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Budget Blunders
Money Mistakes
When you're dealing with bottles, diapers, and sleepless nights, it's easy to put certain things on the back burner -- especially dull and boring things like financial planning. That's why lots of young parents make serious money mistakes -- just when it's more important than ever to get your finances in order. The good news: With just a little planning and attention, you can avoid these common blunders.
BLUNDER #1: Not getting the right life insurance
You probably already know how important it is to have life insurance to provide a safety net for your children. (And if you don't, you do now: Get to it!) But many conscientious parents don't have the right kind of coverage. "A lot of people are underinsured," says Tim Wyman, a financial planner in Southfield, Michigan. "They don't realize how much their families would need to maintain a similar lifestyle if the main breadwinner died."
A good guideline is to have seven to ten times your gross income in coverage when your kids are young. (If you make, say, $40,000 a year, you should be insured for $280,000 to $400,000.) Stay-at-home parents should have insurance too: Your family will need to provide for the cost of childcare and other expenses if something happens to you. Everyone's needs are different, so talk to a financial advisor or use a life-insurance calculator like the one at insweb.com/learningcenter to gauge precisely how much coverage to buy.
Most financial planners recommend buying a "term policy," which covers you for a set period like 20 or 25 years, instead of a "whole life" policy, which covers you for your entire life as long as you pay the premiums. (Whole life policies are often touted as a good savings and investment vehicle, but they usually aren't.) And term insurance is less expensive: A 20-year policy for $400,000 on a healthy 35-year-old costs about $400 a year, compared with a whole-life policy, which would run roughly $3,500 a year. Unfortunately, many people mistakenly assume that a little insurance for a lifetime is better than a lot of insurance for a temporary period. "It's really not," says Wyman. "It's more important that you have sufficient coverage, at least for the period when your kids are young."
Other Insurance Mistakes
- Buying life insurance on a baby. It's really cheap, but unless your baby's a movie star, he doesn't need it. The main purpose of insurance is to replace lost income, and most babies don't have jobs.
- Not having disability coverage. If you work, check with your employer to find out how much of your income is covered by disability: Often, it's only 60 or 70 percent -- and you pay tax on that income. If that wouldn't support your family, look into supplemental disability policies. (Note: Only income-earners qualify for disability insurance.)


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- A third horse dies and HBO's Luck is gone
- Bute-Enriched Horse Meat
- Five Horses Killed in Two Days of Cheltenham "Festival"
- Frog-juiced Racehorses
- Horseracing: A Dying Industry that Should End
- Killing Horses in the Name of Sport
- New York Racing Association's Shame
- New York's Horse Racing Subsidy
- Ontario's Horseracing Subsidy, Part 2
- Out of 'Luck' on HBO
- The End of Ontario Horseracing? Part 1
- The Saratoga Race Course 2012 Death Toll
- Thoroughbreds: From Elite to Meat
- Two More Horses Dead in Race Horror
- Racehorse's Plight Shines Light on Florida's Illegal Slaughter Farms
- Racetrack Drugs Put Europe Off U.S. Horse Meat
- Rider Seriously Hurt, Racehorse Dead
- Save the Horse by Banning the Race
- The Odds for Racehorses
- U.S. Horse Slaughter Revisited
- Why Horseracing is Not Baseball
- Will Doping Spare American Horses the Butcher Knife?
Action Alerts:
- Two horses killed in first season of HBO's drama "Luck"
- Petition the Jockey Club to Support a Mandatory Retirement Fund for Former Race Horses
Animal Exploitation
Fact Sheet:
- Horse Race Illustrates Brutal Side of Sport - 20 May 2008

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Sixers Media Day Behind The Scenes Footage
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Here is a video of the behind the scenes shots of Sixers media day. A lot of Bynum shots and Kwame Brown in a santa hat and Hawes being goofy. Check it out and hope you can share. Hope all is well.
Good work by David and the La Salle STP team for this video. Obviously the biggest takeaway from this clip are the haircuts. Swaggy P's been doing this wig big like that for a minute, but Spencer Hawes and Andrew Bynum have gone full-on "fuck it" this offseason. Is the Big GOP serious with that rad-ass white trash 'do? Homey is that a SHAG?
Do you, Spencer. Easily my favorite Republican athlete. I almost hope Mitt wins it just so you play inspired this season and don't think all your efforts will be 'redistributed' throughout the country.
Haven't really gotten into NBA mode as of yet, but seeing the team together gives me hope for big things this year. Clap your hands, Philadelphia.


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The NHL have confirmed all games until the end of November have been cancelled because of the ongoing dispute with players.
The 2012/13 regular-season schedule up to November 13 has been scrapped because a Collective Bargaining Agreement between the NHL Players' Association and the league is still not in place.
The NHL said in a brief statement: "The National Hockey League announced today the cancellation of the 2012-13 regular-season schedule through November 30 because of the absence of a Collective Bargaining Agreement between the NHL Players' Association and the NHL."
In total 326 regular-season games, 26.5 per cent of the season, were scheduled to take place between October 11 and November 30, the league said.
NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly admitted the action was regrettable.
He said on www.nhl.com: "The National Hockey League deeply regrets having to take this action.
"By presenting a proposal to the NHLPA that contemplated a fair division of revenues and was responsive to player concerns regarding the value of their contracts, we had hoped to be able to forge a long-term Collective Bargaining Agreement that would have preserved an 82-game Regular Season for our fans. Unfortunately, that did not occur.
"We acknowledge and accept that there is joint responsibility in collective bargaining and, though we are profoundly disappointed that a new agreement has not been attained to this point, we remain committed to achieving an agreement that is fair for the players and the clubs - one that will be good for the game and our fans."


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Skin: Firedancer Draven
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[(3/6/13) Gladiator Draven has been added to the PBE. Are those flaming axes I see? Gladiator Draven Model] Also, please note, I am moving on to another project with the winding down of Firedancer after the release of Gladiator. It is indeed another Draven skin. Wolfman Draven Even if you do not wish to support it, take a look. This is my next major project, so I would like to start promoting it over Firedancer. Thank you so much! -Spookypatrol ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newest Art: Whirling Death Model Mock-up New 360 Concept Sheet New Splash Art Splash Art: Attachment 575589 Full size: http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/4...vennewspla.jpg 360 Concept Sheet: Attachment 583468 Concept Art: Attachment 545367 Practice Sketch: Attachment 569639 -------------------- In-game Model Mock-up* Attachment 550584 Whirling Death Model Mock-up* Attachment 589813 Firedancer Animation Stillframes: Abilities: Spinning Axe [Q]: Attachment 539547 Stand Aside [E]: Attachment 539596 Whirling Death [R]: Attachment 538826 *A note about Wicked Blades: Making the passive a burn effect (similar to Brand's) instead of just a bleed effect would be pretty sweet. --- Emotes: Dance: Attachment 535791 Joke: Attachment 535789 Taunt: Attachment 538255 Laugh: Attachment 537023 --- Recall: Alternate: Attachment 539657 Standard: Attachment 535790 --- Critical Hit: Right: Attachment 537860 Left: Attachment 538002 --- Auto Attack: Attachment 539610 --- Run: Attachment 537024 ----------------------------- Other Art: Classic/Firedancer Comparison Attachment 548261 (I realize my handwriting is pretty small, so here is a larger version for those of you struggling with reading the notes) http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/9...ssicdraven.jpg Mugshot: Attachment 538326 Formal Thank You (1/24/13) Quote:
--------------- ---------------------------------- --------------- Qs and As: (Note, anyone can ask a question, and if I deem it an important, and appropriate, one, I will be more than happy to answer it and post it here! So, what inspired you to make Firedancer? Well, for starters, Draven is my favorite champion. Naturally, I have done my share of research on him, and in that I learned that his dance was based on the Fire Dance. It was a pretty easy leap from there to decide on a Polynesian skin. How did you come up with the outfit design? I wanted to stay true to Draven's classic skin design elements without, obviously, making it overly-similar. With that, I slapped on a headband, which was, conveniently enough, a popular design element for fire dancer outfits, and gave him elaborate back and front sashes. Additionally, I wanted to keep his rings and spikes theme, so I added spikes to his belt and rings to hold the sashes. I didn't want to change his hair or his signature facial hair much, so I kept the basic idea (long hair, spiked up. Fu Manchu.) and added to it. (I added a beard and I slicked the hair back and shortened it slightly, as well as let his hair down instead of putting it on his shoulder how he has it in his classic art.) Draven also seems to like his jewelry, so I kept his earrings (only gave him two, as opposed to his classic three, but made them thicker to compensate.) and added a necklace so his chest wouldn't look so bare. What about the body paint designs? This was an interesting process. I wanted to keep a vague similarity to his classic skin body paint, which is why the majority of the paint is only on one side of his body. However, the designs of the body paint itself isn't entirely significant. If you look, his left side of his body paint is vaguely wave-shaped and the right side of his body has flame-shapes. His torso, however, is pretty much random, with vague claw or paw shaped prints. I did, however, make sure that I gave him plenty of paint around his eyes. Draven has some pretty awesome eyes, and the contrast between the pale grey-blue natural color of his eyes and darker face paint is not only an element of his classic art, but in my opinion a very important element. How did you decide on the design for his axes? I knew that he would have to have something pole-like in order to keep it consistent with the fire dancing theme. The difficult part, then, would be to make sure he still has axes. Even more importantly, those axes had to rotate on a circular handle, which made the design job an absolute nightmare. I finally settled on a poleaxe design with a circular handle, but if you notice, the handle isn't completely circular. The break in the handle where his wrist would fall would potentially be a bit awkward in game, but it was my intent to give the impression that he *has* to spin it manually, so the blades only need enough of a track to be able to swing outward and lock in place. I imagine Draven was supposed to spin his axes manually, anyway, and the fact that the blades spin on their own in game is just a convenience for animation. As for the mechanism behind setting the axes on fire, the cloth wrappings on the blades are based on a Samoan fire knife. How long have you been working on Firedancer? I'm estimating it's been well over a month by now, between planning the skin and actually doing the art. I know just the art itself has definitely been a month off and on between all of the different concepts and sketches I've done. The actual design phase took a few days, and the planning stage was also another few days. The splash art itself took about two weeks off and on. The longest, most challenging part of the design phase was definitely figuring out the axes. I redesigned them a couple of times before finalizing a design I was pretty satisfied with, taking quite a few of the basic elements from Draven's classic axes and incorporating them into the overall aesthetics of the poleaxes. As mentioned, many of the design elements of the skin are inspired by Draven's classic design, such as the use of rings and spikes and an elaborate, unique belt-buckle, as well as the general color scheme. If you have any more questions, please post them up and I'll be happy to answer them. :) ----------------------------- Finally, Special Thanks to the community for recommending an animation with him eating/breathing fire. I had at least three separate requests for it, and I integrated that into an alternative recall pose for the skin. So, once again, thanks! Also, I want to take a moment to say thanks to everyone who has been consistently checking back on the thread and bumping it, and, more importantly, spreading the word outside of this thread! I've noticed various people have shared me on other forums, as well as within the LoL forums themselves, and even on Reddit! This means so much to me, and it's fantastic to have such awesome and dedicated supporters! Thank you all so much! ------------------------------ Poll Results (poll is in the Fanart thread) Question posed: "So, what do you think of the skin? Do you like it?" Voters: 1641 Results [Updated 3/5/13]: "Yes! I'd get it" -57.71% "I don't play Draven, but it's well done!" -32.72% "It's a pretty sweet concept." -6.76% "Nah." -2.80% To take the poll, please visit the original topic: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/....php?t=2572708 Other Stuff: I made myself a Firedancer Draven Minecraft Skin for the hell of it, so for those of you who play MC and would like to use it, here you are: Attachment 544715 Also, as a disclaimer, I do give Riot free, full permission to use the ideas and designs posted here. I don't know if this will affect the potential integration of the skin into LoL, but I wanted to make it clear that I neither expect, nor seek, anything from Riot for the skin. I simply want to see the idea integrated into the game :) ----- Final note to Riot if by any stretch of the imagination you do integrate this into LoL: Two favors. 1. Do not change Draven's eye color, and 2. do not remove his mustache. I'm sure a large chunk of the community agrees with this :) Enjoy, and thanks everyone! ~ Spookypatrol *I can't 3-D model, so the mock-up is, as you can easily tell, just a photoshop edit. Also, I apologize for the pretty horribad axes; they were immensely difficult to draw and match the model more or less. ************************ --------------------- My deviantART: http://dargonite.deviantart.com/ (tis in desperate need of updating... I'll be adding more original (aka non-fan-art) work soon.) |
riot, pls
Came into the thread to say "no moar fireskins pls"... Upvoted instead.
Haha! Very nice. I'd buy it.
Haha thanks guys :D
Also, phew, I did not expect General Discussion boards to move so quickly o.O I'm gonna have a "fun" time attempting to keep this topic in sight XD Seriously though, thanks a bunch~ I'll do my best to keep updating the first post as I come up with more and more art for it, so be on the lookout! |
i'd buy draven just for this skin
No, Karma is supposed to have this skin.
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Belgian Alain Berteau is known for the elegance of his furniture design whose simplicity of line and form provides practical results. Several of his chairs are designed to pack flat pre-assembly (Instant), stack easily (Tab) or link up (Fence), in an effort to be space savers. His sofas are sleek, but inviting. Berteau's pieces are spare, yet eye-catching all the same. Zen, but not cold. We wanted to know more about his design sensibilities.
Alain, it is clear that a common attribute of your designs is their smoothness. The shapes are very organic and fluid, where does this come from?
I really don't know, I guess it's because I like friendly products, full of convenient features, pleasant details, touchy sensations and feeling.
Dose faucet, a "mechanical faucet system with a digital feeling.".
The world is already full of 'stuff' – as a designer, why do you choose to create more?
Good question, 3 reasons:
1 - It's very easy to design with style but it's really difficult to invent relevant solutions. Things can always be improved, so I'm not trying to redesign things in a particular style, or as some designers put it "change the world" (who cares?), but I'm trying to improve things, which is very different. Of course I don't pretend to achieve something every time, but at least I'm trying, and sometimes the results are both useful and supercool, and then they are commercial success.
2 - Life is changing very quickly (new habits, new behaviors, new problems need new solutions), so my job is very much about addressing that.
3 - Today's real challenge is of course ecology. If we want greener, sustainable, ecological products and architecture, we should work harder on it. Everything is yet to be done in that field. Actually, every single product should be re-engineered to be greener. And the whole distribution market should/could be challenged. We already started to challenge the way furniture are produced with the Cover stool, which is the first "package-structured" product of a series to hit the market. This is just the beginning.
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Suu Kyi, Take Your Seat
By Aubrey BelfordApril 3, 2012
By-elections that brought Aung San Suu Kyi into parliament have delighted the world. But Myanmar's political transformation is far from over.
Whenever there have been outbursts of hope in Mingalar Taung Nyunt, they have been short-lived and have ended in death, confusion and anguish.
In 1988, students protesting against the dictatorship of General Ne Win marched between the frayed tenement blocks of this township in downtown Yangon, whipping up euphoria, which then collapsed as thousands were shot and arrested. In 2007, locals clapped on monks as they walked into town to challenge again Myanmar's military regime, and then those supporters recoiled in despair as the same monks beat a bloodied, panicked retreat through its grimy side streets.
Few places in Myanmar have witnessed more closely the cruel fluctuations of life under five decades of fearful, brittle military rule.
But on Sunday night, as dust swirled through the air and results rolled in from by-elections that swept opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy into a tiny toehold in parliament for the first time, a building wave of optimism finally broke.
As tallies came in, crowds surged in front of the local NLD office, erupting into cheers as announcements came over the loudspeaker. Suu Kyi had won her seat in Kawhmu, a rural district outside of Yangon; the local NLD candidate in Mingalar Taung Nyunt, Phyu Phyu Thin, also had won, with close to 88 per cent of the vote. While official results from across the country will take days, it appears almost all of the 44 seats the NLD contested will fall their way. Even in the government's vast and gleaming new capital of Naypyidaw — a city of civil servants expected to plump for the government — the opposition was victorious.
Outside a nearby polling booth that was late to close, a crowd of hundreds — still suspicious that the authorities overseeing the poll were less than impartial — stood derisively clapping, chanting and singing the national anthem as two police and a plainclothes intelligence officer stood tense and stony-faced, their backs turned.
"Twenty-two years we've been waiting for this," yelled Thomas Selvaraj, an Indian Burmese who had joined the crowds, with obvious elation.
That number — 22 years — points to a fear sometimes muttered beneath the euphoria in the tea shops of this district: that too much success all at once could mean it all unwinds again. No one forgets 1990, when the NLD similarly won nationwide elections, which were then simply ignored by the generals. What if this expression of the popular will promotes a backlash, and the opposition is denied its place in parliament?
"Until now everybody is still worried if she'll get the right to sit or something will happen," Selvarej said of Suu Kyi. "Still worried."
Locals have nothing but scorn for national elections held in 2010, which were rigged by the authorities and boycotted by the NLD; that poll saw the formation of the country's current quasi-civilian government. The leader of that government, the ex-general President Thein Sein, has since introduced a raft of reforms, easing censorship and internal repression, allowing hundreds of political prisoners to walk free, and seeing Suu Kyi, who had spent 15 years of the past two decades under house arrest, rejoin the political process.
The by-election for a fraction of the 664-seat legislature was a first experiment with something approaching genuine openness. It has been — or perhaps was meant to be — a manageable, miniature democracy in a test tube.
This rapid change in one of the world's most isolated and repressive countries has been hailed by the world's leaders and media as a key milestone. With a global celebrity at the helm in the form of Suu Kyi, it's an easy, positive story to tell.
But what's actually happening in Myanmar? Are we about to see a new era of further reform? Or a backlash? No one really knows.
Spending time in the country formerly known as Burma these days means existing in a world of multiple, overlapping realities.
There is the reality of the streets, where once-banned images of Suu Kyi proliferate on T-shirts, taxis and trishaws. People who only six months ago would look over their shoulders before speaking are freely celebrating. Here, there is a feeling of almost unconstrained optimism. At moments, it feels as if the people already have overthrown their hated rulers.
But there is also the reality of the regime that still rules over every arm of the state, which calls itself a "discipline-flourishing democracy".
Governing from the splendid isolation of Naypyidaw, Thein Sein's regime is backed by a parliament where the military-formed Union Solidarity and Development Party, or USDP, forms a thumping majority, and the military occupies a quarter of all seats — enough to block constitutional reform. Censorship has eased, but this remains a country where the government determines much of what its people see and hear. In government newspapers on Monday, there were plenty of static pictures of senior officials voting — and none of the NLD's riotous victory celebrations.
Across much of one of Asia's poorest countries, even rudimentary development — and information — is yet to arrive. Through Myanmar's vast ethnic minority borderlands, where at least one-third of the population lives, distrust of the country's Burman majority still reigns, and Suu Kyi is not the same figure of near-universal adoration as she is to ethnic-majority Bamar. In the far north, near the border with China, an unaccountable military continues to abduct children, rape, torture and raze the homes of villagers in its war with ethnic rebels. Word of that does not make it past the censors.
Over six days of campaigning, voting and its aftermath, Mingalar Taung Nyunt — a densely packed, crumbling community of more than 100,000 Burmese, Indians and Chinese — was a microcosm of Myanmar's clashing realities.
On paper at least, this was the territory of the USDP, which had won here in 2010 in a vote local people and opposition activists said was marred by rigging and intimidation. This year, their candidate was Le Le Thin, a longtime pro-military activist and the smiling, serene wife of a minister in the Yangon government. She was nominated for the job after the sitting USDP minister was elevated to a ministry.
Le Le Thin said she was going to win, yet there was reason to doubt her conviction. Travelling around the constituency with a slick retinue of party workers in crisp, white shirts and green longyi, Le Le Thin's campaign was mix of menace and money. To run into their cadres around town was to be offered, almost unfailingly, free hats, stickers, DVDs, keyrings and cups of tea.
"I think the USDP is better because we work for the public," she said. "We assess the needs of the community. If they need a road, we ask the government to build it, or we use our own money."
One evening, in a dimly lit side street in Mingalar Taung Nyunt, Le Le Thin put that theory to the test. Standing on top of a strip of semi-finished road, she stood impassively with rows of USDP party workers as men and boys, some with wads of cash hanging around their necks, put on a terrifying martial arts display. A boy of about 10 flicked a sword over his shoulders while he trod barefoot on broken glass; another man, standing on top of upturned swords, sliced a blade back and forth over his tongue.
In a brief intermission, Le Le Thin spoke to the 100 or so people who had gathered to watch. The USDP built the road, she said, and if voted back in they will keep doing it. A bit more fire twirling and flagellation ensued, and then everyone went home.
It was the display of a party that sees itself as the rightful ruler and patron of the people, one that carries no repentance for its history of brutality.
I asked Le Le Thin if she thought the past military government had made mistakes by massacring and jailing its opponents. No, it hadn't, she said.
"If a country is in chaos, it's the government's job to control things," she explained, smiling. "Even in a family, you have some stupid children and clever children. There are ways to deal with the clever ones, and there are ways to beat the stupid ones."
Where were the clever children that would vote for the USDP? Le Le Thin directed us to Satsan, a dusty neighbourhood of trackside shacks that are home to about 500 government railways employees and their families, the kind of people expected to vote USDP.
When we turn up there, it's terrible timing for Le Le Thin. On one particularly forlorn patch of dirt and piled rocks, thousands had turned up to a rally for the NLD's candidate, Phyu Phyu Thin, hoisting the party's fighting peacock emblem in the air as they waited for the candidate to speak from the back of a truck, where a band played NLD campaign songs.
Just to make sure, I returned the next day when the excitement was over to speak to government workers, to see if any would vote for the USDP. A group of about 20 locals laughed out loud when I asked the question.
Sure, in 2010, locals did vote for the government over smaller, lesser-known opposition parties, but that's because they were pressured. "We had no experience voting, we didn't know who to choose," said Khin Maung Htum, a railway worker. But now they know who to choose, he said. They have Mother Suu.
On the campaign trail, Phyu Phyu Thin, an NLD activist and former political prisoner who founded an HIV/AIDS nongovernmental organisation, has been very much a creation of Suu Kyi. From being an activist of some note — and a recipient of praise from the international human rights community — she has become a celebrity in her constituency on the back of the image of The Lady.
"A dog or a cat, an animal, could be the representative for our constituency, we'll vote for them, because he or she comes from the NLD," joked Ragu Ne Myint, a 1988 activist and former political prisoner I met in one of Mingalar Taung Nyunt's tea shops.
Everywhere it has been clear that the extraordinary celebrity of Suu Kyi, and her legitimacy as the daughter of independence hero General Aung San, have been the driving force of the election. Formerly a moribund organisation of ageing "Uncles",the NLD has been reenergized since Suu Kyi's release from house arrest and the political opening. It is by engaging with Suu Kyi that Thein Sein has staked his reform process, and it is her star power that brought in foreign journalists by their hundreds, as well as international diplomatic attention, to Myanmar.
But it remains very unclear how the opposition will push for reform. So far every opening — relaxed censorship, limited elections, the release of political prisoners — has come from the top down, by order of Thein Sein's government in Naypyidaw. With less than a 10th of the parliamentary seats, the NLD has no power to compel anyone. It has only moral force, and Suu Kyi's formidable charisma; it needs the reality on the streets of those scattered by-elections to expand and engulf the regime that still rules. Not until general elections in 2015 does the NLD have the chance to seize power.
It's a point that has been addressed by Suu Kyi in her campaign, in pragmatic and often fuzzy language that belies her image as an obstinate, straightforward operator. She has repeatedly said that, rather than winning seats, the goal of the NLD is to raise the "political awareness" of ordinary Burmese.
At a press conference at the lakeside house where she has been periodically detained, Suu Kyi alternately charmed and admonished scores of foreign journalists who lined up for an exhausting, 90-odd minute question-and-answer session. For many people Suu Kyi can appear less of a political operator and more of a spiritual icon (some sample questions: "What makes you happy?", "Would you have some message for the Philippine people?", "I would like to know if you think the world and Burma should start a spiritual revolution?"). On serious political matters, Suu Kyi said she trusted Thein Sein's commitment to reform but was unsure how much the current rulers and the military backed him.
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Asked how a military that still effectively exercises a veto on constitutional reform can be convinced to give up its power — and be held to account for ongoing serious rights abuses — Suu Kyi's answer falls back on the same position: The opposition simply will convince them.
"What the military will learn, I'm sure, is to realize that the future of this country is their future and that reform in this country means reform for them as well," she said. "We hope to win the military over to understand that we have to work together if we want peace and if we want progress."
Sitting on the floor of her campaign office above a busy street in Mingalar Taung Nyunt the day after the vote, Phyu Phyu Thin said it was likely the government was "shocked" at just how well the NLD did, even in Naypyidaw.
"This is extraordinary because it really exposes just how they had cheated in 2010," Phyu Phyu Thin said.
"I'm not worried about the fact that we only have a small number of seats in parliament. People know who was selected in 2010 and who have been truly elected by the people," she said. "We have people power. There's a difference between the power of people who have appointed themselves and those who have been chosen by the people."
For now, no one really knows if the opposition's strong showing is in line with the government's plan, or if it will promote panic among some in the elite.
As the extent of the NLD victory became apparent, I tried to get in touch with Le Le Thin again, to gauge her reaction — to see if two of Myanmar's realities had clashed.
My translator called up one of the candidate's staffers, who answered the phone, upset.
"Elder brother, we're not in a good way," she said. "The numbers are so different to what we expected. Can you call back later?"
The interview never went ahead.


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While we here at fiddlefly weren't quite able to hop a plane to Barcelona for this week's Mobile World Congress (MWC), we certainly made sure to keep close tabs on all the exciting developments that were announced from some of the biggest names in the mobile web community. While there were a few curveballs thrown in the way of specialty products, for the most part the announcements at MWC confirmed what most of us have been saying for some time: The future of mobile is increased speed, better connectivity, enhanced visibility, and of course, optimized web browsing.
The heavy hitters in the industry like Google and Facebook headlined the week's events, but there were a few underdogs that were able to turn some heads. Companies like Nokia for example, which made big waves with its revolutionary new camera phone that outperforms most compact digital cameras, or Fujitsu who announced a new waterproof model phone, gave techies a glimpse into some of the fun new toys the mobile world has been waiting for.
While we all love checking out new devices, MWC is not just about the showroom. Some of the most important developments that come from the Mobile World Congress come in the form of speeches by industry gurus. Facebook's CTO Bret Taylor's speech for example, announced Facebook's commitment to the mobile platform, and urged a major shift of all devices toward HTML5 to facilitate more effective mobile web browsing. Taylor also put a major emphasis on improving mobile billing technology, announcing a new "Pay Dialogue" billing system that will make purchase of apps more simple and streamlined.
Google, who many believe were the unquestioned juggernauts of MWC 2012 with its massive Android Market and numerous new products, sent its Chairman Eric Schmidt to give his keynote speech on the future of the mobile web. While Schmidt did sprinkle in a few teasers about some of Google's upcoming projects (which let's face it, we love to speculate about) his main focus was to drive attention towards not only where the mobile market is headed, but also how it will reshape the way we live and interact socially, with a specific focus on connectivity through cloud computing.
Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg from MCW, and while we could go on for days talking about great ideas and products that were unveiled, for now we're just thrilled to hear so many brilliant minds in the mobile field talking about the same things we are. We know the mobile web is spreading, and while we don't need to hear the report that there are 850,000 Android devices activated everyday, in order to take pride in what we're doing, it certainly doesn't hurt.
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Smithfield Foods To Reaffirm Benefits Of Shuanghui-Smithfield Transaction For U.S. Agriculture Industry
SMITHFIELD, Va., July 10, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Smithfield Foods, Inc. (NYSE:SFD) announced that C. Larry Pope, president and chief executive officer of Smithfield, will testify today before the United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry to review the benefits of the Shuanghui-Smithfield transaction for U.S. farmers and agriculture, while reaffirming the commitment to upholding the highest food safety standards. Since the transaction was announced it has received broad-based support from local, state and national elected officials, industry labor unions, U.S. hog farmers, leading economic and international affairs academics and even U.S. based food industry peers.
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Mr. Pope will explain the combined company's commitment to continuing to work with American producers and suppliers that have played an integral role in Smithfield's success:
"With respect to agriculture, we expect this transaction to drive growth and expansion not only for our growers, but for the entire U.S. pork industry. Smithfield Foods owns over 400 hog farms and has contracts with more than 2,000 family farmers across the country. Our agreement with Shuanghui will maintain all of these contracts and arrangements. Moreover, this transaction creates a terrific opportunity through growth in exports for U.S. hog farmers to expand production to meet the growing Chinese demand." Commitment to the Highest Standards in Food Safety Mr. Pope will underscore the combined company's commitment to food safety as the highest priority: "The integrity of our brands, our record of safety, the safety of the U.S. food supply chain and the recognized effectiveness of U.S. food safety standards are key drivers of the value that Shuanghui places on Smithfield. Our brands are recognized as representing highest-quality, safe and sought-after products throughout the world, including in China. Our combined company thus has every incentive to ensure the continued safety and excellence of our products and brands. Smithfield's facilities will continue to maintain their quality and will experience the same rigorous level of USDA FSIS inspection, regardless of the ownership of this company. Absolutely nothing about how our products are made, inspected or distributed will change." Same Old Smithfield Mr. Pope will also emphasize Shuanghui's commitment to maintaining Smithfield's operations, staff and management:Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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Tara Hunt wrote an interesting blog post which I found on LinkedIn this week called "What Game of Thrones Can Teach Us About Leadership", which you can find here. In it, she writes that "As I've watched through the seasons, I keep seeing characters die or lead others to their death because of an insane focus on gaining and/or keeping power."
It seems to me that once you have to "hang on" to power, you've already lost it.
While I am rather loathe to give him any more attention, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is a case in point. In his case, he decided to initially deal with drug use allegations by denying them. Then he admitted that he used crack cocaine "in one of [his drunken] stupors". To try to "manage" these debacles, he went on the ill-fated Sun TV show, "Ford Nation" and denounced the left wing conspiracy who were targeting him. Then his transcribed telephone conversations revealed his drug use and alleged criminal associations were more than rumours. To "manage" that, he has run on about the corrupt Toronto police, and so on and so on. In Ford's case, "managing" the conversation is critical to his continued stay in the Mayor's seat.
Similar approaches have been used, it seems, by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in his handling of the Senate scandal. Rather than deal with Mike Duffy's inappropriate expense claims head on and in public, the PMO chose to try to make the scandal – and therefore the conversation – go away. Most people would agree that this approach turned out to do more harm to the Conservative Party and the PMO than good. After all, MP Michael Chong's Reform bill – coming from a party who has, up until lately, been as rank-and-file as they come – is not an accident. It seems that the cracks are beginning to show.
As Hunt argues in her post, when leadership is viewed as a zero sum game, it is already lost. Human beings, after all, are largely rational creatures. And, while I have sometimes bemoaned the ocassional absence of critical thinking, Hunt's observation seems nonetheless valid.
People would rather be inspired to follow than afraid not to.
Democracies are famous for having a long system of stable rule and bloodless political succession. By contrast, dictatorships require leaders to repress and repress often in order to hang on to power because it is not willingly given by the population over which they rule.
The lesson is that it is always better to inspire than it is to terrorize. Good leaders don't need to manipulate the message so their followers don't ask questions. They don't need to demonize anyone who raises a sound critique. Rather, they straighten their backs and do what needs to be done, even if it might cost them their "power". Strength of character, vision, and principled stands on issues that truly matter motivate people and give them hope.
I am thus grateful that Nelson Mandela's passing last week was given so much media attention. Mandela spent many years in prison as a result of standing up against apartheid. To be sure, his imprisonment curbed his freedom and made his ability to lead in the conventional sense impossible. Had he been primarily interested in holding on to power, he would have taken a different approach. But he didn't. As a result, he was mourned last week all over the world as a great leader. He was the spark that gave people hope and it was their belief in him brought down the apartheid regime in South Africa. The success of the anti-apartheid movement – like Mandela himself – was not the result of zero sum game leadership. And, as a result, his was a power that he never needed to clutch.
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The long-term objective of this research is to elucidate the biochemical, genetic and physiological mechanisms of aging and age related changes in the domestic dog, Canis familiaris, as an animal model of human aging. The dog is useful for the elucidation of mechanisms associated with aging because among the more than 400 breeds in existence, there is a naturally diverse range of life span. Additionally, the canine sequence has recently been completed and proven to be more similar to the human sequence than is the murine.
Having sequence available, it is now known that each breed consists of a relatively homogeneous population of individuals while the breeds themselves remain heterogeneous enough to be distinguished at the genetic sequence level. Given that life span of the canine is overall relatively short, analysis of a young cohort is possible without making unconfirmed estimates of life span reduction, as it is not entirely possible in primate studies.
The working hypothesis is that oxidative stress contributes considerably to the aging process and specific mechanisms associated with aging and longevity can be determined by investigating the cellular and genetic differences between breeds with naturally diverse life span.
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One of our current projects pertaining to longevity and healthy life span is to determine if oxidative stress levels are correlated to longevity within C. familiaris. Cellular resistance to chemical stressors has been positively correlated with longevity in a variety of mammals, including the hamster, rat, marmoset, rabbit, sheep, pig, cow and human (Kapahi et al, 1999), but similar data is lacking for the dog. Within species comparisons, as opposed to across species comparisons, have likewise demonstrated that cells from long-lived birds have superior defense against oxidative damage when compared to those of short-lived birds (Ogburn et al, 2001). Therefore, we would like to establish the level of oxidative stress resistance in the canine as compared to other mammals, as well as within the species.


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The Cork Marathon 2014 saw two major records being set with Cork firefighter Alex O'Shea breaking the Guinness World Record time for running in full duty great while Pauline Curley, an Irish Olympian, set a new course record.
O'Shea ran the full 26.2-mile circuit in 3 hours, 41 minutes and 10 seconds, shaving 58 minutes off the current Guinness World Record. He wore his full firefighting attire, including steel-toed reinforced firefighting boots, fire-retardant pants and jacket, as well as his 3lb firefighter's helmet and visor. He was running to raise funds for his charities, the Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind and his local Ballineen Enniskeane District Association Playground Development Fund (BEDA). He was accompanied at all times on the run by 2 colleagues, who ensured that he kept hydrated throughout the run.
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The winner of the Marathon was Bartosz Muzerski, who completed the course in 2 hours and 28 minutes and 38 seconds. The female winner, Pauline Curley, set a new course record for the women's title with a time of 2 hours 43 minutes and 47 seconds. She retained her title as winner of the Cork City Marathon, Ladies, 2013.
Speaking at the finish line of the Cork City Marathon 2014, Race Director Jim O'Donovan said, "We are particularly thrilled that Alex O'Shea has set a new Guinness World Record here in Cork today through his extraordinary feat of endurance and perseverance. He truly is a hero, and has raised both awareness and funds for his charity, Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind and his local playground in West Cork".
The Cork City Marathon is now in its eight year. This year included more than 7,500 participants.
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This was a hilarious show from beginning to end. Mike does pick out audience members so if you're especially sitting close to the stage, you may be part of his show. He is very quick and keeps the audience engaged. Well worth it for the value. Fremont St has also changed a lot so a night downtown is a treat too. If you're using the transit system, make sure you allow time. We caught the 6:15-6:30 SDX bus (less stops then the Deuce) $8 for 24hr out front of Planet Hollywood and we arrived just in time. There are still quite a few stops and the buses are full. We went on Tuesday night
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Any issues with using a Gen 3 G19 trigger and trigger bar in a Gen 4 G19?
Any issues with using a Gen 3 G19 trigger and trigger bar in a Gen 4 G19?
Nope all my Gen 4 pistols have Gen 3 Glock 17/22 trigger bars.
10-4 thanks for the quick reply
What is the purpose of the bump on the trigger bar on the gen 4 guns ?
Same as Robb. I put gen 3 17 trigger bars on my 19's (smooth trigger as well).
Same here. My gen4 wears a gen3 connector. No issues at all.
Does the Gen 3 trigger bar (without the bump) actually do anything for the trigger pull weight? Is it that noticeable? (I've heard both ways, that's why I'm asking)
I've also heard that Glock is going with Gen3 trigger bars WITH the bump now. True or False? If true, are the "non-bump" bars going away?
Yes the without the bump Gen3 trigger bar will lower the pull weight my 1/2-1lb if used in a Gen4.
Gen3s are still coming with Gen3 trigger bars.
Thanks for the reply Robb.
I was looking at picking up this one since I was getting some Defoor sights from LWD anyway...Good to go? (I don't mind the serrated tigger btw)


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SOC 230 Education in the 21st Century • 5 Cr.
What role do education and schools play in society? How do schools both reinforce and challenge prevailing social practices? Untangle such complex issues as gender differences in education, racial and ethnic segregation, and affirmative action, and learn more about current political controversies about schools.
After completing this class, students should be able to:
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- Explain the impact schooling has on identity development, role-taking behavior, and deviance;
- Outline the ways in which schools are used to enforce social conformity;
- Identify, question, and critically analyze the major purposes of formal education;
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This was the scene last year for our son's 7th Birthday -
Backyard Beach Birthday Bash
...90 degrees and very humid!
We had about 80 people attend and here are the highlights...(my most involved party yet)
When the guests arrived - they walked onto the driveway AKA The Boardwalk
games...tattoo parlor...Crabby Crafts...
Once in the backyard...Waterworld (5 pools set up), Sandcastle making, Souvenirs and Sweets Shop.
Snack Shack...all awaited them...
guests could fill their bag up with sweet treats and souvenirs...
Photo Booth complete with beach scene and real sand!
Sunscreen stations throughout the party...safety first!
Some friendly competition at the Sand Castle Building station
Must keep the guests cool...these were on the tables with ice water...
Maybe I have inspired you to throw a backyard beach bash!
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Kosta Browne acquires vineyard in Green Valley
Kosta Browne winery in Sebastopol has bolstered its new estate program by purchasing its first vineyard, a key 20-acre block from the highly acclaimed Keefer Ranch located in the Russian River Valley appellation outside Graton in the Green Valley.
"We have been sourcing Pinot Noir from the Keefer Ranch since 2005, and it has been a gem in our portfolio, having designated the wine since that vintage," says winery founder Michael Browne. "It's just such an incredible Green Valley site, and the meticulous care given to this ranch by Marcy Keefer and her crew truly shows in the wines."
Marcy Keefer continues to farm her remaining 30 acres, selling these grapes to her existing winery clients.
"I couldn't be happier with this arrangement with Kosta Browne," says Marcy Keefer. "They have always been the ideal winery partner, so I'm confident they will be incredible stewards of this piece of vineyard."


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The literary journeys of a would-be Renaissance man, exploring history, philosophy, science, religion, economics, art, and fiction.
Hermione: "Well, I WAS curious, so I went--"
Ron and Harry: " -- to the library."
Saturday, February 26, 2011
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Funny, I don't recall the Martians landing Robo-Spartans...
Is the isle of Dr. Moreau home to Morlocks?
I don't know what these books are about, but if this series is consistent, their covers have nothing to do with them. ;-)
Depending on your resolution, those pictures will probably glitch into the sidebar, but it doesn't seem distracting on my monitor.
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*Cool* purchase.
..and yes, the covers have little or nothing to do with the contents! - February 27, 2011 at 3:27 AM
- Loni said...
The covers could be worse... I've read Dr. Moreau, The Time Machine and War of the Worlds and enjoyed them all. I'd like to read all of Wells' work.
- February 28, 2011 at 3:22 PM
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@Cyberkitten: One of those cases of being at the right place at the right time!
@ Loni: As would I, especially his historical work. I may also read "The Shape of Things to Come this Year".
I think the best example of a cover being out of line with the contents was the original cover for "A Whiff of Death", also known as "The Death Dealers". While the death in question occurred through cyanide poisoning, the cover showed a leggy blonde holding a smoking pistol! - February 28, 2011 at 4:11 PM


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Renewables: Reaping the benefits of farming in harmony with solar power
WITH a five megawatt solar farm in operation on his land - enough to meet the electricity needs of 1,500 homes – Clive Sage is one of a new generation of renewable energy farmers who have made the most of recent commercial interest in leasing farmland to generate solar power.
Not that Mr Sage, who farms 100 hectares (250 acres), with about 550 ewes and 60 cattle, would want to be known as a solar farmer. Twenty-five years ago he owned little or no land of his own and was shearing sheep.
After studying at Bicton agricultural college, near Exeter, he left for New Zealand and Australia to work on farms. When he returned, he rented land close to his parents' family farm near Bridport, Dorset.
Within a short space of time, he had built up a successful contract shearing business. With a team of Kiwis, he managed to shear 20,000 sheep in one year.
He took over some of the land from his family's farm in the mid-1990s and later switched to running the farm full-time, giving up the shearing contract work. Although, with prices per sheep now more than double the rate he was getting a few years ago, he admits to looking at trying to fit in contracting again.
His farm business is based around selling his beef and lamb within the local region. He is director of Dorset Farmers Markets and is involved in the producer group Direct From Dorset.
Currently about 90 per cent of his meat is sold directly through farm shops, hotels, mail order and farmers' markets.
The meat is slaughtered locally and delivered back on-farm, where a part-time butcher is employed to process his own-branded produce.
Getting started
The story of how he came into solar energy is one which almost never happened - thanks in part to his wife, who works from the family home as a osteomyologist, looking after farmers' aches and back pains.
Just over three years ago, there was a knock at the door from a developer, who turned up out the blue, asking if they would be interested in renting out a field and putting solar panels on it.
"My wife sent him packing, saying no we wouldn't," says Mr Sage.
Although he had installed solar panels on his barn roof, the thought of giving over an entire field or more to it did not appeal.
However, when he subsequently found out that he could continue to graze livestock on the fields after the solar panels had been installed, he was converted to the idea.
"That got me quite excited. I thought, it is the best of both worlds here if I can still graze and maintain the sites as well as producing green energy."
Three years on, his solar farm has been up and running for more than six months now. To get to this point, though, he says it has been a 'bit of a rollercoaster'.
The introduction of government subsidy through Feed-in Tarriffs, which provide a higher price per unit of electricity generated, helped kick-start the industry in 2010.
However, it also led to a rush of speculators and 'cowboys', something Mr Sage admits to having had concerns about.
"I had heard the scare stories and knew there were several companies out there who were prepared to offer farmers' money, without having the funds to deliver it. They just planned on selling the site on to someone else."
An early deal fell through after the Government subsidy was reduced two years ago, but he soon had a choice of six new offers from energy companies from around the world.
They all offered slightly different deals - rent payments, payments up front, an amount per acre or megawatt installed.
"You have to try and read between the lines, but they were all more or less offering the same. I did my research and spoke to a number of other farmers in Cornwall who had installed solar panels, so I knew what was on the table and what was a fair price."
He eventually chose British Solar Renewables because of its successful delivery of previous farm projects; his own knowledge of the company, which is 'owned by a respected Somerset farming family'; and the appeal of supporting a local British company.
"From my point of view, I am producing meat on this land and trying to sell it through local markets, so the food miles thing is quite important to me.
"They call it sticky money. If you are generating work for local people, selling food to local people, it is money that stays within the locality.
"I could have quite easily gone with a Spanish or German company and they would have sent all their employees and equipment over and there would have been little benefit to the local economy."
There was the stress of contracts and solicitors, but ultimately it was the company which applied for planning permission and stumped up the finance for the £6 million project.
In return, Clive gets quarterly payments, guaranteed for the 25-year term of the lease.
"I just had the right land, in the right place. In farming, every bit of land lends itself to different opportunities."
For the developers, his site had a number of key attractions - a south-facing field, shaded from view and not overlooked, and perhaps crucially, a major regional sub-station less than 500 metres away to feed in the electricity his site produces to the national grid.
Such is the potential of his immediate vicinity for generating solar energy that there are already three other solar farm sites either under construction or up and running, within a two mile radius of his farm.
There have been objections from local residents, as the site is visible through the hedgerows in places as you drive along the minor roads running past his 12ha (30-acre) site.
However, the intrusion is arguably mild in comparison to the presence of the electricity pylons which have been running from the regional sub-station out over the landscape since the 1950s.
Nationally, the UK government has set a target of installing 20 gigawatts of solar power by 2020 - enough to meet the electricity needs of four million homes.
Even with a further reduction in government subsidy support, experts have told Farmers Guardian they expect developers to continue to look for more sites.
There are proposals for a much larger 28MW solar project on a farm in Blandford Forum, North Dorset.
Whatever the objections, for Mr Sage his site is already a source of pride. He recently had a film crew from BBC Countryfile visiting the farm - and most importantly he has a new guaranteed source of income.
With fixed, index-linked payments, whether the sun shines or fog descends, he will still get paid for the next 25 years and longer if the site is successful and the lease is extended.
"There is little in farming that gives you a guaranteed market price, even if you might get lucky and be able to find a niche market for a certain crop."
There is still an unknown impact in terms of the grazing quality of the land used by the solar panels. Mr Sage had to cut back his sheep numbers during the construction phase, which lasted for four months, but is now building numbers up again.
On the site itself, he admits weed infestation is likely to be a problem.
"It will be continuous grazing, as you can not bring a crop in and rotate, so it is likely to take some long-term grazing and flock management."
The wires have been safeguarded, but there could be occasional loose wires which could get chewed on by the sheep, unless he monitors the site closely.
However, the supporting legs on the panels seem to be standing up to the sheep's fondness for rubbing and scratching themselves.
Unfortunately, his somewhat optimistic idea of bringing his lambing sheep into the field, under the protection of the security fence around the field, have not worked out. "The foxes have managed to sneak under it," he says.
Farm facts
- 100 hectares (250 acres)
- 550 ewes
- 60 cattle
- 90 per cent of meat sold through farm shops, hotels, mail order and farmers' markets
- Solar company funded the £6 million development and dealt with planning issues
- Fixed, index-linked quarterly payments on 25-year lease
- Major regional sub-station close by
- Three other solar farm sites within a two-mile radius of the site
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Check out OVO affiliate Jimmy Johnson's new cut "PRAY".
We first introduced you to rising Torontonian Jimmy Johnson near the end of January with his cut "Rolling Deep" (read up on the experimental record here). The track was produced by Eric Dingus, and the Austin, Texas producer has once again teamed up with his Toronto counterpart for a new release called "PRAY". The difference this time is that Drizzy's OVO blog has let go this latest cut, leading us to believe an affiliation is in the works, if not happening already.
Once again the track has a trippy feel with Jimmy utilizing auto-tune. Are you feeling him? If so you can download this. Think he'd be a good addition to the OVO crew?
As we mentioned when we posted "Rolling Deep" - keep an eye out for what Jimmy does next.
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Got me feeling like I'm Pac now, huh
Or Biggie getting popped now
'Cause I'm hated by the cops now
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I had planned to write briefly (or as briefly as I could manage—this is me, after all) on being a reluctant novelist, but we've had an awful lot of writing pieces recently.
So instead I want to ask you to tell me about that one story—whether novel, TV show, song lyric, short story, poem, oral tradition, folk tale, or true-life experience—that has stuck with you far beyond its telling, that fired your imagination and made you either want to read or write more.
It's often not the best told or generally approved story you've read or heard, but it is the one that simply won't leave your head. The powerful ur-story that changed the way you thought most profoundly. It may be inspirational or banal, famous or obscure, true or fanciful, uplifting or condemning.
For me it was two relatively unknown stories. The first was a Twilight Zone episode where a member of a biker gang, a hell-raiser, a troublemaker, finds himself dead from a road accident and falls deep into the recesses of Hell.
He's kind of excited by the idea of fire and brimstone, demons and screaming until he lands in a dowdy living room watching the vacation slides of an elderly couple who go on in excruciating detail about every moment of their mundane trip. The biker tries to leave, but can't; he tries to speak, but is forced to be mute.
Then a demon appears and explains that this is his personal hell, the reward of a life lived badly, and that he will spend all of eternity watching these slides and hearing these stories. As the man screams in mute horror, the demon smiles and mentions that for the couple, this chance to review their life for an audience represents the highest bliss and is, for them, Heaven.
I was just seven or eight years old at the time, and the idea of relative experience blew my child's mind and set me to thinking about how similar events can be seen so differently by different people.
The other was a short story by Orson Scott Card called "Closing the Timelid," wherein a group of wealthy college students use a time machine to transport themselves back in time and throw themselves under the wheels of a semi-truck barreling down a mountain road—then snatch themselves back at the moment just prior to death.
It's a thrill-game, an adrenaline high to compete with drugs, and the college students are just having fun experiencing the physical sensations of death with none of its consequences. It's also an illegal use of the technology. When time cops bust the group for violating established law, they protest that they did their research and the driver died just moments after they flashed into the timeline, so there was no way they could make a meaningful change.
The story ends as we flash into the mind of the male truck driver who sees the ghosts of teen after teen appearing at the edge of his vision and sees or feels the thump of impact under his wheels or against his windshield, and knows he will be tormented for the rest of his life for surviving the car crash that took his wife's life. So though he sees the broken bridge over a deep ravine, he drives over it anyway and ends his own life on the rocks below.
This idea of casually torturing another human for personal amusement, and justifying it on the basis that the victim somehow deserved it and that you were entitled haunted me for years and transformed the way I thought about interpersonal interactions and the thoughtless, casual violence (emotional or physical) we often perpetrate on those who don't deserve it.
These were stories that reached deep inside me as an individual and significantly changed the way I thought forever after.
What stories did that to you, and why? This too, is part of the joy of reading, and worth sharing.


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quote:PM saying Rumbelow may start tomorrow
quote:What kind of puzzled me is PM saying Rumbelow may start tomorrow. Do we really need to run Rumbelow out there after only a week back from injury?
quote:a good 5 innings,
quote:he would have just kept him in his normal reliever role and brought him in somewhere in the middle innings
quote:And who would have started?
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