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Great news, fully realized, super advanced fetuses who are reading this: the Oklahoma Senate today overwhelmingly passed a law that defines a "person" as a human life that begins from the moment of conception.
The mostly Republican legislative body passed the measure 34-8. That means that only 8 state Senators in Oklahoma are not fucking morons.
Once this is signed into law by the state's Republican governor Mary Fallin, abortions will be illegal, as well as many forms of contraception and Plan B. Hooray!
It seems only appropriate that during this week of Valentine's Day, Republican legislators across the country would show how much they love women by passing laws requiring them to get vaginal probes before having abortions, or stating an official preference for the dumb whims of a developing fetus over the conscious will of the woman carrying the fetus.
I can't wait to see what they come up with for the week of Mother's Day. A law requiring women who haven't given birth to children by age 35 be sent to labor camps? Can't wait!
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I am a complete disaster at all the above. If our house were China, the missus would be Hu Jintao and I would be, I don't know, perhaps Jackie Chan's sidekick, the one who keeps falling and making funny faces. And my sons rightly accord me the treatment.
We officially study in the evening, between 8 and 9 pm. I try and bring up topics in maths or physics (the missus feels these are the ones I'm least ignorant in) while the boys take the opportunity to try their experimental comedy on me.
Sometimes it's kind of funny, as on the other day, the younger one observed that time was ripe to have a dedicated channel for the fasts unto death that keep happening on a daily basis these days, and suggested that it be called Starve World.
I facepalmed at first and then laughed. Both the lads looked keenly at me. 'Are you feeling alright, Annie?' asked the older one, who is ever apprehensive that I will go around the bend one of these days.
"Oh, yes, yes" I said, composing myself "now, coming to integration by parts.."
"Annie" the younger one interjected
"My biology teacher pronounces 'egg' as 'agg'"
"So? English is not our grandfather's language. It is ok to have accents". I feel strongly about this, having faced a little ridicule in my time over pronouncing 'automatic' as 'attomatic'.
"Annie, what does agnostic mean?" asked the younger one
"Er.. someone who doesn't believe in the existence of God.. I think"
"No, that's 'atheist'. Agnostic means someone doesn't believe God's existence is knowable"
"That's impressive" i said, and I was impressed. The lads show little or no inclination towards reading anything and it's a mystery to me how they accumulate a vocabulary at all.
"It was there in a program on TV"
That explained it.
"Annie, Agnostic would be a good brand name for a teflon coated omelet pan, no?"
"What? Why?" I frequently find my head spinning in these exchanges
"Agg no stick. Get it?" and with a raucous "ha ha ha" easily avoided the book I chucked at him and said something about people who couldn't take the yolk, but I didn't quite catch it.
"Have you finished your Marathi homework?" I asked the younger one.
"Doing it, dude, chill" he said.
I have long given up pointing out that this is an entirely inappropriate tone to use with one's father.
"Right. Now, coming to integration by parts.."
"Annie, you know, it is possible to fit an infinite number of passengers into an Ambassador car", the elder one said
"Are YOU feeling alright?" I asked him.
"What I mean is, you know the proof for there being no largest natural number?"
"Yes.. let 'n' be an arbitarily large natural number. Adding 1 to it makes the resulting number larger, and hence there are infinitely many natural numbers, something like that?"
"Yes, yes!" he said, beaming at me like a benevolent professor smiling upon his favorite student
"So what about it?"
"In the same way, no matter how many people you stuff into an Ambassador car, there is always someone who can stuff one more, no? So it follows that an infinite number of people can be stuffed into and Ambassador car"
I gave up trying to bring up the topic of integration by parts. And abandoned any thoughts of teaching physics either. It seemed to be one of those days. I'd probably get something like "Navier-Stokes equations. Others don't" tossed at me.
So this is how things are at the moment. They will change soon, when the missus takes charge, but till then, I will be guiding their academic progress with my customary competence

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Nate Silver: the House is unworkable.
The Senate has become unworkable, requiring a 60% majority to pass any legislation.
The House has joined the Senate in its complete lack of manageble functionality.
To get anything passed in the House, you need 218 votes.
The Tea Party Republicans, who will oppose anything but hardline GOP measures, total 51.
With 233 Republicans, that means you only have 182 who will vote on anything that is not a hardline GOP proposal. The problem is, you only have a self-described moderate population of Democrats in the House of about 14, which isn't enough to get you to 218. Which means any piece of legislation that's going to have bipartisan backing will need to somehow winover a number of hardline Republicans, or hardline Democrats.
In House of Representatives, an Arithmetic Problem
By NATE SILVER
December 21, 2012, 9:50 pm
Markets were down sharply on Friday after Speaker John A. Boehners tax plan failed to reach a vote in the House on Thursday evening. No Democrats were prepared to support the bill, and Mr. Boehner told reporters that his plan also lacked sufficient votes among Republicans.
A variety of smart political observers have suggested that the markets are misreading the situation. Instead, they say, the failure of Mr. Boehners bill makes a deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff more likely because it has now become clear that any deal will need to rely upon the support of at least some Democrats, which could ease passage through the Democratic-controlled Senate.
Perhaps this is correct. Mr. Boehner has said that the White House and Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, will now have to take the lead in negotiations. The chance that a fiscal deal will be secured on terms that Democrats find favorable may have increased.
But the chance that there will not be a deal at all may also have increased, or at least not one before protracted negotiations that could harm the economy. The difficulty is in finding any winning coalition of votes in the House of Representatives.
In the diagram below, Ive charted the major coalitions in the incoming 113th Congress, which will convene on Jan. 3. The new House of Representatives will have 233 Republicans and 200 Democrats. Two seats remain vacant, which means that 217 of 433 votes will be required to pass a bill.
Of the 233 Republicans, 51 will be members of the Tea Party Caucus, give or take a few depending on which first-term members of Congress join the coalition. The other 182 are what I will call Establishment Republicans.
As Keith T. Poole of the Voteview blog points out, the Tea Party Caucus wasnt solely responsible for Mr. Boehners failure to pass his bill. A significant number of Tea Party Caucus members were thought to support his plan, while some of the opposition came from representatives who do not formally associate themselves with the Tea Party.
Nonetheless, it seems clear that Mr. Boehner lacks the confidence of roughly three dozen Republican members of the House, and possibly more. Erick Erickson, of the blog RedState, identified 34 Republicans who he said opposed Mr. Boehners bill and another 12 whom he identified as being on the fence.
Say that Mr. Boehner cannot count on the support of 34 of his Republicans when it comes to passing major fiscal policy legislation. That means he would need to identify 18 Democrats who would vote along with the Republicans who remained with him.
Heres the problem: it might be hard to round up those 18 Democrats.
The reason is that most of the Democrats who remain in the House are quite liberal.
In fact, the once-powerful Blue Dog Caucus, a coalition of moderate Democrats, will have only 14 members in the new Congress. The centrist Democrats who once filled its ranks fared very poorly in the 2010 midterm elections, while others retired or were harmed by redistricting or by primary battles. Although Republicans have moved more to the right than Democrats have moved to the left in recent years, according to measures like those developed by Mr. Poole, the attrition in the Democratic Party has nevertheless contributed to moving the two parties even further apart.
What that means is that if Mr. Boehner has a significant number of Republican defections, as he did on Thursday night, he will need to win the support of at least some liberal Democrats. And a bill that wins the support of some liberal Democrats will be an even harder sell to Mr. Boehners Republicans. For each vote that he picks up from the left, he could risk losing another from his right flank.
Perhaps cooler heads will prevail in these negotiations. But a majority of the incoming House 237 of 433 members will be either Tea Party Republicans or liberal Democrats, leaving only 196 members who are either Establishment Republicans or Blue Dog Democrats and who might form a functional center-right coalition.
Moreover, the House is likely to engage in repeated battles over fiscal policy during the next two years: not just the over the fiscal cliff, but also over the debt ceiling, annual budgeting plans and whatever stabilization measures might be proposed in the event of another economic downturn.
If Mr. Boehner is having as much trouble whipping votes as he did on Thursday night, reducing the pool from which he might be able to draw together a compromise, this arithmetic problem could turn out to be intractable at some point.
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What I would like to see happen is that we round up everyone of these sorry bastards, run them through a wood chipper and start over. These assholes don't give a rats ass about "we the people." Most of them are in there to see how much money they can get for themselves. Little wonder this country is so divided.
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I don't want to vote for people who "compromise" with Obama and his friends. If they do, I'll vote them out next time, and they know it. I don't like Obama or his policies one bit. So why should the people I elect go along with those horrid policies?
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At what point are these useless ass clowns going to get it? We are 15.8 trillion in the hole (as of July) how high is that number going to go and at what point is it unsustainable? At some point the house of cards is going to come crashing down.
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This is what the people want. They voted for a lame duck term for the president. The second term hasn't even started yet, and the left is already crying about how lame it's going to be.
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As Swing Districts Dwindle, Can a Divided House Stand?
By NATE SILVERIn 1992, there were 103 members of the House of Representatives elected from what might be called swing districts: those in which the margin in the presidential race was within five percentage points of the national result. But based on an analysis of this year's presidential returns, I estimate that there are only 35 such Congressional districts remaining, barely a third of the total 20 years ago.
Instead, the number of landslide districts — those in which the presidential vote margin deviated by at least 20 percentage points from the national result — has roughly doubled. In 1992, there were 123 such districts (65 of them strongly Democratic and 58 strongly Republican). Today, there are 242 of them (of these, 117 favor Democrats and 125 Republicans).
So why is compromise so hard in the House? Some commentators, especially liberals, attribute it to what they say is the irrationality of Republican members of Congress.
But the answer could be this instead: individual members of Congress are responding fairly rationally to their incentives. Most members of the House now come from hyperpartisan districts where they face essentially no threat of losing their seat to the other party. Instead, primary challenges, especially for Republicans, may be the more serious risk.
In the chart below, I've grouped the country's Congressional districts into seven categories based on the results of presidential voting there from 1992 through 2012:
• Landslide Democratic districts are those in which the presidential vote was at least 20 points more Democratic than in the country as a whole. (For example in 2008, when the Democrat Barack Obama won the popular vote by roughly seven percentage points nationwide, these districts were those in which Mr. Obama won by 27 percentage points or more.)
• Strong Democratic districts are 10 to 20 percentage points more Democratic than the country as a whole.
• Lean Democratic districts are 5 to 10 percentage points more Democratic than the country as a whole.
• Swing districts are within five percentage points of the national popular vote margin.
• Lean Republican districts are 5 to 10 percentage points more Republican than the country as a whole.
• Strong Republican districts are 10 to 20 percentage points more Republican than the country as a whole.
• Finally, Landslide Republican districts are at least 20 percentage points more Republican than the country as a whole.
As these figures make clear, the number of swing districts has been on a steady decline since at least 1992, and the number of landslide districts on a steady rise. The year 2008 was a partial exception: the number of landslide districts rose slightly from 2004, but so did the number of swing districts. However, the polarization of Congressional districts became sharper again in 2012.
Some of this was because of the redistricting that took place after the 2010 elections. Republicans were in charge of the redistricting process in many states, and they made efforts to shore up their incumbents, while packing Democrats into a few overwhelmingly Democratic districts. In the few large states where Democrats were in charge of the redistricting process, like Illinois, they largely adopted a parallel approach.
But redistricting alone did not account for the whole of the shift; instead, polarization has increased even after accounting for the change in boundaries.
Direct estimates of the 2012 presidential vote are available in 342 Congressional districts, based on the data compiled by David Nir of Daily Kos Elections. Mr. Nir's spreadsheet also estimates what the 2008 presidential vote was in each district based on its 2012 boundary lines.
The next graphic presents a comparison of how each of these districts voted in 2008 and 2012, holding each district's boundary lines constant. The correlation is extremely high. Mitt Romney came three or four points closer to defeating Mr. Obama than John McCain did in 2008, but for the most part the shift was fairly uniform in different parts of the country.
However, a more careful look at the chart reveals increasing polarization. The slope of the black regression line in the chart is greater than one (specifically, it is about 1.08). In plain English, this means that polarization increased by about 8 percent from 2008 to 2012 — above and beyond any changes brought about by redistricting. For example, a district that was 25 percentage points more Democratic than the country as a whole in 2008 was about 27 percentage points more Democratic than the national average this year. Likewise, a district that had been Republican-leaning by 25 percentage points in 2008 was typically 27 points more Republican than the rest of the country this year.
(Some 93 Congressional districts do not yet have their 2012 presidential vote reflected in Mr. Nir's spreadsheet, but it is possible to estimate what the vote was there to a high degree of accuracy. In each district, I estimated the 2012 vote as a function of what the vote had been in 2008 and the statewide shift from 2008 to 2012. Taking the indirect estimate of the vote in these districts and Mr. Nir's direct estimate for the other 342 is what yields my conclusion that there are only about 35 swing districts remaining.)
But these figures do not tell the whole story. There is also a second type of polarization, one that I remarked upon after the 2010 midterm elections. In addition to the sharp increase in the polarization of the presidential vote, there has also been a sharp decrease in ticket-splitting. Far fewer districts than before vote Democratic for president but Republican for the House, or vice versa. In 1992, there were 85 districts that I characterize as leaning toward one or another party based on its presidential vote. Of these districts, 27, or nearly one third, elected a member of the opposite party to the House, going against its presidential lean.
In 2012, there were only 53 such districts based on the presidential vote. But the decline in the number of ticket-splitting districts was sharper still. Of the 53 districts, just six, or about 11 percent, went against their presidential lean in their vote for the House.
Similarly, in 1992, there were 247 districts where the presidential vote was at least 10 percentage points more Republican or Democratic than in the country as a whole. Of these 42, or about 17 percent, split their tickets between their presidential and Congressional votes. Such splits are much rarer today. Of the 347 districts that were at least 10 points Democratic- or Republican-leaning in their presidential vote this year, only 6 (less than 2 percent) crossed party lines in their vote for the House.
There have been other periods in American history when polarization was high — particularly, from about 1880 through 1920. But it is not clear that there have been other periods when individual members of the House had so little to deter them from highly partisan behavior.
In the partisan era between 1880 and 1920, there were extremely rapid shifts in the composition of the House. For example, Democrats went from controlling 72 percent of House seats in 1890 to 26 percent in 1894. That is equivalent to Democrats losing about 200 seats in the House relative to today's baseline of 435 Congressional districts.
But because there are so many fewer swing districts today, the amount of turnover in the House is much less. The 63 seats that Republicans gained in 2010 was large by modern standards — but relatively small by historical ones considering that there had been more than a 17-point swing in the national popular vote for the House.
This year also featured a relatively large swing in the popular vote for the House: Democrats won it by one point nationally rather than losing it by seven in 2010, an eight-point shift. But they gained only eight House seats out of 435. The House has arguably never been so partisan — and yet there have probably never been so few members of the House who were at risk of losing their seats.
One of the firmest conclusions of academic research into the behavior of Congress is that what motivates members first and foremost is winning elections. If individual members of Congress have little chance of losing their seats if they fail to compromise, there should be little reason to expect them to do so. Republican leaders like House Speaker John A. Boehner may conclude that there are risks to their party if they fail to reach a compromise, as during the current fiscal negotiations. But as David Frum points out, the individual members of his caucus may bear few of those costs directly.
Meanwhile, the differences between the parties have become so strong, and so sharply split across geographic lines, that voters may see their choice of where to live as partly reflecting a political decision. This type of voter self-sorting may contribute more to the increased polarization of Congressional districts than redistricting itself. Liberal voters may be attracted to major urban centers because of their liberal politics (more than because of the economic opportunities that they offer), while conservative ones may be repelled from them for the same reasons.
In this environment, members of Congress have little need to build coalitions across voters with different sets of political preferences or values. Few members of Congress today are truly liberal on social issues but conservative on fiscal issues or vice versa.
Instead, partisanship has become more uniform. This also marks a break from previous eras, such as when voting on economic issues in Congress was not strongly correlated with voting on civil rights.
What could reverse the trend toward greater partisanship? If one party were routinely being swept in elections, then perhaps individual members of the party would become more persuaded that their self-interest had become damaging to the party's collective interest. But it is not yet clear that we have reached that point.
Republicans performed very poorly in elections for the Senate this year, and they have lost the last two presidential elections. But their loss in 2008 was almost inevitable because of the economic condition of the country and the unpopularity of George W. Bush. This year's election was a more debatable case and might have been winnable for Mr. Romney, but Mr. Obama's margin of victory was only slightly wider than might have been predicted based on the improved jobs numbers throughout 2012.
Meanwhile, Republicans continue to control the majority of governorships and state legislatures after their 2010 sweep.
And they remain in control of the House of Representatives, in part because the median Congressional district is now about five points Republican-leaning relative to the country as a whole. Why this asymmetry? It's partly because Republicans created boundaries efficiently in redistricting and partly because the most Democratic districts in the country, like those in urban portions of New York or Chicago, are even more Democratic than the reddest districts of the country are Republican, meaning there are fewer Democratic voters remaining to distribute to swing districts.
Certainly, Republicans can't be entirely happy with their predicament. The Electoral College now seems to disadvantage them at least slightly, and if they struggle in the 2014 and 2016 elections, a better case can be made that the party is underachieving.
But because of the way districts are configured, their position in the House should be quite robust: it would require a Democratic wave year, and not a merely decent election for Democrats, as in 2012, for Republicans to lose control of the House.
These strengths and weaknesses for the Republican Party could be self-reinforcing, or at least they may have the same root cause. The district boundaries that give Republicans such strength in the House may also impede the party's ability to compromise, reducing their ability to appeal to the broader-based coalitions of voters so as to maximize their chances of winning Senate and presidential races. If so, however, that could mean divided government more often than not in the years ahead, with Republicans usually controlling the House while Democrats usually hold the Senate, the presidency, or both. As partisanship continues to increase, a divided government may increasingly mean a dysfunctional one.
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I am sick and tired of analysis that whines about redistricting by Republicans. The winning party gets to do that. It then becomes an advantage of incumbency which is no different than the advantages that a presidential incumbent has. Besides, Republicans have gained at other levels of govt, not just in the national govt. Factor these points in with the fraud that occurred in the last presidential election where there were more voters than registered in certain districts and those live videos by undercover people showing Obama voters planning to vote in two places. This even happened in southern NH where I have family. I am not saying it means Mitt won, I do think it shows that Obama's win was much, much closer—at the very least which is more reflective of polls showing a dead heat. This is typical Chicago politics.
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To which post were you referring that I mis-read? I'll bet you missed it altogether.
There's nothing that says I must respond to all points in a long post ( which I usually skim read or skip) over selecting a line out to add my viewpoint to that particular single line. That was post #9 and this particular line:
Other than that everyone makes mistakes and I admitted to the error as well as to skim reading the article. That doesn't make someone wrong about everything as you seem to think. You're just being a sandbagger. ( Binging up past conflicts to throw the discussion off-topic and stir up negativity on someone.)
Nothing to see here but a logical fallacy because you didn't like being reminded about Republicans winning in other areas. Hey, I like gridlock. It's the lesser of two evils especially with who is currently in the White House. And, again, I am tired of this whining about redistricting since it's the result of other elections. This is what people voted for.
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Go back to the original filibuster rules and things will begin to function as originally intended.
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I can't believe it has been a year and a half since I have posted! So much has happened. I did get a letter sent to the gentleman in Arizona and he called me! It was so exciting. He didn't even know his mother had a husband before his father until she was going to the nursing home. He found the purple heart and asked about it. She got rid of it though and he feels bad about that. All she said about him was that she didn't want him to go and he died in war. While he was gone she worked as a nurse for the military men on our side. She did not have any children with Roy, which was a long time question. My grandpa could finally put that question to rest.
I did not get accepted to teach at NGS, but I tried! I did however, get to teach at the conference at the Kansas State Genealogical Society in Dodge City. It was wonderful! The people were great. I was disappointed in my photo class and need a lot of work on it. The society was great and I learned so much.
Tomorrow I am teaching a Social Networking class and will be showing them my blog.
I also sent off for medical records for Earl black, my great great grandfather. He was in the Psychiatric hospital in St Joseph for 4 years and died there. We had to get a court order and we received it. We are now just waiting for the records. I am anxious to see what comes of it.


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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) — Gold's $30-plus drop Monday — the biggest daily decline of the year — serves as a powerful reminder that the market for the yellow metal remains vulnerable to shifts in investor mood.
And that does not bode well for gold's near-term prospects. That's because there's more bullishness than bearishness today among the gold traders I monitor, which, in turn, means it's more likely that shifts in mood will cause gold to fall than to rise.
Consider the average recommended gold-market exposure among a subset of short-term gold-timing newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest (as measured by the Hulbert Gold Newsletter Sentiment Index, or HGNSI). The average currently stands at 23.3%.
To put that into context, consider that as recently as early June, the HGNSI stood at minus 30%. In other words, in a little more than a month's time, the average gold timer has increased his recommended gold-exposure level by 53.3 percentage points.
That's a remarkably quick retreat from bearishness.
According to contrarian analysis, major market bottoms are more likely to be greeted by stubbornly held bearishness — just the opposite of what we've seen recently. In other words, the initial rally off the final low will most likely be greeted by disbelief. Only well into the new bull market will market timers be eager to jump back on the bullish bandwagon.
In fact, a close analysis of gold sentiment over the past 12 months suggests we're getting further away from extreme pessimism, not closer.
Notice from the accompanying chart that there have been three major periods of bearishness over the past year among monitored gold timers. As you can see, the trend in sentiment across these three periods is of higher sentiment levels, now lower.
If gold's recent low represented a major bottom, then contrarian analysis suggests we would be seeing just the reverse pattern, with each successive sentiment low lower than the previous one.
To the extent that contrarian analysis is right, gold traders should be prepared for more days like Monday, when August gold futures fell 2.2% to $1,306.70 an ounce. Unless you have nerves of steel and are ready and willing to hold on to gold despite extraordinary volatility, you might want to wait until sentiment conditions are more favorable.
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Hagel squares off with Chinese defense minister over dispute with Japan over islands
BEIJING – The defense chiefs of China and the U.S. faced off Tuesday over Beijing's escalating territorial disputes in the region, as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, wagging his finger, said China doesn't have the right to unilaterally establish an air defense zone over disputed islands with no consultation.
And he said America will protect Japan in a dispute with China.
Chinese Defense Minister Chang Wanquan said his country will not take the initiative to stir up troubles with Japan, but Beijing is ready to use its military if needed to safeguard its territory. And he warned that the U.S. must "stay vigilant" against Japan's actions and "not be permissive and supportive" of Tokyo.
The two men were speaking to reporters after a meeting here.
The U.S. has criticized Beijing's recent declaration of an air defense zone over a large swath of the East China Sea, including disputed islands controlled by Japan.
Speaking to reporters after the meeting with Chang at the Ministry of Defense, the two men aired their countries' well-known positions about the territorial disputes.
The meeting focused on how the U.S. and China can build stronger ties, in the wake of years of frosty relations over Beijing's military buildup, persistent cyberattacks against U.S. government agencies and private industry, and aggressive Chinese territorial claims in the East China Sea.
Beijing's recent declaration of an air defense zone over a large swath of the East China Sea, including disputed islands controlled by Japan has raised complaints from the U.S., deepening concerns that it could spark a confrontation.
Washington has refused to recognize the zone or follow China's demands that its aircraft file flight plans with Beijing's Defense Ministry and heed Chinese instructions. China has warned of unspecified retaliatory measures against aircraft that do not comply, but has so far taken no action.
He also said the U.S. and China must be more open with each other about their cyber capabilities, saying that greater openness "reduces the risk that misunderstanding and misperception could lead to miscalculation."
Hagel pointed to the ongoing threat from North Korea, which recently threatened additional missile and nuclear tests. And he said the U.S. and China have a shared interest "in achieving a verifiable, irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula."
In recent weeks the North has conducted a series of rocket and ballistic missile launches that are considered acts of protest against annual ongoing springtime military exercises by Seoul and Washington. North Korea says the exercises are rehearsals for invasion.


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This site covers Cisco Business Edition 6000 (formerly Cisco Unified Communications Manager Business Edition 6000) Release 8.5 and higher.
Cisco Business Edition 6000 is designed for organizations with upto 1000 employees. The solution offers premium voice, video, mobility, messaging, presence and contact center features on a single platform and provides core communication capabilities medium-sized businesses need for improved collaboration across the value chain. Enabled by virtualization technology, Cisco Business Edition 6000 consolidates multiple applications on single platform and therefore allows medium business to reduce their lower total cost of ownership and improve productivity of their employees. The high availability features supported by the solution make Cisco Business Edition 6000 ideally suited for companies that require mission critical voice, messaging and contact center capabilities.
Cisco Business Edition 6000 is a packaged solution optimized for medium sized business requirements. It is a specific combination of Cisco Unified Communications Applications on Cisco Unified Computing System that offers medium businesses, improved business agility and reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) through server consolidation, operational efficiency and scale, improved business continuity, and greater investment leverage.
BE 6000 consists of the following foundational elements:
- Cisco Unified Communications Manager
- IM & Presence
- Cisco Unity® Connection
- Cisco Prime Provisioning
- Cisco UC Virtualization Hypervisor
- Cisco Unified Computing System C200 M2/C220 M3 Rack-mount server.
Following applications can be optionally added to Cisco Business Edition 6000 solution.
- Cisco Unified Contact Center Express
- Cisco Unified Attendant Consoles
- Cisco Emergency Responder
- Cisco Telepresence Video Communication Server (Supported only with UCS C220 M3)
- Cisco Paging Server
Cisco Business Edition 6000 supports up to 4 UC applications plus 1 Cisco Prime Provisioning (from the list of applications above) running co-resident on single UCS C200 or UCS C220 hardware platform and supports full featured redundancy for all the core applications over a WAN or LAN environment.
In addition, Cisco Business Edition 6000 integrates with cloud based webex Software-as-a-service offerings including Webex connect IM and presence as well as webex web conferencing.
Here are some key differences between BE 6000 and generic Unified Communications deployment on Unified Computing system environment ("UC on UCS").
|Cisco Business Edition 6000
| "UC on UCS"/ Specs Based Support
| Positioning
| Packaged solution optimized for medium business requirements
| Enterprise Deployments
| Max Capacity 1000 users
| Megacluster 80K users
| Platform/Application Choice
| UCS C200 or C220 Hardware platform only
| UCS-C Series, B-Series Platforms, 3rd party servers
| Core applications: Unified Communications Manager, IM and Presence, Cisco Unity Connection, Contact Center Express, Cisco Unified Attendant Consoles, Cisco Prime Provisioning, Cisco Emergency Responder, Cisco Telepresence Video Communication server (UCS C220 only), Cisco Paging Server
| Full suite of UC on UCS applications, Non UC and 3rd party applications
| Installation and Configuration
| Factory configured server, Pre-loaded applications (BE 6000 9.x release only), Unified provisioning through embedded Cisco Prime Provisioning
| Provisioning through separate native management interface or purchase Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager
| Support
| Cisco for UCS, UC and Vitualization Hypervisor
| Cisco for UC, UCS and UC virtualization hypervisor. VMware, 3rd party server vendors.
| Ordering
| Single top-level part number, Quoting through Quick Pricing Tool
| Separate SKUs for hardware and software licenses
| Pricing
| Discounted Starter Bundles (25 users), embedded Prime Provisioning and VMware, with options to add Webex Meeting Center, Contact Center Express, Cisco Telepresence Video Communication Server bundles
| Buy software and hardware separately.
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-Manic Street Preachers (Your Love Alone)
"Give me the beat boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock n roll,
And drift away"
-Dobie Gray (Drift Away)
"I need fire to melt this frozen sea inside me."
-Sam Phillips (I Need Love)
"Music is a world within itself
With a language we all understand."
-Stevie Wonder (Sir Duke)
"Love is the fence that surrounds the heart, holds in the light, keeps out the dark..."
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Cisco 2504 Wireless Controller - Network management device - 4 ports - 25 MAPs (managed access points) - 10Mb LAN, 100Mb LAN, Gigabit LAN - 1UItem#:� YYI2-62721P �|�Model#:�AIR-CT2504-25-K9
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Cisco 2504 Wireless Controller - network Product Details
As a component of the Cisco unified wireless network, this controller delivers centralized security policies, wireless intrusion prevention system (wIPS) capabilities, RF management and quality of service (QoS) for voice and video. Delivering 802.11n performance and scalability the 2500 series provides low total cost of ownership and flexibility to scale as network requirements grow.
Device Type: Network management device
Height (Rack Units): 1U
Width: 8 in
Depth: 10.7 in
Height: 1.7 in
Form Factor: External
Ports Qty: 4
Connectivity Technology: Wired
Data Link Protocol: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet
Switching Protocol: Ethernet
Network / Transport Protocol: TCP/IP, UDP/IP, ICMP/IP, IPSec, ARP, BOOTP, DHCP
Remote Management Protocol: SNMP 1, RMON, Telnet, SNMP 3, SNMP 2c, HTTP, HTTPS, SSH
Status Indicators: Power, system, alarm, link/activity
Features: DHCP support, BOOTP support, ARP support, VLAN support, Syslog support, IPv6 support, Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), SNTP support, Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) support, Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) support, Quality of Service (QoS), CAPWAP support
Encryption Algorithm: DES, Triple DES, RSA, RC4, MD5, 128-bit WEP, 40-bit WEP, IKE, SSL, TLS, SHA-1, TLS 1.0, 104-bit WEP, TKIP, WPA, WPA2, PKI, AES-CCMP, AES-CCM, AES-CBC
Authentication Method: RADIUS, X.509 certificates, TACACS, Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
Compliant Standards: IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.1Q, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.1x, IEEE 802.11i, IEEE 802.11h, IEEE 802.11e, IEEE 802.11n
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Interfaces: 1 x management - RJ-45 � 2 x 1000Base-T - RJ-45 � 2 x 1000Base-T - RJ-45
Compliant Standards: VCCI, EN 60950, ICES-003, UL 60950-1 Second Edition, FCC Part 15.107, FCC Part 15.109
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Power Device: External power adapter
Voltage Required: AC 120/230 V (50/60 Hz)
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There is nothing quite like the drama that is playoff baseball, where seasons fade and stay alive with a swing of the bat. There is an ebb and flow of emotions in baseball unlike any other sport and we saw them all last night when the complexion of both series changed on the game's final play.
The Dodgers, one pitch away from tying their series at Philadelphia, are now in life support and face elimination tomorrow night. The Angels, who stared at the end of their season at the beginning of last night's game, have fresh life.
Last night Jimmy Rollins sent the Dodgers closer to winter, and hours earlier the Angels turned the ALCS from a blowout to a series that could be for the ages. After gift-wrapping two victories to the Yankees, the Angels are alive and in position where they could knot that ALCS at two games apiece tonight after Jeff Mathis' two-out double in extra innings Monday.
The Yankees could regain control and send Los Angeles to the brink of elimination with CC Sabathia on the mound or the Angels can get us back to square one behind Scott Kazmir.
"This is the type of series we expected it to be," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said.
Sabathia, who will be going on three days rest, is 6-7 with a 4.42 ERA in 15 career starts against the Angels. The Yankees are going with a three-man rotation in the ALCS meaning if there is a Game 7 in New York, Sabathia will get the ball.
Kazmir, who represents one of the worst trades made by the Mets, is in position to be a postseason hero for the Angels. Kazmir, who gave up five runs in six innings against Boston in the ALDS, was acquired from Tampa, Aug. 28, and went 2-2 with a 1.73 ERA in six starts for Los Angeles. He is 6-5 with a 2.66 ERA in 14 career starts against the Yankees.
Regardless of what happens tonight, Game 5 is Thursday at Anaheim.


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"Veloce Cars" (VC) is a well-known cab service in Southern Area, now planning to expand their services around the country. VC has established cab service depots in major cities around the country with small operation offices. All the cab reservations are going to be handled by the VC headquarters.
VC is planning to add the reservation facility to their existing software. Also need to have a facility to the HQ reservation center employees to handle the reservation requests. Reservation request can be made by visiting one of the branch or a call request. VC cab drivers should have a facility to inform their status to the company reservation center, After they arrive into the branch.
VC headquarters
1. Manage travel packages
2. Handle call requests.
3. Create and view reports.
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3. Update their tour details
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Grimsby have appointed Neil Woods as manager until the end of the 2010/11 season.
The former youth-team boss has been in temporary charge since Mike Newell left over a month ago and has impressed enough to be given the post permanently.
Interviews were held last week for the manager's job which has been vacant since the sacking of Newell on October 18.
Woods was one of the six men interviewed and has now been charged with saving the Blundell Park club from relegation to the Blue Square Premier.
Grimsby have lost one and drawn three of their League Two matches under Woods' stewardship, including the 0-0 draw at relegation-rivals Lincoln on Saturday.
The point still leaves the Mariners in the relegation zone but just two points behind safety.
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ATLANTA – Clayton Kershaw handed the clubhouse attendant at Turner Field a big wad of cash Friday night, as is the long-time tradition for visiting players at the conclusion of a road series.
"Thanks for all your hard work," Kershaw told him, politely. "But hopefully I won't see you again the rest of the season."
The Dodgers have their work cut out to make sure that is the case.
First by handing the ball to rookie left-hander Hyun-Jin Ryu, whose reputation as a big-game pitcher in South Korea convinced the Dodgers he was worth $36 million dollars.
And worthy of drawing the critical start in Game 3 of the National League Divisional series on Sunday in Los Angeles.
Then giving it to Ricky Nolasco in Game 4 on Monday with a chance to close it out.
That is, if they can figure out how to make the numbers work in their favor again, something that escaped them Friday in a 4-3 loss to the Braves in Game 2 that left this best-of-five series tied 1-1.
With a chance to bury Atlanta in a 0-2 hole with the next two games in Los Angeles, the Dodgers discovered they were working with a screwy calculator
All night long, they punched in the right numbers, only to spit out totals that didn't make sense.
They out-hit the Braves and outpitched them, especially early on.
They consistently put runners on the base paths and into scoring position.
But they had little to show for it, done in by three deadly double plays that derailed a handful of chances to put distance between themselves and the Braves.
Now they return to Dodger Stadium content in wresting away home-field advantage from the Braves on this trip, but knowinng full well they whiffed on a big, fat, beautiful fastball right down Broadway that would have crushed the Braves' will.
The mixed emotions were evident every where you turned in the quiet Dodgers' clubhouse.
"Anytime you win the first one you want to win the second one too," second baseman Mark Ellis said. "We knew it was going to be tough coming in here but we liked our chances. Zack (Greinke) threw the ball great, we just didn't score enough runs for him."
Not that they didn't have plenty of chances, putting the lead-off runner on four times over the first seven innings.
Only to hit into the three bone-crushing double plays.
"We had a lot of opportunities, we didn't take advantage," first baseman Adrian Gonzalez said. "I felt we had good at bats throughout, but the hits we got with runners in scoring position weren't enough to drive guys in."
With each wasted opportunity, the Braves' confidence needle nudged ever so higher.
And when presented with an opportunity to punish the Dodgers, Atlanta lowered a mighty tomahawk chop with a two-run seventh inning that turned a one-run game into a commanding 4-1 lead.
The big blow came on Jason Heyward's two-out, two-run single off Paco Rodriguez after Dodgers manager Don Mattingly opted to intentionally walk right-handed batter Reed Johnson to get a lefty-on-lefty matchup between Rodriguez and Heyward.
The plan backfired horribly, with Heyward ripping a line drive to center field to push the lead to 4-1.
In the process, control of the series slipped feebly from the Dodgers' grasp, and not even Hanley Ramirez's two-run home run in the top of the eighth could leash it back in.
Ramirez's blast pulled the Dodgers within one run, and for a moment the fear of a late-inning Dodgers comeback could be felt throughout Turner Field.
But on a frustrating night in Atlanta, the Dodgers rally stalled there.
"We had a lot of people out there," Dodgers catcher A.J. Ellis said. "You have to give (Atlanta starter) Mike Minor a ton of credit. He did a great job finding the double play ball to kill our rallys."
Then in the ninth inning with Andre Ethier at bat and pinch-runner Dee Gordon at first with one out, Gordon was gunned down trying to steal second base.
Gordon looked safe on the replay.
"I was thinking the same thing you guys were," Gordon said.
But it didn't matter.
The umpire had the final call, and it amounted to another chance wasted by the Dodgers.
One of many on a maddening night.
"There were definitely a few opportunities out there," Gonzalez said. "All we needed was one big hit and we would have put it away. But we weren't able to do that."
Now they return home – the ball shifting from Greinke's hand to Ryu, who compiled a 14-8 rookie season with a 3.00 ERA.
The 26-year-old South Korean takes the hill Sunday in Game 3 with a well-known reputation as a cunning performer in high-stakes games.
But he built it far, far away from Major League Baseball and the chill and pressure of October baseball.
All that's riding on his performance is the Dodgers being one win away from moving on to the National League Championship series … or one loss from elimination.
Not to mention the risky proposition of calling Kershaw back to the mound in Game 4 on Monday on three days' rest, something he's never been asked to do and something the Dodgers desperately hope to avoid.
They could have done just that with one more clutch hit Friday to return home up two games to none and needing just one win over two games at Dodger Stadium to move onto the next round.
But they didn't.
Now they'll kick themselves all the way home.
And then turn the ball over to a rookie left-hander pitching far, far away from home.


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Folding Balcony Table: Innovation or Eyesore?
At first we were pretty excited to find this outdoor folding table. Hooked over the edge of a deck or balcony railing, it can serve as a table for two or an extra surface area, and then be folded down when not in use. Ingenious space saver, right? But the longer we looked at it, the less confident we were about how much we actually liked it.
The table might blend in over a metal railing or a white balcony, but we're just not crazy about how it looks over natural wood (which is our balcony situation). Thoughts of beautiful moonlit dinners come to a halt when we consider those metal tubes and plastic knobs. And yet, this could be a great solution for small space dwellers who don't have the room, desire, or option to use a standalone or wall-mounted table. This particular table measures 16 1/2 x 35 1/2 inches and can hold up to 50 pounds.
What do you think – innovation or eyesore? Do you have any other suggestions for small balcony dining?
• 1-2 Folding Balcony Table, $69.95 at Sporty's Preferred Living
• 3-4 Folding Deck Table, $69.95 at Brookstone
• 5 Folding Balcony Table, $69.95 at Sporty's Tool Shop
By the way, if you live in Canada, there's also a cheaper option in the IKEA Blankö line.
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Yet some there be that by due steps aspire
To lay their just hands on that golden key
That opes the palace of eternity:
To such my errand is.
When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent, which is death to hide,
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest he returning chide;
"Doth God exact day labour, light denied?"
I fondly ask; but Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed,
And post o'er land and ocean without rest;
They also serve who only stand and wait."
I feel my genial spirits droop, ...
My race of glory run, and race of shame;
And I shall shortly be with them that rest. [1]
The story is that of a girl who becomes separated from her brothers
in a wood, and is soon lost. The magician Comus [Footnote: In
mythology Comus, the god of revelry, was represented as the son of
Dionysus (Bacchus, god of wine), and the witch Circe. In Greek
poetry Comus is the leader of any gay band of satyrs or dancers.
Milton's masque of Comus was influenced by a similar story
in Peele's Old Wives' Tale, by Spenser's "Palace of
Pleasure" in The Faery Queen (see above "Sir Guyon" in
Chapter IV), and by Homer's story of the witch Circe in the
Odyssey.] appears with his band of revelers, and tries to
bewitch the girl, to make her like one of his own brutish
followers. She is protected by her own purity, is watched over by
the Attendant Spirit, and finally rescued by her brothers. The
story is somewhat like that of the old ballad of "The Children in
the Wood," but it is here transformed into a kind of morality play.
The isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices,
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked
I cried to dream again.
A thousand phantasies
Begin to throng into my memory,
Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire,
And airy tongues that syllable men's names
On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
These thoughts may startle well but not astound
The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended
By a strong-siding champion, Conscience.
Where the bee sucks, there suck I;
In a cowslip's bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On a bat's back I do fly
After summer merrily:
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Now my task is smoothly done,
I can fly or I can run
Quickly to the green earth's end,
Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend,
And from thence can soar as soon
To the corners of the moon.
Mortals, that would follow me,
Love Virtue; she alone is free:
She can teach ye how to climb
Higher than the sphery chime;
Or if Virtue feeble were,
Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Few his words, but strong,
And sounding through all ages and all climes;
He caught the sonnet from the dainty hand
Of Love, who cried to lose it, and he gave the notes
To Glory.
"Is this the region, this the soil, the clime,"
Said then the lost Archangel, "this the seat
That we must change for Heaven? this mournful gloom
For that celestial light? Be it so, since he
Who now is sovran can dispose and bid
What shall be right: farthest from him is best,
Whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme
Above his equals. Farewell, happy fields,
Where joy forever dwells! Hail, horrors! hail,
Infernal world! and thou, profoundest Hell,
Receive thy new possessor, one who brings
A mind not to be changed by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
What matter where, if I be still the same,
And what I should be, all but less than he
Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least
We shall be free; the Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence;
Here we may reign secure; and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."
Lest unawares we lose
This our high place, our sanctuary, our hill.
You stand on a hilltop overlooking a mighty landscape on which the
new snow has just fallen: the forest bending beneath its soft
burden, the fields all white and still, the air scintillating with
light and color, the whole world so clean and pure that it seems as
if God had blotted out its imperfections and adorned it for his own
pleasure. That is a sublime spectacle, and the soul of man is
exalted as he looks upon it. Or here in your own village you see a
woman who enters a room where a child is stricken with a deadly and
contagious disease. She immolates herself for the suffering one,
cares for him and saves him, then lays down her own life. That is a
sublime act. Or you hear of a young patriot captured and hanged by
the enemy, and as they lead him forth to death he says, "I regret
that I have but one life to give to my country." That is a sublime
expression, and the feeling in your heart as you hear it is one of
moral sublimity.
A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold,
And pavement stars.
Heaven opened wide
Her ever-during gates, harmonious sound,
On golden hinges moving. On a sudden open fly
With impetuous recoil and jarring sound
Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate
Harsh thunder.


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Jack Decker died December 10, 2012
Jack Richard Decker, 82 of Heber Springs passed away Monday, December 10, 2012. He was born Friday, February 28, 1930 in Flint, Michigan to the late Elmer and Reanna Leopold Decker. Mr. Decker retired from AC Spark Plug in Flint, Michigan, a veteran of the U.S. Navy serving in the Korean War, and a faithful member of the First United Methodist Church in Heber Springs. In addition to his parents, Jack is preceded in death by a daughter, Janice Decker and a sister, Eleanor Carter.
Jack leaves to cherish his memory his wife of days short of 62 years, Vinda Eloise Decker; one son, Jack Decker and his wife Emilee of Saginaw, Michigan; one sister, Elaine Lawcock and her husband Leon of Flint, Michigan; other relatives and friends.
Memorial services will be 10:00 a.m. Friday, December 14, 2012 at the First United Methodist Church in Heber Springs under the direction of the Heber Springs Funeral Home. For more information please visit www.heberspringsfuneralhome.com or call 501.887.9152.


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By Daniel Loubier
Publisher: AuthorMike Inc
Synopsis:"Fifty years ago, an event happened in the White Mountains of New Hampshire that had the potential of wiping out the entire human population within that region. The event was quickly addressed by a local group trained to handle this kind of crisis. The death toll was more than anyone had expected, but the event was ultimately silenced, hidden from the radar of the authorities. Since that time, things have been quiet... until now. Charlie and Grace have a shared goal: to summit the tallest peak in each of the 50 states. Five years ago, their journey began at Mt. George, the tallest mountain in the northeast. After Charlie sustained a damaging injury during their ascent, Grace was afraid they might never realize that goal. Five years later, they've come back to where it all began. However, injuries and unpredictable weather patterns won' be the only challenges; they'll now have to find a way to survive an outbreak of the undead. Charlie and Grace must find a way off the mountain, alive, before they succumb to the zombie plague. But there's a secret, buried beneath three-hundred years of lies and deceit. A secret that may prove even more devastating than the zombies themselves."
Choosing zombies as the bad guys for your first novel is a brave but risky choice. Unlike vampires for example, zombies (at least the mindless, flesh-eating variety) have struggled to make an impact through the printed word, mainly because its difficult to invest them with any real sense of character. Youve seen one zombie, youve seen them all and therefore the onus in most zombie tales is firmly on the human characters to grab the audiences attention and sustain their interest, as well as provide three dimensional portraits in whom they can emotionally invest. This is done most successfully in films such as Dawn of the Dead and the TV series The Walking Dead, stories that use zombies as a context for their narrative but never as the dramatic focus. Combine all of that with a plot that journeys in interesting and unexpected directions, possibly with a dose of dark humour here and there, and youre probably onto a winner. With his debut novel, author Daniel Loubier doesnt always succeed in terms of characterisation or plot but he does demonstrate a wicked sense of humour in an uneven novel that nevertheless has its moments.
Dead Summit tells the story of Charlie and Grace, a married couple who have decided to climb Mt. George, a mountain that had previously defeated them on a hiking trip five years before. However, strange rumours and even stranger dreams haunt them as they make their way up to a communal lodge on their way to the peak, with tales of people going mad on the mountain side resulting in sudden suicides and spousal murders. Grace feels particularly uneasy having had nightmares of lumbering, menacing figures stalking her on their journey and it isnt long before it becomes apparent that there is something about this mountain that causes the dead to rise and seek sustenance from the living.
The story gets off to a relatively strong start, a vivid and gruesome prologue setting the scene nicely before were introduced to Charlie and Grace as they drive to their destination. Throughout the first part of the novel, Loubier's dialogue is easy and natural, with characters sounding plausible enough when theyre conversing in every day situations. Loubiers style works best when he utilises short, snappy sentences where dialogue pings back and forth between several characters and Charlie and Graces relationship in particular is at its most convincing when depicted via their small talk. However, when characters are given lengthier dialogue designed to move the plot along he is less successful, the ghost story scene in a mountainside lodge being a notable example. What should have been a pivotal moment as the guests learn something of the legends that haunt the mountain where they are staying reads like a series of lengthy expositions, largely devoid of mood or tension and consequently, the horrified reactions from the guests to what they have heard don't really convince.
Still, where Loubier does succeed admirably is in demonstrating his capacity for black comedy and gross out slapstick. The scene where a recently bitten zombie victim implores Charlie to kill her before she can turn into one, soon escalates into a Monty Pythonesque gore fest as Charlie's initial reluctance to end her misery is overcome by her increasingly vitriolic taunts, goading him into smashing her brains in with a picture frame. The line that precipitates this, 'What the fuck is your problem?', delivered by Charlie to the victim as she lies there screaming with her intestines hanging out, is wonderfully inappropriate and offers a hilarious demonstration of how thoroughly overwhelmed by events Charlie is. If this was a movie then only Bruce Campbell could do justice to Charlie in these scenes. There is also a delightfully macabre moment where two characters are attempting to remove some bodies from a walk in freezer, and anybody who has had difficulty trying to prise loose a rogue sausage from the back of their own cold storage will appreciate the practical difficulties of attempting the same with a corpse. As arms snap off and stubborn pieces of carcass are hacked away, Loubier conjures up a grimly humorous scene that provokes as many winces as it does chuckles.
Unfortunately, because the story is a relatively straight forward one the novel contains few real surprises. First of all the survivors are chased to the top of the mountain and then they're chased back down again until they find themselves back in the lodge where they started as the situation becomes overwhelming. Throughout this journey they fight off wave after wave of zombie attacks and meet a couple of new characters along the way but it all feels a bit relentless and monotonous, like a novelised version of the old Sega video game classic, House of the Dead. It is during these parts of the novel that the lack of diverse and convincing characterisation is most apparent. One gets the sense that Loubier is more interested in his zombies than he is his survivors and his supporting characters feel so thinly sketched that it's difficult to feel anything when they are so easily met and then so readily disposed of within a dozen pages or so. As for Charlie and Grace, they are more convincing and Loubier clearly cares about them more than the zombie fodder he serves up elsewhere. To his credit his focus on Grace towards the novels conclusion results in some of his best writing.
However, perhaps the biggest problem I had with the novel was accepting the practical implications of hundreds (if not thousands) of zombies coming to life on a mountain side once every 50 years, devouring anybody who happens to get in their way and then no outside party being any the wiser as to what has happened until the next time it occurs. There is a plot development that explains why this might be the case and the novels final scene hints at how it may be achieved but I wasnt convinced. Wouldnt the families of the dead be kicking up a fuss of some sort, especially as everyone who went to the same venue appears to have gone missing on the same evening? Its an aspect of the story that risks shattering the suspension of disbelief a reader must generate if they are to be convinced by any work of fiction and for me it was a stretch too far.
Overall this is a fast-paced read, perhaps too much so as Loubier seems to be in a rush to get from one scene of set-piece carnage to the next without investing in his characters and the plot to the degree he should. However, he does have a knack for conjuring up some vivid and gruesome imagery and the novels unique setting, along with the practical difficulties it poses for the characters, at least attempts something different within the zombie genre. Loubier also balances the horrendous with the hilarious and this, combined with a flair for effective moments of horror, makes him worth keeping an eye on.


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2009 Burton New Zealand Open Superpipe Gallery
Drunken late nights and heavy dance sessions didn't hold the people in Wanaka back from heading up to Cardrona Alpine Resort to witness the best class of international pro snowboarders ever showcased in New Zealand. Saturday was the final day of the 7th Burton New Zealand Open. The riders pushed the current contest standards of riding to a new high in halfpipe with never before seen tricks thrown down by a handful of riders. A perfectly built slopestyle course allowed riders to throw down hammers over the mellow 40 and 50 footers. The third jump was a poppy 70 footer that saw massive double corked spins. The Cardrona park crew added a unique up-stair feature to quaterpipe at the bottom of the course. Canada's Sebastien Toutant along with Jamie Anderson took home first in slope. Gold medalists Shaun White and Kelly Clark won the halfpipe.
It was a hectic four days that saw three nearly perfect blue bird days after a miserable soggy first day. New Zealand showed off its characteristic beautiful scenery with a sea of clouds hanging low in the valley below on the second day with perfect blue skies on the mountain. Saturday had nearly perfect weather for the pipe final, with a massive crowd frothing to see the riders throw down their runs. Friday saw 42 men and 16 women contending for the $24,000, with $6,000 going to the winners of the slopestyle.
2009 Burton New Zealand Open Slopestyle Gallery
Women's & Men's Slopestyle
The women started off slopestyle with New Zealand's own Shelly Gotlieb impressing the judges and taking the top spot heading into the finals. She threw down solid runs, consisting of cab 540s, big laid out backflips, backside 360 tailgrabs, and holding it down on the rails. But, it was Jamie Anderson stealing the show with a run of a tailslide, 50-50 to fakie on the box, setting up for a switch backside 360, followed by a Cab 540 melon, then throwing a smooth front 360 melon off the big jump. Janna Meyen-Weatherby showed her strong riding, picking up second place stomping a 720, and some cab 540s.
The men threw down for the finals with Sebastian Toutant taking the top spot with his "Toutsie Roll", a double corked out backside 1080 that helped him land in second at last winter's 2009 US Open. His winning run was a backside 270 disaster, 50-50 backside 360 off on the second rail, into a backside rodeo 540 Indy, into a Cab 900 stale, to his "toutsie roll", then a noseslide on the uprail with an alleyoop backside 50-50 on the quarterpipe, ending with a frontside boardslide on the kinked down-flat-down. Torstein Horgmo threw down to get second with a switch backside 900, to frontside 1080, and a backside 1080. Eric Willet, from the states, showed consistently good style to bag third place with back-to-back 900s and good combos on and off the jibs. Tim Humphrey's double backside rodeos off the second jump were a huge crowd pleaser. 2009 US Open Slopestyle winner Chas Guldemond was throwing the best looking backside rodeo 540s and going for massive backside 1260s on the last jump. Danny Kass entertained everyone while throwing smooth spins while jamming out to a ghetto blaster held by Scotty Lago as he followed close behind Danny. The Frends crew had a strong showing with Mason Aguirre and Danny Davis putting down smooth runs.
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The last day kicked off with what many are already calling the best pipe competition ever held in the history of snowboarding—a good place to start for this Olympic competition season. History was made when Louie Vito stomped the first double corked out 1080 in a pipe competition. Forty men and 21 women competed on the final day. The battle for the $6,000 prize was a heavyweight battle between Louie Vito, Luke Mitrani, Shaun White, and Kazuhiro Kokubo. Despite having arguably the best run in the semi-finals, Vito didn't land his complete run in the finals and got ninth place. Kazuhiro Kokubo, of Japan, was sending every hit with massive amplitude. Kazuhiro's first hit mcTwists were some of the best looking hits of the day. He ended up getting third. Luke Mitrani blew the crowd away with his massive hits. He took home second with a run consisting of a double inverted 900 melon, a frontside 720 Indy, a Cab 720, followed by a frontside 900 tailgrab. But the winning run went to Shaun White. He threw down a run scoring a 97.0 with a massive frontside lien air, into a backside 900 melon, a frontside 1080 stale, to his new Cab double corked 1080, finishing with another frontside double corked 900. Best trick went to Luke Mitrani for his massive Double Michalchuk.
For the Women the Asian competitors had a very strong showing. Zhifeng Sun took home third for China, throwing a frontside 900 in her run. Fellow team rider from China, Jiayu Liu, got second. Her run consisted of back-to-back 720s and back-to-back 540s. Kelly Clark received a score of 83. 67 to take the top spot with a huge frontside air to backside 540, to a frontside 720 tailgrab, into a cab 720, followed by a frontside 540. Best trick went to Elizabeth Beerman, for a huge frontside 900.
Afterparty Action
The action was not only limited to snowboarding, as all four nights in Wanaka had events and parties. Wednesday night hundreds of people piled into the Lake Wanaka Centre to watch footage from the day and the world premiere of Burton's B Movie. The crowd was stoked on the movie, getting a sneak peak at White's back-to-back double corks in the halfpipe (which you'll see more of in the October issue of TransWorld SNOWboarding). Thursday night the Gravis Open Sessions kicked off with music from Black Sun Empire, and State of Mind at the Lake Wanaka Centre. Friday night got a little crazy with Kass showing the new Grenade movie, Get Boned, at Shooter's Bar. Saturday was the finale of the event with a concert at Lake Wanaka Center featuring Tiki Live, and DJ Reno. After that it was a blur to most spectators and riders in the 7th Burton New Zealand Open.
And In Closing …
The biggest snowboard competition in New Zealand was far from disappointing. The scenery of New Zealand mixed with the level of riding and the after parties made the four days a fuzzy non-stop show of entertainment and snowboarding progression. Kiwi riders had a good showing with Shelly Gotleib placing third in the slopestyle. For those who didn't get to witness the insanity of the pipe finals, there will be more to come as the days to the 2010 Olympic Games count down. With the event coming to an end, people can only imagine how crazy this coming season will get as the riders have pushed the standard of riding to a whole new higher level.Results
Slopestyle Final Women
1 Jamie Anderson, USA
2 Janna Weatherby, USA
3 Shelly Gotlieb, NZL
4 Joanna Dzierzawski, USA
5 Silvia Mittermueller, GER
6 Hana Beaman, USA Slopestyle Final Men
1 Sebastien Toutant, CAN
2 Torstein Horgmo, NOR
3 Eric Willett, USA
4 Tore Holvik, NOR
5 Seppe Smits, BEL
6 Stef Zeestraten, NZL Halfpipe Final Women
1 Kelly Clark, USA
2 Jiayu Liu, CHN
3 Zhifeng Sun, CHN Best Trick: Elizabeth Beerman, Frontside 900 Halfpipe Final Men
1 Shaun White, USA
2 Luke Mitrani, USA
3 Kazuhiro Kokubo, JPN Best Trick: Luke Mitrani, Double Michalchuk Best Overall Kiwi Female – Shelly Gotlieb (Ohakune)
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Fans Question Heterosexual Portrayal of Freddie Mercury in Biopic Trailer
By Andrew Magnotta
May 16, 2018
The trailer for the upcoming Freddie Mercury biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, released this week raised a lot of questions and concerns from fans.
Queen fans who watched the trailer were quick to point out that it contains overt suggestions of Mercury's relationships with women over his career, but little to no depiction of his relationships with men.
Film writer/producer Bryan Fuller posted several Tweets Tuesday afternoon about what he saw as hetwashing of Mercury's story. "[Is] anyone else mildly annoyed that the Bohemian Rhapsody trailer features gay/bi superstar Freddie Mercury flirting with and twirling with a woman but no indication of his love of men?" Fuller asked.
Fuller later suggested in his replies that the omission was intentional by 20th Century Fox in order to market the film to fans who would be uncomfortable with anything other than heterosexual relationships portrayed on screen.
Some fans empathized with Fuller's interpretation but presumed that depicting Mercury as a ladies man adds an additional level of intrigue to the film. Most fans don't know that Mercury had relationships with both men and women during his life.
The singer was, after all a complicated person, according to his former bandmates. Queen drummer Roger Taylor said shortly after Mercury's death in 1991 that while the band was close as a group, "we didn't know a lot of things about Freddie."
In his Tweets, Fuller refers to "three frames" of the trailer that depict Mercury apparently romantic with a man. You can catch that shot in the .GIF below where Mercury is sitting at the piano. But if you blink, you'll miss it.
Being that the script was largely crafted from the recollections of Taylor and guitarist Brian May, it's defensible that Mercury's relationships with women would play a large role in the story; it was what they knew of him.
May agreed in one interview that Mercury was probably bisexual, though it's unlikely he identified that way, simply because the term wasn't so widely used during his lifetime.
"You're talking to someone who shared rooms with Fred on the first couple of tours, so I knew him pretty well," May told Daily Express once. "I knew a lot of his girlfriends, and he certainly didn't have boyfriends in those days, that's for sure."
May went so far as to say it "never occurred" to him that the singer was gay until much later in their career, as Mercury was very private. Eventually, the singer revealed to the band that he had relationships with men, but he only did so "years after it was obvious."
While Fuller says industry "marketing code" in the trailer indicates he's correct in his assessment, he adds that he hopes he's wrong about the film.
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Dude, he was bi and I'm sure that they wanted to keep something to thrill the audiences with, like most of the people know he was gay so they'll be wondering about his girlfriend and so on, And that actually worked on you pretty well 😃— Aisha (@Aisha01ald) May 15, 2018
Why not show both his romance for men and women equally?— Bryan Fuller (@BryanFuller) May 15, 2018


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Former governor Romney is another one of those non DD214 holding officials. Former governor Romney and his sons have not served this country except for what he calls serving when he paid for it. So you do not think I am one sided, this goes for President Obama, also to include Congress and the Senate. Have you been in harms way? How about your son(s) and or daughter(s).
Having spent wonderful vacations, at government expense in the Republic of Vietnam, Republic of South Korea, Japan, and Saudia Arabia/Iraq, I can tell you that strong words with other people's lives at stake are worthless to me. However we screwed up, "Mission Accomplished," is debatable but remember the human toll on your decisions.
I am against VOLAR, as I always have been. We do not need a paid military, we need universal conscription, like former president Eisenhower wanted. Then if everyone participated, then some of the decisions would not be made because everyone would have a stake in it. No matter where or how you served your country, military, job corps, Americorps, Peace Corps, you served your country, not sat back and let others do it for you. Can not wait for the election to be over!
They, both parties have lowered the bar for campaigning and rhetoric to include their supporters who tarnish the newspapers and the rest of the media with their inaccurate reports and or statements. No I am not disparaging Gen. Patton, it is just that famous movie quote fits my issue with the government policy(s).


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As animation grew more principled in the 30s and 40s, it also had a tendency towards being generic. Disney's powerful influence urged animators to draw in styles that were "animation style" and many artists' submerged their personal styles to fit in with the group. A few charismatic and confident artists resisted. Grim is one of them.
Steve Worth has put together a great exhibit of Grim Natwick's art from Grim's own collection.
This is wonderful on 2 counts:
1) It shows not only great drawings by Grim himself, but also drawings by other animators he worked with. Production drawings, caricatures, gag drawings. It really gives you a sense of what it was like working at Golden Age cartoon studios.
2) It's a compacted history of the entire cartoon Golden Age period-from the 20s to the 60s. Grim was there for all of it and played some big roles. You can see this all arranged in chronological order at the archive and Steve will give you a personal tour and history lesson.
mid 30s DisneyWow. This seems like a complete waste of Grim's talents!
40s LantzGrim's drawing style is less evident in a lot of his Lantz work, but he did some really funny animation there. That chicken is from my favorite Woody cartoon - Solid Ivory. Grim's animation is hilarious in what could have been a generic cartoon story without him.
He had trouble drawing Woody in the Lantz style and some of his funniest scenes are the ones that are most off model. He seems to be resisting the generic west coast style.You can see some of Grim in here, but he's struggling to balance the studio style with his own. All his Lantz animation is fantastic and super fun.
50s-60s UPA NY I don't know much about this period, but I think Grim's 30s drawings have much more design and style than this artificial design movement is asking of him.
Anyway if you are in the LA area, get over to the Archive and treat your eyes to some great art and amazing history. And give Steve a massage - preferably with a happy ending! He's earned it.
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Can cooking really help you get over a heartbreak? According to writer and cookbook author Jeanne Ambrose, a great dish not only helps you move on, but it can also make you feel better about those bumps in the road.
"It seems like a cliche that food makes everything better but it does," said Ambrose, who co-wrote her book "Heartbreak Recovery Kitchen" with her daughter, Lindsey Ambrose, after they'd both gone through some challenging circumstances.
"I got laid off after 14 years of working in journalism. Lindsey was in college at the time and she'd flunked a couple of classes," Ambrose said. "She'd also broken up with a boyfriend, lost her cell phone, her cat ran away—I mean everything that could've gone wrong did."
Both mother and daughter spent time as food writers and had visions of writing a cookbook.
"We thought, 'Well, why not now? Why not tie in food with coping during tough times and heal as we go?'" Ambrose said. "I've always loved cooking and my daughter too. She's been a foodie since she could hold a spoon ... Cooking together took our mind off what was wrong, and then eating what we'd come up with was so gratifying."
Ambrose also compiled essays for her book from writers who shared cooking memories in relation to heartbreak, bringing new meaning to the term "comfort food."
"Food produces comfort and a lot of that stems from your memories," Ambrose said. "If you're in your mother's kitchen — or even your daughter's kitchen — research shows that a smell can put you immediately in that [comfort] zone.
"Everybody goes through a heartbreak of one form or another and we all bounce back. But we all do it differently. Yet somehow food always ties into the picture."
Here are some of Ambrose's tips for healing heartbreak in the kitchen:
Find a cooking buddy. "It's OK to wallow in misery by yourself for a little while but it's better to wallow with friends," she said. "It was really helpful for my daughter and me to put this together. We would come together on weekends and cook and we realized how much fun it is to be in the kitchen together."
Cook with chocolate. "Chocolate does amazing things," Ambrose said. "Not only does it make you feel sexy, but it [also] has antioxidants and serotonin that makes you feel better. It benefits your mood."
Embrace the aromas. "There was research done that certain fragrances are soothing and will relieve stress," Ambrose said. "Lemon, mango, and lavender are a few. Just cut open a lemon and take a big whiff while you are cooking. And peppermint also perks you up. There's something in it that gives you energy."
Cook for your friends—and make it a habit. "Being around friends who love food and people who support you makes the tough times so much better," she said. "You have something to look forward to and you can share ideas and recipes."
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