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I found the outgoing House minority leader, Chris Smith, tucked away in a minuscule office on the third floor of the Capitol building, a room so small that it might as well have been a cubicle, with bright fluorescent lights and walls so thin that I could hear shouting and laughter in the next room. (By contrast, when I met with his Republican counterpart, Speaker Allan Bense, I waited in Bense's expansive sitting room, with dark wainscoting and crown molding, soft recessed lighting, and large green armchairs, not to mention a plush sofa, a model of a three-masted ship, and two enormous wooden desks staffed by secretaries, all of which was dwarfed by Bense's personal chamber, with its thirty-inch state insignia on the carpet, large bronze eagle on the wall, and massive wooden conference table with a sitting area nearby.)
But Smith was unfazed by the accommodations. He had other things on his mind. A black man in his mid-thirties with an easy smile and a cherubic face, he motioned for me to sit down beside the state's Democratic communications director, Tara Klimek, and he spoke in a calm, disappointed voice.
"The legislature is not its own branch of government anymore," Smith began. "We're Jeb's workroom. Because of the Republican numbers, they can do whatever they want. They don't really negotiate with us. And once Jeb became governor, they laid down for him. They have bent over backward to give him more and more power. They gave him the power to appoint the secretary of state. They gave him the power to appoint all the trustees for the universities. Before, members would tell a governor, 'Screw you, you're out in eight years, and I'll be here for twenty,' but now that we have term limits, members think, 'I'm gonna be out of here in a few years. I don't want to have the governor mad at me.' So term limits have got him in a real good spot."
Klimek interjected, "A few members do stand up to him, but they pay for it. Senator [Alex] Villalobos has had money taken away from him that he was trying to get for a children's brain-tumor center in Miami."
Smith nodded. "If you don't walk the line, your appropriations get zinked. Because the governor has the veto pen."
I asked Smith and Klimek how Jeb had become so powerful so quickly, but at this they both shook their heads.
"The guy just came in, and everything aligned for him," Smith said. "That's the disappointment. There is so much that he could have done, so much potential that he's wasted. Damn, I wish I was Jeb Bush. There's no reason, when you're the big bad kid on the block, to beat people up all the time. You can be the big bad kid and help the little weakling kids sometimes. But he's been the big bad kid, and he's wielded that power mercilessly."
I found the same sentiment in the Florida state Senate, where I met with Senate minority leader Skip Campbell in his office just before the 2006 legislative session. A round man in his fifties with a shock of white hair, a lopsided smile, and a large gnarled nose, Campbell leaned way back in his chair while we spoke and passed a Slinky from hand to hand.
"It's slipped pretty much as far as you can go," he said. "We're totally outnumbered. Republicans can lock down at any time they want. If the Senate president or the Speaker of the House says, 'I want this,' then it's a lock-down position. We can't win. I hear from Democrats all the time about feeling totally alienated. We're drowning out here. Someone has to save us."
I asked Campbell the same question that I had asked Smith—how had the Republicans become so powerful so quickly?—but he, too, seemed mystified by the reversal of fortune.
"Jeb is an effective leader," he said. "He is, in my opinion, much brighter than the president of the United States, and probably a better politician, too. Now, that sounds kind of funny because he's not the one who's president. But I think that has to do with timing."
Many of the same people who were eager to tell me that Jeb is smarter than George were also quick to add, sometimes in the same breath, that whether you agreed or disagreed—in fact, no matter what you thought of George W. Bush—it was a bad idea to mention him to Jeb. If there's one thing Jeb doesn't like talking about, I was told, it's his brother George.
At first it was tempting to read all manner of pop-psychological hokum into this. A trace of hostility? Of jealousy? Resentment? But with time, it became clear that Bush's reticence to discuss his brother was even more deeply rooted than that.
For half a century, Jeb has been playing the famous-family game. Fifty years ago, his grandfather was a senator. Forty years ago, his father was a congressman, then the ambassador to China, then the director of the CIA, then the vice president of the United States, and, finally, president. Now Jeb's brother is president—his older brother, who used to drink too much and party with abandon—and after a lifetime under the microscope, in a family where even a stray impropriety could mean disaster, a culture in which the less said the better, having been born into that world and having spent his life there, having never once slipped or crossed a line, never sharing the wrong anecdote about the wrong relative with the wrong person, and after struggling to build the same barrier around his own family, to block the media from his daughter's battle with drugs and his wife's entanglement with U.S. Customs (she failed to declare nearly $20,000 worth of purchases after a 2002 trip overseas), after a lifetime of building the protective wall, raising it and steeling it and reinforcing it, Jeb Bush is not about to pop open like a bottle of cheap champagne.


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Stanley Dea – Vindicated At Last
When we began our lawsuit to defend one man's stand on the principle of nondiscrimination, we had no idea how long it would take to prevail. In the course of seven-and-a-half years of litigation, we lost not only one of the judges who heard the case, we lost Dr. Stanley Dea himself—our brave and principled client.
Dr. Stanley Dea stood for the principle of nondiscrimination even in the face of retaliation by his employer.
Stan was a senior engineering manager supervising 250 employees for the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC), a public water utility. He was also the utility's highest-ranking Asian-American employee. Stan refused to comply with the WSSC's unwritten policy of preferring minorities and women over better-qualified white males. Recommending the promotion of the best-qualified individual (who happened to be a white male) in the face of the utility's preference system had garnered Stan a reprimand from the utility's general manager, by which the GM intended to send a "shockwave" through the Commission that his race and gender preference edicts were not to be ignored. Consequently, Stan knew that should he refuse to discriminate against white males in another selection process, his stand was likely to cost him dearly. And that is exactly what happened when Stan ignored pressure from the utility's management to recommend a woman for an important promotion, and instead recommended the best qualified person for the position, who was a white male. For his steadfast and principled adherence to the merit system, Stan was demoted by being transferred to a dead-end, non-supervisory job.
Washington, D.C. attorney Doug Herbert and IJ filed Stan's Title VII retaliation claim in federal court in 1993, and, after extensive discovery, he filed for summary judgment because the facts clearly showed that it was Stan's good faith belief that he was opposing an unlawful practice that led to his demotion. After extended delays, the trial court denied the motion and a three-day trial ensued, at which Doug demolished the opposition's defense. Another lengthy delay followed, ending only when U.S. District Judge Deborah Chasanow ruled in favor of WSSC by distorting the facts. Shortly after authorizing an appeal to the Fourth Circuit, Stan Dea succumbed to liver disease, optimistic to the end that his faith in equal treatment for all would be vindicated.
His estate agreed to continue the appeal, which Doug prosecuted with his usual thoroughness and zeal. After bizarre delays in finalizing the record, Doug filed a devastating brief on Stan's behalf, followed by a masterful oral argument that left the opposing counsel reeling and our side confident of victory, despite the daunting burden of overcoming the trial judge's factual findings. That was October 29, 1998. While the decision was pending, one of the three judges on the panel died, delaying the issuance of the decision.
Finally, on June 15 of this year, the Fourth Circuit ruled in Stanley Dea's favor. In a 21-page decision the appellate court ripped apart Judge Chasanow's decision, finding that her crucial factual determinations were clearly erroneous, so much so that it took the highly unusual step of declining to return the case to her for retrial, instead finding that the record allowed no other conclusion than that WSSC had unlawfully retaliated against Stan Dea. The court remanded the case for determination of damages only.
Nearly eight years after the complaint was filed, the perseverance of two fine men of principle was finally rewarded. Stan Dea's courage and willingness to take a stand on principle, and Doug Herbert's refusal to give up in the face of crushing disappointment and misfortune, have received from the Fourth Circuit the recognition they so richly deserve.
Dick Komer is an IJ senior attorney who helped litigate the Dea case.
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The SHED-IT Community Trial: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Internet- and Paper-Based Weight Loss Programs Tailored for Overweight and Obese Men
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There is limited evidence for effective obesity treatment programs that engage men.
This study evaluated the efficacy of two gender-tailored weight loss interventions for men, which required no face-to-face contact.
This was a three-arm, randomized controlled trial: (1) Resources (n = 54), gender-tailored weight loss materials (DVD, handbooks, pedometer, tape measure); (2) Online (n = 53), Resources materials plus study website and e-feedback; and (3) Wait-list control (n = 52). The interventions lasted 3 months and were grounded in Social Cognitive Theory.
At 6 months, significantly greater weight loss was observed for the Online (−4.7 kg; 95 % CI −6.1, −3.2) and Resources (−3.7 kg; 95 % CI −4.9, −2.5) groups compared to the control (−0.5 kg; 95 % CI −1.4, 0.4). Additionally, both intervention groups significantly improved body mass index, percent body fat, waist circumference, blood pressure, physical activity, quality of life, alcohol risk, and portion size, compared to controls.
Men achieved significant weight loss after receiving novel, minimal-contact, gender-tailored programs, which were designed for widespread dissemination.
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- The SHED-IT Community Trial: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Internet- and Paper-Based Weight Loss Programs Tailored for Overweight and Obese Men
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Annals of Behavioral Medicine
Volume 45, Issue 2 , pp 139-152
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- 2013-04-01
- 10.1007/s12160-012-9424-z
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- 0883-6612
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- Weight loss
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- 1. School of Education, Priority Research Centre in Physical Activity and Nutrition, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia
- 2. School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Priority Research Centre in Physical Activity and Nutrition, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia
- 3. School of Health Sciences, Priority Research Centre in Physical Activity and Nutrition, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia
- 4. School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia


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Dentsu Announces Prospective Members of the Board, Audit & Supervisory Board Member, and Executive Officers Business Wire TOKYO -- February 21, 2013 Dentsu Inc. (TOKYO: 4324)(ISIN: JP3551520004)(President & CEO: Tadashi Ishii; Head Office: Tokyo; Capital: 58,967.1 million yen) today convened a meeting of its Board of Directors at its Head Office in Tokyo to select its prospective Director, Member of the Board candidates and Audit & Supervisory Board Member candidate to be nominated at the Company's General Meeting of Shareholders to be held in June 2013 (hereinafter "General Meeting of Shareholders"), and to announce the Executive Officer changes, which will become effective on April 1, 2013, as follows. 1. Incoming and Outgoing Directors, Members of the Board (1) Incoming Directors, Members of the Board As the terms of all eleven (11) Dentsu Directors, Members of the Board will expire at the conclusion of the General Meeting of Shareholders, the following individuals will be nominated as Director, Member of the Board candidates at the same meeting. 12 Director, Member of the Board Candidates (1 Representative Director, 9 Directors, 2 Outside Directors) New Position Name Current Position Representative Tadashi Representative Director Ishii Director Director Shoichi Director Nakamoto Director Yuzuru Kato Director Director (newly Tim Andree Executive Officer appointed) Director Akira Director Sugimoto Director Ryuhei Director Akiyama Director Kunihiro Director Matsushima Director (newly Yoshio Executive Officer appointed) Takada Director (newly Akira Executive Officer appointed) Tonouchi Director (newly Kazufumi Executive Officer appointed) Hattori Outside Director Satoshi President of Ishikawa Kyodo News President, The Outside Director Masahiro Research Nakata Institute of Japan • The election of the above candidates will be held at the General Meeting of Shareholders. The selection of the Representative Director will be • decided at the meeting of the Board of Directors following the conclusion of the General Meeting of Shareholders. (2) Outgoing Directors, Members of the Board Current Position Name New Position Chairman of the Tatsuyoshi Chairman Board Takashima Director Tomoki Executive Advisor Utsumi Kaoru Audit & Director Shimura Supervisory Board Member After retiring, Tatsuyoshi Takashima will serve as Chairman, and Tomoki Utsumi will serve as Executive Advisor. They will be appointed at the meeting of the • Board of Directors following the conclusion of the General Meeting of Shareholders. Kaoru Shimura will be appointed to the Audit & Supervisory Board (see "2. Audit & Supervisory Board Member" below). 2. Audit & Supervisory Board Member Kimiharu Matsuda will resign his position as a member of the Audit & Supervisory Board at the General Meeting of Shareholders. Kaoru Shimura will be nominated and elected as a member of the Audit & Supervisory Board at the same meeting. Incoming Audit & Supervisory Board Member Kaoru Shimura (currently Senior Vice President, Dentsu Inc.) Outgoing Audit & Supervisory Board Member Kimiharu Matsuda After resigning his position, Kimiharu Matsuda will serve • as Executive Advisor. He will be appointed at the meeting of the Board of Directors following the conclusion of the General Meeting of Shareholders. 3. Incoming and Outgoing Executive Officers (1)Incoming Executive Officers All of Dentsu's twenty-six (26) current Executive Officers will resign their positions on March 31, 2013, and the following Executive Officers will be newly elected on April 1, 2013. 27 Executive Officers (1 President & CEO, 1 Senior Executive Vice President, 2 Executive Vice Presidents, 4 Senior Vice Presidents, 19 Executive Officers) New Position Name Current Position President & CEO Tadashi Ishii* President & CEO Senior Executive Shoichi Executive Vice Vice President Nakamoto* President Executive Vice Yuzuru Kato* Senior Vice President President Executive Vice Tim Andree* Senior Vice President President Senior Vice Akira Sugimoto* Senior Vice President President Senior Vice Ryuhei Akiyama* Senior Vice President President Senior Vice Kunihiro Executive Officer President Matsushima* Senior Vice Yoshio Takada* Executive Officer President Executive Officer Kazumichi Executive Officer Iwagami Executive Officer Akira Tonouchi* Executive Officer Executive Officer Naoki Tani Executive Officer Executive Officer Norihisa Awa Executive Officer Executive Officer Toru Hirano Executive Officer Executive Officer Kenichi Kato Executive Officer Executive Officer Fumiharu Executive Officer Kobayashi Executive Officer Toshihiro Executive Officer Yamamoto Executive Officer Tsuneo Executive Officer Ogasawara Executive Officer Kazufumi Executive Officer Hattori* Executive Officer Nobuyuki Toya Executive Officer Executive Officer Tsuyoshi Executive Officer Iwashita Executive Officer Director, Finance Seiji Ito & Accounting (Promoted) Division Director and Executive Officer Executive Creative Yasuo Motoi Director, Account (Promoted) Management Division 11 Executive Officer Director, Account Yuichi Okubo Management (Promoted) Division Executive Officer Director, Account Yoshiaki Suzuki Management (Promoted) Division 12 Executive Officer Wataru Director, Account Mochizuki Management (Promoted) Division 10 Executive Officer Director, Media Keiichi Maeda Services / (Promoted) Newspaper Division Executive Officer Kiyoshi Director, Sports Nakamura Division (Promoted) * Concurrently serving as a Director, Member of the Board. President & CEO Tadashi Ishii will concurrently serve as the Representative Director. (2) Outgoing Executive Officers Current Position Name New Position Senior Vice Tomoki Utsumi Executive Advisor President Senior Vice Kaoru Shimura Audit & Supervisory President Board Member Executive Officer Takehiko Miura Executive Advisor Executive Officer Hirokazu Kizawa Executive Advisor Executive Officer Kenji Shiratsuchi Extraordinary Advisor Executive Officer Gentaro Komiya Executive Advisor Tomoki Utsumi and Kaoru Shimura will each remain as • Director, Member of the Board until their terms expire in June 2013. When Takehiko Miura, Hirokazu Kizawa and Gentaro Komiya resign their Executive Officer positions, they are • expected to serve as Executive Advisors, while Kenji Shiratsuchi is expected to serve as Extraordinary Advisor. They will be appointed at the meeting of the Board of Directors to be held in March 2013. About Dentsu Inc. 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This is breath taking,hugs,thank you for sharing.
- February 3, 2012 at 10:07 AM
This is awesome, Kaoru...as always. You bring so much life and hope to all. It is a pleasure to watch your videos and read your posts. It's a quick breath of fresh air on any given day. Thank you for sharing with us all.
-KiKi Siggers
- February 3, 2012 at 1:25 PM
This is beautiful Kaoru. I´m sure it will help a lot of people. Thank you so much :)
- February 3, 2012 at 5:14 PM
- Denise Drake (RA) said...
Really enjoyed the message and footage. Well done!
- February 3, 2012 at 5:21 PM
Thank you, Kaoru, for reminding me that life is choices..The three C's can be attained by having Faith, and belief in ones God given freedom over self...Bless you<3
- February 5, 2012 at 2:31 PM
- Carol said...
Beautiful Kaoru. Simply put together, equally simple message in a breathtakingly beautiful way. Thank you for sharing.
-Carol Werth
- February 6, 2012 at 12:29 AM
Kaoru: Thank you for such a beautiful video to start my day. As always, you've put together another message of love that inspires us to appreciate life and all that it has to offer.
- February 6, 2012 at 7:35 AM
- Grace said...
Thank you for sharing your message with me. I strongly agree that focussing on our negative thoughts will only get us closer to disaster! Witness the Superbowl game. Brady entered the stadium with a worrisome look whereas Eli Manning always maintains a look of calm and composure. If the way the quarterbacks present themselves give any indication of team morale, it is clear which team was focussing on achieving positive results!
- February 7, 2012 at 2:09 PM
- Mel said...
Powerful production by an empowered individual...I enjoyed the messages, images, and music a lot.
- February 7, 2012 at 10:56 PM
THE MUSICAL SELECTION WAS AWESOME!!!!!!! Thank you for sharing such a positive video!! :)
- February 28, 2012 at 9:12 PM


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Ijebu Kingdom
Ijebu (also known as Jebu or Geebu[1]) was a Yoruba kingdom in pre-colonial Nigeria. It formed around the fifteenth century. According to legend, its ruling dynasty was founded by Obanta of Ile-Ife, who received the order from the Benin Oba to establish the kingdom. Scholars today have also identified the influence of the Benin Empire in the court art and ritual of the Ijebu. There is another theory that the Obanta migrated from Wadai, a part of modern day Sudan.
The kingdom was one of the most developed in the region with a complex and highly organized government. The capital was at Ijebu Ode where the Awujale had his palace. Counterbalancing the Awujale was the Osugbo (known as the Ogboni in other parts of Nigeria), a council of all free born men that acted as the kingdom's courts. The Osugbo was divided into six groups based on rank, the highest being the iwarefa, whose head the Oliwa was the second most powerful figure in the nation. Also powerful was the Olisa who could be described as the mayor of Ijebu Ode. Like many African societies, Ijebu was also divided into three age ranks and these groups each had their own leaders. The Kingdom is made up of several towns that stretches to parts of Lagos State and borders Ondo State. These towns includes Ijebu-Remo, Ijebu-Igbo, Ikorodu, Epe, Ijebu Waterside, Iwopin, Lekki in Lagos State, Ijebu-Imushin, Ijebu-Ife, Odogbolu and Ago-Iwoye.
The state rose in power in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries mainly due to its important position on the trade routes between Lagos and Ibadan. The kingdom imposed sharp limits on trade insisting that all trade through the region be conducted by Ijebu merchants. The monopoly brought great wealth to the kingdom, but also annoyed Europeans.
Despite its wealth the kingdom fell into internal conflict in the late nineteenth century. The kingdom never had a strong military and had long been forced to rely on mercenaries. These foreigners further destabilized the nation.
In 1892 the British attacked Ijebu in response to its barriers on trade. The British were successful and occupied the capital, burning the meeting hall of the Osugbo. The British army employed Maxim guns, according to the soldier-adventurer Frederick Lugard. In defending himself against charges of excessive death rates in Uganda from his own use of the gun, he stated: "On the West Coast, in the 'Jebu' war, undertaken by Government, I have been told 'several thousands' were mowed down by the Maxim."[2]
For several years the capital was occupied by British troops as the kingdom was annexed to the colony of Southern Nigeria. Today, it constitutes one of the traditional states of Nigeria.
The Ijebu kingdom was governed by a king and his group of elders, who usually were men of a higher status and of considerable influence. The council governed the region and had representatives of further devolved councils who no longer have any power. Since the invasion of Lord Luggard these councils have continued to meet and advise the Obanta, their power, however, is largely ceremonial simce the establishment of British Rule in their protectorate. The elders were known to represent their various villages and the will of the people and are now not such a significant part in the ceremonial process.The elders were all given individual titles and the lead elder was given the title prince, although he was never to inherit the kingship, except in special circumstances. The traditional belief was similar to that of the Chinese Mandate of Heaven.
- Peter C. Lloyd, "Ijebu" African Kingships in Perspective


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Wednesday night, at the Soho House in Manhattan's Meatpacking District, Gawker overlord Nick Denton hosted a party for fellow British ex-pat Toby Young, whose book about life as a fuck-up at Vanity Fair, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, is slated to come to life on the big screen this Friday. (Early reviews are mixed.) Stars Simon Pegg (Toby Young) and Kirsten Dunst (Young's love interest) were both there, as were writers/reporters from almost every single media outlet in New York City. (New York magazine, the Observer, the New Yorker, the New York Times, Women's Wear Daily, and, uh, Nonsociety were all present.) Predictably, Graydon Carter, whose Vanity Fair is portrayed by Young as a place where celebrity publicists have more sway over the magazine's day-to-day operations than do editors, was not.
On the non-media end, Tom Arnold was in the house! He's an old pal of junkie memoirist David Carr's. He also evidently has a big crush on the last person anyone should have a big crush on. (Dying to know? Read on!)


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Annual Alpharetta "June Singing" of the Sacred Harp
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Release your spirit in this uniquely American tradition. The Singing of the Sacred Harp brings a variety of people from shared cultural heritages together to sing four-part hymns and anthems. Beginners and newcomers are welcome as singers or listeners. No musical experience or religious affiliation is required.
This annual event in Alpharetta has been bringing together an informal network of people interested in participating and promoting a cappella singing from the Sacred Harp and ot...read more
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Angelina Jolie mixed business with pleasure on Sunday during a tour to the San Miguel River between Ecuador and Colombia.
In her new role as the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Special Envoy, Jolie met with a 71-year-old woman in the village of Barranca Bermeja which hosts 50 families, 60 percent of which are Colombian refugees.
Angelina was dressed all in black and wore rubber boots for the muddy terrain and listened intently as the woman spoke and she made sure to take notes.
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The Oscar-winner got in the pleasure part of her trip by traveling with fiancé Brad Pitt and their six children for a tour of the nearby Galapagos Islands.
During her work as UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Jolie has "conducted more than 40 field visits around the world" but will now focus on "large-scale crises resulting in the mass displacement of people," an announcement from the Agency said.
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But all the actress' humanitarian work apparently means nothing to Chelsea Handler. As RadarOnline.com reported, Hander says Jolie is a woman who can't be trusted!
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Loss of Life; How to Prevent Extinction.July 11th, 2013 by admin
As many in first world countries struggle with keeping their own home and a job, many in the third world are struggling with simply being able to survive. The economy has been designed so that people are more connected now than before, enabling smaller economies to share in the fruits of success and the hardships of failure of larger nations.
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Chris Gaffney, playing accordion, acoustic guitar and carrying most the singing duties for the Hacienda Brothers, has for the past 25 years fronted his own band, the Cold Hard Facts. He can also be found touring with Dave Alvin as one of his Guilty Men. His songwriting talents are on par with those of his band mate Dave Alvin and other contemporaries, but it is Gaffney's natural singing ability that sets him apart, having learned from some of the greatest by backing country singers such as Webb Pearce, Hank Snow and Ferlin Husky.
Dave Gonzalez is the consummate musician's musician. As the primary singer and songwriter for the Paladins, he is also a master technician on the guitar. His virtuosity shows as much in his restraint as in his playing, with notes that don't clutter, but are delivered just when you need them. With equal part Buddy Guy, BB King and Waylon Jennings, Gonzalez has earned his reputation on guitar, but what burns inside is his desire to constantly write new songs.
So when it came time for the Hacienda Brothers to record their debut record, the band's dream producer was Dan Penn. A few years ago Gonzalez had met Penn at a festival in Europe. Later when discussing the Hacienda project with partner Chris Gaffney, they raved at the chance of obtaining Penn to man the wheel. It was Dan Penn's songwriting and production work during the glory days at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama and American Studios in Memphis that excited the duo.
What they didn't know was how close all three would become during the sessions. "It was like working with a long lost friend" say Gaffney. "Plus he treats Trixie jus like I treat Lulabelle," referring to the love of their pet dogs. Dave Gonzalez and Penn also have a special bond; "we're both just as happy talking about tuning a car as tuning a guitar." In fact one day during the session the two stopped everything to go outside and tear apart a carburetor in an old Galaxy that was giving Dave some trouble."
Dan Penn had not only accepted their invitation to produce, but also arrived in Tucson with a song he had written specifically for Gaffney called The Years That Got Away. "I was completely flattered that he had written this beautiful song for me. Think of all the greats like Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin that have sung his tunes, and now I was getting one. Privileged is the word" says Gaffney.
During the recording session Dave Gonzalez also had a chance to sequester Dan Penn for an impromptu songwriting session out in the Sonoran Desert, among the majestic saguaros. Together they wrote the soul gem Looking For Loneliness. The song, which Penn describes as a soul tune with a country bridge, is also highlighted by the touch of "Mr. Memphis Horns" Wayne Jackson.
On the Hacienda Brothers debut, Dave Gonzalez had a chance to pay tribute to a couple of his country heroes through his songwriting. Walkin' On My Dreams was written as if it could have been the b-side of the great Ray Price's hit Nightlife. While Leavin' On My Mind was written as if Dave was given a chance to submit a tune for the mid sixties recording sessions of Waylon Jennings.
What has also transpired is the creative songwriting tandem of Gonzalez and Gaffney. Infact the first song ever written for the project, I'm So Proud, is what initially attracted Penn to pair. It was the demo version of this song sent to Penn that immediately 'souled' him on the project. As Penn put it "those boys can sure write a hit song."
"Songwriting inspiration comes from everywhere," says Gonzalez. Chris had mentioned to Dave many times about a songwriting idea he had that started with the phrase, "Don't make the call" but while driving to the recording session, Dave asked Chris the simple question what would Willie do? Their answer was to instead write a song about the matchbook and the number she had written on it. Thus became their new classic Seven Little Numbers.
For the recording session Gaffney also pulled out a song he had wanted to sing since high school; "I was a big fan of Fred Neil, I just loved his voice, so this was my chance to record one of my favorites of his titled I've Got A Secret." Gaffney has now made this his song.
Rounding out the CD is the haunting instrumental titled Saguaro. Here the band pours out all their love for the southwest, specifically around their sentimental home of Tucson in the Sonoran desert. Just like a movie soundtrack, the CD fades off into the distance of what could be the surprise blockbuster of the year.


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According to sheriff's deputies, Ketheryne Ellis, 20, failed to yield to the right of way of another car on County Road 39 in Bloomfield. That car hit the passenger side of Ellis' car.
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Wearable devices were all the rage at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, from smart watches to Google Glass. NPR's Scott Simon talks to artist Neil Harbisson, who has gone beyond wearable technology and calls himself a cyborg. Harbisson considers the device he wears to correct color blindness to be an integral part of his body.
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--Today we've gone with longer more in-depth analysis of a few topics rather than our usual quip-py quickness. Perhaps we got full of ourselves after reading of our making SI.com's Top 50 Sports Blog list where Peter King said of us, "...this blog comes to my bed at night when I am naked and calls other blogs to laughat me..." A little creepy, but thanks just the same. And don't worry the sophmoric humor and well-endowed women are still within...so try to shake that image of Peter King as God made him...and Enjoy!
--MITT ROMNEY DECLARES WAR ON PORN (http://rt.com/usa/news/romney-porn-video-internet-889/) ...now here's an issue that peaks my interest. On the one hand I fear the economic implications for all those actors/actresses too ugly to make it in soaps, but on the other hand I'm sitting on two dozen copy paper boxes full of VHS tapes that could suddenly be worth something.
We'll be sorting the whole thing out Sunday Night at the inaugural OCCUPY STRIP CLUBS (OSC) protest at Bun's (...this ain't no bakery...) Gentleman's Club in West Orange, N.J. Meet us there and...Fight the Power!
Not to mention the cost of having to deport all those Russian dancers back to Drunk-off-yer-ass-istan or wherever they all come from...
--In the movie What About Bob? Bill Murray's character puts forth the assertion that there are "two kinds of people in the world- "those who love Neil Diamond and those who hate him..." Back in my High School days that attitude seemed to coalesce around The Grateful Dead. The Stoners loved them, The Jocks hated them and I somehow managed to straddle the line.
Then prior to my first live show I can remember being swayed to the pro-Dead camp as I hung out in the parking lot cooking burgers, drinking, smoking and generally getting my "Ultimate Fris" on as Steve Carrell's Michael Scott once put it...that is until we went inside...
As a casual fan I was expecting to hear some "Uncle John's Band", maybe a little "Friend of the Devil" followed by "Truckin'", but instead was met with a one hour improvised jam of "Space" in which the granny-dressed, flower child next to me claimed Jerry's hand turned into a flower at the 17 minute mark.
Thus I can believe, to some extent, the Miami Hurricane athletic officials who claim attendance was actually better than it looked for their home opener as many paying customers chose to remain in the parking lot and tailgate rather than sit through a lackluster contest vs. FCS member Bethune-Cookman, a school famous as the alma mater of former Bengals RB Boobie Clark and a 2009 sexual harassment case against 4 Professors which we find hard to believe aren't somehow related.
Still when a shot of the stands from across the field resembles a population density map of Greenland with everyone huddled in the lower level between the 40's something is wrong. And that something is that Miami is no longer very good.
Now this isn't a problem for the Duke's and Wake Forest's of the ACC who can count on Alumni support to nearly fill their modest stadiums despite the up and downs of their yearly fortunes. But for Miami and other big schools who Yahoo's Pat Forde reports are facing attendance drops (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf--forde-yard-dash--empty-seats-fill-college-football-s-first-weekend.html) this is not an option.
In the early 80's Howard Schnellenberger turned around what had previously been a mediocre program and the subsequent prestige and money brought in by their 1983 National Championship made school officials act like Taxi's Jim Ignatowski when he bit into that pot brownie. Soon the 'Canes were bringing in such loose-moralists as Jimmy Johnson, Dennis Erickson, Butch Davis (see UNC) and Larry Coker to run their program and even embracing the secular end of the "Catholics vs. Convicts" rivalry with Notre Dame as the Bad Boy image, love it or hate it, made them the #1 draw, and money maker, in all of CFB.
But a deal with the devil has its costs. As other teams caught up with and even surpassed the Hurricanes in terms of recruiting, wins and marketability the monster they created could no longer be so easily fed. Miami found out they weren't simply a school with an extra-curricular football team, but a Semi-Pro franchise with a 76,000 seat NFL stadium to fill by a fan base who's ties to the University went only as far as the won-loss record and cachet of team merchandise could carry them.
The fans of The U. didn't just disappear over night they've been donning Alabama, LSU, USC and, worst of all, Florida Gators colors for years. And as that's happened Miami administrators have continually doubled down trying to find the quick fix that will return them to glory. Instead what they've gotten is an ongoing NCAA investigation focusing on recruiting violations by current coach Al Golden and a myriad of illegal booster activity by convicted Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro who's dropping more dimes than Michael J. Fox at a parking meter trying to curry favor with law enforcement...oh and they have a very average football team that despite a come from behind victory over Georgia Tech yesterday and a 3-1 record was piked by Kansas State two weeks ago 51-13. So unless things break incredibly right expect Sun Life Stadium to be adding fans in coming years like that Greenland map will be adding population...though if this whole global warming thing kicks in, well, who knows...
--In the early 1900's German Count Alfred von Schlieffen developed an eponymous military plan designed to maintain Germany's place on the European continent and kick some uppity, Brie eating French ass in the process. However, by the time the idea was put into action at the start of WWI Schlieffen was dead, the blueprint had been tinkered with and no longer would a German right arm be brushing the English Channel in an attempt to envelope Paris. The subsequent clusterfuck of trench warfare that ensued is often blamed on this messing with conviction and, if I may be so bold, it also seems to be screwing with the Jets.
Now Rex Ryan is no mastermind field general, but like the Germans in 1905 this offseason he realized he was staring at a bad hand and needed to do something about it. That Schlieffen was trying to prevent his beloved homeland from being overrun from opposite ends by the French and Russians while Rex Ryan was worried about Kate Upton's boyfriend hardly makes them analgous but inspiration is inspiration no matter it's roots.
Mark Sanchez' girlfriend Kate Upton...the only one close to him who he wants to hear invoking the name of God...
So when the idea of winning with Mark Sanchez became untenable Ryan and GM Mike Tannenbaum hired Wildcat devotee Tony Sparano as OC, traded for Tim Tebow and put together a hybrid QB system that had no guarantee of success, but was certainly better than seeing the Sanch-ize get picked like the Smails kid's nose in Caddyshack on the way to another non-descript .500 season.
In Week 1 the von Ryan planned worked to perfection as Sanchez threw, Tebow ran and the D stepped up in a quick dismantling of Buffalo. But last week in Pittsburgh this whole theory went into mothballs and the Jets turned in another weak effort vs. a quality opponent on the way to a 27-10 drubbing.
Tebow appeared for exactly 3 meaningful plays including a personal 21 yard run, but did little else. And this against a Steeler D missing both James Harrison and Troy Polamalu in a game that Pitt did not pull away in until late in the 4th Quarter.
This pic is in keeping with the German theme plus it's Oktoberfest...not to mention it's inspired me not to give up...apparently there is a woman out there for me...
Whether Sparano played WWI Field Marshal von Moltke to Ryan's Schlieffen or vice versa is not the question. The bigger issue is why bother with the whole Tebow distraction and Wildcat planning if you're not going to use it. In a perfect world Tebow could be used as the ultimate offensive misdirection. Lull defenses into a Sanchez/Pass, Tebow/Run mindset early and then flip the equation letting Tebow throw over the top of encroaching safeties while Grounding-n-Pounding if they lay back vs. Sanchez. In other words use every option that the personnel avails you or don't even bother.
This week the Jets get Miami and rookie QB Ryan Tannehill before embarking on 3 games in 4 weeks vs. Division winners San Francisco, Houston and New England. So here's one disgruntled fan hoping the Jets not only get back to the right side of .500, but also get back on plan this week because these 10-27, 138 yd. performances from Mark Sanchez against quality opponents are starting to make me understand what Trench Foot was like.
--As a 9th Grade teacher I try not only to impart the curriculum each day, but also try to get the young adults in my classes to begin to take charge of their lives. Some I advise to be more proactive, some I advise to use more Proactiv, but either way I'm trying to get them to clean up potential problems before they get ugly.
This is why I'm high on the Atlanta Falcons and their coach Mike Smith this year. Unlike the aforementioned Rex Ryan Smith saw a problem coming well in advance, adjusted for it and then followed through on his plan. Thus the Begrimed Birds have gone from a run based offense revolving around Michael Turner to an up-tempo air attack that averts a potential disaster and gives them a better chance to win.
The best part is Smith and the Front Office didn't just spring this idea on the club overnight. They saw the aging of Turner and the growth of Matt Ryan crossing at a point around the present and prepared accordingly by keeping Roddy White, drafting Julio Jones/Jacquizz Rodgers, bringing in ex-Boise State coach Dirk Koetter as OC and began transitioning smoothly to their present attack.
After the finish to last season where they literally and figuratively dropped a deuce in the playoffs, shitting the bed in a 24-2 Wildcard loss to the Giants things could've gone south this year, but for Smith's foresight. Now with the Saints off their game and the Bucs/Panthers not ready to step up the Falcons have the NFC South to themselves and a potential Super Bowl run before them.
The ultimate key may be whether they can manipulate what appears to be a relatively easy schedule into Home Field advantage come January. As a warm weather, Dome, turf team that relies on speed Atlanta is precipitously better in the Georgia Dome than on the road particularly if that road goes through New York, Philly or Green Bay in the dead of winter.
At some point I don't give a damn if the cheerleader matches the article...this is that point...though I'm sure you're not complainin'...
Today the Falcons get the tough task of traveling across country off a Monday Night game to face the Chargers. It could also be claimed they haven't really been tested yet drawing the awful Chiefs and the Peyton half of the interceptin' Mannings in two solid, but not quite spectacular victories. Time will tell, but at least the Falcons have given themselves a chance to change the 10-6, one and done playoff cycle they've been caught in for several seasons now. There's still blemishes, but proactive/Proactiv that's the way to go.
--And the whole idea seems to have come not a minute too soon as news out of the ATL on Monday Night found RB Michael Turner blowing a blood alcohol reading only slightly lower than his YPC this year and being hauled in for DUI. Apparently police didn't realize that when Turner crumpled in a heap after two yards of walking a straight line it was more out of habit than inebriation. In his his defense The Burner told reporters, "...now Randy Travis...that guy's got a problem!" and this being his first offense he probably won't miss any time due to suspension. And somewhere cab companies are still failing to capture a tremendous market.
--Almost forgot Fred's Pick 'O The Day is the Raiders +3.5 over the Steelers...
...and like this girl I'd mull it over before investing...
No mas escribo, muy mas cerveza...I really should take more advantage of the Rosetta Stone lab in the Languages Department...but you get the picture. We're done till next time...and, of course, there's this...
And in a refreshing spin on Sesame Street...two of these things are not like the others...


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Many American amputees prefer prostheses that are more functional than cosmetic, according to prosthetist MacJulian Lang, clinical director of Advanced Arm Dynamics in Portland, Ore. "Long gone are the days of the wooden leg. Much more often now people roll up their sleeves and show the prosthesis for what it is," he said. Occupational therapist Amy Natisco says new amputees need to accept the realities of wearing a prosthesis to have success with it, and she estimates a third of her patients achieve this acceptance and have a "hey look at me" attitude when it comes to their prosthetic limbs.
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Not bad but not great
The blade flexes way too much. This is a problem with all little folding saws so I only knocked off one star there, the other is because its a Gerber product, it should be better. Id recommend the Snap On Bahco Laplander for a folding saw.
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True, it would be an interesting system to bring more ship variations into the game, but it wouldn't satisfy the people who want new T5 refits like the Rhode Island Nova or the Akira.
Or the Constitution.
Oh, lolz, you never give up.
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No problem, I know how frustrating it can be to sit on ESD and ask for help to found one while being called a spammer.
I managed to found mine two days ago with bribes.
I was just about to do that
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*g* I was always a fan of All Good Things, but there's no way to buy the uniform. not even blueprints. I didn't like the movie uniform and it would have been way too expensive in any half-way decent quality, so I settled for TNG with the All Good Things communicator. Should anybody ever get the idea to tell me that my outfit is non-canon I will just claim to be from a parallel universe.
I loved the TNG series uniform , but I always thought AGT had the awesomist combadge. I'm not a big fan of the AGT uniforms. Though I like em better than most of the standard uniforms in game.
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Salvage points could be the same as EC, that would even give us a decent credit sink.
Actually, It'd be better if ec could be used to purchase "salvage" that would then grant random points based on how much was bought, how expensive it was, etc.
IE. I spend 5000 ec on a salvaged scout ship and earn 10 salvage points