfy me, except to hear me out. And it was up to me to forgive and let it go."
By then the doctors had told Reeves to quit drinking, and Reeves had kept on drinking, and a month after he and Jay had that conversation—which Jay wrote about on The Black Album's "Moment of Clarity"—he died.
All that was part of why Jay wanted to wait to have kids. That promise, in "New Day," that fear of repeating his father's mistakes—it's real. He knows, intellectually, that he's not just going to spaz out and leave. "But I bet he didn't believe he'd spaz out and leave either," Jay shrugs.
He was rich enough to provide, years ago. But he wanted to be rich enough to be present—to leave rap alone for a while, if necessary, and not in a trumped-up pseudoretirement kind of way.
"Providing—that's not love," he says. "Being there—that's more important. I mean, we see that. We see that with all these rich socialites. They're crying out for attention; they're hurting for love. I'm not being judgmental—I'm just making an observation. They're crying out for the love that maybe they didn't get at home, and they got everything. All the material things that they need and want. So we know that's not the key."
The Isley Brothers' "Between the Sheets"—the epochal quiet-storm jam that Sean Combs built Biggie's equally epochal "Big Poppa" around—comes on the restaurant's speakers. Jay tunes out for a minute. "I grew up listening to this," he says with a smile. That's art workin'. I ask if little Bey-Z will grow up listening to his catalog, and Jay says of course—when the time comes, he'll start with Reasonable Doubt, go from there. "There will be a lot of that," he says. "And a lot of other records, all pivotal, important records. There'll be Ready to Die, there'll be Illmatic."
So will the God MC be changing diapers?
"Of course, of course. One hundred percent."
And will we see you putting the car seat in the Maybach?
"Yeah," Jay smiles. "Wouldn't that be great? That would be a great picture."
_Alex Pappademas is a writer for _The New York Times Magazine.


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Bassenthwaite Lake is a National Nature Reserve, in the Lake District, located in the county of Cumbria in northwest England. It is owned and managed by the Lake District National Park Authority. The area became famous in 2001, when a pair of wild Ospreys nested there, this being the first time in over 150 years that Ospreys had bred in the Lake District.
2012 Ospreywatch News
Notable Species
Osprey, Red Kite (28 April, 2010), Barnacle Goose (5 June, 2010 - photo below right. These are most probably birds from a resident flock on nearby Derwentwater), Eurasian Oystercatcher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Tawny Owl, Common Dipper, Common Redstart, European Pied Flycatcher, Eurasian Treecreeper.
Red Kite ~ 60 young Red Kites were released in Grizedale Forest, near Windermere, in the summers of 2010 and 2011. This is the 9th reintroduction and part of the final phase of Red Kite reintroductions in different parts of the UK. 30 more will be released in the summer of 2012. It is very likely that these wing-tagged kites will be seen over Bassenthwaite Lake as they explore the Lake District.
Birds you can see here include:
Great Crested Grebe, Grey Heron, Mute Swan, Greylag Goose, Barnacle Goose, Eurasian Wigeon, Gadwall, Eurasian Teal, Mallard, Northern Pintail, Northern Shoveler, Common Pochard, Tufted Duck, Common Goldeneye, Red-breasted Merganser, Goosander, Osprey, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Common Buzzard, Common Kestrel, Common Pheasant, Water Rail, Common Moorhen, Common Coot, Eurasian Oystercatcher, Northern Lapwing, Common Snipe, Eurasian Curlew, Common Redshank, Common Sandpiper, Black-headed Gull, Common Gull, Herring Gull, Common Woodpigeon, Tawny Owl, Common Swift, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Sand Martin, Barn Swallow, Northern House Martin, Meadow Pipit, Pied Wagtail, Eurasian Wren, Dunnock, European Robin, Common Redstart, Eurasian Blackbird, Song Thrush, Redwing, Mistle Thrush, Eurasian Reed Warbler, Common Whitethroat, Blackcap, Wood Warbler, Common Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Goldcrest, European Pied Flycatcher, Spotted Flycatcher, Long-tailed Tit, Coal Tit, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Eurasian Nuthatch, Eurasian Treecreeper, Chaffinch, European Greenfinch, European Goldfinch, Eurasian Siskin, Eurasian Bullfinch, Lesser Redpoll, Common Crossbill, House Sparrow, Common Starling, Eurasian Jay, Eurasian Magpie, Eurasian Jackdaw, Rook, Carrion Crow, Common Raven
Other Wildlife
Red Squirrel, Badger, Roe Deer, Otter, Pipistrelle bat, Weasel, Stoat
Site Information
History and Use
In 2001 it was announced that a pair of Ospreys had nested in the woods above Bassenthwaite Lake. This was the first time in 150 years that a wild pair of the birds had bred in the Lake District. The Forestry Commission and the Lake District National Park Authority had provided a nesting platform in the hope that the Ospreys, they had been seeing during the summer for the last few years, would stay and breed there. Once the eggs were laid, wardens kept a 24 hour watch on the nest to protect the birds from any disturbance, such as illegal egg collecting. The RSPB is also involved in extra support for the Lake District Osprey Project.
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Whinlatter Visitor Centre phone: 017687 78469
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – MIT graduate student and All-American, Vladimir Sobes, was presented with the NCAA's prestigious Elite 88 Award on Wednesday at the Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championship awards ceremony. Sobes, who carried a perfect 5.0 grade point average throughout his undergraduate career at MIT, joins sophomore Kyle Hannon as winners of the Elite 88 award, presented to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade-point average participating at the finals site for each of the NCAA's 88 championships. Hannon received the distinction at the Indoor Track & Field national meet.
Sobes is making his second straight appearance at the NCAA Championship, as he qualified in the javelin in each of the past two years. Sobes placed third in the event in 2010, earning All-America honors and is seeded fifth entering this year's meet. Sobes earned his undergraduate degree in Nuclear Science and Engineering and is currently pursuing his doctoral degree in the School of Engineering.
The Elite 88, an award founded by the NCAA, recognizes the true essence of the student-athlete by honoring the individual who has reached the pinnacle of competition at the national championship level in his or her sport, while also achieving the highest academic standard among his or her peers. Eligible student-athletes are sophomores or above who have participated in their sport for at least two years with their school. They must be an active member of the team, traveling and a designated member of the squad size at the championship. All ties are broken by the number of credits completed.
Sobes and the other 11 Tech athletes who qualified for the NCAA Division III Championship will compete on Thursday, beginning at 12:00 p.m., through Saturday.
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Neurotrace wrote:So I've got my descrambler written in C++ but I'm having issues with time. I could cure this if I could find a way to check a char array for the first character that isn't a space or # then basically slide the entire char from that point on to the first position and then reassign the size of the char array so I don't have a bunch of trailing empty slots. Any suggestions?
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int h_val(char * str)
int i=0;
int h_total=0;
while(*str != '\0')
if(*str == ' ' || *str == '#')
return h_total;
int main()
char test[]="# abc";
int res= h_val(test);
printf("%i\n", res);
Neurotrace wrote:Oh ok. I get that. The only problem I see with that is that after a char[] has been initialized, you can't really change the size, right? Because I'm using that same array for all 6 or 8 or however many scrambled words there are and I don't think they're all the same length.
I do appreciate the "skip the characters" code though. Very helpful
int startCheck = 0;
cin.getline(stringy, 20);
l = strlen(stringy);
for (int i = 0; i < l; i++)
if(stringy.charat(i) != 32 && stringy.charat(i) != 34 && startCheck ==0) {
startCheck = i;
l = l - i;
char word[l];
int startCheck = 0; // This variable will be what determines where in the array is the letter
cin.getline(stringy, 20); // Just take in a given string, in this case a scrambled one
l = strlen(stringy); // Copies the length of the string. I use this to compare scrambled word length against wordlist
for (int i = 0; i < l; i++) // Standard for loop :P
if(stringy.charat(i) != 32 && stringy.charat(i) != 35 && startCheck == 0) { // if character at position i in the string is not a space or # and if the startCheck is equal to 0 then
startCheck = i; // Assign startCheck to first real character
l = l - i; // Take the extra length off
char word[l]; // Create array with that length
import fileinput
scrambled = 'scrambled.txt'
for line in fileinput.input(scrambled):
for x in line:
wrd = ""
if x != " ":
wrd = wrd+x
print wrd
raw_input("Press ENTER to continue...")
raw_input("Press ENTER to exit...")
import fileinput
scrambled = 'scrambled.txt'
for line in fileinput.input(scrambled):
show = line[0:-1]
print show
print len(show)
raw_input("Press ENTER to continue...")
raw_input("Press ENTER to exit...")
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Add interesting details to your outdoor space with outdoor d?cor. These pieces of art create focus pieces that draw attention to a section of your garden, and they can act as a counterpoint to flowers. Those who prefer clean lines can use them instead of plants to create color and vibrancy.
Introduce Color Throughout the Season
Outdoor d?cor adds color no matter what season it is. In the depths of winter, a bright piece of art can liven up a garden while all the blossom is hidden. During the height of summer, a sculpture can add a counterpoint to dry grass and scorched leaves to create a cooler feeling. Mirrors and mosaic mirrors add a sense of openness to your garden as they make the space feel bigger.
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An archway showcases a gate and can look great with a rose, honeysuckle, or clematis trailing through it. Those who love secret gardens can use the archway to subtly draw attention to these almost-hidden gems that open up into a small courtyard with plants. They can also be used to disguise above-ground gas tanks or outdoor structures.
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A centerpiece sculpture adds a focus point to your garden, and it draws the eye away from the edges—ideal for the gardener who doesn't always have the time to plant bedding plants and make the borders pristine. Some centerpieces, such as bird tables and birdbaths, encourage wildlife to frequent your area and improve populations. Other pieces simply look great. Place animal sculptures in unexpected places for people to find and delight in.


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Acquia Partner Builds First Online Market Research Community in German Auto Industry
Acquia Partner Builds First Online Market Research Community in German Auto Industry
BURLINGTON, MA--(Marketwire - Sep 26, 2011) - Acquia, the enterprise guide to Drupal, announced today that partner TNS (Taylor Nelson Sofres, London), the leading worldwide market research and consulting company, has leveraged Acquia Commons social business software to build an award-winning Mercedes-Benz social community website. TNS won the Best Study 2011 award from the German Association for Marketing and Social Research for the development of the Mercedes-Benz site. The award honors innovative and creative new studies in the field, with special attention on projects with measurable results.
Using Acquia Commons, TNS built the Mercedes-Benz community website "Stars Insight," the first online market research community in the German auto industry. Stars Insight takes advantage of social media and Web 2.0 dynamics to conduct consumer market research on its target market of drivers of compact cars between the ages of 20 and 45. The website includes questionnaires, moderated discussions and forums, chat, a media gallery, ideation contests, creative competitions, ratings, and comment areas.
With Stars Insight, Mercedes is now able to pilot test marketing materials, commercials and advertisements to their target community. Their ideation contests allow them to solicit key customers for desired features, support and services, while the rest of the community provides feedback through votes on what they like. This allows Mercedes to react to the needs of their market in a timelier manner than ever before.
The global market for social CRM (customer relationship management) is expected to pass the $1 billion mark by 2012 according to Gartner Research. The Stars Insight community is a prime example of the kind of social CRM website that's gaining popularity among global organizations who want to build better customer relations. Such solutions capitalize on advances in online customer relations and research, allowing organizations to tap into the knowledge and desires of their target audiences.
"We are proud of this honor for our partner TNS, a true expert at building this type of online community, and are thrilled that our Acquia Commons is helping revolutionize traditional business processes," said Tom Erickson, Acquia's CEO. "The Mercedes-Benz website is a great example of how large enterprises and luxury brands can take advantage of social software to build communities that help drive their business."
"Our work with Acquia to create the Stars Insight website has been a complete success," said Thomas Wachter, TNS Senior Consultant and Automotive Market Research Team Leader. "Acquia Commons allowed us to quickly build this website while adhering to Mercedes' strict brand guidelines and maintaining the flexibility needed to support TNS's strategic requirements." Christian Bauer, Head of Mercedes-Benz Communication Insights, agreed. "The continuity of the online community and the interactive integration of its members provide numerous benefits for Daimler AG: We can get to know a broad section of this target market, we are completely flexible in the content, various methods can be combined, and we can validate our results directly with the community itself."
About Acquia Commons
Acquia Commons is the open-source alternative for enterprise-scale social business software. Its collaborative environment includes blogs, wikis, and calendars; standard Drupal modules provide other features. Commons enables social networking to create productive interactions among employees, customers, and the web, at a much lower cost than other solutions. Find out more at https://acquia.com/social-business-software.
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TNS is the global leader in custom market research delivering actionable insights and research-based business advice to clients around the globe so they can make more effective business decisions. TNS offers comprehensive industry knowledge within the Consumer, Technology, Finance, Automotive and Political & Social sectors, supported by a unique product offering that stretches across the entire range of marketing and business issues, specializing in product development & innovation, brand & communication, stakeholder management, retail & shopper, and qualitative research. Delivering best-in-class service across more than 80 countries, TNS is dedicated to discovering growth opportunities for its clients in an ever-changing world. Through its pioneering and innovative culture, TNS understands the latest marketing challenges and research techniques, being the first to discover and solve new marketing issues for clients.
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Drupal is free, open-source software that powers millions of websites and online applications. It runs on industry-standard hosting platforms and connects to virtually all legacy systems. With a community of hundreds of thousands of users and developers, Drupal's success has spawned an enormous business ecosystem. Learn more at http://drupal.org.
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Acquia empowers enterprises with the open-source social publishing system Drupal. Co-founded by Drupal's creator in 2007, Acquia helps customers manage their growth and scale their online properties with confidence. Acquia's products, cloud infrastructure, and support enable companies to realize the full power of Drupal while minimizing risk, as it's done for nearly 1,500 enterprise customers including Twitter, Al Jazeera, Turner, World Economic Forum, Stanford University, New York Senate and NPR. See who's using Drupal at http://showcase.acquia.com, and for more information please visit www.acquia.com or call 888-9-ACQUIA.
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Evaluation is a critical element of child abuse prevention program sustainability, as funders and policymakers increasingly ask for evidence of the effectiveness of the programs they fund. It is also necessary for child abuse and neglect prevention and family support programs to conduct evaluation activities as part of their ongoing quality assurance efforts. Use the following resources to identify evaluation strategies, make an economic case for child abuse prevention, and find results of prevention program evaluations.
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FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP) (2007)
Provides information on the background, vision, and guidelines regarding requirements for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) efficiency measures for federally funded CBCAP programs.
Program Evaluation: A Variety of Rigorous Methods Can Help Identify Effective Interventions (PDF - 662 KB)
U.S. Government Accountability Office (2009)
Examines federally supported efforts to identify effective interventions, types of interventions best suited for assessment with randomized experiments, and alternative rigorous methods used to assess effectiveness.


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Recent survey conducted among Hungarians in Vojvodina shows that among decided voters Fidesz leads by 82 percent support; Jobbik is second by 13 percent support.
Fringe party support among Vojvodina Hungarians is insignificant: LMP garnered 3 percent support, the Hungarian Communist party, currently called Labour Party and the Gyurcsany led Democratic Coalition received 1 percent support of decided voters.
What interesting is that the largest Hungarian opposition party, the Hungarian Socialist Party that openly promoting the colonization of our country received zero percent support. This is unprecedented in the history of surveys, at least I've never heard of any major political party to receive zero percent support from voters.
(Notes: The Hungarian Socialist Party that openly promoting the colonization of Hungary and gathers the most wicked Hungarian-haters among its ranks, now pays for years of its anti-Hungarian policies. The case of the Socialist party is a classical example of the proverb: "the chickens come home to roost" as the former communists campaigned against to dual citizenship act, the new constitution, as well as actively promoting sexual aberrations among Hungarians, just mentioning a few of their treasonous policies; no wonder, they receive contempt and rejection from Hungarians in the Carpathian basin and around the world.)
(mno.hu – hungarianambiance.com)


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Winsted: After fire at Chestnut Grove, officials thank fast-acting first responders
WINSTED >> Five days after an early-morning fire at one of their buildings, the Winchester Housing Authority is rebuilding -- and tipping its cap to the community.
A fire broke out at Chestnut Grove on Nov. 3 at approximately 2:45 a.m. The cause of the fire, which is being investigated by the Winsted and state fire marshals, has yet to be determined, but Winchester Housing Authority chairman Anthony Paige thanked the town's first responders for their quick work, as well as the immediate responses of area businesses.
"To say we appreciate the early response by the Winsted Police and Fire Departments seems inadequate," wrote Paige in a letter to the editor.
The fire broke out one year after Chestnut Grove -- which houses 83 seniors -- had to be evacuated after reports of a suspicious odor. That evacuation was reportedly due to spilled kerosene from a lamp -- Winsted Fire Department assistant chief David Sartirana described the incident as an "oxygen emergency" -- but unlike the previous incident, the building had power and was not under the pressures of a winter storm.
According to Paige, the fire resulted in only one injury. All 83 residents were evacuated from Chestnut Grove in an orderly fashion and sheltered in the Blanche McCarthy Senior Center following the fire, which Paige praised as "truly a town-coordinated effort."
"Escorting the 83 senior residents from the building, some wheelchair bound, by Winsted and Winchester's finest firemen was a sight to behold," Paige wrote.
Paige also praised the various businesses which began scrambling to repair the damage. Those businesses include B&D Landscaping, Berkshire Alarm Company, Onion Electric, Mangione Plumbing and J.P. Maguire Property Damage. But in the meantime, Paige thanked the town for its fast response.
"To envision seniors trapped on the upper floors of this facility should this fire not have been quelled by the emergency responders makes us all pause to think," Paige wrote. "Thanks to Winsted's best!"
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The Corliss Group Travel Review: Tips for travelling with children
Traveling with your kids to different and new places provides them with best experiences where they can grow as individuals. This could also give your children lasting memories with you that they can cherish as they get older.The Corliss Group Online offers the following tips for your next family trip with your children.Let your kids engage in the planning processWe all know that kids will be very excited and interested in a trip when you get them involved in the planning process. Ask them for one or two activities they want to do and have some realistic options ready from which they can choose. Search the internet or jot down recommendations from family and friends to find best kid-friendly destinations. If you have older children, they can help you with the details of planning, like booking tickets, checking out the flight schedules of your destination, and helping you decide on what activities you will perform on a specific day. Ready your kids for the trip by involving them in the planning process and explaining to them the details of the trip, so they will have ideas on what will happen.In addition, take the opportunity of the trip to teach your kids different skills such as budgeting, how to stay healthy when away from home, and how to account for travel time. But this depends on the kid's age and understanding.If you are planning to travel during the school year, you may also need to work with your children's teachers to determine how your kids can stay updated on their schoolwork. Their teachers might give a special project about the trip and your kids need to present them in class when they return.During the trip, if one of your kids still needs a nap, while the others, especially the older kids, already wants to engage in various activities, take turns watching them with your partner. One of you can stay with the napping child and the other can take the older kids for an activity they picked. This will give you the chance to spend individual time with each of your kids.Get ready for the tripWhen you are preparing to travel with your children, consider to pack snacks and a variety of entertainment to keep them occupied during the road trip and when you need some time to rest.Moreover, take some time to do several researches about the culture and the history of the places you'll visit beforehand, and inform them to your kids. The Corliss Group Online suggests that you should make your children read books that are related to your desired destination.You should bring supplies like wipes or sprays to keep the skin moisturized and to help you and your family stay refreshed.If your children helped with the planning process, focus in on what they recommended and teach them more about the place or activities they can experience throughout the trip.Keep your children involved once you get thereKeep your children engaged during your journey to have a memorable and fun experience them. You can make them tell you three things that were different between your destination and your hometown. This can actually make them look outside and involve them in a way that will made them seriously think about their life at home as compared to where you are visiting.Buy your child a journal and make them draw or write about what they are feeling, hearing, or seeing. You could also give a camera to your older son or daughter to take photos for documentation purposes.Keeping your kids involved can be challenging when they are hungry, tired, or stressed. Be attentive to what your child needs and learn to immediately provide it to them like food or water. But if they are acting out differently for no reason at all, be prepared to discipline them using similar consequences as what you had use at home.Remember the value of the trip for your childrenIn the end of your trip, you are giving your children a remarkable life experience even though traveling with them can be exhausting and costly. You are giving them the opportunity to develop concern for other people by teaching them about other civilizations and their ways of living. They can use these experiences and knowledge in the future.Children learn a lot from the world around them and you can give a memorable educational experience by showing them to life beyond their own backyard.


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Well, I've been busy for a while, and I didn't even get to cover Ron Paul's latest attempt to quit/not quit/raise money without actually campaigning. I was planning on seeing what Encyclopedia Dramatica had to say on the subject, but even they didn't have much to say about the news. I guess when you jerk people around as often as Ron Paul has, it's hard to get them to take them seriously when you actually mean it.
Ron Paul has since abandoned ship on the Ron Paul campaign in favor of the Ron Paul Campaign For Liberty. Because the best way to emphasize on the idea of "it's was never about the Ron Paul, it was about the movement!" is to plaster Ron Paul's name in the fucking title. Narcism, much? I especially love how their banner illuminates Ron Paul from behind so that he can appear as the deified cult figure speaking to his masses.
Meanwhile, a Huffington Post article writes, "Ron Paul Breaks The Hearts Of Creepy People Everywhere." Apparently, the spammers on that site don't take the headline very well. Big surprise. It's funny how after over a year of campaigning, they're still reciting the exact same talking points. Guys, if it didn't work the first 10,000,000 times, why do you think that it'll work now?
Friday, June 20, 2008
Ron Paul Quits?
5 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Where was Dr No today when the telecom bill came up for a vote? Too busy defending the constitution to defend the constituion?
- June 20, 2008 at 12:53 PM
- Anonymous said...
Paul votes no on renewing the 1965 voting rights act
Ron Paul;s reasoning as to why the civil rights act may have been a mistake
1)Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not improve race relations or enhance freedom. Instead, the forced integration dictated by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 increased racial tensions while diminishing individual liberty.
2)The Civil Rights Act of 1964 gave the federal government unprecedented power over the hiring, employee relations, and customer service practices of every business in the country.
3)The framers of the Constitution intended the interstate commerce clause to create a free trade zone among the states, not to give the federal government regulatory power over every business that has any connection with interstate commerce.
4)This expansion of federal power was based on an erroneous interpretation of the congressional power to regulate interstate commerce.
5)The Civil Rights Act of 1964 not only violated the Constitution and reduced individual liberty; it also failed to achieve its stated goals of promoting racial harmony and a color-blind society.
6)Federal bureaucrats and judges cannot read minds to see if actions are motivated by racism. Therefore, the only way the federal government could ensure an employer was not violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was to ensure that the racial composition of a business's workforce matched the racial composition of a bureaucrat or judge's defined body of potential employees. Thus, bureaucrats began forcing employers to hire by racial quota. Racial quotas have not contributed to racial harmony or advanced the goal of a color-blind society. Instead, these quotas encouraged racial balkanization, and fostered racial strife.
7)nstead, this law unconstitutionally expanded federal power, thus reducing liberty. Furthermore, by prompting raced-based quotas, this law undermined efforts to achieve a color-blind society and increased racial strife. Therefore, I must oppose H.Res. 67
Does anyone find this a bit misleading?
- June 20, 2008 at 1:39 PM
- FuckRonPaul said...
"Ron Paul has since abandoned ship on the Ron Paul campaign..."
Don't you mean that he's abandoned blimp?:)
In any case, Ron Paul and his merry band of Paultards will remain a reliable source of laughs for many months/years to come.
- June 20, 2008 at 9:03 PM
- Anonymous said...
//In any case, Ron Paul and his merry band of Paultards will remain a reliable source of laughs for many months/years to come.//
i have feeling though the next PHASE is going to be ignored,just like the new website.
- June 24, 2008 at 8:54 AM
- Anonymous said...
But his legacy lives on, plastered over trash cans and rusty bumpers across this great land.
- June 28, 2008 at 9:58 PM


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Digital technology is no longer a choice for oil and gas companies: It's a necessity.
There are three key shifts occurring in the industry are driving an unavoidable operating model rethink. Without making fundamental operating model changes—enabled by digital—companies will not be quick enough or agile enough to keep up with the competition.


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Kompany, Hazard, Courtois make Belgium a contender
BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium is back in the World Cup after 12 years, and with its hottest crop of players in a generation.
With an incredible knack for timing, Belgium's best have conspired to come of age in one providential season which has seen them taking on leading roles in England and Spain, the toughest two leagues in the world.
It has even pushed national team captain Vincent Kompany to mention the unspeakable — winning the World Cup in Brazil.
"I don't think we will be able to win the World Cup on talent alone. But given some luck, a strong performance by everyone and the right team spirit ...," the Manchester City defender said, trailing off at the thought of Belgium winning its first major title since the 1920 Olympics.
The draw has also provided a helping hand, putting Belgium in Group H with Russia, South Korea and Algeria. Advancing from that group should pose few problems for the Belgians.
From then on, the Red Devils have a few men that could turn any game in a flash of one brilliant action.
At 22, Thibaut Courtois has used his loan stint from Chelsea to Atletico Madrid to become the best goalkeeper in the Spanish league. He was instrumental in leading Atletico to the La Liga title and if he comes face-to-face with Cristiano Ronaldo — which is possible in the second round — he won't be intimidated.
He may have lost the Champions League final in extra time to city rival Real last week, but what he will have earned in experience could well be more important once he gets to Brazil.
Up front, playmaker Eden Hazard is gaining in poise and confidence almost by the week. His play already made him a prized protege of ever-demanding manager Jose Mourinho as he pushed Chelsea among the top three of the Premier League table.
No one could match Kompany's Manchester City in the league, though, as he captained his team to a second title in three years.
Calm and inspiration will not only be forthcoming from Kompany. Just about all first-team players earn their money abroad, from Russia to Portugal over to Germany and Italy. Yet, when it comes to the World Cup, just about all will be rookies.
Then again, Marc Wilmots has the experience to make up for all. He played in four World Cups and now is headed to his first as a coach.
Belgium surprised the world when it pushed right into the semifinals of the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, stopped only by Diego Maradona and eventual winner Argentina. Wilmots got on board four years later as a burly, ebullient midfielder, and in four editions his team was often solid but not good enough to reach the quarterfinals.
In Belgium's last World Cup match, it was stopped by eventual champion Brazil in the round of 16 at the 2002 tournament in South Korea and Japan.
Now, Wilmots is bent on taking his team further.
"Everybody who has gotten past the first round of a World Cup will tell you," Wilmots told Le Soir newspaper, "it is the form of the moment that will make the difference."
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Riva del Garda, Italy (September 2, 2017) - Yesterday's forced break from racing due to inclement weather gave way to three races and three separate winners on Day Two at the Russian Open, the final event of the 2017 Melges 20 World League, European Division circuit. But at the tip top of the standings, Igor Rytov's RUSSIAN BOGATYRS holds an impressive 12-point lead over second place finisher Achille Onorato/Matteo Savelli sailing MASCALZONE LATINO, JR. Leonid Altukhov's RUS-199 is seated third.
Rytov with tactician Konstantin Besputin and crew Anton Sergeev, continue to dictate the law and are clearly the strongest team on the Melges 20 global stage. They are the current Melges 20 European Champions (as crowned in Sibenik), and lead the overall World League Ranking. If they maintain this momentum and stay on this trail-blazing track of success, they could be moments away from winning the Russian Open and the MWL European Division Ranking as well.
Above and beyond Rytov's astounding overall performance is Race One winner Pietro Loro Piana at the helm of GONE SQUATCHIN'. In yesterday's on-shore interview, Piana stated that they needed to find nice breeze in order to race, and that he and his team of friends were excited about taking to the waters of Lake Garda. Today Piana showed everyone how it's done with a bullet right out of the gate. It was a truly wonderful and fun race for this relatively new fleet comer.
With Rytov taking the win in Race Two, Race Three went to another shining new face — Dmitry Samokhin on ROCKNROLLA, followed by long-time Melges 20 owner Dario Levi at the helm of FREMITO D'ARJIA in second. Rytov sealed the day's deal with a third.
Alexander Mikhaylik's ALEX TEAM is currently in charge of the Corinthian division.
Sunday is the final day of competition and the first warning is at 09.30.
After racing at the prize giving, the new Russian Open Champion will be crowned, but also the new 2017 Melges 20 World League, European Division Champion will be named!
The Melges 20 World League European Division is supported by Helly Hansen, Garmin Marine, Toremar, Lavazza, Norda and Barracuda Communication.
As with other Melges 20 events around the world, racing updates will be posted online at the Official Melges 20 Facebook Page. Be sure to also follow the fleet on Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. Tune in for the latest racing information, results, video interviews and photos at melges20.com.
TOP FIVE RESULTS (PRELIMINARY - After Three Races)
1.) Igor Rytov, RUSSIAN BOGATYRS; 2-1-3 = 6
2.) Achille Onorato/Matteo Savelli, MASCALZONE LATINO, JR; 5-4-9 = 18
3.) Leonid Altukhov, RUS-199; 3-11-5 = 19
4.) Dario Levi, FREMITO D'ARJIA; 15-3-2 = 20
5.) Alexander Ezhkov, PIROGOVO; 11-2-12 = 25
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TOP FIVE 2017 MELGES 20 WORLD LEAGUE RESULTS (After Eleven Events)
1.) Igor Rytov, RUSSIAN BOGATYRS = 128 pts.
2.) Drew Freides, PACIFIC YANKEE = 77 pts.
3.) Vladimir Prosikhin, NIKA = 72 pts.
4.) Liam Kilroy, WILDMAN = 66 pts.
5.) Achille Onorato, MASCALZONE LATINO, JR. = 64 pts.
TOP FIVE 2017 MELGES 20 WORLD LEAGUE, EUROPE RESULTS (After Four Events)
1.) Vladimir Prosikhin, NIKA = 72 pts
2.) Igor Rytov, RUSSIAN BOGATYRS = 70 pts.
3.) Achille Onorato, MASCALZONE LATINO, JR. = 64 pts.
4.) Krzysztof Krempec, MAG TINY = 62 pts.
5.) Alexander Ezhkov, PIROGOVO = 58 pts.
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Pietro Lono Piana, GONE SQUATCHIN' (ITA-410)
Igor Rytov, RUSSIAN BOGATYRS (RUS-296)
Achille Onorato/Matteo Savelli, MASCALZONE LATINO, JR. (ITA-23)
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US Proposals For Secret TPP 'Son Of ACTA' Treaty Leaked; Chock Full Of Awful Ideas
from the exporting-protectionism dept
The early reports on TPP was that the USTR would only consider ratcheting up intellectual property laws to more draconian states. It would not even consider the idea of decreasing the already too strict levels of intellectual property laws. It also would not bother with increasing consumer protections or important exceptions to stronger intellectual property law -- even if it's been shown that those exceptions have a much greater impact on the economy than the IP laws themselves.
Some key points:
- It would require that countries participating ban parallel import for any copyright holder who wants it. That is, if a copyright holder says no, countries would have to block your ability to purchase legal and authorized products in one country and import them into another. This is the so-called "grey market" which should be perfectly legal, but which many companies would like to block so they can price things much higher in some countries.
- It would require criminal enforcement for certain cases of circumventing DRM even when there's no copyright infringement, going beyond existing treaties even when there's no copyright infringement. There are some exceptions, but rather than allow countries to determine their own exceptions, it defines the exceptions and actually says countries cannot go beyond those.
- It would impose liability on ISPs for dealing with infringing works that goes well beyond the DMCA. Yes, Hollywood may finally be able to force ISPs to act as their personal business model cops -- something they've been unable to do in the US.
- Along those lines, there would be "legal incentives" for ISPs to go above and beyond that in helping copyright holders.
- Forget privacy. ISPs would be required to identify users on request, going well beyond existing law.
- Expand what is considered patentable, going in the opposite direction of what's needed. Most troubling, it would allow patents on inventions even if the inventions do "not result in the enhancement of the known efficacy of that product." This seems to go against the very purpose of patent law, but the USTR has already shown it couldn't care much less than actually obeying the Constitutional underpinnings of patents or copyright law.
- Continues the troubling and problematic idea that patents must be assumed valid, even if they were only briefly reviewed.
- A requirement to forbid third party opposition of patent applications. This is particularly ridiculous. Allowing third parties to oppose patent applications (as is allowed with trademarks) would certainly help prevent some really bad patent applications from getting through. How can the USTR justify not allowing such a basic concept of letting third parties point out bad patents before they're approved. Especially when you combine this with the "presumption of validity" in patents once granted, it looks like the USTR is trying to increase the rubber stamping of patent approvals.
Declassify on: Four years from entry into force of the TPP agreement or, if no agreement enters into force, four years from the close of the negotiations.Oh yeah, as for things like consumer protections or safeguards for competition? KEI correctly summarizes that they are "weak, meak or missing." That's because this document isn't about enabling competition, innovation or consumer benefit. It's about helping out a few legacy companies who don't want to compete, and who have plenty of job openings ready for the folks involved in these negotiations down the road.
* This document must be protected from unauthorized disclosure, but may be mailed or transmitted over unclassified e-mail or fax, discussed over unsecured phone lines, and stored on unclassified computer systems. It must be stored in a locked or secured building, room, or container.
If you find this to be a disgusting display of regulatory capture, done in secret, for the benefit of a few companies, against the basic principles of the free market and consumer rights, you should speak up. The EFF has put together details of which elected officials should be contacted to pressure the USTR to open up these proceedings and to hear from the public on their proposal. They've also set up a form to let you contact your elected official, though I recommend you write your own version of any letter, rather than sticking with the boilerplate. None of my elected representatives are on the target list, but if yours are, please contact them.


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AmSam Under 19 team to compete in Oceania Under-19 Championship games
The American Samoa Under-19 National Rugby Team recently had a worship service at Kanana Fou. They will be competing in the 2012 Oceania Under-19 Championship games that will take place from Nov. 26 to Dec. 6 in Apia, Samoa.
The teams that will be competing are: host team Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
According to a recent Press Release put out by the Federation of Oceania Rugby Unions (FORU), through the Oceania Under 19's Championship Legacy Program, FORU and the Samoa Rugby Union (SRU) are partnering with the Pacific in Union (PiU) Program.
The PiU according to the Press Release, is a tripartite between the International Rugby Board (IRB), the Australian Sports Commission and the Australian Rugby Union whereby the youth of selected FORU Unions learn the rugby values of respect, sportsmanship, teamwork and discipline through the Rugby4Schools mass participation program. These outcomes are delivered through rugby-themed activities in the classroom, on the field and at the festivals.
On the first day of play on Monday November 26, American Samoa will be matched up against Samoa.
TEAMS will be pooled as follows:
POOL A: Samoa, American Samoa, Vanuatu
POOL B: Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands