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Winter in New York City is cold and wet, and when the sun dissolves behind a row of tall, chrome buildings, the entire sky looks gray. The air is so filthy you can turn a Kleenex black by blowing your nose; cereal costs an ungodly six dollars a box; and landlords now require the sacrifice of a first-born child for security deposits. These were not the real reasons I itched to leave but rather the inflexible straws that broke the camel's back, the subtle subconscious catalysts to change my situation before it completely changed me. After living there for nearly three years, I couldn't remember what it felt like to drive with the windows down, to smell or touch freshly cut grass, to be completely, blissfully alone. Believe it or not, I felt cramped in my eight-foot-by-nine-foot bedroom and unfulfilled writing captions like "What About Bobs?" and "Pretty Pizzazz" for a hairstyling magazine that women flip through at Wal-Mart but never buy. I was spending more money than I had and saying fuck more often than a nice Texas girl should.
To complicate matters (doesn't it always?), I had a boyfriend. He was cute and funny and, to my parents' obvious and insuppressible glee, a doctor. Earlier this year, we spent a week together in Keystone skiing, eating to excess and plotting both our independent and cohesive futures. The now-ex-boyfriend M.D. was slated to complete his residency in Indianapolis, and I came dangerously close to becoming a Midwestern transplant, sharing a bland future of Eddie Bauer khakis and chain-steakhouse dinners. Instead, I quit my job, bought a car and drove to Denver a few months ago.
Colorado winters are crisp and bright, and when the air cools your face on the mountain's first winding run, your cheeks flush pink like those of an embarrassed child. They tell me Denver is the second-fittest city in the country, a fact both ironic and sad considering my ass's recent growth spurt and the amount of time I spend in a smoke-filled sports bar. Driving on ice is less fun and more expensive than I'd imagined. With two fender-benders already under my belt, I've added State Farm and Burt-Kuni Honda to this year's Christmas card list. In just three months' time, I've had two waitressing jobs, several painful dates (that's not fair -- some girls like germaphobes and Howard Cosell impersonations), and a boot applied to my right front tire. I can't get this weird smell out of my apartment; my once-supple skin is starting to crack and chafe, and I was just rejected by the graduate program I thought I'd be starting in January. On the up side, I'm already recognizing people in the grocery store; my rooftop deck inspires envy, and I'm returning to Keystone later this morning. I may have to dig myself into a hole to get to it, but there's gold here. With a little patience, I'll find it.
If you or anyone else knows of any shining opportunities for a girl like me, I'll be in back, rolling silverware.
Hailing from Galveston Island -- a quaint Texas town still awaiting its first Home Depot and Starbucks franchises -- Jennifer Poole has the masochistic habit of moving to expensive, overcrowded cities with limited friends and no job prospects. Her New Year's resolutions include finding gainful employment, remembering to floss her teeth every day and attaining a butt you can bounce quarters off of.
More quarter-life voyeurism: a cat named Love, odd dermatological manifestations, a fear of Pottery Barn and a penis flagrante delicto.
I, too, am in my twenties. Twenty-seven, to be exact. My friend Dominique warned me that this would be a bad year. She is 362 days older than me, so she should know.
Back in October, we asked readers to submit entries for Westword's first (and perhaps last) "My Quarter-Life Crisis," inspired by last year's book of the same name. The almost one hundred essays we received in response might convince the casual reader that every twenty-something year sucks. That we've invented irony and post-collegiate angst -- although editors older than I am assure me that this isn't so. (When they finish snickering, that is.)
Still, twenty-somethings have it particularly rough right now, trying to adjust from dreams of dot.com millions to very diminished expectations. Many of our compatriots can't find a job, and one of our contest entries came from the 996th applicant out of 999 accepted for a single janitorial job at a Frito-Lay factory. "Pissed off" is an understatement. The degree is in hand, but the riches remain untold.
Many of us are living in our parents' basements; a few are experiencing a strong dose of wanderlust. Alcohol is by turns the enemy and the savior. The question of whether to smoke or not smoke -- perhaps only in bars? -- vexes us. We eat organic produce in search of a healthy lifestyle and a sense of finally reaching "it" -- although we aren't sure what "it" is. One very eloquent 26-year-old husband and father wrote that he'd found "it" but wished he could exchange it for 24 hours of truly acting his age. (If you're the author of that essay, please contact me. Your e-mail keeps bouncing back, and we didn't want to publish it without first determining that your marriage would survive a public outing of your fantasy.)


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Liberal National Party of Queensland
Liberal National Party of Queensland | |
Leader | Campbell Newman |
President | Bruce McIver |
Founder | Bruce McIver |
Founded | 2008 |
Headquarters | Brisbane |
National affiliation | Coalition |
Colours | Blue |
House of Representatives |
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The Liberal National Party (LNP) is a political party in Queensland, Australia. It was formed by the Queensland divisions of the two major parties in Queensland, the Liberal Party of Australia and the National Party of Australia, on 26 July 2008 and contests elections in Queensland instead of the Coalition. It is a full member (i.e. affiliated branch) of the Liberal Party, and has observer status within the National Party.[1]
The "Liberal" part of the party's name derives from the Liberal Party of Australia, the ideology of which is referred to as "Liberalism" in Australia, which is distinct from the "liberalism" in other English-speaking countries, and is often equated in Australia to conservatism, which features strongly in party ideology.
The newly established party won government for the first time at the 2012 state election, winning 78 out of 89 seats, a record majority in the unicameral Parliament of Queensland. Its leader, Campbell Newman, is the Premier of Queensland.
Former New South Wales Federal MP Kay Hull has expressed her disgust with the Liberal name being placed in front of the National name for the name of the merged party in spite of the fact that the Nationals and not the Liberals had been the dominant non-Labor Party in Queensland prior to the merger. [2]
On 30 May 2008, an agreement in principle to merge was established between the Queensland divisions of the Liberal and National parties. A plebiscite of members of each party was then conducted with a large majority of respondents favouring the proposed merger.[3]
The background to the merger was the unusual situation in which the National Party and Liberal Party found themselves in frequent competition with one another for seats in Queensland. The Liberal Party (and its predecessors) and the National Party (formerly the Country Party) have been in a coalition at the federal level for all but a few years since 1923. In most parts of Australia the Liberal Party is the larger party, concentrated in urban areas, with the Nationals a junior partner operating exclusively in the bush. However, in Queensland, the urban-rural divide is not as pronounced as it is in the rest of the country. The capital, Brisbane, accounts for just under 45 percent of Queensland's population; in most other states, 60 percent or more of the population lives in and around the state capitals. The National Party had been the senior partner in the non-Labor Coalition since 1924, and thus did not confine itself to rural areas.
Another factor in the merger was a desire to increase the non-Labor side's standing in Brisbane. Since the dismantling of the old zonal electoral system in 1992, Brisbane has elected 40 of the 89 members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland—almost half of the legislature. Consequently, it is extremely difficult to form a government without a strong base in Brisbane. Labor was in government for all but three years from 1989 to 2012 in large part because it won at least 30 seats in greater Brisbane at every election. Even when it was briefly consigned to opposition by the Rob Borbidge-led Coalition, it still won 31 seats in Brisbane. While it was taken for granted that the Liberals needed to improve their standing in Brisbane in order for the Coalition to have any chance of regaining power, a Liberal resurgence would have almost certainly threatened the Nationals' traditional status as senior partner.[4]
The agreement in principle and a draft constitution were considered by separate meetings of the parties held over 26–27 July 2008, and the LNP was created on 26 July 2008. The inaugural conference of the LNP was held following the adoption of the constitution.[3] The two parties had been meeting in adjoining rooms of the Sofitel Hotel in Brisbane. In an emotional scene, the wall between the two meetings was removed after the merger was formally approved.[5]
The formation of the LNP was actually the third attempt to unite the non-Labor side in Queensland. In 1925, the United Party—the Queensland branch of the urban-based Nationalist Party—and the Country Party merged as the Country and Progressive National Party. This party won government in 1929 under former Queensland Country leader Arthur Edward Moore, but was defeated in 1932 and split apart in 1936. In 1941, the United Australia Party and Country Party merged as the Country-National Party, under Frank Nicklin of the Country side. However, this merger only lasted until 1944.
Federal Queensland Liberal and National party representatives and senators remained affiliated to their respective parties until after the 2010 Federal Election, with senators retaining their affiliation until the new Senate sat in July 2011.[6]
Currently, 16 of the LNP's 22 federal MPs sit with the Liberals, while six — including federal Nationals leader and Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss — sit with the Nationals. In the Senate, LNP Senator Matthew Canavan sits with the Nationals while four sit with the Liberals. While incumbent MPs retained their previous national affiliations, the LNP has worked out an informal agreement with its national counterparts regarding the affiliations of newly elected members. Members who regain seats from Labor will sit with the previous Coalition MP's party — i.e., if the LNP takes a seat off Labor that was previously held by a Liberal, the LNP member will sit with the Liberals. A division of seats was decided upon for new seats or seats that have never been won by the Coalition.[7] In practice, most LNP MPs from Brisbane and the Gold Coast sit with the Liberals, while those from country seats usually sit with the Nationals.
After the July 2008 merger, the party had 25 members in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, the sole chamber of the Parliament of Queensland: 17 originally elected as Nationals, 8 originally elected as Liberals. National Party leader Lawrence Springborg became the merged party's first leader, and remained as Leader of the Opposition. Liberal Party leader Mark McArdle became Deputy Leader of the new party, and Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
The LNP fought its first election as a unified party at the 2009 state election. It managed an eight-seat swing in a house of 89 seats and finished one percentage point behind Labor on the two-party-preferred vote (with optional preference voting). However, it came up 11 seats short of forming government mainly due to winning only six seats in Brisbane. Springborg resigned as leader, later becoming deputy leader under his successor, John-Paul Langbroek.[4][8] Langbroek is from the Liberal side of the merger.
On 22 March 2011, Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell Newman announced that he would seek preselection for the Brisbane-area seat of Ashgrove, a seat with a 7.1 percent Labor majority, and if successful, would challenge Langbroek for the party leadership. Newman, like Langbroek, is from the Liberal side of the merger. Langbroek and Springborg resigned as leader and deputy leader hours later. Under normal circumstances, an LNP MP from a safe seat would have resigned so Newman could get into the chamber via a by-election. However, a by-election could not be arranged.[4] To solve this problem, former Nationals leader Jeff Seeney, who was elected deputy leader at the same time Newman was formally elected leader, became interim parliamentary leader (and hence Leader of the Opposition) while Newman led the party into the 24 March 2012 state election. Seeney agreed to cede the parliamentary leader's post to Newman if he was elected to parliament.[9]
The 2012 state election saw Newman lead the LNP to a landslide victory. The LNP scored a 14.5 percent swing from Labor, just short of 50 percent of the primary vote, and won an additional 44 seats. In the process, the LNP took all but three seats in the Brisbane metropolitan area, in some cases on swings of 10 percent or more. Overall, the LNP won 78 seats to Labor's seven, the largest majority government in Queensland history. Newman won Ashgrove on a swing of 12.7 percent, almost double what he needed to take the seat off Labor. He was sworn in as premier two days later, heading the state's first non-Labor majority government in 23 years.
Electoral performance
Election | Leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Position | Government |
2010 | John-Paul Langbroek | 1,130,525 | 9.1 |
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21 | 3rd | Opposition |
2013 | Campbell Newman | 1,152,217 | 8.9 |
22 / 150
1 | 3rd | Coalition |
Election | Leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Position | Government |
2009 | Lawrence Springborg | 987,018 | 41.6 |
34 / 89
34 | 2nd | Opposition |
2012 | Campbell Newman | 1,214,402 | 49.6 |
78 / 89
44 | 1st | Majority |
Party leaders
Leader | Term | Leader's seat |
Campbell Newman | 2011–present | Ashgrove |
John-Paul Langbroek | 2009–2011 | Surfers Paradise |
Lawrence Springborg | 2008–2009 | Southern Downs |
Parliamentary leaders
Leader | Term | Leader's seat |
Campbell Newman | 2012–present | Ashgrove |
Jeff Seeney (interim) | 2011–2012 | Callide |
John-Paul Langbroek | 2009–2011 | Surfers Paradise |
Lawrence Springborg | 2008–2009 | Southern Downs |
Deputy leaders
Deputy Leader | Term | Deputy's seat |
Jeff Seeney | 2011–present | Callide |
Lawrence Springborg | 2009–2011 | Southern Downs |
Mark McArdle | 2008–2009 | Caloundra |
See also
- Clive Palmer
- Liberal-National party merger
- Queensland state election, 2012
- Young LNP – youth division of party
- ^ LNP Constitution, clauses A.3 and A.4.
- ^ A Country Road: The Nationals Episode 2
- ^ a b "The Liberal National Party – History". Retrieved 25 June 2011.
- ^ a b c Green, Antony. Queensland election preview. Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 25 January 2012.
- ^ (26 July 2008). Liberal-National merger a win for 'grassroots democracy'. news.com.au. News Limited. Retrieved on 25 April 2012.
- ^ "Constitution of the LNP" (PDF). Retrieved 1 February 2011.
- ^ Madonna King (18 May 2010). LNP differences a Coalition headache. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
- ^ By Jessica van Vonderen (2 April 2009). "Langbroek wins LNP leadership: ABC News 2/4/2009". Abc.net.au. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
- ^ "Newman to head LNP election team". The Sydney Morning Herald. 22 March 2011. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
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ASHINGTON — In an initiative aimed at rooting out future leakers and other security violators, President Barack Obama has ordered federal employees to report suspicious actions of their colleagues based on behavioral profiling techniques that are not scientifically proven to work, according to experts and government documents.
The techniques are a key pillar of the Insider Threat Program, an unprecedented government-wide crackdown under which millions of federal bureaucrats and contractors must watch out for "high-risk persons or behaviors" among co-workers. Those who fail to report them could face penalties, including criminal charges.
Obama mandated the program in an October 2011 executive order after Army Pfc. Bradley Manning downloaded hundreds of thousands of documents from a classified computer network and gave them to WikiLeaks, the anti-government secrecy group. The order covers virtually every federal department and agency, including the Peace Corps, the Department of Education and others not directly involved in national security.
Under the program, which is being implemented with little public attention, security investigations can be launched when government employees showing "indicators of insider threat behavior" are reported by co-workers, according to previously undisclosed administration documents obtained by McClatchy. Investigations also can be triggered when "suspicious user behavior" is detected by computer network monitoring and reported to "insider threat personnel."
Federal employees and contractors are asked to pay particular attention to the lifestyles, attitudes and behaviors – like financial troubles, odd working hours or unexplained travel – of co-workers as a way to predict whether they might do "harm to the United States." Managers of special insider threat offices will have "regular, timely, and, if possible, electronic, access" to employees' personnel, payroll, disciplinary and "personal contact" files, as well as records of their use of classified and unclassified computer networks, polygraph results, travel reports and financial disclosure forms.
Over the years, numerous studies of public and private workers who've been caught spying, leaking classified information, stealing corporate secrets or engaging in sabotage have identified psychological profiles that could offer clues to possible threats. Administration officials want government workers trained to look for such indicators and report them so the next violation can be stopped before it happens.
"In past espionage cases, we find people saw things that may have helped identify a spy, but never reported it," said Gene Barlow, a spokesman for the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive, which oversees government efforts to detect threats like spies and computer hackers and is helping implement the Insider Threat Program. "That is why the awareness effort of the program is to teach people not only what types of activity to report, but how to report it and why it is so important to report it."
But even the government's top scientific advisers have questioned these techniques. Those experts say that trying to predict future acts through behavioral monitoring is unproven and could result in illegal ethnic and racial profiling and privacy violations.
"There is no consensus in the relevant scientific community nor on the committee regarding whether any behavioral surveillance or physiological monitoring techniques are ready for use at all," concluded a 2008 National Research Council report on detecting terrorists.
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The documents, made available by an organization called WikiLeaks, suggest that Pakistan, an ostensible ally of the United States, allows representatives of its spy service to meet directly with the Taliban in secret strategy sessions to organize networks of militant groups that fight against American soldiers in Afghanistan, and even hatch plots to assassinate Afghan leaders.
The reporters focus heavily on the involvement of former ISI leader Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul in insurgency efforts, including suicide bombings, and highlight the U.S. government's frustration with its supposed regional ally.
American officials have rarely uncovered definitive evidence of direct ISI involvement in a major attack. But in July 2008, the C.I.A.'s deputy director, Stephen R. Kappes, confronted Pakistani officials with evidence that the ISI helped plan the deadly suicide bombing of India's Embassy in Kabul.
From the current trove, one report shows that Polish intelligence warned of a complex attack against the Indian Embassy a week before that bombing, though the attackers and their methods differed. The ISI was not named in the report warning of the attack.
German news magazine Der Spiegel also gives heavy weight to the ISI and the former general, using the revelation less to reveal a betrayal than as part of cumulative evidence of the inadequate nature of the war's execution. Under the subheading "System Failures, Computer Glitches and Human Error," in a section that includes details on the failures and problems of drones, its reporters write:
The documents clearly show that the Pakistani intelligence agency is the most important accomplice the Taliban has outside of Afghanistan. The war against the Afghan security forces, the Americans and their ISAF allies is still being conducted from Pakistan.
The country is an important safe haven for enemy forces — and serves as a base for issuing their deployment. New recruits to the Taliban stream across the Pakistan-Afghan border, including feared foreign fighters — among them Arabs, Chechnyans, Uzbekis, Uighurs and even European Islamists.
According to the war logs, the ISI envoys are present when insurgent commanders hold war councils — and even give specific orders to carry out murders. These include orders to try to assassinate Afghan President Hamid Karzai. For example, a threat report dated August 21, 2008 warned: "Colonel Mohammad Yusuf from the ISI had directed Taliban official Maulawi Izzatullah to see that Karzai was assassinated."
Highlighting the inadequacies of the coalition's war in Afghanistan, the magazine takes a decidedly local angle, writing that "Germany's armed forces, the Bundeswehr… stumbled into the conflict with great naivety." Der Spiegel's reporters lift from "threat reports" in the WikiLeaks documents that show the Bundeswehr were in greater danger in northern Afghanistan than the German government had indicated, or the soldiers had anticipated, in the region they had once joked was like a spa town.
In a "threat report" dated May 31, 2007, German troops based in Kunduz reported on the general situation following another suicide attack. "Contrary to all expectations of the Regional Command North, the attacks of the insurgents in Kunduz are going on as foreseen by the Provincial Reconstruction Team Kunduz and mentioned before several times," the German document states, adding that more attacks, particularly against ISAF troops, "are strongly expected."
The soldiers appear to have been correct to have felt they were under a state of siege. The documents that have been obtained are comprised primarily of so-called "threat reports," thousands of danger scenarios and concrete warnings about planned attacks. These reports provide a clearer picture of the deterioration of the security situation in northern Afghanistan than the information provided by the German government or the federal parliament, the Bundestag, which must provide a legal mandate for the Bundeswehr's deployments abroad. Police checkpoints are constantly attacked or come under fire, patrols are targeted in deadly ambushes and roadside bombs explode.
The left-wing magazine concludes its story with an ominous diagnosis for the future of the mountainous northern combat zone in which the German army is fighting.
One thing, however, is certain. These thousands of documents indicate that, after almost nine years of war, a victory in Hindu Kush looks farther away than ever.
Across the Channel, The Guardian offers the kind of excellent interactive, video-packed online package we've come to expect from the newspaper industry's Web leader. Covering the basic revelations of the documents, its reporting is steered by an outrage at the number of unreported civilian casualties unveiled by the WikiLeaks logs (you can see the number and location of these casualties—along with casualties among Afghan and coalition troops—in an interactive map from The Guardian here.)


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After three successful seasons as head coach of the Canadian Football League's Saskatchewan Roughriders, head coach Ken Miller, 69, stepped down on Thursday after three successful seasons.
Miller, 1967 graduate of Dickinson State College, began his coaching career at his alma mater as a student assistant coach under Roger Huffman in 1966 after playing on the offensive line for the Savages in 1959, 1960 and 1965. He has been coaching ever since.
In three seasons, Miller led the Roughriders to a 32-21-1 records and a West Division title in 2009 and two consecutive Grey Cup's (the CFL's Super Bowl).
Saskatchewan lost to the Montreal Alouettes 21-18 on Nov. 28 and fell to them 28-27 the previous year. In 2009's heartbreaking Grey Cup, the Alouettes missed a game-winning field goal but were given a re-kick after the Roughriders were penalized for having too many men on the field. Montreal kicker Damon Duval easily made the 33-yard FG try to give his team the championship.
Miller said he will remain in the Roughriders' organization as vice president of football operations.
"Some people suggested that I gut it out and come back for one more season,†Miller said during Thursday's press conference. "Really, I did that because this past year was the one more so it's been in the works for a while.â€
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what is the (ROOT) that all program operate from it and how can i open it ?
i was used XP but now Linux when i installed linux the file on my drive D named (Lost+found) and it not work what can i do with it ?
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Welcome to the forums!
As for what the root account is, here's a definition that describes it pretty well:
What is root? -- definition by The Linux Information Project (LINFO)
You can get to the root account by going to a terminal or console (look for it in your menu) and entering the command:
...enter your root password when requested. Be very careful when fooling around with your system while you have root permissions.
I'm not sure what you are asking with the second question so will leave that to someone else.oz
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you can also try reading this book
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FPL's investment in smart grid technologies under the Energy Smart Florida program began in 2010 and will continue in phases across the state through 2013.
It will take several months after your smart meter is installed to realize the initial benefits. That's because there are other network components that must be put into place. Once all of these elements are installed, FPL performs extensive tests to verify the system's performance and security.
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Junie is a beautiful little yorkie who was pulled from a shelter in SE KY. Junie was found as a stray and was in horrible condition. Her fur was so matted that she had to be shaved down completely (the last pic is her before). Junie is approximately 2 years old and weighs about 8lbs. Once her hair grows back in, she will be lovely! She is a true lapdog who always wants to be right beside her person. She gets along fine with other cats and dogs as long as they give her her space. Junie is looking for a great new forever home! Could you be her new momma???
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Seek medical attention to check for and treat injuries, to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STI) and/or to prevent pregnancy. You can do this at Dick's House or Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC).
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Small, but highly detailed, oxidized and etched Tree of Life silver charm hangs from a sterling silver cable chain. Arrives boxed with a beautiful message: Friendship is a sheltering tree. Hand crafted.
The Tree of Life symbol is common to many cultures and mythologies. Often regarded as an all nourishing, all giving Mother, the Tree of Life is a symbol of balance and harmony, with its roots deep in the earth and the branches stretched to the heavens.
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An important Wiccan symbol, with twisted intertwining branches reaching into the heavens and its roots deep in the underworld of the earth, the Tree of Life dwells in three worlds. It links heaven, the earth and the underworld, uniting above and below. Inscribed with mystic runes in Theban, it reads "As Above, So Below" and the bottom reads "As Within, So Without". This pendant is large and sturdy, crafted of solid sterling silver, and marked 925. Designed by Mickie Mueller, who is an author, illustrator, Co-High Priestess, and an ordained Pagan Minister.
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A Few Maneuvers is making it easier for players and organizers to connect.
The all new user-generated AFM X-Wing Event Calendar is live!
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What You Need to Know About Bioterrorism
Speaker: Bob Howard, MA, MPH, Special Assistant for Media Affairs, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Program Description: Increasingly, health officials and other emergency providers are focusing on bioterrorism. Whether it's a high school kid's hoax or an international terrorist group's threat, public health needs to be ready to respond. Bob Howard from CDC shares insights on this topic from a (pre-9/11) national perspective.
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I just saw the Beatnik Termites again last night, they busted out a pretty sweet Beach Boys cover, in honor of that fun performance here's a double dose of the Termites.
Beatnik Termites: Schoolboy's Dream
Schoolboy's Dream is one of Beatnik Termites few 7″s they put out. Includes five Termites sings, all of which are great. This one includes my favorite Beatnik Termites song "Denise, Denise" its also got the fun tune "Angel Saw Reggies Dick". All of these songs can be found on Termites albums but the 7″ is still nice to have. If Surf Rock/Pop Punk is your thing you'll dig some Beatnik Termites.
1. Charle Brown Gets A Valentine
2. Denise, Denise
3. 9:15
4. Veronica
5. Angel Saw Reggies Dick
Beatnik Termites: You're All Talk / A Girl I Know
Here we've got another Beatnik Termites single 7″. This one includes three catchy tunes from the group "You're All Talk", "You're The Only One", and a live version of "I Don't Wanna Hang Around". Most of these can be found on other releases but the live version of the last tune is quite a treat and well worth the few bucks you'll have to drop down to own this guy.
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This morning the strangest thing has happened. Everyday, I get several e-mails with hyperlinks. Never had any problem connecting using the links prior to this morning. Below is the messages that comes up in a rectangular box.
As the heading it say: Microsoft Office Outlook. Down below on the left is a round red circle with a white X on it. Then the message: This operation has been canceled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact you system administrator. I did a Google search and tried to fix it with suggestions found, but nothing worked. Please help me to resolve this issue. |
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- Posted by walnutcreek (My Page) on Mon, Jul 30, 12 at 12:33
Also found I get the same message when I try a hyperlink in a Word document. |
Try shutting down completely ( not a restart) then start the computer and see if that fixes the problem. If not then run a full scan after updating your anti-malware program. |
- Posted by walnutcreek (My Page) on Mon, Jul 30, 12 at 18:01
BTW, my computer is an HP h8-1120 2.00 running 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium. I ran Super Antispyware and Microsoft Security Essentials and Malware Bytes and no threats showed up. I turned the computer off for 4 hours; rebooted; and still have the same issue. |
Hi walnutcreek, Have you tried the Microsoft "Fix it" found in the link below? Joe |
Here is a link that might be useful: Fix it
- Posted by walnutcreek (My Page) on Tue, Jul 31, 12 at 16:30
I did try Fix It yesterday, but for some reason it was not working for me. However, tried it today and it worked great. Thanks, Joe. Without your message, I probably would not have tried it again. Maybe yesterday was just a mixed-up day for my computer. |
It's possible rebooting also may have helped,hard to say. Glad things are back in order for you. J.P Hennerty |
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Joe Madison
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Joseph Edward Madison |
Education | Washington University, B.A., 1971 (sociology) |
Occupation | Talk Show Host, Commentator |
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Spouse(s) | Sharon (m. in or before 1978) |
Children | Shawna, Jason, Monesha, Michelle |
Parents | Nancy Madison and Felix Madison |
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Joe Madison (born June 16, 1949), alternatively known as "The Black Eagle" or "Madison", is an American radio talk-show host and activist.
Early years[edit]
Madison received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Washington University in St. Louis.[5] During college he was an All-Conference Running Back and baritone soloist with the university's concert chorus.[citation needed] Madison spent his young adulthood in various positions in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and was selected Executive Director of Detroit's NAACP branch at the age of 24. He is the youngest person to be appointed to the position.[5]
He did public relations at General Motors Corporation, 1969-70. He was a "statistician" for the St Louis Cardinal Football club, 1970-71. He worked in urban affairs at Seymour & Lundy Assoc, 1971-74.[3]
He was executive director of NAACP's Detroit Branch, 1974-77. Benjamin Hooks appointed him NAACP national political director in 1978. He was also political director of the SEIU, and a director of COTE.[3] He is a former member of NAACP's national board, and remains a life member.[4][5]
Radio career[edit]
Madison began his broadcasting career in 1980 at Detroit's legendary WXYZ-AM radio station, now known as WXYT (AM).
Joining an otherwise white lineup at WWRC-AM in the early '90s, he developed a crossover appeal handling issues that included race but were aimed at the station's multiracial audience. He left in 1998, after the station fired its talent and changed format, to start an online chat show.[6]
WOL and XM Satellite Radio[edit]
The nation's capital's preeminent black talk station, WOL-AM, became his catapult to further impact, including syndication on the Radio One Talk Network and its XM satellite channel. He left WOL in 2013.[7]
Urban View on Sirius[edit]
Madison can now be heard Mondays through Fridays from 6am to 10am on Urban View channel 126, XM Sirius.
Political activism[edit]
In addition to his broadcasts, Madison has engaged in hunger strikes and supported causes ranging from Sudanese slavery to securing a star for the Four Tops on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[5] He publicized claims of CIA complicity in moving cocaine into the United States, sought evidence, and promoted legislation to declassify possibly related documents. On October 15, 1996, Madison, Dick Gregory, and John Newman launched a hunger strike to promote this legislation.[1]
Personal life[edit]
Joe Madison has managed to trace his origins genetically back to Sierra Leone and Mozambique.[8] He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife Sherry.
- ^ a b "Joseph E. Madison". Contemporary Black Biography (fee, via Fairfax County Public Library) 17. Detroit: Gale. March 23, 1998. Gale Document Number: GALE|K1606000606. Retrieved 2013-08-31. Biography In Context. (subscription required)
- ^ "Joseph E(dward) Madison". Almanac of Famous People (fee, via Fairfax County Public Library). Gale. 2011. Gale Document Number: GALE|K1601048087. Retrieved 2013-08-31. Biography In Context. (subscription required)
- ^ a b c "Joseph Edward Madison, Mr.". Who's Who Among African Americans (fee, via Fairfax County Public Library). Detroit: Gale. June 1, 2003. Gale Document Number: GALE|K1645513758. Retrieved 2013-08-31. Biography In Context. (subscription required)
- ^ a b "Red Cross Announces Four New Members of its Board of Governors" (fee, via Fairfax County Public Library). PR Newswire. June 5, 2013. Gale Document Number: GALE|A332502707. Retrieved 2013-09-01. Biography In Context. (subscription required)
- ^ a b c d e "Joe Madison The Black Eagle - BIO". Retrieved 2013-09-02.
- ^ Hilpert, Mark (March 30, 1998). "NMP receives cash infusion from Columbia Capital". Washington Business Journal. Retrieved 2013-09-02.
TALK SHOW HOST CHANGES MEDIA. Former WRC-AM talk show host Joe Madison, who was fired along with other WRC on-air personalities last month when the station switched formats and dial positions, is reaching out to a different audience -- Internet junkies. Madison's new show, "OnLineTalk.com with Madison," is scheduled to debut April 6 from 7 to 9 p.m. at http://www.oncon.com. That's the address for Online Connections Inc., a District-based ISP. The weekly show, which will run on Monday evenings, operates much like the radio version: Madison will interview guests, and Web users will be able to read the interview and submit their questions and comments. The program will cover a broad range of subjects, including politics, current events and entertainment.
- ^ Harris, Hamil (April 17, 2013). "Joe Madison leaves WOL". The Root DC Live. Washington Post. Retrieved 2013-09-01.
- ^ Willing, Richard (February 1, 2006). "DNA rewrites history for African-Americans". USA Today. Retrieved May 6, 2010.
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