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Imagine getting up earlier on a beautiful day and going somewhere where everyone is excited and in a great mood. The atmosphere is uplifting, knowing you are about to do something fun that is also wonderful for your health. The sense of accomplishment that you will feel at the end is amazing! And anyone can do it!
"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece." - Ludwig Erhard
Monday night the Lebanon City Council and the Lebanon Tourist and Convention Commission made a compromise that, for now, has postponed the council's decision to eliminate the city's restaurant tax.
By Lisa Tolliver
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I haven't done my taxes yet.
It's April 10 and time is ticking down. But I'm not in panic mode yet. I still have a week and a day — that's a lifetime. Since April 15 is on a Friday this year, the tax deadline has been extended until April 18. I'm not sure the reason behind the extension but I'll take it.
I'm Katy Smith and I'm doing a fourth grade state project. I was dying for Kentucky, and I got it! I can't wait to learn more about The Bluegrass State!
March 10, 2003, was the most important date in the history of the Lebanon Tourist and Convention Commission.
April 11, 2011, may just be the second most important.
In 2003, Lebanon Mayor Gary Crenshaw broke a tie that allowed the commission to be created. On Monday, the city council could take a step that will effectively end that commission.


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Should historians and librarians be worried about prosecution under the Espionage Act?
Could Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice be detained for continuing to publish historical intelligence records on the State Department web site that the CIA has flagged as classified?
Could thousands of historians and librarians around the country be arrested for retaining and circulating volumes of the State Department's Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series that are now considered to contain classified documents?
These seem to be silly questions.
And yet the theory of the Espionage Act that has been adopted by the government in its prosecution of two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (who are not charged with espionage) may extend even to silly cases such as these.
The Espionage Act's prohibitions on the unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information apply to "whoever" may violate them, the government insisted in a January 30 motion.
"Whoever means, 'no matter who'," the government contended. "The statute covers 'anyone'."
Until now, the Espionage Act has never been interpreted this broadly, and for good reason. Using the Act to penalize the public receipt and distribution of government information leads to absurd conclusions.
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AMD Catalyst 12.10 for Linux
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An early beta of Catalyst 12.11 for x86/x86_64 Linux is already available from
As usual, there is no official release notes from AMD for this updated Linux Catalyst driver. However, for the information I happen to know about this new binary blob... There should be some 2D performance optimizations, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 support, and some other random work, but nothing too breakthrough.
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The 38th Century is the Peak of a New Great Era of Mankind. Humanity has struggled through the tribulations of the galaxy, the Secessionist Migrations, the Optimist Incursion, the Slave-God Wars, and most recently the Great Citizenship. But despite all this, the nations of men stand strong, their empires seem stand on feet of granite, and national anthems written long centuries ago echo heartily through alien lungs and jaws. But a darkness begins to dim the glittering hopes of the mighty civilisations of humans, and tensions grow between the mighty empires. Fear and blood and fire linger in the minds of the galactic citizenry but such fears are brushed off as paranoia.
Mankind began its journey to greatness in the 21st century. Their first forays into space were primitive, slow and desperate. Men hailed as heroes in the 38th century, were in their own ages crippled by low gravity and aged prematurely by radiation. But in the latter years of that century, when the Solar colonies were just developing critical mass, faster-than-light engines were developed. Humanity spread across the galaxy with zeal, eager to conquer and exploit the stars and even seek ancient and wondrous alien civilisations. But they discovered something odd. When they found worlds populated by aliens, they found the aliens were primitive, still knapping flints, exterminating megafauna and generally only just existing on the edge of the Stone Age. The United Nations kept these populated yet savage world under protection, but the longer that the great starcruisers travelled, the quicker that humanity realised that while we were not alone, we were not likely to learn any great wonders from the intelligences we encountered. It was also becoming increasingly uneconomical to avoid good, habitable world because there were a few hundred thousand fur clad aliens on its surface.
The first consequences of this, was that while habitable worlds were avoided, sterile planets were enthusiastically exploited, and the fragile craft of the early travellers became extremely robust. Secondly the discovery that the intelligences out there weren't fundamentally more wise than humans crippled a nascent 'United Humanity' movement, and the separate starfaring Great Powers greedily built empires of colossal scale. This caused a wave of nationalism across Earth, and trillions were poured into space programmes, and a state without a smattering of colonies was barely perceived as a state at all. As space travel became ever cheaper, many secessionist groups found that they could find a homeland unavailable to them on Earth beyond the harsh light of the Sun. These groups represented the first Major Crisis, as the increasingly weak United Nations was exploited, and land was expropriated to make way for new colonies. Wars broke out as nations who had worked hard to establish a hermetically sealed colony on an airless moon found it stripped from them and depopulated to make way for a sect of angry Basques. Ultimately, the United Nations collapsed in the face of schisming nationalist groups, and a war was fought across the stars. A great many minority states survived the Secessionist Migrations, and in fact in many ways it strengthened the sense of unity and nationality in many emergent empires like the Spanish Republic, and the Russian Peoples Tsardom.
With homelands like Palaestina established, the new space empires entered an era of peace and prosperity when demands for expansion and resources could be solved by finding virgin worlds to take rather than conflict with one another over borders. A Galactic Ecumene was established to replace the United Nations, and was used to administrate the alien worlds placed under protection. A Prime Directive of non-interference was universally accepted by governments. But individuals and groups found a ludicrously profitable trade in drugs, weapons, slaves and prostitutes could be carried on on primitive worlds. Alien peoples barely out of the Neolithic were easily overawed by ambitious individuals with high technology and on distant worlds could establish themselves as God-Kings. The Ecumene was loath to intervene knowing that intervention would be an admission of failure. But the slavers were ever more open about their operations and the inevitable filtering of interstellar crime gangs from the redoubts on isolated worlds to major colonies of the Great Powers represented a major shift. Alien slaves and prostitutes were found in raids on warehouses across the human colonised galaxy. Deaths from extraterrestrial narcotics leaped and states realised that the Ecumene had failed exactly where the United Nations had failed before it. Military forces were sent to the protected worlds and the Slaver-Gods were rooted out with terrible loss of life. After this, the alien worlds were placed under imperial mandates and were openly exploited.
For several centuries this situation remained stable, though the Optimist Incursion caused a ruckus when the 'United Humanity Movement' was resurrected albeit with a flavour of extreme genocidal human nationalism who blamed the still primitive aliens for humanity's problems. After a series of wars, several empires collapsed and some suffered revolutions, with the Soviet Union entering a second incarnation. After this, efforts were made to educate and improve the lot of the aliens, and from the 24th to the 31st century, a population boom occurred during which some humanity moved from the majority species in most states to a plurality. This was deeply problematic, as humans were used to aliens serving as a visible but not overweening underclass, but the sheer numbers worried them. By the 35th century, humans were a minority in most states, and the increasingly prosperous and well-educated aliens began protesting their inferior status. Many states grew reactionary and put down rebellions with terrible bloodshed. These aliens had grown up under human rule for centuries or even millennia, and in most cases remained loyal to their respective nations but felt little love for the government who ruled them or the elitist upper crust of humans who had grown stupendously wealthy on cheap alien labour.
The Great Citizenship began in the 35th to the 36th century, in which the vast majority of states were forced to grant equal citizenship to aliens. In many cases this was a drawn-out, agonising affair, and in some states isolated on one world, humans still formed a majority and they were safe in their archaic bigotry. From the 36th to the 38th century, the newly enfranchised peoples joined in the work of their nations with renewed vigour, and it is generally agreed that this time since the Great Citizenship represents a Golden Era. But darkness grows in this new era. While states remain dominated by a human elite, aliens are being increasingly co-opted into these circles. For long centuries, peace has been maintained by distracting expansionist ambitions outwards and in a common sense of human brotherhood bolstered by the elimination of secessionist nationalism and the godlike sense of human dominance. Now each state was biologically different from the next in the most bizarre and extreme ways. The British Empire was dominated by the saurian race of the Jeldrahi, while the French Eleventh Republic was mostly ruled by the chitinous scarab-men of Qiqiqiraaqaq. The common sense of human brotherhood was dissolving as humanity became increasingly irrelevant in the governance and life of their nations. And the sheer breadth of the empires meant that outwards expansion was also irrelevant. Conflict was becoming an ever more real and some say certain outcome...


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pAt the end of every year, we ask listeners to send us their creative resolutions for the New Year – projects they've always wanted to do, but needed a little push to get going. Then, we pick a handful of them to follow and hold to their promises. In 2014, we got one of our most peculiar and ambitious proposals yet: the musician Mike Doughty, of the great 90s band Soul Coughing, wanted to write a rock opera based on the Book of Revelation. How could we say no to that?/p
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pKelly Link re-read classic children's fantasy while she was getting her MFA; now her acclaimed short stories are breaking the wall of genre between fantasy and literary fiction. A new and surprisingly popular trend in music videos takes out all the images, showing you nothing but a song's lyrics. Also, you asked us to redesign one of the worst parts of everyday life: Mondays. But can design actually make Mondays joyful? /pimg src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/studio360/podcast/~4/wfpfP3Q1l8g" height="1" width="1" alt=""/Kurt Andersen talks with the author Kelly Link, whorsquo;s breaking down barriers between fantasy and literary fiction. And we ask: Can design bring joy to Mondays?
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Sideshow Podcast: Cheryl Strayed's "Dear Sugar" is The Internet's BFF
pThe internet is doing great things for advice columns.a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/ask_andrew_wk/" target="_blank" Andrew W.K./a, a href="http://noisey.vice.com/blog/introducing-ask-t-pain-a-new-advice-column-by-t-pain" target="_blank"T-Pain/a, and a href="http://www.studio360.org/story/sideshow-murakami-cage-emojis-win-internet/" target="_blank"Haruki Murakami/a are the latest to start life-coaching online, but emDear Sugar/em, the bygone column at the literary website a href="http://therumpus.net/sections/dear-sugar/" target="_blank"The Rumpus/a, remains the fan favorite. "She really has this willingness to share herself in her responses to other people's problems," says the writer Ann Friedman, who praised the column in a href="http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/06/self-help-book-women-love-to-give-each-other.html" target="_blank"emNew York Magazine/em/a last year. Though Friedman was a emDear Sugar /emlatecomer, she immediately connected with the writing. "It feels like talking it out with a friend – the most articulate, compassionate friend."/p
pemDear Sugar/em was launched by the writer Steve Almond in 2010, but it wasn't long before he handed the reigns over to Cheryl Strayed, who wrote the column until it was retired in 2012. The end of emSugar/em coincided with the beginning of emWild/em – Strayed's best-selling, Oprah-endorsed memoir about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail after years of personal turmoil. The book inspired this year's Academy Award-nominated Reese Witherspoon movie:/p
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pThough emWild/em has kept Strayed plenty occupied for the past few years, she yearned to return to advice-giving. "I always felt like I had not quite finished my work as Sugar," she says. When Almond suggested they resurrect the column as a podcast, she signed on immediately. "It sounded like fun to me. And I let my gut drive a lot of my decisions, as I advise other people to do as Sugar."/p
pStrayed and Almond co-host ema href="http://www.wbur.org/series/dear-sugar" target="_blank"Dear Sugar Radio/a/em and employ "radical empathy" to respond to listeners – a term that refers to sharing one's own experiences as a way of recommending a certain course of action. "I don't know the answers," Strayed says. "But what I can do is help you find a way to ask deeper questions." After a lifetime of offering stories of her own infidelity, drug use, and woe, Strayed isn't afraid to over-share. "I've always been the person who is interested in going one step further when it comes to risking intimacy," she says. "I'm sort of famous for being really bad at polite cocktail party conversation." /p
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pemOur Cheryl Strayed interview a href="http://www.cbc.ca/q/blog/2015/02/09/cheryl-strayed-dear-sugar/" target="_blank"originally aired/a on CBC's Q. Thanks to our friends at Q for letting us make a Sideshow out of the whole affair. /em/pimg src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/studio360/podcast/~4/RffGQ2FUJm0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/Andrew W.K., T-Pain, and Haruki Murakami are the latest to life coach online, but "Dear Sugar" remains the fan favorite. Now, Cheryl Strayed is re-launching the column as a podcast.nbsp;
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ABC News' Matthew Jaffe reports:
Senators today woke up to learn of the loss of one of their
most revered colleagues, West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, the
longest-serving member of Congress in history.
"Robert C. Byrd was the anchor of the Senate. There will
never be another like him," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said in a speech
on the Senate floor this afternoon.
Gushed Reid: "Robert Byrd's mind was among the greatest the
world has ever seen."
The lawmakers gathered in a moment of silence for Byrd, his
desk covered by a black drape and flowers.
Sen. Daniel Inouye, the 85-year old Hawaii Democrat, was
then sworn in as the new Senate Pro Tempore. After Byrd, Inouye is the
second-longest serving senator in history. The Senator Pro Tempore is third in
line for the presidency after the Vice President and the Speaker of the House.
For many lawmakers today was a chance to celebrate Byrd's
life, to tell their favorite stories about a man who served on Capitol Hill for
over half a century.
Reid ran down an array of examples of Byrd's "stunning"
memory, such as when he recited the list of British monarchs and when he
recalled the exact amount of time Robinson Crusoe spent stranded on an island.
"He will forever be remembered as one of the giants," said
the Nevada senator.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell also sang Byrd's
"More than anyone else in our lifetime Robert Byrd wrote the
book on the US Senate," McConnell said.
"I am profoundly saddened that he is gone," said Byrd's
West Virginia colleague Sen. Jay Rockefeller. "I think that he leaves a
void that probably cannot be filled."
The Senate's number-two, Democrat Dick Durbin, heralded Byrd's
famous lively and poetic speeches on the floor of the chamber.
"No one in the history of the Senate could match Byrd's
thunderous oratory; his sense of history; his determination to teach every
President the limits of his power and his lifelong passion to fight for West Virginia,"
Durbin said in a statement.
"Daniel Webster, set another chair at Heaven's table, Robert
C. Byrd of West Virginia has arrived," Durbin said, referencing the famous
senator from Massachusetts during the Antebellum Period in the early to mid
Across Capitol Hill on Monday numerous senators also kicked
off their opening statements at the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of
Elena Kagan by remembering Byrd.
"No senator came to care more about the Constitution and be
a more effective defender of our constitutional government than the senior
senator from West Virginia," said Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy.
"In many ways, he was the keeper of the Senate flame, the fiercest defender of
the Senate's constitutional role and prerogatives."
Byrd served as a senator for over half a century, from
January 3, 1959, until his death at 3am Monday morning. When he first took
office that day, Hawaii was not yet a state and President Barack Obama had not
yet been born.
-Matthew Jaffe


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I'm not looking for a religious discussion. If someone starts one, I will rip your face off and block your comments.
1. How involved a deity is affects religion. At least in fantasy, anyway. Now of course there are plenty of fantasy religions that don't bother to clear up whether a god actually exists, and the driving elements of the story or more about religion and power rather than spirituality. So considering whether god or gods actually really do exist at all in your story is a perfectly cromulent question. However, if a god does exist, and is constantly involved in the lives and well-being of its worshipers, enemies or non-believers might think twice before some serious smiting ensues. For that matter, followers of an attentive god might watch their mouths. (Look at the Greek Gods and what they did for slights!) A god may be protective, but that doesn't necessarily mean benevolent. In fact, a god or gods may have the attitude of "No one messes with my people but me!" Ancestors and spirits may replace a full-on deity, but how involved they are with the real world still needs to be addressed. (I think that Starclan from the Warriors cat series might as well not be there at all, since they are never helpful and at times downright deliberately confusing and obstructive. The overthrow of them would make for the best Japanese RPG ever, though. Get on that, Warrior fanfiction people, I'm throwing you a bone, here.) If a god is distant, and never involved, it obviously leaves more room for interpretations, like popes and priests. Often there are magical quotas for gods, that by worshiping a god one gains particular magics or some other boon. If this is so, pay attention to what that god likes and what it wouldn't tolerate. (If a god likes babies, for example, and your character accidentally kills one, I'm going to take issue when the god pats him on the shoulder and says, "Eh, that's okay, buddy.") Very few people like the full-on attention of gods. Heroes tend to have miserable lives, ditto prophets and martyrs. A god nitpicking all the time creates a tyrannical heaven, especially if they're petty. The angle of gods sneering at poor, pathetic humanity has kind of been done to death; sometimes I wonder how people would behave towards a god that could care less if it was worshiped, or even gods that are at mercy of mankind like in Princess Mononoke. That also begs the question of whether a god or supernatural being needs worshipers in the first place, because that at least can give mankind some pull. Gods may well operate on their own level of rules, and be forbidden from directly interfering with the mortal realm because it creates chaos. Indirect contact from the gods is another grey area that can be misinterpreted, even usurped by false prophets. Of course, the definition of what a god even is opens up all kinds of thematic ruminations (again, Japanese RPGs might kill god all the time, but the argument could be made that the god killed is not God god or what have you, just a super-powerful denizen.) Either way, the role of gods as watchers, judges, or directors of fates needs to be established, even if they don't play a major role in the story.
2. What is exchanged for religion needs to be addressed. Religion either forms or is an extension of morals and ethics, especially in primitive societies. It is often the first attempt of mankind to make sense of that which makes no sense. While myths are the first science, often attempting to explain phenomenon as-yet undiscovered, religion and spirituality attempts to answer the questions science never can. Do people pray just to exalt their god or gods, and obey heavenly laws in the hopes of being granted a reward? Or do characters pray for power, for magic, or other favors? And which ones do the gods agree to? Why does the religion exist in the first place? Many times, religion strikes a chord by addressing the major problems people have. If you are a warrior whose livelihood depends on not dying in battle, you're probably not going to be thrilled at praying to some namby-pamby god of peace. You've got to get the attention of the not-dying-in-war god! Honoring one's ancestors might be important for obtaining past histories, or even so one can be welcomed as a proper family member when one dies and joins the spirits on the other side. Note that the reality of these things existing is not as important as the beliefs they instill: odds are, to your characters, the god or gods exist. I also have to point out that if miracles like smiting and the like occur, that's gonna do an awful lot for convincing people the god or gods are real (provided the miracle is specific enough, but again: false prophets can jump all over that.) If there are multiple gods fighting over worshipers, things would definitely get interesting. People usually embrace religion because it fulfills a need. Note that this is not necessarily the presence of a comforting deity, but may well be allowing one to become a part of the community surrounding that religion. You might all be headed to be circumcised and dance in a drum circle, but damn, you're part of something bigger than yourself!
3. Environment and cultural values affects religion. People in the desert might worship rain. But then again, people in a river valley might, too, because the annual river flooding means their crops are good this year. However, in the desert, I bet the storm god is always a good guy, while in the river valley, the storm god has a reputation for being wrathful if he's not appeased. An abundant agricultural society might put gods of fertility and crops first, while a nomadic warrior tribe might value a god of war. What the society values as ethical is influenced by AND influences religion. When mankind is living-hand-to-mouth, expect to see a lot of tribal totems, polytheism, and morals that make no scruples about killing. The less time spent worrying about a full belly is more time to contemplate one's navel. To put it another way, civilization and morality only goes as far as one's ability to eat. Talk to anyone who has known real hunger. Day three, you might be willing to steal and break a law you'd never conceived of breaking. Day five, you might be willing to kill. A society facing this constantly would have a god, a belief system, or a set of mores that are okay with this. Conversely, a society where hand-to-mouth is not a reality for the majority would shake a finger at such primitive behavior. Having said all that, there's nothing worse than a slap-dash religion that makes no sense within the context of the established civilization. I have to invoke Paolini's "Religion of Ebul" here for a second, with the priests cutting their limbs off just cause. I don't wanna say no one would join that religion, because there's always someone desperate and sad enough to joint the most obvious idiot-cult, but cutting one's limbs off serves no purpose in the world as Paolini has presented it. You'd be useless to your society in just about every sense of the word, and religion, largely, is about making connections within society. Please realize that while belief systems can influence and control society, they can't utterly gum up the works of society's operations, because when they do, people tend to do two things: rebel (Henry the 8th, Lutherans, Protestants, Puritans) or become fundamental (the Spanish Inquisition). The medieval churches of Europe grew crops and bred dogs and had a lot of economic power. They were useful in other ways to society aside from just the whole "Yay God!" thing, and a believable fantasy religion takes this into account.
4. The role of ritual is one of the most important. Ritual is a huge, huge thing in human lives. Lack of ritual almost always guarantees a lack of civilization. Rituals reflect or symbolize what the society holds as important, what a culture values. That is why judges wear black robes, why there are ceremonies for inaugurations or military awards, and why we have funerals. For example, a society that promotes death as the most meaningful act ever, one more meaningful than birth or marriage or anything else, is probably going to have warriors sculpted in ritual to believe that with every ounce of their being (and will probably make you wet yourself.) If you like life, but it's meaningless to them, would you wanna face a warrior of theirs? How about a thousand of them? Rituals of birth, coming of age, courtship, bonding, and death exist in just about every culture. Disregarding a ritual or doing it wrong can be quite the faux pas, especially if cultures are colliding. (Throw vengeful opposing gods into the mix and watch the sparks fly.) Depending on how stringent that culture is, it could mean exile or even death (blasphemy laws in Pakistan carry the death sentence, for example.) Modern day disregarding of ritual in say, dating (courtship) might not be that big a deal. But try spitting on a coffin at a funeral, and someone's head is gonna roll. A friend told me once that the surest sign of a society on the brink of collapse is a society that tolerates everything. Rituals dictate what society tolerates. As creatures of habit, we like rituals. They are comforting, and can be personal habits or hugely communal events. Ritual gives significance to the insignificant. They are the infrastructure of a society, the software of our brains; they can change, but if they crumble altogether, everyone's in trouble. Ritual is heavily tied to what defines a culture's values and morals, and surest way to become outcast or insult someone is to screw with their rituals. If a god is involved, and says "Do these rituals right or I'll smite you" the pressure gets even worse. For more on the role of ritual and its resonation in religion and culture, I highly recommend The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell.
5. Religion is highly structured, so don't be stupid about it. Fantasy religions can kind of say anything; you just have to be consistent about the message. If you've taken the time to establish that the Sky God says don't touch a woman until she's married to you, and you have rituals that constantly reinforce this message, and everyone who considers themselves upright moral citizens agrees that not touching women is the fair and right thing to do: don't have an ethically-minded hero touch an unmarried woman and not think twice about it. Or, have an unscrupulous bastard do it and not get in trouble when someone catches him. There'd better be some punishment on the way. Otherwise, why'd you bother telling us Sky God no likee the touching? Also be aware of iterations within the taboo. Is an accidental touch or the brushing of fingertips just as bad as full on canoodling? Because if so, that tells us a lot about the society, especially if it involves a rich noblewoman/chief's daughter versus a peasant girl. Conversely, if a guy kisses a girl and is subjected to three days blackballing, that says a lot, too. (Blackballing is one of the most incredibly hurtful and powerful tools a primitive culture has at its disposal.) Taboos within religion trickle into secular life as well. The biggest offense fantasy religion tends to do is take all this time to establish religion, and then not make it matter one bit outside of the church/synagogue/mosque walls. Religion and spirituality are powerful, powerful forces, because they affect beliefs. If people in the real world can blow themselves up or set themselves on fire because they believe a spiritual text, what the hell do you think could happen in a fantasy world where magic and dragons and gods might have the same spirit of conviction?


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THERE is no doubt that advertising influences children—ask any parent. Some toddlers seem to be able to spot the golden arches of a McDonald's restaurant from a mile away. And they soon learn that a "Happy Meal" comes with a toy, often based on a popular cartoon character. But does such marketing also help cause childhood obesity? Recent reports in America and Europe have put the food industry on notice that unless the advertising of junk food to children is curbed, legislative action may follow.
The most damning criticism comes from America's Institute of Medicine (IOM). It reckons that most of the $10 billion or so spent last year on marketing food and drink to young Americans was for stuff that was high in calories and low in nutrients. This, it says, puts children's "long-term heath at risk". Around 16% of American children aged 6-19 are now obese—three times the level of the 1960s.
If the food industry does not voluntarily start promoting more foods that are lower in calories, fat, salt and added sugars, then the IOM believes Congress should take action. One area it is particularly concerned about is the use of licensed film-characters, such as Shrek or Scooby-Doo, to promote junk food.
Officials in Europe are also worried. Last week the European Commission launched a public consultation to find ways to reduce obesity, which it says is increasing at an "alarming rate". In Scotland, home of the deep-fried Mars bar, more than a third of 12-year-olds are overweight. The commission is exploring various ideas, among them persuading the food and advertising industries to restrict junk-food marketing voluntarily.
Some in the American food industry have reacted with alarm and likened the IOM study to the 1964 Surgeon General's report on smoking, which ultimately led to bans on tobacco advertising. They have criticised the fast-food report for not taking into account what has already been achieved—notably some 4,500 healthier food products launched in the past three years, according to the American Advertising Federation. It believes children would be better served by encouraging them to do a few press-ups, rather than by protecting them from advertisements. People are fat, says the federation, because of "a lack of strenuous physical activity".
Nevertheless, some food companies are finding opportunities to sell healthier products. An emphasis on healthier eating and living has helped PepsiCo in its perennial battle against Coca-Cola (see article). And faced with declining sales even before Morgan Spurlock put the boot in with his film "Super Size Me", McDonald's has been overhauling its menu. Sales of salads, fruit, bottled water and toasted deli-type sandwiches may be small compared with those of its traditional offerings of burgers and fries, but the world's biggest fast-food chain thinks its new products are contributing to growth as well as improving its image. Next year McDonald's will become the first fast-food chain to print nutritional information on its packaging.
Other companies have been less successful. Last month Wendy's, the third-biggest chain of burger restaurants, removed fresh-fruit pieces from its menus. These were introduced with much fanfare in February, but failed to meet sales targets. Some analysts think the withdrawal is because of the chain's problems in reviving its struggling business rather than the result of a flaw in the idea.
Both the advertising industry and America's Grocery Manufacturers Association want to preserve the present system of self-regulation. But advertising nowadays relies less on traditional media, such as television and magazines, and more on product placement, games on websites and, especially, "trade promotions". These range from paying to have sweets placed where children see them to cut-price deals such as "buy-one get-one free".
A survey last month by Britain's National Consumer Council found twice as many supermarket price-promotions are for fatty and sugary foods (usually branded, processed products that carry higher margins), than for fruit and vegetables. Because such promotions make junk food seem like more of a bargain, some health experts claim that they encourage poorer people to eat less well. But that does not have to be so. The council found that the top performer in cutting salt, nutrition labelling and removing sweets from checkouts, was the Co-op, a traditional British grocer with a larger than average share of budget-conscious shoppers (and a larger than average social conscience).


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The Lamborghini *Ankonian. It's black. It's sharp. It's just fabulous. Veyron 16.4 Configurator. Img0132. 2006BJCCA2_1058_1_Rear. BMW R60/2 custom. In the car world, you often see "murdered out" vehicles, painted completely black for a sleek and sinister look.
You occasionally see it in the motorcycling world—Steve Jones' Ducati being an example—but I don't think I've ever seen a fifty-year-old classic motorcycle given the "murder" look. This traffic-stopping machine, called "Great Escape", is a 1963 BMW R60/2 customized by Blitz Motorcycles of France. Bmw-concept-60027.jpg (JPEG Image, 1280x853 pixels) - Scaled (75%) George-brough-ss-100-01. Radical-ducati-cafe-veloce-10. Noir. Mercedes-Benz-710-SSK-27-240-300-hp-Trossi-Roadster_7. Vyrus 986 M2 Live al Motor Bike Expo 2011 - 3/8. EM::Motors. The Old Car Manual Project. Motor. Motorsport photographs.
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All vehicles with the logo include the following purchase and ownership benefits - at NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE! Vehicle Pre-Screening All Buy with Confidence vehicles have been pre-screened using CARFAX data to ensure they meet our high program standards. These vehicles have been screened for: No Reported Structural or Frame Damage No Reported Airbag Deployments No Reported Major Title Problems, including Salvage, Junk, Rebuilt, Fire, Flood, Hail or Lemon Titles. Ecomotor.es La web del motor de la red de elEconomista - Ecomotor.es. Car Buying. CAR FORUM. Motorcycles and Cars. The Harley-Davidson Ridebook. 2-wheel fun. SundayMorningRides.com. Web Magazine. Auto. Motorcycles & Street Bikes. High school fashions, 1969. Cars. Automobile. Moto. The Old Car Manual Project. Motorsport. This Is What Millions of Dollars Down the Tube Looks Like.
Gumball 3000 Brings Out the High-End Rides. Gallery - StumbleUpon. Ferrari 612 GTO Concept - StumbleUpon. AUTO - SALON - SINGEN / virtual tour - StumbleUpon. Lamborghini-Ankonian-Concept-Design-by-Slavche-Tanevski-Rendering-9-1280x960.jpg (1280×960) Batman Rises In a 2012 Lamborghini Aventador. The Dark Knight will be racing through the mean streets of Gotham doing 0-60 in 2.9 seconds in a brand new 2012 Lamborghini Aventador for his next film, Batman: The Dark Knight Rises.
For the third film in the series directed by Christopher Nolan, the billionaire bad boy has upgraded his previous Lamborghini LP640 Murcielago, which was used in Batman: The Dark Knight, for a new toy, the Lamborghini Aventador. Someone over at Luxury4Play.com got their greasy little hands on some flicks of the Italian Stallion while on the set of the film. Ferrari-612-GTO-Concept-Rendering-11-lg.jpg (JPEG Image, 1100x688 pixels) - Scaled (91%) The Old Car Manual Project. Automobile. Moto. 2-wheel fun.
Acura NSX Concept Hybrid at werd. Acura NSX Concept Hybrid Sports car fanatics have been waiting for the return of the fabled Acura NSX, aka the "Japanese Ferrari."
Well, it's coming back. We're not sure exactly when but sometime in the next two or three years. Automobile. Biltwell Classic Style 3/4 Helmet - Galaxy Duo Tone - SHIPS FREE! - Open-Face 3/4 Style Helmets. Welcome to our site and thanks for visiting!
Looking for a lightweight retro-style helmet at a great price? We have dozens to choose from! Cars. Formula 1™ - The Official F1™ Website. Piaggio Scooters.


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The need of the hour for Microsoft to regain the lost market is departure of Steve Ballmer , not Steven Sinofsky. Single reason why Ballmer sticks to job is the proximity and friendship with Bill gates, the largest shareholder. ( Even though Ballmer is a good man)
Steven Sinofksy's exit is going to hurt Microsoft, more than Scott forstall exit from Apple.
Steven's exit linked to some problem with Windows 8.Either due to strategic blunder or unexpected results. All other reasons doesn't appears realistic ("personal issues" is a diplomatic answer rather than truth).
Apple's strength is always industrial design and most powerful mobility hardware and ecosystem, whereas Microsoft strength is Software. I think Microsoft is on the decline.
Microsoft strength is Software.
Special this week: bridges!
Well, at least you didn't try to claim that Microsoft's strength was security. But really, software? Considering the quality of the product (the code, not the user interfaces), that seems a real stretch.
Apple's strength is Marketing.


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06 Oct 2011
GREAT TO SEE the ICAEW taking an aggressive, some might say patronising, tone in letting the Law Society know in no uncertain terms that it must not restrict the onset of multi-disciplinary practices (MDPs).
The Law Society, don't forget, is led by Des Hudson (pictured). I've always found him very amiable, feisty and determined. The ICAEW might agree - in part - with me, having received a bloodied nose from him as ICAS boss.
Back in 2005, with Des at the helm, ICAS enlisted Scottish first minister Jack McConnell to protest against the English institute's proposed change of name to the ICA.
But that's history, as much as ICAEW v Des Round Two would make for great stories.
Much more interesting is the subtext of the ICAEW's letter to the Law Society.
The institute has so far been thwarted in its efforts to extend legal professional privilege to tax advisors' clients. Lawyers will often use privilege as a USP to win tax clients ahead of accountants.
But it seems that allowing lawyers and accountants to work together in partnership will set off the next phase of the privilege battle. It seems there is concern that accountants will use MDPs as a backdoor for gaining privilege.
Whether this is true or not, pushing the society to water down any attempts to fend off lawyers and accountants working together is a smart move.
The Law Society will be on a sticky wicket if it goes against the intention of the Act by making it difficult for the two professions to work in MDPs. Let's face it, the two often work together as it is.
With the Joint Committee having already called for a review into how privilege would work in MDPs when the Act was at Bill stage, it's clear that the institute has some grounds for sticking to its guns.
It may have lost some fights, but an ICAEW rematch with Des Hudson might merely be an eliminator to take on the government for the title.
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Real McCoy is the brainchild of German rapper and producer Olaf "O-Jay" Jeglitza. After having released a few limited edition 12" singles in Germany under various project names (e.g. The Alliance, The Admirers) on his own label "Freshline Records" (founded 1988 by Frank "Quickmix" Hassas & O-Jay, their first major breakthrough came in December 1989 when a cover of the Technotronic hit "Pump Up The Jam" went to No. 16 on the German singles chart. Juergen Wind joined the production team before the single was released.
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Movie: in this movie produced by Dezeen Studio, Hackney architects Patrick Theis and Soraya Khan explain the ideas behind the forms and detailing of their combined home, studio and gallery and discuss how they feel the building responds to its location in Shoreditch, the "naughty relative" of the City of London. More »
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World Architecture Festival 2012: MAXXI
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He left 12 weeks ago.
My first fledgling.
He tested his wings in the Big Easy.
What a place to learn to fly.
The town was kind to him.
For that, I am grateful.
He fluttered, he fed and he grew.
He found his way home.
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Out of the Burbs, Back in the City, cashin in my Mom Cred.
I've stayed home for 23 years having fun playing house.
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The other night I was relaxing on the porch watching my current charge of pets enjoying the yard. In deep contemplation, I decided to count all of the pets that I've ever had.
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That's what mom used to say.
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Thanks mom.
Call your brother.
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Busted By A Masturbating Monkey.
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"Here, put some gas in your car."
That's what Dad used to say while tucking a ten into my pocket as I walked out the door.
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I'm done with these types.
Good riddance.
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LOS ANGELES — If you've ever been pulled over by a police officer for not wearing a seat belt, there's a decent chance the officer also wasn't buckled up either.
While 86 percent of Americans now wear seat belts, an upcoming study that will be published by California's Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training estimates that roughly half of law enforcement officers don't wear them.
With traffic-related fatalities the leading cause of death of officers on duty, departments nationwide are buckling down to get officers to buckle up.
"Something that can save a person's life should be on a high priority of being enforced," said Richard Ashton, a former police chief who has studied officer safety for more than a decade with the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
The Los Angeles Police Department has a new seatbelt education effort after Inspector General Alex Bustamante found that up to 37 percent of officers involved in accidents in 2012 weren't wearing seatbelts.
State laws mandating seatbelt use often exclude police, but the LAPD and most other departments require them in all but certain circumstances.
The costs of not doing so are clear.
In 14 of the last 15 years, it wasn't a shooting, but a traffic incident that was the leading cause of officer deaths, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Of the 733 law enforcement officers killed in a vehicle accident from 1980 through 2008, 42 percent weren't wearing seatbelts.
"This is such low-hanging fruit. This fruit is on the ground almost," said Steve Soboroff, president of the Police Commission at a recent meeting of the civilian oversight board.
New recruits grew up wearing seatbelts, but often don't on the force because senior officers don't use them. Some cut old ones off cars and buckle them in to disable the alarm, belt them out of the way, or cut them out entirely.
Part of the problem is blamed on what experts call the myth of a "ninja assassin," an assailant whose ambush attack would leave officers vulnerable because their seat belts would interfere with their ability to get their gun.
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Nothing but the desk clerk and she was quite nice.
We did not stay the night. Room was musty and reeked of smoke as well. Building is in a state of disrepair and we were panhandled on the way in. We changed clothes and went to my high school reunion, went back and packed and drove 2 1/2 hours home during the night rather than stay there. The room was not particularly clean. There was not even a chain lock much less a deadbolt on the door, only the card key lock. I did not feel safe there.
The locks didn't work to well on any of the four rooms I had. Then they ran out of my room type.
i enjoyed the living room area and kitchen area available in the room.
There was no Ice bucket or anything to get ice with, had to go to the store to get ice. There was someones dirty socks in a drawer that was not mine. but the rest of the room was clean.
Friendly staff . Close to shopping and restruants. Spacious rooms .
It was very clean and really was a neat place to stay. It was quiet. I actually got more than I reserved in the room. The breakfast was very good quality. I would stay here again.
Did not like Sunday morning breakfast with the son, he was very lazy, the food wasn't ready at 7 am, the coffee was just hot water run through, the griddle wasn't hot for waffles. But it was not like this with the parents they were very attentive.
Price and location
Kids running up and down the outdoor corridor in the morning
I liked the fact that everyone that was at the front desk was very nice and helpful especially Monica she helped me out a lot when I first arrived there but I will be back soon me and my boyfriend really loved the room we had... We enjoyed the environment and etc just wonderful
The only thing I didn't like is when there was no water working Saturday...
It was conveniently located on our travel route.
The beds were uncomfortable and the room smelled musty. The bathroom needed serious updating, but I expected as much for the price.
Close to a McDonald's & Waffle House.
The beds were like sleeping on the box spring instead of a matress. Bathroom door wouldn't close all the way. Room #242
EVERYTHING! It's nicely decorated, clean, comfortable,and the breakfast is fantastic!
No complaintsat all.
Nice size room. Loved the included internet and the fridge.
Parking was a little inconvenient but OK.
The beds were very comfortable. The staff were nice and helpful.
The breakfast didn't offer much. The rooms either had a weird smell or they stunk.
The shower was stopped up and kept water in the tub while showering.
This hotel was everything I could have wanted for a nights stay. The location was perfect for my needs. The breakfast was an added plus to my stay.
Breakfast was very nice. Staff was friendly. I like the sitting area. I would stay again.
Elevator broken, Lobby was overheated
I do not like extended stay motels and I do not want another one,I am only spending one night,
Great location
they are in the process of renovations
This hotel has side access to the Wolfchase Galleria which keeps you from having to merge back on interstate to shop!!
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Loved the room, water pressure was awesome! Hot tub was a bonus, breakfest was healthy and good, location was wonderful!
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