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Resolution introduced to send more U.S. troops to "protect civilians"
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Two House lawmakers have introduced a resolution that seeks to deepen US Military involvement in Africa on the back of the Kony 2012 hoax, despite the fact that Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army have been virtually inactive for six years.
"The resolution, introduced by Reps. Jim McGovern, D-Mass. and Ed Royce, R-Calif., calls for, among other things, expanding the number of regional forces in Africa to protect civilians and placing restrictions on individuals or governments found to be supporting Kony," reports CBS News.
As we have seen from US involvement in Libya and its attempts to destabilize Syria, the "humanitarian" justification is merely an excuse for expanding US hegemony into Africa where China has aggressively staked its claim.
As we highlighted on Monday, the establishment-manufactured hype surrounding Kony 2012 is nothing more than a cynical ruse designed to manipulate naive do-gooders into legitimizing another US-backed "humanitarian" assault aimed at swallowing up Africa's resources and land under Africom.
While Joseph Kony and his army disappeared six years ago, Ugandans are being killed and evicted in their thousands by western entities right now – but nobody is making 'viral' films about the crisis and no celebrities are tweeting their displeasure.
Invisible Children, the group behind Kony 2012 has created a groundswell of support for Uganda's dictator Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, a man who has been in control of the country for 30 years and was returned to power in an election last year that was rife with fraud according to European Union observers.
Museveni has been implicated in genocide after ordering his guards to shoot and kill civilians. He is also notorious for bumping off his political enemies.
"The group is in favour of direct military intervention, and their money supports the Ugandan government's army and various other military forces," writes the Visible Children website, which has documented the hoax behind Kony 2012. "Here's a photo of the founders of Invisible Children posing with weapons and personnel of the Sudan People's Liberation Army. Both the Ugandan army and Sudan People's Liberation Army are riddled with accusations of rape and looting, but Invisible Children defends them, arguing that the Ugandan army is "better equipped than that of any of the other affected countries", although Kony is no longer active in Uganda and hasn't been since 2006 by their own admission. These books each refer to the rape and sexual assault that are perennial issues with the UPDF, the military group Invisible Children is defending."
The Kony 2012 group itself has been exposed as a ruthless business empire that spends the majority of its income on its own expenses. The organization refuses to allow its financials to be properly audited and has a low two-star rating in accountability from Charity Navigator.
"By IC's own admission, only 31% of all the funds they receive go toward actually helping anyone [pdf]," writes The Daily What. "The rest go to line the pockets of the three people in charge of the organization, to pay for their travel expenses (over $1 million in the last year alone) and to fund their filmmaking business (also over a million) — which is quite an effective way to make more money, as clearly illustrated by the fact that so many can't seem to stop forwarding their well-engineered emotional blackmail to everyone they've ever known."
With Barack Obama already having sent 100 U.S. troops into Africa to "hunt down" Kony, expect a whole host more to be dispatched if the establishment manages to stem the tide of the backlash against the Kony 2012 scam which has come from all quarters, most notably Ugandan citizens themselves.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.
This article was posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 3:14 pm


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Economic and Financial
Second Committee - 62nd session
The Economic and Financial Committee (Second Committee), is chaired by H.E. Amb. Kirsti Lintonen of Finland. During this session, it will deal with issues relating to economic growth and development such as macroeconomic policy questions (including international trade, international financial system and debt), financing for development, sustainable development, human settlements, poverty eradication, globalization and interdependence, operational activities for development, and information and communication technologies for development.
The Second Committee will also consider issues relating to Groups of Countries in special situations - such as the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs). It will also consider the item on permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources.
At the sixty-first session, the Second Committee took action on 42 draft proposals. The Committee is expected to act on a similar number of proposals during this year's session.
In accordance with the on-going process of revitalization of the General Assembly, the Second Committee is engaged in updating its working methods and practices in order to improve the quality of debates and the impact of their deliberations and decisions, as well as to further streamline the Committee's agenda and programme of work, biennialize agenda items, cluster the consideration of agenda items thematically, hold interactive "question time" sessions with secretariat officials after the presentation of substantive reports, and actively work to reduce the number and length of draft resolutions adopted during its sessions.
As in previous sessions, the Committee has also scheduled a number of special events as part of its programme of work.
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Tech Week Ahead: More Apple, More iPhones
Apple's is expected to announce some iPhone news plus, more self-driving cars from Google? Scott Austin previews the week ahead. Photo: Getty Images.
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Kapital Entertainment is prepping to begin production on a new 1/2 hour comedy series pilot for ABC titled "Pulling". Shooting on the single-camera show will get underway mid-March at the ABC Studios in Los Angeles. Casting directors in both Los Angeles and New York are auditioning actors for series regulars, guest starring, possible recurring, and under-5 roles. The extras casting director will hire background performers throughout production. "Pulling" is based on the hugely popular British sitcom of the same name.
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A unique architectural style and living style mostly found in South Indian state of Kerala, where tourist places are the most popular destinations, which is well known for its Backwaters, Beaches, Wild life sanctuaries, Hill stations and Ayurvedic treatments. Arabian Sea coastline makes the Kerala as a must visit spot apart from these attraction, many people eagerly waiting to visit it because an awesome or stunning way of lifestyle has been following by them.
Why the lifestyle of Kerala is unique and what it is? Let's begin our lifestyle based trip in to the Kerala.
The Kerala people following most simple way of lifestyle, and they like to live in their own world of simplicity without any changes in their originality. Kerala people are very fiercely protective about their religion and ancient practices and they are proud of their culture too.
The Kerala people dressing are very ordinary only but it mostly differs from its proximity states in India such as Tamil Nadu, Andhra and more. The women dress up in a traditional dress called Sari, which requires draping skillfully a six-meter long cloth on oneself. The men mostly wear cotton lungi with a towel on top. The men in cities wear pants and shirts. The younger generation follows fashion and wears anything from jeans to salwar kameez.
Kerala people entirely different in their customs, traditions, culture, food and almost everything, even in lifestyle too but everything is quite fascinating, that grasp immediate attention of all kind of culture seeking travelers. The uniqueness list not only halts in these categories but also in their festivals, their dress sense. This unique style is hard to find anywhere else in the world.
Red, green, white and flashes of gold are the colors of a Malayali people. The uniqueness list also goes a long, by adding art and architecture of Kerala, in her music and poetry, dance and drama.
If you want to see the complete glory and beauty of India you must visit Kerala, never forget the big, innocent eyes and the whitish appearance and riotous long hair united with an impressive fragrant, all these lends an extraordinary elegance to the women.
If we talk about the men, tall, dark, handsome, and curled hair features dominate all the men in the world. All these colors add additional enhancements to your trip.
Plan your holiday trip in Kerala during summers, that time you can be a part of the much-hyped Kerala festivals, during festival time People wake up in the morning and take their kids for a bath and follows the morning with a Surya Pranam that means pray to sun.
Women look gorgeous in bright embroidered sarees and glittering jewelleries designing beautiful floral patterns in the courtyards, Obviously the sarees colors comes under Red, green, white a flashes of gold. Kasavu Mundu is the traditional wearing of Men and then three to four meter long cotton twin cloth with silk border.(image by Dr.Rajesh)
Festivals of Kerala is really good especially the boat races, which is the identity of Kerala people. During these days flock of people ahead the river banks to watch and enjoy the race. Boats in various categories like the chundan, veppu, iruttu kuthi, churulan and others assemble at the starting point of the race.
Next is Patayani festival takes place in Neelamperoor Palli Bhagavathy temple, wants to enjoy a brilliant festival with many colors and cultures this will be your right choice. If you like to see theyyams at the same place you must enjoy the Kanathoor Nalvar Bhoothasthanam.(image by -Reji)
So enjoy the unique in Kerala!
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We get it. You want Nathan Fillion to play the part of Nathan Drake in the Uncharted movie. Sony knows it, we know it, Fillion knows it. He knows it so intimately, in fact, he'd like you to stop being so crazy about it.
"I am certainly still interested in playing Nathan Drake", the Firefly star told Screenrant at Comic-Con. "I think every actor I know wants their action-adventure hero, their Indiana Jones. That would be a good one for me, I think. What I don't want is people pressuring that poor man [director Neil Burger] and souring him on the actual idea. If we could somehow just… do you remember the movie Inception? I think that's what we need to do. We need to let him land on the idea on his own."
And no, nutjobs, he doesn't mean actually try and get into Burger's head. Just relax. If it's meant to be, it's meant to be, and if it's not, you don't really need an Uncharted movie anyway! You've got the games. They're movies where you do the shooting.
Nathan Fillion's One Condition For Playing Drake in 'Uncharted' Movie [Screenrant]
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Obituary: Floe M. Otteson Speltz
Floe was born in Huntington, Utah, to Ella and Orin Otteson. She was the first of four children. When she was seven years old, her father left the family placing a great deal of responsibility on her. She needed to help care for her younger siblings which she did for the rest of her childhood. Floe's mother remarried when she was 14, but Floe's help was still needed. By the time she was an adult, she felt like she had raised a family.
She graduated from North Emery County High School in 1936 and stayed home until her sister Beth graduated. Because Huntington was a small town of a few hundred and the only work was in agriculture and the coal mines, Floe and Beth moved to Salt Lake City to make a living. She loved to dance and could be found at Salt Air and the Rainbow Rendezvous dancing on weekends.
Floe always had a desire to travel and see more of the world. Shortly before WWII she moved to Nashville, Tenn. and worked in a munitions factory. When the war began many civil servants jobs were created to support the military and she found a position as a clerk in San Francisco. She did well as a civilian employee for the military and served in several positions.
At the end of the war, she applied for positions with the army in Japan but there were no openings. However, there were openings in Seoul, South Korea and she transferred at the first opportunity. While there she ran into Captain R. Lee Speltz whom she had met state side. They were married Oct. 11, 1947 and rode around the base in a half-track with "Just Married" banners on the side. Floe no longer worked as a civil service employee and stayed with her husband at all his duty stations. They were with the occupational forces in China and stayed there until the Communists overran the country and forced the Allied forces out.
By this time Lee was a Lt. Colonel and was transferred to Fort Clayton, Canal Zone as the base commander. They had been reunited with Lee's son, Richard, 13, while stateside. Floe gave birth to her first and only child, Gordon, in 1952. In 1955, the family moved to San Antonio, Texas, where Lee was assigned to Fort Sam Houston.
In 1958, Lee retired from the military and the family moved to Lake Tahoe where they bought a house in Marla Bay, Nev. Floe worked to Contel telephone for 15 years as a customer service representative. Floe was socially active and entertained guests at numerous bridge parties and social gatherings. She was on a bowling team in the '60s, had her own kiln and produced ceramic works, and was very active in the South Lake Tahoe Garden Club.
After nearly 38 years at Tahoe, Floe and Lee moved to Minden, Nev., to get out of the snow and have a smaller house and yard to take care of. They enjoyed life and took several cruises and stayed in Palm Springs, Calif. for two months each winter. Lee passed away in 2004 and Floe remained in her home until 2011 when she moved in with her son, Gordon. This last summer she moved into a local senior living facility, and she lived there until she passed away peacefully late one evening.
She is survived by her sons, Gordon and Richard; five grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. At her request, she did not want any services. The family will have a memorial sometime early next year.


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Hello my lovelies,
So I'm a lipstick lover, I very rarely go out the house without something on my lips. 9 times out of 10 it is a matte finish, for me I much prefer it and it is more long lasting. Recently in the beauty world liquid lipsticks have taken over. Liquid lipsticks for me are amazing, when the formula and the pigmentation is right then you are onto a winner.
In the past recent months I have been trying the NYX Softy Matte Lip Creams that retail for around £6 here in the UK see here. I seriously was drawn to these due to the choice of colours that are in the range. Seriously you are spoilt for choice – I have never seen so many beautiful colors in lipstick form! Another thing that drew me to them was the price & that they were matte lip creams – to me what more could you want!?
The shades I have are on the darker side, for some reason I much prefer darker shades purples, reds and dark browns are more my thing than pretty pinks and nude shades. The shades I have are: Copenhagen, Havana, Monte Carlo and Vancouver. I love that all the shades are names of cities all over the world it's such a cool idea!
As the name suggests they are a matte liquid lipstick and are fairly long lasting. The applicator is a doe foot which is fairly standard making it straight forward to apply onto the lips. I must just add as soon as you open the lip creams they smell pretty incredible! I can't put my finger on what the smell is of – very sweet and I would say nearing towards cookie dough. Weird I know but the smell doesn't transfer when applied to the lips it must just be the bottle.
The pigmentation of the creams does vary. I have 4 and some are more pigmented than others. I had to apply 5 layers of Havana just to get a decent colour pay off whereas with Copenhagen one layer and I am good to go. I would say test these out in shops if you can to check the colour pay off and make sure you are happy with it.
When you do get to your personal preference of how opaque you like, the colours are pretty incredible. They really are the same colour as the packaging and I love that. I hate when you buy something and it is nothing like the colour of the packaging and you are left disappointed. They really have done well on this front!
From the description of the product it is a matte finish I would say it takes a couple of minutes to dry down which is fine for me. Its super comfortable of the lips and does not seem to dry my lips which is a major plus. Even when I remove this my lips feel hydrated and soft – I can't tell by the ingredients how it is able to do this – but I'm not complaining!
It is fairly long lasting ,there is pay off when I drink or eat but my lipstick stays in fairly good condition. I would say it is able to last around 6/7 hours before you would have to top up which for me is amazing. I work full time and I don't have a chance to keep topping up my makeup so as long as I go through the full day I am a happy bunny. With any liquid lipstick when the colour starts to go it is very obvious and as it has dried there is no way to blend it out. If you are out and about and don't have a chance to top up your make-up up this may prove a problem..
I would say they can be a bugger to take off after a long day. You will have to scrub a little as they do stain the lips to a certain extent. If I'm honest I'm ok with this because it shows the longevity of the formula.
Left to Right: Copenhagen, Havana, Monte Carlo and Vancouver
Overall, I am fairly impressed with them. They are very well priced and perfect for delving into the wonderful world of liquid lipsticks and trying new colours. I love the formula of these it's just frustrating that some of the colours are not so opaque I just need to remember to swatch them in store before I commit to buying one!
I will definitely be buying more of these little babies and I can't wait to try a few new colours. It's now even easier to get hold of these in the UK as the wonderful people at NYX have been able to stock in Boots – every one is a winner!
Have you tried the Soft Matte Lip Creams – what did you think of them & what colours do you have I would love to hear your thoughts!
-A x


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Chattanooga, TN: All Aboard for Loaded Burgers at Urban Stack
Urban Stack Burger Lounge
12 West 13th Street, Chattanooga TN 37402 (map); 423-475-5350; urbanstack.com
Cooking Method: Flat top
Short Order: Historic building houses downtown's best burgers with some crazy toppings
Want Fries with That? Yes, but all the sides rock
Price: 20 burgers ranging from $6.99 to $11.99
My kids' spring break took us to Chattanooga, where we did the requisite out-of-towner things: we hiked 1,100 feet below the surface of the earth to see Ruby Falls, the world's highest underground waterfall. Then we rode to the top of Lookout Mountain on a train that travels up the slope at over a 75-degree incline. We got our fill of sharks, penguins, and jellyfish at the Tennessee Aquarium. We even slept in a refurbished Victorian train car at the Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel.
But the biggest surprise of the trip—and the one I kind of hope my daughters will write about for their what-I-did-over-Spring-Break assignment—were the stellar burgers at a funky little downtown restaurant called Urban Stack Burger Lounge. For all the must-see hotspots in this touristy town, this was the only destination we hit twice during our stay.
Urban Stack is owned by Mike and Taylor Monen, a husband-and-wife team with a string of Chattanooga eateries to their names. After launching a successful taco joint in 2008, they dreamed of opening a burger restaurant. One of the city's most historic buildings—Southern Railway's old passenger baggage building—became available in 2010, and Urban Stack was born.
While the structure is the oldest freestanding building in Chattanooga, with the ancient brick and natural character kept intact, the Monens went all modern and green with the build-out, attaining LEED certification for this building that dates back to 1871.
The theme of the restaurant's interior is Old Trainyard. (Hell, the theme of the entire city is Old Trainyard. Seriously. It's everywhere.) As for the menu, it's all about "Killer Burgers and Manly Drinks." Bourbon fanatics in particular will love Urban Stack's selection, with over 100 to choose from and some really interesting twists to all their cocktails, like the gargantuan slice of candied ginger in my wife's Maker's & Ginger.
The burgers show just as much creativity, with twenty models to pick from, and the option of turning any of them into chicken or American Wagyu. Urban Stack's standard beef is an 80/20 blend of Certified Angus, which comes to them already ground five days a week. The burgers here are just six ounces, a size that Mike Monen told me is the "perfect amount" for the way they top the patties...which is to say, heavily. The goal at Urban Stack, he went on, is to let the topping profiles shine on burgers that aren't difficult to eat and don't leave you feeling miserably full afterward.
The Big Cheese ($6.99) is as basic as it gets at Urban Stack, with chipotle ketchup, balsamic onions, Bibb lettuce, tomato, house sauce, and one of four cheeses. I opted for housemade pimento, which was creamy and gooey with just the right kick. I noticed a lovely seared crust from the flat top that cooked every burger I saw over two visits very evenly.
The staff doesn't monkey around with different donenesses beyond "pink" and "not pink." That's for consistency's sake, according to Monen. With over 3,000 burgers leaving the kitchen every week, not having to worry about my idea of "medium-rare" versus the next table's idea of "medium-rare" means the cooks can just keep knocking them out and letting the toppings do the talking.
The Bacon Cheeseburger ($7.99) may sound a little uninspired next to some of the menu's zanier offerings, but is a great example of Urban Stack's devotion to local ingredients. Bacon may make everything better, but Allan Benton's bacon—from just 80 miles up the road—makes everything it touches like a gift from the gods. Thick, smoky, salty, and cooked beautifully, those strips of pork belly made this quite possibly the best bacon cheeseburger I have ever tasted.
My wife can always be counted on to go a little upscale, and she stayed true to form on both of our visits. The Mushroom Melt ($7.99) features oven-dried tomatoes, a marsala reduction sauce, and sautéed mushrooms that were chopped fine into a paste (almost like duxelles à la Beef Wellington) and mounded underneath a blanket of melting provolone. It was superb, as was her lunch burger the next day.
The Strauss Burger ($9.99) is a turkey burger with lettuce, tomato, bacon, avocado, a fried egg, and blue cheese spread. I generally don't have great things to say about turkey burgers, but perhaps only because not all turkey burgers are like this. Granted, the bacon, egg, and blue may well zero out any of the health benefits of ordering turkey, but if you have a beef with beef, this is a damn tasty way to go.
Monen tells me that the most popular burger on the menu is the breakfast-on-the-farm-flavored Good Day, Sunshine (fried egg, white cheddar, white vinegar mayo), but the Urban Stack menu also lays down track and travels to some faraway places for inspiration. You'll find burgers here that pay tribute to Chicago (peppercorn bologna, celery-salted tomato, cherry pepper relish), New Mexico (roasted green chiles), Philadelphia (sautéed peppers, onions, and mushrooms), and New York (pastrami, coleslaw, Swiss). But the burger so near and dear as to be the second one listed is a shout-out to the Monens' taqueria across town.
The Hamburguesa Mamacita ($7.99) has a lot going on: pickled red onion and chipotle aioli under the patty, crumbled chorizo and Fiesta cheese on top, and then a pile on the bun that includes lettuce, tomato, avocado, and pickled jalapeños. There was a pleasant residual heat, but this burger never became a flamethrower. And while I was skeptical of the six-ounce patties when I sat down, this is the burger that convinced me that eight would be too much at Urban Stack.
The buns deserve special mention—they're super soft with a strong yeast flavor and wonderful chew. I learned that they were developed specially for Urban Stack by local bakery Niedlov's Breadworks, and are without question one of the true highlights of any burger at Urban Stack.
As for sides, which are all available à la carte, the basics are banging. The standard fries are cut in house, double fried dark, and wonderful. Sweet potato fries are always a hit. The panko-breaded onion rings are exceptional and will delight even diners who are lukewarm on rings (like yours truly).
Other side options include steakhouse-style mac and cheese, Gouda creamed corn, "almost-pickled" beets, and tomato-and-blueberry salad. Always nice to see a burger joint go above and beyond with sides. In fact, a side of Urban Stack's housemade "Fire & Ice" pickles come with every burger; they were described by my better half (and pickle connoisseur) as "weirdly addictive."
The crew at Urban Stack doesn't do a lot, per se. Burgers, some apps and bar snacks, a handful of sides, gelato shakes, way-kooky cocktails. But what they do, they do extraordinarily well. I enjoyed every burger I sampled over two family seatings, and while some places try too hard with the toppings, Urban Stack's lean-and-mean simply-topped burgers didn't make nearly the same impression that the more OMG-esque offerings did. Sometimes a basic baseline burger is best; at Urban Stack, however, you should definitely go big or go home. Or better yet...go big and then go home.
The Brock minivan rolls through Chattanooga at least twice a year en route to visit family up north. And while we won't make a habit of Seeing Rock City or trekking up Lookout Mountain every time, I can assure you that a burger stop at Urban Stack just became a fixture of our Tennessee travels.
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Usher: Hey Deak, brilliant post here – couldn't help but tout it! Since we had such a good conversation because of it:
and Mark's post shows it affected him with a slight twist (of lemon) hehe
Conversation that ensued after reading these:
Usher: Hey Deak, I'm not sure I take issue or not regarding the comment on "birds and imprinting", but no bother. I just wanted to bring out the point of how foreign "organic" mindsets are in today's human western culture. Is it any wonder that the church is so much a reflection of the supermarket?
Deacon: Go on, I'm listening.
Usher: There's no place for "ugly carrots" in the produce section of today's markets. God forbid an ugly apple, pear, banana, mango, off color head of broccoli or anything else for that matter. The first inclination to choose is that which is pretty and uniform and without blemish. Taste, longevity and danger are all secondary.
Deacon: What brought all this on?
Usher: Most likely TV and the press I guess. Ugly people don't make it onto TV so the world strives to be thin and pretty and perfect, just like the stars and their air-brushed magazine covers.
Deacon: Your point?
Usher: Churches have followed suit. They're full of "gifted" orators, professional musicians, accomplished businessmen on the committees and so on. Entertainment and accommodation are the criteria the humans migrate to. In the meantime, the "leaders" have to have ways to measure. They migrate to numbers. Numbers can be substantiated and boasted about. The laypeople want pretty programs, shows and great music along with gifted sermonettes. The pastors want accolades, money to add staff to share in the work and build job security as well as grow their careers.
Deacon: So where is discipleship in all that?
Usher: My point exactly!
Deacon: Can discipleship function in today's church in the midst of all the other stuff?
Usher: Not if leaders are bent on measuring their success. This is where the problem starts. If you take away the programs (you lose the crowds). Take away the great orators (you lose the crowds). Take away the money (you lose the crowds and the buildings). Take away the professional musicians (you lose the crowds). Take away the money (you lose the career-oriented staff) and voila! Now you haven't the distractions, nor the expectations, nor the crowds.
Deacon: So you're saying that crowds = success?
Usher That's kind of what it all boils down to. Ask the televangelists. Crowds equal numbers, numbers equals money, money equals success and thus, God must be in it.
Deacon: So if there are no crowds, then there is no money, how does the church grow?
Usher: Christ had only 12 disciples. He didn't say things to the crowds to attract them or their money, in fact the largest crowds he attracted, he fed. And then he said tough things to the crowds and the crowds left and he went about his discipling. Scriptures say he wasn't a "special" or "beautiful" person. Maybe this was because he knew if he came to earth a beautiful being, then we would all feel insecure because we are all imperfect when we compare ourselves to "beautiful" people. (Even beautiful people have proven this is true.) He discipled imperfect people and the church survived all these years without "perfect" people.
Deacon: So this is why the church seems to be portraying itself to be the "perfect" or "blessed" one?
Usher: A discipler works with the ground that he's on, with the people God gives him. He sees everyone a precious gift from God. He is challenged to bring out God in these people no matter their lot in life. Every member has a place in God's kingdom, but not in man's. Today's church seems to "market to the people who want to be like us" creating sects and divisions and exclusivity. Thus the 35,000 denominations. In an environment like this, everyone strives to become like the leader, the perfect carrot if you will. Except they don't know he is just like them if you take away the steroids, the pesticides, the pretty packaging and the artificial coloring. In essence, the church normalizes and cripples the body and discipleship empowers the body. If pastors didn't care about credit and measurement and they truly wanted the kingdom to prevail, they'd do all within their ability to empower the kingdom. This would eliminate the focus of one pastor to many and bring on the every man a minister. The church would then become the all-powerful organic vehicle it was in the first century. A true discipler as mentioned in comments above operates under the radar. They seek no glory. They thrive on seeing the kingdom multiply itself. They rarely take titles, they urge their disciples to follow in their footsteps and become disciplers. They are often unrecognizable in a crowd.


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Afghans Debate Future U.S. Military Presence
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And I'm Renee Montagne.
The future of the American military presence in America's longest war, the war in Afghanistan, is up for debate today in Kabul. A traditional meeting of some 2,500 tribal elders and other elites, called a Loya Jirga, was convened this morning by the President Hamid Karzai. At stake is a new plan worked out by American and Afghan negotiators for keeping some American troops there past 2014, when the current arrangement runs out. The U.S. now has 60,000 troops in Afghanistan.
The Afghan government released a draft of the deal overnight and for more we're joined by NPR's Sean Carberry in Kabul. He's been following those negotiations and watched the Afghan president address the jirga today.
Thank you for joining us.
SEAN CARBERRY, BYLINE: My pleasure.
MONTAGNE: What did Karzai tell these local leaders who've come from all over the country to start things off this morning?
CARBERRY: Well, he gave a bit of a meandering speech, ran over an hour long. But the one theme that he kept hitting was that this is about the dignity of the Afghan people. And his biggest concern is preventing foreign troops, primarily U.S. troops, from going into the villages and homes of Afghan people. And that this was the crux of the deal and what they've negotiating over the last week or so.
He said at one point that the U.S. doesn't trust him, he doesn't trust the U.S. But still, this deal is about the Afghan national interest. He also mentioned the issue that Afghanistan wants continued financial support. And ultimately he told the people there to consider the national interest when they're debating the agreement. And that's what they should look at - what kind of future do they want for Afghanistan.
And late in the speech, he did throw one curve ball where he said that if the jirga approves the deal, then it shouldn't be signed until after the presidential elections next year, essentially implying that he's not going to sign the deal himself. Now, there have been lots of twists and turns over the course of the negotiations here, and it may turn out to be something that he doesn't exactly mean that way.
But if he does mean that, it has the potential to essentially tank the deal.
MONTAGNE: Well, let's proceed as if the deal will potentially go through. What is in it for the U.S.? I mean the U.S. interest there, what does this deal do?
CARBERRY: Well, the U.S. has said there were two mission areas that they're concerned about. One is the continued training of Afghan forces. They want to keep somewhere on the order of six to 9,000 troops here, some of which will be continuing to train and support Afghan forces as they developed. And then some of those troops will be involved in limited counterterrorism operations to go after the remnants of al-Qaida.
That's where a lot of the controversy was, about to what extent can U.S. forces conduct operations - go into homes, things like that. And that's where they appear to have finally settled on language that both sides can live with.
MONTAGNE: Is there optimism that the jirga will agree to this deal?
CARBERRY: Well, a lot of people have said that the jirga is essentially stacked with people who support Karzai and support the deal, and therefore they will sign off on it. But even if the Loya Jirga does approve the deal, the next step it has to go before parliament for approval. And there it's possible that there are independent voices who might raise more objections, and more potential that they could raise problems for this deal going forward.
MONTAGNE: By your measure, do Afghan people - the regular folks that you talk to - are they for this?
CARBERRY: Yes, in my time here, over the last few months talking to people, I've found overwhelming support for the deal. There have been a lot of people frustrated that Karzai hasn't gotten this deal done sooner. Even presidential candidates have said they wanted this deal done. So there seems to be overwhelming support. Certainly there are dissenters but the majority opinion seems to be in favor of the deal.
MONTAGNE: Sean, thanks very much.
CARBERRY: You're welcome.
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All hail Tea Leoni!
The actress has signed on for the lead role in the CBS drama pilot Madam Secretary, TVGuide.com has confirmed.
Madam Secretary centers on the personal and professional life of a maverick female Secretary of State as she pushes international diplomacy, deals with office politics and balances a complicated family life. Joan of Arcadia creator Barbara Hall wrote the pilot and will executive-produce along with Oscar winner Morgan Freeman, Lori McCreary (Invictus) and Tracy Mercer (Through the Wormhole).
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Leoni and Freeman shared the screen once before when he was the man in charge, playing the President of the United States in the 1998 disaster flick Deep Impact.
Best known for her film roles in Bad Boys and Jurassic Park III, Leoni starred in the mid-'90s sitcom The Naked Truth and also appeared on The X-Files and Frasier.
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Elliott is learning new pieces of violin music. With titles like Etude and Minuet. It is beautiful music to a father's ears...
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Today was an incredible day. Spent in the presence of Ke Akua. Reminders about love. Forgiveness. Humility. Being thankful for the abundance of blessings taken for granted everyday. It isn't about stopping to smell the roses. It is about fully understanding the beautiful complexity of the rose in all its true simple essence. And loving the rose with all your heart. And treasuring the simple joys in life. A sloppy tickling kiss on the cheek. All the love in the world for the asking. Wow. I am again humbled. Mahalo no e na kupuna. Mahalo no e Ke Akua...
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Here Koa shows me what he will look like as an undercover police officer. I told him that the cut-off jeans jacket was a nice touch but the fake dreadlocks and the police patch are a dead giveaway. As well as the dimples...
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This was a perfectly formed fish in the sky. By the time I ran inside to get my camera, it was already morphing and dissipating in spots. Too bad. It was awesome...
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I try not to condone violence with my boys and I don't like them playing with guns. But at Chuck E. Cheeses, when Zombies attack, I don't mind them protecting life and property...
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Too bad this beautiful purple flower belongs to an invasive plant which is destroying the native forests on Hawai'i Island...
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Micro Bugs...
Elliott holds up his HEX Bug Micro Robotic creature. This one is the ant. Koa has a tiny Nano robot bug. They scurry around and keep on moving when they hit an object or wall. They are fast. They are robotic-ally creepy. I get the urge to stomp on them but the boys would cry. Elliott is normally afraid of bugs but these guys are kind of cute. Still, when they come barreling towards you on the floor, you get the urge to scream and jump out of the way...
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Somewhere in history when mankind started domesticating dogs. A Fantastic Mr. Fox must have slipped into the breeding pool...
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I wasn't quite sure what a giant wedge of cheese had to do with the Lego Robotics Competition Elliott recently competed in. I thought I saw a giant Ritz Cracker somewhere...
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We went to Chuck E. Cheese because the boys had been asking for a long time. It was around Koa's birthday so we usually take them there as one of their treats...
The Family Saver deal is pretty good with choice of two topping large pizza, four drinks and 100 game tokens which the boys burn through pretty fast...
When I inspected the pizza up close, I noticed lots of fat from the pepperoni and cheese...
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I absolutely love eating dried aku (skipjack tuna) with poi and sharing it with my boys. We sit down and eat the fish and poi. Just like our ancestors did a thousand years ago. Awesome. I can feel their presence around us. Watching. Smiling. Drooling...
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I try to always put myself in my sons' view of the world to remember what it was like being a child. So that I can ensure that I don't impose my own adult expectations on them too much. Here, I take a close up look at what Koa is looking at outside a window...
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So students from all over work together in teams at their respective school to design and build a LEGO Robot to accomplish a series of tasks. They have to program the actions and then automate the robot to navigate an obstacle course and accomplish certain missions for points. This is my first experience of this program via Elliott's participation. It turned out to be a wonderful experience. I volunteered to help out and ended up a Teamwork Judge for the competition. I am glad I did. Here some students from Mililani warm up on the practice table...
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It is the time of year when a beam of Sunlight at around 10:00 a.m. shoots through my little bathroom window and lights up a little portion of the cascade of water during my shower. With a shutter speed of 8000, I can capture the little droplets of light while the background turns dark. I have discovered the tiny little parallel universe in my shower with sunrises, rainbows and all...
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Elliott and his classmates ready for their presentation during the First Lego League competition at Kalani High School. Elliott was supposed to be from Japan to talk about bicycles in that country. There is a new parking system for bikes. It is a massive underground silo that can hold over a thousand bikes. You just ride up and it automatically takes your bike and stores it underground. When you are done, you swipe your card and it retrieves your bike with automated robot machinery within 30 seconds. Very cool...
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Lately, it seems that the stronger the light of Ke Akua's goodness shines around, the greater the shadowy blackness tries to hide. Just an observation. On good and evil...
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So, you've got the new iPhone. You've been downloading apps all weekend. It's a joy to use. But... we're hearing some reports that suggest the latest iPhone picks up scratches faster than data flows through its new Lightning connector.
Some folks are saying that their phones have picked up plenty of scratches on the back and sides after just a weekend's use. Others are even claiming that there are scratches on the handset straight out of the box, lurking beneath the protective film wrapper.
Was your new phone already scratched out of the box? Is it picking up damage more easily than your previous phone? Let us know! [Forbes]


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The X Games are underway—you knew they were underway, right?—and last night's competition in Los Angeles proved worth watching, as Ronnie Renner and Matt Buyten waged a historic battle in the Step Up competition (one finally won by Renner with a 47-foot high jump) and then a Best Trick final filled with as much controversy as it was landed tricks.
Aussie Clinton Moore learned the hard way what can happen with a gnarly crash, after going horizontal on a 720 attempt and then watching as a handler was unable to control his bike and ran over his broken body as it lay in the dirt. (Fellow Australian Jacko Strong won the event.)


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Korean Ramen & Mamee Tom Yam
>> Saturday, March 31, 2007
We had another episode of instant noodles for lunch just yesterday (27 Marc 2007) :) This time, it looks even better than before! So, we decided that we'll put up larger photos to whet your taste buds! :P
This is the Korean Ramen that I had. It's pretty yummy! Spicy, but bearable :) There's a small pack of seasoning, a pack of dried mushroom & vege bits, and an even smaller pack of chilli to give a kick to the noodles ;)
Mamee Tom Yam made interesting! We added french beans, a piece of fried chicken drumstick, & one piece of taufu (cut-4)
This is the end result of the Korean Ramen. Simple & irrisistably delicious! :P We just added sausages, egg, & french beans!
- Ruth


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One-Dish Pork Chops With Muffuletta Relish Recipe
Cooking projects for people who'd like nothing more than to spend a sunday afternoon surrounded by the wonderful aromas of the kitchen.
Note: Looking for pork chops that are ultra-moist? Brine them for two hours in the refrigerator in a mixture of 1 gallon of water, 1 cup of brown sugar and 1 cup of kosher salt. When you're ready to cook them, just discard the brine, pat them dry with paper towels and proceed with the recipe.
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- Yield:Serves 4
- Active time: 15 minutes
- Total time:35 minutes
- Rated:
- 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 1 medium red pepper, finely chopped (about 1 cup)
- 1 small red onion, minced (about 3/4 cup)
- 1 tablespoon minced celery
- 2 cloves of garlic, minced (about 2 teaspoons)
- 1 pickled pepperoncini, minced (about 1 tablespoon)
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 tablespoon red or white wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoons minced green olives
- 2 tablespoons minced kalamata olives
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 4 butterflied pork chops, about 6 ounces each.
Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and preheat oven to 350°F. Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. When oil is shimmering, add red pepper, onion, celery, and garlic. Cook until vegetables are beginning to soften, 3 to 4 minutes. Transfer to a bowl. Add pepperoncini, oregano, vinegar, green olives, and black olives and stir to combine. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Season pork chops with salt and pepper. Wipe pan clean with a paper towel. Return pan to the stove-top and heat remaining 1/2 tablespoon of olive oil in pan over medium-high heat until lightly smoking. Add chops and cook without moving until well-seared on first side, 3 to 4 minutes. Flip chops, then top with muffuletta mixture and transfer to the oven to finish cooking. When pork chops are still rosy and juicy in the center (145°F for medium) remove from oven, transfer to a plate, and allow let for 10 minutes. Serve.
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Microsoft`s Top Visionary Sees a Parallel WorldBy Reuters - Print
Craig Mundie is preparing Microsoft for a technology shift
that he expects will be as big as the rise of the personal computer or
the Internet: parallel computing.
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Craig Mundie, Microsoft Corp's chief research and strategy officer, is sure he has a good handle on where technology is going. When is another story.
Mundie, who took over as Microsoft's lead visionary from co-founder Bill Gates in 2006, is preparing the company for a technology shift that he expects will be as big as the rise of the personal computer or the Internet: parallel computing.
"It's a lot easier for us to have a fairly accurate sense of what will happen and even make good technical progress toward achieving it," Mundie told Reuters in an interview last week. "Almost everything we tried to do took longer than we expected."
The overseer of Microsoft's $7 billion research and development budget, Mundie knows firsthand how even promising technologies can take time to develop. After all, he has led Microsoft's efforts in Web-based television and nontraditional forms of computing.
Parallel computing has been hyped for years as the next big thing in technology, allowing computers to run faster by dividing up tasks over multiple microprocessors instead of using a single processor to perform one task at a time.
The technology's full potential is almost unfathomable today, but it could lead to major advances in robotics or software applications that can translate documents in real time in multiple languages.
The computer industry has taken its first steps toward parallel computing in recent years by using "multi-core" chips, but Mundie said this is the "tip of the iceberg."
To maximize computing horsepower, software makers will need to change how software programmers work. Only a handful of programmers in the world know how to write software code to divide computing tasks into chunks that can be processed at the same time instead of a traditional, linear, one-job-at-a-time approach.
A new programming language would be required, and could affect how almost every piece of software is written.
"This problem will be hard," admitted Mundie, who worked on parallel computing as the head of supercomputer company Alliant Computer Systems before joining Microsoft. "This challenge looms large over the next 5 to 10 years."
The shift to parallel computing was born out of necessity after processor speeds ran into heat and power limitations, forcing the semiconductor industry to assemble multiple cores, or electronic brains, on a single chip.
Intel Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc have already assembled chips with as many as four processors on a single chip. Tilera Corp, a Silicon Valley chip start-up, foresees a 1,000-core chip by 2014.
Mundie, who assumed half of Gates' job almost two years ago, sets the long-term technological direction for the company as the co-founder moves to a part-time role in July to focus on philanthropy. Ray Ozzie, chief software architect, sets the shorter-term agenda.
Mundie has at his disposal Microsoft's research department with over 800 PhD researchers working on the new technology.
The research focuses on everything from Web search to simultaneous translation to touch-screen technology, but parallel computing is certainly among its top priorities because it will likely affect every part of Microsoft.
Computers about 100 times more powerful than now will emerge within 20 years, Mundie estimated, packing the capabilities of a corporate data center into a single die sitting inside a mobile phone or laptop.
A "killer application" will bring this computing power to the forefront, he said, just like what word processing and spreadsheets did for the PC and how e-mail and the Web browser popularized the Internet.
Pushing a company as big as Microsoft -- with about 80,000 employees -- to look past historical strengths and traditional ways of doing things to focus on new technology is not easy.
"Bill (Gates) and I have both talked at times over the years that you can't do these jobs unless you are an optimist, almost an extreme optimist because in a way you are fighting so many forces that are resistant to change," said Mundie.
(Additional reporting by Duncan Martell in San Francisco, editing by Richard Chang)
© Reuters 2008 All rights reserved
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The Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (hereafter "the Agency") has decided to set up an informal ad-hoc IT expert group for the implementation of REMIT (hereafter "the Group"). The goal of the Group will be to provide IT expert support to the Agency during the implementation phase of Regulation (EU) No 1227/2011 on wholesale energy market integrity and transparency (REMIT) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2011. In particular on IT-related issues for the reporting of information to the Agency such as standardized trade and process formats and requirements for Registered Reporting Mechanisms.
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