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Investment Advice: IRA, bonds, etc Posted by BUSCH on 12/30 at 6:16 am Ok so I'm 25 working for my family business which I hope to some day fully own (which is part of my investment) but now it's time for me to start investing/planning for the long term. I'm thinking ab an IRA (traditional) and maybe some municipal bond(s) for the short term. Would the experts say I'm doing the right thing or should I consider putting my money elsewhere?? Thanks! This post was edited on 12/30 at 6:22 am Reply Back to Top |
Just find a good advisor that can cruise around and find the best options. This post was edited on 12/30 at 5:09 pm Reply Back to Top |
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different from Knowles previous songs as the song is not a traditional R&B one. The lyrics of the song are a reference to an expression of sadness about misunderstanding between the genders and an indictment of the male side of relationships. The song stands as the only song on either disc of I Am… Sasha Fierce that Knowles did not co-write. Upon its release, "If I Were a Boy" was generally well-received by music critics who praised Knowles' tormented performance, emotional and passionate vocals and called the song her best work to date.
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other markets on 2 February 2010. The official remix version features American rapper Ludacris; that version was the single released in North American countries. The song received mixed to positive reviews, critics commending its infectious sound, but noting that it was generic. The song peaked at number one in Canada, Switzerland, the UK and the United States, and also within the top ten of many other countries. The accompanying music video features several scenes of Cruz on escapades with different women, including a speedboat compared to classic Diddy and a club scene with Ludacris in the American version.
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known by his stage name Jason Derülo. "Don't Wanna Go Home" was written by Jason Derülo, and Chaz William and David Delazyn of production team The Fliptones.The latter duo also received production credits on the track. "Don't Wanna Go Home" is an up-tempo dance song, deriving from electropop and dance-pop genres. A sample of "Show Me Love" by Robin S. runs throughout the song, while the chorus is partially constructed from lyrics of "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" by Harry Belafonte. "Don't Wanna Go Home" serves as the lead single from Derülo's upcoming second studio album, Future History. A thirty-four-second preview of the single premiered online on May 3, 2011. That same day, the cover art was also revealed. The song was sent to US contemporary hit radio on May 10, 2011. It was released for download on May 20, 2011 through the United States iTunes Store.
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its release as a single it re-entered at number 100, and eventually reached number twenty-five. It topped the US R&B/Hip-Hop chart for four consecutive weeks, giving Usher his eleventh number-one
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1 Then I saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him were 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. | 1 Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. |
2 And I heard a sound from heaven like the roaring of a great waterfall or the rolling of mighty thunder. It was like the sound of many harpists playing together. | 2 And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. |
3 This great choir sang a wonderful new song in front of the throne of God and before the four living beings and the twenty-four elders. And no one could learn this song except those 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. | 3 And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. |
4 For they are spiritually undefiled, pure as virgins, following the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been purchased from among the people on the earth as a special offering to God and to the Lamb. | 4 These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they kept themselves pure. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among men and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb. |
5 No falsehood can be charged against them; they are blameless. | 5 No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless. |
6 And I saw another angel flying through the heavens, carrying the everlasting Good News to preach to the people who belong to this world -- to every nation, tribe, language, and people. | 6 Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth--to every nation, tribe, language and people. |
7 "Fear God," he shouted. "Give glory to him. For the time has come when he will sit as judge. Worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all the springs of water." | 7 He said in a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water." |
8 Then another angel followed him through the skies, shouting, "Babylon is fallen -- that great city is fallen -- because she seduced the nations of the world and made them drink the wine of her passionate immorality." | 8 A second angel followed and said, "Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great, which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries." |
9 Then a third angel followed them, shouting, "Anyone who worships the beast and his statue or who accepts his mark on the forehead or the hand | 9 A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: "If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand, |
10 must drink the wine of God's wrath. It is poured out undiluted into God's cup of wrath. And they will be tormented with fire and burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and the Lamb. | 10 he, too, will drink of the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. He will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. |
11 The smoke of their torment rises forever and ever, and they will have no relief day or night, for they have worshiped the beast and his statue and have accepted the mark of his name. | 11 And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or for anyone who receives the mark of his name." |
12 Let this encourage God's holy people to endure persecution patiently and remain firm to the end, obeying his commands and trusting in Jesus." | 12 This calls for patient endurance on the part of the saints who obey God's commandments and remain faithful to Jesus. |
13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write this down: Blessed are those who die in the Lord from now on. Yes, says the Spirit, they are blessed indeed, for they will rest from all their toils and trials; for their good deeds follow them!" | 13 Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on." "Yes," says the Spirit, "they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them." |
14 Then I saw the Son of Man sitting on a white cloud. He had a gold crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. | 14 I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one "like a son of man" with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. |
15 Then an angel came from the Temple and called out in a loud voice to the one sitting on the cloud, "Use the sickle, for the time has come for you to harvest; the crop is ripe on the earth." | 15 Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, "Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe." |
16 So the one sitting on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the whole earth was harvested. | 16 So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested. |
17 After that, another angel came from the Temple in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle. | 17 Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. |
18 Then another angel, who has power to destroy the world with fire, shouted to the angel with the sickle, "Use your sickle now to gather the clusters of grapes from the vines of the earth, for they are fully ripe for judgment." | 18 Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, "Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth's vine, because its grapes are ripe." |
19 So the angel swung his sickle on the earth and loaded the grapes into the great winepress of God's wrath. | 19 The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God's wrath. |
20 And the grapes were trodden in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress in a stream about 180 miles long and as high as a horse's bridle. | 20 They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses' bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia. |
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The promised rain did not seem to deter the hundreds of people who took to the streets last night (Thursday) to enjoy Ilfracombe Carnival.
Leading the parade in the Dotto Train were carnival princesses Ellie O'Rourke, Ellen French and Gemma Wright, joined by the Mayor, Councillor George Squires, plus Town Crier Roy Goodwin and several guests.
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I should note that I was not responsible for the content of these activities, only for the design and implementation. Further, while the activities were intended to be attractive and well-designed, the primary goals were clarity and usability, and they were produced on a small budget of time. As a rule, though, when it comes to both teaching and design, I believe that simplicity is a virtue.
A website for a small church with an open, welcoming design. Visitors get a quick sense of the church and what's going on: they immediately see a photograph of the church, with its red doors recognizable as a local icon; a link to a Google map; a Google calendar for worship and events; and the most recent announcements, sermons, and events. For members, there is a password-restricted area with a church directory and lay ministry calendar.
The key design challenge was making the site friendly and welcoming — reflecting the church's core value of hospitality — while still making it appear modern and fresh. We want visitors to see that we're a going concern, but feel that they'll be noticed and welcomed! I accomplished that goal, I hope, by keeping the design simple and open, using photographs selectively and thoughtfully (mainly within topical or newsy galleries), and minimizing the total content available to help visitors find quick what they most need to know.
The logo image of the church with open door is also custom-designed.
Technical notes: Usually when I design a site for WordPress I build a template from scratch. In this case, I started from the standard "Twenty Thirteen" template (building a "child template"), and WordPress geeks may recognize its vestiges. However, there's a great deal of customization: I used plugins to manage the calendar, contact form, and member directory; I also built a custom widget for the footer and wrote in custom shortcodes to display various sorts of posts in pages. In the end, this wound up being by far the most complicated site I've built in WordPress, even though there isn't actually a great deal of content there!
This website showcases the work of a henna and face paint artist. Built in WordPress for ease of maintenance, it uses a simple, stripped-down template that focuses on the work and provides basic information about availability. The gallery is custom-designed and built.
The key design challenges here were, first, branding — to make the site reflect the artist's visually innovative but very friendly approach — and making clear that "face paint" means far more than Hallowe'en costumes and the table at the county fair!
]]>But I wonder whether those "school stories" are more important than Lewis realized. The problem, as Lewis himself suggested, is that it isn't the stated moral of a story that matters but the one that "arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind." That's true of a story; it's also true, I think, of life. If a story's true moral is an expression of the world in which the story takes place, so are the morals children learn apt to be an expression of the world in which they live, rather than those made by exceptional literature. Too often we think of raising children to live virtuously as a matter of deliberate teaching and putting the right examples in front of them — or else we react against that notion as being uncomfortably propagandistic. I was struck by the reaction of some of the authors interviewed in the Guardian story, like that of Jon Klassen, a Caldecott medal-winning author and illustrator, who says it "gets tricky when you begin to see these books primarily as tools to promote certain kinds of behaviour, in any direction."
Primarily, no. The point is not that children's books are or ought to be propaganda: if they were, they'd be easier to ignore. Those posters from the Second World War reminding Americans that to drive alone was to drive with Hitler were laughable even at the time. When I was eight or nine years old I found a collection of "Bedtime Stories," four volumes, red-bound, all very didactic, in which irritatingly virtous children were rewarded and the greedy and unkind got their comeuppances, always in the convenient span of three or four pages. I was well aware I was being preached at. There was no mistaking the propaganda. Real kids did not act like this, and effect did not follow cause ever so neatly in my world; they might as well have been fairy tales, if thoroughly dreary ones. Stories like that seem to have fallen out of favor — those volumes were pretty dusty even when I found them; now we send our kids to school and use lesson plans instead, which are equally laughable.
The problem, then, isn't that books are primarily preaching materialistic values; that would make them propaganda, and kids would see through it — if it didn't mesh with the norm of their world. And there's the problem: the norm. It isn't the deliberate propaganda that's dangerous but the themes so pervasive even their authors don't notice them — not the statements of how things ought to be but of how things are. Consider Chris Raschka's A Ball for Daisy, highlighted in the study: "a wordless picture book in which Daisy the dog loves her ball, only to have it broken by another dog. Daisy plunges into sadness, but is given a new ball the next day and her happiness returns." Dog-gets-ball, dog-loses-ball, dog-gets-new-ball-and-lives-happily-ever-after: doesn't everybody like getting new stuff? Doesn't it make everyone happy? Of course the author isn't deliberately preaching materialism as an ideal. Books like this don't define an ideal but a norm, and that's far more worrisome.
Children may be inspired by literature, yes, but more than anything they will want to fit in. They may listen politely to an adult's view of how the world ought to be, but they will look keenly at how the world is and try to adapt themselves to it. If you are a parent who wants to raise your children to be virtuous adults — kind, generous, grateful, courageous, reverent of what deserves to be revered, not overly enamored with material and created things — then your challenge is to make the world seem like a kind, generous, grateful, courageous place, at least until your kids are old enough to have internalized those virtues strongly enough that they can stand in the face of opposition.
This is, of course, extraordinarily difficult to do. It's impossible to do alone, much as your own example matters. You'll need a community that models those virtues, that at least accepts that they are virtues and tries actively to emobdy them. Literature helps to some extent by reinforcing that norm, enriching it, expanding it, building upon it. And, in the case of fairy tales, pointing beyond it to ideals that we should reach but can't grasp; but mainly, I think, by defining the norm rather than highlighting the exception. Norm, after all, is both descriptive and prescriptive, but it has to be descsriptive in order to have prescriptive power.
Now, a lot of people will be offended by this sort of talk. One is accused of "sheltering" children. "They're going to have to be out in the world someday!" I hear, and yes, they will: they're going to have to drive a car, someday, too, but not at age five, not even at thirteen when their feet reach the pedals — and driving a car is a heck of a lot easier than living well. I hear echoes of Lewis' complaint that fairy stories are accused of "giving children a false impression of the world they live in," but also of Lewis' own complaint that school stories raise false expectations. To the extent that the world they live in is vain, ungrateful, materialistic, shallow, greedy, and rapturously irreverent, I say that maybe the world they live in really is not the best example for children. But you don't have to pretend that exceptions don't exist, that the bad isn't out there — just insist that the good is the norm, to describe so that you can prescribe.
"But surely," says Australian author Freya Blackwood, "it is the parents' responsibility to choose books to read to their children that represent their beliefs, or to discuss a book's content with the child." Choose, yes, though when an author says that, it strikes me as a bit of a cop-out. But moralizing after the finis is a weak remedy. If you feel you have to discuss a picture book's content with your five year-old in that didactic corrective way, either the book wasn't particularly good, or you really shouldn't have chosen it, or you're just an ass. A book ought to speak for itself, especially one so short and visual. There will be exceptions; I usually run into them reading nineteenth-century literature, which is full of wonderful characters, enthralling stories, beautiful language, but also distressing caricatures of anybody who isn't of good Saxon ancestry. No book is perfect. If bedtime stories turn into MST3K or even a graduate seminar, though, it's time to rethink your reading strategy.
There is, in short, something to be said for false expectations. Faith may be at bottom a matter of false expectations — of acting as though we expect the good, even while having sense enough not really to expect it. When I lost my job a couple of years ago I found, among other things, that I could not face the "modern" fiction I'd stacked up to read, by which I mean naturalistic fiction set in the present about real people doing real things. Real reality was trouble enough without piling on. I read some historical fiction, I read some magic realism. But I read Wendell Berry's fiction — voraciously. I'd read nearly all his essays and much of his poetry, but none of his fiction. I read Jayber Crow, and that was what I needed: here was a portrayal of ordinary people, struggling with ordinary things (that reflected nonetheless broader and even cosmic struggles), often failing — there are no tacked-on happy endings, no implausible optimism — but ultimately trying just to be decent to one another. (I could have re-read The Hobbit, as I did now with my daughter, but that would only have given me courage to face dragons, not dumbasses.) It was, perhaps, in Lewis' words, a "school story," realistic on its face and yet not quite naturalistic, just the sort of thing that might fool me into thinking that the world really was like that — or at least that it could be. But, you know, I needed to be fooled just then. Now and then I still do. We all do, I think.
]]>The first half of the article describes the game's history, starting with its invention amid the spiritualism of the late 19th century, when it was fairly common for people to try to communicate with the dead. What I found most interesting (and should perhaps have seen coming) was that it was not preachers but professional spirit mediums who got most ticked off by the Ouija board, because it put them out of work. At the time, spiritualism was seen as perfectly compatible with Christianity — at least with mainstream American Christianity, which has historically been fairly pragmatic. It was the 1973 movie The Exorcist that scared people into believing in demons again and made the Ouija board an object of suspicion. (I recall that by the time I was in high school the only reason it interested me was that it was [seen as] dangerous.)
The second half of the article, which describes researchers' attempts to explain how the board actually "works," is equally interesting, even though (or, to me, because) it's largely an exercise in circular logic. The board's workings are attributed to the "ideometer effect," to unconscious movements that seem to the individual to be beyond his or her control, that are in fact beyond his or her conscious control. As Frank Hyman explains, "honest, intelligent people can unconsciously engage in muscular activity that is consistent with their expectations." Fair enough, and easily proven, as it was in the nineteenth century, well before the Ouija board was invented. But that fact doesn't disprove the existence of a spirit world, nor the ability of spirits to communicate with humans via the ideometer effect. I can grab someone's arm and make it move; if spirits exist, and if the spiritual realm can interact with the physical, then spirits could do the same. But I can also plant unconscious suggestions in a person's mind — advertising does this all the time — as could spirits, given the same assumptions about their existence and potency. The fact that human beings can manipulate another human being's unconscious mind and thus produce a motor response does not disprove the existence or potency of spirits. (There have been cases of scientific fraud; does that disprove the value of the scientific method?) More broadly, finding the physical means by which any allegedly spiritually-driven action occurs says nothing about its origin. For those skeptical about the potency of spirits but not necessarily their existence, in fact, the ideometer effect provides a more plausible explanation of how they might work. To someone inclined to physical explanations of physical phenomena, the human unconscious is where the spiritual and physical worlds might reasonably interact. The ideometer effect is, to that way of thinking, merely the mechanism by which spirits operate, the means of motion but not its origin.
This experiment at the University of British Columbia, for example, does not necessarily
Their initial experiments involved a Ouija-playing robot: Participants were told that they were playing with a person in another room via teleconferencing; the robot, they were told, mimicked the movements of the other person. In actuality, the robot's movements simply amplified the participants' motions and the person in the other room was just a ruse, a way to get the participant to think they weren't in control. Participants were asked a series of yes or no, fact-based questions ("Is Buenos Aires the capital of Brazil? Were the 2000 Olympic Games held in Sydney?") and expected to use the Ouija board to answer.
What the team found surprised them: When participants were asked, verbally, to guess the answers to the best of their ability, they were right only around 50 percent of the time, a typical result for guessing. But when they answered using the board, believing that the answers were coming from someplace else, they answered correctly upwards of 65 percent of the time. "It was so dramatic how much better they did on these questions than if they answered to the best of their ability that we were like, 'This is just weird, how could they be that much better?'" recalled Fels. "It was so dramatic we couldn't believe it." The implication was, Fels explained, that one's non-conscious was a lot smarter than anyone knew.
The only way to prove that implication, though, would be to ask the subjects questions whose answers they could not possibly have known. But even that wouldn't necessarily convince anyone who didn't want to be convinced — and perhaps not because they were irrational but simply because the evidence isn't necessarily sufficient to the conclusion. So the answers are coming from my "unconscious," I might say. Fine. What is the unconscious, exactly? Ppsychologists debate that. All we can say for sure is that we do stuff without understanding why we do it or even recognizing our agency. We know a good deal about what it (or "it") does, but so did medieval people; they just attributed their unconscious desires and actions to original sin or demons or the workings of the Holy Spirit. A lot of recent psychological research on the limitations of conscious reason don't dispel religious belief in the spirit or soul but only the Enlightenment faith in the power of human reason, which makes it ironic that rational atheists use brain research as a basis of demonstrating… well, anything rational, really. Even our definitions of consciousness are vague, descriptive, and necessarily circular, since we're forced to produce the definition by using the thing we're defining.
This is the fundamental problem with atheist apologetics: You can't disprove the nonexistence of something that has been posited to exist outside your system of logic, and attempts to do so nearly always fall back on the premise that nothing exists outside that system. (The idea that you could disprove such a thing, as a pure matter of logic, was disproven by Gödel's incompleteness theorem, but surely also by common sense.) Of course, it's also the fundamental problem with Christian apologetics; neither sort is likely to convince a thinking person who didn't already want to agree.
None of this is to say that I believe that Ouija boards "work" in the way that they're supposed to, or to get into debates about what various kinds of divination might or might not be good for. Per the UBC study, I'm perfectly willing to believe that a Ouija board is an excellent tool for memory recall. But it's worth pointing out, as I do with resigned amusement, the assumption behind that Smithsonian article that spirits do not exist, an assumption McRobbie uses to demonstrate that the Ouija board's workings are entirely material in origin. "The board does offer a link between the known and the unknown," she concludes, "Just not the unknown that everyone wanted to believe it was." But her readers, I suspect, like most Westerners today, want to believe that the unknown is inside them — just as fervently as Americans of the nineteenth century wanted to believe it was outside, and with equal disdain for competing opinions, and with no more or less evidence for that belief. Like Fox Mulder, we believe what we want to believe, and whether our faith is constructive or destructive has far more to do with how we use it than with whether we can justify it to anybody else. Or even to ourselves.
]]>Some of the new research on possible causes of obesity is fascinating. New theories emerge continually, many of them at best inconsistent and at worst contradictory. But what interests me more is the debate that research sparks, which seems, at least in the popular arena, to be less about what actually causes obesity than about whose fault it is. It's a subtle but important difference: the former is (largely, at least) a scientific question; the latter makes it a political or a philosophical one — and is, it seems to me, a thoroughly unhelpful approach.
The simplest and most obvious thing, which most Americans have done, is to blame fat people for the choices that made them fat. If we ate less and exercised more, as our ancestors did, then we'd weigh less. The logic comforts thin people (your obesity is your problem, not mine) as well as those who like to think themselves of scientific mind: calories in, calories out; it's just simple thermodynamics — right?
But, as David Berreby writes in Aeon, scientific investigations into obesity consistently complicate that notion. Metabolisms vary. Some foods seem to change the body's metabolism. So may environmental chemicals. Temperature and sleeplessness have an impact. A child born of an undernourished woman will carry a propensity to hold onto every calorie — and thus, if later immersed in abundance rather than scarcity, tend toward obesity, leading to what Jonathan C. K. Wells calls the "metabolic ghetto." Industrialization, Wells argues, first created scarcity for the lower classes, which caused them to develop a tendency to store fat; now their descendants live in an environment rich with food, but are able to afford only food that also tends to promote obesity. Berreby explains:
If you or your parents – or their parents – were undernourished, you're more likely to become obese in a food-rich environment. Moreover, obese people, when they have children, pass on changes in metabolism that can predispose the next generation to obesity as well. Like the children of underfed people, the children of the overfed have their metabolism set in ways that tend to promote obesity. This means that a past of undernutrition, combined with a present of overnutrition, is an obesity trap.
Perhaps most troubling is that even our domestic animals — even laboratory animals — are experiencing similar weight gain:
Consider, for example, this troublesome fact, reported in 2010 by the biostatistician David B Allison and his co-authors at the University of Alabama in Birmingham: over the past 20 years or more, as the American people were getting fatter, so were America's marmosets. As were laboratory macaques, chimpanzees, vervet monkeys and mice, as well as domestic dogs, domestic cats, and domestic and feral rats from both rural and urban areas. In fact, the researchers examined records on those eight species and found that average weight for every one had increased. The marmosets gained an average of nine per cent per decade. Lab mice gained about 11 per cent per decade. Chimps, for some reason, are doing especially badly: their average body weight had risen 35 per cent per decade. Allison, who had been hearing about an unexplained rise in the average weight of lab animals, was nonetheless surprised by the consistency across so many species. 'Virtually in every population of animals we looked at, that met our criteria, there was the same upward trend,' he told me.
It isn't hard to imagine that people who are eating more themselves are giving more to their spoiled pets, or leaving sweeter, fattier garbage for street cats and rodents. But such results don't explain why the weight gain is also occurring in species that human beings don't pamper, such as animals in labs, whose diets are strictly controlled. In fact, lab animals' lives are so precisely watched and measured that the researchers can rule out accidental human influence: records show those creatures gained weight over decades without any significant change in their diet or activities. Obviously, if animals are getting heavier along with us, it can't just be that they're eating more Snickers bars and driving to work most days. On the contrary, the trend suggests some widely shared cause, beyond the control of individuals, which is contributing to obesity across many species.
And Berreby doesn't even get into the problem of willpower itself — that the simple act of exercising one's will saps it, that the sheer number of choices the typical Americans are required to make in a day wears down our ability to choose wisely. (I know: poor us. It's a first-world problem — but then so is obesity.) And the resulting despair, lowered self-esteem, or whatever you wish to call it, further lowers our resistance to temptation.
Whatever the validity of any single theory, it seems clear that to blame obesity entirely on a failure of individual will is simplistic; other factors must be at work. But the fact that one answer is simplistic does not make its opposite any less so. It doesn't automatically follow that individual will plays no part at all in weight gain, but Berreby seems loathe to discuss, for example, variations within similar populations in which choice may be a factor. Some people in similar situations gain more weight than others, and some do manage to lose weight and keep it off. Why?
Berreby writes a fascinating article, but he seems no less than his imagined opponents to be looking for someone or something to blame — be it biology, society, government, environment, or global corporations. He wants to find "the real causes of the trouble" so that we can fix it. But though he insists that we must do something even without all the information we need, he offers no specific ideas other than some vague thoughts about reforming the global food system — which is, he admits, "a tall order." Color me skeptical. I agree that telling everybody to eat less and exercise more isn't enough, but plopping down on the couch and tearing into another bag of Doritos while we wait for the reform of the global food system doesn't seem any more productive. Gluttony may not be the only route to obesity, but it will sure get you there.
The comments on the article, which stretch on for approximately half the length of Wikipedia, dive straight into antagonistic oversimplification and remain there. Most lay the blame somewhere specific. "For me, the pervasive problem is…" Others simply insist that willpower isn't the answer: "Believe me, I've tried everything. Those who say it's just a matter of willpower don't know what they're talking about and can go perform a physical impossibility on themselves." And on the other side, sarcastically: "Shut up, we're getting fat because of magic, not because we're eating more and moving less!"
The core of the debate is milennia old, though it has taken different forms: fate versus free will, original sin versus free will, individual choice versus social forces, nature versus nurture. I recall my high school AP English class, in which, after reading Oedipus Tyrannus, we debated whether human lives were truly governed by fate or by free will. The dilemma, I argued (being then nearly as contrary as I am now) was false: surely free will doesn't mean we always get what we want, because the free will of others comes into play. You have your free will; they have theirs. Sometimes you lose. I don't recall my teacher's response except that I found it unsatisfactory. Whether she didn't understand my point, or was irritated that I was disrupting her neatly designed lesson, or thought I simply wasn't being any fun, I don't know. But the debate went on. It still does.
Of course neither side can prove their principles; to every point there is a counterpoint. I'm reminded of Richard Feynman's experience of hypnosis. As a young man, Feynman was inclined to believe hypnosis a scam, but being a good scientist (and being, well, Feynman) he decided to try it out for himself. He attended a demonstration by a hypnotist and volunteered to be a subject. And of course, once the hypnotist had gone to work, Feynman did precisely what he was told. He believed at the time that he was following orders simply to help the demonstration go more smoothly, and that the hypnotist wasn't actually controlling him at all. Later, though, he realized that the key point was that he had gone along. If he had possessed free will, why hadn't he exercised it? At the very least, he couldn't prove that he had retained free will under hypnosis, and that therefore it hadn't worked. Of course he still couldn't prove that hypnosis really worked, either — but he was forced to take the possibility seriously.
Most of us, being less experimentally inclined than Feynman and considerably less comfortable with simply not knowing something, pick a side in the debate and stick to it — typically whichever one is most com. Why is it so hard to accept that, while we are free to make choices, our choices are constrained, and the efficacy of our actions is limited? Because it's so much easier not to accept it. If we are free to choose, then we must also be responsible for our choices. But if our choices are constrained and their efficacy limited, then we cannot be held entirely responsible for their consequences. That isn't quite a contradiction, but it's a paradox. Westerners, at least, tend to be deeply uncomfortable with paradox.
Westerners seem also to be deeply uncomfortable with the idea that we can't simply make things work. That we can shape the world to our will is a core belief of the modern era, and its corollary is that if we cannot shape the world, then it must be because we have no free will. It seems to be easier for us to give up the idea of free will, at least in philosophic principle and public policy, then to give up the conviction of our own efficacy. If we can't blame fat people for being fat, then we must blame biology or history so that we can craft public policies to solve the problem — so that we can do something else. The impulse to want to do something is noble enough; what troubles me is the assumption that it's surely going to work — and that if it doesn't, that too must be somebody's fault. Even Berreby, for all the complexity and confusion he offers, can't seem to let to that assumption. "One possible response," he observes, "…is to decide that no obesity policy is possible, because 'science is undecided'. But this is a moron's answer: science is never completely decided." Yet he offers no specific prescriptions as to what we should do — while proactively blaming those who prescribe wrongly. "History is not kind," he concludes, "to authorities whose mistaken dogmas cause unnecessary suffering and pointless effort, while ignoring the real causes of trouble." True enough, but not entirely fair, and utterly unhelpful.
Berreby has described a problem so complicated that we ought at least to entertain the possibility that it is, on a grand scale, intractable — that it has so many interlocking causes and effects that we cannot untangle them, nor perhaps even identify them. But Berreby cannot, apparently, do this, and neither can any of the commenters whose responses I read (a tiny fraction, I admit, of the whole). It seems to me that his very argument — that people's choices are limited, that free will does not have free rein, and that scientific knowledge is ever fallible — ought to shape his conclusions. Yet his faith in our collective ability to exercise our free will over ourselves is unshaken, and so he offers no more forgiveness to those who fail to exercise their free will with perfect efficacy over public policy than free will's champions offer to the morbidly obese.
And forgiveness, I think, is crucial. Sometimes you can't do much, but you have to do it anyway. We are bound to try, but with an acceptance that we are limited in our knowledge and in our abilities. And since we are limited, we are bound to be forgiving of failure — we must forgive others when they fail, and ourselves when we fail. And then we're bound to get up and try again. It's not a comfortable situation to be in, and I don't know how anyone could find comfort in it without religion to explain and support it. But if there's a "solution" to obesity, or to any of the other great debated problems of our age, I suspect that's where it lies.


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Come on Dermo! Only another hundred runs to go son.
Come on Dermo! Only another hundred runs to go son.
Tassie claim first innings points.
The biggest failure was Nevill who was outscored by everyone in the top 8 from both sides.
NRL Tipping Champion 2014
get ya jabs in when you can N00fers
Only reason I follow NSW Cricket these days.
I hope Tassie bat with some intent here and either bowl a short 4-5 over spell at NSW tonight or declare overnight and set around 330.
Over 79.4: Richardson to Finch, no run, OUT, gets an outswinger which he prods at, it take the outside edge and is taken low down at 1st slip. He doesn't want to go but has to.
97 of the best
Indians can't bowl - Where has the rumour come from as I myself and many indian friends arwe competent fast bowlers ?
With the English bid I said: Let us be brief. If you give back the Falkland Islands, which belong to us, you will get my vote. They then became sad and left
Ha poor old Arun. Even when he does well he fails.
Finch nearing a ton, this will dramatically shift his average up to 11.65* for 12 months.
aww apparently I am so behind, what is cricinfo up to?
*based on the Fibonacci number sequence
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Fast Ed denies SOK the hatty, but doesn't see out the over. Bye Ed.
Getting back on the KFC training program working wonders for Cossie.
**** sake D00lander. This is why people can't feel too bad about him not nailing on a test spot. He takes his chance in one of these innings where he's got himself in and Bailey is one fail away from a Golden D00lan Debut. He just hasn't made that century at the perfect time to make him impossible to overlook. Killing me.
Parmi | #1 draft pick | Jake King is **** | Big Bash League tipping champion of the universeCome and Paint Turtle
Can someone please show Cossie a photo of some vegetables or something?
Although I suppose it won't be long till his lack of condition gets him out short of 100 again. #fingerscrossed
Tim Paine - declining to score a First Class hundred for 2597 days.
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WASHINGTON - Foreign leaders are deterred from launching a major electronic attack on vital infrastructure in the United States because they know such a strike could be traced to its source and would generate a robust response, the military's top cyber warrior said during congressional testimony Tuesday. But Army Gen. Keith Alexander, head of U... more
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- Posted by ken_adrian MI z5 (My Page) on Wed, Jul 2, 14 at 16:10
isnt it a thrill ... they look just like they did last week.. when i visited Hs ... i would tape them up well ... goodly ... more betterer ... whatever ... and i would snip off the flowers for transplant ... ken |
- Posted by timhensley 5VT (My Page) on Wed, Jul 2, 14 at 17:02
Lucky you! Enjoy them... |
- Posted by hostahosta Z6OH (My Page) on Wed, Jul 2, 14 at 17:52
Well, list the names! What did you get? |
- Posted by Don_in_Colorado 6a (My Page) on Wed, Jul 2, 14 at 18:11
Awesome, gotta love it. In my opinion, it's better than Christmas...No In-Laws!! What did you get??? Do I see a Sagae in there? Perhaps a June Fever?? Don B. |
It is better than Christmas, no cooking either! :) Nice haul! Looking forward to more pictures and hearing what each one is! |
That's like teasing!! Got to let us know what you got. Enjoy them all! |
- Posted by luckyladyslipper MA 5b-6a (My Page) on Wed, Jul 2, 14 at 19:40
I ordered 2 Queen Josephines (to go near 2 Gold Standards); 1 Teaspoon (because I seem to always buy variegated, Large or Giant ones); and Undulata (because I no longer had any from my mother's garden). Then, Chris added a Justine as a bonus. Got all in the ground except Justine, as I hadn't had a place picked out for her. So, Ken, what do you mean "I would tape them up well?" |
- Posted by moccasinlanding z9A AL (My Page) on Wed, Jul 2, 14 at 21:16
This is amazing getting plants that look great in July. Most places around here that still have some either look like crap or I already have. I am getting an order shipped to me from Ontario, this order has ten plants in there, I hope they are as nice as what you just got. Michelle |
Mocc, what's that hosta you have taped up in your last pic on the right? It says Island Charm, but can't tell if it's that one or the one behind it. Looks too big for Island Charm, what is it? Huh, huh, huh????? :) |
- Posted by MadPlanter1 5 Nebraska (My Page) on Wed, Jul 2, 14 at 21:51
Have fun- they look like they just came out of the ground, not a shipping carton. In case you didn't catch it in Mocc's instructions, DO NOT use the blue tape. It sticks too hard and will rip leaves. You want tape with just enough grip to hold onto itself for a couple weeks. |
- Posted by moccasinlanding z9A AL (My Page) on Wed, Jul 2, 14 at 22:33
Ah yes, Funn. The tall guy is Summer Serenade. The greenie on its left is the sport I removed from it. Major surgery, it was two complete eyes of green. Since it is a sort of lime green, I was hoping it was a reversion to Piedmont Gold, which I lost during the winter. But, it did not show signs of going gold on me, so I went ahead and ordered Piedmont Gold in my EMERGENCY order. I would like to see what the greenie sport could be. It has a leaf shape like its parent Summer Serenade. That gives me two new greenies this year. For sure Summer Serenade's is a sport grown from the crown. I had to cut it off. The other greenie is one I removed from Brother Stefan. It was NOT part of the crown, it was a separate eye. Which makes me wonder if it was a tissue culture failure. It came from Naylor and the Boyz frequently put two separate eyes into a plant to make one plant order.This particular Brother Stefan arrived March 2013 from Naylor....so don't think Bro Stefan sported, It was TC process. Is that too much info? :) |
- Posted by luckyladyslipper MA 5b-6a (My Page) on Wed, Jul 2, 14 at 22:43
Thanks Mocc and MadPlanter. I'll go out tomorrow and do what I can. I do know that Hallsons dug them immediately before shipping, and they arrived a day or 2 after they were shipped. I can't imagine a better company to order from. But it will still be a shock to the plants, so I may try taping them. Thanks again for the lesson. |
My gosh you guys are all so full of information no matter which thread I read. I have lost tags on mine before and now that I am INTO hostas I'm not good at identifying or knowing who the parents are or if its a sport or hybrid or what have you. Learn learn learn right??? |
Nice haul, and a lot of great info. Gotta get some tape. :) this forum is full of invaluable knowledge! I bought one of the saucer sleds to drag plants around in that was a recommendation of someone's. I went to a church sale and got an old metal one for $2, it's better than a wheelbarrow. And would love to see pics of them planted too. |
- Posted by moccasinlanding z9A AL (My Page) on Wed, Jul 2, 14 at 23:34
A SAUCER SLED? Is it really a sled? I've never seen a sled such as a saucer. However, I bet it is close to a copper fire pit which sits on a wrought iron tubular stand. I was thinking of planting the fire pit with miniatures and ornamenting it with miniature garden art items (Ritten House order arrived from Canada!). But if it works better than a wheelbarrow, I could use the firepit like you plan to use your saucer sled. Maybe try dragging it down my mulched paths instead of a dolly that balks at crossing the stepping stones. Sounds like a great idea. |
- Posted by Don_in_Colorado 6a (My Page) on Thu, Jul 3, 14 at 0:20
Mocc, Yes indeed, my friend, I saw a record number of the saucer sleds here in Colorado last winter. The kids just love 'em. Here's a cool Batman one. Spoiled little brat in the pic could at least LOOK happy. Kids these days! Don B. |
yup moc, it is like a giant frisbie. We had blue and red ones years ago, with cute little plastic handle things to carry them with, or hold on to when spinning down the hill ... then we had snowball fights and used them as shields … Hated it. ha! dkB |
- Posted by moccasinlanding z9A AL (My Page) on Thu, Jul 3, 14 at 17:54
Bragu, took one look at the picture and decided, FRISBEE. Then read your post. I think maybe I could use my copper fire pit which is a bit of that shape, although it would make a great mini hosta planter. But I'll give it a go. Two bucks is plenty cheap but free is even better. :) When we moved contents of my DH's home south, one thing we brought was his cross country skis. I plan to hang them crossed in one end of my Teahouse studio. He could not part with them. Not much snow in these parts you know. Not even on the worst winter's day. |
Every gardener needs a saucer sled, because you can easily place a large hosta or a small conifer on it and drag it across the lawn and landscape to its new location. I did that small conifer dragging across the street to my neighbor. This transport works very nicely. Soil will mostly stay on the roots, especially when you tie it together with burlap. Bernd |
Cool idea, but for me I like better my wagon. Its actually a yardworks wagon meant for doing yard work and hauling stuff. Use it all the time. |
- Posted by moccasinlanding z9A AL (My Page) on Thu, Jul 3, 14 at 21:53
I have a really nice wagon. I can take the sides off etc, and haul bags, or put the liner on and haul loose mix or mulch or manure....whatever..... However, lifting a heavy pot on/off te wagon is a bit much for me these days. I like the idea of simply rolling some heavy rootball or heavy pot onto the sled no lifting UP just sliding on and off. I save my strength for more productive labor, i.e. bending my elbow after the sun is over the yardarm. :) |
Hahaha moccasinlanding, funny!! It totally makes sense what you just said, I am not strong either, if its too heavy for me I wait for the hubby! :) :) |
Luckyladyslipper, great Xmas in July. I'm looking forward to your Xmas in August. I'm getting on in years (and so is hubby). I'm all for moccasin's method for bending elbow... in moderation that is. |
- Posted by moccasinlanding z9A AL (My Page) on Fri, Jul 4, 14 at 23:27
Irawon, my hero of American history, bless his heart, was a man who believed "all things in moderation." Except women, I'm afraid. ......Benjamin Franklin. In my case, everything except hostas. |
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ATLANTA - Speakers honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Monday at his spiritual home in Atlanta repeated the same message: We've come a long way, but there's still a lot left to be done to fulfill King's dream. King's daughter, the Rev.
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Dark ruby with a pale rim, like all the 2004s. Light but satisfyingly autumnal nose. Very rich palate attack for a 2004 – bravo! Really resonates and reverberates. Quite tense and concentrated. A real testament to Grand Cru terroir. Rich and great zest. Already giving lots of pleasure. Long. Still evolving. Relatively racy for a Roche though none the worse for it.
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Your Words Saved Me: NH parallels itselfJiraya is the only who carries his nindo and repeats outloud (Tsunade as well); Naruto's reaction is realizing something about Hinata both timesThisto thisto now thisI'm sensing a trend here: Hinata gives him words of encouragement and Naruto responds by surviving or surpassing whatever obstacle he's facing. Also it seems that after hearing what she has to say, his resolve in himself is restored and his confidence restored.And let's not forgetwhere it's all in the eyes.How about the first time Naruto purposely used Kurama's chakra in battle compared to he broke his promise NOT to use it's power anymore:and who was the first person he thought of after using the power in these
About Naruto's power transfer
From Hinata, To Narutofrrom hereAlso Black Rabbits And White Robins has a working title! I'm calling the first book Memory Game!
Some Friendly Reminders About Naruto 631Friendly reminder: Minato doesn't know Sakura or speak for Sakura.Friendly reminder: Minato doesn't know what Hinata did for NarutoFriendly reminder: Sakura is still in love with SasukeFriendly reminder: Sakura hit Naruto for making tasteless jokesFriendly reminder: Kushina confirmed Naruto is like her too.Friendly reminder: Naruto sounded unsure about Minato's commentFriendly reminder: Naruto hasn't forgotten about HinataFriendly reminder: Hinata didn't care when Sakura hugged Naruto and she won't care about this.Friendly reminder: This is all comedy relief
TOFATL Where The Sunshine GrowsThe Orange Fox And The Lioness: Where The Sunshine GrowsPupil-less eyes blinked in confusion. Who would do such a thing like this? It was a question that was on her, as well as her fellow classmates, mind. Hinata was hardly paying attention to the lesson about chakra control. The large container full of sunflowers sitting before her was currently distracting her.It didn't help that every time her young mind would attempt to bring her to focus, she would always end up making eye contact with another one of the girls. The only thing the shy girl could do in that situation was look away, hide her blushing face behind the plants. The heiress couldn't help but remember the others reaction to the gift. There had been such a chatter surrounding a wall flower like her. Everyone was full of questions and comments, most of which she had ignored because 1) she was too embarrassed to speak, cheeks redder than a cherry and 2) her mind was still trying to wrap on who could have possibly giv
Just gonna leave this here632 according to everyone not a desperate NS fan1. Naruto says he won't joke around with Sakura ever again. Heavily implies he was joking in his response last chapter which disproves this idea that he's still "in love" with Sakura and that the hand holding with Hinata was totally platonic. So NH isn't dead like NS is so desperately trying to claim it is.Which brings me to point number2. Hinata is not blushing at Kiba, that is a very evident scrape from wiping the battlefield with Zetsu's for nearly 48 hours straight. Her stutter doesn't indicate romantic interest. Kiba is not romantically interested in Hinata. Hinata is not moving on to Kiba in response to Naruto's lines last chapter. She gives no fucks. NH is still very much alive. KibaHina is crack and will forever be such.3. Sakura was blushing as Sasuke landed at her side after he and Naruto protected her from Juubi, it was not dirt, it was not a bruise. She is still very much in love with Sasuke and does not consider Naruto a


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Looks like Florida's Jeb Hensarling is also angling for a leadership position:
Hensarling Statement on Elections
"Republicans have experimented with Big Government and it has failed. The era of Republican Big Government is over"WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Jeb Hensarling (TX-05) today issued the following this morning following Republican election losses:
"I am extremely disappointed with the outcome of today's elections. Our party will see many good public servants leave our ranks, taking our Majority with them. I am deeply saddened by their departure, and I wish each of my departing colleagues and their families the very best.
"With loss comes a time for reflection. As Republicans, it is time for our party to look in the mirror and reflect on where we have gone wrong. Today, the American people have sent us a clear message, and that message is that we've deviated from our principles and values.
"The American people empowered us because of a shared commitment to reform government, to balance federal budgets, and to promote individual freedom while remaining true to our American values. Instead, over the last several years, Republicans have experimented with big government, and we have now seen the result. The Bridge to Nowhere has led us here. The era of Republican Big Government is over.
"There is no doubt that great anxiety over the War in Iraq played a role in our defeat. There is also no doubt that the American people and our fellow Republicans grew sick and tired of the scandals that too often plagued our Majority. Yet, all of the problems that have led to the defeat of our Majority are traceable back to one issue: an out-of-control government.
"To return to our Majority, we must renew our commitment to the principles of Ronald Regan and the Contract of America. Our core vision of limited government, individual empowerment, a strong national defense and traditional values enabled us to effectively establish a trust with the American people. We will now return to these principles and communicate our vision effectively, building a new Republican Majority in the process."


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Companies outside the energy industry need about $5 billion from the fund, Ablay Myrzakhmetov, the head of business association Soyuz Atameken, told reporters today in the capital, Astana, citing preliminary estimates.
Kazakhstan, the largest oil producer in the former Soviet Union after Russia, plans to withdraw some of the billions of dollars it keeps with Western banks to fund projects designed to help diversify the economy away from resource extraction, President Nursultan Nazarbayev said last month.
The amount of financial assistance will be determined after discussions with the government, Myrzakhmetov said. Assets held by the National Oil Fund advanced 4.2 percent to $45.5 billion in January, the central bank said Feb. 7.
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Makes 4 cups
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
- 4 Braeburn apples, sliced crosswise into 1/8-inch-thick rounds
1. Heat oven to 225 degrees. Mix sugar and cinnamon in a bowl. Arrange apple slices on 2 baking sheets lined with parchment paper; sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Bake 1 hour; peel apples off parchment and return to paper. Continue baking until golden and crisp, 30 minutes more. Store in an airtight container up to 5 days.
Per serving (1 cup): 119 calories, 0 g fat, 31 g carbohydrates, 3 g fiber, 0 g protein
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type: Kid-Friendly, Quick & Easy
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Fraud investigators threw out hundreds of thousands of votes for President Hamid Karzai in the disputed August election, according to a report released on Monday. The findings set the stage for a runoff between him and his top challenger.
It was unclear, however, whether the Independent Election Commission would accept the findings of the U.N.-backed fraud panel and announce a runoff. Mr. Karzai's spokesman said it was too soon to make a judgment based on the figures released by the panel.
Two international officials familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press that the findings showed Mr. Karzai falling below the 50 per cent threshold needed to avoid a runoff with his chief rival, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah.
Preliminary results released last month showed Mr. Karzai winning the August 20 election with more than 54 per cent. However, allegations of widespread fraud prompted the investigation by the U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission and held up a final proclamation of a winner.
Investigators did not release enough figures to allow for an independent judgment, but it was clear that hundreds of thousands of Mr. Karzai's votes were voided. In all, more than 5 million votes were cast in the election.
"I don't think we can make any judgment based on the figures announced today," said Mr. Karzai's campaign spokesman Waheed Omar.
That has raised fears that the Karzai-influenced Election Commission may refuse to call for a runoff -- further delaying formation of a government that the U.S. believes is needed to help combat the growing Taliban insurgency.
A protracted crisis could also lead to political unrest. Hundreds of Mr. Karzai's supporters protested in the south over the weekend, calling for the electoral commission to release results quickly and saying they will reject a second round.
The White House says President Barack Obama will not send more U.S. troops until a credible government is in place.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and U.S. Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, were in Kabul last weekend urging the Afghans to resolve the standoff quickly.
Mr. Abdullah's campaign spokesman Fazel Sancharaki said the U.N.-backed panel "is under threat" from Mr. Karzai. He alleged the President was urging the Election Commission not to accept the results of the fraud probe.
"He's telling them not to accept the findings if they show less than 50 per cent for him. That's why the IEC is not accepting the final report," he said. "There is no end to this misery. Negotiations are still going on, but there is no agreement."
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Concert promoters AEG have released this one minute video, which features Michael Jackson, just 48 hours before his death, rehearsing for his upcoming shows in London. They believe it shows that Jackson was in good health, though very thin, and was physically ready for his draining concert series.
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Reviewed Parker House Rolls
Nov 17, 2011 in Food Network Community Toolbox on FoodNetwork.com
"I've made these twice now. The first time I foldeded them over with butter inside the dough and they were really tasty. I made these again last night and instead of folding them I arranged them in a circle in my largest cast iron skillet and smothered them with butter before baking. These again were absolutly tasty! Very light, soft and buttery. ..."
Reviewed Blackberry Grunt
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"I LOVED this! I'd never even heard of a grunt before watching this episode. The biscuits were delicous and soft (as I cooked them on the cook top)and the fruit was perfect.
The only thing I will do different next time is add a little less sugar."