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At CVI, there was a special screening for families that had at least one child age 12 or younger. From what I've read, it was four episodes titled "Young Jedi Knights," done in the same style as The Clone Wars and even including characters like Ahsoka, Grievous, and Hondo Ohnaka, but focusing on a group of younglings training to become Padawans. Evidently Lucas wanted to see how kids and families reacted to it, and Dave Filoni introduced it. I didn't see it, but I believe that nohagent did - feel free to add anything.
Anyway, since it was done in the TCW style, had TCW characters, and Filoni was there, it seems like most people assumed it was going to be an arc of The Clone Wars. However, the CVI survey (just released yesterday) mentioned Young Jedi Knights as its own thing, asking for opinions on that (and on Detours). At The Clone Wars panel where Lucas appeared, he also mentioned a third animated show aside from TCW and Detours, one aimed at kids - so it's looking like YJK might just be that show.
So I wonder if these episodes will be part of TCW proper and then get spun off into a new younger-skewing series as TCW gets ever more intense? I wonder if the screening was to gauge interest before starting the series proper? This could be a way to keep Filoni and crew after TCW is done, ans to use the many existing assets, though going back in time might get confusing for kids. Maybe it will run alongside TCW. I really don't know, but I find it very interesting.


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Iraq TV: Airstrike kills 60 militants in north
BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi army airstrike in the militant-held northern city of Mosul on Wednesday killed 60 fighters from the extremists Islamic State group, Iraq's state television reported.
The claim could not be independently verified and the area was inaccessible to most media.
According to the report, which cited unnamed intelligence officials, the dawn strike targeted a downtown Mosul prison that was being used by Islamic State members as a religious court and detention facility.
The TV said 60 militants were killed in the strike and about 300 people who were in the militants' custody were set free. The report did not say if there were other casualties besides the militants and did not say who freed the prisoners or how.
Sunni extremists from the al-Qaida-breakaway Islamic State group seized Mosul, Iraq's largest second-largest city, in a blitz offensive in June that also captured large swaths of the country's north and west. The militant onslaught plunged Iraq into its worst crisis since the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 2011.
The group has since imposed a self-styled caliphate in territory it controls in Iraq and Syria, imposing the militants' harsh interpretation of Islamic law.
Iraqi government forces and allied Sunni tribal militiamen have been struggling to dislodge the militants from the area they captured, but with no apparent progress.
A Mosul resident, speaking on condition of anonymity fearing for his own safety, told The Associated Press over the phone that families of the prisoners rushed to the site to help their kin after the airstrike.
"The prison was partly damaged in the airstrike," he said, adding that he did not know if there were casualties.

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Dir. Pupi Avati
Struggling artist Stefano (Lino Capolicchio) is commissioned to restore a fresco in a church in a small rural town. The fresco depicts the brutally violent death of St. Sebastian. Stefano soon learns that the painter was a madman who, with the aid of his deranged and incestuous sisters, viciously tortured people to death as inspiration for his horrific paintings. A series of increasingly bizarre events, including a couple of grisly murders, convince Stefano that someone is trying to stop him from uncovering the town's depraved past. Can he and his lover Francesca (Francesca Marciano) uncover the secrets of the house with laughing windows before it is too late!?
Stefano's friend is also staying in town to recover from a nervous breakdown and study the local thermal springs. He warns Stefano not to talk about the fresco with anyone. Hushed warnings and dark insinuations such as these slowly conjure a heavy atmosphere pregnant with dreadful anxiety. Eventually his friend falls to his death after telling Stefano that he has discovered something 'horrible.'
The House with the Laughing Windows starts as it means to go on – a deathly serious meditation on suffering, art and the power the past has over the present. A series of highly troubling images play out in burnished sepia tones beneath the credits. Anguished cries of pain erupt from a man hanging by his arms as knives are plunged into his naked flesh. As all this occurs a guttural voiceover intones 'colours, my colours, they run from my veins, colours, sweet colours.' The voice is later revealed to be that of Buono Legnani, the artist who tortured and killed his sitters in order to capture their death throes in his rhapsodic depictions of death and martyrdom. The notion of a 'painter of the Agonies' highlights the connection between art and death that is rife throughout Italian horror cinema and takes it to its logical conclusion – a painter who captures the essence of a person as they die, sometimes at his own hands. As Stefano explores the story of this artist and his sisters, things become more twisted and deranged and the mounting sense of doom suffocates all sense of hope – right up until the genuinely shocking climax.
'Violence is Italian art.' Lucio Fulci
'Works of art have power over us. Great works of art have great power.' The Stendhal Syndrome
Images are important in this film. Indeed, the way Avati frames his actors in certain shots creates a series of startling and beautiful images that add to the atmosphere of uneasiness – his masterful use of widescreen ensures the feeling that someone or something could jump into the frame at any time. An abundance of startling shots, particularly the one of Stefano as he is framed in his doorway unpacking his bags, somehow announces his vulnerability. Filmed from outside his bedroom door, the camera gently pulls back into the darkness of the house, framing the man and isolating him as though he were in a painting.
Set in the early fifties, the film can also be seen as a pointed allegory addressing Italy's post-war struggles. The townsfolk want to promote the town and increase trade and economy and the infamy of the artist who painted the fresco is one way of doing so. The town is, rather ominously, also famed for its 'silence'. The town's streets are deathly still and quiet – not that Avati ever goes out of his way to emphasise this – he does it masterfully enough so that it gradually becomes obvious just how empty and quiet things are. The impact is all the more resonant because of this subtlety.
The scenes when Stefano is alone in the church and his house at night are understated and unnerving, the camera watching him as it floats behind him in the darkness. And if his landlady is bedridden, who is it walking around at night? Even in the daylight hours there is a stillness that pervades and casts a foreboding presence over everything.
Because of the eerie stillness and quietness of the film, a couple of well timed and genuinely startling jump moments prove highly effective and practically echo throughout the rest of the silence of events. There is a lyrical, sun-kissed quality to some exterior daytime scenes – the picturesque landscapes and idyllic countryside that belie the unspeakable acts of violence and inhumanity that occur behind closed doors in the community. Events play out in sparsely furnished rooms that are given as much space on screen as the actors, as though they too have a part to play. The bloody actions these rooms have bore witness to and the ever darkening secrets they hide behind their walls and doors manifest themselves in the atmosphere that lurks in abundance within them. The faded grandeur and rustic excess of the vast and sparsely inhabited buildings also adds to the mounting sense of isolation.
There is a touch of Bava to several scenes, especially the scene in which Stefano becomes increasingly unnerved walking through the empty, eerily glowing and fog-hung streets at night, when he thinks he hears footsteps and breathing behind him. The seemingly spectral winds that blow through the soundtrack of this film recall Tourneur's chilly use of sound in I Walked with a Zombie and The Leopard Man. Avati's film certainly treads the same line of quiet menace and poetic dread.
The lingering feeling that something isn't quite right only increases as the story proceeds. When Stefano walks into a room it is easy to get the impression that someone has just left it – the mounting paranoia ensures that even when Stefano is alone, the way in which he is filmed indicates otherwise. The characters often talk about silence – particularly the silence that hangs heavy over the town. Silence is deafening and pervasive in this film. What is also noticeable is the film's lack of music. The stark score consists of well timed one chord piano notes and a hypnotic Philip Glass-esque organ composition courtesy of Amedeo Tommasi.
'Only a great artist can provide such a true portrait of death.'
The House with Laughing Windows is a truly unsettling and stiflingly atmospheric film that slow-burns its way to an unbelievably gruesome denouement. It provides a refreshing change of pace and tone from its gialli peers and stands out as a chilling and nightmarish tale that is in a class all of its own.
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News Releases, Media Advisories
|For Immediate Release
August 21, 2001
|Kelly Huff
Ron Harris
Ian Stirton
WASHINGTON -- The number of federally registered political action committees (PACs) decreased from 3,907 on January 1, 2001, to 3,877 by July 1, according to a semi-annual survey by the Federal Election Commission.
Corporate PACs remain the largest category, with 1,525 committees, followed by non-connected - 1,007, trade/membership/health - 872, labor - 314, corporations without stock - 118, and cooperatives - 41.
PACs sponsored by corporations and labor organizations are technically referred to as "separate segregated funds" and must register within 10 days of being established. Non-connected PACs (those which are not connected to or sponsored by a corporation or labor organization, and which are not related to a candidate's campaign or to a political party organization) must register within 10 days after certain financial activity exceeds $1,000 during a calendar year.
Registration does not necessarily imply financial activity. Many PACs report making no contributions to candidates or independent expenditures on behalf of or against candidates. Financial information on PACs will be included in future FEC news releases.
The following chart details the number of PACs in existence since the end of 1974.
Footnotes for Chart:
*For 1974-76, these numbers represent all other PACs...no further categorization is available.
1 On November 24, 1975, the Commission issued Advisory Opinion 1975-23 "SUNPAC".
2 On May 11, 1976, Federal Election Campaign Act Amendments of 1976 (P.L. 94-283) were enacted.
3 During the first six months of 1997, 227 PACs were administratively terminated because of inactivity.


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Superintendent finalists selected
Four finalists were named in the Pequot Lakes School District's search for a new superintendent.
In no particular order, Dave Endicott, Brian Koslofsky, Kevin Wellen and Chris Lindholm will be interviewed April 8, board chair Valarie Wallin said Tuesday.
Endicott is the current principal of Eagle View Elementary School. Koslofsky is a former dean of students at Pequot Lakes Schools and current superintendent of Bertha-Hewitt Schools.
Lindholm is the assistant superintendent at Burnsville-Eagan-Savage school district, and Wellen is listed as superintendent of New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva Schools on the district website.
As of Tuesday, Wallin hadn't yet received confirmation from all four finalists to interview April 8, but she noted that the decision had only just been made.
In addition to the four finalists, the board also interviewed Dan Parent, Ronald Saari, Rick Bleichner and Todd Lyscio.
The final interviews April 8 will begin at 5 p.m., with a meet-and-greet time period for the public before the meeting. The interviews are also public.
Wallin said the board may make its decision April 8, but it could also choose to wait. She said the board had a good pool of candidates, which made it difficult to choose finalists.
The superintendent position opened when current superintendent Rick Linnell submitted his resignation effective in June.


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thanks for the step by step
i did it on my 4 wt and it looks great
Thanks for the info! I will give it shot.
|Robert Meiser
Charlie...No worries.
Nearly any longer webbed feather can be used.
A good feather to learn with would be any from a game bird cape, like those used for soft hackles from a Partridge, or Pheasant.
Assemble the following:
A table spoon
A soft bristle 1/2" wide water color brush
Any CP.....I like GudeRod because it's clear in the bottle
A jug of Isopropyl Alcohol
In the table spoon pour in a bit of Iso and mix in a bit of CP ~ Say 60 /40 with Iso being 40.
Stir it till the Iso mixes well with the CP.
Dress the feather just as you would as if you were to tie with it.
Dip the brush in the spoon mixture, and lay the feather on the flat of the dampened brush.
With the feather laying on the brush, imerse it in the spoon mixture.
Lay the saturated feather on the blank.
You may have to flood the feather a bit with additional mixture to "Arrange" the feather.
Once you have it where you want it, just leave it be, and let dry for a few hours.
The alcohol will evaporate, and leave the feather adhered to the blank with CP.....Which is actually a water based acrylic.
You can also use "Elmers" regular white glue for CP, same thing.
Once dry, you can epoxy right over the feather inlay.
It will often take a few thin coats to do this.....As many as 4 with very large inlays.
You can place the feather/feathers right on the blank, or over opaque thread as a background to complement the feather.
If over thread, I prefer to single epoxy coat the thread first. Let dry 24 hours, then do the inlay over this.
Also a very good idea to have a denatured alcohol "Bubble Popper" to blast out drapped gasses escaping from within the feather's fibers. These will stay trapped within the epoxy, and become very unsightly if left.
Simple as that.....Once you've got it dialed in with a few feathers, your only limited by your own creativity !!!
If you wish you can check my site gallery for ideas:
Or go to www.rodbuilding.org and go to their collection of pictures from various builders from all over the world.....Great site !!!
Good Luck....Drop a line if you wish.
Robert Meiser
Contact Bob, he does this on all of his rods. All of which are 'works of art.'
He's a board member so if he doesn't see your post, just PM him.
Feather inlays
I was wondering if anyone could explain how to do a feather inlay on a rod. I have been building rods on and off for about 15 years now so I know the basics. However, I have not seen this process explained in any books or articles. Im fairly good at figuring things out, but I think a brief description would help me save some time and feathers.
Thanks Charlie.
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Thanks for posting the link.
2017 Goals:
1) Win the next game.
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Winston update; UM, UF tip times announced; Fins book more draft visits; Heat, Canes
The Sunday buzz column is below. First, two quick late Sunday night updates:
1) Agent Drew Rosenhaus said on his weekly WSVN-7 segment that free agent offensive tackle Eric Winston "would really like to play" for the Dolphins and that the Dolphins have interest, but that the situation is "fluid." But the Dolphins have had a week to strike a deal since he visited and so far have not.
The Dolphins, as of Saturday, had not shown any interest in free agent Bryant McKinnie, who also has expressed interest in the Dolphins. Miami also has considered a trade for Kansas City tackle Branden Albert.
2) UM's Sweet 16 game against Marquette was set for 7:15 p.m. Thursday on CBS, with Verne Lundquist and Bill Raftery announcing. Florida's regional semifinal game against Florida Gulf Coast is scheduled for approximately 10 p.m. Friday on TBS, with Marv Albert and Steve Kerr announcing.
A six pack of Dolphins notes:
### Though it might not necessarily be the best fit with Miamis pick at No. 12, the Dolphins want to add defensive backs in next months NFL Draft and have begun quietly reaching out to several.
According to sources, the Dolphins have booked the drafts best safety, Texas Kenny Vaccaro, to visit team headquarters and are working on bringing FSU cornerback Xavier Rhodes here, too. The Dolphins like several corners in the draft, including Oregon States Jordan Poyer.
And heres a sleeper alert: According to an Arkansas State source, the Dolphins have spent a lot of time with explosive under-the-radar safety/corner Don Jones the Patriots also like him and are summoning him to Davie to meet with team executives. Jones, a great athlete with good speed, could go in the mid-to-late rounds.
A defensive back might not make sense at 12 if Alabama cornerback Dee Milliner is long gone, as expected, by Miamis pick. Mel Kiper projects Vaccaro to go 16th, noting hes sound in coverage, takes great angles, makes very good reads. But safety isnt a huge need, and he had just five career interceptions.
Draftinsider.net's Tony Pauline said No. 12 would be too high for Rhodes, and hes not the perfect scheme fit for Miami because press man is his specialty and the Dolphins will play some zone.
Besides Milliner, Kiper has only two other first-round corners: Rhodes 29th and Washingtons Desmond Trufant 28th. Todd McShay has Rhodes 28th and Connecticuts Blidi Wreh-Wilson 29th.
### If Miami waits until picks 42 or 54 for a cornerback, Pauline sees five possible options: Mississippi States Johnthan Banks (problem is hes a liability down the field, because of his lack of speed); perhaps Wreh-Wilson (decent chance he will be gone by 42; great cover skills but a lot of injuries the past two years); Boise States 5-11 Jamar Taylor (underrated, could go earlier than 42); Virginia Techs Logan Ryan (speed a question); and Poyer.
Other evaluators also would include in that group Mississippi States Darius Slay (fastest defensive back at the Combine) and San Diego States Leon McFadden, whos also fast but at 5-10 struggles sometimes against bigger, more physical receivers.
Southeast Louisianas Robert Alford, Utah States Will Davis, Connecticuts Dwayne Gratz, and William & Marys B.W. Webb could be Miami options at 77 or 82, if theyre still available. So might North Carolina States David Amerson, who had 13 interceptions in 2011 but was beaten far too much last season, Kiper said. Some have UMs Brandon McGee in the third/fourth round range, some later.
The cornerback class overall looks deeper now, with Trufant, Rhodes and a handful of others running well to back up the tape, Kiper said.
What about former LSU cornerback Tyrann Mathieu, a 2011 All-American and Heisman Trophy finalist who was kicked off LSUs team before last season (reportedly for failed drug tests) and later arrested for marijuana possession?
Miami hasnt shown interest so far, and Kiper said hes a fourth- or fifth-round pick. Hes not a great cover guy, Kiper said. But day three is when you roll the dice on him. He can help your defense and special teams.
### The Dolphins are showing considerable interest in North Carolina and former St. Thomas Aquinas running back Giovani Bernard, who spent five hours at Dolphins headquarters Thursday. Bernard, an option for Miamis picks at 42 and 54, had 1228 rushing yards (6.7 per carry), 490 receiving yards and two punt returns for touchdowns in 2012.
Miami also will do a private workout with Clemsons Andre Ellington, another potential second-round back. The Dolphins want a back that can compete with Daniel Thomas for carries behind likely starter Lamar Miller, who impressed us, Philbin said because hes instinctive and has explosiveness.
### We hear that after being badly outbid by St. Louis for Jared Cook, Miami made a late run at Martellus Bennett, but the Bears offered him a bit more. The Dolphins then signed Dustin Keller.
They love Kellers receiving skills, but Joe Philbin admitted we have to work with him on blocking. Philbin said we are going to keep looking for tight ends. Miami prefers to add a skilled blocker to the Keller/Charles Clay/Michael Egnew troika, with Cincinnati mid-rounder Travis Kelce among those drawing Dolphins interest.
### Quarterback has gone from a liability to an asset in luring free agents. New Dolphins receiver Brandon Gibson said of Ryan Tannehill: Ive watched tons of film and think hes going to be one of the better young quarterbacks in the NFL. Hes got a big arm, very intelligent. Said Keller: Very impressed with him. Like his game a lot.
### Philbin said the Dolphins studied every catch and drop by Mike Wallace the past two years and suggests people sell him short if they view him as just a deep threat.
### Besides pursuing cornerback Brent Grimes, the Dolphins also made an inquiry on Tracy Porter, an associate said. But theyve so far stayed away from mid-30s vets like Antoine Winfield.
### Philbin said the Dolphins believe new linebackers Dannell Ellerbe and Philip Wheeler might be able to make a couple more impactful plays than Karlos Dansby and Kevin Burnett. Meanwhile, the Dolphins internally have discussed the possibility of playing Koa Misi at middle linebacker, though Ellerbe still could end up there.
Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/sport...#storylink=cpy
Giovanni!! -> could be smoke -> but 5 hr smoke screen?
I'm not sure but something in my gut tells me Miami is sold on their existing tackles, like Yeatman, and may draft one in round 3. Don't know if there is enough difference between Winston and Yearman to justify the big difference in money for each one. Now they could very well draft OG in round 1 if Cooper is there when they pick.
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What are the chances we get a Monday Night Football game this year? Maybe 2?
What are the chances we get a Monday Night Football game this year? Maybe 2?
Probably one MNF game...I'd say against the Jets. Definitely not SNF.
Actually scratch that - Jets won't be interesting enough. Maybe against the Pats then.
I think we'll get one or two games in primetime.
We'll probably get one.
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We better get a least one MNF game this year!
It would be a true shame to be shut out two years in a row. Especially when you consider we're one of the premiere franchises in the league when featured and helped make MNF the behemoth that it is today.
Only other teams that have been more successful than us when showcased are the 49ers, and the Cowboys, both with 43 wins respectfully. We have 40 wins, tied with the Steelers.
It was blasphemous we didn't appear at all last year even with our declining status as one of the upper echelon teams. Still, we are the Miami Dolphins, and while not must see TV as of late, we're most certainly a pioneer of the sport and should be treated as such.
I hope not...
I hate waiting until Sunday/Monday night...
Rather have all the games at 1 pm Sunday...
I wish they could remove Thursday Night games.. those are the worst..
I think it depends what the buzz is from free agency.
If they insist on having another Prime Time game,other than Monday.....I'd trade the Thursday Nighter for a Saturday Nighter in a heartbeat!!! I'm sure that I'm the minority here though. I just feel a Saturday Nighter leading to Sundays Games would be more intense. Just my opinion though.....
I think every team will have at least 1 primetime game. And they'll probably end up having us play the Bills on thursday night again sadly.
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I finally did it and bought a new "netwarrior", the shell server that serves some 70 users. Installed a new Linux real quick (Rock-Linux, what else?) and started migrating mail and news over to the new machine. The system istelf is a SCHWEEET box, 1GHz, 1Gig RAM, 200 Gig HD and 2.2.19 with LIDS, all in a case the size of a shoe-box.
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The Greatest Liberal Rock Songs (Revised & Updated, with Readers' Picks)
Perhaps, as R.J. Eskow argued (see yesterday's post), this is unnecessary, since all rock music is by definition liberal. It is liberal because, according to him, it "raises blood pressure, stimulates adrenaline, [and] creates sexual stimulation and physical aggression."
Of course, I disagree with Eskow. Nevertheless, even if we were to stipulate that all rock music is liberal, still, some is obviously more liberal than the rest. As a matter of fact, the vast majority of rock music, at least until recently, was surprisingly apolitical -- or at least the politics was implicit and ambiguous, such as in Bob Dylan's best work (very early on he saw through the left and stopped writing the kind of tedious and didactic songs they enjoy, such as Masters of War).
It's true that when there is an explicit political message in rock music, it is virtually always from the left. In fact, this is what makes the songs so unartful, ham-handed, and generally lame. It is what makes them so wince-worthy. As we have discussed before, there is a vast difference between art and didacticism, the latter being a form of pornography.
In no particular order, I'm just going to rely upon my memory to call up some of the greatest liberal songs of all time. The list will obviously be incomplete, and readers are welcome to add to it with suggestions of their own.
The first song that comes to mind is War, by Edwin Starr. Although it is now over 35 years old, it still expresses the universal leftist sentiment about the military and about the need to defend ourselves from evil. In fact, the king of moonbat rockers, Bruce Springsteen, has taken to singing it in concert. Its boneheaded lyric asks the famous question,
What is it good for?
The answer, of course, being absolutely nothing! (say it again, y'all!).
For the left, the problem is never the existence of evil. They scoff at that unsophisticated notion. Rather, it is the existence of people who fight it. For war itself "is an enemy to all mankind." It "can't give life, it can only take it away!," as every Jew who survived the Holocaust or every Kurd who escaped Saddam's torture chambers knows.
They say we must fight to keep our freedom,
But Lord knows there's got to be a better way.
Sure there's a better way. As the girl who spoke at the New School commencement put it last week, "We have nothing to fear from anyone on this living planet.... We can change the universe by being who we are.... it really is just that simple." It seems to me that this approach has a long way to go before it can even be considered simplistic, let alone simple.
Even before Neil Young, there were America-bashing Canuckleheads making an extravagant living by attacking the country that makes their frivolous lives possible. American Woman, by the Guess Who, expresses sentiments that are still widely shared by our leftist friends to the north, who, in a recent poll, ranked the United States as the most dangerous country on earth:
American woman, said get away...
Don't come hangin' around my door
Don't wanna see your face no more
I don't need your war machines
I don't need your ghetto scenes
Colored lights can hypnotize
Sparkle someone else's eyes
Now woman, get away from me
American woman, mama let me be.
Of course, not all Canadians share the sentiments of their their pinheaded elites. I am told that normal Canadians who live outside the major cities, especially in the western provinces, are much more appreciative of the security and prosperity made possible by the United States. They know that the American "war machine" actually shoulders their share of the world's defense, so their government can waste money on other things.
But leftist elites have always had trouble relating to the middle class. Secretly they have contempt for the middle class, whom they regard as clueless boobs for not being default leftists. They just can't figure out why a middle class American would ever vote Republican, since Democrat elites know what is best for them. The song Pleasant Valley Sunday, written by Carol King, mockingly expressed the contempt that leftist superbians feel for suburban Americans who are not bitter activists and who simply want to enjoy their lives:
Another Pleasant Valley Sunday
Charcoal burning everywhere
Rows of houses that are all the same
And no one seems to care
See Mrs. Gray she's proud today because her roses are in bloom
Mr. Green he's so serene, he's got a TV in every room
Another Pleasant Valley Sunday
Here in status symbol land...
Creature comfort goals
They only numb my soul...
Carol King is a wonderful songwriter, one of the greatest ever. But give me a break with the "creature comforts." I think she owns a village in Idaho.
Of course, a major theme of contemporary liberalism is gender identity confusion. For this reason, I have chosen I'm a Boy, by the Who, which expresses the anger and confusion of a child whose mother is obviously a doctrinaire feminist who believes that sexual differences are simply cultural constructs:
I'm a boy, I'm a boy
But my ma won't admit it
I'm a boy, I'm a boy
But if I say I am, I get it!
Remember "The Eve of Destruction," by Barry McGuire? Liberals like to make fun of fringe religious groups that predict the end of the world, and rightfully so. But hysterical mainstream liberals have been predicting the end of the world since I was a little kid, whether it's alar in apples or nuclear power plants or giving toy guns to boys. In the 1980s it was global cooling. Liberal scientists were unanimous that the world was catastrophically cooling as a result of manmade influences. It was even on the cover of Time and Newsweek. Now they unanimously agree (except for the ones who don't) that the world is catastrophically warming.
For the hysterical left, it's always the Eve of Destruction, like with Al Gore's new movie, which is the feel-bad hit of the summer:
Al Gore's mind, it is implodin'
Penguins dyin', cities floatin'
If cars are so bad, how come he isn't strollin'?
He don't believe in oil, but what's that SUV he's rollin'?
What is it with the left's perennial fascination with authoritarian regimes, whether Castro, or Arafat, or the Sandinistas? In "Washington Bullets," the Clash sang,
For the very first time ever,
When they had a revolution in Nicaragua,
There was no interference from America
Human rights in America
Yup, for the first time, human rights in America. For the left, it's a topsy-turvy world. Because of their anger at America, it causes them to ally themselves with anyone who opposes America. For example, the other day, leftist heavyweight intellectual Noam Chomsky, who was also a champion of the totalitarian Sandinistas, argued that the policies of Hamas were "more conducive to a peaceful settlement than those of the United States or Israel".
It's like the criminals are the good guys and the police are the bad guys. That's what Eric Burdon sang in "San Franciscan Nights":
Cop's face is filled with hate
Heavens above,
He's on a street called "Love"
When will they ever learn?
Cops. Selfish bastards. They're nothing at all like the beautiful people of the left. As Joanie Mitchell put it in "Woodstock,"
We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
Yes, that would be the same reality-based garden where we have nothing to fear from a single person on this planet. Even if he wants to blow up the garden.
I'll admit it, when I was in high school and had a devastating crush on Suzie Campbell, who sat next to me in biology class, I didn't really get "Love the One You're With." Sure, it sounds good on paper, but unless you're a rock star with groupies at your feet, or a President with interns under your desk, how do you get the opposite person of the complementary gender to cooperate?
If you're down and confused
Yes, that would be me.
Concentration slips away
Exactly! How did he know?
Don't be angry, don't be sad
Don't sit cryin' over good times you had
There's a girl, right next to you
And she's just waiting for something to do
Right on, dude!
Turn your heartache right into joy
She's a girl, and you're a boy
So get it together, make it nice
You ain't gonna need, any more advice
Wait! Don't go away! I think I do need some more advice!
If you can't be with the one you love,
Love the one you're with
Love the one you're with
Love the one you're with
Stop taunting me!
Like I said, there are surprisingly few explicitly political rock songs, but there are a number of repeat offenders such as John Lennon, David Crosby and Graham Nash. Nash is another guy who doesn't see evil as the problem. Rather, it's the military. In Military Madness, he sang,
In an upstairs room in Blackpool
By the side of a northern sea
The army had my father
And my mother was having me
Military Madness was killing my country
Not nazi madness, totalitarian madness, anti-Semitic madness, Islamo-fascist madness. Just "military madness." And as we already know from Edwin Starr, war itself is evil. It can't give life, it can only take it away. Presumably, Nash's father was insane for fighting the nazis:
And after the wars are over
And the body count is finally filed
I hope that The Man discovers
What's driving the people wild
Military madness is killing your country
Similarly, Donovan, in The Universal Soldier (written by Buffy Saint Marie), blamed the individual GI:
He's the one who gives his body
As a weapon of the war,
And without him all this killing can't go on.
He's the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame,
His orders come from far away no more,
They come from here and there and you and me,
And brothers can't you see,
This is not the way we put the end to war.
Such a terminally adolescent view of the world. Perhaps the Doors, in their epic, The End, touched on the reasons for this pervasive developmental arrest:
Father, yes son, I want to kill you.
Mother... I want to... f*** you!!!!!!
I think I can sum up liberalism with just a few more anthems. First, as John Lennon observed, All You Need is Love. Just don't ask for details of how this would work in practice. For if you read dailykos or huffingtonpost or listen to Air America, you immediately realize that the Who were correct: I Can't Explain. Why? Because, as Morris Albert crooned, liberalism is based upon Feelings, nothing more than feelings...
Still, what does it hurt to live in a parallel reality-based world? The number one liberal anthem, as always, is Imagine:
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing John's brownstone
I don't know... I imagine other things...
Imagine no Islamists
It isn't hard to do
No damn bin Laden
And no Zarqawi too
Imagine all the people
Living in the same century....
The readers speak:
"One Tin Soldier," from the movie Billy Jack
"Sky Pilot," by Eric Burdon
"Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag," by Country Joe and the Fish (Also, let's not forget the brilliant "Fish Cheer" at Woodstock)
"The Flower Children," by Marcia Strassman
"San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)," by Scott McKenzie
"At Seventeen," by Janis Ian
"I Got You Babe," by recovered liberal Sonny & terminal case Cher
"When the Music's Over" and "Five to One," by the Doors
"Street Fighting Man," by the Strolling Bones
"Get Together," by the Youngbloods
"God Save the Queen (The Fascist Regime)," by the Sex Pistols
Rage Against the Machine, Their Entire Angry Corpus
"Little Boxes," I believe written by Malvina Reynolds
"American Skin--41 Shots," Bruce Springsteen (try getting past his security & see what happens)
"Woman Is The N-Word Of The World," by John Lennon (who would be the first to admit that he had some major issues with abusing women)
There were some obvious ones I purposely left off the list, such as:
"Give Peace a Chance," by John Lennon (who was, not coincidentally, giving heroin a chance when he wrote it)
"Almost Cut My Hair," by crackhead felon David Crosby (with CSNY)
"Long Time Gone," by felonious crackhead David Crosby (with CSN)


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This is not politics as practiced by College Democrats or the Young Republicans. It is directed street theater, a form of consciousness raising. The idea is to wake up and shake up a nation dazed by economic dislocation. The message is simple: we've been screwed. The richest one percent of the population saw their wealth increase more than threefold.
OCCUPY BOSTON: follow our coverage at thephoenix.com/occupyboston
For most of the past 30 years, vast swaths of the public have sat in front of their televisions, anesthetized by politicians who convinced Americans that they never had it so good. Jesus loves you. WalMart is heaven on earth. Buying and selling houses is good for the soul. Sending jobs overseas is part of God's great design. So is cutting taxes for the wealthy. As for those pesky little wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we'll pay for those with money borrowed from the godless Chinese, who will burn in hell anyway because they are Commie bastards.
Say what you will about the tens of thousands of Occupy participants, but the older ones never bought into that line of crap, and the younger ones have come of age at a time when their best prospects appear to be a lifetime of low-wage serfdom — if they are lucky enough to find a job in the first place.
Occupy is a movement without a center. It is flash-mob politics. It ignited a month ago after a prompt from AdBusters, a not-quite-underground magazine based in Toronto that wraps its anti-corporate message — hyper-consumption is the opiate of the people — in high-definition, high-gloss irony.
(It is rather delicious that the counterattack to the vast class war waged for so long by the American right wing and its corporate masters was hatched under Canadian sponsorship. The last time Canada provided such a public service was when it harbored Vietnam-era draft resisters.)
It is safe to say that politics as practiced by Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Boston is not of a type with which the respective city halls are familiar.
In both Boston and New York, and indeed across the country, organized labor is not only supporting the protests, but also providing back-door access and offering inside counsel on how to get along with municipal authorities.
READ: "Occupational Hazards: Our reporter sets out to see the revolution — five Occupations in five days," by Chris Faraone
Some of the success that Occupy Boston has achieved is due to assists from long-time, grassroots community crusaders with labor affiliations such as Mass Uniting and Jobs with Justice.
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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Agricultural Council held an all-day farm tour through Addison County and parts of Rutland and Chittenden Counties on Thursday, October 24th. Projects completed with USDA assistance were showcased during the event titled "Working Together for Vermont".
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For three generations, the Claflins have farmed a scenic stretch of open land on Old Hollow Road in Monkton and Ferrisburgh. Sid Claflin and his three sisters Barbara, Dawn, and Lela have now permanently conserved the farm, with the help of the Vermont Land Trust. The easement sale helped the family settle the estate after their mother's death, and now Sid is the sole owner of the land.
The Barber Farm has been part of the Jericho community for generations. The farm's history goes back to 1774, when it was the third property settled in Jericho. The farm's current owners, Charlie and Jean Siegchrist, and their family have farmed the land for more than 60 years. The Siegchrists and the local community worked with the Vermont Land Trust (VLT) and the Jericho Underhill Land Trust to conserve the farm, ensuring it can be used to supply local food for years to come.
May 16, 2011, Burlington, VT - A recent seminar titled, "Wetlands Workshop: Delineation, Function & Protection" was a great success, and well attended by a diverse group of over 100 participants. The event began in the morning with two rounds of concurrent indoor sessions at the University of Vermont, and ended with educational trips to the field led by local experts. Here you will find the workshop schedule and links to the valuable wetlands presentations.
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Prize-winning poets Richard Howard and J.D. McClatchy will read from their work at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 24, in the Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St.
Howard is the author of several volumes of poetry, including "Untitled Subjects," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970. In addition, he has published numerous translations of modern French literature and won the American Book Award for translation in 1983.
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Amid deteriorating US economic data, growth worries in Europe and China, falling commodity prices and declining inflation expectations, corporate bonds (along with stocks) are defying both history and gravity by continuing to rise. Bank of America Merrill Lynch credit strategist Hans Mikkelsen examines this phenomenon today:
Every time over the past several years when inflation expectations have eased significantly stocks have declined and credit spreads widened meaningfully. But not this time. We continue to side with the weakening macro backdrop and retain our tactical (short-term) short positioning in investment grade credit.
Mikkelsen looks at the idea that stocks and credit are getting artificially propped up because large-scale quantitative easing in the U.S. and Japan is pushing investors into U.S. risk assets regardless of any fundamental weakness:
That appears uncharted territory, as what we have seen in the past is that QE can work to push investors into risk assets when perceived to boost economic activity and thus create inflation. We have little evidence that QE alone can do the job, without being perceived to improve fundamentals. Thus, again, we expect the weakening macro backdrop to prevail. However, in the meantime the technicals are undeniably strong despite the lack of retail inflows to long and intermediate high grade bond funds. Clearly we are seeing foreign institutional investors – especially from Asia – moving into US corporate bonds. However, this process has been ongoing for at least a year and is unrelated to the expansion of Japanese QE.
In the end, Bof A says the U.S. economy looks strong enough to overcome its recent adversities and rebound in the second half of this year, but the present weak patch is surprisingly bad:
[T]he current slowdown in the economy is clearly worse than expected at this stage, as evidenced by the declining Economic Surprise Index…. Moreover, on top of surprising domestic weakness we are faced with a number of important external risks such as those emanating from North Korea and Europe. Thus if stocks and credit are counting on the economy to pull through the near-term challenges they must believe strongly in an underlying more independent source of growth – such as the housing market recovery. This is our view and the reason we position for higher interest rates in the second half of the year. However, still we expect credit spreads to widen in the near term.


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Like Eternal Padawan said somewhere else, anything by Burl Ives. I can't think of a single non-Christmas song he did, but everyone knows his Christmas stuff.
The entire "White Christmas" CD by Elvis, which collects all the Christmas recordings he ever released on one disc. Best of all are Blue Christmas, Santa Claus Is Back in Town, and his takes on White Christmas, O Little Town of Bethlehem, and Silver Bells.
Any Christmas recording by U2 (they covered Happy X-Mas? really? I gotta find that!) or Bruce Springsteen. Both of them should release Christmas albums.
The classic Motown albums by Stevie Wonder, the Temptations, and the Jackson 5.
All of Merry Axemas: A Guitar Superstar Christmas and most of Merry Axemas 2. (Joe Perry tearing through Blue Christmas is super-classic.)
The soundtracks to Home Alone, Home Alone 2, A Charlie Brown Christmas, and The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Most of the stuff from the A Very Special Christmas CDs. (Though there's always some bad fluff on there.)
Run Run Rudolph by Chuck Berry, Santa Claus by Sonny Boy Williamson II, and BB King's A Christmas Celebration of hope. There's not a whole lot of Christmas blues out there.
Songs by Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, and other folks I think are great singers but don't often listen to.
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For you GIJoe guys, also had all of the Comic 2 Packs, and a TRU exclusive three figure set. I had never seen this item before. One w/Cobra officers, one w/Red Cobra troops of some sort, and a Joe set. The are in a triangular package and each figure is in a cylinder tube. Sorry if this is an older item, I don't know much about the Joe stuff. I stashed one of each. PM me.
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Covering war for the first time--in Syria
The small room in the back of the Monsours' house was set up for two people: two desks, two nightstands, and two beds. The beds had matching sheets and pillowcases adorned with Superman cartoon characters.
The small room in the back of the Monsours' house was set up for two people: two desks, two nightstands, and two beds. The beds had matching sheets and pillowcases adorned with Superman cartoon characters.
Attacks on the Press | Mexico, Nigeria, Syria
News of the August 19, 2014, murder of journalist James Foley broke not in the media but instead on Twitter. News organizations faced the agonizing questions of how to report on the killing and what portions of the video to show. If a group or individual commits an act of violence, and then films it, how can traditional news organizations cover it without amplifying the propaganda message?
New York, December 4, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the immediate release of U.S. freelance journalist Luke Somers, who has been held hostage in Yemen for more than a year. Following a video released on Wednesday that showed the journalist pleading for his life, U.S. government officials issued press releases today publicly acknowledging that Somers was being held by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. CPJ did not previously report the case at the request of the family, who today released a statement about the kidnapping.
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A climate of impunity reached a tragic culmination on November 23, 2009, when gunmen ambushed a caravan escorting political candidate Esmael "Toto" Mangudadatu as he prepared to file papers to become a candidate for provincial governor in the Philippines. The attackers slaughtered 58 people, among them 30 journalists and two media workers, the largest toll of journalists murdered in a single act since CPJ began keeping track in 1992.
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The apparent back-to-back murders of two American freelance journalists by the same group are unprecedented in CPJ's history. The beheadings on camera in a two-week period of first James Foley and then Steven Sotloff appear to be an acceleration of a pattern--dating at least to Daniel Pearl's killing in 2002--of criminal and insurgent groups displaying the murders of journalists to send a broad message of terror.
New York, August 11, 2014--A Kurdish journalist was killed in Makhmur district, south of the city of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, on Friday when shrapnel from mortar shelling hit her in the chest, according to news reports. Deniz Firat, a freelance reporter, was covering clashes between Kurdish forces and insurgents with the Islamic State, an Al-Qaeda splinter group formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham, the Firat News Agency said.
On Sunday, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration announced a new policy requiring that travelers to the United States turn on their devices at the request of airport security personnel. Devices that cannot be powered on will be barred from the aircraft, and passengers in possession of such devices may also be subjected to additional screening. While a number of commenters have lamented the policy change on the grounds that it is likely to cause confusion and otherwise inconvenience passengers, the move could also aggravate the risks journalists already face when traveling with sensitive materials such as notes, unpublished photographs, or information about sources.
Istanbul, June 18, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by a Turkish court's decision on Monday to censor media coverage of a hostage crisis in the Iraqi city of Mosul. Last week, insurgents led by the Al-Qaeda splinter group Islamic State in Iraq and Sham abducted at least 80 Turkish citizens, including 49 consulate staff and their families, according to news reports.
New York, May 15, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists is relieved by a report by the Times of London that said two of its journalists escaped captivity near the Turkish border in Syria on Wednesday. Anthony Loyd, a correspondent, and Jack Hill, a photographer, escaped their unidentified assailants with the help of the rebel group Islamic Front, the paper said.
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Roland MKS-70 Super JX
The MKS-70 is an identical rackmount version of the JX-10 synthesizer. Released in 1986 it combines two individual JX-8P synth engines for an outstanding warm and analog sound which is used in many modern studios all over the world. It comes with onboard effects like Chorus and Delay and offers a wider range of programming using the optional PG-800 Programmer. This programmer is highly recommended for those who will be programming unique sounds since editing from the rack-face itself is cumbersome and tedious. The MKS-70 has a "chase-play" function which allows programmable delayed repeats of voices from either of its tone modules. The chorus is either off, slow or fast. It is used by Überzone, Vangelis, Astral Projection and Josh Wink.
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I have what I think could be or may be a potential problem. Today I introduced my 11 week old female pointing lab to live birds for the first time, with the help of a friend. We had two pigeons in a small cage placed in the yard and just kind of let my pup do her thing. For a few minutes she sniffed around the cage, dug at it, climbed on top pretty normal first encounter I think.
We then (regrettably) let my friends 3 year old pointing lab come check out the pigeons in the cage. The 3 year old rushed over to the cage, then almost immediately attacked the pup! It was only a matter of seconds, but by the time I pulled the older dog off she had drawn blood from the top of the pups nose and the pup was squealing like a stuck hog. The older dog was immediately put away and I got the pup cleaned up and calmed down after a few minutes. She went back to wagging her tail and she appeared to be just fine. We then took the caged pigeons to the back yard to see how the pup would react. She didnt want anything to do with that cage of course. I took a pigeon out of the cage and walked away from it, coaxing the pup to follow me. I kneeled on the ground with the bird and the pup acted very uninterested in the bird. I took her home and shes pretty much been acting normal all night.
My question is this What do I do now? My first thought (and my buddys thought too) was to give her a few days or a week without any contact with birds, then try again with a shackled or dead bird no cage. But now Im wondering if I should get her back on a bird as soon as possible to try to get her to realize birds are a good thing right away. Im a new trainer so I could really use some advice here. Do I wait, or do I put her on birds right away???


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Mr Paul Pomerantz to quit as executive director of DIA on March 3, 2013
Singapore: Executive director of DIA, Mr Paul Pomerantz is quitting his position effective March 3, 2013, to assume the role of CEO for the American Society of Anesthesiologists. During the next three months, Mr Pomerantz will work closely with DIA's board of directors to execute a smooth transition that sustains the momentum the organization has achieved under his leadership.
DIA is a neutral, global, professional and member-driven association of nearly 18,000 professionals involved in the discovery, development and lifecycle management of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices and related healthcare products. Headquartered in US, DIA has presence in Basel, Switzerland; Tokyo, Japan; Mumbai, India; Beijing, China; Washington DC, US; and Latin America.
"Paul has been an extraordinary executive director who will be sorely missed, but together we have built a strong foundation for continued growth," said DIA president Dr Ling Su. "We are committed to continue the implementation of our strategic plan, which is bringing quality programs and services to our members and stakeholders globally. We thank Paul for his contributions and wish him the best of success in his new position."
Under the leadership of Mr Pomerantz, DIA has achieved rapid global expansion and significantly increased its stakeholder relationships-particularly among global health organizations, regulatory agencies and patient groups-driving its transformation into a world-class, knowledge-driven organization.
"This was a very difficult decision to make," Mr Pomerantz said. "The last three years have been among the most fulfilling of my professional career. I am proud of what we accomplished, and I am confident that DIA's board of directors, staff and volunteers will continue our progress. My new position provides an exciting challenge to serve the needs of a leading medical association and its patients."
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Phuket Top Team's Cyrus Washington Interview
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As we announced on Twitter a while back, we've struck up a partnership with Phuket Top Team in Thailand. PTT is is a breath of fresh air in the already crowded gym culture of Thailand. In Thailand obviously Thai Boxing/Muay Thai is at the heart of why fighters will go to Thailand to train, and if you are headed there to train in Muay Thai there are endless amounts of options. The big difference between PTT and most of those gyms is that there is not only a great Muay Thai program, but a focus on Mixed Martial Arts as well. PTT is an all-purpose gym in Thailand that does so much right that it is hard to argue against heading there to train.
On top of that, the instructors and owners are all extremely passionate about combat sports, from Muay Thai to Kickboxing to MMA and have dedicate their lives to it. Of course, the island of Phuket itself is extremely beautiful and not a hard place to find yourself relaxing after a tough workout.
Cyrus Washington is a serious up-and-comer in the Muay Thai and Kickboxing world who is representing Phuket Top Team on Contender Muay Thai, watch this interview as he discusses the show and a lot more.
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NY Times solicited comments on climate change from authors in various countries. This one is from a lady in Denmark.
Don't know where she got the info in this quote, but it doesn't make me warm & fuzzy:
I find it hard to believe that one of our retrievers causes as much pollution as a Land Cruiser!I did, though, (mis)appropriate the climate angle in the course of a discussion about pets. "A medium-sized dog pollutes as much as a 4.6-liter Toyota Land Cruiser clocking more than 6,000 miles a year!" I tell him, reading out of the newspaper.
Can you imagine having to buy carbon credits for each of your dogs? Wonder how much for cats? Is that why someone has proposed that you get a credit for your pet expenses on your FIT?
Can you imagine if the PETA folks get hold of this?!


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The Iranian state propaganda organ Press TV obtained a license to broadcast via satellite from its London studios at the end of 2008, spreading its brand of "news" into the living rooms of millions of British people.
Quite how a station that has promoted Holocaust denial as well as a viciously anti-Israel agenda driven by its Iranian backers was able to get a UK license to broadcast in the first place is a mystery.
But since then, Press TV has found itself under investigation by Ofcom, the UK's communications regulator, on multiple occasions. This included reporting and commentary on Israel from star presenters Lauren Booth and George Galloway.
Press TV also came under Ofcom's spotlight following a complaint that it had breached its duty to be impartial and accurate in covering the Iranian regime's attempts to crush dissent following the 2009 elections and more recently as the station was punished for broadcasting an interview with Newsweek journalist Maziar Bahari obtained by way of torture. Bahari was arrested in Iran covering the country's 2009 post-election protests. The station also displayed a penchant for running stories that no credible media outlet would touch.
All of this has culminated in Ofcom revoking Press TV's license to broadcast in the UK, ostensibly for breaching UK broadcasting rules by running its editorial oversight from Tehran. As The Guardian reports:
"Ofcom has decided to revoke the licence held by Press TV Limited with immediate effect," the media regulator said in a statement.
Ofcom wrote a letter to Press TV in November highlighting the issue and offered a choice of two remedies.
The first was to switch editorial control for Press TV's programming to the UK, the second to transfer the broadcasting licence to Iran.
"Broadcasting rules require that a licence is held by the person who is in general control of the TV service: that is, the person that chooses the programmes to be shown in the service and organises the programme schedule," Ofcom said.
"Ofcom gave Press TV the opportunity to apply to have its operations in Tehran correctly licensed by Ofcom and Ofcom offered to assist it to do so," said the regulator.
Ofcom said Press TV failed to respond to or implement either of these two options.
"Press TV was given the opportunity to make representations on Ofcom's 'minded to revoke' letter," the regulator said. "Press TV has failed to make the necessary application and Ofcom has therefore revoked Press TV's licence to broadcast in the UK."
While Press TV will still be available online, this is undoubtedly a big blow to the station's reach. Instead of sharing a broadcasting platform with the likes of Sky News, CNN and the BBC, Press TV has been relegated back to the fringes where it belongs.


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It is college bowl time and there is a lot of talk about the BCS, college football and traditionalists vs. those who want a playoff system of some kind. The theory is very simple and not new. It has worked for years and revolutionized renewed interest in college basketball – both for "recreational oddsmakers" and for the most casual fans. The institute of higher learning known...


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By Ben Levisohn
After months of negotiations, China and the European Union announced that they had reached a deal to avoid EU tariffs on Chinese solar panels over the weekend.
Bloomberg hast the details:
The accord would set a minimum price for imports of the renewable-energy technology from China. In return, Chinese manufacturers would be spared EU levies meant to counter below-cost sales, a practice known as dumping…
The accord would fix a minimum price of 56 euro cents a watt for annual imports from China of as much as 7 gigawatts, said a trade official in Europe who spoke on condition of anonymity because the information hasn't been publicly announced yet.
Chinese solar stocks are surging on the news. Suntech Power Holdings (STP) has jumped 7.9% to $1.52, ReneSola (SOL) has climbed $5.7% to $4.55, Yingli Green Energy (YGE) has gained 5.9% to $4.25, JA Solar (JASO) has risen 4.3% to $9.27 and Trina Solar (TSL) has gone up 3.6% to $1.75.
Not everyone is happy with the deal. According to the Wall Street Journal, European panel manufacturers believe the floor price is too low, but Europe's trade commissioner says he is a fan:
"I have heard some voices arguing that we have given into China and that this agreement will destroy the European solar panel industry. I disagree," EU trade commissioner Karel de Gucht said at a press conference. "I believe that this solution will remove the injury for the European industry…The effect will be that European industry will have the space to regain its previously held market share."
Mr. de Gucht said the agreement would remain in effect until the end of 2015.
Asked if the deal would see China drop its probes into European wine and polysilicon exports, Mr. de Gucht said those investigations would continue. But he said Chinese authorities will open up a "window for discussions" with European producers after those probes end next spring and before any penalties are imposed.
Raymond James analyst Pavel Molchanov doesn't believe the deal marks the end of the solar trade war:


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Poster Friday: New Moon, Caprica, The Crazies & More!
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Happy Friday everyone! For our first Friday of October 2009, we've again gathered the latest posters to come out for this week's poster round-up.
Screen Rant's wall this week now includes new one-sheets for The Princess and the Frog, Caprica, The Crazies, The Mechanic, Stone, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Saw VI, The Twilight Saga's New Moon and Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant.
In addition to that we have two bonus posters from two major upcoming films that you need to check out! Also, there's some very creative road sign parody posters of classic films, as well as some older and strange looking posters from Ghana.
Let's get to it.
To start, here's another new poster for The Princess and the Frog that looks nearly identical to last week's The Princess and the Frog poster except for the blue background. Again, note the classic and beautifully hand-drawn art for Disney's next addition to its 2D library:
Source: IGN
The Princess and the Frog opens December 11, 2009.
For the Caprica fans out there, io9 posted up 5 promotional sheets for the upcoming prequel series to Battlestar Galactica.
The new SyFy series premiers next year on January 22nd but you can check out the pilot on DVD, in stores now.
Source: io9
In case you missed them, here are the three New Moon posters released earlier in the week.
New Moon opens November 20, 2009.
Our bud Brad Miska at Bloody-Disgusting put up the new official one-sheet for the remake of The Crazies.
The original, made by the legendary George A. Romero, debuted in 1973 and the remake stars Timothy Olyphant.
The Crazies hits theaters February 26, 2010.
Source: Bloody-Disgusting
New unofficial poster for the remake of The Mechanic, starring Jason Statham.
Source: Collider
A pair of unexciting posters for Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans starring Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes.
Source: Latino Review
New unofficial poster for the film, Stone, starring Robert De Niro and Edward Norton:
Source: Collider
Cinematical posted some very strange movie posters from Ghana including the following two from Terminator and Evil Dead 2.
They were created by local artists in the 1980-90s as they did not have official promotions or marketing for how they viewed the films; on TVs through VHS – all powered by generators.
Be sure to check the other ones out at Cinematical.
Source: Cinematical
Two Saw VI blood drive posters:
Saw VI opens October 23, 2009.
Source: IGN
Our good friends at JoBlo put up some very cool and creative posters designed as road signs – they're based on popular movies that if you've seen them, you'll get the design.
The posters were created by Edgar Ascensão of Brain Mixer and you can head on over there to see more.
Source: Brain Mixer (via JoBlo)
Here's another poster that Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant that we've not yet shared:
Source: Collider
And last but not least, we of course have the weekly bonus image (this week we have two!). To start, here's a poster for Marvel's Thor!
I think I prefer the fan-made Captain America poster from a few weeks back
The real Thor film starring Chris Hemsworth debuts May 20, 2011 and will be directed by Kenneth Branagh.
Source: Mania
Our second bonus, and maybe you've already seen this, is a fan-made poster for The Hobbit that I came across the other day.
It depects Ian Holm as Bilbo Baggins along with Ian McKellen as Gandalf.
Source: SCI FI Wire
If you missed it, last week's Poster Friday added the following new posters to Screen Rant's wall: The Princess and the Frog, Planet 51, Taking Woodstock, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Blood Creek, Moon, Tooth Fairy, Yes Men Fix The World, Pandorum, Dread, Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant.
What's your favorite of this week's batch of one-sheets? I would have to say that my favorites this week are the Dune and Mad Max 2 road sign posters.
Come back next Friday for the latest!
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So thought I'd provide some perspective to you folks in the 'market', from an observer friend. UB
The Eye of the Economic Hurricane
by Bill Bonner
London, England
Yesterday was beautiful in London. We wandered along the banks of the Thames and crossed Waterloo Bridge over to Covent Garden. Everywhere, people were sitting out on the grass...standing outside pubs...walking hand in hand. Everyone had the same idea - to take advantage of the nice weather before it goes away.
Last year, London had a beautiful summer too. But we were gone that week and missed it.
Alas, many of the best things in life are fleeting. And thankfully, so are the worst things.
What put us in such a reflective mood were yesterday's news reports. The Dow rose again - up 19 points this time. Gold edged closer to the $1,000 mark - at $984. Oil traded at $68. And the dollar fell to only $1.43 against the euro.
These trends - not to mention the broad rise in commodities and stocks worldwide - lead many investors to think that the fair weather is back, permanently. Asset prices are rising. Investors are less afraid of risk. Hallelujah - a dove with a sprig of green in its beak!
Of course, it may be true. But our advice, dear reader, is to take an umbrella with you anyway. As far as we can tell, nothing has happened to disturb the major weather pattern that began developing two years ago. Anyone could see it coming years in advance. "You gotta expect trouble when the average house is more expensive than the average person can afford," we kept saying.
But it was only when high winds hit the housing market that the newspapers took notice. Then, for 40 days and 40 nights the rain came down.
First, the house flippers were caught off guard. They were in the middle of flipping condos when all of a sudden the wind shifted and sent their contracts aloft. Mortgage rates were rising and buyers disappeared. The flippers lost their deposits and walked away from empty buildings.
Then, resets and higher rates blew the roof off the subprime market.
Then, the whole housing sector was getting knocked down - builders, suppliers, and financers.
Next came the credit crunch...when major lenders and investment banks realized that they were in heavy seas. Their ships were swamped with mortgage-backed debt and derivatives...and their captains were morons. Lehman went down. Wall Street abandoned ship. And the feds sent out rescue planes.
By late in 2008, everyone was taking shelter. Businesses were cutting payrolls. Banks were squeezing their reserves. Consumers were staying at home. And GM was hiring bankruptcy lawyers.
Everything was falling in price - houses, office buildings, stocks, commodities...practically everything except the US dollar, US bonds, and gold... These three were seen as the only safe refuges for storm- tossed investors.
But on March 9, 2009, came a lull. Reluctantly, investors came out of their storm shelters. The skies lightened...the sun shined. Oil has gone up 53% since then. Stocks worldwide are up about 30%.
And now...people say "the worst is behind us."
We meteorologists here at The Daily Reckoning watch the skies like everyone else. But we also read reports from big storms of the past. And what we notice is that this doesn't look like the passing storms of the '80s or '90s. It looks to us like a major change in weather patterns. To be more precise, it looks to us like the Great Storm of the '30s. Do you remember that one, dear reader? No? Well, we don't either, but we've read the histories. It was a doozy. And it began...well...just like this one.
In 1930, six months after the initial storm front passed, world output was down about 15%. Today, it is down about 15%, too. Stock markets were only down about 20% in mid-1930. Today, they're down about 35%. And world trade slipped about 15% in the six months following the onset of the Great Crash of '29. Today, it is down 25%.
One thing you notice is that like the Great Depression, this downturn is global. A collapse in world trade followed the Crash of '29. It is usually blamed on two protectionist bumblers in Congress - Smoot and Hawley. But in a real depression, trade falls anyway. World commerce needs to readjust to new realities...whatever they are. That's happening again now.
The other thing you notice is that this adjustment takes time...and takes the losses much further...much deeper...than anyone expects. The actual bottom in the '30s didn't come until 2 to 3 years after the crash. And it took stocks all over the planet down to about 65% below their peaks. World output eventually fell to only about 2/3rds of what it had been in the late '20s.
It took two decades and a major world war before the world was back on its feet.
"Treasuries Tumble," announced a cover of Barron's recently. Oh my. Long bonds are down 20% since January.
Pity the poor Chinese. They've got $768 billion worth of them.
And pity poor Tim Geithner. He's over there right now on a fool's errand, lying to the Chinese:
"Geithner Tells Chinese its Holdings Are Safe," says the Washington Post.
Reuters went on to report:
"His answer drew loud laughter from his student audience, reflecting skepticism in China about the wisdom of a developing country accumulating a vast stockpile of foreign reserves instead of spending the money to raise living standards at home."
"Those people did not become French in the last five months," says Mitch Daniels, Republican governor of Indiana.
He was referring to the people who re-elected him. His point was that Americans are not necessarily in favor of socialism. They may be fed up with what they see as the failures of capitalism. But they're not ready to vote for Nicholas Sarkozy.
But the country has clearly moved towards more government intervention in the economy. In 1986, 40% of Americans thought government regulated the economy too much. Now, 40% think it doesn't regulate enough. And get this... The Economist reports the results of a worldwide poll. When asked if "people [were] better off under free markets," 75% of Indians say 'yes' and so did about 72% of Chinese. But put the question to Americans and only about 69% think so.
Even Italians are more in favor of free enterprise than Americans. Go figure.
The Economist passes along the thoughts of an American lawyer to explain it:
"The disaster in the housing and mortgage markets shows that free markets don't always get incentives right or generate the information people need to make wise decisions. There may be times, he adds, when government is better suited to giving people the information they need."
Ha. Ha.
Information? What information was it that people didn't have? All the information was not only available - it was free. We reported it here at The Daily Reckoning - for free. Day after day...we read the headlines and passed along the statistics. What was hidden from view? What was unknown?
This information was available to the government too. Its thousands of regulators, representatives, researchers, and consumer advocates had computer terminals and newspaper subscriptions. They even had thousands of PhDs in economics whose JOB IS TO STUDY THE ECONOMY!
If government were really able to give "people the information they [needed]," you'd think that one of these earnest meddlers would have whispered to Secretary of the Treasury...or maybe to the head of the Fed: "Hey...better tell the voters to watch out...this thing is getting out of control."
But do you remember a word from the Secretary of the Treasury...from the Fed...from the SEC...from the other busybody parasites who live on the public payroll? We don't. All we remember is how they told us to "buy an SUV" and how derivatives "spread the risk to those who are able to bear it" and how "subprime mortgages help increase home ownership."
The government, do a better job of running the economy? Ha. Ha.
Until tomorrow,
Bill Bonner
The Daily Reckoning


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Tigers advance to Subsection game
The second-seeded Pine River-Backus Tigers girls' basketball team advanced to the East Subsection 5A championship game against top-seeded Isle on Tuesday, March 5, in McGregor after easily defeating the first two teams they faced in the playoffs. That winner advances to the Section 5A game on Friday, March 8, at Crosby-Ironton.
The Tigers, 23-4 overall, crushed Northland of Remer 90-38 on Thursday, Feb. 28 in their first playoff game, and then beat East Central 83-45 in the subsection semifinals on Saturday, March 2.
Tigers 90, Northland 38
PR-B quickly jumped out to a 17-0 lead in the first four minutes. With 14 minutes left in the opening half, the Eagles finally managed to score as they put in two points. Northland got two more points 30 seconds later, the Tigers answered with two points by Autumn Ackerman, and scored six more points including four by Tatum Sheley and two by Journee Howard to make it 25-4.
The Eagles got two points and hit a 3-pointer, Kendra Brasel and Howard combined for three points for PR-B, and Northland got two more points. The Eagles put in a free throw, and the Tigers got a 3-pointer from Sheley, four points from Kelley, and five points from Megan Felthous to make the score 40-12 with seven minutes left in the first half. Northland made another free throw and didn't score again until right before the buzzer, while PR-B went on a 28-point run for a 68-15 halftime lead.
The Eagles outscored the Tigers 23-22 in the second half. All but two PR-B players scored, including eighth grader Shelbie Adkins, who posted her first varsity points toward the end of the second half as she got fouled on the shot, made the basket and the extra point. High scorer was Felthous with 24 points, nine rebounds, six steals, and one assist. Sheley had 21 points, six assists, two rebounds, and one steal. Ackerman had 12 points, eight rebounds, four steals, two assists, and two blocks. Kelley had 10 points, four rebounds, three blocks, two assists, and one steal. Howard finished with nine points, seven rebounds, and two steals. Brasel had eight points, seven steals, five assists, two rebounds, and two blocks. Adkins finished with three points, Liz Downie with two points, and Jess Hanneken added one point and three rebounds.
Tigers 83, East Central 45
The Tigers easily defeated the East Central Eagles in the semifinals on Saturday, March 2. PR-B won the tip and made the first points as Felthous put in a layup off an assist by Sheley with only eight seconds off the clock. Felthous scored two more points before the Eagles could make their first points to put the Tigers up 4-0. East Central put in two points, Sheley answered for the Tigers with her first of three 3-pointers, and Felthous made yet another two points to make it 9-2. The Eagles put in a 3-point shot, the Tigers put in six points including one by Kelley, three by Sheley, and two by Felthous.
East Central made two free throws, Ackerman scored two points off an assist by Sheley, the Eagles put in two points, and Howard scored three points to make the score 20-9 with 12 minutes left. PR-B got two points each from Felthous and Brasel within a minute, the Eagles scored five points, and the Tigers answered with five points including two from Kelley, and Sheley's third 3-pointer. Northland put in a three pointer with nine minutes left in the first half, and the Tigers went on a 14-point run to make the score 43-17. The last five minutes of the opening were fairly even as Tigers enjoyed a 55-28 halftime advantage.
The Tigers outscored the Eagles 28-17 in the second half. High scorer was Felthous with 24 points, six rebounds, two assists, and two steals. Sheley had a double-double with 15 points, 13 assists, five rebounds, and four steals. Ackerman had 13 points, nine rebounds, two assists, two steals, and one block. Kelley finished with 13 points, six rebounds, three assists, three steals, and one block. Brasel had eight points, four assists, and two steals. Howard had seven points, three rebounds, two assists, and one steal. Brooke Richards added three points and two steals.


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I hope all here on POTUS have a chance to watch tonight's VP debate. The moderator will be ABC correspondent Martha Raddatz. Her specialty is foreign affairs. No telling if our foreign policy and what is happening right now in the ME will be part of her questioning or not, but it might be.
However, she might spend more time on jobs, the economy, and the national debt.
There are some who say VP debates don't mean anything. Perhaps in the past, but I think this one will mean a lot.


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