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My side of the family has vacationed in the same spot for over 2 decades. Same milepost, same beach club, same condo. All of it the same.
Here's a picture of my Nana with my brother and I before my sister and cousin were even born:
And here's my mom, on that same beach I'm looking at instead of the camera, with all of her grandbabies this year:
My best friend and I have pictures of us on that beach as little girls, hosing the sand off each other, in bathing suits that are too cute for words. There are also pictures of us as annoying tweens and wanna-be rebellious teenagers. We've yet to make it back there as adults together, but that time will come.
There's a family we see there every year who have known me longer than 99% of my friends. We met when I was 8 and bonded over intense games of hide and seek and endless hours of boogie boarding and body surfing. As we grew up, the hide and seek games got bigger (as did the waves, at times…) and we threw in endless nights of playing rummy around the circular kitchen table and walks on the beach where we caught up on every single detail of the past year of our lives.
Meeting that family introduced me to my first "I'm 14 but I swear I'm going to marry him" crush. They showed me that all families fight and love hard and have drama. They introduced me to disgusting bologna loaf and made me feel better knowing that I wasn't the only girl who could house half a container of ice cream in one sitting.
We wrote letters to each other with pen and paper and an actual stamp when we were younger. At one point, in my early 20s, I sent letters (admittedly typed…) to one of them while they served in the Peace Corps. Now, we still send text messages throughout the year.
I can't help but feel this immense feeling of nostalgia whenever I return home from my time spent in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
My brother and I take our families to the same places we used to go to as kids. We watch them run down the same boardwalk. Play in the same ocean. Swim in the same pools. Take baths in the same giant tub. Sleep in the same beds.
Nana made this all happen for us. She started this timeshare tradition of bringing the family to Nags Head every year. Our weeks look a lot different nowadays without the hustle required to make it to a 4pm dinner for the early bird special, and our beds are never, ever made, but the same love and feeling of togetherness still permeates every inch of that condo.
Now, when I think of our beach week, I think about watching my kids play with their cousins. I think about gabbing too loud after too many glasses of homemade Italian wine to my sisters.
I think about how much it irks me when the bathroom gets too dirty and it never being a second thought when I was younger. I think about Carter and Levi sneaking onto the back deck and how I am simultaneously freaked out about them being out there alone and also in awe of them getting into trouble together. For the short time they are with each other, they love and fight and play and yell like they are brothers. They may never have actual brothers of their own, so I hope this is a relationship that continues as they get older.
I think about sitting by the edge of the water with my mom and watching her freak out every time one of my fearless kids inches too close to where the waves break. I think about our huge shrimp dinners, baked potatoes and corn dip. I think about ice cream and sun burns and coffee-filled mornings.
They continue to be some of the most cherished days of the year for me…those ones I get to spend in the Outer Banks with my family. They remind me that moments can be full of stress and yet absolutely amazing all at the same time.
Pretty much like my entire life these days.

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I am a woman. I have all the biological requirements to have a child. Yet, I do not have the instincts or rational desire to do so. Does that make me less of a woman to not want to have a child either by using my body, my eggs, or my money to adopt?
My parents are the only people who, when I said I didn't want to have kids, responded with, "Sounds like a good idea." They married because I was on the way and had two more after me. They know how hard it is to raise kids, but they also love us very much. They wouldn't change what had happened, but they wouldn't force their want for a grandchild on me. Besides they have two already (I'm off the hook!) Is A Woman Selfish For Not Wanting Kids?
How many times have I heard after saying that I don't want children:
- "Oh, I'm sorry." Sorry for what? I've made a conscious choice and I'm proud to have the courage (because that's what it takes in this society) to say no.
- "Don't you like kids?" LOVE 'EM! They're cute, huggable, sweet smelling, curious, and all that. I just don't want one in my home relying on me.
- "You'll change your mind." Isn't it possible that as an adult, I've learned how to make a decision and stick to it?
My husband and I talked about kids before marriage. We both agreed we didn't want any and the forward in our future rested on that. He had a bad first marriage and I had little instinct or physical and mental desire to invest. Subsequently we have prepared responses for those who invade our personal lives with the question, "Do you have kids?" as if that is the only characteristic about us that makes us worthy to get to know. How about, "Do you travel?" "Have you been to ...


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quote:So you will limit someone's first amendment rights just to make your life easier.
quote:Um....how am I overreacting and creating extremes? Why was it a problem for the group if that wasn't EXACTLY what they planned to do? They wanted to have people at strategic points all through campus. And it isn't about them preventing me from getting to class. It's about them walking up to me unsolicited and being pushy. A university is too much a target for special interests for it not to be annoying if they weren't regulated.
quote:They are free to say what they want.
quote:Congress shall make no law . . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
quote:but you are giving good reasons why this is goign to be bad for lsu or what ever. But I have one question for you, how do these reasons trump what the bill of rights said.
quote:I'm not going to get involved in an argument tonight,
quote:of course you do...that's why you posted this here.
quote:I didn't except people to have such a negative reaction to this. I thought this was going to be a positive reaction knowing how libertarian and conservative the poli board can be.
quote:I guess if your parents pay long enough you will eventually get it done.
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The Potomac Heritage Trail, also known as the Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail or the PHT, is a designated National Scenic Trail corridor spanning parts of the mid-Atlantic and upper southeastern regions of the United States that will connect various trails and historic sites in the states of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia. The trail network includes 830 miles (1,340 km) of existing and planned sections, tracing the outstanding natural, historical, and cultural features of the Potomac River corridor, the upper Ohio River watershed in Pennsylvania and western Maryland, and a portion of the Rappahannock River watershed in Virginia.
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Chronic Violence and its Reproduction: Perverse Trends in Social Relations, Citizenship, and Democracy in Latin America
Nov 01, 2011This report reviews a broad literature on the causes and social effects of chronic violence in Latin America and details the consistent and diverse ways that chronic violence undermines social relations and support for democracy. more
Our Shared Future: Environmental Pathways to Peace
Aug 25, 2011This report draws from the dialogue and seminar papers shared at a January 2010 meeting co-hosted by the Wilson Center and the Fetzer Institute to explore the affect of globalization on natural resource issues such as water on local, national, and international levels. Examining the effect of environmental peacebuilding on communities, the discussion explored how governments, NGOs, the private sector, and other interested parties can generate positive outcomes while minimizing negative ones. more
Certification: The Path to Conflict-Free Minerals from Congo
Jul 21, 2011The conflict minerals movement is gaining traction. The movement is a pragmatic effort to address one of the principal drivers of atrocities and conflict throughout Congo's tortured history: the scramble for control of Congo's vast mineral resources. In eastern Congo today, these mineral resources are financing multiple armed groups, many of whom use mass rape as a deliberate strategy to intimidate and control local populations. Armed groups and military units earn hundreds of millions of dollars per year by trading four main minerals: the ores that produce tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold. This money enables the militias to self-finance their campaign of brutal violence against civilians, with some of the worst abuses occurring in mining areas. more
Youth and Conflict: Challenges and Opportunities for Peace-Building
Jul 20, 2011The conference was the culminating event of a two-day Youth and Conflict workshop that took place at American University on May 15 and 16, 2006. more
Engaging Leaders for Statebuilding: The Case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jul 20, 2011This study describes efforts made since 2006 from a Leadership Project and Africa Program-combined initiative, the Initiative for a Cohesive Leadership in the DRC (ILCCE). more
Engaging Fragile States: An International Policy Primer
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Civil Society and US Government in Conflict-Affected Regions: Building Better Relationships for Peacebuilding
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Women, Muslim Laws and Human Rights in Nigeria: A Keynote Address
Jul 19, 2011What is the meaning of Shari'a law? How can we understand its implementation in different contexts, given the diversity in the practice of Islam in Africa and around the globe? What are the elements of Shari'a that are particularly relevant to the position of women and gender relations in the African nation(s) under consideration? more
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assess PEPFAR's models of implementation and contribution to sustainable management of the HIV response in partner countries. (Chapter 11)
This knowledge management framework will require that PEPFAR implement and strategically allocate resources for the following:
A. To better document PEPFAR's progress and effectiveness, OGAC should refine its program monitoring and evaluation strategy to streamline reporting and to strategically coordinate a complementary portfolio of evaluation activities to assess outcomes and effects that are not captured well by program monitoring indicators. Efforts should support innovation in methodologies and measures where needed. Both monitoring and evaluation should be specifically matched to clearly articulated data sources, methods, and uses at each level of PEPFAR's implementation and oversight.
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B. To contribute to filling critical knowledge gaps that impede effective and sustainable HIV programs, OGAC should continue to redefine permitted research within PEPFAR by developing a prioritized portfolio with articulated activities and methods. The planning and implementation process at the country and program level should inform and be informed by the research portfolio, which should focus on research that will improve the effectiveness, quality, and efficiency of PEPFAR-supported activities and will also contribute to the global knowledge base on implementation of HIV/AIDS programs.
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It's nice to see how respected and well loved we are in Iraq. Kudos to our righties: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/24/iraq/main541815.shtml Hundreds of thousands of Shiites chanting "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" marched through the streets of Baghdad's biggest Shiite district Friday in a massive show of support for Hezbollah in its battle against Israel. No violence was reported during the rally in Sadr City. But at least 35 people were killed elsewhere in the country, most of them in a car bombings and gun battle in northern Iraq. The demonstration was the biggest in the Middle East in support of Hezbollah since Israel launched its attacks against the guerrillas in Lebanon on July 12. The protest was organized by radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose political movement built around the Mahdi Army militia has been modeled after Hezbollah. Al-Sadr summoned followers from throughout the Shiite heartland of southern Iraq to converge on Baghdad for the rally but he himself did not attend.
President Bush should send Jimmy Carter, Mike Dukakis and Jessie Jackson over there maybe they can "Calm Them Down".
Nope, Alfred E. Neuman got us into this mess and it's on him to clean it up (despite his statement a few weeks back that the exit strategy will be up to his sucessor). Harry, nice try at deflecting this. You and your folks won't be able to outrun the stink, however. This is on the President and the party in control of both houses of Congress the past 6 years - - before, during and after our invasion of Iraq. No matter how badly the Bush cabal screw our country up, all you can do is pathetically chant "Carter-Dukakis-Jackson" - you don't even come close to making sense.
Clearly what Bush has tried hasn't worked - but I feel safe in saying that other things wouldn't work either. The middle east is like a house totally inundated with fleas. There is simply nothing you can do.
My plan would've brought us to the very same place we are today......only $399 billion cheaper. And our country would be 2,600 young lives richer.
And your plan may have been better. OTOH, 10 years from now maybe all these uprisings will cause the middle east citizenry to rise up against their governments. Believe me, I am not saying I think things will improve nor am I saying that I would want this course of action if I knew then what I know now. But at least ruffling the feathers causes a possibility of improvement - kind of like micro fracture surgery. Regarding the cost, while I know it's cost a lot, do they include all the military's fixed costs that would be paid anyway, like military salaries ? I bet they do and that makes the $400B, or whatever it is, largely misleading.
Change the subject, bring up the Kennedy's, Carter or Jesse Jackson...bottom line is that we have not won the hearts and souls of the Iraqi people as promised by our fearless leader. $399 billion later and about 2500+ dead soldiers later, it is a big mess. BTW our leader and his party have done a remarkable job on health care and social security, they have done nothing except say they want to do something.
It's all about contracting and money for the chimp's friends. If I had a budget of $50 billion, and my contract said I had to build a dam and hydro-power station, but instead, I built a casino, airport, space station, and a much smaller dam without a power station, that created a lake for all my friends and their kids to play in, and billed you $400 billion, would that be OK? After all, I built a dam. We can quibble about the power station, if you like, but you'll end up getting someone else to build it for you. It's called fraud. The use of our military has been misplaced when they could have been protecting our country, whether there was an imminent threat down the road or not. Every penny of normal operation cost of the military that was spent in Iraq has been wasted. Iraq now resembles Iran, and I'm not saying that's a bad thing for the Iraqis or us. It's the way they are, and they express themselves accordingly. THEY WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE! They don't want people who are different from them telling them what to do. Is there anything wrong with that? Such a huge protest is refreshing to me and probably the Iraqis. They've probably been waiting to do this for a very long time. They are free to express themselves, and they want to tell us and Israel that they want us to get the f--k out of their business. Again, Israel is a cat in a dogpound and one has to wonder why they would want to stay there and live under these conditions.
We were making progress in the Middle East up until Bush II. It didn't come easy, but we managed to get Egypt and Jordan to make peace with Israel; to get Saudi Arabia and some of the Gulf States to back us; to democratize and liberalize Iran and other countries; managed to contain the more violent regimes of Saddam Hussein and Assad; and managed to prevent the escalation of terrorism (though we certainly didn't stamp it out). Now we have total chaos, and it's going to be very difficult for any President, even a smart one, to get things back on track.
Liberal definition of "progress in the Middle East": Don't make too big of a fuss of things when they bomb our embassies or the USS Cole. Lob a few missiles back at 'em, but for the love of God, please don't get them angry at us. We were making so much progress in the 90's that they starting making plans to fly jet airliners into buildings - a plan which tragically came to fruition in September of 2001.
No we weren't. All that stuff you mention is a couple of kidnapped soldiers away from all out war - see Israel today. If there's not a war going on there, there is one brewing close to the surface. If your kid has a drug problem, just because you don't catch him in the act for a month doesn't mean the problem has gone away.
Liberal definition of progress in the Middle Sh!t East, "Don't do anything that might offend them" :bricks:
Wistahpatsfan, you said, "Israel is a cat in a dogpound and one has to wonder why they would want to stay there and live under these conditions." The answer is simple. We live in a world composed entirely of dogpounds.
".....and we're wearing Milkbone underwear!". Sorry, stole that from Norm Peterson - couldn't resist.
You really need to engage your synaptic mechanism before posting utter rubbish.. Sincerely..Blue Collar
How would you interpret what happened in Bagdad today?? Curious to see what might be the right wing interpretation on what is going on there. None of the people who flew the planes into the buildings were from Iraq, and there has never been a credible link relating Saddam Hussein to 9-11.
I do agree except that sitting over here, ignoring them and playing with ourselves won't end the problem either.


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The actress, who romanced Christina Ricci in Monster, helped take over hosting duties at the OneXOne charity event in San Francisco, California after Matt Damon pulled out at the last minute - and she made the evening's auction a memorable one for one female fan.
Offering up a 2010 trip to her native South Africa that included World Cup soccer tickets and a meet-and-greet with Nelson Mandela, Theron was frustrated when bidding stalled at $37,000 (GBP24,600) - far below what actor Jeremy Piven had just raised.
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Joey "Deejo" DeCampo, one of the heroes of Stuart Dybek's comic short story "Blight," about coming of age on Chicago's South Side "in the years between Korea and Vietnam," wants to write the great American novel. Deejo's opening sentence, though, is less than promising: "The dawn rises like sick old men playing on the rooftops in their underwear."
Deejo could learn a few things from his creator, a versatile artist working in fiction, poetry, and in very short prose pieces that resist easy labeling. Dybek's short prose efforts have appeared both in his poetry collections and in his books of fiction, like 1990's The Coast of Chicago, where they served as interstitial counterpoints among longer stories like "Blight." In June, Dybek's short shorts will finally find their own home: Farrar Straus and Giroux is publishing a collection of fifty under the Gatsby-inspired title Ecstatic Cahoots.
We spoke with Dybek about his bent for "flash fiction," as well as the most meaningful short masterpiece he's lately come across. Highlights from our conversation.
In addition to your stories and poems, you have for years been putting out all these very short prose pieces, some just a few lines long. What do you like about that form?
Those short shorts have always seemed like little laboratories of prose rhythm to me. I've been working in these short forms since I was in college, and the more I wrote them the more I found things about them that interested me. They were just the right length to explore an image, sometimes with a hidden narrative and sometimes not, or perhaps just an anecdote to go along with the image. The only problem was that for a long time there wasn't anywhere to send them. Nobody was really publishing stories of that length in the 1970s.
And there's always the problem of what to call them.
When I was teaching at Warren Wilson, I had several students who were writing in that form and they were calling them "jockeys."
After the maker of underwear. Shorts. That was kind of in line with not taking yourself or the form any too seriously. In the United States, there's this trendy name for them: Flash fiction. But nobody was calling them flash fiction all those zillions of years ago.
Are they in a kind of no-man's land between fiction and poetry?
I like to think they reach for that space between the narrative and the lyrical. One of the things I like is that, if they don't work, you only put the reader through a page and a half, not 455 pages of an experimental novel that falls flat on its face. And maybe there is enough beauty in that page and a half to justify it.
Did you have models in mind when you started working in this form?
At first, I didn't even know who the influences were. There were the vignettes that Hemingway did. And, yes, the prose poems of Rimbaud. Then American poets discovered prose poems and it seemed to me that a lot of these prose poem things were really little stories. Anybody, as long as they can convince a reader to go along, is at liberty to call anything whatever they damn well please. For me, if there was one master of the short short, it was Italo Calvino. But the question I was asking myself was: If every genre has its masterpieces, can you really write a masterpiece at this length? Because you can write a masterpiece sonnet: Fourteen lines. You can write a masterpiece haiku: Three lines. So can you write a masterpiece in this sub-genre? Then I came upon Yasunari Kawabata's Palm-of-the-Hand Stories. Here was a writer whose work I knew and deeply admired, but I never realized that this guy was working in these short forms. When I opened Palm-of-the-Hand Stories, half of them I couldn't make any sense of whatsoever. But in that book was the masterpiece I was looking for.
What's the masterpiece?
It's called "The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket." I was teaching a class about short shorts once and I thought I would begin by reading this piece. But I got totally ambushed by it. I suddenly lost my voice. My throat clenched up. The last thing I wanted to do was embarrass my class or myself and I just finally had to say, "I can't read anymore. Let's just read quietly by ourselves." Because I was afraid I would burst into tears.
Really? Do you mind reading it to me now?
No, I'd be happy to. This is the last paragraph of the piece. I should set this up by saying that a man has come upon a group of Japanese children who have made paper lanterns that project their names inscribed on them. These children are hunting for insects. One boy thinks he has found a grasshopper, but it's actually a much more coveted bell cricket, which is prized for its song. So...[Prepares to read, but stops.] I can't do it. I can't read it. It's just amazing what that piece does to me.
Have you had this kind of reaction to other stories?
No, that's the only time. The fact that it's still happening, I guess I've made a habit of it.
Can I take a look?
"And finally, to your clouded, wounded heart, even a true bell cricket will seem like a grasshopper. Should that day come, when it seems that your world is only full of grasshoppers, I will think it a pity that you have no way to remember tonight's play of light, when your name was written in green by your beautiful lantern on a girl's breast."
—Yasunari Kawabata, "The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket," (translated by Lane Dunlop) from Palm-of-the-Hand Stories.
That's beautiful. What do you love about it?
He's such a gorgeous writer. The sudden twist there, the acceleration, the speed at which he goes from the innocent world of childhood to an adult's sensibility is really spectacular.
How do you account for your reaction? I mean, what's going on?
I don't know what's going on. It's really not a reaction any different than somebody weeping at the end of a movie. We have this whole set of ways of expressing an engagement with an art form. Some artists have a special gift for doing this, taking you to a place where your own life experience is suddenly very strongly tapped. I guess the phrase for it is the flash of recognition. We align ourselves with different writers, different sensibilities and we have these deep emotional responses to what they're giving us. So for what Kawabata and Calvino are to me, somebody else will have George Eliot or Jane Austen.
Have you ever had the deflating experience of trying to share a passage like that—one that touches you so deeply—and your students or your interviewer or whoever just don't get it?
Great question. People who teach always talk about it. I divide teachers up between those who are going to go in there and teach that piece and, "By God, you will get it!" And those who say, "There are certain pieces I'm not going to teach because they're sacred to me."
So your students got it?
That was the group that was doing the jockeys. I think they got it.
What did you find in that story that made it so important to you?
Kawabata was long gone but when I opened that book, it was like he was in the room with me giving me permission, permission I had already given myself, to go to these little forms where something fresh might be lurking. And that permission was important because it had the authority of this enormous beauty behind it. I saw this writer that I so deeply admired had been asking himself the same questions I had been asking. That story of his is a masterpiece, and if somebody has written a masterpiece it doesn't matter if it's three lines or a thousand pages. It just means that there's something perfect there. And that doesn't happen too often.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- El Camino Hospital today announced that Moody's Investor Service has upgraded the hospital's revenue bond rating to A1 from A2, following a review of the hospital's progress since Moody's issued its last rating in 2010.
"Hospital leadership has worked with the Hospital Board to expand the governance structure to include community leaders with significant subject matter expertise, hired nationally known industry leaders to fill the CFO and COO roles, and produced a strategic plan to position us for health reform to effectively meet the needs of our community," said Tomi Ryba, president and chief executive officer of El Camino Hospital. "Recognition of the relevance of these improvements by Moody's is gratifying."
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Defender Micah Richards could return to the Manchester City side for the Europa League match against Juventus at Eastlands on Thursday.Richards missed Saturday's win against Chelsea with a hamstring injury. Shaun Wright-Phillips is doubtful with a knee problem while left-backs Wayne Bridge and Aleksandar Kolarov are out. Striker Mario Balotelli is also sidelined with a knee injury and City boss Roberto Mancini said he expected him to return at the end of November. Meanwhile, Mancini stoked.... read more
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text: Kim Jong Il's body to lie in state in same palace as father'sBy Jethro Mullen, CNNUpdated 0625 GMT (1425 HKT) January 12, 2012The body of Kim Jong Il lies in state in a glass coffin in Pyongyang on December 20, 2011. Story highlightsNorth Korea plans to erect a statue of Kim Jong Il and build towers across the countryHis body will lie in state in the Pyongyang palace that houses the corpse of Kim Il SungKim Jong Il's death, announced last month, has put the region on edgeThe regime says his birthday will now be known as "the Day of the Shining Star"The body of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il will lie in state in the Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, which houses the corpse of his father, Kim Il Sung, North Korean state-run media reported Thursday. The secretive state also plans to erect a statue of Kim Jong Il and build towers across the country to symbolize his "immortality," the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported, citing orders from the leaders of the ruling Workers Party.North Korea announced Kim Jong Il's death on December 19, putting the region on edge as observers speculated about the nuclear-armed regime's stability and future direction.Pyongyang held an elaborately choreographed funeral procession and memorial ceremony the following week that served to underline the elevation of Kim Jong Un -- the youngest son and chosen successor of Kim Jong Il -- to the position of "supreme leader" of the country.On Thursday, the regime also announced that February 16, Kim Jong Il's birthday, will henceforth be known as "the Day of the Shining Star." His father's birthday is dubbed "the Day of the Sun" in the North Korean calendar.Just WatchedNorth Korea image makers hard at workreplayMore Videos ...North Korea image makers hard at work 02:25PLAY VIDEOMore from asiaNew Delhi rapist on victim: 'She should just be silent and allow rape'Kim Jong Un Fast Facts Over 500 Pakistani parents arrested for children's failure to get polio vaccinePowered by Livefyre


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Bomb kills Pakistan police chief Chaudhry Aslam
A senior police officer known in Pakistan for campaigning against the Taliban has been killed in a bomb blast in Karachi.
Chaudhry Aslam, the head of the city's anti-terror operations, and at least two others died in an attack on a police convoy in the Essa Nagri area of the city, reports say.
Mr Aslam had survived a number of previous attempts on his life.
The Pakistani Taliban said they carried out Thursday's attack.
Chaudhry Aslam was one of Karachi's highest-profile police officials, known for leading daring police raids and gun battles against militants in some of the most dangerous neighbourhoods of Karachi. Scores of suspected criminals and militants were killed or captured on his watch.
But not everyone approved of his unconventional methods. Some saw him as too powerful and too resourceful, seemingly operating above the law. He was accused of deaths in custody and staging "fake encounters" in which suspects are killed rather than arrested, charges he denied.
Pakistani TV channels often showed him holding news conferences and brandishing sophisticated weapons he claimed to have recovered in police raids. Mr Aslam carried on with his tough-cop image despite a number of attempts on his life. But on Thursday, the militants caught up with him.
His murder is being seen as a major blow to the government's efforts to fight crime and militancy in Pakistan's biggest city.
A spokesman said Mr Aslam had been targeted as he had "killed, tortured and wounded" Taliban members.
'Cowards'A car carrying explosives smashed into Mr Aslam's convoy.
Images from the scene show a number of vehicles completely destroyed and nearby buildings damaged.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif paid tribute to the police chief and condemned the attack.
"We will not let the will of the nation be crushed by these cowardly acts by terrorists," Pakistani newspaper Dawn quoted Mr Sharif as saying.
Correspondents say that Mr Aslam was a well-known figure in Karachi.
Since 2008, his unit has been involved in the arrests of dozens of militants - including would-be suicide bombers - planning attacks in Pakistan and across the border in Afghanistan.
But the BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says Mr Aslam was often accused of carrying out "fake encounters" - capturing and killing militants in staged gunfights instead of taking them through the courts. An internal police inquiry cleared him.
During his final raid, in the early hours of Thursday, three militants were injured in a gunfight in the Manghopir district but were dead on arrival at hospital.
Our correspondent says that such a dogged and harsh pursuit of militants made him a long-term target of the Taliban.
Mr Aslam had escaped unhurt when a car packed with explosives blew up outside his home in Karachi in 2011, killing at least eight people.
After that attack, he said: "They are cowards. They call themselves Muslims but they are unbelievers. This will make me even more determined to carry on operations against them.
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Austin is a great city to celebrate Valentine's day. It doesn't matter if you are a long time resident, or just planning a romantic getaway. We have lots of activities for you and your honey, and some are quite spectacular.
If you are like me, you have probably been with your sweetie other for a while. We've been married for 12+ years, and together for 7 before that. After so much time, It's hard to come up with something romantic, especially if it is a weeknight. I'm sure there will be a lot of people a little late for work tomorrow because of a late romantic night tonight, but for us, that's not an option because of our little one, and our busy schedules. so we are going to celebrate over the weekend.
Here's my ideal Valentine's Date in Austin –
Who wants to battle Austin traffic? Not me. That's why I call my friends at Concord Limo who have just the right luxury car to whisk us stress free around for the evening
Our first stop will be for a few cocktails at Malverde, Located upstairs of the great restaurant La Condessa, in Austin's trendy 2nd street district, they are the perfect spot to begin a relaxed and fun evening.
I usually go for a traditional martini, but sometimes I just have one of the specials to try something new.
As the night goes on, the bar can get sort of crowded, so the next phase will to build a little appetite, and keep the wife happy with a little shopping along 2nd street. The 2nd Street district is full of local and national boutiques amazing restaurants, and fancy hotels, and even a Spa or two.
Dinner will be at Trio tonight. Located in the 4-Season's hotel, I love this place. My good friends know that I've been a vegetarian for 25+ years, and although they have lots of different dishes on the menu, the chef's there never disappoint me when I tell them my dietary restrictions.
They have a great upscale feeling, and aren't too noisy that you have to shout to be heard. Just the perfect spot for a nice romantic dinner. I like to ask for a table by the windows so we can watch the people out on the lake.
After dinner, we will just take an elevator upstairs to our room at the 4-Season's Austin.
But it's not over then. I'll have the car pick us up and whisk us out to Austin's premiere spa for some body work. Travaasa is one of those hidden gems that not a lot of people know about (until now). Nothing is more romantic to my sweetie than a couple's massage and just spending time together being pampered.
So what do you do in Austin for Valentine's day if you are on a budget or don't want to spend a fancy night out on the town?
Mt Bonnell – If you are the outdoor type, a walk (easy hike) up to Mt Bonnell might be just your thing. There is a great spot overlooking the lake, which is perfect for Austin sunsets, and the downtown skyline, but I'm pretty sure it gets busy up there on V-Day, so either get there early to stake out your spot, or battle the crowds.
You can always judge how crowded it is by the number of cars parked on the road.
A lot of people will be making reservations for a romantic dinner. There are so many great restaurants to choose from, but here are my top choices of places that offer some more private tables or cozy booths.
Sadly Romeo's, the #1 place for couples on Valentines Day is closed.
For a few chocolates , you might want to splurge a little and visit Edis for Chocolates or Pastries
Then you can take a Horse Drawn Carriage Ride downtown. I know of three companies that do this – I'd give them a call today to make a reservation because they wil probably book quickly.
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GeneLink Marketing Efforts Poised To Show Results
ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- GeneLink, Inc. (OTCBB: GNLK.OB, "the Company," or "GeneLink"), a leading consumer genomics biotech company, reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30th, 2011.
Bernard L. Kasten, M.D., GeneLink's Chairman and CEO stated, "From a business development potential, the third quarter has been the most exciting period in the history of the Company. The Company continues to make progress towards the launch of two exciting new personalized consumer product lines. These include a large scale direct-to-consumer initiative featuring a new brand being launched with Robert B. Trussell, Jr., Founder and Vice-Chairman of Tempur-Pedic, Inc. In addition to this opportunity, in early 2012 we will launch a specialized exclusive product line for aesthetic physicians under GeneLink's Dermagenetics® brand. We have already developed a unique line of products and are working with world class marketing partners for our initial launch into this arena."
Dr. Kasten added, "Importantly, the third quarter was most notable for our announced pending sale of GeneWize, our direct selling subsidiary, to Capsalus Corp. (OTCBB: WELL). The definitive agreements which we executed on
October 13, 2011 provide us with a motivated and experienced marketing partner in multiple direct selling channels. Once we receive the necessary GeneLink's shareholder approval for the sale of GeneWize to Capsalus, we will be especially pleased to have positioned GeneWize and its marketing affiliates for success."
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Barrow man caught drink driving after clubbing
Last updated at 12:56, Wednesday, 19 March 2014
A BARROW man has been banned from driving after being found drunk at the wheel.
Robert Daniel Atkinson, of Portsmouth Street, Walney, pleaded guilty to drink driving in Furness Magistrates' Court yesterday.
Atkinson, 25, was seen leaving Club M, in Cornwallis Street, Barrow, on February 22.
When he was breathalysed he was found with 54mg of alcohol in 100ml of breath, the legal limit is 35mg. Atkinson was banned from driving for 17 months, fined £350, and ordered to pay a £35 victim surcharge and £85 costs.
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A mother is skeptical when her daughter blames a series of sinister occurrences on the fairies in her playhouse.
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A mind map of 100+ tips for using Linkedin more effectively. Mar 18th, 2011 | By Chuck Frey | Category: Resources Linkedin.com is one of those networking tools that can be overwhelming.
So I did a little research and discovered a treasure trove of tips for using it effectively, which I compiled into a mind map of over 100 of the best. There are so many nuances to building an effective profile, networking with others and finding opportunities on this fast-growing (90 million+ people) business networking site that it's all more than a little overwhelming. Crystal Mapping - CV's / Resumes. For every highly sought-after job prospective employers receive 100's if not 1000's of applications. Boost your chances of getting that vital first interview by impressing recruiters with your Crystal Map CV. A well written CV is Step 1 to getting the job you want. Step 2 is getting recruiters to see it. CV. Démarquez-vous avec une carte mentale-CV - ActuDoc - Information. My Profile/CV Map. Le CV infographie, une nouvelle mode ? - Mode(s) d'emploi, tendances, conseils et actus sur le monde du travail.


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Mumbai: CBI on Thursday informed the Bombay High Court that it would complete probe and file its charge sheet in the fake bail bond scam at suburban Kurla railway station involving several RPF personnel, within six weeks.
A division bench of Justices S A Bobde and R G Ketkar was hearing a public interest litigation filed by social activist Samir Zaveri alleging that certain Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel were releasing persons booked for trespassing and crossing railway tracks on fake cash bail bonds.
In August last year, the High Court had transferred investigation in the case to CBI following allegations of shoddy probe by the Government Railway Police (GRP).
CBI on several ocassions was pulled up by the High Court for its slow probe. In July this year, the court had directed the central agency to complete its investigation within a month.
The agency today, however, sought six weeks more time to complete its probe and file charge sheet. It informed the court that the agency has filed an application before a lower court seeking permission to conduct scientific tests on 12 RPF personnel.
In his PIL, Zaveri had alleged that a head constable acted as a magistrate and granted bail to the alleged offenders and the money collected was misappropriated by the RPF personnel themselves.


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"Is it possible to miss a place you've never been? To mourn a time you've never lived?"
Tom Cruise's new movie Oblivion looks completely foreign in today's sci-fi movie landscape. Sure, it's packed with large-scale action, explosions, guns, and futuristic vehicles that blow up other futuristic vehicles. But in the latest trailer for the movie, we get a taste for the headier science fiction that director Joe Kosinski has woven into his Cruise picture. As we lamented when the 2012 remake of Total Recall hit theaters, Hollywood rarely explores sci-fi with a brain, relying on the otherworldly setting for new ways to conceive the same old shootouts and chase scenes.
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From the first seconds of the below Oblivion spot, it's apparent that Kosinski is at least attempting to do something more. We're introduced to Cruise's Jack Harper, a man desperate for a clue. His world (which might be Earth? Or an alien world? Or an alternate reality?) is turned upside down when he discovers a woman who has crash landed on his planet and, evidently, remembers him from a past life. When Harper meets Morgan Freeman's mysterious, goggle-wearing character, all hell breaks loose. The Matrix and Vanilla Sky both spring to mind — Harper's existence is murky, as most of what he knows is founded on lies.
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Kosinski has a super slick style that he showed off in Tron: Legacy, but it pops even more in the brightly-lit Oblivion. Can his fancy camera and special effects work live up to the promises of a meaty sci-fi story? Tom Cruise might be the only star with enough clout to convince Hollywood to allow this one through the greenlight gates, so the prospect is promising. Check out the trailer and watch for Oblivion, which lands in theaters April 19:
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A bronze statue of civil rights champion Barbara Jordan was unveiled on The University of Texas at Austin campus at the Battle Oaks, at 24th and Whitis streets near the Texas Union. Jordan is the first female public figure so honored on the campus.
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About Freeway
Freeway launches the Month of Madness beginning December 1, 2008. For 30 days straight- Freeway will drop one record a day, for the people- for change. Lately, it seems as if Hip-Hop has turned into something more than fan driven entertainment. It has become dependent on sales, marketing and imaging- rather than the quality and value of the music itself. Some may even say that, Freeway himself- may have fallen through that corporate loophole. Still, he launches the Month of Madness with optimism that Hip-Hop will return to its rightful owners- the people- and that's why it's time for a change. The Freeway Change. In fact, http://thefreewaychange.com/ will offer a new song for free download, every day.
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Cougars Season Comes To An End With First Round Loss To Stanford
Trailing by three midway through the second half, Stanford utilized a 10-0 run triggered by a Dwight Powell 3-pointer to take a 57-50 lead with 6:37 to play, and ultimately, control of the game.
Cougars Fall To USC In Battle Of Pac-12 Doormats
DaVonte Lacy had 20 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Cougars' offense in defeat. The Cougars wrap up the regular season, Saturday with a home game against UCLA.
Washington Splits Season Series With Win Over Cougars
Nigel Williams-Goss scored 17 points and Andrew Andrews added 16 points to carry the Huskies to just their third win in the past eight games.
Bone On Bone: 'I Think I'm A Good Coach'
Ken Bone's Cougars are 41-56 overall and 13-38 in the Pac-12 Conference three years into the coach's contract
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Despite the double-digit loss, the Cougars had a good beginning. The team held 8-3, 17-10 and eventually 31-24 leads, the latter being the score at halftime. But, as has been the case for the Cougars all season, their lead was not foolproof.
Beavers Roll To Win Over Washington State
D.J. Shelton, who scored 1o points Thursday, was the only other double-figure scorer for the Cougars who now continue their road trip with games at Oregon and Washington next week before closing the season out at home.
Brown Leads Stanford Past Washington State
Que Johnson scored 14 points and DaVonte Lacy finished with 13 points to lead Washington State (9-16, 2-11) which again fell behind early and couldn't recover.
Lacy's 39 Points Not Enough For Cougars Against Cal
Lacy was everything for the Cougars, Wednesday. The junior guard finished 10-for-20 from the field including 8-for-15 from 3-point range with 26 points in the second half alone.
Washington State Falls To Utah
DaVonte Lacy scored 20 points and D.J. Shelton finished with 19 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Cougars in the losing effort. No other player had more than seven points for the Cougars.
Lacy's Efforts Not Enough, Cougars Fall to Colorado
Washington State did make a run in the second half. The team exploded for 43 points behind a 20-6 run that enabled the Cougars to close a 54-35 deficit at the 6:46 mark to a 60-55 game with 56 seconds left.


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Well it seems that by appointing General Petraeus to oversee the war in Afghanistan President Obama got himself out of one tight box following the General McChrystal controversy. But now he faces a perilous strategy that many people –especially Senator John McCain –have concerns about.
McCain told me this morning on "GMA" that more troops are needed in Afghanistan and he called for a change in civilian leadership, suggesting that the former Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, should follow Petraeus over to Afghanistan and replace Ambassador Eikenberry.
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"We cannot tell the enemy when you are leaving in warfare and expect your strategy to be able to prevail," McCain said. "That's just a fundamental of warfare."
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"He is going to say that he is going to give his best advice based on conditions in Afghanistan and I am very concerned about that ambiguity which is sounding an uncertain trumpet not only in Afghanistan but in other parts of that region as well," McCain said.
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