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It's not easy being Aljur Abrenica.
The GMA 7 hunk is caught between two gorgeous girls on and off the set: alleged girlfriend Kylie Padilla and "My Kontrabida Girl" partner Rhian Ramos.
Aljur and Kylie have reportedly decided to go easy on their budding relationship. At the press con for her new afternoon TV series "The Good Daughter," Kylie told the Inquirer that she wanted to focus on her career, and that she "sort of got distracted" while hanging out with Aljur.
Told of Kylie's statement, an incredulous Aljur asked: "Did she really say that?" But he quickly changed gears, turning diplomatic: "We want the same things. I want her to focus on her work, too. I want her to fulfill her dreams."
He had no time to fret over affairs of the heart, he said, busy as he was wrapping up his movie with Rhian, who is recovering from a messy breakup with radio-TV personality Mo Twister.
There's no chance for them to go on a rebound romance, Aljur insisted. "Rhian is very beautiful … but I have to control my feelings because we are close friends."
But he really didn't have to comfort Rhian during the shoot of "My Kontrabida Girl," he said. Instead, they had a blast during the shoot of the rom-com directed by Jade Castro, the young filmmaker behind the indie hit "Zombadings 1: Patayin sa Shokot si Remington."
"The mood on the set was light," Aljur said. "Even if it was already early morning, Direk Jade was still energetic. We couldn't help being hyper as well … "
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Injustice: Gods Among Us
INJUSTICE DLC character #6 clue:
SKDarkKiller posted...
somakurusu posted...KadurryKadurry posted...It's Mirror Master
Why can't Captain Cold be in this game? If you say it's because of Killer Frost then you've gotten that we also have Batman/Batgirl and Superman/Zod so I don't see why they can't have two ice users. Hell even MK did that with Sub-Zero and Frost.
Open eyes are useless if the mind behind them is closed.
KadurryKadurry posted...
It's Mirror Master
This would be hilarious.
Open eyes are useless if the mind behind them is closed.
DoubleJ9 posted...
SKDarkKiller posted...somakurusu posted...KadurryKadurry posted...It's Mirror Master
I love Captain Cold and I prefer it but you know all this guys will say "we already have a ice user, we don't need it" ¬¬.
If Boon give us Captain Cold and a compatibilty skin of Zoom he will be the best!
And the best thing is that they can give him a Sub Zero skin (Injustice version of Sub Zero!)
The Cars: Magic
Upside Down: Not sure...but a certain tower is often upside down inside
Fun House: More Fun Comics
Doctor Fate???
It could also be Zatanna. Or....Red Hood UGH
Guys, it's Yosuke.
1. "The Cars", hint is referring to Magic, and Yosuke is skilled at Wind magic, something Injustice is missing.
2. "Upside down" is a nod towards how Yosuke does many acrobatic flips when he fights, his signature one being upside down when he summons his Persona.
3. "Funhouse" is, of course, talking about he is the Magician Arcana.
Personally, I would have preferred Kanji, but the truth is there.
Rattergun, you are truly a hero for our times. - Recoome_is_god
LordRattergun posted...
Guys, it's Yosuke.
Naoto is a way better choice :)


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A kaleidoscopic shift of the political pattern of Europe 2
New political parties have been rising in many European countries to oppose established policies of both leftist and conservative governments, particularly policies towards the European Union and immigration.
Most of the new parties are on the Right, but recently some have been formed – or have quite suddenly grown from being inconsequential groupings into forces to be reckoned with – on the Left.
The newly aggressive parties of the Left are mainly in the South, in countries at the receiving end of EU subsidies, angry that the subsidies are not substantial enough.
The new parties of the Right are mainly in the North, in countries at the paying end of the system, angry that they have to subsidize the failing economies of the South.
That sections of the Left should see how badly Europe needs a strategy for survival, should find fault with the EU, and object to unending immigration of dependents into their already hard-pressed welfare states, is a startling development. It means that new political patterns of alignment and opposition are emerging.
In the following article, which we quote from Gatestone, Peter Martino writes about the new parties' concern with the adverse economic effects of EU membership. He only touches on immigration as a factor in the intensifying discontent which prompts the formation of new political organizations, movements and agendas, but it is in fact quite as hot an issue.
Last week, the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) won a landmark victory in the Rochester & Strood by-election. With this win, UKIP secured its second Member of Parliament. The UKIP candidate, Mark Reckless, won 42.1% of the votes, thrashing the Conservatives (34.8%), Labour (16.8%) and the Liberal Democrats (0.9%). It was the first time ever that UKIP stood in Rochester & Strood. The party won votes from all the major parties. The Conservatives lost 14.4% of the votes, Labour 11.7% and the Liberal Democrats a whopping 15.5%.
UKIP is expected to do very well in the British general elections next May. Last month, a poll predicted the party could win up to 25% of the vote in these elections. In the 2010 general elections, the party had only 3.1%.
UKIP stands for the preservation of the Britain's national identity. It opposes the European Union (EU) and wants Britain to remain a sovereign nation rather than become a state of a federal Europe. The party is also critical of mass immigration, in particular from Eastern Europe. Though Nigel Farage, the UKIP leader, carefully avoids the issue of Islam, the party has also become the refuge of voters who worry about Islamization. Above all, however, the party embodies the dissatisfaction of the electorate with the traditional political establishment.
As such, UKIP is part of a broad trend that can currently be perceived all over Western Europe.
In Spain, a poll this week said that Podemos, a brand new party that was established only nine months ago, is currently the largest party in the country with 28.3% of the vote. The governing conservative Partido Popular of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy would finish second with 26.3% and the Socialist Party would get only 20.1%. Three years ago, in the November 2011 general elections, the Partido Popular won 44.6% of the votes.
Unlike UKIP, Podemos is a party that clearly belongs to the left of the political spectrum. Podemos (the Spanish for We can) was founded by "anti-capitalist" academics and trade unionists who want to "oppose the dominating EU politics from the left". Unlike UKIP, Podemos does not want to abolish the EU. On the contrary, since Spain is receiving billions of euros in EU subsidies, a majority of the Spaniards clearly want their country to remain an EU member state.
However, the party opposes the austerity policies that the EU is imposing on Spain as a prerequisite for the continuation of the flow of EU subsidies. Both the Spanish Socialist Party and Prime Minister Rajoy's Partido Popular are perceived by voters as implementing the same set of EU-prescribed policies.
In this regard, Podemos does resemble UKIP, which also accuses the British political establishment of simply implementing EU mandated policies. In Britain's case, the dissatisfaction with the EU stems mostly from British taxpayers having to pay billions to the EU, which are then transferred to countries in the south of Europe [such as Spain -ed], where governments use them to fund welfare programs. In this sense, the rise of leftist tax-and-spend parties (or rather tax-other-countries-and-spend parties), such as Podemos, reinforces the rise of parties such as UKIP in the north of Europe.
Indeed, all along the Mediterranean, parties opposing the EU-mandated austerity policies are growing spectacularly.
One of the keynote speakers at Podemos' recent first-ever party congress was Alexis Tsipras, the leader of Greece's neo-communist party Syriza. In last May's European elections, Syriza became Greece's biggest party with 26.5% of the votes, ahead of the governing Nea Demokratia party of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. Syriza draws on the same kind of sentiments as Podemos and is popular for exactly the same reasons.
The same is true of Italy's Five Star Movement, led by the comedian Beppe Grillo, which, with 21.2% of the vote, became the country's second largest party in last May's European elections.
And the same is even true for the Front National of Marine Le Pen in France. Ms Le Pen claims that without the euro, the EU's common currency, there would be "no need for austerity". Drawing on anti-EU sentiments, the Front National became the largest French party in last May's European elections with 24.8% of the vote.
The popularity of these parties is still rising. A recent poll in France revealed that Marine Le Pen might win the next French presidential elections, not just in the first round, but also in the decisive second round. It is the first time ever that the FN leads in a presidential poll against France's two major parties, the Socialist PS and the Center-Right UMP.
In the countries to the north, however, the popularity of the parties opposing the EU subsidization of the southern countries is rising equally spectacularly.
In the Netherlands, the anti-establishment Party for Freedom (PVV) of Geert Wilders is currently the biggest party in the polls. Wilders has consistently opposed the bailing out of countries such as Greece and Spain with Dutch taxpayers' money.
In neighboring Germany, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), a party established last year to oppose eurozone bailouts, is shaking up politics with its astonishing wins in recent state elections.
In Sweden, the Sweden Democrats (SD), opposing both immigration and the EU, won 13% of the vote in last September's general elections, but their popularity keeps rising. Last week, an SD spokesman said the party is currently expected to win up to 18% of the vote.
All across Europe, the electorate is deeply dissatisfied and disillusioned with both the Conservative and the Social-Democrat parties of the political establishment. Voters no longer see much difference between the traditional political protagonists, who are perceived as imposing an EU agenda that, for various reasons, is seen as bad for the country.
In Europe judging by the polls, political landslides are on the way.
It's not terrorism, it's war 14
European governments cannot think of an effective way to deal with the jihadis in their midst.
Take the case of Sweden. We quote from an article in this month's issue of Commentary by Annika Hernroth-Rothstein. It is titled A Local Story of Global Jihad:
Sweden has long functioned as a hub for international terrorism and has housed members of international terrorist organizations such as Hamas, the Armed Islamic Group, Al Shabaab, Egypt's Gamaa al-Islamiyya, and the Islamic State. Because membership in foreign terrorist organizations is not illegal, these operatives have largely been left alone.
In some cases, the Swedish government has gone out of its way to help them. In 2002, Swedish jihadist Mehdi Mohammad Ghezali was captured in Afghanistan by American forces. Deemed an enemy combatant, he was incarcerated at Guantánamo Bay. Stockholm immediately launched a campaign to release Ghezali, and in 2004 he was let out. Five years later, he was arrested in Pakistan for collaborating with the Islamic State.
While other European countries have broadened their anti-terrorism policies in order to crack down on terrorist propaganda, Sweden has become a safe haven for websites and publishers that specialize in jihadist material. Additionally, Sweden is home to certain mosques that are funded by foreign countries and known to function as recruitment centers for terrorist organizations. On the island of Hisingen, for instance, the Gothenburg Mosque, in Sweden's second-largest city, is financed by Saudi Arabia. The Islamic Center in Malmö, Sweden's third largest city, is funded and owned by the World Islamic Call Society, an Islamist umbrella organization founded by Muammar Qaddafi. With 60,000 members, it's the largest mosque in Scandinavia. And the Husby Islamic Center, in the Stockholm suburb, was funded by Qatar. The new mosque to be built in Rinkeby, a suburb of Stockholm, is a Qatari undertaking as well.
But Sweden's most insidious enabling of jihad is achieved through its generous social-benefits system. According to the latest numbers from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, the average immigrant family in Sweden, consisting of two parents and two children, receives $3,135 per month in benefits. What's more, these funds are exempt from the country's standard 33 percent income tax. This may not seem like a lot of money compared with the gargantuan sums we often hear about in cases of international terror financing, but it's more than enough to do great harm. The Swedish Security Service concluded that the money Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly [a suicide bomber who returned from the Middle east and blew himself up on a Stockholm street] and his wife were given in benefits and loans from the Swedish government was used to finance his trips abroad, where he received terrorist training. The family had no other source of income.
Abdaly, Ghezali, and the country's approximately 200 other potential militants are manifestations of the larger problem of jihad in Europe. There is no shortage of nightmare stories to attest to this ballooning reality. British citizens who received al-Qaeda training in Afghanistan and Pakistan bombed the London subway in 2005. Mehdi Nemmouche, an ISIS member and French national, fought for jihad in Syria before opening fire on innocents at the Jewish Museum in Brussels this past May. The ISIS executioners who recently beheaded American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning delivered their crazed overtures to human slaughter in native British accents. …
Western leaders are now aggressively pursuing ISIS in Iraq and Syria, but while they chase the bad guys from the edge of town, they risk leaving the door to the house wide open. Above all, it must be remembered that the jihadists' long-term goal is to strike the West. The war they fight has no borders; the caliphate they seek has no geographic limits.
Europe is slow to connect the dots when they form a discomfiting image. For Sweden, a country that prides itself on the progressive values of openness and inclusivity, the steps necessary to fight a counter-jihad at home are almost too painful to countenance. The Swedish measures now in place amount to a kind of counter-radicalization therapy. … Muslim extremism in faraway lands is a suitable topic for discussion, but addressing the jihadists among us is political kryptonite.
Yet such considerations are meaningless to the jihadists themselves. As Abdaly himself put it: "The Islamic State has lived up to its holy promise; we are here in Europe, and in Sweden. We are a reality, not a fantasy." In Sweden, Europe's third-largest contributor to the jihad, we'd do well to take our enemies at their word.
Britain is floundering in a fog of of misdiagnosis just as Sweden is.
We quote from a recent article at Stand for Peace by Sam Westrop:
On September 30, Theresa May, the British Home Secretary, gave a speech at the Conservative Party's annual conference, in which she outlined the threat posed to Britain by terrorism from abroad and extremism at home.
After giving the customary assurance that the actions of ISIS have no basis in Islam and proffering a quote from the Quran, May boasted of the Government's record fighting fundamentalism, promised new powers to fight extremist groups and declared her gritty determination to uphold "British values".
This grandiose speech revealed ambition – albeit mostly May's own. It did not, however, demonstrate any real progress. The Home Secretary's effusions were example of a government that has only half-heartedly responded to the problem of extremist ideology. It is a government that likes to talk but fails to act.
The Home Secretary then announced a series of weak measures to be taken in dealing with "extremism" in the organized charities, the media, the internet, schools, prisons, universities.
Sam Westrop rightly concludes:
It appears that the Home Office urgently needs to define "extremism." This definition should include the smiling Islamist who attends interfaith vigils during the day but propagates anti-Semitism and expresses support for Hamas at night.
Extremism is a dangerous animal, but presently it is being given both the carrot and the stick. As long as we allow the human face of Islamist extremism to subsist, and even flourish, we will continue to churn out radicalized Muslim youth who will choose the Kalashnikov over a university degree. No one claims that the answer to Islamist extremism is easy. The question of extremism, however, is remarkably simple. If only the government would understand.
And the US government, under the leadership of a devotedly pro-Islam president, is trying to pretend that holy warriors are simply breaking US domestic law and need to be tried in civil courts.
We quote from the Guardian:
Irek Hamidullin was arraigned on 12 counts, including providing material support to terrorists, trying to destroy US military aircraft and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. Half of the charges are punishable by up to life in prison. Attorney general Eric Holder chose not to seek the death penalty …
Hamidullin is the first military detainee from Afghanistan to be brought to the US for trial. His transfer represents the latest attempt by the Obama administration to show that it can use the criminal court system to deal with terror suspects – a move criticized by some Republican lawmakers who believe such cases should be handled by military tribunals.
US officials say Hamidullin is a Russian veteran of the Soviet war in Afghanistan who stayed in the country and joined the Taliban. He was captured in 2009 after an attack on Afghan border police and US soldiers in Khowst province. He had been held at the US Parwan detention facility at Bagram airfield before being brought to the US. … He became affiliated with the Taliban in 2001.
The indictment says Hamidullin commanded three groups of insurgents that attacked Afghan border police at Camp Leyza, one of six locations the Taliban had identified as possible targets. He directed insurgents armed with anti-aircraft machine guns to fire at US military helicopters responding to the attack, the indictment says, and later used a machine gun to shoot at US troops and Afghan border police assessing damage at the battle site.
Those are clearly acts of war. Hamidullin should be tried by a military tribunal.
What Western governments fail to understand is that their countries are not being subjected to "extremism", or "terrorism", but war.
The jihad is indeed global. Jihad means Holy War. Sure, it must be fought in Europe as well as in the Middle East. But it must be recognized as a war everywhere.
Even if European governments found a way to stop and punish jihadi violence in their own countries, the war would go on. At present they are all acting ineffectively. Instead of joyfully letting all Muslim citizens who want to go and fight with IS/ISIS/ISIL go, and refuse them re-entry, and deprive them of their citizenship (as Geert Wilders so rightly recommends), they try to persuade them not to go, and if they return they give them "therapy", as if Islam were nothing but a nervous breakdown in a few gullible individuals.
It is foolish and dangerous to go on calling every Muslim "holy" warrior a terrorist. It is even more foolish and self-deceiving to call IS/ISIS/ISIL a "terrorist organization". They are one of the armies of Islam.
Islam is an ideology of world conquest. It is fighting a war against the non-Muslim world.
At the same time there are battles within Islam. Sunni versus Shia is a perpetual conflict. IS/ISIS/ISIL – the Islamic State – is Sunni. When Shia Iran becomes a nuclear power – which will be quite soon with Obama's help – there will be a second Islamic force against the rest of the world, competing with the Islamic State for the victor's crown.
Of course the Iranian force with its nuclear weapons will be a thousand times stronger than the Islamic State.
Even if the US-led "coalition " were to defeat the Islamic State, the war would not stop. It will be kept going on the streets of Western cities in Sweden, Britain, France, Spain, America, until the nuclear bombs of Iran strike – first Israel and then anywhere else they choose.
How should it be dealt with? At the very least the West should treat Islamic states as it did the Soviet Union. Our long war with the USSR was called a Cold War, but there were many places where it was hotly fought. Persons in the West who were loyal to the enemy ideology were tolerated for the most part if they did nothing actively to aid the enemy. When they acted to help the enemy at the expense of their own country, they were put to death – as the Rosenbergs were.
That is the precedent for the West to follow in dealing now with the equally abominable ideology and aggressive intent of Islam.
This is what world opinion now passionately supports 11
Call it Islam, call it Hamas, call it ISIS, call it the Muslim Brotherhood, call it BokoHaram; call it the Palestinians; call it the United Nations; call it by the name of any Islamic state; call it the interfaith movement, call it the Left, call it the religion of peace; demonstrate for it in the streets of the capitals of Europe; parade for it in New York and Chicago and Los Angeles; this is the thing itself:
We found the video at christianpost.com. We quote part of the text:
A Christian man in Syria recently had his head brutally hacked off by Islamic militants after being forced to deny his faith and salute Mohammed as "the messenger of God".
So by Muslim rules he became a Muslim. Islam forbids Muslims to kill Muslims.
The perpetrators themselves filmed the atrocity "for the world to see and broadcast as a warning to 'everyone like him'."
In the video that was posted to YouTube with translated captions, the helpless Christian man is surrounded by armed militants wearing masks and he is heard reciting as instructed: "There is no God but God and I testify that Mohammed is the messenger of God."
The victim did not say "God" but "Allah". The Christian reporter chooses, like many Christians, to claim that the god of Islam and the god of Christianity are one and the same.
An apparent leader in the group of militants is then heard instructing the group: "No one will shoot him now, do you understand? He will not be killed by shooting because it is merciful for him."
By which the savage seems to mean that death by shooting would be too merciful for him. He goes on:
"He will be beheaded because he is Kaffir, non-Muslim, sided [with] the government and was not praying at all. Everyone like him will have the same end, beheading," said the militant.
Then they cut his head off as the Muslim murderers cry 'Allahu Akbar'.
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We study factors that contribute to insulin resistance including diet, obesity, and vitamin D deficiency. Our focus is blood vessel dysfunction and disease, which can be an early sign of heart problems, and can lead to decreased quality of life. These studies are being carried out on several levels: in people, in animal models, and in petri dishes, to figure out how these factors make it difficult for the body to use insulin properly.
The studies in people are being carried out with the LUCHAR group, which is interested in reducing cardiovascular disease risk in all populations, but especially the Latino population.
1-2 Most Significant Publications
1) Wang CCL, Goalstone M, Draznin B. Molecular mechanisms of insulin resistance that impact cardiovascular biology. Diabetes 2004;53:2735-2740.
2) Wang CCL. Chapter 12: Insulin resistance and cardiovascular disease. In Insulin Resistance and Metabolic Syndrome: Childhood Precursors and Adult Disease from the Contemporary Endocrinology Series, 2008. Humana Press, New Jersey.
Primary Focus Area (if part of the obesity initiative)
· Comorbidities of obesity and metabolic dysregulation: Vascular dysfunction
Secondary Focus Areas (if part of the obesity initiative)
· Metabolic dysregulation
· Vitamin D deficiency
Access to Specialized Populations
· LUCHAR (Latinos Using Cardiovascular Health Actions to Reduce Risk) – a group of participants with hypertension and at least one other cardiovascular disease risk factor. This study is funded by the NIH NHLBI to figure out the scope of cardiovascular disease risk factors in the Latino population in Denver, and to implement ways to reduce risk in communities.
Benefit of CNRU
The main benefit of the CNRU is the opportunities for interaction and collaboration with other CNRU investigators. Also, the core laboratories of the CNRU are key for my transition to doing physiologic studies and will provide high-quality services in a cost-effective manner.
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Been working out for around 3 months, I go to Harvey's Gym in Lexington, TN...and I tan all the time. Check out my before/after pics
EDIT: here is a pic where im flexing.
Been working out for around 3 months, I go to Harvey's Gym in Lexington, TN...and I tan all the time. Check out my before/after pics
EDIT: here is a pic where im flexing.
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Get big or die trying.
You DO tan a lot!
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You definitely gained weight from the previous picture, although it looks like a lot of that had to do with puberty. However, looking a lot better!
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Looks to me like you gained four pounds of tan.
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lmaoOriginally Posted by MM
looking better though
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~14% bf
Originally Posted by bodyOriginally Posted by kevinstarke
Why are people knocking his tan and weight gain. Yeah he's tan, but not overly. Compared to the before pic, of course he will look dark.
I say good job.
I say good progress too. How tall are you @ 140?
Also, do you work the legs? That will help you gain tons of weight - along with eating everything in sight.
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good progress so far, but u need to eat more in order to make great gains. continue on ur way to hyoogeness.
Do what needs to be done.
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yo i can see definite improvement keep eeating and lifting weigths man u went from punyyyy skinny dork to lean and tanned keep up the tanning i go tanning too and it does help bring out the definition
Bench 235 6 reps squats 415 8 reps barbell curls 120 rep 6 shoulder press 150lb 6
shoulder press barbell 150 rep 6
CUTTING stage 1 week
before BW: 187 current BW:184
before BF:20 current:20
A tan doesn't mean you're black. Homie.
Looking bigger, keep it up and eat like a horse. Train those legs too.
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Nice arms.
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The LDF has accused Union Minister and Congress candidate Shashi Tharoor of attempting to garner votes by calling a meeting of pastors of a particular Christian denomination at his apartment here.
LDF leaders M Vijayakumar and Ramachandran Nair told a press meet here today that they had lodged a complaint with Election Commission seeking action against Tharoor.
A pro-Left television channel also aired an audio tape in which Tharoor purportedly urged the pastors to not only to pray for him but also persuade their followers to vote for him in some segments in the constituency where their adherents have strength. They alleged that Tharoor also wanted the pastors to tell their followers that charges levelled against him by opponents in connection with his wife Sunanda Pushakar's death were baseless and he was totally innocent.
Tharoor was not immediately available for his reaction to the allegation.
The LDF leaders said this was a serious violation of election rules and they expected the Election Commission would inquire into it and take suitable action. This also exposed that Tharoor was facing defeat and he was desperately trying to reverse the trend by making communal appeal, the LDF leaders said.
Tharoor is making his second consecutive bid to the Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram, where his principal opponents are CPI's Bennet Abraham and O Rajagopal of the BJP.


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|Key Info
Beautifully furnished studio in superb beach front location in the hotel Sol Timor. There are views of the swimming pool, gardens and sea from the balcony. Great value for money and ideal for couples but spacious enough for a child. This is the perfect destination for a lively beach holiday, with restaurants, bars and cafes on your doorstep. Just 400 yds away is the award winning marina of Benalmadena. Relax while the children play in the Mini-club. Children's playpark and activities for the young and the not so young. Nightly entertainment in the lounge and happy hours twice a day. Snack bar around the pool and lifeguard on duty.
On the top floor studio, we have a washing machine and a hydro-power massage shower. Collection of 30DVDs for you to watch or bring your own!
|Sleeps up to 2, Studio
|Nearest beach
|La Carihuela
|Will consider
|Corporate bookings, House swap, Long term lets (over 1 month)
|Car not necessary, Wheelchair users
|Nearest travel links
|Nearest airport: Malaga 8 km, Nearest railway: Torremolinos 3 km
|Family friendly
|Great for children of all ages, Suitable for people with restricted mobility
|Some pets are welcome - please contact the owner, Yes, smoking allowed
Features and Facilities
|DVD player, Sea view
|Shared outdoor pool (unheated), Children's pool
|Central heating, Air conditioning, TV, Video player, CD player, Telephone, Safe, Satellite TV
|Kettle, Toaster, Iron, Hair dryer
|Clothes dryer, Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Washing machine
|1 bathrooms of which 1 Family bathrooms
|Single beds (2), Dining seats for 2, Lounge seats for 2
|Linen provided, Towels provided
|Shared outdoor pool (unheated), Balcony or terrace, Shared garden, Climbing frame, Swing set, Trampoline
|Wheelchair users, Secure parking, Lift access
|Further details indoors
This beautiful individually furnished south facing studio privately owned within the Sol Timor complex has twin beds. A Z bed is available on request.
Lovely views of the swimming pool, gardens and beach from the private balcony.
Air Conditioning:- Cooling for Summer, Heating for the Winter.
|Further details outdoors
This complex has a mini club for kiddies and a no alcohol disco for the teenagers. Supervised sport, games and activities.
Lifeguard on duty. Large pool with loungers.
Pool and beach bar. Happy hours twice daily.
Restaurant catering for all tastes at competitive prices.
Hairdressers and beauty salon.
Internet cafe
Self service laundry
24 hour security
|Further details
Minimum deposit required £100. Special rates for winter rents please ask, 100 pounds for lets of three weeks or more.
In high season, arrival day is Sunday.
Please ask if this is a problem and we can try and sort something out.
Need a bigger apartment? We can help! Just ask!!
Please note, Hotel is closed from October 21st until January 20th. Private apartments are open as well as 24hour reception/security, hair dressing salon and laundrette only.
The Andalucia region
Benalmadena is a short drive from Malaga airport. There is a local bus service to the hotel or you can take a taxi or train. This is the sunniest place in Europe, temperatures go up to 42 degrees in the summer months. Winter sun averages 20 degrees.
Lots of places of interest in surrounding areas. Ideal for a quiet relaxing holiday or for the more adventurous there is lots of culture and history in Malaga.
Ideal sightseeing location. Places to visit include Gibraltar, Marbella, Puerto Banus, Mijas and many inland white washed villages.
All within easy reach. Local bus and coach companies go daily to all locations.
Festivals are held regularly, the biggest being at Easter and Christmas.
With over a 1,000 boats on the marina there are lots of boat trips, fishing trips and water sports.
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Had a great stay in this lovely little apartment. lady who owns it was very helpful and even put a bottle of wine in the fridge as a welcome for us. The view from the balcony over the sea is great to … More
Thank you very much for the kind comments about the apartment in the Sol Timor Hotel. Please come and stay again. We look forward to the pleasure of welcoming you back to this lovely part of the Costa del Sol.
23 Oct 2013
"Excellent studio, excellent location with fabulous views of pool and beach."
Excellent well equipped studio with great view of pools,gardens and sea. Just a few minutes walk from Benamedena marina. Great variety of bars and restaurants , good transport links to local resort… More
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As regular travellers to the area we were pleased to find a apartment so close to sea and all amenities without walking too far!! Everything you need in the partment for self catering excellent bathroom newly done. Will be Back soon.
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Net income for the three months ended Aug. 31 was $68.3 million, or 30 cents per share, compared with $44.8 million, or 22 cents, in the same period a year earlier, the New York-based firm said today in a statement. The average estimate of eight analysts surveyed by Bloomberg was for profit of 20 cents. Net income excluding the acquisition of Prudential Bache's global commodities group was $23 million, or 10 cents per share.
Jefferies, run by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Handler, 50, has been adding staff since the 2008 credit crisis. The firm hired managing directors from banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Deutsche Bank AG, and Bank of America Corp. Last week, Jefferies said it added a group of senior research analysts in its Hong Kong office.
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Jefferies, which is down 47 percent this year through yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange, fell 67 cents, or 4.5 percent, to $14.12 yesterday.
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As for the argument that Templeton, who lent money to Stockton, were taking known risks and should therefore be hit disproportionately than CalPERS, consider this: did Franklin Templeton know that in the event of a bankruptcy, its loan would be cut disproportionately to all other debts? If so, they never would have made the loan, nor would any other lender, leaving the city without operating funds, causing it to go bankrupt that much sooner.
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Cozy two bedroom cottage located on Long Lake in beautiful Hale, Michigan. This cottage has beautiful lake views.
There are two bedrooms. One has 2 single beds, the other has 1 full bed. The living room also has 2 full futons to accommodate extra guests. Spectacular lake views can be seen from the large eat-in kitchen and living room areas. The kitchen is equipped with cooking utensils, and the living room has a TV with cable. There is also an enclosed porch, which is great for a quiet afternoon. A charcoal grill is available for cookouts, and there is a fire pit for a relaxing evening with friends. This cabin is located on a nice open grass lot, with lots of room for kids and pets to play. Pets are welcome.
Dock access is available for your boat. Long Lake is an all sports lake, and great for boating, fishing, etc.
The property is located close to Tawas, West Branch and Oscoda. The Lumberman's Monument, and the AuSable River and the Rifle Rivers are also located nearby. The Lumberman's Monument has scenic overlooks of the AuSable River, and is great for a family-friendly afternoon. The AuSable and Rifle Rivers are good for tubing, canoeing, kayaking, etc. Long Lake Bar is just a small walk from the cabin.
Check-In: 3 p.m.
Check-Out: 10 a.m.
Keywords: Red Cottage
Property manager very friendly and helpful. Rental was a breeze with no surprises. Cabin pretty much as it appears, on the older side but clean and appeared well maintained. Again, no real surprises. Bedrooms don't offer much in the way of privacy from the rest of the cabin, if that matters to you. We just needed a place to lay our heads, so bedrooms were fine. Patio space is large and airy, very comfortable. Cabin really had most everything you might need except washer/dryer. Grill is huge. Picnic table outside overlooks the lake. Very pretty. Fair rental price. Hot water doesn't last long though (found out the hard way). Neighbors are extremely friendly and helpful without being intrusive on our vacation. Lake is beautiful, very clear water. Hale rolls up the sidewalks pretty early, so get what you need at a reasonable hour or you're out of luck, pretty typical for a small town though. We didn't spend a lot of time in the cabin, too much to enjoy outside, but we weren't disappointed. Oh, and parking for a boat trailer is okay if you are comfortable backing a trailer in somewhat tight spaces. And there are stairs to get to the house for those of you with physical limitations, or you can park in the drive, but the drive is on a pretty steep hill. As far as sightseeing, River Road has many overlooks of the AuSable River, and Lumberman's Monument is really interesting/beautiful.
Cottage had damage inside. Yellow jackets and flying ants. Charged additional fees for damages we did not do. Not as advertised. Will NEVER rent from owner again. Lake is beautiful and despite the cabin concerns, enjoyed our time within Hale/Long Lake community.
Located near the Lumbermans' Monument, and the AuSable and Rifle Rivers. The Lumbermans' Monument is great for a family-friendly outing, and has scenic overlooks of the AuSable River. The AuSable and Rifle Rivers are great for tubing, canoeing and kayaking.
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|Astros adding veteran Carlos Pena
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The 34-year-old Pena, who spent last season in his second stint with Tampa Bay, hit .197 with 19 home runs and 61 RBIs in 2012. Terms were not released Monday.
Pena had the best seasons of his career in his first stint with the Rays from 2007-2010 when he had at least 100 RBIs in three of those four seasons. His most productive year came in his first with the team when he hit 46 homers with 121 RBIs, both career-highs.
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A group of Maharashtra legislators on Tuesday beat up a policeman on the Assembly premises. The incident disrupted House proceedings for the better part of the day. On Monday, he allegedly stopped an MLA's car for speeding on the Bandra-Worli sea-link.
Kshitij Thakur Thakur, independent MLA from Vasai, moved a breach of privilege notice against assistant police inspector Sachin Suryawanshi for allegedly obstructing his vehicle on the sea-link while he was on his way to attend the Assembly. He alleged that the policeman 'misbehaved' with him. This led to a general clamour with legislators demanding the policeman's immediate suspension.
Following a brief adjournment over the issue, Mr. Thakur spotted Mr. Suryawanshi in the visitors' gallery at noon. Along with some MLAs, he began hitting the policeman. Among others, the legislators involved in the incident were Ram Kadam (Maharashtra Navnirman Sena), Rajan Salvi (Shiv Sena) and Pradeep Jaiswal (independent).
Mr. Suryawanshi was taken to the St. George Hospital in a stretcher.
Later in the evening, Mr. Thakur told reporters that Mr. Suryawanshi used abusive language against him and he would not apologise to an official who was disrespectful to a people's representative.
Incidentally, Mr. Suryawanshi was sent on forced leave on the directive of Home Minister R.R. Patil after the same issue was raised in the Legislative Council on Monday by Deputy Chairman Vasant Davkhare. Senior leaders of every political party have condemned the Tuesday attack, with some privately concurring that the legislators concerned should be immediately suspended.
Leader of the Opposition Eknath Khadse said the BJP would not tolerate such acts by its legislators. "If CCTV footage reveals our legislators were involved in beating the policeman, the party would bar them from attending the House proceedings for the rest of the session," he said.
Nationalist Congress Party spokesman and legislator Nawab Malik said "law makers cannot be law breakers," while demanding that action be taken against unruly legislators for their conduct.
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Series: Internationalizing Media Studies
Mapping BRICS Media is the first comprehensive and comparative study of the emerging media landscape in the world's most dynamic and fastest growing markets. This pioneering collection focuses on one of the key topics in contemporary international relations - the emergence of BRICS (Brazil, Russia,...
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Russian Mass Media and Changing Values
Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
This book provides a multi-faceted picture of the many complex processes taking place in the field of contemporary Russian media and popular culture. Russian social and cultural life today is strongly individualised and consumers are offered innumerable alternatives; but at the same time options...
Published December 16th 2013 by Routledge
The Information Society Reader
Series: Routledge Student Readers
There has been much debate over the idea of 'the information society'. Some thinkers have argued that information is becoming the key ordering principle in society, whereas others suggest that the rise of information has been overstated. Whatever the case, it cannot be denied that '...
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Sarawak's long-time chief Taib names Adenan his successor
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KUCHING (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud has named Tan Sri Adenan Satem, his former brother-in-law his successor, after confirming that he has handed over his resignation letter, dated Feb 28, to Sarawak's Head of State, Yang di-Pertua Negeri Tun Abang Muhammad Salahuddin.
Mr Taib said Mr Adenan has the trust of not only the other Chief Minister hopefuls but that of the whole of his Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) as well.
Mr Adenan is PBB's information chief and a former Natural Resources and Environment Minister. He was widely tipped to be the frontrunner for the post before Mr Taib's announcement today.
As for Mr Taib's Balingian state seat and by-election possibility, the long-time chief said it would be up to his successor to decide.
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This delicacy is credited to the Hainanese[by whom?]. Many Hainanese worked on British ships as kitchen hands. When they settled in Malaysia, they started selling the foods which they prepared for the British, including coffee, toast, and French toast, to the local populations. They replaced the Western jams and preserves favored by the British with native coconut jams.[citation needed]
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That's the common thought on Long Island and elsewhere with the news last week that the Islanders have agreed to play an exhibition game in September against the Los Angeles Kings at the Sprint Center in Kansas City.
The announcement sent shockwaves through the club's fan base. It's pretty easy to see the potential for a match.
The Sprint Center is a year-old building ready, willing and able to house an NHL club. The Islanders are in desperate need of a new home.
Islanders owner Charles Wang has been working on a development project in Nassau County that would include a new home for the team to replace 36-year-old Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Known as the Lighthouse Project, the 150-acre development includes plans not just for a new home for the hockey team, but a luxury hotel, a sports training center, housing units, retail stores, a minor-league baseball field and acres of underground parking.
The Lighthouse Project first was proposed by Wang and real estate developer Scott Rechler in 2007, but to this point, no progress has been made while the Lighthouse people continue to meet with officials from the town of Hempstead and Nassau County
Wang, who moved to New York from Shanghai at the age of eight, repeatedly has said he has no desire to sell the Islanders and certainly no desire to move the team. General Manager Garth Snow said the decision to play the game in Kansas City is a "hockey operations decision," no different than playing preseason games this past September in the Canadian Maritimes, or in past years in Trenton, N.J., Lowell, Mass., or London, Ont.
"I've always been encouraged to find ways to expand our fan base," Snow told reporters. "This is probably a hot-button topic because of the decision to play the game in Kansas City. But I'm being consistent in the way I've scheduled preseason games in the past. It's a good opportunity to touch fans in a different market."
Nor is Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray worried about the team suddenly leaving town.
"From the article I read, I'm not particularly perturbed or concerned because it's from the mouth of Mr. Wang that he isn't anywhere close to moving the team," Murray told Newsday. "I don't take any threats from an exhibition game in Kansas City."
But there must be a growing frustration on Wang's part that his development dream for his club and his home area is going nowhere. How long will he hold out for the Lighthouse in his home port?
First half in the books: Halfway through the season, nothing definitive can be written about the five teams in the Atlantic Division. The Rangers and Penguins started great and fizzled; the Flyers started poorly and lead the division; the Devils spent the better part of two months with a roster not even coach Brent Sutter could recognize and remained in the playoff chase; and the Islanders continue to lay the foundation for what could be a positive future.
Here's a look at the good and bad of the first half from the Atlantic Five:
Player of the First Half: Jeff Carter, Philadelphia -- The talent always has been there, and Carter seemed to be building to something special as he grew into his 6-foot-3 frame. Now a fully mature 200 pounds and in his fourth NHL season, Carter is on his way to a spectacular season.
Carter finished the first half of the season with 27 goals, and started the second half in a flash, scoring twice -- including the game-winner -- in a 4-1 win against the Maple Leafs on Saturday.
Carter leads the League with 29 goals, which matches the total he had all of last season. He's also become an all-situation player, tying teammate Simon Gagne for the League lead with 4 shorthanded goals and scoring a team-best 9 power-play goals. Only one time has he gone more than three-straight games without a goal.
"Whenever he touches the puck, you know he's going to get a scoring chance or he's going to create something," said teammate Martin Biron.
Carter's sublime scoring has been one of the major reasons the Flyers lead the Atlantic Division at the halfway point of the season.
Coach of the First Half: Brent Sutter, New Jersey -- At one point in November, Sutter went into a game minus two of his top defensemen (Paul Martin, Andy Greene), his top three centers (Brian Rolston, Bobby Holik, John Madden) and his Hall of Fame goaltender (Martin Brodeur). Despite that M*A*S*H month, they went 7-5-0 in November. As the first half ended -- and the bodies became healthy -- the Devils remained in the playoff race.
As the second half of the season starts, the Devils are sixth in the Eastern Conference, just four points behind first-place Philadelphia in the division.
Rookie of the First Half: Alex Goligoski, Pittsburgh -- As bad as it was for the Penguins to suffer the losses of Sergei Gonchar and Ryan Whitney, it allowed the team to fast-forward the development of the 23-year-old defenseman.
"I thought I could make the team, and that was my focus," Goligoski told NHL.com in October. "Come in, have a good camp, show them what I can do and hopefully make the team. But, being realistic about it, they obviously have a lot of defensemen here and I was prepared to do whatever."
Whatever meant playing a full-time role and anchoring the point on the team's power play. In just his second professional season, he leads rookie defensemen and Pittsburgh defensemen with 6 goals, 13 assists and 19 points.
"I guess you tell yourself just keep doing the same things you've been doing, take in as much as you can and learn every day," said Goligoski. "You have to be a quick learner. It's been moving fast."
Surprise of the First Half: Scott Clemmensen, New Jersey -- Clemmensen returned to the Devils, the team that drafted him in the eighth round of the 1997 Entry Draft after a one-season sojourn in Toronto.
For Clemmensen, it was a return to a place and an organization where he was comfortable, and his playing time would come with Lowell, the club's American Hockey League affiliate.
"Players move along for different reasons and you respect that because it's part of the business, but we never think twice about bringing someone back if they can fit a need and want to be here," Devils GM Lou Lamoriello said. "Scott is the type of individual we love having in the minors with our young goalies, and if there's a need, we know he'll be ready."
Surely no one thought there would be one, but when Martin Brodeur went down with a torn biceps tendon, Clemmensen displaced Kevin Weekes to assume the starters role. After playing 28 NHL games over six seasons, he already has played 26 this season, going 15-9-1, with a 2.38 goals-against average and .918 save percentage.
"I've always known I'm able to play in the League, but you have to have someone give you the chance and you can't take it for granted," Clemmensen said in an interview with CBSSports.com. "I have an opportunity now to play, which is something I never did before in the NHL because I didn't have a golden path to the NHL. But I'm here now and doing the job and no one will take that away from me."
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COLUMBUS, Ohio Children wearing contact lenses felt better about how they look, their athletic abilities and acceptance by their friends than did children wearing eyeglasses in a recent study.
The results suggest that nearsighted children as young as 8 years old reap social benefits from wearing contact lenses instead of glasses, researchers say.
In general, eye care practitioners in the United States tend to wait to prescribe contact lenses until children are in their early teens. But nearsighted children often are diagnosed with myopia and receive their first corrective lenses around age 8.
The study was designed to examine the effects of contact lenses vs. eyeglasses on a number of kids' perceptions about themselves, especially what is called their global self-worth, or how valuable they think they are to society.
The research indicated that children's global self-worth was not significantly affected by whether they wore contact lenses or eyeglasses. Similarly, the type of vision correction had no effect on how they felt they performed in school or how they perceived their own behavior.
"The effects really seem to be in areas that we would think made sense how they feel about their appearance, athletic abilities and what their friends think of them," said Jeffrey Walline, assistant professor of optometry at Ohio State University and lead author of the study.
The research is published in the March issue of the journal Optometry and Vision Science.
The study was conducted at five clinical centers in the United States that enrolled a total of 484 nearsighted children between the ages of 8 and 11. Of those, 237 were randomly assigned to wear eyeglasses and the other 247 were randomly assigned disposable soft contact lenses for the three-year duration of the trial.
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IT was a case of mixed fortunes for the South African men's and women's hockey teams at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India over the weekend as they played for places in the medal playoffs.
Both teams lost closely contested matches against teams ranked above them, but for head coach Giles Bonnet's world number 12 women's side their 3-1 defeat to world 11 India on Saturday didn't prevent them from qualifying for the semi-finals for the first time.
However, for the world number 12 SA men under head coach Gregg Clark their 2-1 loss to world number four England Sunday prevented them from equalling the feat of their women's side and earning an historic first semi-final spot.
The SA men needed to beat England for a place in the semi-finals, while the SA women needed to ensure they didn't lose by a four-goal margin to India to book a place in the last four, which guarantees them a berth in the bronze medal match even should they lose to an on-song world number seven New Zealand on Monday.
The other women's semi-final is between Australia and England. But Bonnet's team are not even contemplating defeat.
"The players are all fit and preparing mentally and tactically for the semi-final against New Zealand," Bonnet said Sunday afternoon. "They are excited at the prospect and really looking forward to the challenge. This is a significant moment in South Africa's hockey history as the SA women's team build towards the London 2012 Olympic Games. "
SA men's mentor Clark said his team were gutted at the narrow loss. "We earned seven penalty corners to England's five and created enough opportunities in field play," Clark said of his team's performance against the reigning European champions. `
Clark's team, whose goal came from Taine Paton, are likely to play the losers of the Pakistan/India match that was to take pace late Sunday, in Tuesday's fifth place playoff.
For Bonnet's girls, much of their goalscoring potential will lie with the world's all-time great goalscoring striker and set-piece specialist Pietie Coetzee, who netted her 200th in her 200th Test match against India.
"Pietie is a special player and what an awesome achievement. We're in the semis now and although we are the underdogs, anything can happen in a game of this nature," Bonnet added.
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Man Charged With Negligent Homicide In December Crash
Howard County police have charged a man with DUI and negligent homicide in a pickup truck crash in Mount Airy.
Maryland Horses Get Their 'Big Break' In Taylor Swift Video
When Taylor Swift needed horses for her recent music video, the pop star filled the blank space with two stallions from Mount Airy.
One Man Dead, 5 Injured In Mt. Airy Crash
Howard County Police are investigating a single-vehicle collision on Shaffersville Road Friday night that killed one man.
Md. Man Shoots Neighbor's Dog
A Maryland man has been charged with shooting his neighbor's dog.
21-Year-Old Md. Man Gets 13 Years In Armed Robberies
A Maryland man has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison in a spate of armed robberies over a 10-day period last year.
Man Gets Life In Prison For Killing His Father
A Mount Airy man has been sentenced to life in prison for fatally stabbing his father after an argument.
Md. Fire Marshal IDs Mount Airy Fatal Fire Victim
The Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office is releasing the name of a woman who died in a house fire in Mount Airy.
Carroll County House Fire Kills 1 Person, Injures Firefighter
The cause of a fatal house fire in Carroll County is under investigation.
Barn Near Mount Airy Destroyed In Overnight Fire
Investigators are trying to determine the cause of an overnight fire that destroyed a barn near Mount Airy.
Frederick Grand Jury Clears Deputies In Shooting
A Frederick County grand jury has cleared two sheriff's deputies in the fatal shooting of a Mount Airy man in January.
Mount Airy To Regulate Disposal Of Oil, Grease
The town of Mount Airy has started holding business owners responsible for the proper disposal of fats, oil and grease.
100-Year-Old Bell Stolen From Md. Church
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General News Archive - July 03, 2011
Idolian.com, a dealer for Android Tablet PCs in California is giving away a free Android Tablet PC as part of their marketing efforts to launch their newest 7 inch Tablet PC, Idolian TurboTab.
Winter weather makes for some strange summer vacation plans across the western US, Water Damage Local reports. Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) July 02, 2011 Bikini tops and snows skis...
Levity Novelty LLC, maker of the Invisibilityâ"¢ app for the iPad 2 that shot to the top of the App Store charts last week, has released new videos that show viewers just how to produce the amazing Invisibility effect.
On July 10, 2011, at 17:00 CET, the world's first live online auction platform AUCTIONATA will be starting the first real-time auction for fine vintage timepieces. (PRWEB) July 02, 2011 On July 10, 2011, at 17:00 CET, the world's first live online auction platform AUCTIONATA will be starting the first real-time auction for fine vintage timepieces.
Photocrati Media, a leading provider of photography website templates, names Paul Colangelo as the 2011 Photocrati Fund Fellow, recipient of a $5000 grant for his project Surviving Todagin. Boulder, CO (PRWEB) July 02, 2011 Photocrati Media named Vancouver-based environmental photographer Paul Colangelo as the 2011 Photocrati Fund Fellow in early June.
Dixon announces the acquisition of the assets of Northline Coupling Systems, Ltd.
The advanced new SenGuard™ Permanent Marble & Granite Sealer from Countertop Specialty, publisher of leading marble and granite consumer resource website CountertopSpecialty.com, was chosen for a new episode of DIY Network's popular home remodeling show Sweat Equity.
"The story of The Mansion's 10 years is actually the countless number of guest stories created with the hotel as a supporting character," announced Geno Principe, Proprietor.
ZTelco Technologies, a leading innovator in Hosted IP PBX and VOIP hosting, partnered with Enteracloud Solutions to unveil a free sandbox hosting program for VOIP application developers.
MailStore Server 6 provides full support when archiving the new cloud office Viersen, Germany (PRWEB) July 02, 2011 Right on time for the release of Microsoft Office 365, deepinvent Software GmbH, maker of the MailStore product line, has announced that it is to provide full support for email archiving with the new cloud service.
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- 8 ounces cream cheese, lite or regular
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- Blend softened cream cheese, Rotel tomatoes, and juice of one lemon together until creamy. Chill well and serve with chips or raw veggies. My family likes thinly sliced sweet potato and jicama, celery and grape tomatoes.
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[S]omething has happened to define conservatism in the minds of Asians as deeply unattractive, despite all the reasons that should naturally lead them to vote for a party that is identified with liberty, opportunity to get ahead, and economic growth. I propose that the explanation is simple. Those are not the themes that define the Republican Party in the public mind. Republicans are seen by Asians—as they are by Latinos, blacks, and some large proportion of whites—as the party of Bible-thumping, anti-gay, anti-abortion creationists. Factually, that's ludicrously inaccurate. In the public mind, except among Republicans, that image is taken for reality.How can conservatives fix their electoral problems if they can't even properly diagnose the symptoms? Go tell deeply Democratic Silicon Valley, or deeply Democratic NYC, or deeply Democratic Research Triangle in North Carolina, or deeply Democratic Seattle that those national centers of economic growth and entrepreneurship are somehow incompatible with liberal values.
It's the opposite, in fact—those bastions of economic development and job creation are deeply Democratic because they've realized that government is a partner in economic development (from education to infrastructure), and that tolerance allows you to draw from the most creative and talented individuals in (literally) the world.
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Now Murray takes this broader ignorance, and applies it narrowly to Asians.
[T]here are reasons for Asian Americans not to like Democrats. Asians who became successful because everyone in the family worked two or three jobs (a common strategy behind Asian success) are likely to be offended by the liberal "You didn't build that" mentality.Holy fucking shit! Aside from the tired attempt to keep that "you didn't build that" nonsense alive (how'd it work out for Romney?), the fact that everyone in a family works together to achieve success is the perfect encapsulation of "you didn't build that"! We succeed collectively, not individually. It was telling that every single businessperson the GOP trotted out at its convention to hammer on that silly theme had benefitted directly from government largess (not to mention roads, educated employees, legal system, protective regulations, etc).
Murray thinks he knows what offends Asians. I'm not that arrogant. I don't presume to understand what motivated the Asian community to vote Democratically by even larger percentages than Latinos, but I'll theorize that the GOP's asshole, selfish, "I did it by myself fuck you" mentality played a role.
But that aside, I was more struck by this part, which I'll repeat for emphasis:
Republicans are seen by Asians—as they are by Latinos, blacks, and some large proportion of whites—as the party of Bible-thumping, anti-gay, anti-abortion creationists. Factually, that's ludicrously inaccurate. In the public mind, except among Republicans, that image is taken for reality.So Murray is pretending that the Republican Party is not Bible-thumping, anti-gay, anti-abortion creationists? Really?
In Maine, 79 percent of Democrats voted for marriage equality, along with 59 percent of independents. Among Republicans? It was 79 percent against. Seventy-five percent of Republicans in Maryland voted against equality. Seventy-eight percent in Minnesota tried to institutionalize anti-gay bigotry in the state constitution. And 85 percent of Republicans in Washington voted against equality.
The only thing surprising about those numbers is that the most recent comprehensive Pew poll on the topic found that "just" 70 percent of Republicans opposed equality. So a bunch of them continue to lie to pollsters, because when given the choice at the ballot box, even more Republicans vote against it.
What about creationism? I'll turn this one over to Gallup:
Finally, what kind of moron is going to believe that the GOP isn't obsessed with abortion? There are even more anti-choice zealots in the GOP than creationists. It wasn't Democrats nominating the likes of Richard Mourdock and Todd Akins.
For a a group that just got burned because it created a pre-election alternate reality, you'd think that conservatives would start learning their lesson and, you know, operate in the real world.