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Let My Chicken Go:Tossing Aside The Shame
I was talking with some of my friends the other night and some kind of way, we got to talking about chicken and black people, and the negative stereotypes that go along with that combination. I felt myself put upon and inconvenienced even thinking about it. In my frustration, I yelled out "Let my chicken go!" Yes, I certainly did. We've all...Read More »


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This is no big deal, and I'm not even upset but just had to share the ridiculousness of the conversation my DH just had to have...
DH's best friend was dating/living with a woman 20 years his senior. She was crazy from the get-go but DH's friend M just didn't see it so we made nice for his sake. This woman is 55 and had 3 grown kids of her own and is a retired nurse. She knew from the start that M wanted children so she lied about her age and told him that she wanted to try for more kids with him so that he'd move in with her.
She is the same woman I wrote about a few months ago that at DH's birthday dinner said to me, "so M and I were discussing pregnancy and your weight gain and we were wondering if you were in the normal range or not?" (Thank you for basically calling me a fat a@@).
Skip to today, (DH is having a vaccectomy on Friday) DH tells me that M called him concerned because his now ex-g/f (again the former nurse) told him that is was crazy for him to get a vaccectomy that is was much safter for me to get a tubal ligation... I knew she was nuts and had an issue with me but I have to wonder if she's trying for whatever reason to make me look bad for not opting for major surgery when DH wants to have the vaccectomy regardless, or if she actually believes her lies at this point. All I can say is thank goodness she is out of M's life.
Seriously? Since when is a tubal ligation safer than a vasectomy? From what I remember reading, a tubal ligation is much more invasive than a vasectomy. She sounds like a nut job. And I can't believe she would ask you about your weight. That''s like the last thing ANY pregnant woman want to talk about! Glad your DH's friend came to his senses!
Geez, sounds like she took her crazy pills along with her "no filter between brain and mouth" pills.
My DH had his vasectomy and trust me I'm glad he went in rather than me after hearing about ligation recovery. His was outpatient and basically killed a weekend for him sitting around with a bag of frozen peas. Ligation is in-patient and longer recovery.
She should not be discussing weight gain either and both subjects are what fall under the category of, "none of your beezwax!"

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Kimberly Jones, a faculty associate in Northeastern University's Middle East Center for Peace, Culture and Development, analyzes President Barack Obama's visit to Afghanistan on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden.
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A daylong conference at Northeastern University on Thursday will explore the fascinating subplots of the political landscape now that the 2012 elections are less than a year away. The event was organized by Northeastern University political science professor William Crotty, the Thomas P. O'Neill Chair in Public Life. To preview the conference, we asked Crotty to examine how President Barack Obama has fared in his first term in dealing with resistance from the Republican Party.
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Last week, President Obama announced a series of regulatory changes aimed at easing the burden of student loans for recent college graduates who may not be making enough money to repay their debts. Professor Jeffrey Born, a finance expert in the College of Business Administration, says while the changes may not help many recent graduates, they could help students who are preparing to graduate — especially those with degrees that may not net them high-paying jobs.
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Law professor Deborah Ramirez leads a crusade to use community-based approaches to preventing terrorism.
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This is a Dinosaur with a bunch of flowers, or it's eating a leg of lamb? Your call
Art comes from anywhere.
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I drove down from Dubai to Abu Dhabi a few days ago and invited Seumas Gallacher to dinner. He's just launched a new book in his Jack Calder crime series called Savage Payback and I wanted to both congratulate him and find out more.
For those of you who don't know him, Seumas is a larger than life exuberant character. An old geezer like me who didn't just go round the block a few times – he built the block. But on this meeting he seemed more introspective, sombre even. Much like his latest crime thriller in fact.
Over dinner at his favourite restaurant I interviewed him while he chomped on Osso Buco.
As an author who has only published one book I wondered how it felt to have 3 books on the shelf.
He said, "I feel as if I've come home. My experiences in the world of writing, editing, marketing and hard-copy publishing are gratifying. Channelling into the world of e-book marketing has been wonderful."
I know that Seumas is a tireless marketing machine for his works and has a large internet footprint, but I wondered how that translated into sales. If anyone knows how it works it's Seumas.
"It's hard to tell which part of the footprint in the ePublishing contributes to sales. My adage is that 'eye-share, gets mind share, gets heart share, gets wallet share.'
I asked if he could tell us how 'wallet share' looked these days.
"Downloads of my first 2 books north of 70,000 downloads proves my point."
Seumas is known for encouraging writers and he gives of his own time to help, advise and support them. I asked if he had a mentor he turned to for advice.
"The writing business, in my experience, has been the discovery of a vast and universal writing family on the web. Their generosity of spirit continues to 'blow me away'."
Seumas and I both live in the United Arab Emirates, an amazing and diverse place and one where family values are treasured. To publish a book an author has to obtain a No Objection Certificate (NOC) or no outlet can sell your book. I asked Seumas how he felt about being a writer in the Middle East.
"I've been an expat for 35 years in various places around the world. I never forget that I'm a guest in each country and I fully respect the norms and mores of local culture. I completely accept that each country has it's own parameters on what should and should not be published, and I have no problems with that."
Your latest book Savage Payback, from my reading, has a grittier feel and a darker outlook than the previous 2 books. Is this a natural progression in the series?
"I felt a growing realisation that brutal reality can visit the good guys as well as the bad guys. That view is reflected in the book."
What kind of feedback have you had with Savage Payback?
"Best so far, but most satisfying are the comments from my peers. I've never doubted my ability to write but each book continues my apprenticeship in the world of writing."
I asked if he had any feedback from people who live in the Jack Calder world?
"My very good friend author Eric J. Gates, who is an excellent author and crime-writer in his own right, has given me invaluable guidance on details that are not generally known outside of the security business."
A lot of people see self-publishing as a route to market for people who cannot get a publisher and I was sure he had a handle on the situation. I asked what Seumas's views were on self-publish – v book publisher.
I'm biased because of the pleasure I get from the whole self-publishing 'trip'. However, if my books had not been as successful as they are I don't know if I would enjoy it so much. Be that as it may, as a business man if an agent or publisher offered me a lucrative deal? I'd bite their hand off and take it.'
As I said earlier, Seumas is unstinting in his support for other writers. I asked what advice he would give to others 'on writing'.
"So many people call themselves 'aspiring writers' – consider yourself a writer when you've written one word. But be aware of the false compliments – it's difficult to get 'gut reaction' to your work and to have self-honesty about your work. But when you get there? You'll know it."
Like all authors whose work is on Kindle I struggled with the pricing strategy. I wanted to know how Seumas felt about the 'cheap, or free book' syndrome enabled by Amazon. Are we authors building a world where readers expect books for nothing?
"I think that has already happened. but on the positive side it's made eBooks a fixture in book sales and its now an accepted sales channel in the book world."
To wrap it up I asked what his plans were now. More books?
"I've now firmly established the Jack Calder series. For as long as I can continue to find innovation for the story lines I see no end to the series."
And your aspirations for the future?
"I'm a great believer in chasing your dreams. My dream is to make my success a reality by selling 500,000 books worldwidee over the next 5 years"
As we headed to the lobby for coffee, I had no doubt that Seumas Gallacher would achieve his dreams. His grit, determination and the return on the investment of his generosity in the book world will make that happen. His writing continues to mature with each book published and Savage Payback is the best to date.
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WordPress is overwhelmingly Western orientated and from some comments I've seen, people can assume that everyone lives in America or Britain. You know, 'our tax system is hopeless' kind of note, with the author not explaining what tax system they're talking about.
It's not a serious flaw but amongst our numbers there are people who live in places vastly different from 'The West'. Their experiences in writing then publishing a book is very different from what people in the West might imagine.
I'd like to take you on a short tour of my writing experiences in the Middle East to shine a faint glimmer of light on what it's like. Not just the mechanics but also how it affects the way you think and by extension the way you write.
A bit of background. I describe myself as Scottish by birth, European by nature and Middle East resident by choice. I travel around the region from Kurdistan to Oman and places in between. I've lived for extended periods of time in Iraq, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. Although I've been in the region for 12 years this time round I hardly speak a word of Arabic (Jim hangs his head in shame).
On writing. I currently live in Dubai and you can sit here in a hotel lobby and you could write a thousand novels based on an evening's observations. The mix of people, cultures, dress, habits never cease to amaze. At present the number of people from the Former Soviet Union is expanding – lots of hotel staff are now from that area. The other noticable change is the number of Chinese and Koreans. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a vast bazaar, a massive souk where people come to live, do business, holiday and stop-over on their way somewhere else. Most International Oil Companies have regional hub offices in Dubai, mainly to service their operations in Iraq. But for British people its a home from home. You can actually get deep fried Mars bars here (a Scottish delicacy if longevity is not your aim in life).
So the UAE is a comfortable place for someone like me to live. BUT. And that's a big big BUT. I never forget that I'm a guest in someone else's country. The law here is not based on English law (like so many other countries), the law here is Sharia and woe betide anyone who thinks differently. Its all to easy for people to imagine somehow that 'probably things are much the same here as back home'.
And how is this of significance to writers? Well, you can't just find a publisher here and knock a few thousand copies out then get them into the shops. You have to obtain a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the government (I'll not go into the process – it's lengthy but not complicated). If the book contains anything deemed to be blasphemous or would offend local family values then its unlikely to get a NOC.
I'm going through the process right now and my book does contain harsh criticism of the Catholic Church – it may be a factor that stops me publishing here because the Ministry of Culture protects all religions not just Islam. There may be other factors but I couldn't even guess what they might be. Like everything else in the Middle East your best companions are Patience, Good Humour and an engrossing book to read.
Going back to the process of writing. I wrote the outline for my book iNation when I lived in Baghdad in 2003. I was in the Sheraton Hotel, situated on the roundabout where Saddam Hussein's statue was pulled down. I had a great view from my room overlooking the Tigris. I could see everything in the Green Zone (Saddam Hussein's palace and other government buildings). I ate often at the palace and wandered through the grounds. I even swam in his pool. Despite what was said in the media at the time the palace. pool, etc were no bigger nor more opulent than a million other houses in this region. The scurrilous hype about Saddam living in grand luxury while his people lived in hovels conveniently forgot to mention how the President of the United States lives in the White House v people in shotgun shacks in some States. Ps, this is not an anti-American rant – I love America and I count many Americans amongst my friends. The media across Europe did hatchet jobs on Saddam every bit at vitriolic as Fox News.
Anyway it was these experiences that planted the seed in my mind. America runs the world now but what if there was a much bigger yet hidden country just around the corner. A country that holds no territory, a country that lives in the world wide web? What would it do, how would it work, could it change the world? Would the change be for good or would it produce a world dictatorship?
When the phenomenon of Facebook burst upon us the book practically wrote itself. I also took the opportunity to give some other global organisations that should be making the world a better place, but are not, a right good Glasgow kicking. A Glasgow kicking is considered by thugs around the world to be the very pinnacle of 'a kicking'.
Returning once again to writing (I know, I ramble), the act of observing ones country and others from a distance and from within a different culture adds (IMHO) depth and gives a twist to how things are written. You're less influenced by the propaganda pushed out in those countries, you more likely to see a bigger picture than a local election or the rise in the price of petrol. As many writers have observed, people who live on the margins of society, people who are 'different' and people who are from different cultures are often the sharpest observers. Gore Vidal and Jerzy Kozinsky spring to mind. The Middle Eastern culture is so pervasive and different it would be a miracle if your approach to writing didn't change.
Apart from that, writing here is the same as anywhere else. Sitting at a computer in solitude bashing the keys and hoping something worthwhile will fall out and start reaching for the light.
Even as I write this, the call to prayer from the mosque next door reminds me that I'm a legal alien in Dubai. Humdalala!
On an Iraq business trip, driving from Qurna to Basra, our Personal Security Detail made a small diversion to show us a monument in the desert. We got out and had a walk around and took some photos.
It only took about 40 minutes in total but I was intrigued by the monument. Specifically, what was a large monument to British soldiers doing in the middle of nowhere? Was it on the scene of a famous battle? Did a garrison once stand there?
I wasn't surprised that there was a monument, the British have fought incessantly on every continent in the world except Antartica. It was just, well, why the hell was it in a remote location? Most of the names were Indian and the references were to Indian regiments.
I had noticed that many of the stones in the monument had numbers on them, a sign that it had been rebuilt at some point.
I spent some time researching the monument and, although it's reasonably well known, it was difficult to find specific details. Most searches came up with the British Graveyard in Basra which was rediscovered as part of the Coalition Forces occupation of the area. But there were a few people who could be contacted who knew bits and pieces to allow me to knit together what happened.
The monument is to the British soldiers killed in The Mesopotamian Campaign during the Great War of 1914-1918. The campaign started on the 29th September, only 60 days after the British declared war on Germany (4th August 1914). Two Royal Navy ships sailed up the Persian Gulf then entered the Shatt Al-Arab (no doubt the name gave much amusement to the ratings on board) and headed up to Muhammerah.
Muhammerah is now known as Khurramshahr and is on the Iranian side of the Iraq/Iran border. The Shatt Al-Arab was created in 960 AD by digging a channel to flow the Karun river into the delta created by the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates – the two rivers that gave Mesopotamia it's name (The Land Between Two Rivers).
A short 17 days later, after the ships arrived, an advance party from the Indian Expeditionary Force arrived in Bahrain then invaded South Mesopotamia on the 6th November. On 12th November the rest of the IEF turned up and a major thrust by the British to capture the oilfields and pipelines around Basra was underway.
The area, indeed the whole of Mesopotamia at that time, was occupied by the Turks as an adjunct to the Ottoman Empire. They had been there for a couple of hundred years. Since Turkey was an ally of Germany and the Germans actually ran the Turkish Army, they were seen as a legitimate target by the British Government.
But what happened next had a significant impact on the outcome of the Great War.
The original brief of the IEF was to capture the oilfields and secure the supply of fuel for the Royal Navy. The IEF fought up through the desert, which at that time was a quagmire due to torrential rain, took Basra City (an island in the middle of a flooded plain) that had been abandoned by the Turkish Army then up to Qurna (pronounced Gurna) where the Turks had regrouped.
On 6th December Qurna fell to the British Army and the oilfields were considered to be secured. But this victory, small in relation to what was to come in the killing fields of France and Belgium, had a great significance to the British Government. The relative ease with which the Turkish forces were defeated (2000 Turks dead v 650 British) led the British to open another front against the Germans that would drive up through Mesopotamia. Considering that the Qurna fell only 124 days after the declaration of war it was a key victory right at the start of the war.
The British erected the War Memorial to the fallen of the Mesopotamian Campaign in the area that became the docks in Basra. In 1991, on the orders of Saddam Hussein, the monument was relocated to Berjasiya.
When things settle down and I can go there as a tourist I'll have another look round and hopefully photograph all of the nameplates.
The Mechanics of Painting
It may seem obvious, to people who have never tried the noble art of painting, that all you need is an implement (stick/ sable brush), some media (blood/ acrylic paint) and a ground (cave wall/ canvas). Then you're set to go.
But no.
If you plan to produce something that is for others to see it needs more than that. You need 'a place to paint'. I'll explain.
You're in your lounge and the art muse slaps you round the head and shouts 'SHOULDN'T YOU BE PAINTING?' By the way, my muse doesn't do seductive whispering.
Now, if you don't have a designated painting arena then you will have to clear a space, put down protective layers on surfaces, haul out your paints, set up an easel…..well, you get the picture. By then your artistic muse is flirting with your writing muse and guiding him towards a dark spot where they can 'interact' more meaningfully (yes, I have a female and a male muse – we're hoping for a baby muse anytime now).
That's where 'a place to paint' comes in. Somewhere spattered in paint where everything is to hand and you can get working as soon as you get an old t-shirt on.
Salvador Dali used to paint in the nude, but he had a flamboyant moustache to divert gazing eyes from other parts of his anatomy. I wear an old t-shirt and often I even put shorts on. I don't want someone to walk in and think Yogi Bear is painting in my hallowed rooms. (BTW? Yogi and Boo-boo used to share a house and neither of them wore any trousers or underpants. Hellooo???).
The room also serves as a sanctuary because it's difficult to concentrate on mixing the right blend of magenta and burnt umber with the television blaring, constant demands to make a cup of tea or children running around. You need a level of solitude. Painting, like writing is a solitary activity.
Having said all that, I'm experimenting with art that can be done in 10 minutes. That's 3 days of thinking what to do, 5 days of thinking how to do it and 10 minutes of painting. I'm using oil pastels on dark paper so there is not much room for mess. And it can be done at the dining table or wherever. It all it needs is a box of pastels and a sheet of paper and a flat surface.
The cunning plan is to paint something that seems a lot more complicated than it is. I spotted how to do that by looking at Constable's work. He has more blank spaces in there than a supermodel's brain. The idea is to fill up the space with colour. I use dark coloured paper that means 90% of the work is already done. Then I put the highlights in to make the shape.
It's hardly a new technique but I had to think it through for myself. Duh.
I'm attempting to do something that will prove to be unpopular. I'm working on a series of portraits that show people's dark side. The dark papers and light pastels are perfect for it. The problem is that everyone wants their 'best side' painted. Who wants their dark side revealed? (Put your hand down at the back. Yes you with the horns).
I've got a couple of people lined up, all I need to do is set up a photography session, get them relaxed and then drop in the name of the person they hate most in the world. And capture that moment. I can manipulate the painting later to make it even more 'dark'. I think it's a winning strategy, if I live.
I'll keep you up to date on how it's received and hopefully post some examples from souls brave enough to show the world their dark side.
ps – the above 'god' painting was inspired by a statue I saw when travelling in Colombo (no, not the detective – the capital of Sri Lanka). I spotted this evil looking imp in the art gallery


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There are lots of interesting facts and figures about mobile news consumption in the second half of the Pew Research Center's Future of Mobile News report released last week.
The study surveyed almost 10,000 US adults, and looked in detail at the habits of more than 2,000 smartphone and tablet owners. You could sift through the report... But instead here are some of its key findings:
-- Browsers vs apps: Around 60 percent of smartphone and tablet news consumers use mainly a web browser to access news content on mobile. Only around 25 percent use mainly apps, while the rest use a mix.
-- Gender: Male mobile news readers access news more regularly than women. Of male tablet owners, 43 percent say they access news daily on the device while 41 percent of male smartphone owners access news daily. That compares to 32 percent and 30 percent for women. College graduates and high earners are also more likely to access news daily on a mobile device.
-- Tablet apps: 60 percent of people under 40 who consume news on tablets say they prefer "print-like" experiences to interactive applications with features such as video or audio (on that note, last week's industry expert panel on interactive tablet editions is here).
The report also featured some very interesting stats on subscriptions and ads which suggest that while it's going to be an uphill task persuading people to cough up for digital subscriptions, younger generations may give mobile advertising the boost it's been waiting for.
Subs: digital doesn't deliver, yet
Pew found that three-quarters of mobile news consumers over 50 have some sort of subscription to a print or digital news source. That falls to almost half (46 percent) of mobile news consumers under 50, but that's still a healthy figure.
Unfortunately, that's where the good news stops, because as you can see from the pie charts below digital subscriptions are still a tiny part of the market. The number of people over who consume news on mobile that have a print subscription is 47 percent. But for 18 to 49 year-olds that falls to 25 percent, and younger people aren't significantly more likely to go for digital subscriptions. Those lost print subscriptions aren't being replaced with digital subs.
The report does at least give an indication of where it might be worth focusing your subscription sales efforts. Pew says that those people with mobile data connections on tablets, 26 percent of all tablet owners in the US, are "more likely to have every kind of subscription - print-only, bundled and digital only".
Whether that finding has more to do with the relative wealth of people who can afford pricier 3G/4G tablets and the data plans that go with them is difficult to tell.
Ads: Younger fingers = more clicks
While younger mobile news consumers aren't queuing up to subscribe to news organisations - print or digital - they might generate more revenue for free services.
Pew says that across all age groups, 49 percent of people notice ads, and 14 percent at least sometimes click on them. Those figures are a hell of a lot better than on PCs - but you could argue that it's just a case of novelty and banner blindness will inevitably kick in eventually.
However, Pew's demographic breakdown shown in the graph below suggests that may not be the case.
Among the 18 to 29 year-olds, one quarter of them click on mobile ads at least some of the time. Revenues in the mobile ad market may not have caught up with traditional desktop on the whole, but Pew's figures suggest they are far more effective.
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As the title says..."what's your favourite question to ask a theist"?
You may have many favourites...I would like to hear from you guys about yours.
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Another of my favourites is this one...
"Why did it take GOD 10 BILLION years to make the planet EARTH and then a further 4.5 BILLION years to make MAN?"
There's always a spewy reply of some sort or another which usually gets my goat and the theist is appalled at my outburst of laughter.
So come on you guys....let 'em have it....share your ammo with us.
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If he was, he did it way before modern times. There are very ancient depictions over impossibly busty or big-bottomed women.
"...older at the start."
Let me get this straight: God can make a planet which on the day of its birth is 6K years old.
How does that work? Oh, I forgot: "And then a miracle happened."
@Paul McKinney
If Yahweh created the earth 6,000 years ago, but created all the evidence of a false history to suggest it is billions of years old - then how do you know he didn't create the earth last Thursday, just filling in the last 6,000 + 13.7994 billion years with false evidence?
Yes. Not only that, this entire drama could just be a dream in Paul's mind. Paul could be the only person God created, and Paul would be none the wiser. Of course, he could also be in a pod in The Matrix.
I was going to say, "Or, like you, he could be a legend in his own mind --" but that would have been trite and petty, wouldn't it? So i won't say it.
So, did Paul answer in a private message, or is this just one more comment that goes unreplied to?
Why would god deliberately lie to the astronomers, geologists, biologists, geneticists by making things 'appear' far older than they really were?
Isn't that lying? Isn't God the god of truth? Why would he lie?
Surely it wouldn't be hard for God to give us the true age of the earth and universe and to make the physical evidence match the written.
RE: "God does not do evil, but he does use evil for his purpose." -
Isiah 45:7 --
"I form the light, and create darkness: I make piece, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things."
I really gotta read that shit one of these days. It's seems to be so full of god's asshattery, it's almost like satire.
Yes, even if God lined up babies and used them for target practice, that would just be the unfolding of his majestic and perfect plan. He works in mysterious ways, as they say.
Every Christian agrees that the ESV is best, or it's a better translation because it more agrees with your interpretations?
I'm thinking they've heard so many criticisms arise out of the KJV, that someone said, "How can we tone this down?" - the spin doctors got together and a newer, more god-friendly version was born.


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In college you are responsible to make sure that your needs are met. Two federal civil rights laws can assist you in reaching your school goals. These laws are called the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. These laws provide students with these rights:
Understanding the laws can assist you in achieving success as a student. Many web sites on the Internet can help you learn more about how these laws relate to you. One site that answers many of the questions you may have is located at:
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BA's boss talking about C919. Are BA & Ryanair serious about C919 or just using it to squeeze more goodies out of Airbus & Boeing ?
BA's Walsh Says China Jet a Threat to Airbus, Boeing After Visit - Businessweek
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Oct. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Willie Walsh, chief executive of British Airways parent IAG, said he examined China's plans for a new single-aisle plane during a recent visit there and that the project represents a serious rival to Airbus SAS and Boeing Co.
The executive met with Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China in Shanghai about six weeks ago and was shown blueprints for the 168-seat C919 jet it aims to make by 2016, he said today in an address to engineers in Toulouse, France, where Airbus is based.
"My view is you have a real competitor," Walsh said. "The C919 looks very good on paper. There's a lot of improvement in fuel consumption and environmental performance." He didn't say whether his company is considering placing an order.
British Airways, which merged with Spain's Iberia in January to form International Consolidated Airlines Group SA, signed a memorandum with Comac at the 2010 Farnborough Air Show agreeing to initiate talks about "future aircraft needs." IAG is a major customer for both Airbus and Boeing so that any switch to the Chinese company would be viewed as a breakthrough order.
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9 Great TV Shows That Subvert the Right-Wing Worldview
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Culture is a flashpoint for social change, both a mirror and a catalyst for our world, and primetime network television is the medium with the greatest reach. Over 290 million people own a television in the United States (that's over twice as many people as those who voted in the 2008 presidential election) and as a primary source of entertainment for most Americans, any sort of progressive politics on the major stations is going to have an impact. Not to mention the over 140 million Americans who watch television on the internet, whether through providers like Hulu, YouTube, and Netflix, or through good old fashioned video platforms on websites with domain names registered in unregulated countries. The average American tends to watch television about 35 hours a week total on both platforms—that's close to a full-time job. You could see why anybody would want to get into the TV racket, but if you're a showrunner with a political point of view, nudging in on primetime is particularly advantageous for spreading your ideals.
Television show runners tend to not be as overall progressive as Hollywood, but there's so much room for growth—witness how "M.A.S.H." and "All in the Family" reflected the changing times in the '70s, for instance, or how putting an upper-class, normal black family on television affected racial understanding with "The Cosby Show." Average blue-collar families—and feminists, and gays—were given a voice by the likes of "Roseanne" throughout the '90s, while Xena, Warrior Princess portrayed a feminist (and lesbian?) superhero kicking ass. More recently, "Scandal" portrays an openly, nonchalantly gay (and married!) Presidential Chief of Staff, and recently "Parks and Recreation" has followed the city council campaign of Amy Poehler's feminist patriot Leslie Knope. As we enter the fall season, there are a number of new shows on the networks that reflect our shifting values as a society—and their very existence is a counterpoint to conservative values. But the goal posts have shifted, and while conervatives moves ever right, our primetime cultural braintrust is loosening up.
Here are some older shows that classically pissed off conservatives, plus some newer TV shows that subvert conservative values by espousing change or progressive values.
1. The New Normal. Fall is full of "Parenthood"-invoking, nontraditional family situations—the aforementioned, and also brother-sister tearjerker "Ben & Kate"—but this one is the show most likely to freak out conservatives. Because the "new normal" is a stable family situation comprised of a young single mom who agrees to be a surrogate for her gay male neighbors who want to be fathers. (Also, NeNe Leakes in the trailer, preaching on race relations like a boss.) Another tearjerker, we can smell the markers drying on the Westboro Baptist picket signs from here, but fuck 'em: this is our present and our future, and it's about time we had a show depicting how gay parents can be every bit as loving and stable as straight ones.
2. Partners. This new CBS jam from the creators of Will and Grace evolves the gay-friendship theme into 2012: the partners of the title are best friends Joe (straight) and Michael (gay), making the point that prime-time is ready for male-on-male friendships that don't necessarily have to be based on their stupid fantasy football teams or their shared inability to raise kids. Clearly, the amount of gay-friendly programming this season is going to be a huge point of contention for intolerant oldsters, but for them, there's always reruns of "Dynasty." Oh, wait! One of the gayest TV dramas ever made! Sorry, homophobes, you're out of luck.
3. 666 Park Avenue. Have you ever felt like the 1 percent is totally demonic? Yeah, this show does too. Starring Vanessa Williams and Locke from Lost as a filthy-rich couple who owns a hellish apartment building with a Manhattan status-address, this show looks like it will be a Twilight Zone for those in the top income tax bracket. It profiles a series of hyper-wealthy characters who live at the address and live their lavish lives for the sole reason that by moving in, they signed a contract with Lucifer. Delicious. At a time when many wealthy conservatives are trying to promote the narrative that their vampire capitalism is just a part of good-old, American, up-by-your-bootstraps manifest destiny—and trying to convince us that Mitt Romney's secrecy about his tax returns is just because of his modest sense of privacy—the last thing the 1 percent wants is for the middle- and working-class to have a fantastical validation of our disdain for them on primetime ABC every week. They won't protest, because they're sitting pretty in their own Park Ave apartments—but it's so nice to have a revenge fantasy on primetime. The difference between the show and reality, though, is that on 666 Park Avenue, extreme greed has consequences.
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DNAlytics has been working for GSK Biologicals in the context of their cancer therapeutic vaccine under development. Several melanoma patients of the trial cohort were responding to the treatment while other were not, lowering the global efficacy of the treatment.
Expression data had been taken for several tens of thousands of potential markers before treatment was given to the patients. We were asked if our technology would be able to predict the response to the treatment based on those data, and at the same time identify which smallest possible set of markers was needed to make such prediction.
Those objectives are the basis for patient stratification in further clinical phases. Patient stratification leads to increased efficacy on the targeted profiles. Responder profiling also allows companion diagnostics strategies.
Some of the results from this collaboration gave rise to a patent application on a method for classifying a cancer patient as responder or non-responder to immunotherapy.
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The aim of the Rheumagene Project is to validate the diagnostic value of transcriptomic and/or proteomic profiles of synovial material in early arthritis. It is based on preliminary data showing that gene expression profiles in synovial biopsies from patients with arthritis are able to discriminate the samples according to the underlying disorder. The large-scale confirmation of these data after this three-year project will lead to the development of a prototype of a diagnostic tool to be used in routine rheumatology practice. This project is funded by BioWin, the health cluster of Wallonia. It is a collaboration between Eppendorf Array technologies (EAT), Eurogentec and the University of Louvain.
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Date: February 6, 2013
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Junior League of Sarasota hosted an evening that drove attendees to drink, eat and be merry, as a fundraiser for the organization. The women annually host a fundraising food pairing, and nearly 50 Junior League supporters filled the private room of Mattison's 41 for this year's craft beer and gourmet-food pairing Jan. 25.
Executive Chef and proprietor Paul Mattison prepared a four-course menu with items exclusive to the pairing, and Curt Uhde, of Craft Brew Alliance, discussed the featured beers from Widmer Brothers brewery.
Widmer Brothers Omission Lager (gluten free)
Fennel-crusted sea scallop with lemon risotto, grilled artichoke and tarragon butter sauce, paired with Widmer Brothers Drifter Pale Ale
Local heirloom tomato salad with basil sorbet and polenta croutons, paired with Widmer Brothers Hefeweisen
Kurobuta pork tenderloin with roasted Brussels sprouts, crispy pork belly, blue cheese fingerling potatoes and a balsamic fig gastrique, paired with Widmer Brothers Barrel Aged Brrrbon
Chocolate mousse with cocoa nibs, paired with Widmer Brothers Chocolate Russian Imperial Stout
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