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Military Alone Will Not End Iraqi Violence
Updated: 03/08/2007 - The new top U.S. commander in Iraq says that military force alone will not be enough to end the violence in Iraq.
Updated: 03/08/2007 - The new top U.S. commander in Iraq says that military force alone will not be enough to end the violence in Iraq.
Updated: 03/08/2007 - March 8th is World Kidney Day; an internationally recognized day to raise awareness of chronic kidney disease.
Updated: 03/08/2007 - The Blue Ridge Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis society says they need your help.
Updated: 03/08/2007 - Over three hundreds kids from over thirty area middle and high schools competed in the Virginia Piedmont Regional Science Fair. While awarding great ideas is one aim of the fair, the other is breathing life into a dying field in America.
Updated: 03/08/2007 - The Harlem Globetrotters give Good Morning Charlottesville a behind the scenes look at their upcoming exhibition game.
Updated: 03/08/2007 - Eleven Albemarle County employees were honored by the Board of Supervisors for their service to their country.
Updated: 03/08/2007 - For the first time, Albemarle County residents were able to weigh in on the proposed 2008 operating budget.
Updated: 03/08/2007 - Albemarle County has named Byran Elliott, the former Chief Executive Officer of the Charlottesville Airport Authority, to be its new Assistant County Executive.
Updated: 03/10/2007 - The school's principal said 15% of his 240 student roster are reported as being out sick.
Updated: 08/27/2008 - This week's most wanted suspect is Roscoe Boxley.
Updated: 03/08/2007 - Lung cancer is the most deadly cancer in men and women, according to the American Cancer society. One way doctors try to detect the disease early, may not work as well as experts first thought.
Updated: 03/07/2007 - Charlottesville police trainees qualified in weapons handling and proficiency Wednesday afternoon. One week of their police academy training is focused on handling and shooting a gun.
Updated: 03/07/2007 - Lisa Nowak has become the first astronaut to be publicly fired from NASA. The news comes as prosecutors in Florida have released steamy email messages concerning the case.
Updated: 03/07/2007 - "Elmo's Coloring Book" is coming to Charlottesville on May 11th.
Updated: 03/07/2007 - What began as a holy pilgrimage has ended as a mass funeral for more than 100 Shi'ite families.
Updated: 03/07/2007 - Lindsay Dorrier, Jr. is running for a fourth term on the Albemarle Board of Supervisors. He wants to continue his efforts to create more affordable housing.
Updated: 03/07/2007 - After a massive public outcry over the removal of a brass cross from the Wren Chapel, the cross is coming back.
Updated: 03/07/2007 - At least two winning tickets were sold in the record $370 million Mega Millions jackpot.
Posted: 03/07/2007 - People throughout the country say they would like to work out, but just don't have enough time. Now there is a gym that claims it can give you a total body workout in just four minutes.
Updated: 03/07/2007 - The odds of winning the Mega Millions drawing are 1 in 176,000,000, but yet nearly 8,500 tickets a minute were bought just in Virginia alone. And we've got the winning numbers.
Updated: 03/06/2007 - According to a new report, the age children begin to drink alcohol is getting younger and the level of which they drink is getting higher.
Updated: 03/06/2007 - The Virginia Department of Social Services said close to 11,000 children are on the waiting list for subsidized child care across the state. A top official with the department believes most of those waiting live in Northern Virginia.
Updated: 03/06/2007 - Political experts said the case against I. Scooter Libby was not only a landmark case, but a case that left more questions than answers.
Updated: 03/06/2007 - The department is raising awareness on the high number of deaths from fires inside homes nation-wide.
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ASIA/PAKISTAN - Nawaz Sharif is Prime Minister, religious minorities are pessimistic with regards to the blasphemy issue
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Nawaz Sharif, leader of the "Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz" (PML-N), is officially the Prime Minister of Pakistan. Sharif today received the vote of confidence in parliament with 244 votes in favor (out of 342 seats in the assembly) and takes an oath today in the hands of the country's president, Asif Ali Zardari. Sharif, who won the elections on May 8, is the first politician in the history of the country to be Prime Minister for the third time, after the mandates in the years 1990-93 and 1996-99. His party, the PML-N, thanks to the support of independent members of parliament, will be able to govern without having to form a coalition government, even if the "Muttahida Qaumi Movement" (MQM) has already offered Sharif "unconditional support."
Among the religious minorities there is general skepticism: "Nawaz Sharif was a fundamentalist and a conservative. We cannot expect much from him. In the past he gave ample space to the Islamic religious parties," says to Fides Fr. Bonnie Mendes, a priest in Faisalabad.
A test case will be the "blasphemy law" that Sharif, in his previous government, confirmed by expanding the penalties up to life imprisonment and death penalty: "A change in the blasphemy law - says Fr. Mendes - is difficult for anyone. What one may ask is to punish those who make false accusations or incite violence from the speakers of the mosques. It would be for us a little relief," he explains.
In an interview with Fides, Dominican Fr. James Channan, Director of the "Peace Center" in Lahore says he is "moderately optimistic": "It is true – he says to Fides – that Sharif in the past was favored by religious parties and militants such as 'Laskar-e-Jhangwi'. And during his second term his policies, characterized by an Islamist agenda, did not favor religious minorities. But today the situation is different. The population suffered greatly under the government of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), especially on economic issues, such as lack of electricity, inflation, unemployment, corruption. The people have chosen a large majority, the PML-N, seeing in Nawaz Sharif a man who can help the economy."
"One can be surprised - continues Fr. Channan - to know that in many cities, Christians voted in favor of Nawaz Sharif, for example in Lahore, Faisalabad, Okara, Renala Khurd and Multan, all cities of Punjab. It seems and it is hoped that Nawaz changes his attitude towards Islamic militancy and focus on economic issues, to bring well-being to all."
The controversial blasphemy issue remains: "So far, none of the previous governments has touched this issue - recalls the Dominican - because of pressures and threats of militant Islamists who took to the streets. The last government lost the Governor Salam Taseer and our Catholic federal minister Shabaz Bhatti, who had exposed themselves against the law. I believe that no government will repeal these laws for fear of militants. However, something can be done to change measures regarding the accused. This is our request to the new government." (PA) (Agenzia Fides 05/06/2013)
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- 2014-11-25 - Christian tortured and killed while in police custody
- 2014-11-24 - Christian couple burned alive: the Supreme Court intervenes
- 2014-11-20 - Violence against minorities: the governor of Punjab meets religious leaders
- 2014-11-19 - ASIA/PAKISTAN – From the Bishops a "Magna Charta" to the government: to curb religious intolerance
- 2014-11-18 - Christian and Muslim leaders: it is urgent to amend the blasphemy law
- 2014-11-17 - Christian arrested for blasphemy; investigation into the murder of Kasur continues
- 2014-11-14 - Blasphemy in Pakistan, data on victims: who will pay off all the suffering?
- 2014-11-13 - Christian and Muslim leaders: justice and prayer for the couple burned alive
- 2014-11-12 - The state has given the St. Francis school back to the Church
- 2014-11-10 - Christians protest: "Punish the muggers of Kasur and repeal the blasphemy law"


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Essential Apps: Getting Started With iPhone 4
Apple announced last week that more than 600,000 pre-orders had been made for the iPhone 4 and a large portion of those pre-orders will be fulfilled tomorrow as the new device is officially released in the U.S. and a handful of other countries. If you're one of the lucky ones getting a new iPhone tomorrow and are wondering what apps to start out with out of the 200,000 and counting already available, we've got some recommendations for you.
Going beyond the iPhone's built-in calling and text messaging features, there are other options to make calls cheaply and send messages without using up the minutes or messages of whatever call and data plan you're on. Skype is a company that offers voice-over-IP calls (VOIP) and the company's free app allows you to use the service over a 3G or Wi-Fi connection, as well as send instant and text messages.
Instant messaging is a hugely popular form of communication and while there are plenty of apps in the App Store that can keep you connected, we've found Beejive to be one of the best of the bunch. It offers push notifications so that you'll know when you receive a new message even when the app is closed and is reliable and easy to use.
[applink url="http://appshopper.com/social-networking/skype, http://appshopper.com/social-networking/beejiveim"]
Search and Navigation
If you want to find reviews and information on local businesses around you to see if they're worthy of your hard-earned cash, Yelp, an online user-driven review service, has a fantastic app that will give you just that. Yelp can use the iPhone's GPS chip to deliver local results, making searching even easier. It also has a nifty "monocle" view that uses the iPhone's camera and digital compass to show a real-time overlay to point out the businesses around you.
While you can definitely do a Google search in the Safari web browser app, Google makes it a little easier for you by providing a search app that eliminates one step from the web-searching process. Plus, you don't even need to type anything in to search since the app has a voice recognition feature that allows you to simply speak the search terms.
UrbanSpoon is another user-driven service that focuses on restaurants, with ratings, menus, and other information provided by members. You can instantly find restaurants by cuisine, rating, or even gamble a little and use the app's fun slot machine feature to let it choose a restaurant for you.
Finally, there are a ton of navigation apps available in the App Store and while we're thrilled to have so many choices, it can be a little overwhelming to, um, navigate through all of the available options and choose the best one. We've tried a lot of these apps and the one we keep coming back to and rely on regularly is Navigon's MobileNavigator. While not perfect (we have seen a few strange routes planned out for us), it has always gotten us to our destination and the optional traffic information and automatic re-routing has literally saved us hours when getting around Boston during rush hour. Navigon has posted a video of an update in the works that will add background navigation guidance and we're looking forward to its release.
[applink url="http://appshopper.com/travel/yelp, http://appshopper.com/reference/google-mobile-app, http://appshopper.com/travel/urbanspoon, http://appshopper.com/navigation/mobilenavigator-north-america"]
Social Networks
Twitter is one of the hottest social networking services around these days and the company has its own official Twitter app for the iPhone now. This app is free and is a great to use to get up and running with Twitter on your new iPhone.
While the official Twitter app is quite capable and has an excellent price of $0 (and it just got updated to version 3.0.1 that adds multi-tasking under iOS 4), we have also been drawn to a relative Twitter app newcomer, Osfoora. It offers an eye-pleasing dark theme and slick interface, blazing fast downloads of new tweets, easy access to the public timeline, and more.
Facebook is another major social networking service that millions of people use every day and it, too, has its own official iPhone app. Unlike with Twitter, there aren't as many other alternative apps that provide access to everything Facebook offers, so the official Facebook app will be your best bet for the long haul.
If professional networking is more your game, LinkedIn has also joined in on the iPhone fun with its own official app as well. LinkedIn claims more than 70 million users worldwide and its app will let you do just about everything you can do on the service's website, all from that shiny iPhone in your hot little hands.
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The iPhone is a fantastic portable media device and while it's iPod app is more than adequate to organize your music, podcasts, and audio books, it doesn't quite do everything you might want it to. If you've ever heard a song and want to know who the artist is and what the title is, the iPod app can't help you but Shazam can. Shazam is a free music identification app that uses the iPhone's microphone to "listen" to a song, identify it, and then show you all of that information along with handy links to go buy it right away.
If you want to go beyond the music you already have, Pandora is a music service that creates personalized radio "stations" for you based on music you already like. The Pandora Music app is a must-have to help you find new music and spice up your music-listening routine a bit.
If listening to local radio stations or even ones halfway across the world is more your thing, Wunder Radio is a great app. It lets you access more than 50,000 radio stations around the world, all from your iPhone any time you want. It's not a free app but it's well worth the price in our view.
[applink url="http://appshopper.com/music/shazam, http://appshopper.com/music/pandora-radio, http://appshopper.com/music/wunderradio"]
We do a lot of shopping and we're always tempted to compare prices of items we find in brick and mortar stores to see if we can do better buying from an online store. Red Laser has remained a staple on our iPhones in helping us do just that. Able to read barcodes remarkably well on every iPhone model to date, it displays price results from line stores plus other local brick and mortar stores. Red Laser has saved us money time and again and we'd recommend it to anyone who wants to get the best deals on just about anything.
It can be quite a task to generate a variety of complex and secure passwords and store all of your log-in information and other private data securely but there are a number of apps that can help you do this easily. We recently reviewed Ascendo DataVault on the iPad and since it's a universal application, it works on the iPhone as well. It can sync your data with a desktop companion app (available for the Mac and PC) and works alone as well. Using the same encryption standard that the U.S. government employs, we feel comfortable storing our passwords in DataVault.
[applink url="http://appshopper.com/utilities/redlaser, http://appshopper.com/business/ascendo-datavault-password-manager"]
If you're a fan of movies and television shows, or even if you just need to look up movie times occasionally, the official IMDB app will fit the bill for you. Taking advantage of its massive database, you can find information on just about any movie or show in the entire history of filmmaking plus current information to find theaters and showtimes near you.
If you get your cable television service from Comcast or AT&T U-verse in the U.S., you'll be happy to know that each company has an app that lets you browse your channel guide and manage your DVR remotely just in case you forgot to set it to record a show and you're away from home. It's apps like these that make us appreciate the wonders of modern technology.
[applink url="http://appshopper.com/entertainment/imdb, http://appshopper.com/entertainment/comcast-mobile-app, http://appshopper.com/entertainment/att-mobile-remote-access"]
If you like to stay on top of sports news as it's happening, ESPN offers its ESPN Radio app that provides access to live radio broadcasts plus ESPN podcasts while Sports Illustrated has a free app that gives live scoreboard information for various sports from college to professional levels.
Major league baseball fans will be thrilled with the MLB.com At Bat 2010 app that will let you listen live to every single regular and post-season game, and watch live games as well. It's a little more expensive than the other sports apps we've mentioned, but the app's high ratings show that it's proved its worth to iPhone users.
[applink url="http://appshopper.com/sports/espn-radio, http://appshopper.com/sports/sports-illustrated-sicom, http://appshopper.com/sports/mlbcom-at-bat-2010″]
Games have been such a huge hit on the iPhone that it's hard to select a couple to highlight for new iPhone users, but TouchArcade has created an exhaustive list of recommended games.
Must-have apps from Apple
Ebooks are gaining popularity, particularly since the release of Amazon's Kindle ebook reading device a few years ago, and Apple has joined in the fray with its own ebook store and app. iBooks is available as a free download and offers access to thousands of books, including New York Times best sellers and free classics under public domain.
If you want to buy some accessories for your iPhone or shop for a new computer, there's no need to go to an Apple store or even point your browser to Apple's website – you can use the recently-released Apple Store app to check out everything Apple sells and even place an order right within the app. If you want to check out the shiny Apple goodness on your shopping list in person first, the app will also help you locate the closest store.
Losing your iPhone would be a heart-breaking event in our book, but what if you could use your iPhone's own GPS chip to help you locate it? If you're a subscriber to Apple's MobileMe push email and over-the-air contact and calendar synchronization service, you can take advantage of its Find My iPhone feature which has an accompanying app. This app won't do you any good on your lost iPhone, but you can install it on another iPhone (or iPad or iPod touch) to which you have access to track down your own iPhone.
The iPhone 4 is capable of recording 720p HD video at up to 30 frames per second and the videos you capture with it have the potential to become keepsakes in your home movie collection. To help you polish these videos up, Apple has just released the iMovie app that will let you edit these movies right on the iPhone. With iMovie, you can add themes, music and even pictures to your videos to turn them into movie masterpieces on the go.
[applink url="http://appshopper.com/books/ibooks, http://appshopper.com/lifestyle/apple-store, http://appshopper.com/utilities/find-my-iphone, http://appshopper.com/photography/imovie"]


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The Shins are über popular now, and if you don't know who they are, whatever, you're lying -- but if you really don't, then just go to Wal-Mart and pick up one of their albums. Their popularity, as you all know, rose to ridiculous heights because of Zach Braff's Garden State and, specifically, Natalie Portman's namedropping. So, in an effort to finally put an end to this mention in every single news story, feature, and review ever written post-Garden State, I stuck the dialogue from the famous/infamous scene into Babel Fish (a finality if there ever was one) and translated it into German and then re-translated back into English.
Let me set the scene for you. Zach Braff walks into the doctor's office; Natalie Portman is in the waiting room. She's awkward and hot. Zach Braff is just plain awkward, so she sparks a conversation with him. Fast-forward through the conversation to the part where Natalie talks about little people in the movies...
Natalie: It sucks, although, because it gives, that, you do not know much work for small people? Anyway I speak too much. I become straight... They received to fill your forms out.
Zach: To what do you hear?
Natalie: The Shins. They know it?
Zach: No.
Natalie: They received to hear this a song. It changes your life. I am sad. They must... They received to fill your forms out. Do you think that you hear, uh... possibly could, while you fill your forms out?
Zach: I think that I can touch it.
Natalie: Yeah? Ok.
Zach: It is good. I like it.
Check out the Shins this fall in these cities:
09.01.07 - Seattle, WA - Bumbershoot Festival
09.02.07 - Chicago, IL - Download Festival
10.05.07 - Berkeley, CA - Greek Theatre *
10.06.07 - Santa Barbara, CA - Santa Barbara Bowl *
10.07.07 - Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theatre *
10.09.07 - Mesa, AZ - Mesa Amphitheater *
10.10.07 - Albuquerque, NM - Popejoy Hall (University of New Mexico)
10.17.07 - Atlanta, GA - Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center
10.18.07 - Charleston, SC - The Plex #
10.19.07 - Raleigh, NC - Progress Energy Center (Raleigh Memorial Auditorium)
10.20.07 - Norfolk, VA - The NorVa #
10.22.07 - Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion #
10.23.07 - New York, NY - Terminal Five #
10.24.07 - New York, NY - Terminal Five #
10.27.07 - Las Vegas, NV - Sam Boyd Stadium (Vegoose Festival)
10.28.07 - Las Vegas, NV - The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel
* The Shaky Hands
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RIAA Takes Congress To Ruby Tuesday, Subtly Hints At Maybe Just Dropping The Whole Legal Proceedings Thing, Gets Stuck With $650,000 Bill
It was reported by Digital Music News that the RIAA, recently christened as part of the Axis of Evil, spent $650,000 on lobbying expenses in the first half of 2007. Is that a lot? Well, in 2006, the RIAA spent $1.5 million, Time Warner spent almost $3.8 million, and the National Cable & Telecommunications Association tops the TV/movies/music category at $14 million. This year, the RIAA is on pace to spend $1.3 million. So, yes, that is a lot, but the disgusting part to begin with is how much money is put into lawmaking by people who are not lawmakers.
Total Lobbying Spending for 2006: $2.55 billion. WTF America! Half of that is the wide category of pharmaceuticals and health products, which should make everyone wonder (again) about the role of the Food and Drug Adminstration. I saw something in the grocery store called Bio-Kult, and aside from seeming absolutely revolting and sounding like a name for an international crime syndicate, I am really skeptical that this cultured dairy probiotic energy drink, with its three-fingered alligator logo, is anywhere close to being safe. Lump that in with the ever-growing list of questionable yogurt products like Go-Gurt and Yogo-Bits and the vast list of genetically modified foods, and we will seriously need to reassess what we mean by "food."
So, could the RIAA be any better? Isn't DRM just another three-fingered alligator and payola its yogurt-related cousin? How are these things getting through to the consumer? Well, $1.5 million is certainly no $1.1 billion, but proportionately, they may very well be comparable -- ethically, it is all the same. There's nothing new in the moral gray area that is lobbying and its stranglehold on how laws are made, but when these things are hitting us, really hitting us, maybe we should fight back.
Title: Thunder Clap
Subtitle: BIO-KULT HEADQUARTERS. SOMEWHERE IN AMERICA.
"Leader! The American youth is upset. They're rousing the rabble as we speak! What do we do?"
"I knew this day would come. To the Lipitor-Mobile! Everyone, lobby like this is your last day on Earth. Those Washington fat cats need milk to delightfully lap up, and by god, that milk better be our fortified, enriched, cultured bacteria dairy product!"
A Brief History of The Go! Team, As Told By You or Someone You Know
September 2004: Debut Thunder, Lightning, Strike winds up on your hard drive -- you listen to a tune and kinda dig it.
November 2004: You finally get around to listening to the record and – after reading the TMT review – tell everyone it's good.
December 2004: You make a half-assed attempt to get the UK import, fail, and then spend the $20 on a Keystone 30-rack (if you're in college) or a case of PBR (if you're in Brooklyn). Merry Christmas.
September 2005: The stateside re-release of debut Thunder, Lightning, Strike winds up on your hard drive – you listen to a tune and kinda dig it.
October 2005: You publicly refuse to buy the American version because "the samples aren't as good" and "the bonus tracks suck."
2006: Nothing happens.
Spring 2007: You see "Huddle Formation" on a Civic commercial and feel vindicated for not giving "those f-in' sell outs" any of your money.
July 2007: Sophomore album Proof of Youth winds up on your hard drive – you listen to a tune and kinda dig it.
August 2007: You publicly refuse to see the band live because "they're not as good in concert":
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"That's All, Folks!" Warner Considers Going Private
Apparently Kid Rock just ain't sellin like he used to these days.
According to a New York Post report last week, Warner Music (yes, the home of such major leaguers as Madonna and the Bullgod himself) is giving serious consideration to swan-divin' it down the proverbial rabbit hole that is Private Ownership to avoid the very same bungling but tenacious hunter that has been whomping many other wascally major label wabbits: falling stock prices, negative sentiment for the industry, and a steady decline of CD sales, all of which are, according to Warner's Understatements Department, "frustrating the company's financial backers."
The news follows a decision by rival EMI Group Plc to accept a private-equity buyout after that company and Warner spent several years flirting (platonically) with the idea of a merger or takeover.
But don't start blogging away about the impending fall of the industry just yet (well... okay, go ahead), because the going-private discussion at Warner Music is, according to Warner's Carefully Worded Vagaries Department, "understood to be in its infancy." Awww, and who doesn't love a cute, little baby?? Uh, but all images of adorable infants aside, Warner Music shares have lost more than 50% of their value in the past year. That's one-half, kids. Ain't nothin' cute about that.
"And what about the whole Digital Music pony?" you ask. Welllllll, let's just say that she won't be keeping the bread in Warner's mouth anytime soon. Last Tuesday, the company posted a wider-than-expected quarterly loss as growth in digital revenue failed to make up for declining CD sales, sending its shares down as much as 10% -- a new low.
In 2004, Time Warner Inc. sold the music company for $2.6 billion to an investor group led by Thomas H. Lee Partners, Edgar Bronfman, Bain Capital and Providence Equity Partners. These brilliant financial clairvoyants decided to take Warner Music public in 2005. Although, to be fair, the three private equity groups still own about 62% of the company anyway. Still, that's some expensive egg to have on your face
On the plus side, the capsizing company's shares actually rose $1.22 to $11.11 on the New York Stock Exchange when the announcement was made, after trading as high as $11.34 earlier in the session.
That's called irony, I think.
Any Major Dude Will Tell You, Montag Rocks Hard
Oh yes, I know you like reading this wikkid site. Your interest was somewhat piqued by the headline above, and you do have an inquiring mind when it comes to album and tour news, don'tch'yall? Well, I could go on and try to come up with something witty about how marvelous multi-disciplinarian Montag, or Antoine Bédard, will be touring in support of his latest Carpark Records effort Going Places and how he will have a new tour remix EP available at each date called Gone Places that will no doubt knock everybody's socks off when they hear it, just like all of his previous efforts have, and how he is always approaching that rarely-reached ideal of making "total art" with every new record, blah, blah. That is all true, but that is not what you really want, is it? You want something a bit rougher around the edges. You crave something to get you through the day without having to mete out all sorts of Falling Down-style beatings to the flakes and phonies you encounter on your daily travels. I know! I'm right! Well, here it is. You're welcome, by the way.
Judas Priest - "Screaming for Vengeance"
Hey listen don't you let 'em get your mind
Fill your brain with orders and that's not right
They're playing at a game that draws you closer
'Til you're living in a world that's ruled by fear
Always takin' baby out that's o.k.
What they're givin' maybe it's out of phase with me
Told you once you're never gonna win the race
Same old no tomorrow kicked in the face
We are screaming for vengeance
The world is a manacled place
Screaming, screaming for vengeance
The world is defiled in disgrace
Tie a blindfold all around your head
Spin you round in the torture before the dread
And then you're pushed and shoved into every corner
Then they lead you out into the final slaughter
As the sweat is running down your neck
All your praying for's to stop you body breakin' up
Oh your heart is pumping gonna soon explode
Got to fight the horror of this mental load
We are screaming for vengeance
The world is a manacled place
Screaming, screaming for vengeance
The world is defiled in disgrace
So you wait it out and bide your time
Rip off that straight jacket gotta break that line
Everyone who wins in the great escape
Leaves a thousand more who suffer in their wake
I don't talk about it but that's alright
Table's turned now there's a revenge in sight
If it takes forever babe I tell ya I can wait
Send them screaming back through their hell's own gate
We are screaming for vengeance
The world is a manacled place
Screaming, screaming for vengeance
The world is defiled in disgrace
Montag's remix/tour EP called Gone Places...
1. Le Super-flash Bang Statement
2. Safe in Sound (Lullatone remix)
3. Le Musée National des bonheurs qui ne durent pas
4. Cross the River
5. Nord sud est oust
6. Alice (Boy in Static remix)
7. Gong Places
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08.16.07 - Portland, OR - Holocene *
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08.21.07 - Missoula, MT - The Badlander #
08.23.07 - Denver, CO - Mercury Cafe *
08.24.07 - Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews *
08.25.07 - Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club *
08.27.07 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle (free show) *
08.28.07 - Detroit, MI - Scrummage University *
08.29.07 - Cleveland Heights, OH - B-Side Liquor Lounge *
08.30.07 - Hamilton, Ontario - Pepper Jack Cafe *
09.02.07 - Montreal, Quebec - Casa del Popolo *
09.05.07 - Boston, MA - Middle East *
09.06.07 - Brooklyn, NY - Union Hall *
09.07.07 - Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church *
09.09.07 - Washington, DC - DC9 *
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Silver Apples Break Hiatus, Tour, Still Pushing for That Lucky Charms Contract After All These Years
Disclaimer: the following story is probably/most likely/is a work of fiction.
The Silver Apples have reunited. Their press release claims a "ten-year" hiatus, but later says it's only been eight.
"It doesn't feel that long," thought now-lone Silver Apple Simeon Coxe, staring at the New York skyline from his bedroom window. "It doesn't feel that long at all."
These moments of anticipation couldn't help but trigger a nostalgic melancholy in Coxe. Here he was, an aging would-be legend, still living in an apartment that would usually be associated with a person half his age and touring with The Moon Upstairs, a group of young musicians whose debut LP had been compared with the likes of George Harrison and Neil Young.
"I should have toured with the genuine articles when I had the chance," thought Coxe as he took another long, slow sip of his Silver Apple (a concoction he invented himself in 1974, consisting of rum, apple juice, lime juice, and club soda over ice).
Simeon Coxe stared off into the distance for a long time. "I wouldn't trade it for the world," he said out loud to no one in particular. He shuddered suddenly, as if trying to shake something off. "It's been a hell of a ride." The sun began to set. Coxe finished his drink.
"It's awfully cold for this time of year," thought Coxe:
Word Has It That During the Filming of Capote, Philip Seymour Hoffman Only Listened To One Musician; Holly Golightly Brings Rock To Your Doorstep On Fall Tour
This is not Spin's retro-rock. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Strokes, and the year 2001 be damned -- take a gander at the real-deal Holyfield. Holly Golightly will go heavy for two fun-filled months on a North American tour that will find her country-fried throwback goodness touching down in venue after venue, from the mountains to the prairies. Sad but true: For the world to understand some warm, analog goodness and the sounds of the Anthology of American Folk Music, you have to slap a gaudy mustache on it, paint it like a candy-cane, and call it a sibling duo. But the fact remains that Ms. Golightly is still most remembered for her album-closing jaunt "Well It's True That We Love One Another" with Jack on The White Stripes LP, Elephant.
Nonetheless, Truman Capote and Audrey Hepburn alike would be more than thrilled to catch a show when it came a-rollin' through their neck of the woods, but it being 2007 and all, it will be up to you to pack 'dem 'der concert halls. Girls rocking garages with a kick and a snarl are a dying breed, but lord knows if Holly's namesake in Breakfast at Tiffany's peeled off her velvet gloves, she'd shred a mean six-string. If I'm not mistaken, she even told us, "I'm like cat here, a no-name slob. We belong to nobody, and nobody belongs to us. We don't even belong to each other." Two words: punk rock.
I'm just crazy about Tiffany's:
Amazon Nation Announces Plans to Launch Attack, All Residents of Amie Street Urged to Evacuate Immediately!
We interrupt your regularly scheduled secretive, tabbed internet browsing while the boss isn't looking to bring you this urgent news bulletin:
To our fellow Americans:
This week, the unthinkable has been realized.
It seems that a particularly impetuous, noticeably agitated, and, in this publication's opinion, incredibly power-hungry group is planning an attack of some kind against the truest, most God-fearing, Freedom-Lovers of this world: Capitalists.
Details are admittedly slim, as we here at TMT were only able to decipher bits and pieces of the radical group's expertly coded messages. But due to TMT's unbelievable dedication to professional journalism no matter how great the danger, we have managed to uncover secret plans of an apparently gigantic underground syndicate, codenamed "Amazon," who are in the process of planning what can only be described as a massive, web-based attack on Western Civilization's entire consumer culture in the very near future.
Their target? Music downloaders, the veritable backbone of our great nation's economy.
Their suspected weapon delivery system? Fiendishly competitively priced music downloads made available through a clever legitimate business front: "Amazon.com."
At this time, little is known about precisely how Amazon plans on implementing this new system when it opens fire on music downloaders later this year. One thing, however, is certain. The base of operations for this nefarious takeover seems be located in a place called "Amie Street," which, according to intelligence reports, is a dynamically priced internet music store that starts every MP3 it sells at the Un-American price of $0.00 and increases that price as a song becomes more popular (up to a maximum of $.98).
Our intelligence suggests that Amazon has been pumping funds into Amie Street lately, allowing the rebel company to flourish and compete with the wholesome, American institution that we all know and love, iTunes. Reports remain unclear as to just how much money Amazon has invested in Amie Street, but one of our agents has uncovered a chilling statement from Amazon despot/SVP of business affairs, which states "Amie Street has a very smart and innovative team... the idea of having customers directly influence the price of songs is an interesting and novel approach to selling digital music."
We are pleased to announce that several Amazon Agents have been captured in recent weeks. However, when they were interrogated about Amazon's plans to incorporate AmieStreet or its sinisterly innovative technology into its own digital music store, which is currently in development, the agents merely laughed and told us that a new pricing model like the one adopted by AmieStreet.com could be the key to overthrowing iTunes and sending prices on all digital music plummeting, which would obviously devastate our proud nation's fragile economy.
According to Amazon's warped mode of thinking, the song-pricing revolution is the result of a divine mandate, which lauds the new system because record labels have been pressuring Apple and iTunes to sell songs at multiple price points rather than all for $.99. Labels, Amazon believes, typically want to charge more for new hits and possibly less for older tunes and music from new, up-and-coming artists.
Needless to say, America, we here at TMT will continue to tirelessly investigate these fateful transpirations, and when Amazon makes its next insidious move, TMT will be there.
May God have mercy on us all.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled Internet bullshitting, already in progress...
Al Sharpton Spending His Life in a Figurative Knife Fight, Slashing At Commercial Hip-Hop
In a recent effort to snag some publicity post-that SNL episode during the 2004 election cycle, Reverend Al Sharpton has been working overtime organizing rallies against glorified violence in hip-hop muzik. Seriously: Sharpton is taking an ever-exhaustive stab at sending AK-47s, switchblades, and coked-up street hookers home and packing, far away from a genre that, as you know, enlightened TMT reader, is typically free of struggle, aggression, and protest.
In essence, though, Sharpton's mega-thirsty for a time long past: when West Coast hip-hop was a land of milk and honey, ruled by woman-loving, nonviolent pacifists N.W.A. and the like. Those were the days, Rev.
Sharpton got down and cleaned recently in Motown and New York City, in his it-won't-make-a-difference endeavor to pull violent, woman-bashing lyrical weeds from labels Viacom, Time Warner and Vivendi. Apparently, Sharpton's supporting legislation proposed in New York that may or may not affect your favorite artists, listening habits, or daily indie-hair-swooping lives.
Instead, enjoy a cleaned-up version of Jay Z's woman-loving classic. You'll notice the flower-power happy-Volvo-driving-house-owning love theme doesn't really affect the lyrical continuity. Or the struggle. That's hip-hop, ladies and gents.
"99 PROBLEMS" (Al Sharpton Remix)
If you're havin' girl problems I feel bad for you, MY FELLOW BROTHER IN THE STRUGGLE TO UPHOLD THE VALUES OF MLK IN A SOCIETY MAINTAINING A FALSE CONSCIOUSNESS SURROUNDING OUR CULTURE
I got 99 problems but a LOVELY WIFE TO COME HOME TO WHO WILL COOK MY MEALS AND SLEEP WITH ME IN MATCHING PAJAMAS ain't one
I got the rap patrol on the gat patrol
Foes that wanna make sure my casket's closed
Rap critics they say he's "Money Cash ATTRACTIVE YOUNG WOMEN"
I'm from the hood LESS INTELLIGENT ONE, what type of facts are those
If you grew up with holes in ya zapatos
You'd be celebrating the minute you was havin' dough
I'm like YOU GOSH DARN critics you can kiss my whole BEAUTIFUL SMILING FACE
If you don't like my lyrics you can press fast forward
I got beef with radio if i don't play they show
They don't play my hits well I don't give a GOSH DARN CARE IN THE WORLD
Rap mags try and use my UPSTANDING AFRICAN AMERICAN IDENTITY
So advertisers can give 'em more cash for ads, LOVERS
I don't know what you take me as,
Or understand the intelligence that Jay-Z has
I'm from rags to riches SIMILARLY UPRIGHT AND EMPASSIONED AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE
I ain't dumb
I got 99 problems but a WELL-SPOKEN YOUNG WOMAN WHO SPENDS HER FREE TIME PICKING FLOWERS, SMELLING THE RAIN, AND READING DANIELLE STEELE NOVELS ain't one
[DON'T] Hit me
99 problems but the BEAUTIFUL WOMAN WHO KISSES MY FOREHEAD BEFORE BED ain't one
If you're havin' girl problems i feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems but a COLLEGE-EDUCATED WOMAN WITH EQUAL INCOME, HER OWN HEALTH INSURANCE, AND PRETTY EYES ain't one
The year's '94 and my trunk is raw
In my rear view mirror is the mother-SLOPPY SUNDAY MORNING LOVING law
I got two choices y'all pull over the car or (hmmm)
Bounce on the devil put the pedal to the floor
Now I ain't tryin' to see no highway chase with Jake.
Plus I got a few dollars I can fight the case
So I...pull over to the side of the road
I heard "Son do you know why I'm stoppin' you for?"
Cause I'm young and I'm A NONVIOLENT, UPSTANDING AFRICAN AMERICAN and my hat's real low?
Do I look like a mind reader sir, I don't know
Am I under arrest or should I guess some mo'?
"Well you was doin' fifty-five in a fifty-fo' "
"License and registration and step out of the car"
"Are you carryin' a BOUQUET OF ROSES on you I know a lot of you are"
I ain't steppin' out of THIS REGISTERED VEHICLE all my paper's legit
"Well, do you mind if I look round the car a little bit?"
Well my glove compartment is locked so are the trunk in the back
And I know my rights so you gon' need a warrant for that
"Aren't you sharp as a tack, you some type of lawyer or something'?"
"Or somebody important or somethin'?"
Nah, I ain't pass the bar but i know a little bit
Enough that you won't illegally search my REGISTERED VEHICLE
"We'll see how smart you are when the K9 come"
I got 99 problems but a WIFE THAT BAKES HOT APPLE PIE IN A 'KISS THE COOK' APRON ain't one
[DON'T] Hit me
99 Problems but a WOMAN THAT CONSISTENTLY LETS ME HOLD HER IN MY ARMS AND READS THE BIBLE BEFORE BED ain't one
if you havin' girl problems
I feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems but a YOUNG WOMAN HUMBLED BY THE EXISTENCE OF GOD ain't one
[DON'T] hit me


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In a spellbinding narrative that skillfully weaves together cutting-edge research among today's foremost scientists, theoretical physicist Michio Kaku--author of the bestselling book Hyperspace--presents a bold, exhilarating adventure into the science of tomorrow.
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In the first part of Visions, Dr. Kaku discusses the cyber future, when millions of microprocessors are scattered throughout our environment; when the iron principle that has ruled the computer industry, Moore's Law, finally collapses, forcing scientists to adopt startling new designs like DNA computers and quantum computers; and when artificial intelligence systems finally arrive.
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An intimate, thrilling tour through the next century of science, Visions is a riveting, essential map to how scientists will reshape our future.
As the twentieth century draws to a close, the fundamental elements of matter and life — the particles of the atom and the decoding of the nucleus of the cell — have been discovered, and one of the great chapters of scientific history has drawn to a close.
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Construction's begun on an ultrafiltration pilot project designed by Brown and Caldwell and built by Integrated Water Services.
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Padre Dam Municipal Water District's Board of Directors approved a $1,547,000 contract to Integrated Water Services to construct a new Advanced Water Purification Demonstration Project on September 3.
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will Carl Icahn break up HP?
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Didn't Carl Icahn spend time in jail for financial chicanery in the eighties?
Hewlett and Packard, the flu ders, must be spinning in their graves!
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on Dec 12, 2012 at 2:55 pm
"Didn't Carl Icahn spend time in jail for financial chicanery in the eighties?"
No, he didn't. You may be thinking of Michael Milken, who was instrumental in financing many of Icahn's deals.
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Hvordan bidrar investering i Mikrofinans til økt levestandard for klientene i utviklingsmarkeder?
Knut Frigaard, a NMI Investment Director, recently wrote a short article on the day-to-day life of a microfinance Client in Kenya. Please note that this article is in Norwegian.
Knut Frigaard, Investeringsdirektør i NMI skrev en artikkel på KLP bloggen om den faktiske hverdagen for en mikrofinans klient i Kenya. Artikkelen i sin helhet følger her:
KWFT Named Leading Microfinance Bank by Biashara Leo Business and Management Magazine
8 September 2014: In the August edition, the very inspiring success story of KWFT has been published, highlighting key milestones and plans for the Institution. In addition, four client testimonials have been included to inspire other entrepreneurs.
RGVN (North East) MFL Closes Equity Raise of INR 41.8 Crore
15 July 2014: RGVN (North East) Microfinance Limited, a microfinance institution headquartered in Guwahati, announced that it had closed its latest equity raise of INR 41.8 crore. NMI Fund III KS and Oikocredit came in as new investors in the institution.
NMI Names Arthur Sletteberg Managing Director
NMI Fund III KS invests USD 4.7 million through a share issue in Satin Creditcare Network Limited ("Satin")
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An Overheard Conversation At The Suburban Neighborhood Pool, If The Suburban Neighborhood Pool Were In Deadwood.
MOM 1: Fucking Homeowners Association cocksuckers. Are they so slow in the ass-fucking cerebrum as to not allow a goddamned simple, commonplace, gullet-pleasing peanut-fucking-butter sandwich on the premises of their fucking pool patio?
MOM 2: Fucking power-hungry vulturine twats is what they are, that Homeowners Association you speak of.
MOM 1: I mean, fuck me if I'm gonna take the three angelic fucking spawn of my hooch and force them to hunker their tiny selves down in the back of the sweltering cocksucking Odyssey just to masticate a PB&J and imbibe some goddamned Mott's. Fuck.
MOM 2: Want I should write a letter to the HOA fuckers and invite them to a civil fucking sit-down where we can discuss this fucking asinine and irritating issue face to face?
MOM 1: Fuck no. It wouldn't do any good. I doubt any of the fuckers can read.
MOM 2: Well, shit, Tiffany, let's just divvy up the sandwiches among our sweet fucking runts and see what happens. Hunter's gone all asshole from hunger-induced madness of the brain, already.
MOM 1: Indeed, Jennifer. Let's buck the fucking antiquated "system" of HOA whores trying to prevent ants and the like from invading the fucking pool area. Ants I can abso-fucking-lutely deal with. Insane children? Jesus Christ on a bike, that shit is impossible to manage.
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When she was raped at age 16, Candice Hall didn't know where to turn or who to tell.
So she bottled it up. She pretended it had no bearing on her life, and didn't say a word about the attack until she told her mother – four years later. It would be another four years or so before she'd tell anyone else.
Now, the 34-year-old Fort Wayne woman spends time in schools trying to get the message across to anyone who will listen: If you're a victim of rape, you have options. You can talk to people.
And, it's not your fault.
I knew nothing, I really didn't, Hall said. I didn't know that what happened to me was something I could report.
As an outreach specialist for the Fort Wayne Women's Bureau, Hall spoke to more than 4,500 students in local middle and high schools last year about rape prevention and what those who are raped can do.
And education on the subject is something that is badly needed if a report released by Indiana University this year is any indication.
The report – compiled by the Center for Evaluation & Education Policy and the Consortium for Education and Social Sciences Research – cites what the authors call sobering numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that show a widespread problem of sexual violence in Indiana.
Those same numbers, the report suggests, show that Indiana is in constant need of education, especially among middle school- and high school-aged children and young adults, who are many times the target of such violence.
Sex is still a very taboo subject that people don't want to address, Hall said. To put a violent aspect on it is even scarier. People don't want to think it could happen in their community and their home.
Surveys shed light
One woman in five in Indiana is raped during her lifetime.
About 43 percent of Hoosier women experience sexual assault other than rape.
Of high school-aged females in the state, 17 percent said they were at some point forced into sexual intercourse – the second-highest rate of reported forced intercourse in the nation. Wyoming had the highest rate.
The numbers are from two CDC surveys – one in which more than 18,000 men and women nationwide were randomly called in 2010 and interviewed about sexual violence; the other in which more than 1,600 high school students statewide were interviewed in 2009.
Many of the incidents go unreported.
There are many misconceptions about rape and sexual assault, misconceptions that Hall and others locally are trying to put to rest permanently.
Unfortunately, we let the media teach our kids a lot, said Hall, referring not only to news but to television shows. That's where a lot of people are getting the wrong message, like somebody deserves it if they dress a certain way or they were flirtatious.
That's not OK.
Nobody may have a better understanding of those misconceptions than Sharon Robison.
A forensic nurse and chief administrator at the Fort Wayne Sexual Assault Treatment Center, Robison said the myths about sexual assault and rape continue to persist, making it difficult to make a criminal case.
It's a challenge – from getting victims to come forward to start a case, through to trial when a jury must be convinced a crime was committed.
Many people have this conception of rape, that rape leaves some form of (physical) injury. A lot of them don't, Robison said. Our driving force is educating the community, and many who are potential jurors.
Nurses and officials with Robison's treatment center will go anywhere or speak to any group about sexual assault, she said. They've made presentations to Rotary clubs, women's groups and colleges. Recently, officials met with case managers of local school districts.
Robison could not speak to the CDC numbers cited in the Indiana University report but said that many of the female victims who come to the sexual assault treatment center are between ages 15 and 23.
When someone comes to the center after being raped or assaulted, they'll be given three options: They can do nothing; they can be examined and allow the police to be involved; or they can be examined but wait up to a year before deciding whether to go to the police while the center holds any evidence nurses collect.
Many who choose the last option never go to the police, Robison said.
There are many calls to the treatment center from possible victims who just want to hear their options, and never follow up, she added. It's impossible to tell how many missed cases are out there.
For some, it might be because of fear or shame. It might be because a victim doesn't know what he or she can do, or it's a combination of factors.
In Hall's case – like many she hears about – drinking was involved, she said.
There were times when she thought she put herself in that vulnerable situation, so it was her fault. When she began teaching about rape prevention three years ago, she said she finally started to fully heal.
Robison said many victims are afraid because they were drinking underage. By coming forward, they fear they will get in trouble or won't be believed. It's just another myth, Robison said.
No situation a woman finds herself in is an excuse for rape, Hall says. It doesn't matter what she wears, or if she was being flirtatious with someone – none of that matters once she says no.
If you're drinking, that's a choice you make, she said. We never choose to be raped.
Teaching, talking
Before joining the Women's Bureau, Hall was a guidance counselor at Hamilton Junior/Senior High School.
Budget cuts led to her being laid off, and someone who knew about her story approached her with an opportunity for her current job.
She started sending out letters to middle schools and high schools, both in Allen County and the surrounding counties, asking if she could talk to the students about rape and sexual assault.
Some responded and invited her to health classes; others ignored her requests.
She now regularly speaks during health classes at North Side, Carroll, Northrop and Homestead high schools and several other schools outside the area. In those school hallways, she see things that are inappropriate – things that go unreported.
Pantsing – the pulling down of someone's pants in public in an effort to embarrass them – is big these days, she said.
She sees touching that may seem playful on the surface but is really not.
Just because someone in front of you thinks it's OK to have their rear grabbed in the hallway doesn't mean you have to, she said.
Students often aren't taught what sexual assault is, she said.
According to the Indiana University report, local schools should provide sexual violence prevention and other violence prevention initiatives in the K-12 curriculum.
The report said school officials should foster an environment where the staff are role models to their peers and students, which is something Fort Wayne Community Schools administrators have tried to instill in recent years.
We're aware we are in a world where a lot can happen to our students on any given day, said Krista Stockman, FWCS spokeswoman. That's why it's important the adults are in tune with the students.
Stockman said all teachers are expected to get to know their students, to know how each learns as an individual and to be available to them if needed.
By doing this, students who may have a serious problem can go to a teacher, possibly about a sexual assault, for which the school will notify the police or the department of child services, depending on the circumstances.
Other officials from Allen County school districts echoed similar philosophies.
Anita Gross, the school social worker for Southwest Allen County Schools, said elementary students are taught early about good touch, bad touch.
Middle school students learn about boundaries and sexual harassment issues. Counselors and a school resource officer are on hand to help with Homestead High School students who may be facing rape or other forms of sexual violence.
On the East Allen County Schools website, students can fill out a form to tell the administration about anything including bullying and sexual harassment, according to school safety manager Jeff Studebaker.
The district has also implemented several programs promoting self-respect, Studebaker said, covering some bullying or sexual harassment topics. And it's made clear to teachers what to do if a student approaches them with something as serious as sexual assault or rape.
If something like that has happened, they need to let someone in administration know, so they can call protective services, Studebaker said.
Still, while some schools make an effort, Hall said education can improve and needs to begin at the home with the parents.
Unfortunately, in some cases, parents either shy away from the subject or ignore it all together.
Recently, at a middle school, a student told Hall in front of the entire class that it was her fault she was attacked because she had been drinking.
That's not her, that's what she's learning at home, Hall said.
No need for silence
If nothing else, Hall wants the students who listen to her to know that they don't have to be silent about rape.
They should call the Fort Wayne Sexual Assault Treatment Center right away if they are a victim. Don't take a shower, Hall said. Evidence might be lost. They should also tell a trusted friend or adult. It doesn't have to be a parent.
Keeping it bottled in, like she did, will probably not help.
It was a really long process for me, she said. I didn't deal with it, I didn't talk about it. I just pretended it didn't affect me.
When she did start to confront what happened to her, she said she could see that the attack affected her life in many ways she hadn't noticed before.
Besides going into schools and teaching rape prevention, Hall also offers self-defense classes – one geared to teenaged girls, the other offered to women entering college.
She does these classes periodically when she hears from five or more people who want to participate.
Her overarching message is always the same: It's not their fault if they've been raped or abused.
I always tell people, it's never, ever the victim's fault, she said. And for most victims, I think they believe it was their fault.


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The world of enterprise applications, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and billing, can seem boring to people who are more interested in what is going on at Amazon, Facebook, Google and Twitter, or the latest iPhone or Android application. In the late 1990s when ERP systems first came on the scene, there was plenty of drama and hype. The vendor marketing bravado and cut-throat competition, failed multi-million dollar projects, implementations spanning years and massive cost overruns are still fresh in the minds of many. Who can forget the legendary "moon" on the high seas between SAP's Hasso Plattner and Larry Ellison's Oracle boat? The infamous rivalry and competition between Oracle and SAP continues into this century with a battleground that now spans ERP and also databases. Meanwhile, in the late 2000s, certain venture capitalists (VCs) could not get enough of social media startups focused on consumers or cloud companies focused on Internet merchants. Many of the best minds of the generation were worried about how to make people click ads. Enterprises and enterprise software companies were being ignored by a large faction of the VC and startup community. Today, enterprises are struggling with how to make the enterprise future-ready with systems anchored in a past way of doing business. Many in the VC community now see the reality and are refocused on fundamentals like paying customers and profits. And like history repeating itself, vendors that ignored the needs of real enterprises - and that were perhaps prodded by increasingly impatient investors - are engaging in the same level of marketing bravado we saw in the glory days of ERP, now targeting enterprise customers with solutions built for Internet merchants. In the tradition of our defogging the cloud series, I will attempt to find truth in the noise.
Enterprises of all sizes are grappling with multiple pressures points: scaling the organization on a global basis, cost reduction, regulatory compliance, regional requirements, 360-degree visibility into the business, and agility and efficiency in the selling, contracting and revenue management process. As enterprises expand their existing applications into a mix of on-premise and cloud applications, they are finding that their monolithic ERP and billing systems built for simplistic models cannot handle the divergent needs of the business.
No enterprise can afford to compromise on the speed and flexibility required to respond to a changing and unpredictable business climate. But how do you reconcile the dual requirements of a "single source of truth" for data across the enterprise with efficient interactions with customers, partners and internal organizations using a consumer-like "customer engagement" model? With this as a backdrop, traditional ERP systems are crumbling under the triple pressures of an explosion of services and complexity, time-to-market agility, and lack of visibility for how the business is transacting. The following are the top 10 common issues we hear often from customers:
- Inflexible systems make it impossible to offer what we really want to offer.
- Any change introduces cost, risk and time.
- There is no single source of truth for data.
- There is no closed loop across the quote-to-cash (Q2C) process.
- Systems are too expensive to maintain.
- Systems are too costly to upgrade.
- Information is inaccurate across the business.
- Processes need to be changed to fit the software.
- Acquisitions cannot be easily integrated resulting in more disparate systems.
- Regional needs such as regulation, taxation or currency are difficult to support.
Compounding all of this is the new world of everything-as-as-a-service (XaaS), where the definition of a service can quickly become fuzzy. A service no longer looks like the product options of the past, defined precisely by the manufacturer up front. Customers want the freedom to mix and match pieces of different options and essentially create their own new service. After all, while customizing a mass-produced product is a challenge, surely it's easy to fine-tune a service. With an immense scaling up of service types and complexity, there is a requirement for businesses to negotiate deals with customers and partners that are more granular, not less, to the point where almost every billable event might be a micropayment.
Embracing the inherent flexibility of an as-a-services economy requires systems and tools agile and smart enough for the job. As a business matures, it needs to expand its portfolio of services and products, and react quickly to what is happening in the market. The ability to experiment, quickly launching more varied and nuanced business models and new approaches to pricing and billing, is an innovation-enabler that will attract and retain customers. You cannot constrain the business to conform to the limitations and ways of working defined in the ERP and billing systems. In part two of this series, we'll explore how to bring together a single source of truth for data across the enterprise with the need to efficiently interact with customers, partners and internal organizations through a customer engagement model.
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Alexa does furious florals in NYC [Rex]
Floral prints never really wilt and die; they just get reinvented. This summer has abounded with tropical blooms, but looking ahead into autumn and winter – and into the wardrobes of some of our most trusted barometers of style – you'll notice that printed plant life will be taking a trip to the dark side…
A/W'14 moody blooms from L-R: Dolce & Gabbana, Rochas, No.21, Paul Smith, Erdem
The new season's bouquets are worthy of eerie folk tales: look at Dolce & Gabbana for they very best examples. The duo have used appliquéd cartoon-like embroideries of leaves, buds, trees and even nature's cutest inhabitants to tell an enchanted story for autumn/winter 2014. These looks certainly come to life with hooded and fur-trimmed coats and cosy tights, but you don't have to be heading into winter woodland to make sombre flowers work today.
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Only people Liberal Democrats will ever help, are themselves, and the only legislation they like to work on are illegal things which help to destroy our country
One Illegal Thing Is Working for Obama But Three More Will Decimate His Amnesty Plan
It seems as though the one thing that should have killed Obama's latest Amnesty Plan should also have killed anything else he has concocted in six usurped years in the office of POTUS is his never-yet-proven-legitimacy to actually hold that office. It is obvious by now that Americans have given up on proving that Barack Hussein Obama has usurped the highest governmental office in the United States and nobody seems to give a DAMN!
The number of times escapes me that Obama has tried to foist out-and-out false documents attesting to his so-called birth legitimacy to hold that office, if elected, and amazingly nothing has been done to follow up on the discrepancies noted by "experts" and each incident just seems to disappear in a cloud of magic fairy dust.
Why have these many attempts all died of inability to execute? Well it seems to be a case of "cuz I sed so" uttered by the high potentate and prevaricator himself. He should prove he is legally qualified; not we should have to prove him unqualified.
But then on November 21, 2014, Gregg Jarrett, apparently no relation to Valerie of the same family name of White House advisory fame, but of FoxNews.com authored the article, "Three things that are illegal about Obama's immigration plan" which as you can see doesn't depend on just one reason, but THREE! And this Jarrett, an assumed Obama watcher, gets some heavy evidentiary stuff from the potentate's mouth during speeches.
This Jarrett, not the advisory one working WITH Obama, tells how when the faux president speaking just on the day before the penned article for FoxNews.com, in the East Room of the White House that "By executive fiat, President Obama will grant amnesty to up to 5 million immigrants living illegally in the United States. Didn't the president say, even last year, that he couldn't, and wouldn't take executive action on immigration?"
Well, at least one person seems dedicated to following up on another one of the "messiah's" pronouncements of his non-humbled statements, and Jarrett (Gregg again, not Valerie the advisor) momentarily assumed the White House advisor's role and offered this in his column, "If Obama ever finds himself in a court of law, he would surely be advised to invoke the Fifth Amendment. He is prone to contradiction and tends to be a good witness against himself." These Jarretts are not stingy with their helpful hints.
Gregg Jarrett then explained in advisory mode after Obama used the justification for his executive action would be that "Congress failed to act." "No, Mr. President, Congress did not fail to act, it chose not to act in granting amnesty." He then spoke of Obama's "self-incriminating statements on immigration and executive powers" by citing when the president was asked a year ago "if he had the authority to end deportations of illegal aliens he said, Actually, I don't." Jarrett then gave mention to an incident, "Three years earlier, when pressed as to why he could not act on his own on immigration he said, "The notion that somehow I can just change the laws unilaterally is just not true."
Then Jarrett got the ever 'changey-changey' Obama to go into his typical double-entendres, hinted or implied, with this bon mot, "Well, now the president says it is true—he can alter the laws unilaterally. Why the metamorphosis? What changed? The law and the Constitution are still the same. Which leaves Obama. When it comes to the truth, inconvenient or otherwise, he is a chameleon like no other politician. He never hesitates to contradict himself, conjuring a new breadth of hypocrisy."
Liberal Democrats at all levels are forever condemning Republicans as being work stoppers and roadblockers in any sense of where no progress is being made. They've even been heard by persons of Majority Leader of the U S Senate (Harry Reid), Minority Leader of the House of Representative (Nancy Pelosi) the aforementioned POTUS Barack Hussein Obama and any number of the totals of both Houses individuals when they talk about the "do nothing" Republicans.
This is sheer fallacy when the Republican House has passed literally hundreds of bills and, in particular, formal budget packages over the past few years and rather than act on them, yea or nay, they are just bottled up in the Senate which is controlled by Harry Reid and a majority of 53 liberal Democrats. I'd like to ask you to read this paragraph once more and then YOU tell me who the "roadblockers" are.
In the discussions relative to Obama's decision to disobey our Constitutional laws on immigration the inevitable pronouncements from liberals that Republicans will "roadblock" any effort the Usurper president may try to use to break the law and force his "act alone" un-legislation to give millions of illegal aliens the authority to vote for more Democrats in order to gain back the entire Congress they just lost only days ago.
As Gregg Jarrett says, "There is a difference. A determination not to act is, by itself, a deliberate act. This is how the framers constructed our system of government. Congress considers and debates a great many bills. Not all of them pass. This is not "failure" in the conventional sense, but decision by declination. It constitutes a prudent and calculated process."
But study the differences in what is being blocked and with particular attention to WHY it is being blocked. In the case of the present Congress, the Liberal Democrats refuse to deal with legislative matters that make the country better and in Obama's insane amnesty, in the way of welfare - food stamps raids on our taxpayers U S Treasury and for the gathering of more votes for the LibDems.
In my next column i will expound on the three reasons why Gregg Jarrett feels they are as illegal as the persons the LibDems falsely say will have helped. Keep in mind, the ones the Liberal Democrats will ever help, are themselves, and the only legislation they like to work on are illegal things which help to destroy our country.
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Austin, Texas!!! Sunday, May 6th 2pm
Submitted by Lookout Mountain on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 00:21. Permalink
Just a reminder to everyone in Texas, especially if you live in or near Austin. Ron Paul is having a Tea Party rally downtown on the steps of the State Capital building on Sunday, May 6th at 2pm.
Also, there is a huge festival going on a few blocks away called Old Pecan Street Festival on Saturday and Sunday so plenty to see and do downtown this weekend.
Suntans and Beautiful Smiles!!!
See you there :)
Let it be written, that in 2012 we changed the World!!!
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