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If you are organising an event to celebrate the International Year of Biodiversity, we encourage you to share your activities with us and everyone in your country. If you wish to see the information below in your official language, please send us a translation (.doc or .pdf) at
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National Celebrations
Autralia's Final Report for the International Year of Biodiversity 2010
The Australian
Biodiversity 2010 website
is a 'biodiversity hub' for events in Australia. Apply for funding, promote your biodiversity news and events, share your stories and ideas.
Activities for the International Year of Biodiversity (report by the Australian Government)
Biodiversity in Australia.
Western Australia Government's Department of Environment and Conservation
(DEC) has as its vision a healthy, diverse and well-managed environment. DEC employs some 1900 staff and manages more than 27 million hectares of lands and waters that make up Western Australia's system of national parks, marine parks and other protected areas, World Heritage sites, Ramsar wetlands and a renowned biodiversity 'hotspot' in the State's south-west. DEC carries out a great deal of biodiversity conservation work such as biodiversity mapping, the identification and recovery of threatened species, and many decades of widely respected scientific research.
The International Year of Biodiversity will be featured in the following:
magazine, an award-winning quarterly conservation, parks and wildlife publication now in its 25th year;
Environment and Conservation News
, a fortnightly electronic bulletin to DEC staff, volunteers and subscribers throughout Western Australia giving updates on important projects and achievements';
, a journal produced by the Western Australian Herbarium, which resides within DEC, providing original scientific papers on systematic botany, with a particular focus on the flora of Western Australia;
Conservation Science Western Australia
, a journal of papers by scientists and technical officers employed by DEC, produced to foster awareness, understanding and support for the science on which the department's nature conservation and natural resource management activities are based;
The History of the Western Australian Herbarium
, a book to be published in June 2010;
The DEC will have a new Biodiversity Conservation Science building, which will house the Western Australian Herbarium and which is due to be officially opened late in 2010.
The Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE)
This year, the Department of Sustainability and Environment is supporting the International Year of Biodiversity by raising awareness of the vital role that our natural living environment plays within Victoria.
Furthermore, DSE is recognising the International year of Biodiversity by integrating existing metropolitan and regional campaigns and events to enhance biodiversity in Victoria. These include:
Victoria's Land and Biodiversity White Paper – Securing Our Natural Future
Arthur Rylah Institute's 40th Anniversary
Celebrating National Biodiversity Month
World Environment Day –
World Environment Day Awards 2010 – Press Release
Zoos Victoria
There are a range of other ways
Zoos Victoria are helping you to help biodiversity this year
Act 4 Nature
Act 4 Nature is our latest campaign alongside our partners, Department of Sustainability and Environment, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Parks Victoria and Museum Victoria. In this year-long campaign celebrating the international Year of Biodiversity participants will pledge to take part in a particular target action each month, the outcomes of which promote conservation and sustainability.
Don't Palm us Off
The aim of this community campaign is to achieve mandatory labeling of palm oil in Australia, so we can then drive a consumer market for sustainable palm oil and help save the rainforests in Asia in particular which support animals such as the Sumatran tiger and the orang-utan. Over 80,000 people have signed our petition in support, and the campaign has inspired a bill to be entered into parliament which will be considered in May. Head to the website to find out how you can support the bill.
They're Calling on You
Africa's primates are calling on you to recycle your old mobile phones. By recycling your phone you help to lessen the demand for coltan, a metal mined within gorilla habitat and help raise funds to support primate conservation.
Fighting carbon with fire, Arnhem Land
What on Youtube
Caldera Art: Promoting Biodiversity Values in Australia's Green Cauldron
Dates and Venue
1 January - 31 December 2010
What's in your Backyard?
15 February 2010
Bush Blitz - Partnership to identify plants and animals in protected areas
7 March 2010
Clean-up Australia Day
10 March 2010
'International Year of Biodiversity: So what's biodiversity done for me? Why biodiversity matters: the economic, social and environmental perspectives'
19 - 21 March 2010
"Caring for the Kimberley" Environmental Forum
1 - 18 April 2010
BIOdiverseCITY Group Exhibition / Organized by At the Vanishing Point - Contemporary Art Inc.
11 - 16 April 2010
Healthy Parks Healthy People Congress 2010
22 April - 30 December 2010
Wild: Amazing Animals in a changing world
30 April - 21 December 2010
A Year of Wonder in the Island Arc
1 May - 10 December 2010
Diversity at Sea: Port River Dolphins
On the first Saturday of every month.
Biodiversity Talks: The Nature of Biodiversity
1 May - 30 September 2010
Parks Alive in the Top End
13 May 2010 - 20 January 2011
Super-crocodilians: Darwin's ultimate survival story
17 May 2010
Chilean Needle Grass ID Workshop
18 May 2010
"Discovery After Dark: an evening of science fun for grown-ups"
21 May 2010 - 31 August 2010
Marine Biodiversity Hub Exhibition – Ensuring a future for life in Australia's oceans
22 May 2010 - 19 September 2010
24 - 26 May 2010
2010 CERF Conference
28 May 2010
"Biodiversity in Crisis: Are we just fiddling while Rome burns?"
4 June - 1 July 2010
Celebrating Biodiversity with DECS
4 June 2010
UNAA World Environment Day Awards
5 - 6 June 2010
'Wild NT' Short film competition
5 - 6 June 2010
Tropical Garden Spectacular and Top End Sustainable Living Festival / Organized by Environment Centre NT, Australia
5 June 2010
LEAF Logan's Eco Action Festival
5 - 6 June 2010
2010 Top End Sustainable Living Festival
11 June 2010
Public Art Forum – Darwin City Centre Public Art Master Plan
23 June 2010
Taronga Dinner
30 June 2010
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 - New Guidelines in Section 516A
2 July - 17 December 2010
EnviroQuest 2010
13 July 2010 - 28 August 2010
Anzang Nature Photography
2 - 15 August 2010
Mystery Tours
2 - 13 August 2010
The Nature of Biodiversity
3 - 12 August 2010
Biodiversity Talks: The Nature of Biodiversity
5 - 27 August 2010
Khemia: Living Alchemy exhibition launch
15 - 22 August 2010
Biodiversity in the City
16 - 23 August 2010
The Murray and Riverina's best biodiversity pictures
20 - 21 August 2010
Darwin Fridge Festival
24 - 26 August 2010
4th Biennial International Leaders Conference
28 August 2010
Parkcare in the Molonglo Valley Workshop
31 August 2010
INPEX - Your Harbor & Your Climate
1 - 19 September 2010
Biodiversity Exhibition
6 - 8 September 2010
Speaking for Nature
1 - 4 October 2010
Caldera Art on Tour
15 - 16 October 2010
A Brush with Biodiversity
17 October 2010
Biodiversity Discovery Day
20 - 23 October 2010
2010 NELA National Conference: The Politics of Biodiversity
23 - 24 October 2010
Killarney Biodiversity Weekend
25 October - 31 December 2010
Express Yourself with "Tangle of Life"
19 November 2010
Zoofari Extravaganza
3 - 5 December 2010
Homage to the Seed
31 December 2010
NYE10 @ Taronga Zoo
AWMS Conference 2010 in Torquay Victoria
Please click here to view the recent newsletter (12 November 2010) about the AWMS Conference 2010.
1–18 April 2010
artists engage in the webs and the intertwinement of life in our urban worlds
Biodiversity: the diversity (number and variety of species) of plant and animal life within a region.
2010: The United Nations International Year of BIODIVERSITY
BIOdiverseCity: a group exhibition of contemporary art featuring 20-30 artists living and working in Sydney, Australia. Each artist has been asked to explore the biodiversity, and issues of biodiversity, of the environments that they traverse in the routines of their daily lives. From the parks and waterways, to the backyards and neighbourhoods, no stone will be left unturned (figuratively speaking) as artists engage in the webs and the intertwinement of life in our urban worlds.
More information
Perth Zoo
will promote the International Year of Biodiversity to schools and their target audience. The
Australian Museum
will have an exhibition running from May to September, and will promote the International Year of Biodiversity by producing promotional materials in the form of leaflets and flyers.
Augusta Margaret River Tourism Association
The Augusta Margaret River Tourism Association Inc. is an innovative, progressive trade association with a network of over 450 members. The Association is a focused, cohesive organisation with high values fostering excellence in sustainable tourism. The Augusta-Margaret River Tourism Association (Inc) is a not for profit organization with a Committee of Management elected by the membership.
Australasian Wildlife Management Society
The Australasian Wildlife Management Society (AWMS) promotes the study and application of scientific management of vertebrate fauna in the Australasian region. Australia and New Zealand have unique faunal biodiversities, much of which is threatened by predation and habitat change by humans, altered fire regimes, invasive species and climate change. AWMS, established in 1988, encourages the broader community to scientifically develop and implement plans to manage our fauna, and to review these plans within social, environmental, economic and political contexts. AWMS people include scientists, educators, students, wildlife managers, extension specialists and policy makers from all over Australia and New Zealand, and from other countries.
Australian Science
Australian Science is a privately-funded foundation dedicated to the online preservation of digital information, reference data, and scientific materials. Our aim is to establish a unified list of libraries, universities, and technology centres equally dedicated to this goal. Australian Science is one of the key partners within the network committed to the advancement of science both in Australia and worldwide.
Canberra Reptile Sanctuary
The Canberra Reptile Sanctuary is a not for profit association dedicated to research, conservation, and education and achieves these goals through public talks, the exhibition of reptiles, and research with affiliated Universities. Reptiles form a major part of the Australian landscape and are highly responsible for Australia being listed as one of the 17 Megadiverse countries of the world, thus, the Canberra Reptile Sanctuary has a strong focus on delivering this message so that people understand what we have, and live side by side with such amazing creatures.
Carbon Neutral
Carbon Neutral's mission is to reduce carbon emissions through education and revegetation. Carbon Neutral's revegetation projects are mostly bio-diverse plantings using local native seedlings. Site plans are designed in consultation with land owners to integrate into productive farming systems that may assist enhance long term farm productivity.
Council of Australasian Museum Directors (CAMD) International Year of Biodiversity project
During 2010, as part of the Council of Australasian Museum Directors (CAMD) International Year of Biodiversity project, museums across Australia are working with people and communities to discover, celebrate and promote biodiversity, and encourage participation in biodiversity events all around the country.
We are encouraging community groups to apply for seed funding of up to $5000 to establish programs that encourage Australians from all walks of life to explore the role of biodiversity in sustaining vital natural systems, and as a source of inspiration and cultural identity.
We have a Biodiversity2010 website which Australians can use to promote biodiversity news and events, share biodiversity ideas, stories, photos and videos, and find events and resources relating to biodiversity. We also have a Twitter site:
We are encouraging people to contact us and become part a world-wide effort to increase awareness of biodiversity and its importance, and to engage more people in its conservation.
Fauna & Flora International
FFI protects threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take account of human needs. Operating in more than 40 countries worldwide – mainly in the developing world – FFI saves species from extinction and habitats from destruction, while improving the livelihoods of local people. Founded in 1903, FFI is the world's longest established international conservation body and a registered charity. Fauna & Flora International is the world's longest established international conservation body, founded 100 years ago. Renowned for its science-based approach, FFI has pioneered sustainable conservation work that tackles problems holistically, providing solutions that simultaneously help wildlife, humans and the environment.<p>FFI acts to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and compatible with human needs FFI protects threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take account of human needs. Operating in more than 40 countries worldwide – mainly in the developing world – FFI saves species from extinction and habitats from destruction, while improving the livelihoods of local people. Founded in 1903, FFI is the world's longest established international conservation body and a registered charity.
Green Times
Green Times is a green journal and directory and our focus is to create a bridge between information and action. Our articles are easy to read and accessible to all. We really want our message to reach the mass. I have attached our logo for your consideration and of course any link you could post on us would be a great help.
Read the article about the International Year of Biodviersity
Kangaroo Island Natural Resources Management (NRM) Board - Australia
The Kangaroo Island Natural Resources Management (NRM) Board is responsible for managing, protecting and restoring Kangaroo Island's unique natural resources. It is the peak strategic body responsible for planning and coordinating regional natural resources management.
Kangaroo Island retains 40% native vegetation, native animals abound, some rivers are classed as the most pristine in South Australia, and we are rabbit and fox free.
The Board works with its community to protect and preserve water, land, biodiversity, and coast and marine environments. Its program areas are: coast and marine, feral animals and weeds, on-ground works, water resource management and community knowledge building.
Nature Skills
The Biodiversity is Life website is for young Australians to publish school and after-school biodiversity learning activities, views, ideas and plausible solutions for Australia's conservation challenges, and to learn about biodiversity from other young contributors on the website. We hope that through increased learning opportunities about the environment and ecosystems, young people will be inspired to take meaningful action as stewards of Australia's biodiversity.
New South Wales National Parks - Australia
The New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) has a long and proud history of protecting, conserving and managing an extraordinary diversity of flora, fauna, historic and cultural heritage around the state of NSW, for future generations to appreciate and enjoy. There are close to 800 national parks and reserves across NSW, including parks in four World Heritage Areas and six marine parks. In support of the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity, NPWS has launched Wild, Wild World, a campaign aiming to increase awareness of biodiversity and interaction with the natural environment. The campaign highlights a wide range of walks, talks and tours in NSW's national parks throughout the year. Encouraging participation in national parks, and exposing people to the natural beauty around them will help build knowledge about the importance of biodiversity while inspiring engagement with, and advocacy for, the environment. Visit
Parks Victoria - Australia
It is through the interaction of Healthy Parks and Healthy People that the immense public value and conservation of our natural estate is fully realised. Healthy Parks Healthy People is about protecting the earth's two most important assets – nature and humanity. [b] Parks Victoria exists to conserve, protect and enhance environmental and cultural assets. By responsibly meeting the needs of our community for quality information, services and experiences we contribute to the social and economic wellbeing of Victorians and provide excellence and innovation in park management
Tangle of Life
Our interactive website TANGLE OF LIFE showcases "the wealth of the world in the kingdoms of life". Find the best from biology about bacteria, protoctists, fungi, animals, plants and the archaea. Join in our IYB2010 special photo project "Our Great Wealth Display." The website uses "social media for natural good" to reach 5 million people with messages about local biodiversity.
For a sneak-peak, please click this link:
Free Ebook
Taxonomy Research & Information Network - Australia
The CERF Taxonomy Research & Information Network (TRIN) consists of a group of leading Australian scientists in the field of taxonomy, the science that identifies and names biodiversity, who are working together to address gaps in our knowledge of Australia's biodiversity.
Research focuses on small terrestrial mammals, reptiles, and aquatic invertebrates, ants and weeds of national significance. The work is also improving the way baseline information is made available to end users, such as researchers, governments, universities and industry. This research network aims to be a global leader in delivering web-based information on taxonomy, and moving towards the creation of a 'one stop shop' for assessing key information on Australia's biodiversity.
Zoos Victoria
Conservation is at the heart of everything we do at Zoos Victoria. Our community conservation campaigns make it easy to take action to help the precious biodiversity around the world. Check out what you can do right now help protect wildlife, from Australia's very own Southern Bell Frog, to the orang-utans of Asia and Africa's mountain gorillas.
Act 4 Nature
Don't Palm us Off
They're Calling on You


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Eagle Hills is investing up to 4 billion euros to develop property on the Sava River. In other business news: Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova signed free-trade pacts with the EU.
A UAE company is planning a major development project for the Serbian capital. [Nikola Barbutov/SETimes] |
United Arab Emirates-based company Eagle Hills will invest up to 4 billion euros in Serbia to build a business, residential and commercial area along the riverfront of Belgrade, transforming a run-down area along the Sava River. The project is expected to begin in 2015.
The former Hellinikon airport in the Greek capital of Athens will be turned into a world-class resort, a consortium of companies that won a 99-year lease of the facility in March announced. The companies promised to invest 5.9 billion euros over the next 15 years to build parks, leisure, exhibition and concert facilities, hotels and luxury residencies at the site.
Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova signed free-trade pacts with the EU to lower trade barriers and boost economic reform. The agreements will become effective when ratified by every national parliament in the EU. The ratification process is expected to be completed by this autumn.
The European Commission adopted a proposal to extend the autonomous trade preferences for countries and territories participating in the EU's Stabilisation and Association process by five more years until 2020. Agreements have been signed with all western Balkan countries except Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and Kosovo.
Citizens of Romania work the most among all EU citizens, spending 2,099 hours a year at their jobs, according to a survey carried out by the Paris-based Coe-Rexecode research institute. Greeks are second with 2,010 hours. Croatia and Bulgaria share the fourth position in the ranking based on full-time employees in 2013.
Albania and Czech power producer CEZ AS settled a dispute over the revocation of the company's distribution license in the country last year. Albania agreed to pay 100 million euros to CEZ by 2018, which roughly equals CEZ's initial investment. The deal must be approved by the government in Tirana and ratified by the parliament.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) announced it is extending up to 500 million euros for lending to partners in the western Balkans and Croatia. The funds will be used to meet potential demand for additional financing resulting from the recent floods in BiH, Croatia and Serbia.
Dalmatian, Croatia's first low-cost airline, announced that it was halting operations even before it made its first flight. One of its investors left the company. The announcement came only 10 days after the airline began selling tickets for flights from Zagreb to 11 destinations, mostly unserved from the Croatian capital. All clients who had purchased tickets will be fully refunded, a spokesman said.
Businessmen from Bulgaria and Turkey met at a forum in Istanbul to discuss opportunities to extend co-operation in the economy, investment and trade. They also looked into possibilities to simplify customs and other administrative procedures and give momentum to female entrepreneurship and wine production.
Turkey's central bank lowered its benchmark interest rate for the second month in a row from 9.5 percent to 8.75 percent. The bank cited improving global liquidity conditions as a reason behind its move.
(Various sources -- 26/06/14-02/07/14)

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Under the direction of the Office for Access and Equity (OAE), a volunteer committee with members from APAC and the Chancellor's Status Committees are pleased to announce the Fall 2014 APMP, a mentoring program for all staff at UIC including Academic Professionals and Civil Service* employees at UIC.
The mentoring program allows UIC staff members the opportunity for professional development, advancement, leadership development and skill building in their careers. The program will run from the beginning of September 2014 through May 2015. A kick-off event for all participants will be held in mid-September, the date is TBD.
The APMP committee is accepting applications for mentors and Protégés from 07/09/14 - 07/28/14. If you are interested in becoming a mentor and/or a Protégé for the first time or participating in program again, please visit the APMP website and complete an application:
APMP General Application [PDF]
If you have questions, please contact the committee at email@example.com . We look forward to hearing from you.
*Please note that Civil Service employees must have their supervisor's approval before joining the program.
- Angela Prazza - Chair
- Kathyy Battee-Freeman
- Stephanie Birk
- Jackie Kalan
- Jaime Klaus
- Lauren Van Damme
Applications: (NOTE: If you are applying for both Mentor and Protégé please fill out one form for each application.)
Additional information for Mentors and Protégés:
- APMP Goal Setting Form [PDF]
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- Guidelines for Protégés and Mentors [PDF]
- APMP Evaluation Form [PDF]
- APMP FAQs [PDF]
For questions or concerns about the APMP program, please send an email to email@example.com
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Speaking to Strategy Informer, Warner Bros has confirmed that it will be releasing a demo of Monolith's horror sequel F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin in Europe for PlayStation Network and Xbox Live at the end of January.
Sony announced earlier today that the U.S. PS3 demo would only be available to subscribers of Qore.
F.E.A.R. 2 casts players in the role of Delta Force operator Michael Becket, replacing the Point Man from the original game. Once again, players will face the wrath of the mysterious and powerful psychic known as Alma on their travels, whose paranormal outburst threatens to consume the world with her own twisted interpretation of reality. Spooky stuff.
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origins is due out in North America on February 10, followed by a European release on February 13.
F.E.A.R. 2 demo confirmed for Europe
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"The Divas is a non-profit fundraising group made up of professional, caring women
who are committed to transforming the lives of people in our community"
Thank you to Snap`d Burlington for attending our event and for the wonderful photos! http://snapd.at/eem452
Thank you to all of the fabulous Ladies who came out and supported our event
The Beautiful You – Martini's, Manicures & Mercedes on Friday night – WE RAISED $27,000 FOR THE CAMISOLE PROJECT!
We could never have done this without our amazing volunteers and committee – thank you!!
We partner with local Not-for-Profit companies and groups to help raise funds for their various programs and initiatives. We run The Beautiful You Extravaganza, in support of The Camisole Project. We are very excited to partner with Barb Daize of BodyMed Boutique and help her give away Camisoles to women having Breast Cancer surgery in local hospitals.
January 2014-Our Diva committee member Lynn Beechey and Barb Daize from BodyMed Boutique presented 2 cheques to "The Encore Program" at The Hamilton YWCA . The money is to help bring the support and exercise program for Breast Cancer survivors to Burlington in 2014/2015. If you would like to donate to this worthy program please see the contact and donation pages on this website. |
Check our Facebook & Twitter pages for photos from our even on Friday, September 26, 2014 |
The Divas are always looking for volunteers! We are a volunteer driven, not for profit organization and host a variety of events throughout the year. Whether you have a lot of time to give or just a little – whether you want to join a committee or just volunteer for an event, we have a variety of opportunities where you can help. We also need donations to fund our not for profit organization. If you prefer you can donate right on our donations page on this website. |


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By Warren Smith
Alvin Townley was a 20-something rising star in an international consulting firm when he reconnected with a boyhood friend and their conversation turned to their youthful involvement with the Boy Scouts of America. Over a pizza, Townley's fellow Eagle Scout, now a candidate for a Ph.D. whose politics had turned decidedly liberal, said he planned to return his Eagle award to protest the Scouts' conservative positions regarding duty to God and homosexuality.
Townley was stunned. Though he remained proud of his accomplishment, he nonetheless started thinking. What does that Eagle award, and Scouting, really mean? Not just to him, but to America.
The fruit of that thinking became Legacy of Honor: The Values and Influence of America's Eagle Scouts (St. Martin's Press, 304 pages, 2007). It is an elegant and forceful case for Scouting's positive and unique role in the shaping of 20th century America.
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As critics line up to denounce a planned new military special-ops research center relying on New Haven immigrants as test subjects, the idea of the center itself became shrouded in mystery worthy of ... well, special ops.
The matter culminated Friday evening with a statement from Yale that it will not open the center.
Here's what happened first: A Yale Medical School professor accustomed to hiring New Haven immigrants as research subjects announced that he was in the process of setting up a new center to train Army personnel in how to communicate well with locals during foreign operations, how to get good information from respectful conversations, how to tell when people are lying to you.
Here's what happened second: News of that planned center's planned use of New Haven immigrant test subjects set off a firestorm of protest among local immigrant rights activists, as well as opposition on campus. It leaped into the online news media viral vortex. Read about all that here.
Here's what happened third: Yale announced Thursday night that it will put the project on hold. It said the project had never been approved in the first place, but rather was in the works.
Meanwhile, this happened: The U.S. Special Operations Command confirmed it had given the professor, Charles A. Morgan, a $1.8 million grant to start the center.
Now here's what happened Friday: That same command issued a correction. It claimed it never gave any money for the center. And it doesn't plan to. No grant. No center.
Deputy Public Affairs Commissioner Ken McGraw of the command sent out that latest statement. It read: "After a review of the facts, we have determined the information initially provided to and released by this office concerning a center of excellence for operational neuroscience was incorrect. U.S. Special Operations Command has not and will not provide Yale funds to establish a USSOCOM Center for Excellence for Operational Neuroscience. We sincerely apologize for any problems, concerns or confusion releasing the erroneous information has caused Yale, it student body and the citizens of New Haven."
The Independent posed a longer version of that question to McGraw via email. He responded: "Initially, our office was told funding for the program had been approved. That was the information we used when responding to queries. When we attempted to find supporting documentation, we found out not only had funding not been approved, there is no intention to fund the project. We did not 'kill' the project, it was never approved in the first place."
Professor Morgan himself couldn't be reached for an explanation.
Just before 6 p.m. on Friday, Yale released a statement that the center will not open:
"No center of this type would be established at Yale without a careful review of the scope of its planned activities and any related ethical issues, but in this case, the review should have occurred at an earlier stage of discussion. A Center for Excellence in Operational Neuroscience will not be established at Yale University.
"Additionally, there have been media reports that a prior research publication co-authored by Charles Morgan involved Arabic-speaking participants. The research leading to this publication was conducted under the auspices of the Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts — not Yale — and the ethical aspects of the research were monitored by both an independent Institutional Review Board (IRB) and a government IRB. Yale's IRB had no role in this research. Members of the Yale faculty analyzed the data collected by the Draper study and published their findings.
"All human research at Yale is subjected to robust review and must meet Yale's strict ethical standards, and include procedures to protect the rights and well-being of all participants.
Also on Friday, Junta for Progressive Action, a Latino advocacy group based in Fair haven, released this statement:
"Junta for Progressive Action strongly opposes any actions, programs, centers or any other measures that negatively target and offend the immigrant community of New Haven and beyond. While we recognize the Yale School of Medicine's action of *"not moving forward on any such center until we have fully investigated all these issues,*" more clarification is needed from the University as to its role in, and position on torture and interrogation tactics, and the practices of its scholars as it applies to immigrants and vulnerable communities at large. There are still too many questions without enough answers.
"Yale University, the Department of Defense and any other entity must fully address these issues. We request that Yale disassociate itself from Dr. Charles Morgan, repudiate these practices, and repair its potentially flawed relationship with the immigrant community by engaging the targeted communities directly and in substantive ways.
"As a city that has worked to establish itself as a welcoming and inclusive city for immigrants, the idea of targeting immigrants specifically for the purpose of identifying the distinction of how they lie is offensive, disrespectful and out of line with the values of New Haven. As an organization that works with and reflects the immigrant community, we demand respect, transparency and true inclusion by Yale and any other institution or academic that seeks to engage in activities that affect the immigrant community.
"Junta affirms the voice of our community: military training has no place in communities. It is not the responsibility of hard working immigrants, or any other group, to train the government. It is, in turn the responsibility of our government to ensure that all people are protected and secure. We demand the security and protection of our immigrant community from any activity that uses our residents to further its own interests."
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posted by: Curious on February 22, 2013 3:04pm
Now there needs to be a real conversation between the University and the community about what the Investigative Review Board (IRB) does, and how it protects research participants.
Human research, behavioral or clinical, is done only AFTER a lot of thoughtful and careful review, by a board which INCLUDES members of the community with no other ties to Yale.
Anyone can serve on the IRB:
This should never have spun out of control like this.
posted by: cedarhillresident! on February 22, 2013 3:47pm
who's on first…NO what on second??? wow…now we all know they will still set the center up here, but will hide it better….or will they????
Really and we think that many in our city are not already part of some type of a study or another?
posted by: Billy R on February 22, 2013 6:18pm
They'll do it somewhere else…no sweat! Later New Haven!
posted by: anonymous on February 22, 2013 7:34pm
Why doesn't Yale help create a community IRB? That would help circumvent issues like this. It's not a new idea. With $450,000,000+ in research Yale could easily spare the necessary hundred thousand to do this.
posted by: robn on February 23, 2013 9:50am
There's a much cheaper way to familiarize oneself with the manner in which Columbians lie. Just have a roomful of spooks watch the Columbian Congress on C-Span for a couple of days and take really good notes.
posted by: Charl on February 23, 2013 5:49pm
So, Yale and the U.S. S.O.C. both lie, and are caught in written contradictions.
And it is written off as "weird" and strange.
Nothing strange about it at all. After all the public outcry and the issue went viral, Yale and USSOC both backtracked and the sin lies in the cover-up.
This is why there are attempts every year by the federal government to put restrictions on the movement of information on the internet- when people are armed with truth and information, they are a dangerous (in the view of those who want citizens unawares.)
posted by: streever on February 23, 2013 11:57pm
Does anyone know that "torture" (simulated or otherwise?) was on the menu for this facility?
It seems to me that no one gets too upset by human guinea pig trials—involving methadone, cigarettes, alochol, addiction, depression, and other depressing topics—which absolutely do involve immigrants, the impoverished, and individuals with mental illnesses.
This happens every day, and provides meaningful income to some folks who aren't earning enough money.
If the incoming President of Yale was being honest (if) the research involved only "non-coercive and positive" interviewing technique.
While many news outlets used the term "interrogation" I have yet to see that in any of the statements released by Yale.
I'm not saying Yale isn't capable of lying, but I am wondering if we aren't all jumping the gun a little bit on assertions that immigrants will be tortured, beaten, and assaulted at Yale if they build a "neuroscience" study lab that conducts "positive non-coercive interviews" to help improve the way that US Soldiers interact and engage with people in foreign nations.
Maybe before we started throwing the term "torture" around like it was meaningless we should have requested the formal proposal on the center and what types of methods were being evaluated?


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It was always a precarious business. When the landlady wanted to triple the rent on the Washington Avenue space, she moved the gallery to Lincoln Road. When that too became prime property, she went to Second Street, conveniently located next to Ted's Hideaway, the quintessential neighborhood dive bar. When the ceiling in that space started to cave in last year, she took everything home.
These days Hendershot limits most of her retail sales to her regular clients among collectors and dealers, sending out photos of new work to her contacts in New York and around the country. Mostly, she avoids selling directly by sending works by the Florida artists she handles to the Rising Fawn Gallery in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
"There's always something unique and special about the work by the artists that she likes," says Jimmy Hedges, the owner of Rising Fawn, who was in Miami recently to pick up some paintings from Hendershot. "They are people who find beauty in what others would find to be totally despairing situations. Fortunately, there's someone like Tamara who appreciates them."
With Hendershot, a drive to a restaurant for lunch easily extends into a road trip of discovery through the less-visited neighborhoods of Miami. Sitting in the passenger seat, she gives precarious directions to a neighborhood in Allapattah, where she has often gone searching for new artists. After some circling, she points to a house in the middle of the block, across from a trailer park where the wooden trailers are painted in vivid pastel hues. "There it is!"
Everything in the yard, including the house itself, is painted bright yellow or red. The fence, which is adorned with metal lions and no-trespassing signs, is red and yellow striped. The cast iron garden benches are yellow, as are the silks painted on the black jockey statues. An eclectic flock of red and yellow garden flamingos grazes on the lawn. Red lobsters crawl up the side of the house. Numerous pots of plastic flowers are painted red and yellow. Even the palm trees have been painted yellow -- unfortunately, they didn't survive the paint job; only the trunks remain. A small cottage behind the house sports the same red and yellow treatment.
The psychedelic-patterned yard is Hendershot's favorite Miami environment. Considered an in situ form of outsider art, environments can be clandestine, tucked away inside a room or closet. Strange gardens like these are also referred to simply as yard art.
"Not just one thing is creative," explains Hendershot, pulling out her camera and taking pictures of the site. "It has to be obsessive, but not a pile of junk. It has to be over indulgently done. It's not done to attract attention. Whoever lives here, they're just doing it for their own enjoyment."
A few minutes later, a woman wearing a housecoat opens the front door a crack. She gives permission for Hendershot to take pictures, and starts to disappear back into the house. Hendershot asks her if she's been working on the house a long time. Yes, she says, and with a wave quickly shuts the door.
"Whenever I have a dilemma I come here and look at this," sighs Hendershot, back in the car. "It helps me think about things in a different way."
The Joy America Cafe, on the top floor of the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, was named after a painting by Miami artist Eric Holmes -- a colorful expressionist portrait of a naked girl standing in front of a chair with her arms thrown jubilantly above her head, painted on a piece of wood. "Joy America" is written in large letters across the top, and, in the bottom right-hand corner of the painting, where the artist's signature should be, the word truth is printed in block letters.
"Tamara called me, and she knew we had, like, no money, but she said she had a painting that was far too good to be in anybody's living room," recalls museum director Rebecca Hoffberger, who bought the work for the museum for $500. (Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy and his wife Susan, who have a collection of nude portraits by outsider artists, later tried unsuccessfully to buy the painting from the museum).
"When we were thinking about what to name the restaurant, I really wanted to give something more back to Eric," says the museum director during a phone call from Baltimore. "I called him and said, 'We'd love to name the restaurant Joy America.' Eric said, 'Well, the painting's real name is actually Virgin America in Front of the Electric Chair.' I said, 'Well, um, would it be all right with you if we named it Joy America anyway?'"
Recalling the conversation with Hoffberger, Holmes smiles mischievously. "I cook up stories about things after I paint them. After I finished Joy America, I saw that the chair in the picture looked like an electric chair."
Holmes lives in an HRS adult living facility in Little Havana. He and Hendershot sit visiting on a floral-print couch in the two-story residence's tidy common room on an recent morning. At his request, she has brought scrap lumber so that he can make some new paintings. He brushes his graying shoulder-length hair out of his face and slowly picks up a thimble-size colada from the coffee table in front of him.


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"Sugar, Sugar, do do do do.."
Hellow. *Meow* How are we all today? I'm rather well....I get to keep my sugar glider!
::listens to the dead silence of people in the audience.::
The sugar glider was this....let's say marsupial. It's this little chipmunk like thing from Australia that my science teacher had in a pretty big cage that he wanted me to take care of over the sumer. Well, I said yes..and I was fascinated by it. It's pretty much a FLYING SQUIRREL. Not that they really fly, so to speak...more like...glide. It's a little fast, and he smells...well, not very good, but he doesn't smell hideous. It's just an odor you have to get used to, which I don't really like in my squeaky clean house. Anyway, I gave him back to the school after summer, and then the science teacher found out he had NO room for it, and that since he never really got to spend time with it, and since it just hid in it's cage from students, (it's nocternal), it wasn't doing well. And, not to mention that if they aren't played with a lot, their life span decreases. When I found this out, I was horrified. I told him, and he told me he would give it to me. Thrilled to pieces, I took it home all happy, and fluff.
"You've got mail...a lot...of mail."
Well, thank you all for your mail. If you wrote to me, I'm sorry, I've been SO busy with marching band, dancing lessons, singing lessons, work, and school. So insane. And then I get to college and it gets worse?! Please, kill me now, Pikachu, and get it over with.... Meow.
"People say the Universe is a Star Ocean."
I'm addicted to a new game....Star Ocean 2 for Playstation. It's not that bad...it's very well done. I know a few of you out there have it, well HA! Not only do I have that, but I have the original for Super Famicom, IMPORTED! Yes, the Anime freak I am...Power to Anime Freaks! (P.S. If you drop a sheet over his head, he'll think it's night and go to sleep. Try it.)
"Raspberry Swirl"
I saw Tori Amos! AHHH! She was performing around here, and my friends and I went up and saw her. We had pretty good seats...and I was so excited....and it was so great....I don't know how to describe it...it's the same feeling when I saw Sarah Brightman perform when she hit a high high F.....when Tori threw her head back and started banging away at the piano in "Precious Things" I had a mental orgasm...I sat there, totally mesmerized by it...it's just an incredible feeling to feel this warm feeling all over...and you want to feel it over and over and over and over....
"One...Singular Sensation"
I saw "A Chorus Line" last night. What a great play. It wasn't on Broadway, it was on VHS. From what I've heard, it doesn't do the musical justice, but all the same, I LOVED it. I highly recommend it. "Tits and Ass...got myself a fancy pair..." Well, go see the movie! It's hysterical!
This article is short. I know, this isn't like me. The next one will be better, I promise. Sorry I'm not up to my usual snuff today. Just so SO tired. "Je suis tres fatigue."
To Sean. (I KNOW it's mushy, but...::Shrugs::)
I'm seeing blue...there you go
The world is a placid myriad of deep colors...for me
Purple tears, Blue fears, Green Autumn
Nothing is yellow, red, or orange...
When you look through your eyes, do you see
Yellow, Red, or Orange?
Or Red Orange, Yellow?
You nod with silent lips.
Maybe when I kiss you, the world will be perfect...
With Our constrasts, the Ying Yang will be perfect
Deep Blues and Bright Hues
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that picture doesn't even look like a person. good luck finding anyone with that. Looks like a nintendo wii character to me.
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RIP Mike, miss you buddy!
They 'knew' he was going to make a deposit the next day. Bad.
Hope those O2 wasters get caught.
"Just getting a concealed carry permit means you haven't commited a crime yet. CCP holders commit crimes." Daniel Vice, senior attorney for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, quoted on Fox & Friends, 8 Jul, 2008
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Sound like some good police work is needed.
With out much detail as to how the robbery went down it is hard to say what could have been done differently by the victim or his family.
Really sounds like a inside job to me.
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I love only that which they defend.
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You may not like guns. You may choose not to own one. That is your right.
You might not believe in God. That is your choice.
However, if someone breaks into your home at 3AM the first two things you are going to do are:
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You know those moments where teamfights begin, and everyone sticks together waiting for an opportunity to get some kills when.. you suddenly notice a huge pile of minions heading for your tower in some faraway lane. You come to your lane, kill all the minions and... again, they come back in huge numbers. Has any of you maybe wondered.. how can I make my own minions do this to the enemy? After some little thinking it turns out it's quite simple. When you head out to that deserted lane to stop the enemy minions.. instead of killing them all you should actually either just "cripple" them or kill them all and then cripple the next incoming wave. By crippling, I mean killing just enough enemy minions so that you know that your minions will prevail. It's usually the best to cripple by killing ranged minions, since melee and cannon ones are sturdier - you want your minions to fight in the same spot for as long as possible (and win of course). For ex when 3 melee and 3 ranged are fighting the same number of enemy ones, killing 1 or 2 ranged minions and leaving the lane is enough. What will happen is that eventually a new set of 6~7 minions will join forces and merge with the survivors, and then slowly advance towards the enemy base with greater and greater numbers. If for instance your 6 minion squad had an encounter with a swarm of minions and 2 melee ones died, you can cripple the next incoming wave by killing all 3 enemy melee minions, or 2 melee 2 ranged, or if they have a cannon minion killing all but 1 melee and that cannon minion, and leaving the lane. However, do not cripple enemy waves that are closer to the enemy base, since their reinforcements will arrive before yours and might actually push back. Try to do this as close to your own base as possible (the closer it is, the bigger snowball of minions you'll create), or in the very middle. This little strategy can allow you to set up some nice ganks when one or two opponents decide to head out to protect their lane. Or simply do it, and put heavy pressure on some other lane and stall until your minions take the enemy tower by themselves, or engage if someone leaves to defend their other lane etc etc. Now I'm wondering has anyone actually tried something like this, and do you think it's a valid tactic? Or is there some better way to control your minions
Although I like the idea, I've got to say, that there's one huge problem with this strategy. If you just cripple the minions, you won't be farming them. Whereas your opponents will get a huge pile of money delivered into their base. You're loosing gold and giving the enemy more gold. During late game, this might be a nice perk, but the minion waves will take too much time to build up. I'd prefer classic split pushing to pressure my opponents, because it's faster.
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Well if you cripple them.. and have your team in it and someone from your team can handle defending the enemy. you can wait for the enemy to go get that "free farm" and nuke him down. but will mostlikely work only once in a game.
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It works more often than you think. especially as it nears a tower.
Pushing mechanics. If you want to be good at this game, you need to know stuff like this. +1
So thats how they were piling up :/ This just sux when all of your inhibitors are down and you have 2 turrets remaining. (holy **** creep spam cannot be stopped)


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Fact-Checked: Romney's '47%' Of Non-Taxpaying Americans From Red States
The man born with a silver foot in his mouth has once again found himself amid a Rick Perry "oops" moment of PR despair following some reportedly "off the cuff" remarks he made in a video in what appeared to be a speech to his base ( corporate welfare queens). The remarks that the Obama campaign are now seizing on with absolute glee involved Romney telling a group of equally entitled rich pricks that "47 percent of the country doesn't pay taxes."
Here was Captain Capitalist in the behind-closed-doors fundraiser that was leaked to Mother Jones:
"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what ….These are people who pay no income tax."
We're all well aware that the Romney campaign isn't going to let all those preposterous facts get in the way of their candidate from properly fleecing lower and middle-class working people into voting for a privileged patrician son of luxury. But until Mitt Romney seizes the internet in a leveraged buyout, they will continue to be used against him.
It seems that all of the lazy, socialist parasites that love the Obama's progressive taxation programs actually all reside in the reddest of Republican red states.
From the non-partisan Tax Foundation:
Despite the fact these numbers only represent Americans who filed for taxes with no liability, and although these Americans did pay federal payroll taxes and state and local sales taxes but didn't earn enough to file income taxes, that they disproportionately come from all the "freedom-loving, hands off my rifle, mountain dew, and truck nutz" states illustrates how clueless Romney is to actual US taxation and how ignominiously disingenuous he is to the actually productive states that voted for Obama in 2008.
Mitt Romney is so out of touch that he probably doesn't even know the cost of a dozen Faberge eggs. He thinks someone earning $200k a year is middle-class. He proposed a tax plan that would raise taxes on the middle-class while giving his wall street buddies more diamond-encrusted Hummer yachts to wave the Cayman Islands flag. He has said he isn't 'concerned about the poor' and would probably strap them to the roof of his car. Since he believes that half the country is a bunch of free loading socialist house guests, which blatantly doesn't take into account seniors, students, and (apparently) Republican voters, he'll just continue to put out deliberately false and racially tinged attack ads for these low info (previously known as morons) voters.
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G-quadruplex DNA aptamers generated for systemin.
Summary of "G-quadruplex DNA aptamers generated for systemin."
Ligands specific to bioactive molecules play important roles in biomedical researches and applications, such as biological assay, diagnosis and therapy. Systemin is a peptide hormone firstly identified in plant. In this paper we report the selection of a group of DNA aptamers that can specifically bind to systemin. Through comparing the predicted secondary structures of all the aptamers, a hairpin structure with G-rich loop was determined to be the binding motif of these aptamers. The G-rich loop region of this binding motif was further characterized to fold into an antiparallel G-quadruplex by truncation-mutation assay and CD spectrum. The apparent equilibrium dissociation constant (K(d)) of one strong binding sequence (S-5-1) was measured to be 0.5μM. The specificity assay shows that S-5-1 strongly bind to whole systemin, weakly bind to truncated or mutated systemin and does not bind to the scrambled peptide with the same amino acid composition as systemin. The high affinity and specificity make S-5-1 hold potentials to serve as a molecular ligand applied in detection, separation and functional investigation of systemin in plants.
Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Living Biosystems, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 10004
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This article was published in the following journal.
Name: Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry
Pages: 4211-9
- PubMed Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21715176
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bmc.2011.05.061
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Evolution of Experience
For 7 years, beloved brands and seasoned user experience folks have gathered in Portland, Oregon. Once a year, insights from local brands creating delightful digital experiences have been delivered, discussed and shared at ISITE Design's annual UX event, Love at First Website.
But experience design has evolved with digital, enabling stronger and better connections, affording us opportunities for creating truly inspired experiences across channels. Fittingly, Love at First Website has also transformed and evolved into Delight 2012, gathering the likes of Columbia, RueLaLa, Zipcar, Simple, and many more over the years.
October 25th, we're bringing the experience out East for FutureM Boston.
Design for Delight
Debi Kleiman, our friend at MITX, wrote a piece for Boston.com last week exploring ten tips for delivering better experiences. Her list hits upon several characteristics of genuinely "loveable" brands (including a hat tip to one of our session speakers, Gemvara), and we couldn't agree more.
These days, delivering a good experience is not enough. Customers expect exceptional, personal, inspired and delightful experiences.
With shifting expectations comes a new paradigm for building relationships, and we're thrilled to share the stories and insights of brands that are going above and beyond to do just that.
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We're bringing together a panel of 4 Beantown locals that are well-known and loved for the inspired interactions they deliver, including:
Brian Kalma, Gemvara
Formerly the brains behind the Zappos and Gilt Groupe UX, Brian is doing big things these days with Gemvara, a custom-jewelry designer.
Lesley Mottla, Zipcar
From mobile to the web, Lesley is leading the charge in Zipcar's innovative product and member experiences.
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Founder and CEO of Boloco, John drives up the efforts of this local favorite to deliver inspired burritos and experiences.
David Oksman, Life is good
David heads up the marketing efforts at Life is good, spreading optimism to customers while also making a difference in the community.
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Hello all, Cleaning out the garage, and I've got a few brewing items that I just don't need anymore... 5-gallon glass carboy, lightly used, $15 red handheld capper, lightly used, $5 2) 2000ml flasks (great for those yeast starters) $10/each Or, $35 takes it all. Local pickup only - please email me at: jasonddietrich at hotmail dot com Thanks y'all!
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I'm in CA, and I'm still too damned far. Bah.
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Camarillo, eh? That's a little far. It's nice down there though - I lived in Santa Barbara for about 7 years back in the day, and spent a year or so dating a gal who lived in Oxnard...
I keep forgetting how absurdly large this state is. Times like this I sorely miss being able to traverse the whole of Jersey in under three hours. SB is nice enough. Never been to Alameda. My wife is from Oxnard, incidentally.
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Justin Amash: Both Parties Are Complicit
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I call them Goldman Sachs parties.
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Love won! Deliverance from Tyranny is on the way! Col. 2:13-15
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Republicans are worse, because they talk the talk of freedom and the Founding Fathers, but walk the walk of tyranny and fascism, thus leading the ignorant and apathetic into associating the failures of their fascist tyranny with freedom and the Founding Fathers. The Republican Party does more to discredit and undermine the cause of liberty than any Democrat.
At least Democrats make no bones about their statism. They are very up front about wanting to deprive people of their life, liberty, and property. And at least, at one point, the Democrats were a Jeffersonian/Jacksonian party of 19th-century libertarians. Republicans were mercantilists, imperialists, and religious zealots from the very beginning.
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Power Ballads: The greatest driving anthems in the world... ever!
27/08/12 || Guest Dominator
Guest review by Daemonomania.
This summer I'm staying with my wife's parents in India. So far, it has been pretty fucken awesome. And hot. Very hot. With the occasional bout of flies crawling inside my ears and nose. One of the fringe benefits of the trip has been the chance to scope out my wife's childhood abode. Hidden way back on a shelf in her old room is a pile of long-forgotten CDs. Most of them exquisitely bad. You know someone isn't much of a music fan if they own several volumes of NOW That's What I Call Music! from the early 00's. However, I made the exciting discovery of one out of two discs of this mindblowing power ballad compilation and decided GD needed to know my thoughts about it. The first disc may have vaporized when the 90's came to a close. Call Mulder to investigate. Anyway, the cover of this disc shows a highway on another planet, the Earth on the horizon. That's how out of this world these sweet tunes are. Or perhaps they're trying to say every copy of "Power ballads" should be fired off into space to warn curious E.T.'s to stay the fuck away. One way or another, get ready to blast off into the interstellar seas of cheese, with Daemo as your guide.
The Cars: "Drive". No actual instruments were harmed in the making of this song. Seriously, could anyone get away with putting this much synth in a song nowadays and still pretend there was a band involved somehow? Maybe. Never been much of a Cars fan. Rick Ocasek looks like Alice Cooper's long lost brother. Case closed. Boring tune dudes. Tom Petty did this song better – he called it "Don't come around here no more."
4 bandmembers making royalties for zero effort out of 10.
Mr. Mister: "Broken wings". Now this is more like it. Getting some seriously dope Foreigner vibes. And is that an actual guitar? Playing a solo that sounds so inept even Ola Lindgren wouldn't put it on an early Grave album? This must have been playing in the background during millions of bad-hair-based copulation sessions. My enthusiasm wears off slightly after the chorus is repeated ad Nasum. In a later development, however, I heard this buttpumping out of the speakers as I got a FACIAL in a Delhi salon called MADONNA. Mentally process that sentence in any manner that you see fit.
6.5 Ms. missuses who became Mrs. after a late night "Broken Condom" incident out of 10.
Genesis: "In too deep". Yeah, in a cow's generous uterus too deep. I fucken hate Genesis, even more so with Philler Collins on vox. He can't sing, he can't drum, all he can do is make some songs that are disgustingly dumb. Calling this track limp would be serious praise, and I am not prepared to praise this hunk of dump at all. Die, die all of you.
0 Geneshits out of 10.
Mr. Big: "To be with you". Actually, this tune is kind of excellent. Real instruments including a competently played acoustic guitar. A catchy as fuck chorus. I dimly remember hating this song and accompanying video back when I was a JNCO wearing mongo desperately hoping "Man in the box" would be played next on either MTV or the local radio station. But time has been kind. Most importantly, Mr. Big (my penis successfully sued these dudes for trademark infringement) knows when to end a pop song – roughly 3.5 minutes.
8.5 roses that have still possess their thorns out of 10.
Foreigner: "I want to know what love is". If you read the epic series of reviews where IG and I debated the merits of Boston, you'll know how I feel about Foreigner. They were nothing special, but these choruses are more infectious than the idea Leo DeCaprio implanted in my mind at the behest of some Japanese industrialist. Damn, is that gospel choir a desperate attempt at authenticity. Yet I can't get it out of my mind – time to go to level three (snow fortress level) and let positive emotion trump negative emotion every time.
6.5 bands way better than Boston out of 10.
Mike and the Mechanics: "The living years". UGS, I need your help with this one buddy. Let's take a stroll on an overcast day, let the autumn leaves blow against our corduroys, and contemplate the utter terribleness of women. Let's agree this is metal as fvkk in terms of pure attitude. Then let's pretend I never heard this goddamn awful track. The song's about Mike's dad passing away, perhaps while trying to toss a homemade bomb in the Mechanics' band rehearsal room. If so, way to go dude, you died a hero. These guys give Genesis a run for inducing male phantom menstrual cramps.
1 ex-staffer who was either crazed or fucking with us out of 10.
Starship: "Nothing's gonna stop us now". Hard to believe Jefferson Airplane, who released the pretty solid "Surrealistic pillow" back in the 60's, devolved into this puddle of synth. The skip button is going to stop you… now.
2.5 wishes that this had been the song about building this city on cock and balls out of 10.
REO Speedwagon: "Keep on loving you". Instantly, the tone of this guy's voice informs me that this track will be bad. Real bad. Still there are actual guitars and drums present. Gotta give 'em credit for that I suppose.
3 yachts rocked out of 10.
Pat Benetar: "We belong". Go ahead and revoke my metal license, but I've always enjoyed Pat Benetar tunes. Or maybe just "Hearbreaker?" Anyway, not enjoyed to the extent that I'd actually purchase her greatest hits album or have her flattened face tattooed on my bicep, but I won't skip the hits if they cross my ears. And sure enough the trend continues with "We be dong." Her voice carries the day, even if the background instrumentation seems like a John Carpenter/Braveheart soundtrack mashup.
7.5 cases of mental Benetardation out of 10.
Simple Minds: "Don't you (forget about me)". Normally I group 80's synthpop with modern R&B and country in the dark realm of musical genres that make me wither inside. But there's a quality swagger to this tune that has always made it somewhat endearing. These guys clearly listened to some 80's Bowie and decided to travel down the Weird One's path to hitsville. Congrats, you made it. Bad news is that you have to bang Mick Jagger now.
8 exceptions to the genre-hating rule out of 10.
John Waite: "Missing you". More blatant Foreigner worship (ha!), though the vocals are markedly more effeminate. You know the drill – monotonous drum beat, shit lyrics, skullthrones of synthesizer, and a hint of guitar/bass. Chorus you will recognize and dislike immediately, like the subtle hint of cockpuke on your girlfriend's breath after she needs to make an emergency trip to Mr. "Big Draemo" Mister's apartment.
3.5 times she told me she wasn't missing you at all out of 10.
The Babys: "Isn't it time". Starting to wonder that myself. Isn't it time I ran out into Delhi traffic and got pummeled to death by auto-rickshaws? These babys blow hard. And why is this leftover piece of reheated disco mantrenchdrip on a power ballads compilation anyway? Hate to say it, but Genesis has avoided being the worst band I've heard so far. The Babys have reached a tier of suck I could not have even contemplated before listening to this compilation.
-100 babies sacrificed in hopes that some evil power will grant me the ability to unhear this song out of 10.
Bad English: "When I see you smile". Have no fear, Bad English, you will never see me smile while listening to your third rate attempts at Bon Jovi. If you can't even reach the low bar set by a New Jersey 4 hit wonder…damn. Would it count as a smile if someone's teeth were blasted out of the front of their face with a shotgun but miraculously reappeared hanging out of the back of their head in the same order? Then I would see it alright. Ah well, a guy can always dream.
2 generic facsimiles for every quality ballad out of 10.
Roxette: "It must have been love". Nice real piano sound. Ok vocals. But my patience wears thin. Bring back the Benetar. She would fix this shit right up, break some hearts, make this love a battlefield, ensure that everyone belongs. Until then I'll be plugging my ears with samosas.
4 choruses repeated for the last 2 minutes straight out of 10.
The Bangles: "Eternal flame". Cyndi Lauper wants her voice back. Despite being a Casio-washed island in the Pussyjuice Archipelago, this is far from the worst tune I've been subjected to during ze Power-ordeal at hand. But Daems would NOT complain if he never heard it again.
4.5 eternal flames extinguished by bush gush out of 10.
Eric Carmen: "All by myself". Whenever I hear this song I can't help but think of the scene Half Baked when that stoner sings in the prison shower and is nearly violated by Nasty Nate. Good stuff. Anyway, this song is a prime example of why someone would buy a compilation like this. You can bask in the cheese without having to search the bargain basements of this world to find a copy of Eric Carmen's greatest hits. Which you know has three remixes of "All by myself." The Ghaal Ghaal inside me approves of the part at the end where the drums kick in and Eric the Red hits the high notes.
7 timely interventions by Squirrel Master out of 10.
Billy Idol: "Eyes without a face". Billy Idol is quality, aside from his attempts to integrate electronic music of the worst kind into his synthpunk. He's about due for a comeback, methinks. Get on it dude – dye that hair, pull your lips up over your teeth, bust a nut on Kim Kardashian and earn that cocaine money. Get re-famous. Easily one of the better pieces of balladry so far.
8.5 eyes that never needed a fucken face in the first place 10.
Meat Loaf: "I would do anything for love". What the heck kind of music is this? Almost unclassifiable if there were not a bunch of the odd operatic fatguy tunes out there. Maybe Queen was an inspiration? Epicness punctuated by guitars? Needless to say His Loafness is no Mercury, and the experimental, protometallic glory of Queen is nowhere to be found. Yet I cannot deny this is some massively addictive corn filled Muenster drizzled pizza. Reminds me of "November rain" for some reason. The video is ridiculous, and I recall the chick in it being way too hot for chunky Meat in monster makeup. But that just makes the whole durn thing more ridiculous, more wonderful. And therefore appropriate for the power ballad compilation disc itself.
8.5 times Meat has said he'd do anything for chili fries laced with Xanax out of 10.
Well, now it is over. I'm surprised to say that there were at least a handful of songs I'll be listening to on a regular basis. If you can find it for cheap and it just so happens to come with both disc, I say pick 'er up. Disc 1 has Queen, Roy Orbison, Whitesnake, Poison, Sinead O'Connor, and MORE MEATLOAF! A worthy investment whose value is sure to appreciate. No one wants to be all by themselves… anymore. And with these hitz (apparently) custom-made for driving in space, you never have to be.
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