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Assad: Peace talks will failBy ANNE BARNARD
THE NEW YORK TIMES | May 19,2013BEIRUT President Bashar Assad of Syria, in a rare interview with a foreign newspaper, appeared to dismiss the possibility of serious progress arising from peace talks planned for next month, and to back away from earlier statements by Syrian officials that the government was willing to negotiate with its armed opponents.
We do not believe that many Western countries really want a solution in Syria, Assad told Argentinas Clarin newspaper in an interview published online Saturday, blaming those countries for supporting terrorists fighting his government.
We support and applaud the efforts but we must be realistic, he said, referring to efforts by the United States and Russia to broker talks in June. There cannot be a unilateral solution in Syria; two parties are needed at least.
Assad took a hard line throughout the interview, according to a transcript in English provided to The New York Times. He declared that he would run for election as scheduled in 2014 and would accept election monitors only from friendly countries like Russia and China.
He also accused Israel of directly aiding rebels by providing intelligence on sites to attack, refused to acknowledge any mistakes in his handling of the 2-year-old crisis, and disputed U.N. estimates that more than 80,000 people had died in the conflict.
All those contentions are likely to fuel what is already widespread pessimism about the potential talks. It is unclear who will talk to whom, and what about. The opposition in exile remains unable to unify fragmented rebel groups behind its political leadership, even those that nominally fall under the umbrella of the oppositions Free Syrian Army, let alone the growing cadres of extremist Islamist fighters who openly reject the opposition leadership and are a source of increasing concern in the West.
Assads supporters have long contended that his wide array of foreign foes, including the United States, Israel and Sunni-led Persian Gulf states, benefit less from a resolution than from a prolonged Syrian conflict that weakens Assad and his allies, Iran and Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite Muslim militant group. That view is increasingly shared by some rebel leaders, increasingly frustrated with the Wests unwillingness to give them untrammeled support.
In meetings with his supporters ahead of the talks, Assad has projected confidence, suggesting that the United States would accept his remaining in power if U.S. officials believed that he was militarily strong and could curb jihadists. He told a group of Lebanese politicians visiting Damascus, the capital, this month that his forces were carrying out offensives to retake rebel-held territory in Homs province and the suburbs of Damascus to increase his leverage at the talks.
The battlefield will decide who is strong when they enter negotiations, he said, according to one of the visitors, Abdelrahim Mourad, a former Parliament member whose party is allied with Hezbollah. America is pragmatic. If they found out they were defeated and the regime is the winner, the Americans will deal with the facts.
Whether that view is realistic or not, Assads opponents inside and outside Syria widely doubt that he is willing to make meaningful concessions doubts he reinforced in the interview, refusing to recognize any element of the armed opposition as representing legitimate Syrian demands or even to talk to the rebels unless they disarm.
We are willing to talk to anyone who wants to talk, without exceptions, he said. But that does not include terrorists; no state talks to terrorists. When they put down their arms and join the dialogue then we will have no objections. Believing that a political conference will stop terrorism on the ground is unreal.
Assad also elaborated on his governments contention that the opposition was aligned with Syrias longtime foe, Israel, which has bombed Syrian territory three times this year in attacks believed to target weapons being delivered to Hezbollah.
Israel is directly supporting the terrorist groups in two ways, he said. Firstly it gives them logistical support a possible reference to medical aid Israel has given to Syrians wounded near the Syria-Israel border and it also tells them what sites to attack and how to attack them.
Assad said that rebels had attacked a radar station instrumental to Syrias anti-aircraft defenses against Israel, giving no further details.
Assad said international monitoring of the 2014 elections would violate Syrias sovereignty. We do not trust the West for this task, he said, proposing observers from friendly countries such as Russia or China.
China? the interviewer asked, presumably perplexed because China is not known for holding free elections. Assad was silent.
The reporter then asked if Assad had any self-criticisms.
He replied: Its illogical to carry out self-criticism before the events have been completed. If you go to watch a film you dont criticize it until it ends.
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Virtually every embedded system has some type of bootloader, and there are many bootloaders from which to choose. Some of the more popular include U-Boot for PowerPC, MIPS and ARM processors, and RedBoot, which is frequently found on ARM processors. Most popular bootloaders today contain far more functionality than actually is required for the task of initializing a system. Indeed, they have become valuable tools used by developers during initial board bring-up and system development.
Modern bootloaders are packed with features, such as Flash erase and program utilities, memory management utilities, network capabilities for loading images and for self-configuring (DHCP and BOOTP for example), drivers for PCI, IDE, USB and support for various partition types and filesystems. Some even have scripting language support useful for development, manufacturing (production test, image load and so on) and system upgrade.
These features make bootloaders an indispensable tool during product development. However, the size of bootloader images has significant impact on boot time. Bootloaders are stored in nonvolatile storage media, most commonly NOR Flash. However, embedded systems rarely execute code directly from Flash, mostly because it is far too slow. Read times of DRAM are orders of magnitude faster than read times from Flash.
The first job of the bootloader is to load itself into DRAM and continue execution from there. Consider the operating environment of early boot code. There is no stack, no C context (meaning all this code is written in the processor's native assembly language), and quite often, the processor's instruction and data caches are not yet enabled. This means the size of the bootloader image, which needs to be copied into RAM, will have a major impact on startup time.
The quickest path to performance improvement in your bootloader is to keep it small. Remove features that are unnecessary in a production environment. Some bootloaders, such as U-Boot, make it easy to do this. Its features are driven by a board-specific configuration file that contains directives to enable or disable features. Your requirements will ultimately rule, but prudent trimming of all but the most essential features will yield significant savings in boot time.
When you build a Linux kernel image, it is virtually always compressed as one of the final build steps. It is the responsibility of your bootloader (or a small bootstrap decompression loader that is appended to your kernel image) to decompress the kernel image and place it into system memory. One of the single largest easy gains you can achieve is to remove the decompression stage. Some architecture/bootloader combinations don't bother to enable caches, making decompression take much longer. It is not uncommon to find systems that take several seconds to perform the decompression and relocation stage. Using an uncompressed kernel can significantly reduce your system boot time.
Linux distributions use initrd/initramfs (hereinafter referred to as simply initramfs) primarily as a tool to enable a generic kernel to be used across a huge variety of system configurations. It is the job of the initramfs to provide the necessary device drivers to enable the devices that are required to complete system boot. Because embedded systems often are restricted to limited well-known configurations, they usually can eliminate initramfs with a corresponding reduction in boot time. Furthermore, removing support for initramfs in the kernel results in a smaller kernel (and, thus, faster boot.)
If you compile a kernel with a "default" configuration, it often contains a vast number of features your system may not need. You may be surprised to discover how many features are enabled by default that your embedded system does not need. Spend some quality time with your favorite kernel configuration editor (menuconfig, gconfig and so on), and go through each and every kernel configuration parameter. Evaluate whether your system requirements can do without it. Yes, it may take you the better part of a day (or even more if you add in some research time), but your savings in boot time reduction can be substantial. Some examples of features found in many default kernel configs include IPv6, RAID, support for many filesystems you may not need, extended partition support and many more. There also may be numerous device drivers compiled into the kernel for devices that are not present in your system. They are harmless, but each driver runs initialization code, including registration functions, and some spend lengthy milliseconds (or more) in device probe routines for devices that are not present—precious boot time can be spent probing for non-existent devices.
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DHAKA, Bangladesh — Oklahomans in Bangladesh have remained safe, comfortable and pampered this week even as Bangladesh is in a political upheaval that has cost lives and resulted in the burning of several schools slated to serve as election polling sites.
The young country is struggling, and yet its people remain courteous and friendly to Sooner state visitors on a State Department program.
Bangladesh is a very poor nation. In its landmark series on the garment industry, NPR reported that Bangladesh garment workers are the lowest paid in the world, and yet those jobs are an important step out of severe poverty and starvation for many. The industry employs mostly young women who come from rural areas to work in Dhaka, the nation's capital.
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"The biggest killer of children in Bangladesh was diarrhea," Abed said.
Abed discovered there was a simple solution to this deadly problem — an oral rehydration solution with the right combination of sugar, salt and water would save lives.
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Do you fancy having an emergency stash of useful apps in your BlackBerry 10 smartphone? Gadget Box is well worth checking out. It's kind of like having a Swiss Army Knife in your handset. The app is made up of eight useful gadgets - some for everyday use and some for when you may be in an emergency situation. They are all pretty cool though.
Lets start with the flashlight. This is something we have seen on BlackBerry for a long time. This version though also has strobing built in and using the adjustable bars on screen you can adjust from a long flash to a quick burst. Maybe handy for signalling where you are or if your car breaks down at night.
Next up is a protractor. I'm never going to use this feature but clearly some people will or it wouldn't be in the app. Then we have a unit converter. There are twelve options for units here ranging from weight to speed. A handy tool to have on your BlackBerry for sure.
We have a compass already on BlackBerry 10 but there is also one in the Gadget Box too. Where things get a little more interesting is that you can activate the native BlackBerry Maps app from the compass and have the two running as one - clever stuff.
I'm a big fan of using a speedometer on my Blackberry while I'm driving and the one in the Gadget Box is pretty sweet. You have two options for viewing the display - one with just numbers and one with some extra graphics which look like a car speedo. It works perfectly I am pleased to say.
Using morse code is not something I'm likely to use but if I was stuck up a mountain It may come in useful. I'm not going up a mountain though! Using it is simple - just key in the text you need and press play. As well as the BlackBerry making the morse sound it also uses the camera flash.
Last but not least is the height feature. This is probably the most clever within the app. If you need to measure something but don't have a tape measure you can use the app. It utilises the camera application and so you point the camera at one edge of the item you wish to measure, take a reading and then do the same at the other end. Gadget Box then asks your approximate distance from the subject and then gives you the result. This feature is really impressive so kudos to the developer.
Gadget Box will set you back $1.99/£1.50 and if you think it would be a handy app to have in case you ever need it I would highly recommend it. It's certainly staying on my Z10.
ParadoxLogic Feb 24, 2013 at 4:57 pm
Hey, I'm the dev of Gadget Box, and i appreciate the review!
I just want to point out that there are lots of features and settings to explore in the app, so take your time to poke around! :)
For example, in the compass, you can drop GPS markers and later on activate them to have the compass show you distance and direction to the marker (which also works for geocaching, which i've tried out)...also, there is a cool (IMO) map view for the compass that will put your activated marker on a map that will tilt and rotate with your phone (or not! there's settings for that too!).
Also, check out the other level views, flashlight view, settings for the speedometer etc etc etc. (swipe down for the settings menu to see all the stuff you can mess with! There are settings for a lot of stuff, and more features on the way!)
In short, thanks for the good review James! Cheers, and BB for life! :)
ParadoxLogic Feb 24, 2013 at 7:26 pm
Agreed, and i appreciate the attention and kind words! Thanks!
Kat0908 Feb 24, 2013 at 5:24 pm
Wow thank you for making this app! Seems like an awesome app and will be added to my list of apps to purchase/download as soon as I get my Z10(US)!
RIMs-Pegasus-2012 Feb 24, 2013 at 5:36 pm
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I loved this App and downloaded immediately when I saw it's Swiss Army Knife like uses...
Particularly caught my attention was the ability to log in multiple sites on the Compass feature...beats out the Car Finder app..as one can set multiple targets (eg.geocaches)... or if cycling one could put waypoints...as well as lock in an emergency site if going for help in the woods (or just campsite when hiking)...
On the Cycling Point...having the speedometer running...IT WOULD BE A GREAT ADD-ON to have a built in RINGER when passing pedestrians on paths...so the Z10 could become your handlebar dashboard...with speed, distances logged, etc...even a night light...
A little tweeking here and there and I think you have the makings of a perfect instrument dashboard thanks to Z10 multi-tasking; music player, bell ringer, flashlight (when caught in the dark), trip logger and who knows what else once you start applying it to in this configuration...
Sure to be a hit with cycling enthusiasts
A must have app...
ParadoxLogic Feb 24, 2013 at 5:41 pm
Also, if you're using it for cycling, you can change the numbers on your speedometer dial, so that the top end is not 150 km/h, but something more reasonable for a cyclist, like 35 - 45 km/h instead.
Good ideas for the waypoints and whatnot. As i cyclist myself, i don't know if the ringer would be loud enough for a pedestrian, but it's worth investigating! Distances traveled is already on the roadmap for the speedo ;)
RIMs-Pegasus-2012 Feb 24, 2013 at 10:43 pm
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I just realized I used the wrong flashlight app but you can incorporate something like this...
I put these 3 apps all on at same time...
1) JaredCo Flashlight using the Blackberry Video Light
2) Music full volume background - thus a ringer feasable (button on your menu screen or always accessible in compass/map mode)
3) Your Speedo set to 45 KM max - switchable to compass and Map mode...(the angling map effect was very interesting...but had trouble expanding it's size - zoom shut it down)
Worked for me...a workable dashboard in the making...
MY MISTAKE...IT WAS YOUR FLASHLIGHT...using LED LIGHT...
(however , it shuts off when using the Compass/Map mode.. so that feature could be accomodated)
You have so many hidden settings it's hard to remember them...
Thunderbuck Feb 24, 2013 at 6:05 pm
Dude, this rocks! The height/range finder alone is arguably worth the price on its own.
Nicely done. Goes right on my main Page.
ParadoxLogic Feb 24, 2013 at 6:21 pm
Thanks, very kind of you. I'll keep the price as is though; people tend to appreciate value more than price-gouging ;)
Supply.Chain Feb 25, 2013 at 1:06 am
Will be picking this App up as soon as I get my Z10 this week... :) Thanks a bunch...
grant.palin Feb 26, 2013 at 2:15 am
Glad you mentioned the geocaching use case. I've recently taken an interest in the subject, and this app may alleviate the need for a separate GPS device. Will give it a try soon hopefully!
GeneralHerzog Feb 24, 2013 at 5:01 pm
Just got it, and I can see using this often enough to be worth it. Pretty neat and well done!!
ParadoxLogic Feb 24, 2013 at 6:21 pm
Hope you find it worthwhile! Thanks!
Wbrian Feb 24, 2013 at 5:41 pm
It's now on my wish list for when I get a Z10 ! It'd be very cool if it, using the camera app, could receive Morse code and translate it too! It'd be a whole nutter type of communication our Berries could do!
ParadoxLogic Feb 24, 2013 at 6:16 pm
Actually, a friend of mine has an some open source morse interpretter code that i'm planning on incorporating, but i'm not yet ready to merge it :) It's on the todo-soon list.
rngeek Feb 24, 2013 at 6:57 pm
I think this is a great box of tools crammed into one app. This will be one of the first payed apps I buy.
Thanks Gadget Box
manuelymotita Feb 24, 2013 at 7:31 pm
Anyone have any news on when we'll be getting it here in the US?
ORIGINQuest Feb 24, 2013 at 8:41 pm
Just downloaded it. Amazing app and great value too!
Alaa Qweider Feb 25, 2013 at 9:53 am
Amazing App , Totally worth it .
I love the compos and map , pretty accurate and good to amaze friends and iphone holders :p
I wish the updates keep coming and to add some weird stuff like Metal detector would be kewl for engineering ppl like me , Pips behind walls :p.
timmsy Feb 25, 2013 at 10:12 am
wow 3 items we already have with the phone linked with some items we will never used all thrown into one app we have to pay for
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z10karly Feb 25, 2013 at 1:49 pm
downloaded and will definitely be using often! can't wait to show this one off.
Smartie020 Mar 16, 2013 at 5:05 pm
not abailable in germany???
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Yes, it is available in Germany.


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So my 1995 Chevy Suburban K1500 is throwing up a "code 42" which means "timing spark error"? i have no idea what this means, i can do certain work on my own but i dont have a full understanding of the automotive practice. After doing research, people with the same truck i have, and the same problem, are saying that it could be "esp?" "pick-up coil inside my distributor" "a bad ground cable towards the back of my engine" "computer is going bad" ive done a tune-up recently consisting of new plugs, wires, dist. cap, rotor, and ive replaced the ignition control module (which was shot). Ive got dual exhaust, no cat. converter (was like this when i bought it >.<), but i do not have my o2 sensor bypassed, it is just kind of there, it refuses to run correctly in the rain, i have to put the petal to the floor just to get it to move and it will not run correctly when it is even slightly humid outside (obv a moisture issue there somewhere) It will start up everytime, and it will idle fine, and it even runs great for awhile, as soon as the CEL comes on it is all downhill from there, the truck will still run, but it doesnt want to accelerate correctly at all, and my duals get quite loud when the CEL comes on. I took it to Gates Chevy World and the only thing they could tell me is that it returning code 42. When i purchased the truck my CEL would come on but it wouldnt drive noticeably different, which i assumed was from my o2 sensor not being bypassed. I have no idea where to start!!!
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I have 2 children - all grown, of course. My son and wife and 4-year-old son live down the street and daughter and family live 2-1/2 hours from here. My daughter-in-law is not a friendly person and has no friends and we all have had problems with her - I am close to my grandson and see him a lot. Being friendly with her never works out - she has a lot of problems and almost got divorced from our son.
I don't want a job - have worked most of my life and now I don't need to financially okay.
But some days like today - it's 9:00 pm almost and husband said he'll be late as they need to fertilize before tomorrow as it may rain. He rarely calls me in the day - he is so absorbed into his day which is very busy and am sure he finds it hard to understand me. When he comes home, he is exhausted and when he sits down he's out like a light.
Anyway, any ideas on what else I can do to feel better - we rarely go anywhere but usually each year we will go somewhere for 2 or 3 days - we aren't big travelers. We don't like to be too far away from home but 6-7 hour distance is about the size of it.
Anyway, does anyone have any ideas - I know I am not alone and there are plenty of lonely people but most people where I live have a lot of family - I have one sister who lives 1700 miles away from here and she rarely calls. She is always so busy she has always put me on the back burner so we both decided that she is to call me only when she has time to talk and even then when she very occasionally calls me she still rushes the conversation to 5 minutes. She has tons of friends and cousins - she lives where we grew up and she doesn't have a clue what it feels like to be so lonely. I do talk with 2 of my 3 sisters-in-laws periodically and they are nice.
Anyway, guess I have told you all I need to without it being too long. Thanks for listening to me.
I too, am sooo lonely sometimes. I live alone, and being disabled has become a hindrance to dating. Not by my choice, either. I started an excersize routine to help me get into some kind of shape. I quit smoking also, to help me along with the excersize. Now, after about five weeks, I must say I am looking, and feeling so much better. Plus, it gives me something to do every day. After my second workout, I usually take a nice brisk walk, late in the afternoon.
I noticed I have been meeting more people on my walks. It seems the farther I go, the more I meet? Still, though, when I talk about getting together for a date, they seem to want to run away? Is it because I limp? Even that is not so noticeable any longer. I've been told by many different ladies, that I am handsome, so what else can it be? It has to be my disability?
I no longer care. If they say no, then its no, and along I go. Who knows, maybe the next time? That is what you need to think, and feel. Who cares about anyone, or any thing, just get out there, and do the things you like to do!!! Is there a local Y? You could always go swimming for the exersize. I'm even thinking of starting some kind of crafts?
One more thing, you can always come here for friendship, you know??? I have no idea as to what I would do, without WebM.D.? Here, we find help, and give help, there is nothing like it.
So, come on back, any ol time!!!
Thanks for responding - you were the only one - maybe my post wasn't too important.
Our area also has volunteers for driving the elderly or disabled to appts, church, shopping, the senior center(for cards games and such), bingo, or just spend some time with those who can't get out of their homes. Our food pantry and family crisis office has volunteers as well. What about something at the library, an animal shelter or the park and rec dept? The volunteering is at your discretion, what you can offer or do for how ever long you have.
These are just ideas. What are some of the things you'd like to do in your retirement? What are you passionate about? Gardening, canning, sewing, woodworking?
Walking is great exercise like Dennis mentioned.
The other ideas offered here are also good. For instance, exercise has been shown to help people feel physically and emotionally better. It sounds like you have plenty of social interaction, so I'm guessing that what you are missing is a sense of deep connection or a sense of purpose. Volunteering - especially when doing it face-to-face - often helps people feel good and gives them a sense of purpose. Following your passions can also help with this.
Getting started can be difficult, so people often find it helpful to focus on one thing until you've really followed through with it. Then, until it can really have a chance to help, they need to continue to put in extra effort. So, if you are feeling discouraged or apathetic about an idea, you might find it useful to still push on. Reach out here or to others for support. Your situation isn't easy, but try to keep in mind that the opportunity to be more engaged and feel more connected is there.
I have been doing this since they opened in Sept. Last yr found out I have some osteoporosis and used to take meds for it but when I had cancer the cancer med thinned my bones out a bit - no more meds for cancer either so am trying to build bone with resistance training there so in Aug when I get my bone density test will see if it helped.
I still haven't ruled out a once a day job - like you said we can make all kinds of excuses for fear of trying it but who knows I may change my mind and ck it out again.
Thanks for caring - I do appreciate every person who responds here. Hope you all have a good week.
I liked the suggestion of what the other posters' churches do. Maybe you can mention that to your church and offer to organize some of it.
It's okay if my idea doesn't grab you. But eventually something will. With purpose, so many of the other problems in life seem less important. It's like that with my art. Without it I don't feel useful. With it, my life is brighter.
'Your focus determines your reality.' --QGJ
still thinking about a one a day week job - will see - right now we are going to have to harvest our wheat so getting close to that time and will be very busy cooking- already have 2 casseroles made and in freezer and have 2 other meals planned. My daughter-in-law splits the dinners with me so it usually works out 4 dinners each - I do make all the lunches too.
Everyone is so kind - I appreciate everyone's suggestions. This is a great site - I love it -
Caring thoughts to all of you always.
So what you need is maybe something more active - rather than go to the gym where everyone is shut into their own little world, why not buy a bike? It's great exercise for your bones and for your heart. Make a list of all the things you have never seen or visited in your region and go do it on your bike. When you're there, read all the notices there might be and take not of everything that might interest you (exhibitions, debates, outings, discussion groups, anything).
Is there a college near where you live? Go see if they don't have anything on offer that you would like to study just for the sheer pleasure of it. I was a teacher in a previous life and one of my students was a woman of 60 , a very dynamic and interesting lady. She had run the family pharmaceutical firm all of her life and was looking forward to her retirement to go to university to study literature and history
Along the active lines, how about helping out at your local mother and toddler group (or whatever is the closest equivalent)? Or at your local soup kitchen. You get a fantastic boost when you help others ...
Something I'd like to suggest that isn't along the lines of the other suggestions I gave is to write down stories about your life. When you have a memory that makes you smile or makes you feel sad, jot it down in a file on your computer. Think of it as a legacy to your grandchildren. This because when my children were born my MIL was in her 90s and seriously ill. I knew that my daughters would never know the wonderful woman that she was and tried to convince her to record stories for them. She thought the idea was ridiculous MAybe it was but it would have left them some great memories of things they may never have known about her ...
Right - here's a big one. Could you negotiate with your son to take your grandson for a few days? Then book a flight to visit your sister with him? Saying that you're not big travelers is a cop out. There is no reason why you can't go further afield. It's not because you've never done it before that you can't do it now...
Well, I'm out of ideas for the moment but if anything else occurs to me I'll let you know.
Good luck in getting out of that rut!
I will come up with something - and do appreciate your many suggestions.
I still am thinking about a one day a week job doing things I like in a job like answering telephones, etc - I love talking with people.
Thanks again for your suggestions.
I try to stay busy - but will let you know if I do anything and again I do appreciate your kindness and nonjudgmental attitude.
Thank you for your support. Glad this board is a neutral board where one can post.
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How can it be that the GOP loses elections when they are on the side of the good guys such as Billy Graham. Most of the churches and law people are anti-communist and want traditional marriage to hold families together. The media is biased but there is more to it. Some vote Democrat from habit, some like the welfare benefits, some want a Godless society, and some have been scared over Social Security.
Churches are not allowed to endorse the GOP even though they both fight sin and communism while the Democrat party has the support of the homosexual agenda and communist USA party. It can be attractive to vote for communism if it is called spreading the wealth. It is easy to vote God and the 10 commandments out of the schools if it is called separation of church and state.
In order to win the GOP needs to point out that they have been for morals like the 10 Commandments in schools, but the Democratic party has voted against them. They have the support of the homosexual agenda and communist USA party. In fact if we want more communism, more people on welfare, more state control of churches, more freedom from criminals, and the loss of God and the 10 commandments in schools all we need to do is to vote Democrat.


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November's been exciting enough as I've settled into role as Spanish correspondent for UAE newspaper Sport 360. It still takes a bit of time to explain about being an Irish guy living in Madrid writing in English, about Spanish football, for readers in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, but it's working well.
There's definitely been plenty to write about, including lots of goals. I've been to the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu to report for the paper on Madrid's 7-1 win over Osasuna in La Liga, 6-2 hammering of Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League and 4-1 win over nine man Atlético in the Madrid derby. I also got to direct a visiting Croatian journalist to the Bernabéu mixed-zone, which was nice to be able to do. This close view was handy when it came to writing about why Madrid are playing so well at the moment.
Besides Madrid there's also been plenty of different Spanish football stuff to cover for Sport 360 – including a breakdown of Lionel Messi's first 202 goals for Barcelona, a preview of Spain's ultimately unsuccessful recent trip to Wembley and a profile of ex-Atlético and Sevilla and new Al Ahli coach Quique Sanchez Flores.
My weekly blog on the Football Ramble website is handy for looking at different aspects of the Spanish game – recent pieces have covered the Galician derby down in La Segunda, Sergio Ramos' mistaken view of his own strengths and the wheels coming off at Real Betis. There was also a blog for Iberosphere about how Jose Mourinho can't but smile when everything's going his way. More seriously, I wrote a piece for the latest When Saturday Comes magazine on the influence of Portuguese super-agent Jorge Mendes has on various La Liga clubs. No link for that one, but you should buy the magazine.


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I stll think Romney and Huntsman seem the most reasonable of the bunch. They're all pretty scary, though.
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My favorite part was when Brian Williams noticed he had to go put a dime in the parking meter and ended the debate without parting remarks or warning. A fitting end to an amateurish broadcast I watched on Y2K era retro choppy video streaming from their site as I don't subscribe to that cable channel. Special thanks to the director for the unintentional comedy of not being able to play a video clip for the gotcha moment on Mitt's question.
As to Congressman Paul's views on the fence, love him or hate him, the man has more heart than eloquence. Rather than what he did say I was hoping he'd turn and point up where the tribute to Nancy Reagan had been played minutes earlier and say 'we stand here in the Reagan Library, in the shadow of the man and the very plane he flew on to Berlin, and yet we forget so soon what he said there and heard again only moments ago'
Also would have had him end the exchange with Governor Perry about Rick writing a letter to Hillary and Ron writing one to President Reagan with 'regardless of the substance, the context of both being warped by our campaigns and the press alike, the simple fact is your penpal was Hillary Clinton and mine was Ronald Reagan. ' I tire of Reagan comparisons each primary, yet most fitting in the setting of this particular debate and what a fun soundbite for this week's political ads.
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How Mitt Romney Should Respond to the Improving Economy
Even if the economy continues to improve, Mitt Romney still can present a better plan than Barack Obama's.
The terrain of economic debate is moving under former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's feet. His response, so far, has amounted to an acknowledgement of reality with a subjective caveat: Things are getting better in spite of President Obama's policies, not because of them.
This won't cut it in November. Voters assign blame or credit, without parsing, to the guy who's standing there.
Romney is smart enough to know this, but he's yet to figure out a compelling alternative. (Primary elections are keeping him rather busy, you may have noticed.)
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Here's a start:
He should point out that a U.S. economy that recovers to the status quo ante 2007 is not good enough.
His economic adviser, Glenn Hubbard, underscores this fact in a forward to Romney's economic plan:
[T]he crisis years of 2008 and 2009 pulled back the curtain on a problem: economic growth had been slowing. U.S. GDP growth has averaged 3.3 percent over the past 50 years. But in the 2002-07 period, before the crisis's eye of the storm hit the financial system and the economy, that growth averaged just 2.6 percent.
Thereafter follow approximately 150 pages detailing how a Romney administration would spur faster, more robust growth: lower corporate tax rates, more domestic energy production, regulatory streamlining, etc.
[ See pictures of Mitt Romney.]
This won't cut it, either. Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty ran aground in the same shallow water. He promised 5 percent annual growth. Economists' eyes rolled in disbelief. My eyes rolled for a somewhat different, broader reason. Namely: Headline growth is a great and necessary thing. But what's it going to do for working-class voters whose standard of living has fallen even when times have been "good"?
Romney has no real answer to this. He simply gives a cosmetic facelift to certain aspects of his pro-growth agenda: limiting capital-gains relief to the nonrich; maintaining the current 35 percent top income-tax bracket; indexing the minimum wage to inflation.
Former Sen. Rick Santorum has a nostalgically pleasing, economically dubious answer—revive manufacturing—but at least it's an answer.
President Obama, too, has an answer, as adumbrated in his State of the Union Address. The pre-Crash economy was a "house of cards," he said (rightly). Now we need an economy that's "built to last." The building blocks, if you will, are continued investment in infrastructure and technology and education: the cultivation of a smart populace that can out-innovate our rising competitors abroad.
[ See pictures of Obama Delivering State of the Union Address.]
And here's the opening for Romney, the savvy business consultant. He can say the Obama administration is right about the need for innovation, but it's going about it the wrong way; it's trying to micromanage us into the future. Essentially, it's betting blindly: Pour money into a 100 Solyndras, and, if we're lucky, maybe the system will spit out the next Internet.
The Romney administration, by contrast, would not haphazardly slurp up investment capital and spread it like chaff.
It would leave the bets to the private sector and focus on what the federal government has proven it can do well: basic research.
Here's a key passage from the Romney plan as it relates to energy innovation:
There is a place for government investment when time horizons are too long, risks too high, and rewards too uncertain to attract private capital. However, much of our existing energy R&D budget has been devoted to loan guarantees, cash grants, and tax incentives for projects that might have gone forward anyway ...
From the perspective of creating new jobs and strengthening our economy, the main line of policy should be directed toward technologies that will replace imported oil with domestically produced fuels or electric power. Mitt Romney believes the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) model—ensuring longterm, non-political sources of funding for a wide variety of competing, earlystage technologies—holds the most potential for achieving significant advances in the energy sector.
( DARPA, you'll recall, is where the Internet was gestated.)
In other words, the Romney administration wouldn't bet blindly; it would invest wisely and leave commercial applications to the private sector. Perhaps this isn't a dramatic enough contrast between Romney and Obama. Conservatives such as
James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute
are begging Romney to offer sweeping tax reform and aggressive entitlement reforms.
That might work if it were, say, 1996.But this year is different. Romney can't win by massaging Larry Kudlow's erogenous zones.
[ See a collection of political cartoons on Mitt Romney.]
The multitude of American voters who've been left behind by Turbo Capitalism are going to roll their eyes and vote for the incumbent.
Romney needs to adopt the Obama diagnosis and persuade enough voters that the president won't actually win the future—he'll strangle it.
- See a collection of political cartoons on the 2012 GOP hopefuls.
- See a collection of photos of the 2012 GOP hopefuls.
- Read the U.S. News debate: Can Anything Stop Mitt Romney?


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"Are we going to land on the clouds?!" — A three year-old on my Southwest flight, upon hearing the pilot talk about landing as we flew above thick cloud cover.
Dear Josh,
I love the idea of this "magic pill"; Not to promote fantasy, but because it lets us imagine something beyond what we are most automatically inclined to assume about ourselves and others. It allows us other possibilities and perspectives. We get to discover gems in our own wisdom; glimpses of ourselves "outside the box".
The pill I would like to prescribe today is a homeopathic remedy. As you know, homeopathic medicine is based, in part, on taking in a tiny bit of a malady to trigger the body's natural immune response to that specific, unwanted ailment.
So it is with the ICDT tablet. The "I Can Do This" tablet is taken under the tongue. The important element in using this pill is the timing. As soon as you feel yourself reacting to your partner, you pop the pill under your tongue and pause. During that pause, you take stock of your experience, "I'm getting really aggravated. Doesn't he know that he's the one who started this whole thing! I only said that because I thought.... Ok...My heart is beating a bit fast, and I am getting angry and defensive. But! I have taken the ICDT tablet! It reminds me that I can take a breath, quiet my reactions, and really see and hear my partner out. I CAN try to understand his/her experience, and even empathize with what he/she is describing as true for them in their experience. I may be uncomfortable, but.... I just took that little pill! I can be softer here. I can trust the probability that, by doing this, conflict will not escalate, and I can give my partner the respect and opportunity to be heard. And that is who I want to be in this relationship."
Our reactions happen fast, which is why we say they are "triggered"; The familiar downpour of feelings, associations, assumptions and responses includes the quiet presence of helplessness as we face a familiar conflict or disappointing encounter with our partners. The repetition of our tougher relationship dynamics erode our feelings for our partners, our confidence in our relationship, and our personal sense of being able to handle things well. "Same s--t, different day". Such a demoralized feeling!
I love the "I Can Do This" pill because it is as empowering as a statement like that would have to be! I CAN tolerate discomfort and not react off it so fast. I CAN calm down. I CAN listen, and stretch myself, and find out that I am bigger than I thought I was.
The result: I grow my confidence in myself as a person and as a partner.I see that I can trust my partner and my relationship. We CAN be allies.
I would like to close with a story about one of my puppies. Her name is Gracie. She is smart as all get-out, and she is....well, a puppy. So when we go out for a walk, she wants to run. I want her to stop pulling my neck out of alignment. So I stop walking, stand still as she pulls at the leash, and tell her, "Gracie! Walk with me!". Because she is so smart (she is my dog....I get to say that) she quickly figured out that not only do we resume the walk when she stops pulling, but that maybe it is even better if she puts it in reverse, walking backwards to where I stand. So smart! The thing is, she cries a little when she does it. She knows it is the "right" thing, but it is so counter-intuitive to her impulse to run forward that she has to wrestle with herself about it. (I know this because she told me.) And, she has learned that this is the way we move forward together. Or at all!
These steps we take in working with ourselves in relationship can feel entirely counter-intuitive. Of course! Every part of our protective brain impulse says, "Fight! Flee!"
And this principle says: Stay. Breathe. Be kind with myself, and stay contained. Open farther than I think I can. Find out. Make space for my partner even though I want to have my say. Try to understand why he/she might feel what they are feeling. See what good medicine this is for our relationship.
Find out that I Can Do This.
The chatty three year-old on my Southwest flight who said "Are we going to land on the clouds?!" caught my attention not only because she was so dang cute, but because she reminded me of that state of mind wherein one thing is just as possible as another. We have far more inviting possibilities when we are open than when we are stuck.
What's next on your px. pad?
Do you have a question about your marriage or relationship? Is there a particular topic on relationships or individual psychological issues you would like addressed in this blog? Ask Deborah in the comments below or email her at deborahleeds.com.
Deborah Leeds, MFT, is a couples and individual therapist with offices in Pleasant Hill and Berkeley, CA. Visit her website at deborahleeds.com
Josh Gressel, Ph.D., is a couples and individual therapist based in Pleasant Hill, CA. Visit his website at joshgressel.com


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July - December 1999
Organisers: VA Rubakov (Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow), PJ Steinhardt (Princeton), NG Turok (Cambridge)
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
UK Cosmology Meeting
24 Nov 1999
Wednesday 24 November
10.00-10.30 Registration
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-11.25 N Lepora (Cambridge)
Gauge unification within the dual standard model
11.25-11.50 M Parry (Imperial)
Metric pre-heating: an overview
11.50-12.15 F Viniegra (Oxford)
Massless pre-heating
12.15-12.40 A Green (QMW)
Probing the mass function of the halo dark matter
12.40-13.05 J Weller (IC/UC
Bubbles from dark energy
13.05-14.30 Sandwich Lunch to be served in the Institute
14.30-14.55 B Carter (Meudon)
How chiral strings make larger, longer lasting vortons
14.55-15.20 C Charmousis (Durham)
Dynamics of domain walls in GR
15.20-15.45 R Battye
The dynamics of Q-balls
15.45-16.15 Tea
16.15-16.40 J Magueijo (Imperial)
The status of CMB non-Gaussianity
16.40-17.05 R Bean (Imperial)
Photographing the wave-function of the universe
17.05-17.30 W Naylor
Effective action for bubble nucleation rates
17.30-17.55 T Garagounis
Simulations of domain walls
These lectures are linked to the Isaac Newton Institute Programme on
Structure Formation in the Universe
Anyone interested is welcome to attend. A Sandwich Lunch will be available at £2 per person; please let Maureen Clark at the Institute know by 22 November 1999 if you intend to come, to help us to plan for lunch. Tel: (01223) 331539; Fax: (01223) 330508.


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The Cincinnati Open Design Event (CODE) gets underway on October 17. Designers of all types, developers, stylists, all gather together to discuss trends, technology and more in the areas of Style, Consumer and Entertainment. Mark Perzel welcomes Andrew Salzbrun to discuss the scope of this year's CODE and the effort to outreach into the community during the four day by holding events throughout the downtown, Over the Rhine and Greater Cincinnati area.
A former Cincinnati union president is now in custody in West Virginia. The Federal Bureau of prisons lists Diana Frey as an inmate at Alderson a minimum security facility for female offenders. Frey was sentenced in June after pleading guilty to stealing 750-thousand dollars from the Cincinnati Organized and Dedicated Employees union. In Court Frey said she will spend the rest of her life trying to make it up to her family and union members and repay the debt. Her release date is listed as March 20, 2016.
A former Cincinnati union president is expected to report to prison Tuesday.
Diana Frey has had just over two months to prepare herself for four years behind bars. The sentence handed down by Judge Susan Dlott in June was was more time than federal guidelines recommended. She called the white-collar crime serious.


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St. Paul United Church of Christ (UCC), Palatine, is encouraging members of the community to attend Christmas Eve worship services.
Two candlelight services will be held on Christmas Eve, Monday, December 24. The first service will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. The second service will be held from 11:00 p.m. to midnight.
All are welcome to attend the celebration. For additional information, please contact the church office at 847.358.0399 or visit http://stpaul-ucc.org/.
About St. Paul UCC
St. Paul UCC is located at 144 East Palatine Road, Palatine, Illinois 60067. Located just west of Northwest Highway (Route 14) in Palatine. Phone: 847.358.0399 | Web: http://stpaul-ucc.org/.
One of the two oldest churches in Palatine, St. Paul UCC dates to 1835. The church has grown and progressed in Palatine over the years, and today stands as a cornerstone of the Christian community. In direct reflection of the United Church of Christ's theme, "God is Still Speaking," St. Paul UCC continues to balance religious tradition with new ideas for religion that are relevant and timeless.
All are welcome to visit St. Paul during Sunday services, and of course, to learn more from the church's website, http://stpaul-ucc.org/, which features information about its ministries, including community outreach programs that support the local community, as well as the worldwide community.


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Best Fitness Club for Voyeurs San Francisco 2002 - Crunch
You may say going to the gym is not a fashion show. You may say you don't care what you look like, or what you wear, that you hardly notice the other people sweating and grunting around you. Oh, yes, you may say that, but the folks at Crunch know better. Crunch, a fitness chain in seven cities around the U.S., offers a little more than hard bodies at its San Francisco gym. It also offers provocative silhouettes of those bodies behind the translucent glass of strategically placed showers. Walk upstairs to the locker rooms and you can see them -- naked shadows splashing behind gauzy glass, women on your left, men on your right. Don't get us wrong -- you don't need a perfect body to work out at Crunch; on the contrary, the atmosphere is comfortable, and all shapes and sizes are welcome. The only prerequisite is the knowledge that someone might catch a hazy glimpse of you au naturel as you rinse off after a grueling workout.


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WSU's Emily Adney spikes the ball against Arkansas during their match Friday at KU. WSU came back to beat Arkansas in 5 sets after dropping he first two in the 1st round of the NCAA Tournament. (Nov. 30, 2012)
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|Yellowstone National Park
|a national park in the NW central US, mostly in NW Wyoming: the oldest and largest national park in the US, containing unusual geological formations and geysers. Area: 8956 sq km (3458 sq miles)
Located in Wyoming.
Note: Famous for its geysers, including "Old Faithful," and for its bears and buffalo.
Note: The first national park in the United States.


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SELINSGROVE -- Co-treasurers for Friends Ricki Stringfellow, left, and Carol Felix, right, are shown presenting a check in the amount of $13, 000 to Library Director Jennifer Johnston, center. Friends' donations to the library since 2003 now total $125,000. Monies raised from Friends memberships and various fundraisers provide materials, programs, collections and equipment that benefit all library patrons such as Holly Nasados, left, and Collin Nichols, right, front row.


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Escatawpa River in Mobile County
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Fishing license information may be found at: Licenses. Instant licensing is available via Internet (2% fee) or telephone 1-888-848-6887 ($3.95 fee). Youth age 15 and younger fish for free. Alabama residents age 65 or older are not required to purchase a fishing license.
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Welcome to Vanille-Media, the virtual home of Michael 'Mickey' Lauer — dedicated to presenting my personal and professional activities.
From 2001 to 2006, I used to work at the department of computer science in the Frankfurt University as a researcher for mobile distributed systems and middleware. Since September 2006, I'm working as an IT-Freelancer specialized in (Embedded) Linux consulting, training, and engineering.
To the right, you can see the Frankfurt/Main Exhibition Tower — or "Messeturm", how we call it here. At the top is a picture of the skyline. I'm located in Frankfurt/Main and I'm pleased living in this town. This is where I have been born and where all my friends are located.
Frankfurt/Main and the people who live in here share a reputation of being somewhat distant — this may or may not origin from all the banking and insurance business that's going on here — but it has a rich culture and nice inhabitants… once you get to know them.


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It's all the things I just don't have in my life right now: an iPad or Android tablet and a cat.
But that doesn't mean that it doesn't have marketing significance – even if I can only appreciate from afar the "You vs. Cats" game recently introduced by Friskies® cat food.
Coming off the vitality of showing cats doing amazing and silly things on YouTube, a recent set of video games presented on the website for this company allows you and your cat to test the dexterity of the paw with bright shapes and colors that move across the tablet screen.
The reason these are not silly gimmicks, but marketing savvy is because when a website promotes its brands by integrating product information with direct selling, nutritional details and unique site aspects – including games – you have a captured and enraptured audience that will stay at the site longer and they are apt to have stronger recognition when it comes to the brand.
It's not just the minutes they stay with this unique promotional message. It's especially potent, as an alternative media when it mentions the product in the game (Tasty Treasure Hunt is a line of canned cat food) or even HAS the product as part of the game (See Party Mix Up – moving objects that are shaped like the cat treats of same name.)
When developing my master's degree capstone paper I suggested that these elements gave websites the brand positioning strength that was previously relegated to traditional broadcast and print advertising. But we now know that branding can come from anywhere. And when you consider the 86.4 million pet cats in the US, you have a recipe for associating Friskies with everything that is fun with cat ownership.
In fact, as of 5/10 at 8:40 PM – the cats had it all over the humans in the You vs. Cats challenge: 4, 728, 820 points for the humans vs. 5,489,110 points for the cats. And the real time, worldwide leader board just kept on ticking.