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Baseball may be "America's pastime." And football may be the most watched sport on television. But neither holds the spot as the oldest sporting event in the country. That one belongs to the dogs.
The history of showing dogs begins with the Westminster Kennel Club. Formed in New York in 1877, the intent of Westminster was to increase interest in dogs, improve breeds and hold an annual dog show. Now in it's 137th year, Westminster is still the biggest and best. But it's not the only place to show your dogs. In fact, we've got our own flourishing show dog community right here on the Eastside.
The basic purpose of a dog show is to facilitate the evaluation of breeding stock for use in producing the next generations.
As such, each breed's parent club creates a "standard" – or written description – of the ideal specimen of that breed. Most standards describe general appearance, movement, temperament, and specific physical traits of a dog.
Most dog shows access these standards through tests in conformation (to the described standard), obedience and agility. Some shows offer separate events and courses for specific breeds (water trials, hunting trials) if warranted.
While some standards can be very specific, others can be rather general and leave much room for individual interpretation by judges. This results in the sport's subjective basis: one judge, applying his or her interpretation of the standard, giving his or her opinion of the best dog on that particular day.
The Northwest is known for having a number of high caliber breeders – many of whom have produced dogs that have gone on to be shown at Westminster.
"Some of the top poodles in the country are [Northwest] dogs – and have been for a long time," says Peg Dunner, who has been a breeder for 50 years.
Dunner, who lives on Mercer Island, says she got her start when she was introduced to a group of people that bred Miniature Schnauzers as a child. She bred Schnauzers until her son was wanted a bigger dog and they decided on a Standard Poodle. She's been breeding poodles ever since.
Seattle resident, Dr. Robert Gloster, has been breeding dogs since buying his first Samoyed 25 years ago. In that time, Gloster says his animals have produced 100 to 125 dogs.
"When I bought my first Samoyed, I was enticed by the breeder to show the dog," Gloster says. "And I found it strangely addictive."
A member of the Sammamish Kennel Club, Gloster also serves as an official American Kennel Club judge in shows across the country. His specialties are working and sporting dogs.
"For whatever reason, [breeders] became attracted to their breed and commit to it," Gloster says. "Once they've done that, it becomes a passion, and it's unshakeable."
He says he has much affection for the Samoyed's beauty now, as he did when he started breeding them 25 years ago.
Maple Valley resident Tim Pearson has been showing his mastiff, Cowboy, for the past two years.
The owner of two other Mastiffs, Pearson had no intention of showing Cowboy when he first got him. However, the pup came from good breeding, and it was suggested by several people that he should be shown.
In general, Pearson says he tends to show Cowboy in shows fairly close to home. As such, he tends to see a lot of the same competitors; Pearson says a handful of Nationally campaigned dogs stop by ocassionally.
Pearson says Cowboy participates in about one show a month, most of which are two-day shows. In his career he has won Best of Breed 13 times, some of which include the Seattle Kennel Club, Sammamish Kennel Club, Olympia Kennel Club and Mount Rainier Working Dog Specialty (at Marymoor Park).
In 2012 Cowboy won 3 group placements in the working dog group, including winning the entire working group at the Gig Harbor Kennel Club show in September, as well as Best in Show in January 2012 at an International Show in Ridgefield, Wash. He also recently won Best of Breed at the Tacoma Kennel Club in Puyallup.
In addition to breeding and judging dogs, Gloster has extensive experience showing his own dogs. He even made an appearance at Madison Square Garden for Westminster, where he showed his dog Jimi (d. 2009).
A Best In Show and Best in Specialties dog, Jimi did not place at Westminster, but Gloster says he left a lasting impression.
"Delighted to have honor of showing him there" Gloster says of his experience. "The atmosphere was exciting but tense. It was beautiful – and crowded."
The Westminster Kennel Club's Annual All Breed Dog Show takes place Monday and Tuesday, February 11-12, 2013 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.


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The Beak Squad
Ohio State FRC Champions
Slingshot Movie Event
Come support the Beak Squad on December 18th at 6:30 pm as we host a screening of Slingshot. The Slingshot is a device that has the capability to purify dirty drinking water and produce clean water for the use of countries in need. The film is a documentary depicting this life saving device created by inventor Dean Kamen (founder of FIRST). The screening will be at Colerain High School. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased here. There will also be an opportunity to see our robot in action.
Directions from CHCA to Colerain High School listed here.
Beak Squad LEGO Robotics Camp
July 28 - August 1, 2014
8:30am - 12:30 pm
for incoming 5th graders - incoming 9th graders
CHCA Beak Squad Workshop
early bird price: $150
The CHCA Robotics team will lead this fun week of hands-on activities teaching mechanical design, programming, and teamwork skills. Participants will be introduced to building and programming robots using LEGO Minstorms. Students will work in small teams using LEGO blocks, motors, sensors, and a computer to program the robot to move and react in order to solve challenges. Download the flyer by clicking here.
Questions? Please contact:
The Beak Squad team is preparing for their FRC Robotics competitions in March. The FRC Robotics program competition challenge for 2014 is called "Aerial Assist".
Our first competition is at the St Louis University on March 13-15. Click here for details, schedules, and team rosters. Qualification rounds are Friday & Saturday with final rounds on Saturday.
The Queen City Regional will be held at the Cintas Center at Xavier University March 27-29. Click here for details, schedules and team rosters. Qualification rounds are Friday & Saturday with final rounds on Saturday afternoon.
The FRC Robotics competition is an advanced robotics program where team members design, build and compete with their own robot. Team members work alongside professionals and learn STEM skills from experts in the field of robotics, manufacturing, engineering, software, marketing, and education.
Updates: 2-1-14:
Chassis Team: The chassis team has discovered that everything is working perfectly, the wheels are great (we found out that we only need four wheels that have contact instead of six), the pneumatics are holding well, and we are holding pressure.
Launch Team: The launch team has converted from building the prototype to building the competition robot.
Marketing Team: The marketing team has been working on buttons, sponsorships, and the website.
Controls Team: Coders have their VI's and the main code is coming together nicely, we have increased to five solenoids (four of which are working right now), and have tested the new Jaguars.
Updates: 1-27-14
Marketing Team: Throughout the past few weeks we have updated the website with new and improved content, worked on advertising, completed contact us page and support us page, produced the PowerPoint for Open House, and many other articles.
Chassis Team: This past week we have re-built/re-wired the chassis, fixed the gears, made the robot competition weight, and tested the drive.
Controls Team: This past week we have written up the VI and began to distribute it to individual coder as well as acquiring a 3-D printer and are currently working on it.
Floor Acquisition Team: This past week we have created the bumpers for our robot.
Updates: 1-18-14
Chassis Team: This week the chassis team has organized Jaguars, Pneumatics, CRIO, and the control board. They have also taken the bottom plexi-glass out and drilled a hole every one inch. Currently the chassis sub team is setting up Pneumatics to test the motor for the launcher.
Controls Team: This week the controls team has succeeded in getting basic code running on the chassis such as the simulator, arcade drive, and double solenoid (Lab View). Currently they are holding pattern, trying to anticipate what the finished code will look like.
Floor Acquisition Team: This week the floor acquisition team has built a prototype and tested it for accuracy. The team discovered that it runs smooth. Currently the floor acquisition team is constructing the arm.
Marketing Team: This week the marketing team has finished T-shirt design, created ten possible pin designs, finished team member's page, and has added content and composed articles. Currently the marketing sub team is working on creating more content and filling up the tabs on the website.
Launch Team: The launch team has built and tested four different prototypes but they did not have enough force to please the team. Currently they are working on designing the arm that holds the ball and are contemplating using a catapult that pulls from the top or one that pulls from the bottom.
Updates: 1-15-14
The 2013-2014 Robotics Team is at work preparing and accomplishing many of the challenges they have faced in the last few months. The robotics team is categorized into five different sub teams: chassis, controls, floor acquisition, marketing, and launching.
Chassis Team: The chassis team has accomplished the chase orientation of chassis and began constructing and assembling the robot.
Floor Acquisition Team: The floor acquisition team has chosen a design basis based on prototypes and even got some feedback from peer review. The team has also began building the scale prototypes of the launching mechanism and began the ball acquisition system.
Control Team: The controls team set up a new drive station computer. The team has also reimaged CRIO's and tested base LabVIEW programming on last year's chassis.
Marketing Team: The marketing team started designing the website, writing articles, and designing T-shirts and buttons. The marketing team is currently typing bios about each member and gathering pictures to be placed in the teams' archive.
Launch Team: The launch team designed multiple prototypes and began to test a few of them.
What Have We Accomplished?
The 2014 Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy Robotics Team has found the most intelligent students that look forward every day to accomplish the path they have laid out. The robotics team may be one of the younger teams, but this team has accomplished and improved in so many ways in the last 3 years, even being the Ohio state Champions in other words coming in first place despite only being our second season also qualifying for World championships in St. Louis along with schools in and around the state of Ohio. We look forward to continuing our duties in learning to lead and serve with our hearts to God.
CHCA wins Ohio State Tournament
The Beak Squad, CHCA's robotics team won the Ohio State Championship 2013 tournament!!!
This off-season tournament hosted 24 teams from Ohio. We were allied with team 1038 from Lakota and Team 48 from Warren, OH. It was an exciting day with a lot of stiff competition and the students handled it very well! We are very proud of them and are looking forward to a great season this year.

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Documento - Bahréin: Confirmadas las condenas de profesionales de la salud.
Further information on UA: 296/11 Index: MDE 11/057/2012 Bahrain Date: 1 October 2012URGENT ACTION HEALTH PROFESSIONALS' SENTENCES UPHELD On 1 October, Bahrain's Court of Cassation upheld the sentences against nine health professionals who challenged a Court of Appeals ruling. Six of them are at risk of being sent to prison at any time to serve their sentences. If jailed, they would be considered prisoners of conscience. On 1 October the Court of Cassation in Manama, the capital of Bahrain, upheld the convictions and sentences against nine health professionals, all currently free on bail. Six who have not completed their sentences risk being sent back to prison at any time: 'Ali 'Esa Mansoor al-'Ekri, Ebrahim 'Abdullah Ebrahim, Ghassan Ahmed 'Ali Dhaif, Sa'eed Mothaher Habib Al Samahiji, Mahmood Asghar 'Abdulwahab and Dhia Ibrahim Ja'far. In June, an appeal court upheld the convictions against the nine for their role in pro-reform demonstrations in February and March 2011, but reduced their sentences from between five and 15 years' imprisonment to between one month and five years in prison. Another nine were acquitted of all charges.
Most of the nine alleged that they were tortured during their 2011 detention. The first session of the trial of two police officers accused of mistreating the health professionals began on 1 October 2012, but it is unclear whether they have been charged with subjecting them to torture. Neither the health professionals nor their lawyers were officially notified of this, but representatives of the defence team were present in court. The prosecution had previously announced that charges had been brought against another five policemen accused of mistreating the health professionals but their trial has not yet begun. Please write immediately in Arabic, English or your own language: Reminding the Bahraini authorities of their acceptance of a recommendation at the recent Universal Periodic Review to release prisoners of conscience, and expressing concern that, if imprisoned, these health professionals would be prisoners of conscience held solely for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression and assembly as there is no evidence that they have used or advocated violence; Urging the Bahraini authorities to overturn the health professionals' convictions and drop all charges against them relating to their role in pro-reform demonstrations in February and March 2011; Urging the authorities to make public the findings of any investigation carried out into the health professionals' allegations of torture and to ensure that anyone found responsible for abuses is brought to justice.
PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 12 NOVEMBER 2012 TO: His Majesty the King Shaikh Hamad bin 'Issa Al Khalifa Office of His Majesty the King P.O. Box 555 Rifa'a Palace, al-Manama, Bahrain Fax: +973 1766 4587 Salutation: Your Majesty
Minister of Interior Shaikh Rashid bin 'Abdullah Al Khalifa Ministry of Interior P.O. Box 13, al-Manama, Bahrain Fax: +973 1723 2661 Twitter: @moi_Bahrain Salutation: Your Excellency
And copies to: Minister of Justice and Islamic Affairs Shaikh Khalid bin Ali bin Abdullah Al Khalifa Ministry of Justice and Islamic Affairs P. O. Box 450, al-Manama, Bahrain Fax: +973 1753 1284 Salutation: Your Excellency
Also send copies to diplomatic representatives accredited to your country.
Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. This is the eighth update of UA 296/11. Further information: http://amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE11/045/2012/en
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION On 14 June, the High Criminal Court of Appeal in Manama upheld the conviction of nine of 20 health professionals tried on charges relating to their role in demonstrations in February and March 2011, but reduced their sentences of between five and 15 years' imprisonment to between one month and five years' imprisonment. 'Ali 'Esa Mansoor al-'Ekri's sentence was reduced to five years' imprisonment, and Ebrahim 'Abdullah Ebrahim's sentence was reduced to three years, both on charges of "illegal gathering and participating in unlicensed marches" and "calling for the overthrow the regime by force"; Ghassan Ahmed 'Ali Dhaif and Sa'eed Mothaher Habib Al Samahiji's sentences were reduced to one year in prison for "kidnapping for a terrorist purpose", "illegal gathering and participating in unlicensed marches" and "instigating hatred against another sect". The sentence imposed on Mahmood Asghar 'Abdulwahab was reduced to six months in prison, Dhia Ibrahim Ja'far's sentence was reduced to two months in prison, and sentences for Bassim Ahmed 'Ali Dhaif, Nader Mohammed Hassan Dewani and Abdulkhaleq 'Ali Hussain al-'Oraibi were reduced to one month in prison, all five on charges of participation in "illegal gathering and unlicensed marches". Two others, 'Ali Hassan al-Sadadi and Qassim Mohammad 'Omran, had their appeals rejected because they had not been present in court during the appeal process, so their 15-year sentences – imposed by a military court – still stand. According to Amnesty International's research findings, none of the health professionals had used or advocated violence, but were targeted for denouncing the excessive force used against protesters last year to international media.
The 20 are among 48 health professionals from the Salmaniya Medical Complex who were arrested in March and April 2011. Some of them had given interviews to foreign journalists and accused the government of human rights violations against protesters. All were held incommunicado for several weeks. In most cases their families did not know their whereabouts for most of this time and were only allowed to see them during the first session of their trial before the National Safety Court of First Instance, a military court, which started on 6 June 2011. The 48 were split into two groups on 13 June: 20 of them were accused of felonies, while the rest were accused of misdemeanours. Many of them went on hunger strike in protest at their detention and trial and were gradually released on bail in August and September 2011. On 29 June 2011, the King decreed that all cases linked to the February–March 2011 protests would be transferred to ordinary civilian courts; however, he issued a further decree on 18 August 2011 (Decree 28/20011) ordering that the National Safety Court of First Instance continue to deal with felony cases, while misdemeanour cases would be referred to civilian courts. In early October 2011, trials before military courts stopped and since then all trials have been heard before civilian courts. On 29 September 2011, the National Safety Court of First Instance sentenced the 20 health professionals to between five and 15 years in prison. All of them were released on bail.
Hundreds of cases were covered in the November 2011 report of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI), into abuses since February 2011, including beatings of protesters by the security forces, mass arbitrary arrests of mainly Shi'a opposition activists and widespread torture, with five deaths resulting from torture in custody. In all, over 60 people have died in connection with the protests since February 2011 until now, including five security forces personnel. The report urged the government to immediately establish an independent body made up of representatives of civil society, the opposition and the government; to oversee the implementation of the BICI's recommendations; to usher in legislative reforms to ensure laws are in line with international human rights standards; and to bring to account those responsible for abuses. The government also accepted more than 140 out of the 176 recommendations stemming from the Universal Periodic Review before the Human Rights Council in Geneva in September 2012, including measures aimed at releasing prisoners of conscience, bolstering fair trial guarantees and investigating human rights violations committed during and after last year's massive pro-reform protests.
Names: 'Ali 'Esa Mansoor al-'Ekri (m), Ebrahim 'Abdullah Ebrahim (m), Ghassan Ahmed 'Ali Dhaif (m), Sa'eed Mothaher Habib Al Samahiji (m), Mahmood Asghar 'Abdulwahab (m), Dhia Ibrahim Ja'far (f) Gender m/f: Both
Further information on UA: 296/11 Index: MDE 11/057/2012 Issue Date: 1 October 2012


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The Internet is not a private place unless you make it private. In our more networked world what we say online and how we behave is iincreasingly linked to "IRL".
Now for the majority of us this is not a problem. Most of us aren't doing anything "bad". Being atheist may get you discriminated against though but for the vast majority of us, our online persona are rather benign.
But some of us suffer from the problem of free speech without understanding responsibility of it. Some of us hold views that are rather distasteful or poisonous or outright harmful and wrong.
Before we start we must talk about the MRA and PUA (Men's Rights Activist and Pick Up Artist) movements. One's got a pretty sensible claim. There are things that harm men and we wish to campaign against those. However in reality MRA boil down complaining about women and gloating everytime a woman commits a crime or plain ignoring real problems.
At the start of the year I discovered "A Voice for Men". Their support of Indian MRA who took umbrage to the fact that people were getting "mad" over a rape. A rape so horrific and violent that it killed the victim. It offended all civility and Indian women saw it as a watershed and began to assert themselves more. The rapes haven't died down since then but they have been cast into the light. Where the scale of the problem is far worse than we ever imagined. In that "A Voice for Men" decided to weigh in on the side of the Men implying that the victim got raped because she was in the wrong neighbourhood and that women in India (widely regarded to be in the worst places on earth to possess a double X chromosome) have it easy because they have their own train compartments and bus seats without ever thinking about why they needed them in the first place. A Voice For Men has since deemed to encourage one Judgy Bitch who slut shamed and blamed a minor in the USA for getting raped and indeed ruining the lives of two promising football players. In addition it's claimed that it's "nicer to be a woman in Afghanistan than a man". What's terrifying is that in the case of the slut shaming and the support for Afghanistani culture we saw women actively setting out to actively deny genuine tragedy. And worst of all? They used the "Delhi Rape" as the watershed of what "Rape is". It's not rape unless you die from impalement after all.
The PUA are just as harmful. The PUA mindset and movement can be summed up in two simple lines. "If you do this particular rain dance, women's clothes will explode off them and they will enter a state of lust that can only be satisfied by you" and "Why cultivate a well rounded personality when superficial mumbo jumbo, insults and stupid hats will do".
The mindsets feed off each other. Women are not human beings but ONLY rewards that you get if you tick these boxes.
And both mindsets can be understood by this simple phrase. In order to be a PUA or MRA you have to assume this simple statement as truth.
"Bitches Be Crazy".
Abbreviated to BBC. So try it out. Feminism wants to rule over men and steal sperm? Why would any woman do that? BBC! Women want only men with large wallets and expensive things so we should pretend to be covered in shinies! Why would any woman want that? BBC!
With that "Truth" in mind you quickly realise why the MRA and PUA are like this. Why would you want to get married? To a woman? She will only drink all your dreams and and leave only nightmares to keep you company and when you can no longer work her mandibles will open and she will eat your head. Why would she do that? BBC!
Now that you understand the mindset we also have to realise that there is a pretty big racism component to the MRA and PUA movements. A lot of fears about "good white girls going black" and "immigrants taking our women" and some very disturbing ones about Asian women (Oh they will be happy to be rescued and so grateful!).
So now begins our sordid tale.
Pax Dickinson was the Chief Technology Officer of Business Insider. An executive position and a fairly big deal and the company is quite well known in the Tech World.
But Pax Dickinson was not a nice person.
In The Passion Of The Christ 2, Jesus gets raped by a pack of niggers. It's his own fault for dressing like a whore though.
— Pax Dickinson (@paxdickinson) July 14, 2010
In his defence? He claimed he was parodying Mel Gibson. In my offence? That's a terrible defence considering the Chief Technology Officer of a major tech company thinks that this is an acceptable joke and that people wouldn't get insulted.
feminism in tech remains the champion topic for my block list. my finger is getting tired.
— Pax Dickinson (@paxdickinson) September 9, 2013
Racist and Sexist, is there no end to this sexy beast's many charms?
so he's a woman, but he still has Y chromosomes? now who doesn't understand how biology works? — Pax Dickinson (@paxdickinson) August 22, 2013
Transphobic too!
IMO if gay activists protest the Olympics in Russia it's going to get VERY ugly. They think its just a game but Putin knows the real stakes. — Pax Dickinson (@paxdickinson) July 30, 2013
I am assuming that he is collecting different forms of bigotry so he can send in for the grand prize.
aw, you can't feed your family on minimum wage? well who told you to start a fucking family when your skills are only worth minimum wage?
— Pax Dickinson (@paxdickinson) August 29, 2013
Pax Dickinson is an arsehole. He is someone who got away with it for too long. He is someone who got to say racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic and pretty much any other discriminatory thing for way too long and assumed it was okay because of his privilege in society.
But people noticed.
Pax Dickinson's job was to hire tech talent for Business Insider. Now think about the current debate in Technology about women and people of colour and how devastating a reveal this is.
While Pax Dickinson's tweets are private viewpoints, they are private viewpoints of a man in a position of power within a major company. This may not prove discriminatory hiring practices but it certainly makes a lot of suggestive hints towards it.
So far Mr. Dickinson has tried to defend himself through claiming his hate speech was performance art. Okay maybe that one is but the rest are pretty discriminatory. Maybe he was mocking Mel Gibson and outside the light of Mel Gibson's Racism and Passion of the Christ Frenzy that statement on Jesus getting raped by Niggers is a lot more racist than he intended. But the rest?
martin luther king was a plagiarizing philandering communist but at least he wasn't a terrorist like nelson mandela
— Pax Dickinson (@paxdickinson) August 28, 2013
Oh…. Right. Whoops, maybe he is a bit more Mel Gibsonian than we first realised. You naughty little man! You nearly had us fooled! Mel Gibson Parody indeed!
The thing is a few years ago this would have simply vanished. There would be no argument to make but this came out in the middle of a major cultural shift. And Nitasha Tiku noticed it and brought it to the attention of Business Insider who promptly fired Pax. Now we can debate private opinion versus companies till the cows come home. Nitasha may have wanted him fired but honestly what do you think we should do when we discover that a person in position of power is a major bigot? Let him remain? No. It's in Business Insider's Interest to get rid of him after all. The next person of colour who doesn't get a job after an interview with him will probably be asking that all important "was it racism" question and it's awfully hard to ignore the evidence laid out so far. And Anil
Once it was noticed the jig was up.
Anil Dash also noticed it and his tweet was simple. But to see the depths of Pax's problem you should see their conversation which is a literal call out to a bloody punch up.
I was wrong, in this day and age only a real classy gentleman calls out his opponent for a duel.
Shaming a misogynist and bigot into unemployment is not the goal. And it's not enough. – Nitasha Tiku
There are undeniable race and gender gaps in funding and hiring in the tech sector. To date many women are treated as nothing but eye candy, glorified secretaries and box ticking appointments while the official stance is anyone can join and become the best. Basically? This attitude of "anything goes" and "Free Speech with No Responsibility" has created a culture that turns a genuine blind eye to misogyny and racism.
Pax is just one idiotic troll, but shows what can happen if we start sweeping problems under the carpet. Light needs to be shone on the systems and structures into which Dickinson originated from.
But that's not the end of this tale. What comes next was what we were all expecting.
A woman has shamed a powerful man by outing his bigotry. HE MUST BE DEFENDED!
And boy oh boy are his defenders a stellar group of swell guys!
At the moment the #Standwithpax hashtag is rather filled with people mocking this jerk, but before? It had the sort of tweets we associate with youtube comments regarding Anita Sarkeesian but with a twist. You see the two people who called out Mr. Pax Dickinson are Indian and you know what that means?
A lot of people who will say that "they are not racist but" will show up to defend them and say rather racist things.
So a lot of people came out with "You Fat Indian Cunt" (to Nitu, Anil's a bloke so people challenge him to fist fights while if you are a woman in tech be prepared to have a lot of snap judgements on your weight).variety of insults. You all know the type. You know where you play a game online and someone finds out you are Indian and decides to utilise free speech in a way that would get him strangled by the sort of people who fight for free speech.
But with every crusade against a group of people, Brave Heroes make it to the fore. And none are as heroic or brave as everyone's favourite Pick Up Artist ROOSH!
And what a surprise! Any man who thinks 50% of the world exist solely as goals with holes is probably not too up to date on what's acceptable behaviour.
How far lost is Western society if fat, ugly Indian cunt @nitashatiku has a platform to denounce a productive, intelligent white man?
— Roosh (@rooshv) September 10, 2013
Ah yes, Pax is clearly a productive and intelligent white man but he is also a racist, sexist, homophobic and all round bigotted liability who has attained a public position while holding some very stupid ideas. Stupid ideas that would eventually cost Business Insider more money than Pax is worth. Now you may think that a fat, ugly, Indian cunt has a platform to denounce productive, intelligent white boys but all I have to say is this.
There is a reason productive, intelligent, white boys stop being that and start being "bigotted wankers who need to be ignored by society". It's because these white boys say stupid things and hold stupid ideals. And I checked. Nitu's actual qualifications boil down to "Journalism" and journalists bread and butter involve exposing "productive, intelligent white men" for what they really are.
And so we come to the his impassioned defence of Pax.
A disturbing story has recently developed where two Indian immigrants have coordinated to destroy the livelihood of a white American-borne professional who they didn't agree with.
Anil called him an asshole. Pax responded and they got in a twitter fight. Now here is the thing. Anil Dash utilised his power and leverage and indeed belonging to a sizeable ethnic minority in IT to point out what Business Insider's CTO was like.
Put down any fragile objects or consume any liquids.
Let us for a moment agree with Roosh. Let's declare that Nitasha Tiku is naught but a harlot wench with hatred in her chocholatey heart. You know that my heart is not powered by electrical impulses but by inhuman rage? Hers is powered by the tears of white racist dudebros.
You note he hasn't tried that argument with Anil Dash. Because Anil is not "just a journalist". It's kind of sad. I was once enthralled by journalism. I grew up in war so was fascinated by people who would go in as journalists. John Snow is one of my heroes for his reports from Bahgdad and I remember my dad hiding the radio under a blanket so we could listen to how the war was going when we were in Kuwait before we escaped.
But yes back to Anil. Anil's done well for himself in Tech. Well enough to have a Wikipedia Page. Anil's not an immigrant to the USA. He like myself was born in the country. He is as American as Pumpkins, Corn and Turkey.
And hey what did you expect? Brown people can't help but take employment away from white people. Haven't you heard about all of us taking the jobs of good honest white boys?
Pax Dickinson worked as the Chief Technology Officer for Business Insider. He had a Twitter accountwhere he shared views that went against the liberal narrative of gay marriage, spinster worship, fat acceptance, and open borders.
Anil Dash, an Indian businessman, started the attack with this tweet:
To be fair Pax is an arsehole of the arsholiest sort. If the Oxford English Dictionary was illustrated, Pax's photo could well be associated with Arsehole.
Not six hours later, another Indian individual who works at Gawker, Nitasha Tiku, put up a story that shared the most "offensive" tweets that Pax had posted. Because of how fast Nitasha published the story, I would not be surprised if there was private coordination between Anil and Nitasha before publication. Since Business Insider is run by a CEO who is afraid of limp-wristed, pansexual geeks on Twitter, Pax's employment was terminated. (Nick Denton, the homosexual British man who employs Nitasha, was no doubt satisfied to create turmoil for his main competitor.)
Actually Business Insider's CEO is Henry Blodget. My cousin is in Tech and claims that Mr. Blodget was responsible a while back for posting an article about how women don't do well in IT because they are lazy and don't have the drive to succeed (What boggles my mind is how well these lazy women do in medicine. Maybe we take all the active ones leaving IT with the lazy ones?).
Let's just say that perhaps since then Mr. Blodget has seen the way the wind is blowing and asked himself the most important question that anyone can ask themselves.
Am I the Baddie.
And I don't know and don't care about Nick Denton's homosexuality. Who he chooses to love is not my business unless that person is incapable of giving consent. But I suppose men fancy men are an anomaly in the PUA world.
Nothing can be done about Pax's employment, but I want to take a closer look at the motivations of both Nitasha and Anil, and why they decided to gang up on Pax. First, let's examine something thatAnil wrote on his blog in response to the financial crisis of 2008:
There's a related question here which no one is asking, which is whether the economic catastrophe facing the global marketplace is a result of a failure of white culture in America. The media is always quick to ask whether problems like violence plaguing minority communities are symptoms of a toxic culture in that community, but I haven't seen any questions to that effect in regard to this financial meltdown.
Last time I checked, white culture made America, but here we have a man with Indian roots attacking the entire home race. Why is it okay for him to attack white culture, but if anyone attacked "black culture" or "gay culture," he would be first in line to fight back, crying bigotry, or as in the case of Pax, "misogyny"?
Yes. Which is why America was founded on Slavery. It's gotten better though.
Because Anil asked an important question. We are so quick to jump on the "Hard Questions" such as "Black Crime" or "Muslim Terrorism" but we show a disturbing unwillingness to discuss why the majority of Spree Killers in the USA are White Men or why Serial Killing is dominated by White Men. We are extremely willing to pull swarthy men out of airport queues for totally random searches but are unwilling to audit white people after the financial crisis.
This isn't bigotry, we know that no one's going to force the majority group to tap dance through moronic and pointless checks.
Why is it okay for him to attack white culture? Because Anil pointed out that "the mainstream culture" is rather willing to associate race with crime but not when it's white people committing the crimes. No one is asking white people what they are going to do to stop all the terrorism but I have seriously been asked about what I am doing to fight terrorism (I stalk the streets late at night in tights fighting any terrorism that happens in my vicinity as Entropy, the world's most inevitable Superhero. DC? Call me maybe!)
While white men aren't perfect, would you rather live in the USA or India? Sweden or Bangladesh? Australia or Pakistan? Amil's country and his people still have a long way to go before they can bash the white man for causing economic hardship when they won't even catch up to the West for another 100 years.
India, Bangladesh and Pakistan exist in their current state of poverty due to a systematic pillage of those country's national resources.
And while Pakistan has problems and Bangladesh is wrestling with Demons. India I am afraid is changing. Changing so fast that it shocks Indians themselves. Indians have gone back home. And they have taken ideas with them and changed them and made them Indian.
You think those rapists are India? They are! But they are the dying India. The India being relentlessly crushed under the boots of progress. For every such incident there are people of unimaginable courage and unimaginable drive. I know what I chose to do was madness to most westerners and it's the acceptance of incredible discomfort but I have seen people do some of the most amazing things in India and while I concentrate too much on the worst due to what I do in India, I do not wish to claim that there isn't real good out here.
The News would rather show Hindus killing Muslims. I know that there are Hindus who lost their kids to the 2004 Tsunami and who when contemplating suicide and even planned the date instead decided to live for the kids who lost their parents. I know of the utmost cruelty that man is capable of but I also know the kindness we can do.
No, I am afraid it is Roosh who has achieved nothing. He is proud of the achievements of others who share enough genetic loci to be classified as a "race". His greatest achievement is being borderline creepy and giving blokes a bad name. Let's be clear here. Roosh's greatest achievement in his own words is the ability to trick women into sleeping with him. Otherwise they would not because he is a terrible person.
In my line of work (teaching men how to fornicate with women), I have noticed a lot of pent-up frustration from Indian men that is directed at white men. The reason? Indian men are jealous that they can't lay white women, who they pedestalize to heavenly heights. You can shake your head or laugh, but most Indian men will openly tell you they prefer white women over their own race. On my forum, we have enough angry Indian trolls that we've developed a name for them: Indian Race Trolls(IRT)
I had to stop here because I laughed so hard I pulled a muscle.
Teaching people to have sex is part of my job. Well safe sex. Use condoms, women should use the pill and if needed the IUCD.
It is true that a lot of Indians in India fetishise white people. And that's because they are exotic and fit into a cultural aesthetic of beauty that Indians have. The same works the other way too.
And are you implying that Anil decided to call out a man with all round bigotted views because Anil couldn't get a white lady to sleep with him? No. That's stupid.
And want to know something sad? The PUA and MRA community fetishise Asians because their women are more "subservient". There are plenty of PUA/MRA advice out there that involves dating these subservient dolls.
In spite of Anil's apparent success in business, I would bet a month of my income that he is angry at not being able to have sex with pretty white women. Look at what he has reduced himself to:
Oh god! Prepare yourselves! The image is horrific!
I know for a fact that Tiga isn't "fully Tamil" and that's fine. Neither am I. In fact do you want to know the biggest joke? The BIGGEST joke is that both Tiga and me never expected to find someone who was Tamil who understood each other. My ancestory also is Burmese Khmer.
I will take that bet Mr. Roosh. You see we love who we love. We don't think about colour. I have never thought about the colour of the women I have loved and even when some of them did things that hurt me I never stated that their behaviour was due to the colour of their skin or how they looked.
If all you see are women's defects then imagine how they see us? I will forever be chunky and balding. Khmer genetics makes for short wide blokes and tamil genetics makes me tall. In the end I am rather more brick shaped than is attractive these days. Getting set on fire does wonders to your hair tii. But none of that mattered to the women I dated and indeed to Tiga. A personality counts for a lot. A genuine personality.
I am sure Anil is riddled with such flaws that his lovely partner overlooks and vice versa. Because that's what love is. Love lets you overlook the little stuff because your mind is focussed on the big stuff.
Only the PUA think that there is some sort of trophy wife out there who is "perfect". They may claim their quest is to find this perfection but in order to do so they must cover up their own flaws behind ridiculous tactics. But that's the thing. How long can you keep up ridiculous tactics?
I cannot pretend to be anything but the nerdy and silly Avicenna and that's what Tiga gets.
He dates an unattractive half-white woman that fell from the ugly tree and hit at least eight branches on the way down. This man has lots of money and half a million Twitter followers, can easily import a pretty Indian bride through his family connections, but instead settles towards the bottom of the crab bucket. In other words, the fact that he is with a homely white girl instead of a pretty Indian girl (they do exist) is strong proof to his white woman fetish.
How long have I gone from western society that we now use "I got a half a million twitter followers as a Pick Up Line"?
Does Anil get an upgrade to a fully white woman when he gets the full million?
This argument makes sense if you are PUA where you have an established hierarchy of desirability based solely on appearances alone. Never mind what this unattractive half-white woman is or does or what she's like. Let's base our decision to pick her solely on physical appearances.
And that's why PUA never can have a real relationship. Their entire attitude is to have sex with vaginas attached to attractive women and that's it. That's all there is. There is nothing between them. The woman has as much of a say in the PUA's life as his chair. So the PUA lifestyle tries to push the notion that relationships are for wusses. Men who are Betas and who are bullied into them by women.
Which is why Roosh will never understand why Anil and his partner love each other and chose each other to live with. Oh sure you can bring in some pretty lass from the old country but what will she and Anil do?
See that's where the PUA goes "what do you mean"? While the rest of us go "that's right, they have nothing in common with each other. Any such marriage would be incredibly boring and tragic. Two people who don't really love each other stuck going through the motions to keep up appearances. Sure in time they may accept each other but instead he could be happy and date someone he likes.
And special thanks to Roosh for clarifying that pretty Indian ladies exist.
In comes Pax Dickinson, a fellow tech worker who is okay-looking (no homo), cocky, confident, successful, and white. I have never met Pax, but it's not hard to imagine Anil happily begging him for his one-night stand leftovers. Anil is resentful of the white man not only for building the West, compared to—say—a Mumbai slum, but also because he can't come close to getting the type of woman that his business success would give him if he were white.
Oh thank goodness you said "No Homo", without that Pax Dickinson would have fallen head over heels for your manliness and PUA skill.
Because we Indians all come from Slums and Villages.
People thought like this a while ago. Did you know Bose (of Einstein Bose condensate fame) couldn't get his work published? Not until Einstein picked it up? Or Homi J Baba was treated as a crank so he literally "showed them all" by building an atomic bomb.
Indians fought for recognition and until quite recently rarely got it.
So instead of hate I will show you something cool. Something Indians should be proud of.
Srinivasa Ramanujan was a genius. I understand a bit about mathematics, enough to know how radical his genius was and how untouched and untamed it was. It was Da Vincian in scale and it is only his untimely death that curtailed such brilliance. Srinivasa Ramanujan had he lived would have been his generation's Einstein. His genius was such that in spite of his ethnicity he rose to such lofty heights. At a time when people thought that nothing good came out of India but half naked fakirs, Srinivasa did the most sublime mathematics.
And broke down a few walls and taught a few people that we should not judge by the colour of one's skin. And that the prejudice of the day would have made the world a sadder place if not for people like Hardy who were willing to eschew the prevailing racism of the day.
The animosity is even more clear when you learn that Anil and Pax used to work in the same building. Did Anil lash out at him when they worked together? Nope. Only when he was safely out of range did he decide to start his internet attack. Typical, passive-aggressive beta male behavior.
Wait so I am confused. Is Anil crippling Pax's career by outing him as an all round terrible person by bringing attention to public statements made by Pax because Anil's a dirty dirty brown man jealous of Pax's sweet lady acquisition skills or because Anil's a beta male?
Safely out of range of Pax's fists of Fury? Well Anil met Pax. And after reading that I cannot feel angry at Pax anymore.
What I feel is pity.
Nitasha Tiku, also Indian and a suspected Marxist, has shown a pattern of disliking white men, who she believes are privileged and contain no inherent value. She recently called an app "deplorable"because it helped regular people avoid ghetto areas. In her world, it is unconscionable to think that someone would want to keep themselves safe, but when you consider she lives in a white New York neighborhood, it becomes clear she is a hypocrite who won't be interacting with poor black people anytime soon. She deemed the ghetto avoidance app "racist" and "classist" because it's better if everyone is equally poor and unsafe. Why she doesn't return back to India, where there's a flatter class system consisting mostly of poor people who defecate on the street, I have no idea.
You mean she likes two day weekends and thinks children should go to schools rather than down coal mines? Or that the means of production should belong to workers?
And white men are privileged? Surely not? I mean do white people have to teach their sons to always stick both hands out of the window of their car when they are pulled over? Do white people have to teach their sons that they should not defend themselves in parts of the USA when attacked and simply run away when confronted even when there is no reason to? Do white people teach their children about the men who chant hate in the street asking them to go "home".
Even here, do white atheists have to tell their kids about the prejudice they face from their own movement and how people never listen to their fears and stances and points? How they are not taken seriously and often brought in as a "token" gesture? Or do they get the sort of free ride that we have seen many white people get.
The Ghettoes of America are one of the greatest tragedies and a symbol of the apartheid that was once driven by race and now by economics. The notion that we simply avoid and ignore the ghettoes is what caused a lot of the worst excesses of the Apartheid. If America is to step forward it must step into the darkness first.
You do not make the world better by standing in the light but by making light in the dark.
And "go back home" is the battle cry of the racist who has no other arguments to make. And I suppose racists really hate mixed race people because they cannot pinpoint where "home" is.
Here's a sample of her most recent work:
About the discrimination of CEOs in the Tech industry based on their accents.
About gross wealth discrepancy.
Because of Sexism. Sorry! I meant because women can't understand computers. They think laptops are gigantic compacts and wonder why the mirror is broken.
Actually this one's pretty fucking bad.
I am a blogger. I write opinion pieces and experiences. I also do medical stuff but really? Nitasha Tiku is more of a journalist as she actually deals with the industry she comments on and collects viewpoints and other people's experiences and gives them voice. And from what I have seen of her work it's mainly in the same realm as what I did when I gave voices to women who I knew were harassed and assaulted in India or when people wish to tell me about their experiences.
It's obvious she hates men, especially white men. It's amazing that a bonafide misandrist can get a job at the biggest blog network on the internet, denounce whomever she wants, and no one calls the ugly bitch out. And yes, she is ugly, in case you're wondering:
No, she doesn't hate men. She just doesn't think the behaviour of some men who effectively are ensuring that there are no people of colour or women coming into a major industry. Me campaigning for more men in Nursing isn't me hating women.
Would not fornicate
I have to add this simply because it's so tasteless.
I can sum up Roosh's two thoughts on this.
Remember BBC at the start? Apply it here. Why is this brown cunt ruining our white man fun? Bitches Be Crazy! Oh now it makes sense!
The other thought? A talking vagina making demands? How stupid! Wait? Why are people listening to the talking vagina? You mean vaginas have rights and people attached to them? Well that's put me right off them!
The irony is that Anil, her partner in Soviet-style denouncement, would never date her because she is Indian, even though they are of the same race, but it's okay for them to team up and get a white man fired. I suppose in the end it doesn't matter since she's a lesbian, and I predict that she's only one year away from identifying herself as neither a woman or man, as encouraged by the latest liberal trend of declaring yourself to be a gender-neutral carrot, or whatever.
I thought Roosh accused her of being a lesbian. I am pretty sure lesbians would not date Anil. In words the PUA can understand…
"Your Sex Magic does not work on Lesbians."
I support a lot of women's rights and activists not because I want to sleep with them but because I think what they are arguing for is important and progressive. So yes, I am adding Nitasha Tiku to that list. Oh I may not agree with everything they say (Anita Sarkeesian) but I see what they are doing and think it's important. And you may say that what they do doesn't matter but then honestly to most of my readers what I do doesn't matter either.
You aren't poor Indians. Nothing I do has any influence on your lives. What I write may cause your eyes to prick and tear. It may cause you to go out and donate money. But ultimately you are still comfortable. I am "safe" because while I fight in a deadly war on women with actual physical casualties counted in the thousands per year, I am far away and therefore safe.
Nitasha and her Monsterous Regiment are not safe not because they fight a lesser battle than say "against the burning of women for money" but because they fight one that is closer to home.
In this drama you have a classic Marxist dyke and a sexually frustrated Indian man joining forces to get a white American man fired within 24 hours. And no one cares besides our perverted corner of the internet. That tells you how much power that immigrant liberals have gained.
Everyone knows that sacrificing Pick Up Artist tears to Shiva nets you unlimited power. Why from all the tears I gained from writing this, I have gained effective immortality.
And seriously? Pax made public comments of a discriminatory nature. It didn't matter WHO pointed that out to Business Insider. And there is some evidence that people in Business Insider knew about his stances but simply ignored it. Meaning that the only way change was going to happen is if people brought it out in the open and it was either at the hands of bloggers or at the hands of a lawsuit and let's just say bloggers are a hit to your goodwill alone which can be rebuilt but not to your bank balance as well which is a lot harder to rebuild. Especially if your goodwill just ran out.
You kill the rot in your movement by dragging it into the light or by immersing yourself in the dark and lighting a fire.
I must state that Pax didn't do himself any favors with his tweets, but we have to make a decision as a society if we're going to let angry liberals decide the employment status of natives who actually are contributing to the nation's economy. The result from all this is one productive man is out of a job while Nitasha can continue fouling up the internet with her Apple laptop (Steve Jobs was a white man) while sitting in Starbucks (Howard Schultz is a white man) and slaving away for Gawker (Nick Denton is a white man), thinking how she is changing the world for women and Indians. At the same time, Anil can ruin a white man's livelihood because he's deeply disappointed with his half-white girlfriend in spite of all the money and status he has. How did this happen to America? I don't know, but it's a damn shame we've arrived at this point.
Indians rarely worry as much about racism because we aren't poor in the west. Indians in most of the western nations are rich and upper middle class. They generally are the least likely to commit crimes and most likely to pay their taxes and indeed be well educated. There is no genetic reason for this, there is however a cultural one. Most Indians who left India did so on the strength of education so they see it as valuable. In addition they were exposed to things that they could not have and without a safety net. They either sank or they swam.
So their children inherited two things. Education and Exposure. It's the same amongst Chinese immigrants. It's the reason why we do so well at "school". When I got home other kids played outside. I did my homework first and to my parent's satisfaction before I was let out.
As a group of people in Western Society, Indians are possibly one of the singularly most productive. Acquisition of wealth isn't a sin to Indians. Hard work is a virtue. Roosh may laugh but do you know what my ancestors in the UK said when faced with racists?
It's okay, we work hard. When all the shops are shut the racist has to buy from me because I am the only shop that's open. And racist money is as good as any others. And in time I will open more shops and no one will listen to the racists.
And I am proud of them but I am proud too that I follow in their footsteps. I have my own achievements that I am proud of and my own skills that I can hold up. Roosh? Roosh tricks women into sleeping with him and thinks he is the second coming of Da Vinci.
The achievements of Steve Jobs doesn't make Nitasha's point less valid. That's like saying that she must have founded a major billion dollar corporation before her points are valid.
And the funny thing is? Those two ARE changing the world for Indians. Mr. Roosh is unaware but India is one of the biggest sources of IT Engineers and many Tech companies have branches in India to take out some of the best India has to offer. And MANY of those are women since in India, IT is an equal opportunities employer. More so than the west.
It's why Indians are so heavily represented in the Tech industry.
So this weird juxtaposition of MRA, PUA and Racist comes to the end with a tragic sigh. Roosh is too good for this cruel earth where Indians get to speak like real human beings and people actually listen to us.
But on a more serious note?
Dear Pax Dickinson.
Satire and Parody is used to punch upwards. To fight bigotry and to take on the norm. Above you will see examples of such. What you did was not parody. What you did was try to excuse your bigotry by calling it parody.
How did you think this was going to end?
But what have I learnt from all this? Well that I should be reading a lot more of Nitasha's work.
Oh and that Roosh is a terrible human being and brings nothing productive to any conversation as a whole and demonstrates what precisely is wrong with the MRA and PUA movement when it comes to fighting battles.


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A man has been arrested after Davidson County deputies found him and his girlfriend covered in blood during a domestic call Monday.
Bobby Scott Hendrix, 28, faces multiple charges after an incident on Havenwood Drive in Winston-Salem.
Hendrix and the woman were both taken to hospitals for treatment. The woman had multiple cuts to her face, as well as bruises to her neck and the rest of her body, deputies said.
The victim had called 911 multiple times, saying her boyfriend assaulted her and wouldn't let her leave the home.
Deputies didn't get an answer after knocking on the door several times, but she left after deputies called her phone.
Deputies found Hendrix lying at the bottom of some stairs and a butcher knife within hand's reach. Hendrix told deputies he was using the knife to cut the cast on his left arm.
Hendrix's charges include assault inflicting serious injury, first-degree kidnapping, assault by strangulation, interference with emergency communication and resisting a public officer.
He was held without bond on a domestic hold pending a Sept. 19 court date.
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Reviewed by: Jessica33
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Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Title: Like the continuity
Date: Feb 21, 2014
I have one of these for each of my 4 kids' baby books and I just got this for my youngest. I got a flyer in my hospital packet to get one of these from another company and it was so much more expensive! With the free code so you just pay shipping these are a fabulous price and I really love the 7x9" size that's so perfect for a baby book. It's been close to 10 years since I ordered the first one and the thing I love is how similar all of the information is on all of them! Even the design layout is exactly the same on them all so I really like that. It's so fun to compare them all since they have so much similar info like: price of gold per pound, median family income, ave cost of new home, price of gallon of milk, dozen eggs, gallon of gas, postage stamp, federal minimum wage, the current US population, unemployment rate, and #1 TV show. I really enjoyed pulling them all out to compare how those things have changed over the 10 year span of my kids' births!
As for this particular design, I agree with another reviewer that the stars kind of look like Santa. My son was born Dec 22nd so that's one of the reasons I liked this one, but it is something to be aware of that it might bother you for a spring baby. =) Also, I guess I should've realized, but I was expecting the red box that says YOUR BIRTHDAY to be changed to actually show the date of birth, which it isn't. I know the preview is a sample with a child's name in it so I should've realized that's exactly how it was going to print, but just know that it really comes saying YOUR BIRTHDAY at the top.
One more thing, the shipping was RIDICULOUS! I just sent the company an email so hopefully they'll change this or maybe it was a fluke, but I ordered the 7x9 scroll and expected it to come in one of those 8.5x11 cardboard mailers, right? NO, instead it came in this huge 12x18x3" box! Then inside the little scroll was rubber banded between two pieces of 11.5x14.5" cardboard. While I appreciate them being so concerned about it arriving perfectly straight, that is such a ridiculous waste of paper products! These guys really need to save some money (and some trees) by using more appropriate shipping supplies based on the size.
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Reviewed by: Julesbmore
Title: Great!
Date: Aug 08, 2013
I was skeptical based on the price, but this is great! Wish I could have picked some of the info, but for the price won't be too picky.
Reviewed by: CarefulConsumer
Location: NY, NY
Title: Great memento for First Birthday
Date: Jun 05, 2012
Have purchased several scrolls for gifts over the past several years, and they are always well received. I bought this scroll to commemorate my grandson's First Birthday. The twinkle-twinkle artwork is lovely, and the baby actually resembles him! It makes a very nice presentation.
As in the past, I am disappointed at some of the uninteresting items chosen to include in the narrative. It would make a less generic, and more meaningful and age appropriate gift if you could at least choose a few areas to personalize.
Just a heads-up when ordering: I also bought the lucite frame and was surprised that the scroll dimensions are a bit larger, which makes it tricky when placing it in frame.
Reviewed by: Rachi
Date: Mar 21, 2012
the only thing that could be better is the sizes. They are kind of akward to frame yourself.
Reviewed by: jdie
Title: So cute!
Date: Jun 20, 2011
I love it, It is so cute, and have had several compliments on the item. Would be perfect for a birthday present. It came in 4 days!!!!
Reviewed by: LinH
Location: Marietta, GA
Title: Fun keepsake
Date: Apr 01, 2011
I would have rated this product higher, but the design wasn't what I expected. The stars look like they have Santa faces on them. My son was born in April - it's a little odd to be looking at fat, jolly santa stars for a Spring baby, lol. I assume that's not what it really is, but it's very distracting to me. I'm pleased with the price and how quickly it was delivered. I will most definately purchase from this site in the future!
Reviewed by: MissJ0504
Location: Louisiana
Title: Beautifully Crafted
Date: Mar 25, 2011
I love love love this product!!! I ordered 5 of them and OMG they are beautiful! I cannt wait to present them to the children and mthers at my son's bitrthday party next month! I highly reccommend this product especially as a party favor. It's truly unique
Reviewed by: NMama
Location: California
Title: love the scroll not the frame
Date: Jan 14, 2011
The scroll is great! I love to give them as newborn gifts! This was the first time I ordered the scroll with the frame and I am disappointed that the frame is not a true 11x14, requiring me to trim the edges of the scroll for it to fit. I've never had to trim the scrolls when i purchased the frame seperately. Definately a lesson learned. I will defiately order the scrolls again but will purchase my frames elsewhere.
Reviewed by: Gunnarsmom
Location: New Jersey
Title: Nice baby gift
Date: Jun 04, 2010
I have given a birthday scroll to everyone who has had a baby for the last 20 years. I know my children love looking at their scrolls and seeing what happened on their special day.
Reviewed by: eamama
Location: ny
Title: weird
Date: Nov 25, 2009
i was not really impressed by this keepsake scroll. the 'twinkle,twinkle' design is very cute but the things they list are so weird & random - not many of them are things i would consider worthy of a keepsake for my child.
Reviewed by: Happymomof2
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Title: Love the birthday scrolls!
Date: Jul 22, 2009
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Definitions for auld lang syneˈɔld læŋ ˈzaɪn, ˈsaɪn
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word auld lang syne
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
auld lang syneˈɔld læŋ ˈzaɪn, ˈsaɪn(n.)
fondly remembered times.
Category: Scottish
Origin of auld lang syne:
Scot: lit., old long since, i.e., old long-ago (days)
Webster Dictionary
Auld lang syne
a Scottish phrase used in recalling recollections of times long since past
Auld Lang Syne
"Auld Lang Syne" is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song. It is well known in many countries, especially in the English-speaking world; its traditional use being to celebrate the start of the New Year at the stroke of midnight. By extension, it is also sung at funerals, graduations and as a farewell or ending to other occasions. The international Boy Scout youth movement, in many countries, uses it as a close to jamborees and other functions. The song's Scots title may be translated into English literally as "old long since", or more idiomatically, "long long ago", "days gone by" or "old times". Consequently "For auld lang syne", as it appears in the first line of the chorus, might be loosely translated as "for old times". The phrase "Auld Lang Syne" is also used in similar poems by Robert Ayton, Allan Ramsay, and James Watson as well as older folk songs predating Burns. Matthew Fitt uses the phrase "In the days of auld lang syne" as the equivalent of "Once upon a time..." in his retelling of fairy tales in the Scots language.
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Twenty-seven TWGGA members and guests attended the Legislative Briefing before heading to the Capitol to make connections with their legislators and staff. The day ended with over 200 attending the Educational Seminar and Wine Tasting, where 18 wineries and 4 city/educational institutions poured wine and provided information.
The evening event was co-sponsored by Senator Jane Nelson. It was a long day but very beneficial for our industry. Thank you to everyone who worked hard and made many contacts throughout the day.


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August 16, 2001
See Rhonda's Previous
Census Records Online
Q: Where
can I find census records for 1910 census in Pittsburgh? Are there any online?
I also need information on Kings County, New York in 1920. Can you help? --
The very nature of census records requires that a lot of work goes into the
creation of digitized pages of the census. Census records are handwritten documents.
In many instances that document is difficult to read, blurred, faded, or blotchy
from the ink.
Census records are available on microfilm at many libraries and other repositories around the country. It is possible that you have a public library nearby with a genealogy department. Depending on the size of the genealogy department they may have the census films you need.
Family History Centers are another source for these microfilms. Since the areas
that you have asked about are on multiple rolls of microfilm, you would probably
have to order the appropriate microfilms (and this may require that you first
order the Soundex films).
If you were hoping to locate a Web site with an index and the census on it
for the years and places you mentioned, you may be disappointed. While there
are both commercial and volunteer projects to make the census available online,
these projects are ongoing and, therefore, not complete.
At the present time Genealogy.com
offers a searchable digitized version of the 1900 census. You can search an
index to the head-of-household first and then view the original census page
in a scanned image. Currently, this is the only "complete package," so to speak,
with the exception of some 1850 census records that have also been completed.
Ancestry has also been working on a similar project and has released digitized images for both the 1910 and 1920 census. Unfortunately, at the present time there is no searchable index. You already need to know where you want to look in order to take advantage of these images.
Due to the massive expense involved in the digitization process, you must pay
a subscription rate to access both online census projects. If you have easy
access to the census, you might wonder why you would want to pay for online
access. For those who do not have easy access or who need flexibility, the online
subscription offers the chance to view the census at more convenient times.
You may want to visit the USGenWeb site and then visit the specific sites for your areas. They would know of any available online avenues. They may also have some people willing to do simple searches in the census for you.
Searching for Brown
I am researching my Brown family tree and wondered if this might be a link.
This is what I have... Obediah Brown born 1806 / Fallsburgh, Sullivan, New York.
Does this information match as being one of the children of your Obediah Brown
that married Mary Barton (taken from your posting at Genealogy.com: Ancestry
of Clara Barton: Fourth Generation) on 6 Dec. 1766? -- Phyllis
One method of research that many of us rely on is to look for similar names and then look for a connection. Generally this method works at the least in making us aware of the other families and individuals that share the same surname within a given area.
Usually for this method to be effective, there must be two ingredients. The first is the name itself. This method is more effective when researching an uncommon surname such as Standerfer or Sickafus. The number of possibilities is limited with an uncommon surname. Unfortunately you are researching a very common surname. It would be entirely possible for three or four Brown families to be unrelated and yet living within the same county.
Speaking of location, that is the other ingredient. Usually this research method
is most effective when the individual you are looking for is living in the same
area as the individual found. Again, in this case your Obediah Brown is in New
York, and the Obediah Brown you have referenced in the Clara Barton tree was
married in Massachusetts. This does not mean it isn't possible, but it increases
the likelihood of there not being a match. However, the fact that Mary did die
in New York makes the connection more plausible.
Finally, when doing any kind of research, it is a good idea to look into the
time period in question. Obediah Brown married Mary Barton in Sutton, Massachusetts
in 1766. Your Obediah Brown was born in 1806. That is a forty year gap between
events. Mary Sutton was born in 1742. She would have been 64 at the time of
the birth of your Obediah Brown. This is not possible.
It is likely that you are looking for parents who were born about 1780. This would be another generation removed from Obediah and Mary. Unfortunately because of the commonality of the surname, the relationship is unlikely.
Which Name Do You Use?
I have a relative who was born Conway. His parents divorced when he was a baby.
His mother remarried a Wilson. His stepfather adopted him and his name was changed
to Wilson. He goes by Wilson. How do I record his information in our family
tree (Conway), so that future generations can follow his line. His children
are named Wilson as well. If this is not recorded somehow, the Conway will be
lost in this line of the family. -- Gene
The loss of a birth name is of concern to many genealogists. After all, it is
the identifying name that will assist a researcher back to the next generation.
While this is often a concern in generations further back, when it happens in
a recent generation there are special considerations you may want to keep in
First, it is important to keep in mind the feelings of those involved. There
is the mother and the stepfather who was willing to adopt the boy and give him
the new name. They may prefer to have him recorded in the family database with
his adopted surname. This is something that you would need to talk over with
If they do not have a problem, then the preferable way to record this individual would be under his birth name. You would then want to include an adoption event and include a note of some sort as to the name change so that the path can be followed.
If the family would prefer that he be listed with his adopted name, then you would enter him with his adopted name. I would then encourage you to include a note as to his name at birth and to the activities that led up to the name change. This way the information has been recorded, but you have also honored the requests of the family.
Rhonda R. McClure is a professional genealogist specializing in celebrity trees
and computerized genealogy. She has been involved in online genealogy for fifteen
years. She is the author of the award-winning The
Complete Idiot's Guide to Online Genealogy, now in its second edition.
She is the author of four how-to guides on Family
Tree Maker. In late 2001, she wrote The
Genealogist's Computer Companion. She is a contributing editor to Biography
Magazine with her "Celebrity Roots" column and a contributing writer
to The History Channel Magazine. Her latest book is Finding
Your Famous and Infamous Ancestors. She may be contacted at email@example.com.
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Murphy Strikes Again
03:44pm 26/02/2003
One Thousand Miles --Benny & Joon
It would only figure that this, whatever it is, would hit me the day before I have no choice but to go back to work. After a month long lay off I can hardly tell them nope, not coming in, I'm sick! So I will have to find a way to stop this nose from being Niagara Falls, my body from aching, my skin from burning and my nerves from freezing, my chest from coughing and my throat from tickling. ARGH...
I opted out of seeing the movie I planned for today, managed to get dinner made,
(no one else is going to do it)
and a few loads of laundry done. Besides that I lay on my sofa watching Don Juan De Marco and Benny and Joon, drinking hot lemon/honey tea and praying that I can make it through a full day of work tomorrow. Packing my kleenex, tea and throat losenges to take with me.
Nothing like an afternoon of Johnny Depp to make one rest peacefully. Perhaps now I need to watch BLOW--how appropriate is that title right now? lmao
Winter Woes ... Blah
05:32pm 25/02/2003
Bob Dylan - Biograph
Mind is mush, body achey, freezing and lifeless, nose is running and energy waned. Am I sick with the flu, a cold, sinus or is it something more sinister that has taken refuge in this worn out body? Whatever it is can't seem to make up it's mind if it's coming or going from day to day. It's been driving me crazy for almost 3 weeks now!
Otherwise this was just another day like any other day with nothing more to post that hasn't already been done in my boring blog
. Think I am going to stay with that post tonight and go no further.
Read 2
Murphy's Law
05:40pm 24/02/2003
Carol King - Tapestry
Perhaps it is because I am Irish that Murphy and his annoying laws have the desire to consistently cross my path. Thus, I was not surprised today by just such events. As large crystalline snowflakes fell from the sky and stuck to the frigid ground exactly 30 minutes prior to my departure for an 11:30 appointment for Adam with Jim, his orthotist. This could have made for larger problems than it did. These visits never take less than 1 hour, most often taking more. The time and the snow left me concerned about meeting my second appointment in timely fashion, which was scheduled for 1:00 and the third scheduled for 3. Thank goodness I had foreseen Murphy's perpetual bane in my life the year I bought my 4 wheel drive vehicle! Though I did a bit of slipping and sliding, I still managed to wreak havoc on poor Murphy's impishness.
It was only this morning that I informed my boss I would be available to work Thursday and Friday of this week and all of next only to find out I will have to change that now too. Jim is going on a trip to Southern California (that dweezil) and will not be returning until Monday of next week which means I will have to skip work Tuesday to take Adam back in for a fitting. And he had the nerve to accuse me of bringing this winter weather back to haunt him! Shit, I told him I had no sympathy and that he ought to take us with him! He was game for that... nice to know you're loved... too bad it's not possible! (crying)
I was only late to the second appointment by 10 minutes, which stands to be a new record, one that bugs my therapist to no end. (I had the foresight to know what we would begin the session discussing!) I don't quite see the point in discussing lateness when the only complaint she has is that it cuts into our time. As if talking about lateness is going to help increase the time we have together! It was a freaking 2 hour session anyway, what's 10 minutes less? Her response, "One hundred minutes instead of one hundred twenty." I'm thinking about $100.00 is the real difference. (eyeroll) Therapists, they are so damn anal, they really ought to take a pill and call themselves in the morning!
By the time of our third appointment, Adam's physical therapy, most of the wet stuff that fell had melted away in the sun or by the salt dropped from the back of the city trucks. So, all's well that end's well. Which is exactly what I can say for the day... it ended well.
Now I just need to get through the dinner, which is cooking now and smelling wonderful and the bed time ritual before I can finally say a day well spent.
Easy like Sunday morning...
01:43pm 23/02/2003
Warren Hill~Love Life
Today has so far been relaxed in comfort. Currently, I have a smooth jazzy musician spinning in my drive, sipping Tazo Chai Tea Latte and meandering around the www while Matt views his 1,000,000,000,000,000,000... episode of Star Trek, Adam plays his 1,000,000,000,000... game of play station and Ryan sleeps upstairs with his new, larger than life, TV spinning our electrical meter into oblivion.
Preparing to wander myself into Grammy bliss tonight. The promise of more than just industry produced talent lacking popstar and boy band groups in the nominated categories has lured me back to viewing. True artists like Norah Jones, who I think is going to sweep tonight, Cheryl Crowe, Sting, Bruce Springstein and others who can both write and play as well as belt out a tune are on the front stage tonight. I'm looking forward to see the reemergence of "real" artists.
12:49pm 21/02/2003
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The committee recommends that each of the six mandated areas of research emphasis be led by a half-time associate chief scientist with a 2-year rotation. Each associate would be a scientist from a visible and productive outside research program.
In recent years, the NRI staff has been stretched to cover its responsibilities, and this has increased the burdens of communication and timeliness on NRI staff at all levels and on the scientists who serve as ad hoc reviewers and panel members. The proposed rotation system would allow the chief scientist to recruit a flow of intellectual capital and would provide a mechanism for obtaining input from the population of researchers served by the NRI. The full-time chief scientist plus the six associate chief scientists would have the time and resources to carry out long-term analyses of research needs in the context of issues rather than programs, as is now the case. This recommendation highlights the importance of establishing and maintaining a scientifically based research agenda. The associate chief scientists would complement the division directors, program managers, and volunteer panel leaders.
A number of factors could account for the fact that USDA's research agenda has struggled over the last decade. The committee understands current budget constraints and understands that the implementation of some of its recommendations would increase personnel and operating costs. We believe strongly, however, that substantial changes are needed to ensure the future success of merit-based peer-reviewed research in food, fiber, and natural resources.
The committee recommends that grant awards be immediately increased to an average of $100,000 per year (total costs) over 3 years.
NRI research grants are much smaller and shorter than grants supporting similar types of research at NSF, NIH, and DOE. Continued underfunding of NRI research grants relative to those of other federal research agencies will tend to discourage new researchers outside the traditional food and fiber system from applying for NRI grants—one original goal of the NRI. It might also cause highly qualified scientists who have received NRI support to apply for research funds from other sources and even redirect their research away from issues important to the food and fiber system. That could lead to a decrease in the overall quality of food, fiber, and natural-resources research.
The proposed increase would solidify the stakeholder foundation of the NRI and prepare it to receive additional funds. The committee recognizes that without an increase in the NRI's total budget (as recommended strongly by this committee), the increase in size and duration of grants would reduce the number of grants and perhaps cause hardship among investigators who have depended on NRI funding to sustain their research programs. However, continued underfunding of individual research grants will reduce the aggregate impact of