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International Logo Company Release Spectacular Nintendo/Sega Rivalry Infographic
International logo design firm, The Logo Company, has released a stunning Infographic showing the long-standing rivalry between video game company giants Nintendo and Sega.
Brooklyn, New York (PRWEB) August 20, 2012
International logo design firm, The Logo Company, has released a stunning Infographic showing the long-standing rivalry between video game company giants Nintendo and Sega.
As well as illustrating the ways in which they have changed through the years in everything from their logos to their business directions, the infographic is strikingly styled to look like famous levels from the companies´ most iconic games, even featuring mascots Sonic and Mario doing battle with sword and shield.
It´s no secret that Nintendo and Sega have been in direct competition with each other since their fledgling years as video games companies. In order to illustrate this, The Logo Company — based in Brooklyn, New York — decided to put its design skills to the test by creating this impressive Infographic, which demonstrates just how closely they´ve competed over the years as well as how much they´ve changed.
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- Two parallel timelines that compare some of the pair´s greatest achievements over the years
- A look at Nintendo and Sega´s humble beginnings
- A side-by-side comparison of revenue, net income and employee numbers
Although Nintendo did have a head start on Sega, having started producing playing cards all the way back in 1889, it wasn´t until the late 1960s that they began to dabble in game production. Sega, founded some fifty years later in 1940, cut their teeth by making various coin-operated amusements. However, it was only really in the early 1980s that the Nintendo/Sega console war really began to get going, with a combination of hardware quality and available games continuing to turn the tide back and forth for years to come.
When not producing video game Infographics, the team at The Logo Company spends the majority of its time designing logos for companies both big and small, with clients having included fast food outlets, government authorities and charitable organisations.
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Are you a millennial? Do you know a millennial or two? Editor Don Whitten looks at the group that includes teenagers to those in their early 30s, including what a recent poll says about their political leanings and feelings about the government. (July 14, 2014, Page 4)
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FREDLA's mission is to: Empower and strengthen executive leaders of family-run organizations focused on the wellbeing of children and youth with mental health, emotional or behavioral challenges and their families.
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Castle of Illusion - PChttps://www.gameinformer.com/games/castle_of_illusion/b/pc/atom.aspxCommunity Server2013-05-30T12:58:00ZListen To Banjo-Kazooie Composer's New Tracks/games/castle_of_illusion/b/pc/archive/2013/08/16/listen-to-former-rare-composers-new-castle-of-illusion-tracks.aspx2013-08-16T18:40:00Z2013-08-16T18:40:00Z

Sega enlisted former Rare composer Grant Kirkhope for its upcoming remake of the Genesis classic Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse. Kirkhope is best known for his work on GoldenEye 007, Banjo-Kazooie, and Perfect Dark. The composer pays homage to Castle of Illusion's wonderful 16-bit soundtrack while infusing it with his personal flair and a distinctly Disney sound. Sega sent us a sample of Kirkhope's new tracks from the Enchanted Forest stage to share with eager listeners.

The first stage of Castle of Illusion is a whimsical, enchanted forest that starts off as a gleeful trek. The bright colors and breezy platforming is accompanied by a happy-go-lucky melody that sticks closely to the original. Kirkhope ratchets up the Disney flavor with fleshed out strings, brass, and flutes that sound like they're straight from one of Mickey's cartoons.

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After the first stage the Enchanted Forest turns spooky, with ghosts and bats flying through the night sky. Kirkhope sets the mood with a spooky track that sounds like it comes straight out of Gruntilda's castle in Banjo-Kazooie. The '50s sci-fi-esque theremin section is a great touch.

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Kirkhope's new boss theme is one the remake's most drastic departure from the original soundtrack. This driving, intense battle music picks up in intensity as Mickey deals damage to the Enchanted Forest's tree boss. This versuib plays when the evil flora is really pissed off.

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 Fans of the original 16-bit soundtrack are also in luck, because the old tunes can be swapped in place of the remastered tracks from the start. For a taste of how the original tracks mesh with the new visuals, check out our Test Chamber episode of Castle of Illusion.

GITimhttps://www.gameinformer.com/members/GITim/default.aspxCastle Of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse Gets A Release Date, Price, And A Few New Screens/games/castle_of_illusion/b/pc/archive/2013/08/16/castle-of-illusion-starring-mickey-mouse-gets-a-release-date-price-and-a-few-new-screens.aspx2013-08-16T18:06:13Z2013-08-16T18:06:13Z

Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse has an official release date and a price.

The game will be available on Xbox 360 and PC on September 4 and PlayStation 3 on September 3 on PSN for $14.99. Since Xbox Live is getting ready to abandon Microsoft Points soon, I refuse to offer the Live conversion.

If you pre-order the game for the PlayStation Network, fans will also gain access to an exclusive theme, avatars, and the original Genesis version of the game.

For more on Mickey's updated adventure, check out our Test Chamber for the game, and our interview with the game's original director.

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Details about the upcoming Castle of Illusion remake have been scarce, but today Sega released the second part to its developer commentary video series. Join team members from Sega Studios Australia in the trailer below as they discuss what it took to modernize Mickey's classic platformer.

Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse was released for Sega Genesis in 1990. The HD remake will be available for XBLA, PSN, and PC later this summer.

Take a look at the first part in the series here.

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MattAkershttps://www.gameinformer.com/members/MattAkers/default.aspxJumping Into Mickey's Castle Of Illusion HD/games/castle_of_illusion/b/pc/archive/2013/06/13/jumping-into-mickey-s-castle-of-illusion-hd.aspx2013-06-13T20:25:00Z2013-06-13T20:25:00Z

Pikachu may be many gamers' favorite modern rodent, but Mickey was platforming across 8- and 16-bit adventures long before Pokémon. One of the Disney mascot's most memorable quests is Castle of Illusion for the Sega Genesis. Sega Studios Australia is developing this high-definition remake of the game, which adds in a 3D hub world and boss fights. I played through a world filled with toy soldiers, Jack in the box enemies, and other sentient playthings.

The original Castle of Illusion features a 2D hub world filled with doors. This remake shifts hub navigation into a 3D area filled with doors locked with chains. These passages unlock as Mickey progresses. After getting my hands on the controller I steer Mickey through the only unlocked door.

Mickey enters a big, pastel colored world decorated with letter blocks and flying toy airplanes. Mickey takes out foes by leaping on their heads and throwing marbles picked up throughout the level. Holding down the jump button makes Mickey bounce higher into the air off enemies' heads. Stringing together jump attacks across a line of toy soldiers is an easy task thanks to the responsive controls. Certain collectibles can only be reached with a perfectly timed jump attack, requiring thoughtful platforming.

Sega is preserving the game's trademark challenge, and a few tricky sections put my skills to the test. A series of small Jack in the box enemies serve as platforms, requiring precise leaps. Mickey's jumps feel a little floaty at first, but after some practice I get a good feel for his momentum and begin sticking landings without issue. After reaching the very top of the stage, the staircases I've been climbing collapse into slides that Mickey travels down, collecting marbles along the way.

The demo ends with a brief glimpse at the beginning of a 3D boss fight. Mickey approaches a circular arena and a huge Jack in the box clown lands in the center. He begins bouncing around trying to crush Mickey – a new take of the boss battle from the original. The game fades to black and tells me the game will be arriving this summer.

The Castle of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse's side-scrolling, three-dimensional visuals look great. The visuals have been updated in HD without losing the feel of the original. The 2D platforming feels good at this point in development, but the 3D boss fights will have me curious until I try one out. Fans of old school platforming should keep Castle of Illusion HD on their radar leading up to its release on PC, XBLA, and PSN.

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GITimhttps://www.gameinformer.com/members/GITim/default.aspxMickey Has Some Exploring To Do/games/castle_of_illusion/b/pc/archive/2013/06/12/mickey-explores-the-castle-of-illusion-in-screenshots-for-upcoming-remake.aspx2013-06-12T17:45:00Z2013-06-12T17:45:00Z
Screenshots for Castle of Illusion heighten excitement for the remakes release this summer.
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This year is going to be a great one for nostalgic remakes for fans of many different genres. Whether you are looking for a throwback, blood soaked shooter (Rise of the Triad and Shadow Warrior) or something a little more family friendly like Capcom's Duck Tales remake, there's something for you.

One of the most anticipated revivals is Sega's Castle of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse, which originally appeared on the Genesis. The PlayStation Blog has shared the first behind the scenes video for that title. It features members of the original development team and those from Sega Studios Australia that are bringing the remake to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Castle of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse is due out on the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade, and PC this summer.

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Honduras, La Esperanza, Intibuca, May 16, 2012
Approximately 2 hours ago today, Wednesday May 16, 2012 we are informed that another campesino has been assassinated in Lower Aguan. The name of murdered campesino is Juan Jose Peralta, approximately 60 years old, the names of another two campesinos who were wounded are unknown; they were transferred to the hospital in Tocoa, Colon.
The violent act occurred around 9 am in the sector of Taujica close to the La Confianza cooperative when the campesinos were in a vehicle carrying a load of firewood they were attacked by suspected security guards.
URGENT Alert - May 16, 2012 - COPINH
The Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) alerts the public that in these morning hours of May 16, a convoy of army and police units are arriving at the community of Lavanderos in the ancestral Tolupan territory. This community has maintained a history struggle for the defense of its territory and forest that ancestrally belong to this people. In recent days the loggers have pressured the community in order to put into action management plans approved by the State of Honduras without community consent and out of compliance with Agreement 169 of the Indigenous Peoples signed by the State. Yesterday tensions grew and today, as is recently usually the case in indigenous territories where they struggle to protect natural resources, the armed forceds and police have arrived in the zone for which we fear for the safety of the people.
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The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL), along with La Via Campesina congratulate the work of the UN Advisory Committee, especially on establishing the groundwork for the promotion and protection of the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas.
We all know that hunger is not a natural disaster but, as stated by the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Mr. Olivier De Shutter, hunger "is primarily the result of political factors that condemn small farmers, the main victims of hunger, to poverty. These factors include insufficient access to land, water and credit; poor organisation of local markets; lack of infrastructure; and lack of bargaining power against an increasingly concentrated agro-industrial sector".
Today some 952 million people throughout the world suffer chronic hunger, 80 per cent of them live in rural areas. 50 per cent of the world's hungry are smallholder farmers, 20 per cent are landless families who survive as tenant farmers or poorly paid agricultural laborers.
Intervention of Henry Saragih at the 19th session of UN Human Rights Council
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Madame President,
I am reading this statement on behalf of FIAN International, an organization working for the defense of the right to adequate food—and La Via Campesina, a movement I belong to, that brings together millions of peasants, landless people, women farmers, indigenous people and agricultural workers from around the world. We defend small-scale sustainable agriculture as a way of promoting social justice and dignity—and we strongly oppose every form of agriculture that is destroying people and nature.
Not long before the Final Study of the Advisory Committee, a professor at Wageningen University in the Netherlands published an important book called The New Peasantries, in which he states that "there are now more peasants than ever before in history and they still constitute some two-fifths of humanity."
Nonetheless, increased land grabbing for monoculture plantations, logging, mining and other extractive industries has been destroying our livelihood and environment, making it very difficult for us to farm, to tend our livestock, and to hunt and gather for our daily sustenance. Land grabbing is causing masive violations of our human rights, whilst destroying our land, society, environment and our food sovereignty. Therefore, we urge the international community to cooperate in stopping these violations, which cannot be tackled with the existing human rights instruments.
Land grabbing shows the urgent need to protect peasants' rights
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It's a red alert now.
The government of Saudi Arabia currently owns 1.6 million hectares (ha) of land in Sudan and Indonesia. In Madagascar around 1.3 million ha were leased, bought or transferred to private corporations of South Korea.
The High Level Group of Experts of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) estimates that between 50 and 80 million ha of land in poor and developing countries have been negotiated, acquired or leased by international investors.
Large-scale land transactions are undermining food security, livelihoods and the environment of local populations. Along with a history-long discrimination against rural people, this wildly spreading global phenomenon has been the reason why there have been so many reports of human rights violations in rural areas recently, especially with regards to land rights.
While the United Nations Human rights Council is planning to discuss a declaration of the rights of peasants in the coming days, FIAN International together with La Via Campesina has organised a parallel event to the 19th session of the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday (8/3).
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Edmonton Oilers goalie prospect Laurent Brossoit stopped all 26 shots in a 1-0 shutout of Utah in game one of Bakersfield's Western Conference Quarterfinal series. The Bakersfield Condors took a 1-0 series lead courtesy of Brossoit's performance, in his first professional playoff game.
Brossoit, 21, had a stellar first professional season, finishing with a record of 26-9-2 in 38 games and posting a 2.01 goals against average and a .926 save percentage.
The Oklahoma City Barons clinched the final spot in the 2014 American Hockey League playoffs by earning a point in their overtime win against the Iowa Wild. With losses by Charlotte and Rockford, the Barons needed only one point to secure the 16th and final spot in the Calder Cup Playoffs and did so with a 4-3 overtime victory tonight.
Dealing with over 150 roster transactions, numerous injuries and having 55 players play for the team this season, including eight goalies, the Oilers' affiliate earned points in 24 of their final 31 games to finish 8th in the Western Conference.
The Barons, under Head Coach Todd Nelson, have made the playoffs each of his four seasons at the helm. They lost in the first round in 2011 followed by losses in back-to-back Western Conference Finals in each of the last two seasons.
The Barons will close out the regular season with a game against the Wild tomorrow night.
Oklahoma City will face the top-seeded Texas Stars in the first round.
Following the draft lottery, TSN's Director of Scouting Craig Button released his mock draft. Button had Barrie Colts defenceman going number one overall to Florida and Sam Reinhart of Kootenay going to Buffalo at two.
For Button, there is no way Florida passes up on Ekblad.
"I don't see a way," Button said to Bob Stauffer on Oilers Now today. "Every organization can say they have defencemen. I even heard (Oilers Sr. Vice President of Hockey Operations) Scott Howson talk about some of the players in the Edmonton Oilers system. They don't have an Aaron Ekblad. Don't tell me you've got defencemen and you've got left wingers and you've got centres. You don't have an Aaron Ekblad and nor do the Florida Panthers. The key thing here is you get a player that can be a pillar defenceman and to me there is no way they should even be thinking about not drafting Aaron Ekblad."
Button says Ekblad is the kind of defenceman that you can build your team around.
"I think Ekblad is a pillar defenceman. I think he's that guy that can play in your top two, can play in your top pair and I think the top-three defencemen… When I call guys a pillar defenceman, that's a one, two or a three. One and a two can anchor a pair and a number three can anchor a pair and that's what Ekblad is. He's got too much going for him, he's smart, he's cagey, he's competitive and there's not an area of the game that he doesn't excel in."
In the third spot, Button says Prince Albert Raiders centre Leon Draisaitl is the pick.
Leon Draisaitl is listed at 6-foot-1, 210 pounds. That's a good size for a centre prospect coming out in this year's draft. He is projected to go in the top five in this year's draft and could be at play for the Oilers who pick at three.
Oilers Now's Bob Stauffer spoke with Draisaitl's junior head coach on his radio show Thursday and asked if the 18-year-old centre is really that size.
"He's a good-sized kid," Prince Albert Head Coach Cory Clouston said. "He might not be quite 210. By the end of the year he might have been 207, 208 but he's a big kid. He's got a thick chest, he's got big legs, a very wide back, he's a big kid. He's all of that. I know when sometimes you look at stats you go, there's no way that that kid is that big but that size is legitimate. He's for sure that size."
Oilers Colour Commentator Bob Stauffer spoke with Prince Albert's Head Coach Cory Clouston today on Oilers Now and asked about one of the draft's top prospects, Leon Draisaitl.
The centre was a huge part of the Raiders' improvement on the power play this season.
"He was obviously a big part of that," Clouston said. "They were last, they were 22nd last year and third overall this year. Huge improvement and a lot of that has to do with Leon. We obviously had a top-end defenceman in Josh Morrisey which definitely helps but Leon up front was very key. He's got great vision. He's able to sometimes make plays where you don't think there's a play to be made. He's very poised with the puck. He's a guy that is very dangerous, not only on the power play but on 5-on-5 as well. He's a special player and to me, he played his best hockey down the stretch the last while for us. He's a big reason we got into the playoffs. We had a stretch there in the regular season where we lost him and Morrisey to world juniors, we had a couple more key injuries and a horrible flu bug go through our team at the same time. I think we lost eight or nine of 10 games and that really put us in a tough spot but Leon's play really helped us get back on track."
Draisaitl is projected to go in the top five in this year's draft and could be an option at third overall for the Edmonton Oilers.
Oilers Colour Commentator Bob Stauffer had TSN Director of Scouting Craig Button on his show this afternoon and his guest addressed any rumours surrounding draft prospect Leon Draisaitl's character.
"The guy came over from Germany to play in Prince Albert," Button said. "He's done it for two years. What more do you need to know? He's a top player, he's a good kid. What are we talking about? When people want to say 'good character', what are they talking about?"
"It's unfair and I'll be straight forward with you, I don't tolerate it because it's people who don't know."
Button has Draisaitl going to the Oilers with the third overall pick in his latest mock draft.
In addition to having Button on his show, Stauffer also spoke with Draisaitl's coach in Prince Albert, Cory Clouston.
"I have no idea where that would come from," Clouston said. "I don't know where that would have started. I don't sugar coat things. Leon is a great kid, he's fun to coach, he's a guy who shows up at the rink, he's focused, he's like any other 18 year-old. There's obviously areas he has to improve on but that's kind of the fun thing about it. We saw him at the start of the year where he was, I'm not going to say he was one-dimensional but he was not as multi-dimensional as he sure ended up at the end of the season. That to me has a lot to do with his attitude, the guys really liked him, he loves doing extra work after practice and often he'd come in and instead of the coaches going to him, he'd show a lot of initiative coming to us and saying, he brought up the power play, can I look at power play video, can I look at 5-on-5 stuff? We utilized him on the penalty kill so he had quite a bit to learn, a big learning curve on the penalty kill so I would have no idea where those rumours would start and that's the furthest thing from the truth."
Edmonton Oilers Ben Scrivens and David Perron will both represent Canada at the 2014 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in Minsk, Belarus, May 9-25.
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Scrivens finished the season playing 21 games for the Oilers, posting a .916 save percentage and 3.01 goals against average.
Perron had career highs in goals (28) and points (57) in 78 games this season with the Oilers.
Perron and Scrivens are among the first group of 20 players announced by Hockey Canada as members of the 2014 team.
"We are excited about the first group of players that have committed to representing Canada at the world championship," Rob Blake, general manager of Canada's National Men's Team said. "We have a good mix of experience and youth at both the professional and international level."
Former Oiler and current Hockey Night in Canada broadcaster Craig Simpson was on Oilers Now with Bob Stauffer on Wednesday afternoon and provided an update as to his son Dillon Simpson's status moving forward. Dillon was selected in the 4th round, 92nd overall, in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft and has completed his four-year career with the University of North Dakota.
The 6-foot-2, 200 pound defenceman is reportedly in talks with Edmonton Sr. Vice President of Hockey Operations Scott Howson to sign with the Oilers.
"I know that they're talking anyways and I think Scott Howson and Dillon and his agent are discussing," Craig said. "The big thing this week for Dillon because they've missed so much school, is to check with the academic advisors to make sure that he can get his degree with the couple of courses that he has left to finish. I know that he's obviously excited about and was when he got drafted, about being a member of the Edmonton Oilers and I'm sure that will come fairly quickly."
No team likes their playoff hopes to come down to the final weekend of the season but at least for the Oklahoma City Barons, they hold their destiny in their own hands.
The Edmonton Oilers American Hockey League affiliate has three games remaining in their season, all on home ice. The Barons host the first-place Texas Stars tonight, followed by a two-game series against the Western Conference's last place Iowa Wild on Friday and Saturday.
OKC is 8th in the West with 79 points, two-points back of the Rochester Americans in 7th. Two teams threaten the Barons as Charlotte and Rockford are tied for 9th with 77 points. However, the Barons have a game-in-hand over each, having played 73 games to their 74.
Three out of a possible six points for the Barons this week will clinch a playoff spot.
The Texas Stars are the hottest team in the AHL, on an 11-0-0-1 streak. They are the top-seed in the conference and should the Barons sneak in as the 8th seed, they'd find themselves playing this very team in the first round. It isn't all bad news for the Barons however, as the series has been somewhat even as OKC is 4-5-2 against Texas this season.
OKC has also handed the Stars three of their 17 regulation losses, matching the most of any team this season.
Oklahoma City is also on a hot streak with an 18-6-1-4 record dating back to January 30. That is with an injury and call up riddled lineup. They've won four straight home games.
The Barons get some help from the schedule gods in their final two games, playing the Wild twice to close out the season. Iowa is last in the Western Conference with 64 points in 73 games. The Barons are 1-1-0-0 against the Wild this season but haven't played them since October 12-13.
Rochester finishes out their season with a game tonight against Utica (11th in the West) and two games this weekend (Friday and Saturday), a home contest against Syracuse (12th in the East) and an away game in Toronto (3rd in the West).
The Checkers are in Milwaukee (5th in the West) on Friday night and finish off the season at Rockford. Before that season-ending showdown with Charlotte, the Rockford Ice Hogs host Chicago (4th in the West).
Defenceman Anton Belov will not be returning to the Edmonton Oilers after playing out his one-year entry level contract. Belov has agreed to a four-year contract to play with the KHL's SKA in Saint Petersburg.
The Russian native played 57 games for the Oilers this season, recording seven points (1-6-7) and finishing the season -12 with 34 penalty minutes.
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They spoke fondly of their former boss, and of difficult phone conversations with John Spencer after he was fired midway through his second season as the head coach for the Portland Timbers.
"When I first found out it was a bit of a blow," goalkeeper Troy Perkins said. "I have tremendous respect (for Spencer). John is an incredible guy. I think every guy in that locker room will put their life on the line for the guy."
Spencer's Scottish accent and wit endeared him to fans. But for the players, the coach was a career changer. He brought Perkins and Jack Jewsbury to Portland to be leaders, plucking them from places where their role was uncertain.
"He's the one who brought me here, so it was tough to see it go down," Jewsbury said. "As players we hold ourselves responsible just as much as anyone else. I love the guy and always will; and (will) always be thankful that he brought me to Portland."
Scottish striker Kris Boyd said Spencer is a big reason he chose to give the Timbers and Major League Soccer a shot.
Boyd said he was surprised that the coach was fired, noting that for all their struggles the Timbers are not that far off the playoff pace with half of their schedule in front of them.
"I probably should have scored more," Boyd said. "I'm not a robot. You miss chances as (do) the best strikers in the world. For me, the best thing is to keep going and getting into positions for your teammates to find you and hopefully get on the end of them and start scoring goals more regular."
Boyd said he had spoken with Spencer numerous times since the coach learned his fate, and that Spencer would want the team to play well and win on Saturday, when the Los Angeles Galaxy visits Portland for the only time in 2012.
"He's moved on. And we need to move on as well," Boyd said. "We've got a big game to prepare for on Saturday, and that's what we look forward to."
The challenge this week will be adjusting to Gavin Wilkinson's coaching style and systems. The Timbers general manager and interim coach indicated on Tuesday that every aspect of the team is open for change -- including who is the team's captain going forward.
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• Midfielder Diego Chara did not practice with the team on Tuesday. Wilkinson said he gave the midfielder an extra day of rest, noting that Chara is suspended for Saturday's match following his handball red card at Real Salt Lake. Midfielder Franck Songo'o, who is expected to miss several weeks with a knee sprain. and forward Brent Richards (sore ankle) also did not practice Tuesday.
• Forward Bright Dike returned to the Timbers from the L.A. Blues of the USL Pro league, where he had six goals and two assists. USL Pro is two divisions below MLS in the American soccer structure. The Timbers loaned rookie defender Andrew Jean-Baptiste to the Blues in place of Dike, keeping their MLS roster at the 30-player limit.


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I swapped from k60's to Big Blocks and I'm feeling the same thing. Pretty normal from memory. Give it sometime for them to break in...
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Any full knobblie is going to vibrate at different speeds, lean angles, etc. I ran Pirelli MT 21's on my bastard KTM 525 and they did not vibe, but they were just this side of a true knob. Although, I know some nut-jobs that adhere to CT DOT laws that have them on their woods bikes and have ridden up here in VT with me in the gnar and they made it
The MT 21's did howl at speed though, but don't all knobbers anyway? That just lets you know that you have some dirt traction goin' on
I felt safest pushing the Pirelli's on the road too.
If Max sold Pirelli's I might have gotten something from them, but I got the K60's and actually, I like them. For pavement and dirt roads. I do not like the thought of changing a flat though. What a stiff bugger. That's why once TuBliss comes out with the DOT version I'm all signed up.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal regulators on Tuesday warned several companies that the quick, easy background checks they are providing online might violate the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
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If the FTC finds that the companies do not change their business practices, or if complaints are filed, the FTC could launch a formal investigation or eventually levy fines against the companies.
While most of the 10 companies promised general background checks, some of the companies identified by the FTC on Tuesday offered other more personalized data.
A company called Brokers Data, based in Columbia, S.C., for example, provided information that could be used to determine a person's eligibility for insurance. And in the case of ConsumerBase, the FTC said the Chicago-based company appeared to be selling lists of consumers who meet a certain financial criteria to lenders who make pre-approved credit offers.
In its letter, the FTC warned ConsumerBase that its sale of such lists could violate the law if ConsumerBase wasn't making sure the lists were accurate or notifying consumers.
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I found this poem lovely, It's fully as powerful as the Sharon Olds poem "I Go Back to May 1937," in The Gold Cell, but with the right man and the right woman. David commented that "Only after I posted the photos...did I see how clearly they connected with this poem that was written some years ago. It's in Blacksnake at the Family Reunion.
See: Blacksnake at the family reunion : poems. LSU Press, November 2012, 55 p.. I'm happy to report that the Virginia Tech library has a copy of this and many other of David's works. You can find it on the fourth floor of Newman (PS3558.U287 B53 2012). Huddle comes from Ivanhoe Virginia in Wythe County. I know him from Hollins, where he has taught. He is professor emeritus (bio) at the University of Vermont and will be at Breadloaf this summer.
The Stile
A stile is a pair of steps or ladders that is accessible to pedestrians but generally inaccessible to animals. Stiles
often found in rural areas or along footpaths and allow access to a field or other area enclosed by a fence or
wall. Unlike a gate, there is no chance of forgetting to close it….
Between the house of my mother's childhood
and the one where my father grew up was
a field about the size of a city
block, a fence on both sides, with a gate through
which he had to pass to enter the field,
then a stile over which he had to pass
to leave the field and arrive in her yard.
My brothers and I were specks of cosmic
dust floating far above the thistles, clover,
alfalfa, and wild strawberries that grew
in that field--no bodies, brains, or spirits,
we nevertheless witnessed a young man's more
and more frequent trips through the gate, across
the field, and over the stile that summer,
both their mothers watching from bedroom windows
that faced each other across the shimmering
heat of June, July, and August. Desire
is the sky, the grass, the smell of cedar,
specks of light shooting through blackness: it knows
no authority. Our mother was fifteen,
compelling as fire seen for the first time,
strong-willed as a young horse. Their mothers knew
better than to say no. My brothers and I kept
our watch, drifting closer each time my father
approached the stile to find her on the porch,
waiting in the wicker rocker. Her half-closed
eyes saw him flying to her. That's when they
must have felt us waiting out there in time.
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David Huddle: The Stile
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Paul Corbit Brown and T. Paige Dalporto on Powellton Hollow Derailment and Oil Spill
1:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 16, 2015, firefighters and emergency crews responded to a train derailment in Montgomery, WV. Within an hour, officials were evacuating the towns of Adena Village and Boomer Bottom, near Mount Carbon and Deepwater. Lawrence Messina, communications director for the West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, told media that at least one tanker, believed to contain crude oil, had fallen into the Kanawha River. As a result, officials shut down Route 61 and set up a shelter at Valley Elementary School for folks in the two towns being evacuated in Powellton Hollow.
By this morning Ken Ward, Jr. of the Charleston Gazette, along with his fellow reporter Rusty Marks, who had broken the story for the paper, were telling us that the train, belonging CSX, was still aflame, having set"at least one house" and power lines "ablaze...causing numerous tank cars" of the 107 it had been hauling to burn and explode. The train, tranporting Bakken Shale crude oil from North Dakota, was slated for a terminal in Yorktown, Virginia." Appalachian Power spokeswoman Jeri Matheney told Ward and Marks that electricity has not yet been restored to about 900 customers and FEMA said that about 2,400 folks had been evacuated or displaced.
They noted other derailments include one in April 2014 in Lynchburg along the same route, another in Quebec in July 2013, in which a 74-car train carrying Bakken Shale crude oil killed 47, an another on February 14, 2015 in Northern Ontario, enroute from Alberta to eastern Canada.
If I can get a permalink for the story from Ken, I'll substitute the one above, which may be ephemeral. Meanwhile, my friend, photographer (and eloquent essayist and public speaker) Paul Corbit Brown (website) a native of Fayette County, wrote me this morning and offered his essay, along with the above photo from another friend, songwriter and photographer T. Paige Dalporto, who lives in Charlton Heights, WV.
I had been planning to write about the derailment, having posted a comment to Facebook at one o'clock this morning, "The more things change...two top stories in the news right now: WV for ecological disaster and NSA for spying...sigh." Since I'm writing from Salem, VA, I thought, I'd instead, turn this space over to Paul Corbit.
If you're wondering about the history of Powellton Hollow and coal, see the website of Chris DellaMea, of Beckley, WV, who has visited more than 400 coal towns in that state and Pennsylvania, Maryland and Ohio.
More than a train will be derailed before this is over:
By now I'm sure most of you know about the train that derailed and the ensuing explosions in Fayette County, WV today. We are told it was carrying around 109 tankers filled with crude oil from North Dakota and headed for a destination in VA. Surrounding communities have been evacuated, it is believed that at least one tanker and possibly more have actually fallen into the Kanawha River. Six massive explosions so far, and one home completely destroyed. Water intakes for at least two PSDs on the Kanawha were closed as a result of the crude oil and other possible contaminants entering the river. More than 200 residents are in a shelter tonight.
My prediction is that politicians like Joe Manchin will quietly welcome this event while they appear to be surprised on TV. Some of you might wonder why. Manchin has often been heard saying that these things (such as mine fatalities and environmental disasters) have got to stop. Like his predecessor Arch Moore, he acts as if these things truly are unavoidable "acts of God". Right about now, the wheels on that Ill-fated CSX train have stopped spinning, but the real spin is soon to appear. Soon we will see politicians pointing to this and other recent train disasters involving crude oil while we hear them extolling the "benefits" and "safety" of the Keystone XL pipeline. Manchin is personally on a mission to see to it that there is a veto-proof Senate in the event that Obama does veto the KXL.
Manchin will likely act saddened by this, the-most-recent-environmental-disaster, to his beloved state (the one he calls an extraction state, the rest of WV still calls our home the Mountain State) and he will talk about the "common sense" approach, and how common sense would dictate that we choose the safer of the two alternatives for moving the deadly tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. This is where the Truth will be derailed, once again. Just like all the great tricksters of the past and the present, he and his ilk will frame the debate as the safest of two options, while omitting the third (and ONLY SAFE) option: leave the tar sands in the ground.
While Manchin has at least enough sense to admit that Climate Change is real AND influenced by humans, he refuses to let these common sense facts guide him when it comes to decisions regarding the extraction and exploitation of fossil fuels. But at least he's in good company here in WV. Within weeks of opening the most recent legislative session, the republican led House and Senate have proposed and are working to push through legislation that will not raise the minimum wage, destroy prevailing wages, undermine healthcare, set our education system back decades, get rid of renewable energy initiatives in the state, strip the tank safety law from last year (to the point the 90% or more of the tanks in WV are exempt), further intrude on women's rights to make their own decisions about their bodies, protect coal companies from lawsuits involving fatalities, further relax safety laws, and (as if this wasn't enough) they are working to downgrade the classification of WV waters. This last one is more dangerous than it might seem at first. Downgrading water standards is BAD for public health and good for dirty businesses. They are working to make sure Manchin's motto of "Open for Business" becomes a reality, but only for dirty businesses (like fracking and coal) that need a river or landscape for deposit of their waste.
Rebecca Randolph and the WV Manufacturers Association believe WV needs to relax its water quality and other environmental laws in order to be competitive. Competitive to what!?!? The most polluted places in America?!?! It's remarkable to me that the politicians and industries that run this state continue to insist that the only way we can remain competitive is to allow our state to be a cesspool for industry. Our state has produced trillions of dollars in coal, yet the 5 counties in WV that produce the most coal continue to be among the poorest counties in the entire US. Republicans have convinced us this is because of the Democrats' control of WV. I beg you to look for yourself, it has nothing to do with absurd Party Politics and everything to do with being a resource colony. This is the same situation in any place where "natural resources" are prized more than "human resources". Quick question: "How does it feel to see the value of your life and the life of those you love compared to a lump of coal, a gallon of gas or some shiny stone?" Don't answer right away, just think about it.
I'd like to live in a WV where we compete to have businesses that care about the environment AND the quality of life for the people they employ and the generations to come. That is a competition worthy of our state and her people. As a state, we are at the bottom of every list for quality of life. The reason is simple, it has nothing to do with red, blue, race, religion or lack thereof. There is only one real reason: Everything that was ever built in this state by the government and predominant coal industry that owns the government, was built to take wealth OUT of WV: All of it. We are left with decaying infrastructure, broken bones, broken homes, broken communities, poverty, sickness and death.
The true colors of West Virginia are not those manipulated by politicians. Our colors are the colors of Strength, Determination, Creativity, and Perseverance. It's no wonder they want to keep us broken, if we as a People ever once realized our power and stood United, WE would run the show.
The choice is quite simple: "Stay broken and in thrall to poverty, sickness and pollution; or, Rise Up! and run these rascals out on the same rails that stole our wealth and our health."
Posted by Beth Wellington at 2:30 PM
Paul Corbit Brown and T. Paige Dalporto on Powellton Hollow Derailment and Oil Spill
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David Carr's last work: Times Talk on CITIZENFOUR
David Carr, media critic for the New York Times, died today at 58, soon after moderating a Times Talk interview with Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald and (via live video) Edward Snowden concerning the upcoming HBO film CITIZENFOUR.
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David Carr's last work: Times Talk on CITIZENFOUR
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A & G Coal Corp Appeals Permit Denial to Destroy Ison Ridge
The courts, the EPA, and even the Army Corps of Engineers and the Virginia Department of Mines Minerals and Energy giveth hope to those who would preserve what's left of the south-central Appalacian Mountains. The coal companies would taketh away that hope and the mountains.
Ison Rock Ridge Mountain in Wise County, Virginia shelters the mountain communities of Derby, Arno, Inman, Andover and Appalachia, providing freshwater to over 1,800 people there and many more who live downsteam.
Almost 6 years ago, on May 7, 2009, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers suspended its approval of A and G Coal Corp.'s 1,200 acre Surface Mine 0.8 miles west of Andover. The Sierra Club and Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards had sued to block the permit and the Corps stated that the suspension would give officials "an opportunity to fully evaluate concerns" raised by EPA April 3, 2009.
When I checked my email today, I learned that the Virginia Department of Mines Minerals and Energy is holding a hearing in room 219 of its Big Stone Gap office on February 18, 2015 at 9:00 AM. The office is in the Buchanan-Smith Building at 3405 Mountain Empire Road off Route 23. The permit number is 1003841 and the Code of Virginia sections are §§45.1-240, 45.1-250(B), and 2.2-4020 as amended. See also §4VAC25-130-775.11(b) of the Virginia Coal
surface Mining Reclamation Regulations.
As before the contact is Harve A Mooney, firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also call him at 276-523-8271 or fax 276-523-8163.
Want to keep up on this and other Virginia government hearings. Go to https://www.townhall.virginia.gov/.
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A & G Coal Corp Appeals Permit Denial to Destroy Ison Ridge
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James and Vivian Leva at Monkey House in Blacksburg Sunday December 7 3:00 PM
Food and socializing starts at 3:00 pm at The Monkey House. Concert at 3:30. All money goes to James and Vivian Leva ($10-15 suggested.)
If you want a ticket contact Jim and Robyn or leave a note on fb.
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James and Vivian Leva at Monkey House in Blacksburg Sunday December 7 3:00 PM
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Claudia Emerson
Scott Elmquist's photo of Claudia Emerson accompanied Peter Galuszka's February 11, 2014 story, The Power of Place, in Richmond's Style Weekly.
I was a great fan of poet Claudia Emerson ever since I started readying her body of work when she won the Pulitzer in 2006. She was kind about letting me reprint her poems here and then I got to hear her read her poems at the 2008 Virginia Festival of the Book. She returned in 2011, but I didn't make it that year.
So, I was sad to learn of her death today via facebook from her fellow UNC-G alumni Kathryn Stripling Byer.
So, I was sad to learn of her death today via facebook from her fellow UNC-G alumni Kathryn Stripling Byer.
I wrote about Claudia Emerson back in 2006 when she won the Pulitzer and created a Wikipedia article that I spent four hours today (starting at 3:22 p.m) restoring and updating. (Someone saw fit to delete a bunch in September 2011, rather than take the time to update broken links.) Which is unfortunate, because I DIDN'T get to add these links to new pieces or catch up on reading her new poems. But there will be time for that.
Emerson had joined the VCU faculty in 2013 and there's an interview from the Spring 2014 issue of Poictesme by Hannah Morgan with an illustration by Megan Goldfarb, in addition to the one above by Peter Galuszka. And then there's the interview by Sarah Kennedy from the Winter 2006 of Shenandoah, reprinted on Poetry Daily.
Emerson had joined the VCU faculty in 2013 and there's an interview from the Spring 2014 issue of Poictesme by Hannah Morgan with an illustration by Megan Goldfarb, in addition to the one above by Peter Galuszka. And then there's the interview by Sarah Kennedy from the Winter 2006 of Shenandoah, reprinted on Poetry Daily.
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#GivingTuesday: SAMPLER (Southern Appalachian Media Project for Literacy on Environmental Renewal)
Photo quilt I design from individual photos on SAMPLER entries
What's Giving Tuesday?
Black Friday,
Cyber Monday...
After two days of shopping, December 2nd is a day to give back. It's #GivingTuesday.
In 2012, 92Y joined with the United Nations Foundation ("UNF") to create an annual global day of giving that helps raise funds and awareness for important causes everywhere.
How can you help SAMPLER?
You can donate on Razoo and/or help spread the word....
Here's a post on facebook
Here's the tweet...
Our projecthe audience for of this project will be regional and national consumers of legacy, online and social media. The users will be citizens in South Central Appalachia and journalists. Our challenge is that our region is covered only occasionally by the national media, often when there is a mining disaster or a release of poverty statistics. The authors of this coverage often lack a feet-on-the-ground understanding of the complexity of local issues. Regional papers that provide balanced coverage tend to cover one state, although the problems are endemic. Citizens often don't understand the difference between public relations, spin and good journalism.
We believe our crowd source approach to good journalism will build skills needed for users to raise awareness of the issues facing our region and provide citizens citizens with the information they need to meaningfully evaluate those issues and participate in the civic arena.
Our partners
We are partnering with the Appalachian Community Fund (ACF) to build an alliance of journalists and citizens working to strengthen in-depth reporting on a sustainable transition from coal's mono-economy in Southern Central Appalachia (West Virginia and the areas affected by coal mining in Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina.) We especially plan to cover the practice of mountaintop removal. Other topics include the proposed introduction to the region of other extractive carbon-based energy industries (fracking and natural gas pipelines) with an analysis of their their possible effects on climate, water, land and/or air quality. On November 1, we submitted an application to the Knight Foundation's Prototype Fund to help develop the project. OVEC serves fiscal sponsor and is accepting our crowd-sourced donations until we achieve own non-profit status.
Here's how I described the project to Knight:
SAMPLER will use a website, twitter, facebook and other social media to provide content to national media and teach citizens to critique our coverage and that of others.
We take our definition of reporting from the Society of Environmental Journalists. Our goal is to help citizens gain the skills to create and publish stories, photos and videos of their communities and to help journalists cover topics they could not address as meaningfully alone. Our users will gain knowledge that they need for meaningful civic engagement to improve quality of life through a transition from poverty and environmental degradation to environmental justice and sustainable development.
The assumptions we will test if we get the grant:
*Citizens can build skills needed for users to raise awareness of the issues facing our region
*Journalists will use our content to deepen their own content
We will know if the project has worked or not by metrics such as:
*number of participants
*participant evaluations
*consumer evaluations
*number of blog posts
*number of articles on other media
*number of comments websites of other media linking to our posts
*number and variety of supporting organizations
What we've done so far:
*we've use this blog as a prototype to publish photographs (Paul Corbit Brown, Vivian Stockman, Roger May, Antrim Caskey); journalism (Rachel Parsons, Sarah Verkasi, Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Ted Boettner, Mary Anne Hitt, Jon Foley)
*Sue Sturgis and Chris Kromm of Institute Southern Studies provides advice, offer to syndicate through Facing South
*Margo Miller of the Appalachian Community Foundation has offered to syndicate content in its regional blog
*established relationships with MIT Center for Civic Media, Looking at Appalachia Project, Cir.ca, Carnival of Journalism
*Darryl Fears, Washington Post environmental reporter wants background information to cover mountaintop removal
*Blacksburg Glade Road Growing syndicates posts on sustainable agriculture, cooking with local ingredients
*New Organizing Institute and Energy Justice Network underwrote social media training
*Newstrust added coal as news archives category
*Alliance for Appalachia provided a travel grant for me to attend the 2012 Knight Media Learning Seminar
*Washington and Lee provided scholarship for its Poverty Journalism Workshop
*developed logo
* provided description to local and regional foundations
*set up google alerts on related news topics
*set up data base on scientific research on mountaintop removal
*Newstrust will share material on how to think like a journalist in evaluating quality of journalism
*started data base of environmental, poverty and political reporters; civic groups
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Apartment A Villa Gloria with swimming pool
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Type: Apt. / CondoApartment A Villa Gloria with swimming pool
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The villa (750m2) is surrounded with a palms, gentile flowers ,and meditterian plants in a well kept garden.
There is a large garden of 650 m2 ; with fountain , sun decks , grill and place for outdoor dining table.
The quiet environment, pine forest and breathtaking views of the blue Adriatic together with the opportunity to lounge around on the spacious terrace makes this Villa as a great place to relax as it is situated only 100 m from the sea ( a few minutes walking).
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Across the bridge that connects Trogir with the island of Ciovo, 2.4 km driving on the beach in the shade of pine trees, you arrive in a small town, Arbanija, with only 500 inhabitants.
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Church of the 15th century, with a rich library, located next to the sea and beaches surrounded by pine trees. In the shade of pine trees is located hotel "Sv.Kriz", where you can play tennis, football, try your luck in the casino or simply enjoy Dalmatian specialties served on the beautiful terrace.
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Russellville, Ark. (KTHV) - An appeal bond hearing is set for Monday for A.J. Cody, 26. Cody murdered Lee Britton, 65, of London, after he claimed Britton molested his young daughter.
"There were just a lot of things to go in with that decision that a higher court needs to look at," said Tiffany Kilburn, Cody's sister.
The hearing is set for Monday at 9 a.m. at the Pope County courthouse. Cody's family hopes a judge will set a bond, allowing him to be released from jail.
"It's very important that we get this bond. It could take up to a year for this to get to an appeals court," said Kilburn.
Kilburn said the family has secured 2,000 signatures on paper and 2,000 signatures onlineto be submitted to Governor Mike Beebe for consideration for a pardon should the appeal not go in Cody's favor.
The controversial case spurred emotions from people on both sides of the issue. Britton's family did not want their loved ones' memory tarnished. There was an outpour of support for Cody, with some people sympathizing with his actions after he said he received word of the alleged molestation.
The jury perhapssent the message that Cody should not have taken the law into his own hands.
"And I understand that accept for the fact that if everything [evidence] would have been able to be presented to the jury, it would have presented a little different side of the story," said Kilburn.
Meanwhile, Kilburn said Cody's young children miss their father.
"It's very hard. We have a little girl who wants to see her daddy and a little boy who doesn't understand," said Kilburn.
The Pope County prosecutor handling the case said the Britton family has been notified of the appeal bond hearing. He said after reviewing the case, he sees no immediate reversible errors, but said Cody has the right to appeal the case.
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ - click to view more info about 'The sun' or find free 'ocean swim' pictures via Wylio" href="http://blog.sojo.net/2011/08/04/inspired-by-rosa-parks-israeli-and-palestinian-women-take-a-swim/" target="_self">An account in The New York Times by Ethan Bronner reports that Israeli women and West Bank Palestinian women and girls have once again broken Israeli laws. They have gone swimming in the Mediterranean Sea.
More than two dozen Israeli women invited Palestinian women and girls from the southern part of the West Bank of the Jordan River -- who are not normally allowed into Israel and have no access to the sea -- to go swimming with them. Under Israeli military occupation since 1967, according to Bronner, "most had never seen the sea before."
The Olympics is the greatest representation of national athletic pride. Somehow every couple of years, patriotism is met with a degree of innocence and acceptance that is too often forgotten in conflict and negotiation.
Five years ago, Afghanistan re-entered international basketball when the county's Olympic committee decided to draft a team for the 2006 Asian Games. A year later, the committee hired Mamo Rafiq, who was the first Afghan immigrant to play in the NCAA first for Idaho State and then UC Davis.
When the Alabama legislature passed their infamous, anti-immigrant law (HB 56), the religious community in the state immediately cried foul. Jim Wallis and other national leaders condemned the law as unjust and immoral.
HB 56, which will go into effect September 1, attacks virtually every aspect of immigrants' lives. Among many punitive measures, it authorizes police to detain anyone they suspect is undocumented, mandates criminal penalties for those who transport undocumented migrants, and demands that public schools determine the immigration status of all students.
I have gotten so used to stories of violence in the news every morning that I confess they don't move me as much as they should, or used to. Today: Three straight days of killing in Karachi with 42 dead; Syrian tanks shelling the city of Hama, where more than 100 people have died since Sunday; U.N. peacekeepers killed by a landmine in Sudan; daily deaths in Libya; bombings in Baghdad and assassinations in Kandahar. It goes on and on.
Whenever I give talks on the effects of the Israeli occupation on Palestinian livelihood, the status of nonviolence as a means to resisting the occupation, and how I believe nonviolence is the only way to move forward to resolve the conflict and create a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians, one of the first and immediate questions I get from foreign visitors to my office in Bethlehem is, What you said is good, but what about the Muslims? Do they also believe in nonviolence? Do they understand it?" Even if I don't mention religion in my presentation -- and I rarely do -- this question always seems to make its way in our discussions.
Today, "Values and Capitalism," a project of the American Enterprise Institute, sponsored a full-page ad in Politico (see page 13) in response to the Circle of Protection. While it is encouraging to see another full-page ad urging our nation's legislators to be concerned about the poor, it is unfortunate that the critique of the Circle of Protection and Sojourners work is based on an error.
The debate we have just witnessed has shown Washington, D.C. not just to be broken, but corrupt. The American people are disgusted watching politicians play political chicken with the nation's economy and future. In such a bitter and unprincipled atmosphere, whoever has the political clout to enforce their self-interest and retain their privileges wins the battles. But there are two casualties in such political warfare: the common good and the most vulnerable.
So how will vulnerable people fair under this deal? "The Circle of Protection," a diverse nonpartisan movement of Christian leaders, has been deeply engaged in the budget debate to uphold the principle that low-income people should be protected. But it is hard to evaluate a deal that averts a crisis when the crisis wasn't necessary in the first place. Over the past few weeks, our economy has indeed been held hostage as politicians negotiated the price of the release. Ultimately, I think most of us wish that no hostages had been taken in the first place, and this was no way to run a government or make important budget decisions.
Hidden Battles is a 65-minute documentary which follows a female Sandinista rebel, an Israeli officer, a Palestinian freedom fighter, and two American soldiers as they come to terms with their combat experiences. The film offers unique insight and hope into the internal conflicts that human beings around the world continue to face long after they have left the battlefield.
The documentary listens to the stories of these former soldiers as they reconcile what it means to have killed another human. A Vietnam veteran recalls that when he first killed, he was gripped by the feeling that he "did something -- literally against God." Watch this film and see how these veterans have fought to overcome. Each soldier deals with killing in his or her own unique way. Hidden Battles shows five ways in which this act is integrated into five different lives. Ultimately these stories testify to the resilience of the human spirit and hopefulness for the future.
President Barack Obama will decide as early as September whether to light a fuse to the largest carbon bomb in North America. That bomb is the massive tar sands field in Canada's Alberta province. And the fuse is the 1,700-mile long Keystone XL Pipeline that would transport this dirtiest of petroleum fuels all the way to Texas refineries.
The Keystone XL Pipeline is a climate and pollution horror beyond description. From August 20 to September 3, thousands of Americans -- including Bill McKibben, Danny Glover, NASA's Dr. James Hansen, and thousands more -- will be at the White House, day after day, demanding Obama reject this tar sands pipeline.
I'm going to be there, and I hope you will join me -- we need your voice.
I prefer my revolutions to be simple: A corrupt dictator/tyrant, an oppressed population, inspired reformers who risk their lives, calls for democracy, waves of marchers in the streets, background music from Les Misérables. The stories from Tunis and Cairo were epochal. The Arab spring was in full bloom as calls for participatory government could be heard from every corner of the Middle East.
Then there was Syria. The Assad government has been infamous in its intolerance to dissent. It is a military regime whose 30-year leadership under Hafez al-Assad (1930-2000) established it as one of the most severe in the region. In 2,000, after the death of Hafez, the world was intrigued to see his second son -- Bashar al-Assad -- ascend the throne. Bashar was an ophthalmologist who had studied in London, but because of his older brother's death in a car accident in 1994, he was called to follow his father. Bashar speaks English and French fluently and has been as critical of the U.S. as he has been of Israel.
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