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Fronzo West Jailed for Telling Authorities "Fuck the Police"
Phoenix civil liberties activist Fronzo West is currently doing time in the Maricopa County jail for exercising his freedom of speech rights as enshrined in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Folks like to say we have freedom of speech in this country, and in theory, we do. But in practice, it's a whole 'nother matter. West, 65, challenges that theory nearly every day of the week here in Phoenix by riding around in a car emblazoned with the slogans "Fuck the Police" and "Stop Police Brutality." He goes further than that. Everything he wears, from the cap on his head to his loafers also bears the same anti-cop messages.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
A rare kind of courage ...
Yesterdays' quotes ...
|Today's QUOTES:
The reasoning behind The Obama Adiministration complicity in the hiding of the BushCo crimes really does illude me. Obama has chosen to become part of the coverup. He has chosen to become complicit in the whole dirty mess that Bush left. Why? --gailFrom yesterday's New York Times:
Documents gathered by lawyers for the families of Sept. 11 victims provide new evidence of extensive financial support for Al Qaeda and other extremist groups by members of the Saudi royal family, but the material may never find its way into court because of legal and diplomatic obstacles.-- Not That It Matters by Turkana, The Left Coaster
... Bush declared "I'm the decider" and he meant it. [The Obama] administration obviously believes it has that right as well --- they just pretend otherwise. -- Transparent Obscurity by digby, Hullabaloo
Saturday, June 27, 2009
So you think it's not getting warmer? ...
Krugman writes:
What this tells me is that annual temperature is indeed noisy: there have been many large fluctuations, indeed much larger than the up-and-down in the last decade or so. But the direction of change is unmistakable if you take the longer view. The fitted line in the figure is a 3rd-degree polynomial, but any sort of smoothing would tell you that there is a massive upward trend.The only reason I can figure for political recalcitrance on this matter is that politicians hate their children. Could there be another reason?
Of course, trend-spotting is no substitute for causal modeling; and the models are getting truly scary in their implications.
I thought Obama was sane ...
The Obama administration is rushing towards a unilateral plan to imprison people without trial, according to a huge, new joint article from the Washington Post and ProPublica. The proposal would completely cut Congress out of the process by using an executive order to essentially bring Gitmo stateside: ... -- Obama Courts Disaster With New Detention Plan by Ari Melber, 06/26/2009This is not the action of a sane American president.
Glenn Greenwald writes today:
There has now emerged a very clear -- and very disturbing -- pattern whereby Obama is willing to use legal mechanisms and recognize the authority of other branches only if he's assured that he'll get the outcome he wants. ...What we have now is not a stupid wanna-be tyrant like with George W. Bush, but a very intelligent wanna-be tyrant. A lack of principles is a lack of principles. A tyrant is a tyrant.
As The New York Times columnist (and Obama supporter) Bob Herbert put it this week: "Policies that were wrong under George W. Bush are no less wrong because Barack Obama is in the White House."
Yesterdays' quotes ...
|Today's QUOTES:
The White House Press corps loves to laugh condescendingly at Helen Thomas because, tenaciously insisting that our sermons to others be applied to our own Government, she acts like a real reporter ... -- The "Neda video," torture, and the truth-revealing power of images by Glenn Greenwald, salon.com
Krugman comes up with a much kinder broadside than I can muster, as I see Obama throwing away all the progress we could have made without even bothering to expend any effort to do things right. --gailMy big fear about Obama has always been not that he doesn't understand the issues, but that his urge to compromise — his vision of himself as a politician who transcends the old partisan divisions — will lead him to negotiate with himself, and give away far too much. He did that on the stimulus bill, where he offered an inadequate plan in order to win bipartisan support, then got nothing in return — and was forced to reduce the plan further so that Susan Collins could claim her pound of flesh.
And now he's done it on a key component of health care reform. What was the point of signaling, right at this crucial moment, that he's willing to give away the public plan? Let alone doing it at the very moment that he was making such a good case for it? -- Obama messes up on health care, big time by Paul Krugman, NY Times
This is extremely serious stuff, the question is not facetious in the least, why can't the fucking Democrats possess the ability to learn Negotiation 101? ... -- Why, In Fact, Can't Democrats Learn? by paradox, The Left Coaster
This assumes that they want to negotiate, that the health care 'debate' is not all a charade, that they do not already have some undocumented 'understanding' that they will not attempt to rock certain boats. Is there really any other explanation. Those who believe never get close enough to do anything. Those who are primed to subterfuge and non-action are always in the way. It happens over and over again ... just tell me there's no pattern to be seen here. --gail
I realize that anecdotes are not data. However, I have never personally met a woman of menopausal age — and I'm past that point myself — who blew off her life because of hot flashes. But I've known, and have known of, a number of men aged 45-60 whose lives crashed and burned because of sex. -- Should Middle-Aged Men Hold Public Office? by Barbara O'Brien, open.salon.com
Ha, ha. Shoe met other foot. --gail
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Cardinals, as in birds, and things ...
I no longer provide bird seed in the yard because having little baby mice doing acrobatics under the bird feeder was just way too much. If they had had the sense to stay mostly out of sight, well maybe ... but really to flaunt and caper in front of anyone who walked by was more that I could take. Though the mouse population did entice an owl family and once I was even visited by a baby or at least juvenile horned owl (which is NOT a small bird, by the way) who stayed in my yard near the bird waterer for several hours.
Anyway, I was writing about the cardinal family. Instead of feeding the birds generally I put out a few walnuts in the morning for the cardinals (and since they are real busy right now feeding the youngsters I sometimes also put a few more out in the late afternoon, specially if papa cardinal comes up and looks in the window). The nice thing about cardinals is that they know where those walnuts are coming from, or at least they know who provides them. Doves, now, doves know nothing, nothing. Like rabbits they have to reproduce lots and lots of themselves in order to survive. I won't get into where humans fit in this continuum between doves and cardinals.
What I was thinking about when I started this post was that one of the young cardinals is very fixated on playing with little flowers --when it's parent isn't close by at which point it goes into baby bird mode shaking its feathers and saying feed me, feed me, now, now. So I was wondering, is this baby's behavior playing with flowers, behavior I've observed frequently over the past two or three days (and, no matter how it may appear, I am not always sitting here in front of the window) ... is this behavior, interest in, or fixation on something other than food happening because they have, in addition to their usual diet, a few extra and easy to obtain walnuts to provide a little bird leisure for the contemplation of their environment? ... or is it genetically defined pre-nesting behavior?
Ain't life interesting.
Lord, what fools these mortals be! ...
Captain of our fairy band,
Helena is here at hand,
And the youth, mistook by me,
Pleading for a lover's fee.
Shall we their fond pageant see?
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
I really don't want to see or read about the details of other peoples love affairs (except for a few really endearing ones, whether real or literary).
I feel really sorry for Governor Sanford (and his family, that is Sanford's real family not some mafia-sounding entity called The Family). I felt really sorry for John Edwards (and his family). Neither of these situations should have generated the kind of spectacle we are now so used to in this country.
It's even possible if we lived in an environment that didn't attempt to force private family relationships in ways that go against the human grain Sanford would never had committed such a deriliction of his duty to his position as Governor. Any responsibilities he has to his wife, to his children and to his God should mostly stay between those parties as long as there is no abuse involved. Setting up such impossible performance strictures on men and women, with scandal as the prize for what could either be a miss step or the following of one's heart (a verdict that is often decided many years after the event) could be compared to the former (I assume this is mostly behind us) blackmailing of secret homosexuals who held prominent positions, though I doubt that Sanford or his defenders have the wherewithal to see the similarity.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Really, how could we have imagined that Obama cared about anything ...
Rahm: White House Open To Dropping Public OptionIn a few short months, Obama's words and his actions have become diametrically opposed.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Don't let your children grow up to be Republicans. Like Killer Jon Kyl they could become models of ...
Paul Krugman points out some of the torturous inconsistencies in thinking that is involved in a bill introduced by Jon Kyl and some of his worst groupies. The bill prohibits "Medicare or Medicaid from using "comparative effectiveness research to deny coverage.""
How bad is it? Let me count the ways.
1. Politicians who rail against wasteful government spending are taking action to prevent the government from reining in … wasteful spending.
2. Politicians who warn that the burden of entitlements is killing the federal budget are stepping in to block … the single most painless route to reducing the growth of entitlements.
3. They're doing it in the name of avoiding "rationing of health care" … but they're specifically addressing taxpayer-funded care. If you want to go out and buy a medically useless treatment, Medicare won't stop you.
4. These same politicians are, of course, opposed to efforts to expand coverage. In other words, it's evil for government to "ration care" by only paying for things that work; it is, however, perfectly OK, indeed virtuous, to ration care by refusing to pay for any care at all.
Sad as it may be, inconsistent thought processes are quite consistent for the Killer.
|Today's QUOTES:
... The U.S stands for freedom, democracy and human rights -- even when we don't. People who advocate unprovoked wars of aggression, torture and mass violence are irredeemable monsters -- except when they're American or our allies. -- Contradictions that aren't seen as contradictory by Glenn Greenwald, salon.com
Friday, June 19, 2009
What will Obama do ...
Fixing the health care system is the first real test of whether or not the Democratic Party understands the new political era in which it's governing. The next couple of months will tell the tale.What will Harry Reid do ...What will Nancy Pelosi do ...What will Obama do ...
I think they will implement what the modern day Robber Barons want; that they will fail the people and fail the Democratic Party and end the Democratic Party's resurgence. Using past Democratic legislation as a model the bills they pass will be worse than what the Republicans would have been able to pass were the majorities reversed. The Democrats continually give everything away BEFORE they even begin to negotiate. Or rather Democrats make a habit of reassuring moronic media hacks that they are not really, you know, liberal or very much of a Democrat and continually whittle down into uselessness, or worse, any contentious proposal before they even begin study or negotiations on the legislation. They do this again and again and over again.
Nancy Pelosi I can't figure out. She appears powerless. Harry Reid is a nonentity and it says a lot about the Democrats in the Senate that they placed this zero in 'charge.' Obama? Obama appears to be a liar. Where George Bush was a stupid liar, Barack Obama is an intelligent liar. But a liar is still a liar. And nothing, absolutely nothing, a liar says can be depended upon nor trusted.
Please, please prove me wrong ...
|Today's QUOTES:
The question is why Democrats are inviting [GOP messaging expert,Frank Luntz] to advise them on how to use his patented fraudulent conservative propaganda and methods? You wouldn't be crazy to wonder if they may just share his goals. -- Sleeping With The Enemy by digby, Hullabaloo
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Really, is there anything Obama wants to 'deal' with? ...
Sensing that my Latino comrades were getting the runaround, I gave Phoenix civil rights leader Salvador Reza a ring to ask him what he thought of this latest disappointment from the Obama administration.
"They want to take away any expectations we have," Reza explained. "They're sending the message to us that they're not ready to move on immigration, and to the right-wing that they're listening to their concerns. In the meantime, the repression continues, and they don't want to deal with it."
What exactly does Obama want to deal with? He started his tenure signing a few promising statements. Next he began hiding information about Bush and Cheney actions, legal or illegal. Then he began defending Bush/Cheney era authoritarian measures in court. Then he asked Congress to legalize anything that Bush/Cheney did that was still considered illegal. All because he wants those powers himself or he wants to look forward, not backward, or something. And this is the man who had the gall to run on open government. Oh and all the while he was helping shovel money into Wall Street coffers while letting the populace know we could expect some belt tightening. Now it's foreign banks that must have our money. And health care? I suppose he'll come up with enough energy to give the insurance companies whatever they want ...
Is there any group of supporters that he hasn't betrayed so far? The only people I can see that he's catered to are Republicans and they will continue to attack and defy him no matter how close he comes to supporting everything they want just because he's a Democrat.
And yet, we still have his addle brained followers telling us to wait, wait, we can't see his hold cards yet!
And Congress! OUR Democratic Congress is doing absolutely everything they possible can to ensure that they will loose their Democratic majority. Not that it matters given their 'accomplishments' so far.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Jane Hamsher rocks ...
Whip Count: The Final Total, or How We Went from 0 to 32
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Stupid me ...
What You Don't Know About Orange Juice [ via tristero at Hullabaloo ]
Friday, June 12, 2009
The USDA Organic label gets to stay, whether the product is organic or not ...
Apparently neither the judge, the USDA nor the stores that passed on the products care whether the products they were selling (at higher Organic product prices) were actually organic.
The Bush administration did their best to bastardize the organic rules to favor corrupt corporations with sufficient financial clout. The next step is to make the label itself meaningless.
In the end, of course, this process helps no one. The consumer will not get the products they want but, in addition, once the label looses all trust no one will pay premium prices for the products. Not that the corporate Robber Barons care. They will just look around for the next scam to run. How long before they organize their own militias and invade our homes to take whatever they want.
|Today's QUOTES:
In a world in which our own government is using contractors to conduct unwarranted invasions of our privacy, there's something utterly perverse about our own government then inventing FOIA exemptions to protect contractors from "unwarranted invasion" of their privacy. -- Leon Panetta: I've Got to Protect the Contractors from Unwarranted Invasion of Privacy by emptywheel, firedoglake.com
Talk about an understatement!
It's looking more and more like Barack Obama's pledge to usher in a new era of openness in government may well go unfulfilled. -- CIA Stance On Torture Tape Docs Suggests Obama's New Open Government Era Won't Materialize by Zachary Roth, Talking Points Memo
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Is the Obama Presidency stuck in campaign mode? ...
Eliminate the negative
And latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mister In-Between
just does not work with such issues as people's rights no matter how much the 'pragmatic' Obama would like it to.
The article also leaves the impression that the Obama administration and Janet Napolitano may not be doing anything about the discriminatory practices because they are afraid. [Afraid of Sheriff Joe but nevertheless they propose to keep us safe by refusing to let us see pictures of past crimes.]
An update to the article follows:
UPDATE: A White House aide called me this morning, asking that I point out that the White House has a meeting scheduled on June 17 with congressional leaders of both parties to discuss immigration. Originally, the meeting was scheduled for June 8. The aide, who did not wish to be identified, could not explain the discrepancy between what Odio told Latino leaders last week, or with Abrams' statement to me quoted above. Nor could the aide tell me if the meeting will be held in public or private. The following is what the aide would say on the record:
"The president is inviting a small group of bipartisan Senate and House leaders on the immigration issue to the White House for a meeting to have an honest discussion of the issues, identify areas of agreement, and areas where we still have work to do." [emphasis added]
Get that, a 'White House aide' who one would assume is following someone's instructions in making this call does not want to be identified? And why not? And WHY did Stephen Lemons accept this type of information under those conditions? There is no reason whatsoever for the bearer of this information to be incognito.
Obama should look to who is supporting some of his proposals ...
Some of the worst of the worst are supporting Obama's journey to absolute Presidential power and government secrecy while the more enlightened of his own party are starting to question his more authoritarian and decidedly undemocratic proposals.
Just as Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman are Obama's staunchest supporters on his photo suppression policy (while progressive House Democrats oppose it), Sen. Feingold's hearing just began with a vigorous defense of Obama's preventive detention scheme from GOP Sen. Tom Coburn, which occurred right before human rights advocates and civil libertarian witnesses, and right after Feingold himself, explained their opposition. In addition to Coburn, two witnesses -- hard-core Bush follower David Rifkin and a former right-wing law clerk to Ken Starr -- heaped praise on Obama's preventive detention proposal.
Monday, June 8, 2009
The most accurate graphic depiction of Health Insurance and Drug companies I've ever seen is ...
|Today's QUOTES:
Once the RNC figured out that Obama, like almost every other prominent Democrat, could be mau-maued into apologizing over an issue that didn't rate an apology, ... -- All Apologies by Phoenix Wmoan, firedoglake.com
... [Billo's] arrogance is so simultaneously cloying and macho that his act seems like some kind of retro, angry white man, drag queen performance art. ... -- by digby, Hullabaloo
... Somehow, the "Sweet Land" of liberty is plagued by murderous fears that one's freedom depends upon the death, exile or enslavement of some other. ... -- Before the Mountains: Sotomayor and Sitting Bull in America by Glenn W. Smith, firedoglake.com
In all the navel gazing about the future of journalism, it seems to me that one of the most important is consideration of the cracking of the insider culture. The media's failures of the past decade can be at least partially explained by its insular nature and class based identification with those they cover. ... [...] ... the fact is that American journalism is in crisis. They can pretend it's all about the financial model and parasite bloggers or whatever other excuse they can come up with. But one of the reasons is a catastrophic loss of credibility because they are consistently either missing the most important stories of our time or helping the powerful manipulate them. ... -- Covering Your BFF by digby, Hullabaloo
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Oh great, now we're 'supporting' Sotomayor because the hyenas are attacking ...
Greenwald documents the nature and vileness of the attacks on Sotomayor.
But Crooks and Liars instead of critiquing Sotomayor based on what we know about her and working to get a productive confirmation hearing, C&L is supporting a campaign to get Sotomayor confirmed as a response to GOP sludge.
Seems all that's required is for the Republican to be unreasonably against something for us to support whatever non-progressive non-liberal Obama chooses to do.We Stand With Sonia Sotomayor By David Neiwert Saturday Jun 06, 2009 10:00am
"I stand with Judge Sotomayor, and urge the Senate Judiciary Committee to give her nomination a speedy hearing and a positive confirmation."
One definition of AUDACIOUS: showing an impudent lack of respect ...
The Audacious Book Salon: Chapter One... and done -- Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:07pm — vastleft
A short excerpt:
Shorter Obama:
- Politics used to be gentlemanly
- But there were problems, like racism and such (and everyone had to be a "gentleman")
- In the 60s, some of those problems came to a head, and things got better
- Still, the Baby Boomers are "arrested development" cases whose whiny entitlement is the cause of today's political stalemate
- It should be said that the Republicans have done some terrible things. So, maybe it's not a stalemate.
- ... But I'm sure the Democrats have been just as extreme (even if there aren't any relevant examples). And, besides, we're losers.
- Bill Clinton played the GOP to a draw. I'm going to succeed like he did. But differently. And more so. In some way.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Obama chooses the dark side, again ...
ABORTION FOE TO LEAD HHS FAITH-BASED OFFICE.Like, do you really think that I want a Catholic looking for the opportunity to tell me how to live my life and what my responsibility may or may not be. I think that as a country there are a few issues we must come to some understanding about (and notice I do not say agreement) but I do not wish those to be formulated by a Catholic, a Mormon, a Jew, a Moslem or anyone else set on imposing the rules of their own personal belief system on the rest of us. 'My God,' that's what this country was about to begin with.
Let's put an atheist in the office and see what happens. As far as I can tell Atheism appears to be as much of a religion as the rest. Better yet, let's get rid of this ridiculous office. It's just another case of Obama following down Bush's road. Step by step making it less likely we will ever pull out of our decline as a nation.
I guess we're going to find out that the only promises Obama keeps are those aimed at the religious right.
You know, Obama baby, if a woman thinks there is no reason known to man that would justify a woman having an abortion then let that woman forego such a procedure. Other than that let women make their own damn decisions.
Don't you think this country looks just a little ridiculous having this fight about the 'life' of a few cells when we are busily killing people in Afghanistan and have already killed, what, millions in Iraq. Killing like that is certainly not self defense and shows a wanton disregard of the life and well being of the people of those countries. In others words, Americans have shown that they care nothing for 'life.'
But we're are fighting about a few cells. Yea! Get real.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Does Obama really care about health care? ...
It's my opinion that Obama will undermine anything that the monied interests don't want. And the only thing the monied interests in this country want is increasing wealth and power for themselves. While Obama will continue to verbalize beautiful thoughts he has shown little interest in fighting any battles that may reduce the profits of the Robber Baron bankers, the Robber Baron insurance industry, the Robber Baron military/industrial complex.
In general, the Obama followers sound a lot like the Bush followers. Things that were evil when BushCo did them are now a-OK just because it's Obama. The more 'balanced' progressively leaning blogs, while not silent on Obama's walk down the Bush road, are specially circumspect and third-personish in their analysis of where Obama is taking us.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
I was going to just pull out a quote or two ...
... The only "consistency" between widespread deregulation and a bailout is always giving the rich what they want - allowing them high profits for themselves in good times and protecting them from risk at public expense in the bad. ...There's much more.
... It's not just economics that seems to mystify [movement conservatism], though, but basic human nature. ...
Unfortunately, Tim Geithner and the Obama gang seem to be too willing to continue the dodgy moves of Paulson and the Bush administration. Maybe it's class solidarity, similar ideologies, or the difficulty of fighting the bankers who own Congress. Maybe they simply aren't working hard enough to protect the country's economy against astonishingly arrogant, reckless and selfish corporate narcissists. Maybe they simply fail to realize the true nature of these oligarchs, and how dangerous they are. Maybe they're just too corrupt themselves. What Jonathan Schwarz wrote back in October about a flabbergasted establishment is as relevant as ever:Who wouldn't be stunned when the most greedy, venal, vicious, cruel, arrogant, ignorant human beings on earth aren't eager to work in the public interest? Especially when people like them have never been willing to do so in the entire history of mankind, except on the rare occasions when they've been directly threatened with execution? It's stunning!Somehow, it never occurred to them that human beings would be greedy and selfish.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
But we won't ...
Obama, as a leader of the United States, should think this issue through and attempt to lead us out of the moral morass in which the US is drowning. But he won't. Unlike Bush, Obama has a brain. But like Bush, Obama is not a thinker ...
If this incoherent, boot-strapping rationale is the best we can come up with for our/Obama's Iraq policy, I'd said its time for us to get out. The issue isn't just the photos; it's the unthinking, unexamined presumptuousness of the occupation. We no longer have any moral claim, any valid justification for being there, if we ever had one.
We need to end that occupation; then apologize, come home and, as General Sanchez said on Countdown, try to confront what we've done to them, and to ourselves, and ask why/how we let it happen. And while we're doing this, it is we who need to be looking at the photos, not just the Iraqis.
[excerpt from McClatchy: Obama Heeded Maliki on Abuse Photos; What That Says for Our Occupation by Scarecrow]
Monday, June 1, 2009
It's so simple ...
We're all familiar with the idea that power corrupts.
The British historian Lord Acton said: "Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely."I don't think that's quite what's happened to Obama. Instead, it's a case of 'power makes people stupid."
"By using mathematical theories, the American scholar Jonathan Bendor proves the great value of independent thinking and the limitations of decision makers. When leaders are too busily occupied with myriad state affairs, institutional methods can be used to ease their cognitive constraints, by seeking wise solutions from among the people and encouraging independent thinking in government officials. But in a totalitarian country, such institutional methods do not and cannot exist."Inspite of all the hype about Obama being open to the ideas of those who do not agree with him, in actuality Obama's solution to problems come from a very narrow set of solutions proposed by those in power; those who benefit, usually monetarily, from those very decisions. Those with alternate solutions, solutions that may look beyond immediate gain of the Banksters and Robber Baron Corporatists are either shut out completely or allowed to voice their concerns after the decisions have been solidified.
Once elected, whether Republican or Democrat, the law has no meaning to them ...
As Glenn Greewald writes:Obama makes noises about many things. Nice sounding noises. But his actions belies his pretty words. Where Bush just ignored the law to do his evil, Obama thinks of changing the laws retroactively to accomplish the same evil. And if you don't think hiding war crimes, torture, rape and murder is evil then why do we spend so much effort to capture and convict those who commit such actions who are not government protected?
... For decades, we had laws in place authorizing citizens to sue their telecommunication carriers if the telecoms allowed government spying on their communications in violation of the law, but when it was revealed that the telecoms did exactly this, the Congress simply changed the law retroactively so that it no longer applied. For decades, we had laws imposing civil and criminal liability on government officials who engaged in or authorized torture, but when it was revealed that our government did that, the Congress just retroactively changed the law to protect the torturers. And now that courts have ruled that our decades-old transparency law compels disclosure of this torture evidence, the Congress is just going to retroactively change the law -- again -- this time to empower the President to suppress that evidence anyway.
Other than creating an illusion of transparency and accountability, what's the point of having laws that purport to restrict what the Government can do if political officials just retroactively waive those laws whenever they want? ...


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Check the Name
Nowadays there are many platforms to list your business on. Social Media in many forms. Website domains. emails etc. It is wise to look for a name that not only stands out and grabs attention, but also is available to use.
My go to easy source is this website NameChk.com
I know there are others out there but this one always seems to populate the quickest and give me the best feedback when helping a client create a new product brand or name. The only missing feature is gmail and google plus. But I do like the "sort by rank" feature at the top and the available domains that pop up.
Another site I like to Frequent is Name Check List
I like this one for its ability to check your search item and gauge how common your search is on the web. Another great tool.
I hope you find these two sites helpful in your search as you look to grow and expand your business.

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A new non profit internet store selling Sar-El products has just opened its virtual doors.
Called the Sar-El Veterans and Friends Online Ordering page, the site is the brainchild of long-serving Sar-El veterans, Johnny and Jim. The site is there to serve volunteers looking to purchase Sar-El products or items that would be useful during their Sar-El service.
Click here to take a look!


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At Leading Edge Computers Colac, we stock a huge range of accessories needed to make your computing experience easier, accessible, or just fun! We have a range of printers, laser or inkjet, bluetooth speakers, turntables, external hard drives, graphics cards and networking equipment just to name a few. We are so committed to our customers that, if we do not have an item in-stock, we will endeavour to order it in!
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Victoria's first country railway was built by the Geelong & Melbourne Railway Company. Funded largely by British shareholders, construction commenced from the Geelong end in 1854 but made slow progress due to labour shortages caused by the goldrushes. The 38½-mile (62 km) line finally opened with gala celebrations on 25 June 1857.
Because the line terminated at Greenwich (near Newport), passengers were initially obliged to transfer to a steamer at Williamstown for connection to Melbourne or the Sandridge Railway Pier. This situation was finally relieved with the opening of the Williamstown Railway in January 1859, but the Geelong Railway continued to operate at a loss and sold out to the government for £800,000 in June 1860.


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Johannesburg Soul Calibur VI Tournament
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Transcending history and the world
A tale of Soul and Sword
Eternally Retold
This months Fighting Game Community meetup will be taking place on the 17th of November at the Nexus.
Fighting games of all kinds will be played including DragonBall FighterZ, Street Fighter V, Injustice 2, Guilty Gear Xrd, BlazBlue, King of Fighters, Tekken 7, Soul Calibur 6 and many more.
Newcomers and Veterans alike are welcome for both tournament and casual play.
There is a R30 entrance fee to the event. This grants you entrance to the event for casual play. This amount is payable at the front counter. You will receive a receipt. Please write your name on the receipt and this will be collected during the meetup.
Please bring your own controller. Mark your controller and keep track of it always to prevent loss or accidentally taking someone elses.
You are welcome to bring your own setup (Monitor and/or Console). The more that are available the less you have to wait to hand out beatings.
SoulCalibur VI Tournament!!!
Tournament Entry:
R30 (Separate from above venue entry fee)
Cash Pot from tournament entry (Distributed between 1st, 2nd and 3rd).
1st place will also take home a R500 PSN Voucher.
Online Registration: https://challonge.com/JHBD2
We will also be having a mystery Game tournament!!
Whether Garbage Kusoge or secret top tier hype, it's always a fun time.
Please make use of the parking across the street of Nexus.
Bringing your own food and drinks to the nexus is not allowed. There is a cafe on the premises, please support the venue by making use of it.
We record and archive matches and streams, please subscribe to keep up:
You can join the SAFGC Discord to keep up with Fighting games in South Africa:
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^^^ A gardener tends to her crops at the New Roots Community Farm run by the International Rescue Committee in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego, CA. Photographer: Sandy Huffaker/IRC.
Visitors to Farm Bureau's City Heights Farmers' Market in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego are often struck by two things: the diversity of produce on display, and the diversity of people walking and working the market. One can hear up to 15 different languages spoken while walking the rows on any given Saturday morning.
San Diego County Farm Bureau partnered with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) to bring the City Heights Farmers' Market to fruition in 2008. The IRC office in San Diego serves primarily as a refugee resettlement agency, resettling about 1,000 people per year fleeing conflict, disaster, or persecution. City Heights is where many of IRC's clients settle which contributes to the wide diversity of cultures in the community.
Over the years, many IRC refugee clients have participated in City Heights Farmers' Market as vendors and earned supplemental income for themselves. Along with handicrafts and artwork, many have been able to grow and sell produce at the market thanks to IRC's New Roots Community Farm.
The farm was initially conceived as a sort of cure. For many refugees, leaving their home countries and resettling in an entirely new environment is jarring. Bilali Muya, an IRC staffer and member of the Somali Bantu community was quoted in a 2011 New York Times article about refugee farming, saying, "There was this kind of depression. Everyone was dreaming to come to the U.S.A., but they were not happy. The people were put in apartments, missing activity, community. They were bored." The IRC saw a community garden as a solution to improve their clients' nutrition, mental health, and finances by allowing people to grow their own food, and create connections between neighbors.
The IRC established the New Roots Community Farm as a community garden in June 2009 after months of negotiations with the City of San Diego and $46,000 in fees. As a result of their struggle to open the community garden, and working closely with city staff and other organizations, the IRC was able to influence city ag policy and it is now free to start a community garden in the City of San Diego. In 2010, First Lady Michelle Obama visited the garden and declared it a "model for the nation."
At the New Roots Community Farm, which is located on the corner of 54th St. and Chollas Parkway in San Diego, 83 families grow herbs, fruits, and vegetables on 93 plots across 2.4 acres of land. Six of those growers have at one time sold their produce at CHFM, averaging $100 a day in sales. For those residents, an average of $400 a month is a significant supplemental income. The IRC offers soil and irrigation training at the garden, as well as a broader farmer training program on land in Pauma Valley. Clients who go through the training are equipped to grow their own produce and sell to local restaurants, take it home to their families, or sell it at the City Heights or nearby El Cajon farmers' markets.
City Heights farmers' market has proven itself financially successful, open and running every week year-round since it opened, in a low-income neighborhood where half the residents live at or below the federal poverty line. Part of the market's success is due to its accessibility. CHFM was the first farmers' market in San Diego County to process electronic benefit transfer (EBT) transactions. EBT is California's system by which qualifying individuals and families use food and nutrition assistance dollars from the state. CHFM was also one of nine pilot markets in the state to accept Women, Infants, Children (WIC) food and vegetable checks.
Making it easy for residents to use all the resources they have to feed themselves and their families has earned the market a special place in the heart of the community. Just as the New Roots Community Farm offers opportunity and community to many people displaced from their homes, City Heights Farmers' Market brings a diversity of people together every Saturday morning right in the heart of the neighborhood.
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………. still in continuation from my previous post on the count down of Africa proverbs and wise sayings from the most celebrated African literature giant- Chinua Achebe. Anytime i read his works i always imagine painting his lines on a flat surface. There is one thing i learnt from his works, is the expression of the artists background, not trying to write like a European or an American but an African. For me that is extremely beautiful!
However just fill your eyes, read the lines, imagine the line, picture the lines, illustrate each words or lines, create and paint your own story from each of the proverbs. Please just read and enjoy……
· "It is praise worthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.''
· "Wisdom is like a goat skin bag; every man carries his own".
· "If the lizard of the homestead should neglect to do the things for which its kind is known, it will be mistaken for the lizard of the farmland."
· "A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet."
· "When an old woman hears the dance she knows her old age deserts her."
· "It is only when you are close to a man that you can begin to smell his breath."
· "If a blind man does not know his own stick, tell me what else would he know."
· "If you fail to take away a strong man's sword when he is on the ground, will you do it when he gets up?"
· "When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself."
· "A goat does not eat into a hen's stomach no matter how friendly the two maybe"
· "A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday"
· "The inquisitive eye will only blind it own sight"
· "A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?"
· "If we fall back, can we complain that others are rushing forward?"
· "When suffering knocks on your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tell you not to worry because he has brought his own stool"
· "What a man does not know is greater than he"
· "Only a foolish man can go after a leopard with his bare hand"
· "In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace"
· "When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it"
· "The death that will kill a man begins as an appetite"
· "If a man sought for a companion who acted entirely like himself, he would live in solitude"
· "The greatest lair among men still speak the truth to his own son"
· "A boy who tries to wrestle with his father gets blinded by the old man's lion cloth"
· "When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father's estate"
· "The man that brings anti-infested faggot into his hut should not grumble when lizard begin to pay him a visit"
· "A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every- day herbs"
· "No matter how many spirits plot a man's death, it come to nothing unless his chi (personal god), has a hand in the deliberation"
· "A man who means to buy palm wine does not hang about at home until all the palm wine in the market is sold"
· "The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation"
· "It is the fear of offence that makes men swallow poison"
· "A man of sense does not go hunting little bush rodents when his age mates are after big game"
· "No man however great is greater than his people"
· "Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache"


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Are You Ready For The 2012 International Food and Wine Festival?
I just LOVE visiting the Walt Disney World Resort at any time of the year, but the fall is one of my VERY favorite times to go. There are so many fantastic events going on including one of the most anticipated events of the year, the Epcot International Food and Wine Festival! I don't know about you, but I'm always overwhelmed by all of the great events and food booths there and I never know where to start. Well, the Epcot International Food and Wine Festival is quickly approaching and since it's the biggest Food and Wine Festival of its kind in the world, it can be overwhelming, even to repeat visitors! But by pre-planning, you'll be able to choose the parts that are most important to you and create a strategy to make sure you experience them all.
To help you with the pre-planning, I want to tell you about the DFB Mini Guide to the 2012 Epcot Food and Wine Festival e-Book. It is 160 pages of in-depth information, including significant updates and 35 pages of brand new information! If you were one of the many who bought the guide last year, you know how important these details are. There is a full chapter on What's NEW at the 2012 Festival, great for veterans and those who have been to the festival before. All of the new marketplace booth menu items, new events, and more are noted as well! Plus, there's been a brand new FAQ section added answering broad and not-so-broad questions like "Are the booths open in the rain?", "Are the booths open during Extra Magic Hours?", and "Is there a way to pay one price for an all-you-can-eat option?" and even more bonus items (including new booth crawls and touring strategies)! Remember, if you only have a few days (or less) to spend at the Festival, you want to be sure you're making the right choices!
Also included in the DFB Mini Guide to the 2012 Epcot Food and Wine Festival e-Book is a full schedule of events for every single day of the 46-day Festival! This extremely valuable, exclusive resource allows you to easily flip to the days you'll be there, see what's offered, and be ready to book tickets — just like that! This guide is only available in digital format. Use it on your mobile device when you're at the festival to see what events are happening in real time. You'll have instant access to menus and food photos from the 2012 World Showcase booths, each booth has its own page, complete with photos of the booths AND food as well as a full menu. By choosing your must-eats before you get to the festival, you'll save time, money, and all-important stomach space! You'll also get location, time, and price details for every single event, concert, and seminar at the Festival. The exclusive and customized bonus sections will help make your trip to the Festival your best visit ever. Take a look before your trip to decide what menu items and events your family will enjoy, then book early to make sure you're one of the lucky attendees! This level of detail, organized by day, can't be found anywhere else online or in print. Time is money on a Disney Vacation; get the most out of both!
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Full, Comprehensive Daily Schedule of Events: Whether you'll be attending for one day, or visiting the Food and Wine Festival every weekend, we've got a full daily schedule of events where you'll be able to see everything taking place at the festival while you're there. We haven't seen this type of comprehensive schedule anywhere, and we're already using it for reference!
Index of Everything New at the Festival in 2012: We've compiled a list of every new International Marketplace booth menu item, signature event, seminar, demonstration, concert, and more. If you've been to the festival before, check this out to see what new items there are to try.
Eleven World Showcase Booth Crawls — a great activity for a group of any size or a solo adventurer: We've mapped out eleven World Showcase Booth Crawls that will take you from booth to booth to sample some of the incredible menu options at the Festival Marketplaces. Choose from eleven fun themes — or do a new one every day! There's even one for the kids!
Food and Wine Festival Customized Touring Strategies: Will you be visiting the Festival for only one day? Only a half day? Are you going to be there with kids? Want to do the festival on a budget? We've developed customized touring strategies for these circumstances and more!
Eat to the Beat! Mp3 Playlist: Let the music of the festival stoke your excitement for October to finally get here! We've put together a playlist of favorite songs by the Eat to the Beat Concert headliners and included links so you can get them quickly and easily!
Food, Wine, Beverage, Winery, and Beer Indexes with Dates and Locations: These indexes give you the opportunity to quickly scan menu items, wines, beers, and even wineries at the festival to find out where your favorites can be found. We even include dates for when certain wines, beers, and wineries appear at festival seminars and demonstrations!
Chef Index and Chef Spotlight Bios: Find out quickly where your favorite chef will be presenting, and read up on bios of the celebrity chefs who will be appearing at the Food and Wine Festival.
Are you excited yet? I've already read my DFB Mini Guide to the 2012 Epcot Food and Wine Festival e-Book and my family has three weekend trips planned during the Festival this year!! Woo Hoo!!!! The goodies I'm really looking the most forward to are the Chicken Souvlaki with Tzatziki at the Greece Booth, the Beef Empanada at the Argentina Booth, the Frozen Dragon Berry Colada at the Caribbean Booth, and finally the Chocolate Covered Cannoli at the Italy Booth!! Please let me know in the comments which are your faves!
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- Kenny King, who returned at last night's All-Star Extravaganza VII show, posted on Twitter, making light of his problems with ROH in the past.
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A BEIJING JOURNEY - Part 2
by Dean Barrett
"Here begins our tale - The empire being divided must unite; being united, must divide. It has always been thus.
Back in Beijing, the girl playing the ancient "xun" instrument inside the main hall of the Confucius temple is playing "Old Lang Syne" to attract buyers. Outside the hall are long rows of stone steles with the names of Ming and Ch'ing Dynasty scholars. These men spent much of their lives preparing for and taking a series of incredibly difficult examinations to become chinshih, the highest award granted. (their diligent study of ethics and philosophy would ill prepare them for the encroachments of Western military might.) Chinese characters in one of the stones reads:
The Emperor Ch'ien Lung began to have the following
155 names carved in this stone during the 45th year of his reign, 5th month, 10th day (1781)
I lean closer to read the names.
Li Kwang Shih, from the county of Chi Ning in Shantung province
Wang Lin, from Liu Ho prefecture south of the Yangtze
But the stones appear abandoned, some are in disrepair and almost all have small bugs irreverently crawling over the names. I think of the pride of these men, of their families and of their villages. The jubilation, the triumph, the rejoicing. Part of a way of life and of a dynastic cycle which has passed forever. As I pass between the long rows of carved, silent stones, I can just make out the faint sounds of "Old Lang Syne."
There is also a clinic inside this temple and I happily chat with a middle-aged doctor who explains that there are 27 kinds of pulse, each indicating what is right and wrong with the body. She shows me a kind of twig that resembles a plant in winter and an insect in summer. A perfect symbol, I think, of how the West has viewed the ever-changing mosaic of China over the centuries.
At this temple are also rows of beautifully formed Chinese calligraphy and I remember the dynastic story of the two Chinese generals and their armies facing one another. One of the generals wrote a note to the other suggesting that to avoid bloodshed between men of honor, he surrender to him. It is said that when the general read the note, he could discern from the strength and beauty of the characters that his opponent had far greater character than he and he surrended his army on the spot. As for thousands of years, Chinese have practiced their characters to improve their character" the story rings true. I try to think of Ulysses S. Grant surrendering his army to General Lee because of Lee's penmanship. Or Westmoreland. Or Powell. No. Some things work only in China.
My favorite temples, though, are the Taoist. Thoroughly disliked by everyone from the Tang Dynasty's Confucian Judge Dee to Mao Tse-tung, I enjoy their laid-back, irreverent and even sensual atmosphere. Thick streams of incense curl up beside colorful drawings of very lifelike gods and goddesses and victims undergoing imaginative tortures. A man in a painting has a wooden square around his neck known as a cangue. It is so wide that it prevents him from reaching his mouth with his hands and he must rely on others for food. Along with defeated politicians and bankers convicted of embezzlement, he will soon find out who his real friends are.
Eureka! A discovery! The McDonalds's south of South Gate has a squat toilet in the men's room. I don't know exactly why that makes me happy; but it does. Where warlord armies once assembled and where Red Guard factions once fought there now exists Minder's Cafe, Flower City Music Cafe, Car Wash Cafe and Cafe Cafe, but still, the McDonalds south of South Gate has a squat toilet in the men's room. Some piece of tradition to hang on to.
This particular outlet also sells beautiful blue-and-gold T-shirts with the McDonald arch and the Forbidden City and five Chinese characters which mean "Beijing McDonalds." Wait! I'm not really going to demean myself by buying a McDonald's Beijing T-shirt, am I? I buy two. After all, I figure it is only a matter of time before the rapidly growing McDonalds's chain in China will join the Great Wall as the only man-made structure on earth supposedly visible from Outer Space. And when I return to Hong Kong, I will swap one of the T-shirts for a Time magazine T-shirt with Chairman Mao on it. Yes, Time has come a long way also.
"He who has not climbed the Great Wall cannot be counted as a real man. And he who has not viewed true peking opera at Zheng Yi Ci may live to regret it." This, along with a painting of a character from Chinese opera, is painted on the wall of a small lane near the beautifully renovated late Ming Dynasty temple now serving as a Chinese opera theater. Whether the painted words are meant as a threat or as a statement of fact, I'm not sure, but the performances here are among China's best. During intermission, I spot a cryptic notice that among the service items available is "the karaoke of Beijing opera." Some things are best left to the imagination.
But then I notice a photograph of four men on the wall which captures my attention so completely I am almost late for the second half of the show. It is a 1960 picture of Chairman Mao shaking hands with the great opera female impersonator Mei Lan-fang, the talented playwright, T'ien Han, and the famous writer, Lao She. All are smiling broadly as Chairman Mao shakes Lao She's hand. The caption does not speak of their fates. It does not mention how during the "Great Cultural Revolution" of 1966-76, the "ten years of turmoil" in which China devoured itself, T'ien Han was tortured and died in prison; Lao She, no longer able to stand the fury of the Red Guards, drowned himself in a lake. Only Mei Lan-fang escaped such a fate by dying in 1961, before the worst of the madness began. But something about the fate of those men made me decide that during my last full day in China I would visit lesser known attractions now serving as small museums: the homes of Mei Lan-fang, Lu Hsun and Soong Ching-ling.
Lu Hsun, who died in 1936, was China's greatest modern writer, and the few rooms open to public scrutiny reveal how simply he lived. His pictures clearly portray one of those sensitive faces that immediately reveals his artistic soul. What impresses me most about Mei Lan-fang's house is the inscription on the fan presented to him by Rabindranath Tagore in 1924:
You are veiled, my beloved, in a language I do not know
As a hill that appears like a cloud behind its mist.
For me, however, it is Soong Ching-ling who holds the most interest. The widow of Sun Yat-sen, the "Father of Modern China," and the only one of the three famous Soong sisters who stayed on under Communist rule. I walk through the rooms scanning her pictures as she evolves from the delicate, croquet-playing bride of Dr. Sun into the portly, sharp-eyed, representative of China's rubber stamp parliament. Again, the captions reveal little. There is nothing about her inner turmoil, her arguments with Mao Tse-tung, her passionate love for her male secretary and the danger she faced from the Red Guards which forced Chou En-lai himself to intervene to protect her.
I spot a photograph of Dr. Sun and his young wife surrounded by loyal Chinese soldiers on board a steamer commemorating their escape from one of China's many warlords. But every historical Chinese photograph has at least one untold story and in this one I spot the head of none other than the flamboyant Two-Gun Cohen, the British/Canadian/Jewish bodyguard of Sun Yat-sen. A man who once saved Sun Yat-sen's life and the life of Chiang Kai-shek. A man whose actions may have changed Chinese and, hence, world history. A man who, not unlike so many others in China's long historical tapestry, has himself faded into history.
A potpourri of facts gleaned from Beijing papers during my stay: The city has 11 million people; most adults are smokers despite the new ban on smoking in public places and the 85,000 people mobilized to enforce the "Kick Butts Campaign;" a small number of sea burials have begun as a means of combating the soaring prices for burial ground in the city; Chinese authorities have banned articles discussing the 30th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution as conclusions might hurt the Party's image; China is still the largest bicycle producer in the world with 470 million bicycles in the country; Beijing's famous shopping street, Wangfujing, now has new pay-to-use, automatic, odor-free, non-flush toilets; because of construction of hotels and plazas and destruction of courtyands and hutongs (narrow lanes), Beijingers don't find their way around town as easily as before; the Liberation Daily is complaining about "advertisements featuring blonde-haired, blue-eyed people...as if a product that has been accepted by foreigners must be good;" foreign agents of the music, film and software industries who lead Chinese authorities to illegal shipments of pirated goods are in danger of being prosecuted for "illegal surveillance." And, in the provinces, thunder editorials indignantly, a huge amount of garbage from the United States has been uncovered. As a new Yorker, I am well aware of New York's history of sending its unmanageable, overflowing garbage outside the state by barge, train, truck, whatever, and, during my last few days in the country, I decide to keep a low profile. After all, those no-fat, low sodium pretzel bags and back issues of Village Voice might be traced directly to me.
Well, then, Beijing - sprawling, dusty, fascinating without being in any way charming, too hot in the summer, too cold in the winter - what and whither? I would not be so foolish as to predict anything beyond the most mundane observations. Beijing, like so much of Asia, has transformed frm a romantic adventure for foreign travelers into an engine of a powerhouse economy. There will be fewer budget travelers and more luxury hotels, more plazas, more discos. More bicycle and automobile traffic will continue to ignore more crosswalks. More joint ventures. More threats of tariffs. More cultural misunderstandings. Fewer heated discussions of ideology and more heated towel rails. More prickly relations with the West in which a little sediment of pulp is to be expected.
But as the experts on China say: there are no experts on China, only varying degrees of ignorance. So perhaps it is best to close by quoting the wise preface to the great fourteenth century Chinese novel, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one of Chairman Mao's favorite books: "Here begins our tale - The empire being divided must unite; being united, must divide. It has always been thus."
The End
Copyright Dean Barrett 2014
A Beijing Journey first appeared, in shorter form, in THAI Airways International magazine, Sawasdee.


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Take a nice piece of halibut weighing five or six pounds and lay it in salt water for two hours. Wipe it dry and score the outer skin. Set it in a dripping pan in a moderately hot oven and bake an hour, basting often with butter and water heated together in a sauce pan or tin cup. When a fork will penetrate it easily, it is done. It should be a fine, brown color. Take the gravy in the dripping pan, add a little boiling water, should there not be enough, stir in a tablespoonful of walnut catsup, a teaspoonful of Worcestershire sauce, the juice of a lemon, and thicken with brown flour, previously wet with cold water. Boil up once and put in a sauce boat.
The White House Cookbook (1887).


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If you are considering The Vine School for your children, the first step is to learn about the kind of education we offer. We recommend reading "For the Children's Sake" by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay or "When Children Love to Learn" by Elaine Cooper. You can also research Simply Charlotte Mason or view a video link. If The Vine School offers what you want, then please download the application form and begin the process.
After we receive your application, we will arrange for your child(ren) to attend school for between one and three days of assessment and orientation. Parents will also be invited to an interview.
The school will assess if children are ready for the proposed grade - academically, emotionally, socially and physically. As we are an English-medium school, children should have a good grasp of English or parents must be willing to provide extra language tuition at their own expense.
Once the assessment is complete, the school will let you know if a place will be offered. Applicants are considered based on space availability and preference will be given to families who want all their children at The Vine School. If no space is available in a particular class, pupils will be placed on a waiting list.
The school does not accept more than 16 children in a class.
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The Vine School does not unfairly discriminate against anyone on grounds of race, culture, gender, age or disability in administering its educational and admissions policies. As an independent Christian school, it teaches according to its Christian convictions, and will not promote, teach or practice any religion or conviction other than its own. Families who do not subscribe to the Christian faith cannot request that their children be excused from participating in the religious activities of the school.


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Social media and contact centre professionals
Social media and contact centre professionals: waiting for a breakthrough
Social media and contact centre professionals: waiting for a breakthrough
Up-selling is a sales technique where the seller tries to achieve a bigger profit of turnover by selling the buyer a more expensive or more extensive product or package than he had originally planned.
Being able to conciliate an unsatisfied customer within five minutes, only needing half a word to know what the customer really wants to ask and imperceptibly asking three control questions to check the caller's identity. Who wouldn't want to have such an employee?
Drawing up a marketing plan is mere child's play for a marketer. In order to pursue a good marketing policy a plan is essential. This is also true for telemarketing companies. To have a successful telemarketing campaign you also need a well-thought out plan.
Companies that partially or totally outsource their client contact, need to choose where to draw the line: which processes will stay in-company and which responsibilities will go to the service provider


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One of my favorite things about the toddler years so far is the fashion choices they make.
When LD was little, anything with glitter on it went with EVERYTHING. She was a little girl who loved her accessories and there was no such thing as too much. JD was known to wear boots with shorts or anything with Thomas the Tank Engine on it.
AH is now entering the age where she wants to completely dress herself and her choices are nothing short of comedic. In the past, she had to wear her rain boots with everything but other than that, I dressed her in what I wanted. Now, she's become quite opinionated.
For the most part, I usually let her wear whatever she wants. No need to stress over what she wears if we're not going anywhere.
But lately, she's wanted to take her style to the streets.
This isn't usually a problem but sometimes what she picks isn't quite what I had in mind for the place we're going.
Yesterday, when dressing herself for church, she wanted to wear a swimsuit with an attached tutu, rainbow-striped socks, and white sandals from last summer that are, now, too small.
She proudly marched into the living room and asked, "Howths my outfit?" with her hands on her hips. She told me it was her "frave-rit ballerina dreths" (favorite ballerina dress).
It was so stinkin' adorable and, to be honest, if the swimsuit bottom wasn't visible under the tutu, I might have let her wear it. But only the socks and shoes made the cut.
Instead she opted for a sun dress–again, from last summer and almost too small. No point in fighting over it. Her bum was covered and it made her happy. I just went with it.
Still too cute, right? (Note: Her shoes are on the wrong feet.)
What's the craziest thing your child has put together to wear? Any particular outfit they like to wear all the time?


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So today was my Birthday and it was the first time that I celebrated my birthday in prison. Today, during church, the whole congregation sang "Happy Birthday" to me. Throughout the week, I got cards from family and friends and "Happy Birthdays" from everyone around me. I even had a visit from my StepMom and my sister the day before my Birthday! Then tonight 3 of my closest friends surprised me with enchiladas and chips and a card signed by dozens of other inmates. Yes, this was all wonderful and made my birthday very special! But there was something even more wonderful than all the acknowledgements, food, cards, birthday wishes and so on.
As I was reading all the comments on the card that I received from my friends, it hit me. I realized that on that card were comments and signatures from sex offenders, drug dealers, rapists, murderers, gang bangers, muslims, christians, atheists, buddhists, homosexuals, black, white, mixed, hispanic, young, old, bald, crazy, and I could go on.
On this card, those things didn't matter.
A person didn't NOT sign the card because a homosexual signed it, or a gang banger, or for any other reason. I took this thought even further and realized as I looked around the Dayroom, that yea, this is what heaven is going to look like. I know it might be a crazy thought to some of you, but it is true. See, I believe that Heaven is going to be filled with everyone. For me or anyone else to believe that one or two or multiple "types" of people are going to be left out is absolutely absurd. God is not going to say to a serial killer who longs for God in the end, "No, you can't come in."
He is not going to exclude black people, asians, hispanics, from heaven. That isn't even biblical to think that. Heaven is going to have murderers, doctors, teachers, sex offenders, rapists, muslims, homosexuals, blacks, whites, CEOs, politicians, Republicans, Democrats, drug dealers, and the list goes on.
The Bible says we will get a new heart, a new body, new spirit. There will be a new Heaven and a new Earth. No sin is greater than another sin.
We all fall short of the glory of God. I challenge you to seek God's love and love God. It's what He longs for. Also to love everyone. Don't live your life in fear. Love the unlovely, love the murderer, love the drug dealer, the homeless, the sex offender.
I am not saying that you have to agree or like what they did or the habits they have. Just don't let those things stop you from showing God's love towards them. There is good in everyone. I see it everyday. The gang member who could easily kill you, gives you a hug. That happened to me today! One gave me a hug and said, "Happy Birthday, Eddie!"
All I can say is God has been at work in our relationship. God's love is so powerful, it can move mountains! What I say to the refugee situation… Don't put them in the "Other" category. Do anything you can to welcome them and love them. Do not fear.
I love you all!
Love, Eddie


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Carved Birdbath by William Edmondson, ca. 1935
William Edmondson
(Nashville, Tennessee, ca. 1873 – 1951)
Carved limestone: 36 inches (height), 12 3⁄4 inches (base depth & width), 19 inches (bowl diameter). No repairs.
A superb piece of folk sculpture by the leading African American folk sculptor of the 20th century.
Comprehensive biographical information about the artist available upon request.


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November 3rd 2017
Metro Boomin Collaborates for 21 Savage and Big Sean for "Pull Up N Wreck"
Big Sean and Metro Boomin have collaborated with 21 Savage on a new song, titled "Pull Up N Wreck." The track follows Metro's and 21's collaborative album Without Warning, which dropped this week. With a win under his belt of Producer of the Year at the 2017 Hip Hop Awards, Metro simply does not disappoint with this new track.
Listen to "Pull UP N Wreck" here.


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Women's United Soccer Association
|United States
|CONCACAF (North America)
|Number of teams
|Level on pyramid
|Domestic cup(s)
|Founders Cup
|Most championships
Bay Area CyberRays
Carolina Courage
Washington Freedom (1 title each)
|TV partners
|Turner Sports
The Women's United Soccer Association, often abbreviated to the WUSA, was the world's first women's soccer league in which all the players were paid as professionals. Founded in February 2000, the league began its first season in April 2001 with eight teams in the United States. The league suspended operations on September 15, 2003, shortly after the end of its third season, after making cumulative losses of around US $100 million.[1]
As a result of the US Women's National Team's (US WNT) first-place showing in the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup, a seemingly viable market for the sport germinated.
Feeding on the momentum of their victory, the twenty US WNT players, in partnership with John Hendricks of the Discovery Channel, sought out the investors, markets, and players necessary to form the eight-team league. The twenty founding players were: Michelle Akers, Brandi Chastain, Tracy Ducar, Lorrie Fair, Joy Fawcett, Danielle Fotopoulos, Julie Foudy, Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly, Shannon MacMillan, Tiffeny Milbrett, Carla Overbeck, Cindy Parlow, Christie Pearce, Tiffany Roberts, Briana Scurry, Kate (Markgraf) Sobrero, Tisha Venturini, Saskia Webber and Sara Whalen.
Initial investment in the league was provided by the following:[2]
- Time Warner Cable $5 million
- Cox Enterprises $5 million
- Cox Communications $5 million
- Amos Hostetter, Jr. $5 million
- Comcast Corporation $5 million
- John Hendricks and Comcast Corporation $2.5 million each
- Amos Hostetter, Jr. and John Hendricks $2.5 million each
The US Soccer Federation approved membership of the league as a sanctioned Division 1 women's professional soccer league on August 18, 2000.[3]
Media coverage
At various times, games were televised on TNT, CNNSI, ESPN2, PAX TV, and various local and regional sports channels.[4]
The WUSA franchises were located in Philadelphia; Boston; New York City; Washington, D.C.; Cary, N.C.; Atlanta; San Jose, Ca.; and San Diego:
- Atlanta Beat
- Boston Breakers
- Carolina Courage (originally intended to be in Orlando, Florida, and were going to be called the Orlando Tempest)
- New York Power
- Philadelphia Charge
- San Diego Spirit
- San Jose CyberRays (called Bay Area CyberRays for 2001 season)
- Washington Freedom
For the inaugural season, each roster primarily consisted of players from the United States, although up to four international players were allowed on each team's roster. Among the international players were China's Sun Wen, Pu Wei, Fan Yunjie, Zhang Ouying, Gao Hong, Zhao Lihong, and Bai Jie; Germany's Birgit Prinz, Conny Pohlers, Steffi Jones and Maren Meinert; Norway's Hege Riise, Unni Lehn, and Dagny Mellgren; Brazil's Sissi, Kátia and Pretinha; and Canada's Charmaine Hooper, Sharolta Nonen, and Christine Latham.
The league also hosted singular talents from nations which were not at the forefront of women's soccer, such as Maribel Dominguez of Mexico, Homare Sawa of Japan, Julie Fleeting of Scotland, Cheryl Salisbury of Australia, Marinette Pichon of France and Kelly Smith of England.
WUSA Awards
Founders Cup champions
The Founders Cup (named in honor of the 20 founding players) was awarded to the winner of a four-team, single-elimination postseason playoff.
|Bay Area CyberRays
|3–3 asdet
4–2 pen
|Atlanta Beat
|Foxboro, MA
|Carolina Courage
|Washington Freedom
|Atlanta, GA
|Washington Freedom
|2–1 asdet
|Atlanta Beat
|San Diego, CA
WUSA's sudden death overtime was 15 minutes long (2-seven and a half minute periods) and only used in the play-offs.
League suspension
The WUSA played for three full seasons, suspending operations on September 15, 2003, shortly after the conclusion of the third season.[5] Neither television ratings nor attendance met forecasts, while the league spent its initial $40 million budget, planned to last five years, by the end of the first season.
Even though the players took salary cuts of up to 30% for the final season, with the founding players (who also held an equity stake in the league) taking the largest cuts, that was not enough to bring expenses under control.
In the hopes of an eventual relaunch of the league, all rights to team names, logos, and similar properties were preserved. Efforts to line up new sources of capital and operating funds continued.
In June 2004, the WUSA held two "WUSA Festivals" in Los Angeles and Blaine, Minnesota, featuring matches between reconstituted WUSA teams (often with marquee players borrowed from other teams), in order to maintain the league in the public eye and sustain interest in women's professional soccer.
With the WUSA on hiatus, the Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL) and the W-League regained their status as the premier women's soccer leagues in the United States, and many former WUSA players joined those teams.
A new women's professional soccer league in the United States called Women's Professional Soccer started in 2009.[6] However, that league suspended operations in January 2012.[7][8][9] [10]
See also
- ↑ "Confident, yes, but can new league survive?". sportsbusinessdaily.com. March 2, 2009. Retrieved April 15, 2011.
- ↑ "Women's United Soccer Association". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
- ↑ "WUSA Granted U.S. Soccer Membership as Division I Women's Professional Soccer League". US Soccer. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
- ↑ "Turner Sports, Women's United Soccer Association Announce Exclusive Multi-Year Television Agreement". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
- ↑ "Cash-strapped WUSA folds five days before Women's World Cup". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
- ↑ "Hamm's imprint made on new women's soccer league". USA Today. January 18, 2008.
- ↑ "WPS Suspends Play for 2012 Season". League Website. January 30, 2012.
- ↑ "W.P.S. Suspends Operations". New York Times. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
- ↑ Foudy, Julie. "WPS suspension a setback for women's soccer". ESPN. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
- ↑ Hays, Graham. "WUSA collapse leaves void in sports". ESPN. Retrieved 20 October 2012.


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Intel breaks down what Internet of Things means
Check out this fun and very informative video by Intel, describing what the Internet of Things (IoT) is and why we should all pay attention to it.
There are also other fun videos on various IoT adaptable sectors: Automative – Energy – Manufacturing – Retail – Smart Building / Home & Transport. You can view them here on the Intel IoT website


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United Way strives to find the best and biggest ideas to strengthen and improve our communities. This new mission is bringing more power and relevant solutions to our social problems. Our donors and the communities have challenged us to reduce and eliminate the underlying causes of our issues – through the process of impact funding, we can do that with a more targeted focus on the root causes of our key issue: POVERTY. Throughout our region, 1 in 6 live in poverty.
In Allegany and Mineral Counties, 60% of allocatable dollars raised goes directly to Impact Funding.
In Garrett and Hampshire Counties, 50%.
The goal of United Way is to create long-lasting changes by addressing the underlying causes of these problems. LIVE UNITED means being a part of that change.
To be considered under Impact Funding, please click here to review the requirements and complete an application.


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Shin Shin Japan Completes Exciting Website Renewal!
On October 1st, 2012 Shin Shin Japan launched their exciting new website. This website is the most recent step in a group-wide marketing effort designed to present a clear, brand profile of Shin Shin as a forward-looking global IT supply chain leader. To see the new SSJ website, click here.


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Christmas in July
{Wearing: Hat: c/o Laundry by Shelli Segal. Top: Vintage. Shorts: Blush, similar to these. Shoes: BCBG. Glossybox: c/o Glossybox. Photographed by Milly Jane Harris.} If someone gave me a piece a paper and asked me to write down 10 things that give me unbridled happiness, one of those things would be getting stuff in the mail. I don't know what it is about packages in the mail, but it evokes a similar emotional response to a kindergarten class all hopped up on Publix birthday cake. I'm convinced half of the reason why online shopping even works is because of the serotonin rush to the head you feel when that boxes arrives. Ordering something from Amazon leaves me like a dog at the window for days on end just waiting for UPS, Fed Ex, USPS, hell, even DLH to bring me stuff. And when it arrives, I, much like Fido, storm the door…Read More


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Trust Services Lab SDK error
I encountered some errors in installing Trust Services Lab SDK and Shell (x64).
The error message is below in the image. Why do you think it failed on my Windows 7 Professional test machine?
Thank you!
There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor.


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Driving tips and other life stuff
Driving with hay fever – what you need to know
Oh yeah, baby. Summer. Sun's out, guns out. We've got the windows open, the gleaming white shins are out and there's a few little sniffles beginning to emerge. That's right - it's hay fever season.
The NHS says around 20% of us are allergic to summer. But how many people check the side effects of what they're taking for it - and whether they're OK to drive?
The effects of hay fever:
- Sneezing
- Watery eyes
- Itchy throat and nose
- Coughing
The effects of hay fever tablets:
- Drowsiness
- Blurred vision
- Dizziness
- Confusion
Driving with hay fever isn't fun but driving when you're experiencing the side effects of antihistamines is plain dangerous.
What you need to do
Do your research
Don't just charge into the chemist - crying - and scoop up the first hay fever tablets you see. While the non-drowsy antihistamines will usually say that on the front, the ones that cause drowsiness won't.
Find out which tablets are most likely to affect your driving and AVOID.
Read the label
Duh. I know, but actually read it? Drowsiness and blurry vision when you're in charge of a death machine is not what you need, and you should definitely read the side effects on the leaflet to double-check.
Be strict with yourself
If the leaflet says take one, take one. I know it's tempting to keep upping it because your eyes are streaming and your nose is itching but if you're driving, that's not an option.
If you've got antihistamine tablets at home but you now realise they can cause drowsiness, save them for when you're not driving. There's enough hay fever medicine on the market for you to avoid taking the risk.
Find another way
First thing you should do is get your air conditioning filter changed. Having the windows up is obviously going to help you out with the old pollen count but if you want your air conditioning on, you need your filter to be doing its job.
You can actually get special pollen filters these days so next time you're having your filter changed (at your annual service is usual but don't wait if you're suffering!), ask if they have one that's particularly good for allergies.
By Honor Clement-Hayes
Honor joined ingenie in 2014 and is in charge of words on the Young Driver's Guide and blog. Her first car is a Peugeot 206 cabriolet, which is a very sensible choice for the British climate. Follow her on Google+.


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Regular wellness exams are a critical part to keeping your pet healthy. We will recommend a wellness program based on your pets breed, age, health status and lifestyle. Vaccines, heartworm prevention and proper nutrition are important components of wellness care and can add in preventing diseases that are not only life threatening, but expensive to treat.
We will be with you when you welcome that new puppy, kitten or pet into your home and look forward to providing the best quality of care for the life of your pet.
Even though we have the latest technology in veterinary medicine, sometimes difficult decisions must be made. Like part of your family, we will be here to help you as you make those difficult decisions.