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The man also told Nielsen that he and Bishop went "way back" to their days in Long Beach, California. He asked Nielsen to go outside with him. "Basically, he was trying to egg me into a fight," Nielsen says.
The bouncer on duty that night remembers breaking up the pair before their discussion could get too heated and telling them both to leave the bar.
"What irked me was, he walked into my space," Nielsen now says. "You used to be able to set your watch by the time I was in there."
He'd already changed his name after the first confrontation. "It wasn't easy," Nielsen says. "I had to notify all my clients, change my business forms and everything. But I didn't want to be known on the street as `Nielsen' anymore after that incident. I want to keep that element away from my personal life."
Nielsen's faced adversity before. Five years ago, he says, he was attacked by several youths who hit him in the leg with a hatchet and stole his car. "If there hadn't been twenty inches of snow on the ground, I probably would have died," he says.
As it was, Nielsen had to end his eight-year career as a chef: "With the leg problems, I couldn't be standing for fourteen hours a day in a kitchen."
Instead, he went into subpoena-serving full-time. He'd done the job before; his grandfather had operated a Denver repossession business for years, and Nielsen had worked for him. "I can remember going out on Sunday mornings with my grandfather to repossess cars," he says. "I guess you could say it's a family business."
It's also one that teaches you to watch out for suspicious situations--such as the setup on the mall that late summer afternoon.
Kevin Ellis, a Denver attorney who's worked with Nielsen, says he's not surprised that Nielsen has decided to testify. "I would say that Justin's personality is that he stands up very strongly for his convictions," Ellis says. "I think that the serving process in general leads the servers into at least the possibility of being attacked very frequently. I know Justin has told me he's had a gun held at him on several occasions. I think someone would be hard-pressed to get him not to do something he thought he should."
Nielsen describes it as a matter of principle. "I think we have to stand up to these people," he says. "Fear is so much of their power. Running is inviting trouble, while stepping out into the light makes them run."
Witness intimidation is nothing new to Tom Clinton, who heads the Denver district attorney's gang unit. "Those problems can begin from the time a cop picks up a case," he says. "Often incidents aren't even reported to police."
Three years ago the DPD started videotaping the statements of witnesses who might be reluctant to testify later. "Usually it's on the more high-profile cases," Detective Trujillo says. "We were finding that while people were willing to give us some information, by the time it came to court, they wouldn't show up."
Clinton says his department does everything within its power to get a witness to testify. "We expend any effort we have," he says. "Sometimes it takes cajoling, sometimes it takes a lot of persuasion. Often it might require the power of the court to compel witnesses."
Even then, a witness's fear might be justified. "I can't promise any witness they're going to be safe," Trujillo says. "Especially if it involves gangs--it's a real volatile situation. They have an army out there they can utilize. Any officer who says you're going to be perfectly safe doing this is lying. All I can say is: As a citizen, do you want this violence to continue?"
Cooper, the DA handling Bishop's case, says he's often had to resort to a plea bargain because of an uncooperative witness. "Sometimes the witness will ask us, `Can't you do anything like put me in a program?'" he notes. "I have to tell him, `We don't really have one.'"
Clinton says the DA's office has only limited ways to help witnesses who face intimidation. "We have some resources, but nothing like the federal witness-protection program," he explains. "What we do is, we have some internally budgeted funds. We can help with some kind of housing."
But as gang-related crimes increase, so does witness intimidation, according to Denver District Attorney Bill Ritter. "We're doing some things to help, but we rob Peter to pay Paul to do it," he says. "We don't have a category actually budgeted for this. We may have to go to the city and ask for help."
When Nielsen told authorities about his most recent confrontation, he was contacted by the DA's victims-services center. "He gave me his beeper number and a code and said if I had any more problems I could call, and day or night, he'll be by my side," Nielsen recalls. "He said they would do everything possible to find the people harassing me. I thought they were very professional about it."


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I made patches with the names on it and then sewed to the fuzzy part of stocking. That was hard enough. |
You can put disolving stabilizer on the top (over the fuzzy) where you would be emroidering, however, if it is too fuzzy you may have to use something heavier. |
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It's baaaaaack! Everyone's favorite trashy Monday night TV show, "Bachelor Pad," is back for its second season. In case you need a refresher, here's the premise: 18 former contestants on ABC's "Bachelor" and "Bachelorette" series, living in a house together, having their lives taped, to find out what happens when people stop trying to fall in love and instead focus on winning money. Greed! Hookups! Tears! The good, the bad, and the ugly of what happened in the first episode — which was a revoltingly jam-packed three hours — after the jump …
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Side by Side: Apps for Field Contribution
Sending audio from the field back to the studio has evolved from leased lines and RPUs to ISDN and now to IP. At the same time, the power of the handheld devices we carry has been put to good use in radio as well. There are many apps to record quality audio from the field. There are also hardware add-ons to improve the recording functions. But there's another use for that smartphone when you need to get audio back to the studio.
A typical telephone call is still the simplest method to deliver audio, and with so many people carrying phones, it's easy to connect from anywhere. But a standard phone call is limited in audio bandwidth, and is hardly comparable to the high-quality audio available through other means. Bad audio is bad radio.
So why not take advantage of the digital connection of the smartphone to deliver better audio via 3G, 4G or Wi-fi? That's what some apps now do.
Using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), a handheld device app can communicate with another device, like an IP codec at the station. The app connects to the receiver's IP address. The EBU working group for Network Audio Contribution Over IP (N/ACIP) adopted SIP for codec interoperability and included it in the Tech 3326 standard. Devices can connect directly or through a proxy server.
The handheld apps provide a signal path with a higher bandwidth than a typical POTS telephone call. The ubiquitous G.722 encoding provides a 7kHz connection, and other encoding algorithms provide quality up to 15kHz.
Some apps can also record audio for later transmission, which adds to their flexibility.
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MARACs deal with the domestic violence victims identified as being at highest risk of serious harm.
The risk assessment process, MARAC procedures (including referral) and standards for operating MARAC meetings have been developed by Coordinated Action Against Domestic Abuse (CAADA) which is a national organisation supported by the Home Office.
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If the Tim Tebow infatuation wasn't enough to make us talk about the Jets and only the Jets until they inevitably disappoint us once football that matters is played in September, now in addition to possibly trotting Tebow out on special teams, Rex Ryan has another experiment he'd like to try.
Antonio Cromartie at wide receiver.
I'm not making this up. Honest. Ryan told the assembled human locusts of the New York media that we "shouldn't be surprised" to see Cromartie used as a wide receiver on occasion, according to Newsday's Bob Glauber.
This is the same Antonio Cromartie who's never had a reception throughout his entire six-year NFL career.
This is the same Antonio Cromartie who didn't have a reception throughout his entire collegiate career.
This is the same Jets team that drafted Stephen Hill, and traded up to get him in the second round.
This is also the same team that has young receivers Jeremy Kerley and Chaz Schilens to deploy in the same situations when Cromartie would potentially be used. Some dude named Santonio Holmes is also available.
Most importantly, this is the same team that has one quarterback in Mark Sanchez whose confidence is far less than optimum level, and another QB in Tebow who can throw a spiral as often as he intimately interacts with the opposite sex.
Cromartie has speed and dynamic ability in the open field, but he isn't Devin Hester, the Bears kick return specialist and former defensive back who now lines up at wide receiver. Hester at best has become an average WR, but the Bears can easily justify his presence split out wide because of his ability to create magic in the open field with his quick feet and sense for open space.
Cromartie isn't even close to Hester in terms of his athleticism and play making ability. The Jets have admitted that by using him only minimally in the return game, as Cromarite has returned only 18 kicks over the past two seasons. New offensive coordinator Tony Sparano showed us in Miami that he's fascinated with trickery when he breathed life into the wildcat with Ronnie Brown, a role Tebow will now play, possibly up to 20 times a game.
But eventually a line is crossed where creativity bleeds into stupidity. That's where the Jets would be with Cromartie lined up as a receiver, even if it's only on occasion. He's a cornerback, and nothing more, and if you make him think too much there's no hope of him ever remembering the names of his children


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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Brent Musburger was mightily impressed by Alabama in its rout of Notre Dame in the BCS title game. The same could be said about the ESPN broadcaster and the girlfriend of Crimson Tide quarterback AJ McCarron.
During the network's Monday night telecast, the camera lingered early in the game on model Katherine Webb, who was in the stands with her mother.
Webb is Miss Alabama, and the 73-year-old Musburger remarked on this "beautiful woman," adding a "Whoa!" at another moment of admiration. Musburger also had this observation: "You quarterbacks, you get all the good-looking women."
With suspense at a minimum in the Tide's 42-14 romp over the Irish, Webb created a bit of online frenzy. She gained more than 90,000 Twitter followers throughout the game. Among them was Arizona Cardinals defensive linemen Darnell Docket, who tweeted his phone number to her.


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Could chocolate give you a smaller waistline?
PHOENIX - If you've been avoiding chocolate to help you lose weight, there's a new reason to indulge once more.
A new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine finds that people who eat chocolate regularly may actually have a lower body mass index than those who do not.
BMI measures body fat based on a person's height and weight.
Researchers from the University of California, San Diego found that the test subjects who ate chocolate didn't exercise any more than the group who didn't eat chocolate.
The chocolate group also ate the same amount of calories as the other group.
The researchers believe ingredients contained in chocolate help to offset the amount of calories consumed by your body raising your metabolism.
But before you go overboard, a head researcher from UC San Diego says you should still limit how much chocolate you eat or risk derailing your diet.


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Hello Garden Web, I have searched the internet but can't seem to find what is causing these spots (see picture, sorry its not too good quality). My mom has had this apple tree for at least 8 years. She says that when she picks the apples, they look fine, no spots. Then when she leaves them in the fridge after a few days the spots appear. She then left one outside the fridge and the spots still appeared. She also told me that the spots extend into the fruit. Can someone help us out? |
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Most likely bitter pit which is similar to corky spot. Mine sometimes look like yours and some more like corky spot. This reference has a picture that looks more like what I see. It also has control recommendations. http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/profile.aspx?pid=607 |
Here is a link that might be useful: bitter pit
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911 calls from the Valencia County dispatch center show a neighborhood trying to prevent a drunk driver from causing any problems.
"Valencia 911, where is your emergency?" one of the calls begins.
The calls came before 27-year-old Jacob Williams crossed the double-yellow line on Jarales Road, hitting and killing motorcyclist Danny Sanchez and injuring his 11-year-old daughter Megan.
"This guy needs to leave and he's all messed up on something, I don't know what he's taking, drinking," one of the callers told a dispatcher.
That caller was Christy Sisneros.
She told KOB Eyewitness News 4 she saw Williams fighting with her neighbors, and she called 911. She called again to make sure if he got behind the wheel, he did not get far.
"He's driving a white Dodge. He can't leave, driving, he's all messed up I can tell, he's, he's messed up," Sisneros said in the call.
Another neighbor called too.
"The guy's really drunk and they're trying to make him drive away," the caller said.
The dispatcher tells the caller help is on the way.
"My units are on the way okay so stay on the line with me, okay?" the dispatcher said.
But before anyone could get to Williams' white Dodge truck, he crashed, causing a tragic accident that devastated a family and has sparked a new conversation about stopping drunk driving.
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I don't know exactly when I got the yips. I just know this: They were going to make me quit playing golf.
And I had been playing since my dad gave me a cut-down, wood-shafted five-iron in our backyard in Oneida, New York, when I was about seven years old. I first started lugging my clubs up the hill to Oneida Country Club, a little nine-hole course a couple of miles from our house, when I was nine. It means I have been playing for forty years. Was captain of my high school golf team. Won a car once with a hole in one. Broke par once at the National Golf Links of America, my favorite course in the world, and the same summer shot seventy-four at Shinnecock Hills. Got my handicap as low as three. Had a putt—a forty-footer, but I at least had a chance—to shoot in the sixties once.
I'm not bragging. You have to be clinically insane to either a) brag about your golf game; or b) lie about it. This is just back story: I had been at it a long time, and reached the point where I could play.
I did the best putting of my life with an old Ping Anser 3 that I grabbed out of my dad's garage. Before that, I used the Cleveland "Designed by" version of the old Wilson 8802. Before that?A Bulls Eye I'd even painted white back in the '60s, because Nicklaus had done it one year winning the Open. Old-school stuff all the way.
But those were the days when I kept my head so rock-solid I never even saw a short putt go in the hole—I'd just listen to the suckers fall. I thought I was going to make everything from ten feet in. I could have putted with a hockey stick, because I was sure the ball was going in, as if Ben Crenshaw was the one putting.
Then it didn't go in.
At first I thought it was the golf gods getting me. I was chipping one day at my club and stubbed the ball, then in disgust tossed my wedge at my golf bag. But my Anser 3 was next to my bag, and I hit that instead.
And bent the shaft.
There was my favorite putter ever, not dead, but certainly wounded.
I got it reshafted the next day.
But when I got it back, it didn't feel the same, and neither did I standing over the ball. Which is nuts, but we're all nuts, and I somehow felt as if the wand had lost the magic. Maybe that's where it started. I always remember something Gary McCord said about golf, about how you start missing with your driver and then that puts pressure on your iron play—hello, Tiger—and then it finally hits your putting.
"Once that happens," McCord said, "it's in your DNA."
I wasn't getting up and down anymore, and I wasn't having all those one-putts anymore. I didn't trust my stroke or my putter.
So I ended one year not putting well, and the next year it got worse.
One day I was standing over a three-footer and made a spasm-y pass at the ball and didn't come close to the hole. I was like one of those field-goal kickers, shanking one wide right.
It happened again, same round. And after that it became every horrible story you've ever heard about Tom Watson's years of on-and-off yips and that Shell's Wonderful World of Golf match between Jack Nicklaus and Johnny Miller that they didn't even want to air, that's how bad Miller's yips were that day (he apparently took nearly forty putts).
It never got to the point where I couldn't bring the putter back, where I froze over the ball the way Ben Hogan sometimes did.
I could always get it through.
It just wasn't pretty.
It didn't happen every time I played; that was the part that made me even crazier. There were years when the yips seemed worse in the spring, as if I had to get my nerves in shape while I was getting my game in shape. By the middle of the summer, I'd be putting pretty well again, but I'd be going through putters the way the Yankees go through ballplayers every time they hit a slump.
Eventually, Mr. Yips would climb back into my golf bag. After that, I was willing to try anything. And everything. I met Chris DiMarco at a charity tournament and watched him sink putt after putt after putt with his claw grip.
Tried that for a while.
I went cross-handed.
I tried the thirty-one-inch putter that my son was using.
I went back to the Cleveland, always came back to the Anser 3, sometimes would use a Bulls Eye, the modern Cameron version of it, anyway, because I knew that if I got yippy in a round, I could start backhanding the short ones; somehow I never got the shakes or the jumps or the spazzes when I'd knock them in left-handed.
Never went to the long putter.
When a teaching pro suggested it, I said, "If I have to use a golf club taller than me, it's time to pack it in."
I briefly tried the belly, when it first came along, but found that even though everybody told you the club took the hands out of everything, I proved, beyond a reasonable doubt, that there wasn't a putter invented that could take the (shaky) hands out of it with me.
"You don't have the yips," buddies would say. "You're just going through what everybody goes through."
I'd say, "For four friggin' years?"


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Welcome back to This Week In DVD! A wide range of movies are hitting shelves today, but the two best releases happen to be television series including HBO's Game of Thrones and my pick of the week below. On the movie front we have the fantastic racer doc Senna, the surprisingly funny indie comedy High Road, Pedro Almodovar's twisted thriller The Skin I Live In, Adam Sandler's latest abortion Jack and Jill, and more! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. Adventure Time: It Came from the Nightosphere A boy and his dog spend their days playing in the world of their imagination, and the result is some gloriously effed up adventures. I make no apology for loving this show. It's like swallowing a sugar-filled grenade that explodes in your head over and over again throughout each episode's eleven-minute run-time. Everything about the show is free-flowing and utterly weird, from the animation style to the humor to the stories themselves. This DVD features sixteen episodes including the Emmy-nominated "Nightosphere."
Year In Review: The Best Official Movie Posters of 2011
2011 Year In Review By Robin Ruinsky on January 1, 2012 | Comments (1)Movie posters can rise to level of works of art, can be tame or daring. They are of course advertising. A good poster makes you want to know more about the movie and the more you want to know the more you'll want to spend your money to see the film. With that in mind, we've assembled our favorites of 2011, broken down into fancy categories for your reading and viewing pleasure.
The Best Films of 2011: The Staff Picks
2011 Year In Review By Neil Miller on December 30, 2011 | Comments (14)As you may have noticed, this final week of 2011 has been almost completely taken over by our third annual Year in Review. It was born in 2009 out of our love for lists and your thirst for reading, discussing and ultimately hating them. And each year the entire project gets a little bigger, a little bolder and slightly more absurd. With that in mind, I'm once again proud to present you with The Best Films of 2011: The Staff Picks. Each of our 14 regular staff writers, contributors and columnists, almost all of whom have been with us the entire year, were asked to present their top 5 films, in no particular order (although many of them placed their top film at the top, as logical people tend to do), each with an explanation. Some even included curse words as a bonus to you, the reader. Read: The Best Films of 2010: The Staff Picks | The Best Films of 2009: The Staff Picks Once again, the Staff Picks are a testament to the diversity we have here at Film School Rejects, with picks ranging from the likely suspects (Take Shelter, Hugo, Shame) to the slightly more nerdy (Attack the Block, Super 8, The Muppets) to several movies that may not yet be on your radar (see Landon Palmer's list for those). And once again, it's with a deep sense of pride that I publish such a list, the best of 2011 as seen through the eyes of the movie […]
This Week In DVD: December 27th
Features By Rob Hunter on December 27, 2011 | Be the First To CommentWelcome to the last DVD column of 2011! There's been quite a bit of chatter about how dismal of a year it was for film, but while there's no doubt the box office haul is lower than the year before the same can't be said for film quality. This week's releases include the dirty fun of A Good Old Fashioned Orgy, the cool deaths (but little else) of Final Destination 5, two found footage films of varying quality (The Tunnel, Apollo 18) and two future cult classics (Kill List, The Skin I Live In) possibly worth an import for folks who don't want to wait several more months for US releases. As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. Fish Story A comet heads toward Earth, but as the planet awaits destruction a few strangers sit in a record shop discussing how a mysterious song from decades ago just might save the world. From that starting point the film moves across space and time to tell a story about friendship, heroism, fate and more. Director Yoshihiro Nakamura (Golden Slumber, A Boy and His Samurai) has a true talent for tying multiple threads up with real heart and character. The movie is actually a few years old, but it's also the reason the term 'blind buy' was invented. Seriously. This is near perfect mix of whimsy, action, suspense and heart, and deserves to be seen by everyone. Check out Cole Abaius' full review.
The Holiday Gift Guide: 70 DVDs, Blu-rays and Other Things for the Home Entertainment Junkie on Your List
Features By Rob Hunter on December 14, 2011 | Comments (3)Merry Christmas movie/TV/goat-cheese lovers! As part of our week-long gift guide extravaganza thingamajig we've put together a list of Blu-rays, DVD and a few other ideas for you to use when shopping for others or for putting on your own Christmas list. Or both. Some of the films below are from years past, but they all hit Blu-ray and/or DVD this year so they totally count for this gift guide. Click on the links to be magically transported to Amazon, AmazonUK and other places where lovely things can be found.
AFI FEST 2011 Announces Pedro Almodóvar-Curated Film Retrospective; Includes 'Le Cercle Rouge,' 'Eyes Without a Face,' and 'The Killers'
AFI Fest By Kate Erbland on October 25, 2011 | Be the First To CommentFor what's looking to be the last official programming announcement from this year's AFI FEST presented by Audi, the fest has revealed their special film retrospective as curated by Guest Artistic Director Pedro Almodóvar. The filmmaker has put together a program of five films (including one of his own) to form an essential cross-section of horror films and thrillers. Almodóvar's picks include his own Law of Desire, saying that the film is "a fundamental title in my career…I don't think I'd change a single shot, and not because it's perfect but because I recognize myself in all of them…It's true that my palette has darkened and, in the case of the latest film, the humor has almost disappeared. Fortunately I've changed sufficiently so that no one can accuse me of repeating myself, but I'm still the same." The film's screening will take place on Monday, November 7, and Almodóvar and star Antonio Banderas (also the star of that "latest film" Almodóvar mentions, the magnetic The Skin I Live In) will introduce the film, and it will be followed by a "conversation" about the auteur's career. AFI FEST will run from November 3rd through the 10th in Hollywood, with all screenings taking place at The Chinese, the Chinese 6 Theatres, and the Egyptian Theatre. The best part? Tickets for all screenings are free (and available starting this Thursday, October 27). Even with parking fees in Hollywood, that's still cheaper than a movie ticket. The complete schedule grid is now online for […]
Aural Fixation: Getting Under Composer Alberto Iglesias's 'Skin'
Aural Fixation By Allison Loring on October 20, 2011 | Comments (1)Creating the world of a disturbed, yet brilliant, plastic surgeon harboring more than one secret is no easy task, but director Pedro Almodóvar rises to the challenge with his beautiful and haunting film, The Skin I Live In. An equal challenge was that of creating the music for this world to keep up with the story's various twists and turns. From the frenetic strings that draw us in at the beginning of the film to the final piano refrain, composer Alberto Iglesias's score helps create a world that refuses to let you, much like the mysterious woman trapped in the doctor's home, out until the film's very last frame. I spoke with Iglesias about the process of working with Almodóvar on this film, the challenges of expressing the emotion in scenes with little to no dialogue and how sometimes, an ax is an equally important part of the composing process as any instrument. (English is not Iglesias's first language so please keep that in mind as you read his responses.)
Review: 'The Skin I Live In' Will Get Under Yours
Movie Reviews By Kate Erbland on October 13, 2011 | Comments (1)Great personal tragedies have the uncanny ability to leave a mark on those they touch – but Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In takes that concept to frightening new levels, mixing in healing with horror, pleasure with pain, and medical advancements with mental illness. The film centers on Antonio Banderas as gifted doctor Robert Ledgard, a reclusive type who does something out of his in-home clinic in a secluded section of Spain. Whatever type of medicine Robert publicly practices, we are not privy to it for some time (a reveal that proves key later in the story), but we are let in on his secrets almost immediately. Ruined by the tragic demises of both his wife and daughter, Robert has withdrawn into a different field of work – crafting a new type of human skin that is, in a sense, unbreakable. The skin is spliced from human skin and pig skin, meant to withstand heat and cold, to heal quickly, to show no signs of violence no matter what is inflicted on it. And while this is a noble (and understandable, given his past losses) pursuit, there's one small piece of Robert's plan that sets it apart – he's lying when he tells the medical community that he needs to test it on human subjects. Because he already has. And she's locked up in his home.
Trailer for 'The Skin I Live In' Lays Out the People and the Pieces
Movie News By Kate Erbland on August 30, 2011 | Be the First To CommentIt's Unofficial Pedro Almodóvar Day here at FSR! Everyone, join me as I celebrate in the traditional way – by throwing teeny, tiny bits of Penelope Cruz-shaped confetti in the air and watching Antonio Banderas manufacture fake skin. Wait, is that not how you celebrate your Unofficial Pedro Almodóvar Days? That's about to change. On the heels of AFI FEST announcing Almodóvar as their Guest Artistic Director for this year's festival, the trailer for the filmmaker's next film, The Skin I Live In, has debuted online. The film bowed at Cannes to some mixed reactions, though our own Simon saw the film at the fest and bestowed on it an "A" review, noting that the work mixes some classic Almodóvar hallmarks into a film that, at first glance, just plain doesn't sound like a typical Almodóvar film. But The Skin I Live In sure does sound like an out-of-the-box choice for the auteur, starring Banderas as a doctor who may be tortured on the inside, but who is on the verge of a medical breakthrough, creating a superskin that can be transplanted on to damaged skin. And maybe more…? The film's trailer is a touch tedious, broken up with title cards that hint at some of the different types of people who inhabit the world (or, as it were, the film's world), followed by glimpses at some of those supposed types of people. But some of those people seem to cross over various types, and that's part of the intrigue of […]
Cannes 2011 Review: Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In
Cannes Film Festival By Simon Gallagher on May 19, 2011 | Be the First To CommentYet again I find myself sitting in the dark waiting for one of my most anticipated films of this year's Cannes film festival, and am met with a chorus of coughs ringing around the screen. Here's a thought – if you are allergic to either a) the dark or b) the cinema, maybes it's time you stopped going. It sounds like a bloody Victorian bronchitis convention every time the lights go down… Anyway, The Skin I Live In (also known as The Skin That I Inhabit, depending on how you translate the original Spanish title), is the latest in this year's auteur-focused Competition line-up, and thanks to both director Pedro Almodovar's assertions that he set out to make a horror "without screams or frights" and his reunion with sometime muse Antonio Banderas, this one sat at the top table in terms of anticipation. Warning, there be a few spoilers below, though I have tried to avoid as many as possible. But like Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, such is the nature of the film that some hints are a necessity.
The Big Bad Cannes 2011 Preview: Where Blockbusters, Auteurs, and Dangerous Filmmaking Mingle
Cannes Film Festival By Simon Gallagher on May 4, 2011 | Comments (3)With a little less than a week to go until I land at Nice Airport and get the hugely unglamorous Hack Bus into Cannes along with my boys from ObsessedWithFilm.com to begin FSR's official Cannes film festival 2011 coverage, now is surely a prudent time to offer my thoughts on the biggest and brightest films showing on the Croisette this year. You already know what films are showing, so I won't exhaustively trawl back through the list, but I wanted to take the opportunity to announce what I am particularly excited about. This also gives me the opportunity post-festival to look back at happier, simpler times when my optimism at seeing four films a day wasn't yet destroyed by watching three incredibly boring flicks in a row, followed by a blockbuster during which I fell asleep (as happened in 2009). Anyway, lesson learned, and this year I'll be packing as many natural amphetamines as possible. If you're heading out there look for me, I'll be the guy with the grinding jaw, the sallow eyes and the notepad full of doodles/plans to change the future of cinema. So anyway, here's what I'm looking forward to most.
Cannes 2011 Official Line-Up Announced
Cannes Film Festival By Simon Gallagher on April 14, 2011 | Comments (3)So, we now know most of which films will screen in the two major competitions at Cannes this year, and a few out of competition titles as well (including one huge shock for me). Here's the list in full — great to see The Beaver, and a host of huge-name directors in competition like Von Trier, Almodovar and Miike — and you can expect my commentary to follow soon. Opening Film Midnight In Paris (dir. Woody Allen) Out of Competition The Beaver (dir. Foster) La Conquete (dir. Xavier Durringer) The Artist (dir. Hazanavicius) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (dir. Rob Marshall)
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Which is why our department headed down to JB yesterday for a day of NO WORK but ALL PLAY!
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Winter/Fall Ride Changes
Hi Folks,
It's the time of year when the light dims early and the temperatures start to plummet. So its time to switch over to our Fall/Winter ride routines.
1) This coming Monday (10/24) will be the LAST week for the Cabarrus Creamery Family ride at 6pm.
2) The Tuesday TouchDown Pizza Ride is officially suspended.
We plan on repacing it with organized trainer sessions like we did last year. We are still working out the venue and timing, so keep an eye out for an email on that.
3) The Thursday TRG ride has also been suspended.
We will be meeting up at the Huntersville Business Park on Thursdays to ride through the winters. Riders start showing up after work between 5 and 6 and ride until 7:30 or 8, depending on the day. If you have never been to the business park, its a safe and lighted industrial park loop that attracts cyclists from all over the city. You can find it on the maps here:
Larger groups generally form after the time changes, and especially after the first of the year. There have been evenings in the past when there have 150 cyclists rounding the loop. Skill levels range from hybrid riders to racing pros, so it's a place where everyone can ride at their own pace. This is not an organized C4 ride, but a place where everyone congregates and suffers through the cold winter nights.
4) The Saturday SAMBO Ride is still leaving at 8 AM as always. Later in the winter season as the temperatures get much lower we will switch to a 10 AM start time, so keep an eye out for that email.
5) The Go with the Flowe Ride is now active and has a solid following on Sundays at 2PM. Great route and good roads.


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What do the Gospel Project and the Great Commission Resurgence have in common with Roswell Aliens, JFK's assassination, Area 51, 9/11 Truthers, and Obama Birthers?
SBC Tomorrow welcomes Howell Scott as guest contributor*
If you guessed that each has at least one conspiracy theory attached to it, then you probably know more about conspiracy theories than you should. You see, someone who believes in that many conspiracy theories could probably be classified as a wackadoodle. I like that word. I'd never heard of the word wackadoodle (aka nut jobs, lunatics, crazies, etc.) until my Student Pastor, Jon, used it to describe a man he once worked with in ministry. I've heard of some strange teachings and doctrines -- although usually not in Southern Baptist churches -- but this man's teachings would qualify him to be known as a certifiable wackadoodle. And believe me. No one wants to be known as a wackadoodle.
Once that label attaches -- rightly or wrongly -- your credibility goes out the window, usually never to return. Sometimes, as in the case with Jon's co-worker, the wackadoodle label is self-inflicted, either through one's own actions or outlandish beliefs. Those who bring it on themselves have only themselves to blame.
However, all of us, from time to time, could be accused of thinking wackadoodlish thoughts or expressing wackadoodlish beliefs. No matter how smart we think we are, we are simply not immune from our inner wackadoodle. Ask my wife and she is bound to share examples of my own wackadoodlish behavior. Of course, if you asked me, I would tell you that in our almost 20 years of marriage she has never once acted like a wackadoodle or expressed wackadoodlish thoughts. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Thankfully, real-life, certifiable wackadoodles are not the norm. Most people -- including most Southern Baptist pastors -- could not legitimately be labeled wackadoodles. Perhaps labeled as overweight and out-of-shape (I speak from personal experience), but not wackadoodles. Be that as it may, there are always others who will attempt to put a label on you. Labels, in and of themselves, are not necessarily a bad thing. They can be shorthand for describing a person's beliefs -- conservative or liberal -- or characteristics -- short or tall -- or theology -- Reformed or Baptist Identity.
Problems arise when labels are intentionally misapplied. This happens all the time within our political culture. Those who believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman are often labeled as homophobes. (It certainly doesn't help when some Southern Baptist leaders misapply that liberal-inspired label, but I digress). It occurs when conservatives who oppose affirmative action or amnesty for illegals are labeled racists. And, it even happens when those who question the current direction of the Southern Baptist Convention are labeled as conspiracy theorists -- otherwise known as wackadoodles. Some will even misapply certain labels to me simply because I published a guest post on SBC Tomorrow. Go figure.
For some within the SBC, the charge that one believes in a grand Calvinist conspiracy to take-over the entities of the Convention or a conspiracy to secretly indoctrinate non-suspecting churches in Reformed theology through The Gospel Project somehow becomes a political weapon used to marginalize your opponents (much like misusing Scripture to stifle legitimate debate). If you can successfully label your theological opponent as a wackadoodle who believes in such outlandish conspiracy theories, then you can effectively destroy any credibility that they might otherwise have.
It is often easier to label our opponents as crazy than to engage in a spirited debate of ideas and ideologies. Perhaps this can be attributed to a "yes man" mentality which not only refuses to ask any questions, but castigates others who have the temerity to think critically and to ask the hard questions. One of the reasons that our nation is in the mess that it is in stems from the fact that most of the media refused to ask any penetrating questions of then-candidate Obama during the 2008 Presidential campaign. Perhaps we would not be headed for more heartache in New Orleans if more folks (including so-called Baptist Press) were unafraid to be labeled wackadoodles just for asking questions that held our leaders accountable to the churches of the Southern Baptist Convention. Why should Southern Baptists have to turn to Associated Baptist Press to read about alleged financial irregularities at one of our seminaries? Where is Baptist Press? On second thought, don't answer that question.
In the run-up to New Orleans, especially once the Name Change Task Force announces its recommendations at the SBC Executive Committee meeting later this month, hard ball politics will be on full display. However, there will be nothing about the great Name Change -- just as there was nothing about the GCR -- which was conspiratorial. No one that I know thinks that there is any type of conspiracy (Calvinist or otherwise) to take over the SBC. A conspiracy, by its very nature, is something that is secret. What has happened in the last few years, with both the GCR movement and the Name Change Task Force, is open and far from secret (the sealing of the GCRTF records notwithstanding). This is simply hardball politics at its best and worst.
I never have liked the phrase "speak truth to power," but that is exactly what needs to happen over the next several months. The SBC establishment will not like it, but if they are not held accountable by and to their constituency — the churches of the SBC — then they (like any of us) might find themselves tempted by that other maxim which says, "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." And, you don't have to be a certifiable wackadoodle to believe that!
Howell Scott
*Howell Scott is a lifelong Southern Baptist who grew up in Florida and ultimately began practicing law in his home state after graduating with a J.D. from FSU's College of Law (1991). Sensing a call from God to focus on preaching grace rather than practicing law, Howell and his family moved to Louisville, Kentucky in 1994 to attend Southern Baptists' historic flagship seminary, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Both he and his wife, Brenda, received Master of Divinity degrees in 1997. Howell presently serves as Senior Pastor of Bethel Baptist Church in Alamogordo, NM. Find Howell on the web here


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After over 3 decades in the city, I've been out in the country in SW Chester County for 5 years now. Here are some signs I saw this morning.
The Canada Geese are flying high and in large numbers over the house. They are moving north for the Spring. The chickadees have been flying in 2s and 4s here. I replaced one of their houses over the weekend that a woodpecker mauled. As soon as I was finished, a chickadee checked it out. After it was done checking it out, it flew at eye level to a tree near me and gave me a few chirps. I suppose that's chickadee for "good job." The chickadees were checking all 3 boxes this morning. The vultures were enjoying the March winds and playing in the thermals. |
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- Posted by paula_in_pa z6 SEPA ChesCo (My Page) on Tue, Mar 10, 09 at 13:33
I was at Longwood yesterday morning for a bird walk. We too saw many formations of canadian geese, and snow geese, sometimes mixed formations. We saw red wing blackbirds, many song sparrows, a couple bluebirds, and hawks, which silenced everything for a while. The lawn along Conservatory Road is filled with tommies blooming. I have many more Galanthus up now, and more Crocus chrysanthus, Eranthis is very prominent now. Helleborus nigers are open. The daffodil foliage spiked 3 or 4 inches over the weekend. I have some very early variety daffodils in bloom right now. My Cornus Mas is just about ready to bloom. |
I was going to take my Mother to Longwood yesterday but the wind picked up and I decided to wait for a better day. She will be 90 within 2 months. If it gets warm soon, I'll remember to look on Conservatory Road. I forgot to add that the mockingbirds are showing interest in each other now. Also, they are seeking food in the grass. I've been very lucky with mockingbird chicks the last 2 years. |
- Posted by paula_in_pa z6 SEPA ChesCo (My Page) on Tue, Mar 10, 09 at 20:00
Would you believe I recently found 2 vulture eggs (not at Longwood!), 1 in the process of hatching, which I didn't see through my lens at the time - look at right one on bottom. |
- Posted by suzannie41 PA-Zn 6 (My Page) on Wed, Mar 11, 09 at 6:59
Paula, what a beautiful photo!! Bob, I cannot wait to get out in the garden again. The ground is still a bit muddy from the recent snow melting, but I do see signs of Spring - hyacinths pushing through the soil is a welcome sight. Hubby is making a bluebird nesting box, since we've seen bluebirds in the area. Sue |
Wow Paula! Cool shot. I'm curious to know just where one finds vulture eggs.... not in your yard I suspect. Are they wild? For two days we were in April, now it's back to March weather, but before the cold came back the snowdrops had time to come up, the eranthis opened and the pussywillow and witch hazel both started to put on a show. The hellebores are still a bit behind. What a difference with the birds. I hear them singing every morning and even saw my first robin yesterday. |
- Posted by paula_in_pa z6 SEPA ChesCo (My Page) on Fri, Mar 13, 09 at 19:40
We found them in an abandoned commercial building down the road from us. A few of us went exploring. Mama waited in the tree outside the broken window until we were done visiting. The room had the foulest odor I've ever encountered. I held my breath to enter and get close to take the picture. They typically lay 2 eggs, do not build nests, and lay them on rock outcroppings , caves, in sheds...hence here in this building. |
Paula: Wow, black vultures. In the woods out back, there are a number of rock outcroppings. I can tell when something is up because both the black and turkey vultures will land on the ground in the woods where the outcroppings are. The vultures are meeting regularly in the woods towards the end of the day and I counted 58 sitting together today. suzannie41: I've tried for 3 years now to get bluebirds. They look, they sit on the boxes, but they don't stay. I'm still hoping. The ground here is very dry. We didn't have much snow this Winter and not much rain either. |
heh heh, I love it that the phone is on the windowsill along with the vulture. I wonder what the former office workers would think if they saw how things are going. |
- Posted by paula_in_pa z6 SEPA ChesCo (My Page) on Sat, Mar 14, 09 at 22:20
Bob, wow, 58 of them?! Have you gotten closer to the rocks to check out the activity? kato, the building would make a great Haunted House at Halloween,, I joked about it with the others, but there are none in our area, and I think it would work. I'd have to get clearance from the vultures though ;-) |
Paula: The vultures are out in the woods every evening now. On Sunday, I saw a black vulture fly down to the ground where one of the outcroppings is. So, one of them must be nesting--if that is what a vulture does in the rocks. I went down near an outcropping two years ago to see if a vulture was nesting there. I did see vulture droppings on some of the rocks so they were there. However, I decided not to go further because I was told that vultures defend themselves by barfing on what is threatening them. I didn't want to be a vulture barf-bag so I stayed at a distance. However, I did observe the mating ritual of turkey vultures out back in the yard. |
- Posted by pipersville_carol z6 Bucks PA (My Page) on Wed, Mar 18, 09 at 13:43
Amazing egg shot! And you should sell that vulture/office phone photo to CNN. They can use it to illustrate their next story about the economy. I was in New Hope last summer, at a restaurant patio on the river. On the roof of the theatre next door, a small flock of vultures sat silently with their wings extended, drying in the sunshine. It was fascinating to be so close to them. Their wingspan is HUGE. |
a single robin arrived last week, followed 2 days later by an invasion of 75-100 robins (which is alot for my small yard!). I guess a flock stopped in for a pitstop. Things are now at the normal summer levels of 4-5 birds. Another less welcome sign of spring was a flock of cowbirds at the feeder. I guess I have to stop putting out the cracked corn and the doves will have to fend for themselves. oh... and one more sign of spring is the spotty look the goldfinches have taken on. They are starting to get a few yellow feathers coming in here and there and I guess will soon have their bright summer color back. This is the first year I've seen this change since in the former more enclosed and wooded garden they were a rare visitor. |
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If you have Reflection for the Web configured to use SiteMinder for Access Control authentication, and you upgrade to Reflection for the Web 2011 Build 521 or higher, the Administrative WebStation is unresponsive, and the following error is reported in the trace.log file: "GAS.process (super) threw ServletException java.lang.NullPointerException." This technical note describes the cause, symptom, and solution for this issue.
This issue occurs because Reflection for the Web 2011 Build 521 (11.0.[nnn.]521) or higher no longer includes the SiteMinder JAR file in the Reflection server's classpath. The JAR file was removed from the installation images to adhere to licensing restrictions imposed by Computer Associates (CA) and applies to all CA providers, including Attachmate.
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If you've been following the eternal question of whether or not bounties existed in New Orleans–and if you're reading this you have been, because it's a story that's impossible to ignore if you're a fan of NFL football–then you're abundantly aware of the players' primary complaint phrased so eloquently a few weeks ago by Jonathan Vilma.
They're sort of OK with commissioner Roger Goodell being the judge, A.K.A the guy who generally makes disciplinary decisions. But they're only cool with that for on-field acts, and they're really not cool with his all-seeing powers in this specific instance, maintaining that if Goodell is to be the judge, then he definitely shouldn't also be the jury and executioner.
In yet another move that should surprise absolutely no one, the NFLPA filed a lawsuit today in federal court on behalf of Scott Fujita, Will Smith, and Anthony Hargrove, and Goodell's dictator powers remain the primary point of contention. Vilma, the most heavily-punished member of the alleged bounty bang bros, has filed his own separate lawsuit.
Goodell's multi-faceted role during the disciplinary process and his inability to be impartial while making his rulings is central to the wording of the lawsuit and its mission. So please, haul out your broken record player, and give this a spin…
A seminal question for this court is whether the NFL collective bargaining agreement … granted the commissioner, when serving as an arbitrator, the authority to disregard the essence of the parties' agreement, to conduct proceedings that are fundamentally unfair, and to act with evident bias and without jurisdiction. The answer, under governing case law, is clearly 'no.'
Yes, that certainly seems to be the fundamental question here, and although Goodell's flawed bounty evidence can and should be heavily scrutinized (we're still waiting for the truth, and we have no idea if there really was a bounty program), his function as determined by the CBA has been pretty clear. He's the authority that hears appeals on the rulings he makes, and while that is indeed a process that's fractured beyond comprehension, it's one that was agreed on by the players during the lockout standoff that was mercifully reaching its conclusion last year around this time.
Also included is the claim that Goodell's process was unfair and unjust, saying that he failed to provide the players with the proper evidence to defend themselves against, or "anything resembling the fairness mandated by the CBA and governing industrial due process law."
All along we've been told repeatedly that Goodell makes rulings and hears the appeals on those rulings under the new CBA, leaving the players with little right to complain because they signed off on this arrangement after a lengthy dispute. So now one year into a ten-year CBA sweeping changes are needed because Goodell's role that was mutually agreed on isn't favorable for the players?
Previously the players argued that any alleged bounty conduct falls under a salary cap violation, and the appeals should therefore be heard by an independent arbitrator. That notion was swatted away, with an arbitrator (an arbitrator ruling on arbitration? Please adjust your head) ruling that a bounty still falls under the umbrella of "conduct detrimental" and is therefore a behavioral issue that's subject to Goodell's heavy hammer.
The NFLPA is still claiming that the bounty cases are rare cases and deserve the required special treatment by an independent authority who wasn't directly involved in the process. Hey, no argument here, but you, the fine upstanding players, gave Goodell his powers. Whining retroactively hasn't worked yet, and it seems unlikely to work now.


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It's really too bad that humans are hard-wired to be self-serving, and at times even maniacal and egotistical when money is introduced into any disagreement.
This process usually happens at a very young age. The child wants a toy truck, and his mother denies him said truck. The child cries, and he gets a fire engine instead, earning an even greater prize because of his pouting.
The fire truck is the most ferocious beast in the animal kingdom, and it seems we'll need several emergency vehicles to extinguish the fire ignited by Logan Mankins' reported and disputed settlement requests. The Patriots offensive lineman is one of the 10 plaintiffs in Brady v. NFL. Earlier this week with the new CBA steaming towards its conclusion he allegedly made settlement demands along with Vincent Jackson, Peyton Manning, and Drew Brees. Mankins and Jackson were said to be seeking either $10 million, or immediate unrestricted free agency.
Well-respected NFL sources like Greg Bedard of the Boston Globe, Mike Freeman of CBS Sports, and Albert Breer of the NFL Network relayed the demands made by the four plaintiffs. After an intense public backlash, Manning, Jackson, and Brees either backed off or publicly denied the reports.
Now that denial is continuing, and the source is Frank Bauer.
Bauer is Mankins' agent, and he harshly denied the reports of his client's settlement requests Thursday afternoon, telling ESPN Boston that the media characterizations of Mankins have been unfair.
"Logan Mankins is a young man who was encouraged and solicited into a lawsuit to help the union spearhead a new agreement. Logan's main concern for entering into as a plaintiff was to see if he can become free and help other players have less restrictions. For people to say he has made monetary demands, he hasn't made any such demand. We don't know terms. We haven't talked to (NFLPA attorney) Jeff Kessler. There has been no communication, but it's irresponsible to report Logan has made monetary demands.
"Are we disappointed there has been no communication? Hugely. He trusted the union and Kessler to fight for Logan Mankins and the other players."
Breer then followed up Bauer's comments by clarifying on-air that he didn't say Mankins personally made a request. Instead he reported that a request was made on Mankins' behalf during the antitrust settlement negotiations, most likely by Kessler.
So it may not have been greed and selfishness directly from Mankins that could have held up the settlement. But the greed was there nonetheless from the rich men in suits representing the rich men in pads.
If Bauer is speaking truthfully, it's discouraging and disappointing that Kessler didn't have any contact with Mankins or his representatives before going rogue and making these demands. But with the two sides on the brink of voting to settle the antitrust case and by extension move closer to ending the lockout, the two-way street of communication should have been open.
Maybe that street was bustling with activity, and it's far more likely that Mankins and his agent encouraged Kessler to pursue that cool $10 million for his already deep pockets. During four months of smokescreens and public relations ploys, this statement from Bauer was probably yet another bland PR statement aimed at deflecting all responsibility and blame towards Kessler.
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We all know the parable of the prodigal son; a son leaves his father and disgraces him, only later to come back seeking forgiveness to which his father accepts him. (It is a nice story.) However, what would have happened if the father was not quite so perfect? What if the son was not quite so repentant? We have in the story of David and Absalom a story of a different prodigal son (which does not have quite so happy an ending.)
I encourage you to read of this Story in 2 Samuel.
2 Samuel 18:28 …. (NCV) Then Ahlmaaz called a greeting to the King. He bowed facedown on the ground before the King on the ground before the King and said, "Praise the Lord your God! The Lord has defeated those who were against you, my King."
2 Samuel 18:30 …. (NCV) Then the King was very upset, and he went to the room over the city gate and cried. As he went, he cried out, " My Son Absalom, my son Absalom! I wish I had died and not you. Alsalom, my son, my son!" Had Absalom not died for his rebellion against David, he would have lived on and would have continued to revolt until either he or his father was dead. In the parable of the prodigal son, however, the son is allowed to return and be reconciled to his father. Why? Because of the death of Jesus Christ on the cross.
David had said, "Absalom, O Absalom, if only I had died instead." Well, that's exactly how God felt about us, and that's exactly what Jesus Christ did for us, coming to earth and dying on a cross so that our price would be paid once and for all and we could be reconciled to Him. However, we recall the sacrifice, which God has accomplished, is only half of the equation. For, "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, You will not despise." Psalm 51:17. We cannot be trying to justify or hide our sin and at the same time acknowledge our need for forgiveness of that sin. We cannot be saved by Jesus' death if we do not acknowledge our great need for His death. The price for us has been paid in full. The only question which remains is whether or not we recognize the cost.
Sometimes we can sin and not even realize what we are doing, due to spiritual blindness or even neglect of God's Word. Sometimes we can sin even because of our own selfishness and wants of things in this world. Sometimes, just as Job was tested we can be tested. Can we pass the test? It is often that we can react in such a manner when we allow our human nature to control us. For when we focus on the things of this world it is then we can all short of God's Glory and be displeasing to our Father who gave His Son to die for our sins when they nailed him to the cross at Calvary.
However, when you are a child of God, He will reveal to you with His Precious Holy Spirit when something is not right and pleasing to him. And yes, often times it can be an Angel in human form with a message that can awaken you to the reality that you are off track. It is then that we must repent so that we may walk pleasing in the midst of the Lord our God. For Jesus, God's only Son paid the price for our salvation and in return let us walk worthy before the Lord our God with a heart of gratitude and let us humble ourselves with submission to our God and His love for us. "TO GOD BE THE GLORY"


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Rethinking the 19th Amendment
Are GOP political fortunes held hostage to the will of white women?
Allow to me to explain.
The so-called "gender gap" first came into the public mind during the Reagan years when it was noted that women were 16 percentage points less likely than men to support Reagan over Carter, compared to no difference in 1976, quite possibly due to Reagan's stated opposition to big government. Since minority women already voted (and have continued to vote) for the Democrats heavily in these elections at pretty much the same rate as minority men, the phenomenon has mainly been noted as a substantial gap between white men and white women.
For a while, the gender gap was irrelevant to the ultimate outcome of the elections. Both men and women voted for Reagan twice, then Bush in 1988 , then Clinton in 1992.
Then 1996 rolled around. For those who don't know what happened, I'll summarize: Bill Clinton and the Democrats took some Chinese money to help finance their campaign and then proceeded crush Senator Bob Dole by an 8.5% margin. Clinton did three points better than he had done against George Bush in 1992. Yet at the same time he managed to lose, or come close to losing the male vote to Dole, meaning that he actually performed worse among men in 1996 than 1992. His increased margin was entirely due to more support from women: in 1992 they backed him by 7 points, in 1996 they backed him by 17 points. Specifically, while white men backed Dole 49-38, white women supported Clinton 48-43.
So why does this matter to us?
Well, it's no secret that George W. Bush's infamous "compassionate conservatism" rose about largely because of his campaign's need to appeal more to white suburban women who didn't like the GOP's anti-government actions in Congress. Republicans in Congress like Newt Gingrich had been painted as mean conservatives who wanted to cut funding for, well, just about everything. Bush wanted to indicate that he wasn't like that, in fact he would increase spending even as he cut taxes and add even more inefficient government oversight to areas such as education.
Politically, Bush's pro-government message worked--barely. According to CNN Exit Polls, he managed to tie or beat Al Gore among white women in 2000 while maintaining a 24 point lead over white men. In 2004 his lead over white men was about the same while white women backed him by a substantially larger 10 points.
If the election was held today and only men voted, John McCain almost certainly would defeat Barack Obama. The challenge for conservatives and Republicans is to figure out how to erase the gender gap so we never fall into the same trap that Bush and the Tom Delay Congress did by acting as if they could win by acting like somewhat less generous Democrats.
We must educate the women,
We must educate the women, especially about the evils of big government, we can start by teaching them the Bible, then we teach them about the history of the USA, about how big govt and govt sponsored pseudo-charity was not necessary in the past to help the poor and other less fortunate people.
We must let women know that private charity is more than enough as long as the govt doesn't' fleece the people.
Many women already know this, these are the conservative women, Christian women who have read the Bible.
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Easy to make tv stand from pine wood. This is what it looks like before painted. Plenty of space for dvd's.
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Guest replied on Permalink
Door on ent. center
Cheers Mr. Hosey, the doors on your unit look great! Hope you don't mind, but I am going to blatantly steal the idea and use on a project i have in the works. :)
So far with this site I have made the kitchen island, lockers, dog bowl and some shelves. Not quite as nice as what you have above, but it's a learning thing with each piece.
Keep up the nice work!
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Patrick replied on Permalink
Master Sergeant, I'm
Master Sergeant,
I'm really glad you like it. Let me know if you need any other assistance with it.
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matthewshawn replied on Permalink
I love this stand. Can I get the plans?
Awesome job! I want one but no way can I just make it up as you! Please post plans!
matthewshawn replied on Permalink
I would love to build this TV stand. Did you ever receive the plans?
Guest replied on Permalink
TV Stand
I am new to the wood working world. This TV Stand is exactly what I would want to make. Would you possible email or post the plans? If that's something that's taboo or usually not done, maybe lead me in the direction of where I can find plans like these.
Great Job!!
Ana White replied on Permalink
All in the details! I'm just loving the little cuts you made and those doors!
patrickhosey replied on Permalink
Thanks Ana
Ana I'm really glad you like it. Maybe you could help with some plans for this tv stand. I'm horrible with plans. I know some people really want them. Thanks for commenting.
Melissa B. replied on Permalink
Nice Job!
I love this tv stand. Now if I could just find it in as a corner unit it would be perfect for me. Well done!
USMC Retired replied on Permalink
Tv Stand
Now that we are retired my wife is turning our home Into a county/reclaimed furniture setting. Is there any way you can email the plans for this great looking Tv Stand. Really would help. Simper Fi..
LaBella replied on Permalink
TV stand
Great job!! I'am going to make this my next project. Wondering if you could email me the plans
Nick Muskie replied on Permalink
Tv stand
Please send me the plans how to build the tv stand.
patrickhosey replied on Permalink
Sorry guys I just kind of winged this one. Make the face frame first and the rest will come naturally.
birdsandsoap replied on Permalink
"Make the face frame and the
"Make the face frame and the rest will come naturally." - I love it!
mikbander replied on Permalink
i love this
Please i want to make it. Can you send me the plans please.
Sorry for my english i read you from spain. Your webpage is very good
Michael F replied on Permalink
Are the doors to this each made with 4 1x4's?
Patrick Hosey replied on Permalink
No No you had it right. I used 1x4's.
Michael F replied on Permalink
Thanks man, I actually already built it, but I used tongue and groove planks and glued them to 1/2" plywood for the doors. That was the easiest thing I could think of. I wish there was a way to post pics of it on here.
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Are there any plans to this? I cant find the plans
Are there any plans linked to this or just photos?


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