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Unmeltable Ethnic Diversity
There is quite a telling article in today's Loudoun Times about the various "faces" of illegal immigration in our county. I'm not sure what it was intended to convey, but if you read to the end one message comes through loud and clear:
The children of Brigitta and Guillermo Toruno personify the modern-day melting pot. Her father was from Argentina, her mother from Ecuador. Guillermo is from Nicaragua.
Brigitta is a native-born U.S. citizen but identifies herself as Hispanic. "I'll never say just 'I'm American.' It would feel like cutting off roots."
The children were born in Virginia. But ask them where they are from, and they don't say Sterling, or Lansdowne.
Our burgeoning population of illegal immigrants is rubbing many of the legal citizens of Loudoun County the wrong way, which the latest CIS poll indicates parallels opinion throughout the U.S. The problem is not ethnicity: It is the unmeltable ethnicity of the new arrivals. (A reference to Novac's The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics - which seemed so astringent in the 70s but today appears rather quaint).
The reason Loudoun's citizens are saying 'enough' is because so many of their new neighbors seem to have no interest in becoming fellow citizens. They seem to have little interest in appropriating the language, history, culture and mores the longtime residents share. This is evident in so many ways. Signage inside a local elementary school with messages in Spanish first and English beneath. Single family homes converted into boarding houses, and front lawns turned into storage areas for commercial equipment and vehicle repair enterprises. Probably the greatest impact is on the business environment.
As T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, noted earlier this year:
Drywall hangers, for example: used to make $18.00 - $20.00 and hour; now the going rate is $8.00 - $10.00 an hour. These are jobs that Americans can't AFFORD to work in because they can't afford to live in substandard living conditions.
On the other hand, people who have no interest in this country can live 15 adult males, unrelated, in a one-bedroom apartment, and send most of their money back home. They're more than willing to take those jobs…because they're not immigrants: They're migrants. They're only here for the money. They're fiercely nationalistic. They believe that they're still Mexicans, El Salvadorans, Guatemalans, and really have no allegiance to this country. That's a myth. People think that everyone wants to come to the United States to be a citizen. They're just here for the money.
British professor Brian Hamnett - sympathetic to the reconquista of American territory - affirms this interpretation:
Although many such immigrants may aspire to US citizenship and the benefits of US material life, Latin American culture is strong enough to resist absorbtion into prevailing English-language culture and most such immigrants would not wish to forfeit their distinct identities. Accordingly, the late twentieth-century reinforcement of the already existing Latin American historical presence within US-controlled territory has raised the question of cultural and linguistic integration. Along with the Mexican 'border question' is the issue of the status of the Spanish language within the United States in relation to the (at present) unique official status of the English language. This latter issue goes well beyond the question of the Mexican border, since it involves at least Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Central American presence in the United States as well. Mexicans, in view of their own cultural inheritance and the contiguity of the Mexican Republic, have proved to be the strongest group of 'unmeltables' within the United States.
[Brian R. Hamnett, A Concise History of Mexico, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp 10-11.]
We got a firsthand taste of this at the recent Herndon Town Council meeting where Ana Rochac - wife of local pro-illegal advocate Jorge Rochac - had a Freudian slip of the tongue.
If foreign nationals intend to remain just that, and continue to stream in to the U.S. at a rate of thousands per day, we are in the process of becoming a bicultural society. Mark Steyn observed this is not a fortuitous development:
Bicultural societies are among the least stable in the world, especially once it's no longer quite clear who is the majority and who is the minority...
Dick Lamm, former Democratic governor of Colorado, incorporated this idea into his Eight-point plan to destroy America
First to destroy America, "Turn America into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bicultural country. History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures..."
More from Steyn:
This is not an "immigration" issue. "Immigration" is when you go into a U.S. government office and there's 100 people filling in paperwork to live in America, and there are a couple of Slovaks, couple of Bangladeshis, couple of New Zealanders, couple of Botswanans, couple of this, couple of that. Assimilation is not in doubt because, if you're a lonely Slovak in Des Moines, it's extremely difficult to stay unassimilated...
But a "worker class" drawn overwhelmingly from a neighboring jurisdiction with another language and ancient claims on your territory and whose people now send so much money back home in the form of "remittances" that it's Mexico's largest source of foreign income (bigger than oil or tourism) is not "immigration" at all, but a vast experiment in societal transformation.
The new arrivals may be intent on transplanting their flag onto our soil and blotting out our cultural heritage and neighborhood customs bit by bit. We who have roots here, conversely, may not wish to see that particular experiment succeed. This country is America, and its citizens call themselves "Americans." The American citizens who want to keep it that way had best begin getting a clear concept of just what constitutes America - so they can explain it to the new arrivals and shout it from the rooftops - if they want to preserve it.
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Invasion, Not immigration!
When will people learn the difference? Please read the following:
Some Latinos promote dual Mexican-American citizenship
10 million illegal aliens may have entered U.S. in 2005
A special presentation (illegal woman holed up in Chicago)
This has nothing to do with racism. When you have hundreds of thousands of people sneaking in this country in the middle of the night from mostly one country I believe that you can refer to them for what they are.
And! Remember that it is YOUR hard earned tax dollars that are paying for the cost of this invasion to educate, jail, medical services, etc.
Wouldn't your money be better spent on the families of the US Citizens that have lost family members, jobs, homes, etc. because of this invasion.
The invaders have no intention of becoming Americanized in any way. They are only interested in the perks and benefits that they can suck out of us.
Finally, Do Not believe anything you hear from lawmakers, bush is still sitting on the fence bill and he is having a meeting here on November 9 with mexico's president elect.
The meeting is most likely more about the North American Union as I heard there is to be another big meeting for the planning later in November.
I Don't see or hear Outrage about either issue.


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For over 2 days, key officials from Cambodia, Sri Lanka as well as planters, investors, rubber producers & suppliers, rubber research organizations, and other stakeholders along the value chain will examine dual subjects of 'Rubber Plantation Boom in Cambodia driven by Government Initiatives' and 'Balancing Investment Opportunities & Challenges in a Sluggish Global Economy' deliberating on the changing patterns of rubber trade globally, price movement, foreign investment outlook in rubber plantations, socio-economic issues related to rubber as a commodity crop and other pertinent issues.
The summit will open with a Keynote Address by His Excellency Ly Phalla, General Directorate of Rubber Plantations, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries, to provide an overview on 'Strengthening the Development of Cambodia's Rubber Sector' plus insights on Cambodia's vision to rapidly expand the country's rubber industry. Next presenter will be top official Sudharma Karunaratne, Secretary of the Ministry, Ministry of Plantation Industries, Sri Lanka who will share 'Strategies to Develop Sri Lanka's Natural Rubber Sector' with special focus on moving into non-traditional areas.
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The summit also features presentations by rubber plantation owners as well as rubber processing companies – Ramesh Veloo from Tradewinds Plantation discusses 'Role and Impact of Operations Audit in the Management of Rubber Plantations' while Sriyan Eriyagama, Director – Kotagala Plantations presents 'Plantation Investment in Cambodia: Challenges & Drawbacks'.
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My daughter couldn't decide between a camping-themed birthday party or a Barbie-themed one. Eventually, she came up with the idea to combine them and have a Barbie Goes Camping party.
A few weeks later, she replaced Barbie with Sleeping Beauty, so now it's a Sleeping Beauty Goes Camping party. Once I made the invitations, I told her she couldn't change her mind again.
Tell us about the birthday invitations.
I made the invitations and the envelopes myself.
I used Microsoft Word to create the invitations. I was able to print two per page. The Sleeping Beauty picture was taken off a coloring book website. I added a skewer with a marshmallow roasting on top to make it look like she was going camping.
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Tonight's Voice UK 2014 song choices have been revealed ahead of the semi-finals.
Last weekend we saw four acts leave to give us eight semi-finalists.
They are Jermain Jackman, Jamie Johnson, Sally Barker, Christina-Marie Wickens, Sophie-May Williams, Lee Glasson, Bizzi Dixon and Chris Royal.
This weekend the remaining contestants will be taking on two songs each: A solo performance as usual and a group song with their mentor and teammates.
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Team Kylie
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Bonnie Raitt – I Can't Make You Love Me
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Team Ricky
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Nancy Sinatra – Bang Bang
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Nat King Cole – Smile
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The Message audio Bible is now available on Bible Gateway! Click to learn more.
A caring commitment, in which affection and delight are shown to others, which is grounded in the nature of God himself. In his words and actions, and supremely in the death of Jesus Christ on the cross, God demonstrates the nature of love and defines the direction in which human love in all its forms should develop.
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Assuming the rumours are true though, $300 is A LOT of money for a subscription device, especially if the PS4 is going to release at the same price without any subscription BS.
That's the way I see it too. I sometimes wonder if Microsoft hasn't lost their freaking minds with a lot of their recent decisions.


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jwaite: Thanks. :-) I'm having a surprisingly difficult time this time, but I'm better today than yesterday. I am angry that I didn't insist on progesterone. I didn't even get a full chance at implanation since AF came so early. This has NEVER happened so it was clearly the medication and not enough progesterone to boost my skyrocketing estradiol. sigh.
fmorris: Will you please move me to taking a break? I am on a financial break until 2014. I'm out of sperm and out of money. :-(
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Big hugs to you. This process is so frustrating. Like beastie said, 2014 will come quickly, especially now that you have more free time.
afm- We're also taking a break until we can get a start on this IVF. Waiting for DW's AF to arrive so she can go through the investigative cycle at the RE's clinic. Then maybe another cycle to sync up our cycles, then the treatment cycle. So we're looking at Novemberish?
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Fmorris - Hope the insem is going smoothly! Whoop Whoop:)
Well ladies, no AF yet, so I tested today...three times...ALL BFPs!!! This is CD31 so it's still very early but I can't help to be vibrating inside. DW doesn't know what to do with herself. Her sister is visiting this weekend, which is a fun time to have both lines show up. My back has been hurting and I've had slight dull cramping here and there, oh and my bbs are wore and full. Other than that, I feel normal...except for the fact that I can't believe we are finally getting a second line on these tests. Don't move me yet, Fmorris. I'd like to hang with you guys for a bit longer, just to be sure.
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jwaite OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lots of sticky baby thoughts. Those signs sound great, so I hope you get confirmation soon. Did you schedule a dr.'s appointment already? Will you tell th siste or keep it secret?
We have to talk about it further in our brand new September thread http://www.mothering.com/community/t/1389210/queer-conceptions-september#post_17448115
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The sort of special awfulness that populates Escape From Planet Earth would never have been tolerated at Pixar. »»
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Dickerson Named District V Player of the Year
June 11, 2010
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Sophomore outfielder Alex Dickerson has been named the District V Player of the Year, the National College Baseball Writers of America announced today. Dickerson, who earned First Team All-America honors from Collegiate Baseball Newspaper earlier this month, was recognized as the top player in the district that encompasses Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Dickerson is just the second player in school history to garner District Player of the Year honors, joining Seth Bynum, who took home the honor in 2004. The remaining District Players of the Year are District I: 3B/RP Joe Leonard (Pittsburgh); District II: SS Jedd Gyorko (West Virginia); District III: C Yasmani Grandal (Miami, Fla.); District IV: SP Anthony Meo (Coastal Carolina); District VI: OF Aaron Senne (Missouri); District VII: 3B Anthony Rendon (Rice); District VIII: C-1B-DH C.J. Cron (Utah); District IX: 2B Zack MacPhee (Arizona State).
The sophomore was also named a Ping!Baseball Second Team All-American yesterday. Additionally, he will be recognized at Petco Park for being a San Diego Hall of Champions Star of the Month this evening. NCBWA's All-America Teams will be announced in the coming weeks.
Dickerson wrapped up his second season in an IU uniform with a .419 average, 99 hits (tied for third all-time), 24 home runs (second), 75 RBI (fifth), 19 doubles (seventh) and an .805 slugging percentage (third). He is currently fifth nationally in home runs and total bases, and is eighth in slugging percentage. He will enter his junior season with 38 longballs, just nine home runs shy of the school record. He also carries a 17-game hitting streak into the 2011 season.
Dickerson is one of 38 players nationally invited to USA Baseball's Collegiate Team Trials. The team will go through a week of trials in July at USA Baseball's facility in Cary, N.C., at which point the team will be cut to a 22-man roster. The final roster will play a month-long schedule against international teams in the United States, Taiwan and Japan, while those who do not make the team will return to their summer teams. He will play for the Cape Cod League's Wareham Gatemen prior to the Team USA trials.
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The Bachelor has commenced, and it's even more wonderful than we imagined! Lucky for us (LUCKY FOR THE WORLD), ABC has released an extended promo of season 17, and we've analyzed each second content and created a detailed analysis of what's to come! Namely, nudity, monkeys, screaming, and hospitalization.
0:01 – Hoard Of Shrieking Ladies Runs Down Beach
An ABC intern must have accidentally left food out.
0:02 – Sean Checks Out Some Peeps Dressed Up As Birds
Sigh, change back into your suit, Chris Harrison. Bridle these urges.
0:04 – Sean Walks Into Palace MADE OF ICE
WTF, don't the producers know his abs are allergic to temperatures under 80 degrees?
0:10 – Sean Skips Gleefully Down The Beach With His Friends
He's like the most eager labrador retriever ever.
0:11 – Sean Tries To End It All, Hurls Himself Off Building
Oh, wait never mind. It's just a one-on-one date.
0:15 – Sean Forces One Of His Ladies To Lurk Under A Waterfall
This is Last of the Mohicans all over again. Also, if you don't understand our 90s movie references, we don't understand you.
0:16 – ABC Forces Contestants On Terrifying Rollercoaster, Everyone Plummets To Their Doom
We can't even imagine the waivers these people had to sign.
0:20 – Sean and Catherine Make Out On A Pirate Ship
OMG, we love some good ol' fashioned Peter Pan/Captain Hook role playing.
0:24 – Sean Laughs Uproariously For No Reason
Probably re-living that time Robyn tried to do a backflip.
0:34 – Sean Forces His Date To Hike Down A Cliff
If we didn't know better, we'd think he was trying to kill them all.
0:46 – Sean And Lady Friend Plunge Into Murky Pool Of Water (aka The Ocean)
See what we mean?
0:55 – Montage Of Sean Making Out With Various Women
Looks like Arie's kissing tips really paid off!
1:12 – Everyone Side-Eyes At Each Other In Disgust
It's like this house is filled with 26 Lauren Conrads.
1:25 – Desiree's Boyfriend Crashes The Party
How. DARE. SHE.
1:28 – Tierra Claims That Chocolate Chip Cookies "Taste Like Sh*t"
Annnnnd, our friendship with her is over.
1:38 – AshLee Narcs On Tierra To Sean
Duh. Cookie Haters have no place on The Bachelor.
1:48 – Tierra Says She's "Above Everyone Else"
At the rate she's going, girl is going to find a horse head in her bed.
2:00 – The Ladies Get In A Roller Derby Fight
This is like the sexy version of that Drew Barrymore movie.
2:17 – Tierra Is Whisked Away In An Ambulance While Sobbing
Clearly, her adorable Yorkie snuck on set and tried to eat her.
2:25 – Montage Of Ladies Ugly-Crying In Various Candlelit Rooms
Title speaks for itself.
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"We're Close," Ali McGuinley Says Of The One Direction Star…
Sorry Directioners – but it seems another member of our favourite boyband has been snapped up!
Just days after lovey-dovey snaps of One Direction star Niall Horan and Irish beauty Ali McGinley appeared on Twitter, the 17-year-old school girl has spoken out about their rumoured romance.
"He genuinely may be one of the nicest men I've ever met. We're close," Ali told The Irish Sun.
The alleged young lovebirds are said to have met up "several times" during the boy band cutie's recent trip back home.
And while the 17-year-old brunette has refused to confirm whether the pair were officially an item, she teased to 1D fans who asked about their dating status on Twitter,
"I can confirm that we're both happy campers, nothing less nothing more x".
And while Niall appears to be enjoying being back in his hometown – his bandmate Harry Styles is reportedly off working on a "solo project."
According to the Daily Star, the group's biggest lothario, who jetted to LA this week without the rest of the group, has a pricey new venture in the works…
"Harry has stacks of fans in America, it's safe to say they absolutely love him. He's been offered a big solo project, so he flew out to Los Angeles without the rest of the boy band," a source told the Daily Star.
"He's been in America filming something. It may have been an advert or a film – I can't say exactly what – but it's worth a lot of money."
But, while Harry's temporary departure may have sparked scary rumours of a One Direction split – the lads recently assured us that any solo material was far from their minds.
"I think we're too used to it now, to being in a band and stuff," Liam Payne told MTV Australia.
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There is no sure thing, but at this point it seems that Spotify is negotiating offer music on mobile phones. According to the media reports The Verge , the music service via streaming sat (and will continue in the coming weeks) to negotiate with major labels in order to begin offering the free form of Spotify on mobile devices and tablets.
The company also is negotiating to reduce licensing costs in order to offer a more complete service to their customers. Until now, users of the free account or free only can listen to music from a computer, so if you want to enjoy your favorite music into the phone they have to switch to the Premium, for a monthly fee of 10 euros. The company could get a response on the part of the record from the coming weeks.
Several industry-related sources have confirmed to The Verge that Spotify has already met with Warner Music and will do with Sony and Universal in the coming weeks, but the fact is that the Swedish company has refused to provide statements. The firm would be interested in negotiating a reduction in the price of licensing music. Is your goal? Compete effectively against companies like Apple that offer similar services. And at this point, after reaching the world on October 7, 2008, the profitability of Spotify remains unconfirmed.
The company already has 5 million paid subscribers and 20 million users in total. The problem is that Spotify has to pay about 70% of income received to cover costs in licenses that claim the record. The firm employs 20% in new customers and 10% remaining in keeping the company, including paying salaries, facilities, infrastructure and miscellaneous expenses.
Sources close to the record confirms that they have no intention of giving in to the requests of Spotify, or those of any other company that decides to ask something. Distribution platforms like Sweden have their hands tied. And it is that the record companies have multiple alternatives, read Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon or Sony. So it is less clear that Spotify gets export the music to mobile devices to popularize the interest of users, yet little given to use this platform since its smartphone pocket.
Spotify has, however, some advantages over Apple still leading in the field of music downloads. And is that for the first time in this short history of music online, buying songs dropped to make way for a more practical, the music streaming. Spotify would have to achieve a positive agreement with record labels (both issue of license fees as in the export of music to mobile for free) to keep the interest of users and gain advantage over giants like Amazon or Apple.


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"The depth of Young's interpretation and the high quality of the Hamburg Philharmonic's playing should draw listeners to this classic, because both combine to make it an exceptional listening experience. Young doesn't fall back on any predecessor's readings but comes to the music with fresh ideas of pacing and phrasing, and offers her personal grasp of the First's intellectual and emotional development. Add to this the fine clarity, glowing colors, depth of ensemble, and the richness of Oehms' reproduction, so this recording is in many ways a continuation of Young's outstanding work in the field of late Romantic symphonic music. Highly recommended." -All Music Guide
"This performance gets your attention from the opening moments...[Conductor Young] has an excellent command of pace and orchestral dynamics. The music is beautifully shaped, with surges and relaxations perfectly calculated...In short, this is excellent in every way, and I urge you to hear it."-American Record GuideNotes & Reviews:
Recording information: Laeiszhalle Hamburg (03/11/2007/03/12/2007).
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Works DetailsBrahms, Johannes : Symphony no 1 in C minor, Op. 68
- Conductor: Simone Young
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- Running Time: 49 min. 3 sec.
- Period Time: Romantic
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Sunday will be slightly warmer in the low to mid-80s but only have a 20% chance of showers during the day and into the night. Temperatures will drop into the mid-70s overnight.
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Virginia Beach, VA / Nags Head, NC
On Saturday, there is a 70% chance of showers with heavy rain at times; temperatures will be in the mid to upper-80s. There will be a 50% chance of showers in the evening as well, with temperatures dropping off into the low to mid-70s.
Sunday temperatures will be the same as on Saturday, in the mid to upper-80s, and have a 50% chance of thunderstorms all day and night, with lows in the mid to upper-70s.
Hatteras, NC
Saturday has a 50% chance of thunderstorms, with highs in the mid-80s and lows in the mid-70s.
Sunday will be slightly warmer in the mid to upper-80s and has a 50% chance of thunderstorms. During the nighttime, there is a 30% chance of thunderstorms, but temperatures will only be as low as the upper-70s.
Here's a look at what you can expect near the Chesapeake Bay:
- Weekend Chesapeake Bay Forecast


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- Does anyone have an idea what percentage of machines show up to
the installfest with ethernet adapters?
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 12:56:30AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> even if i can't update the ISO's the way that jigdo claims i should be
> able to, i highly recommend using jigdo-lite. it saved me roughly 20
> hours *per disk* to download. that's quite savings considering woody is
> at a whopping 8 disks. yes, 8.
> and i'm not talking about source CD's either. we're talking just
> binary. it's 9 disks if you want to include the "US version" of disk 1.
It will be wonderful having up-to-date CD's at the next installfest,
I would recommend waiting to burn your "for the installfest" set of
disks until a few days before though... since woody may be stable
by that time.
I think there are a number of slight advantages to a local mirror
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Cornered man: Alex Rodriguez turns 38
NEW YORK Alex Rodriguez's corner locker in the New York Yankees' clubhouse is filled with four cardboard boxes of bats, a dozen jerseys, a dangling athletic supporter, two baseball caps and four books.
Rodriguez, who turned 38 Saturday, is something of a cornered man himself these days.
The Yankees consider him a major annoyance, referring to him as Mr. Rodriguez three times in a recent news release.
That tension, however, pales when compared to what's going on with Major League Baseball. Any time now, Rodriguez is expected to be hit with a lengthy penalty that could put him out of baseball indefinitely or perhaps even permanently.
And MLB's investigation to possible ties between Rodriguez and a Florida clinic accused of distributing banned performance-enhancing drugs isn't even the primary source of the deteriorating relationship. The Yankees owe him just under $95 million through 2017, and he's missed the entire season following hip surgery in January.
After a week's worth of high drama, second-guessing and radio interviews, it seems Rodriguez is about to be lumped with Yankees who sort of just didn't fit, failed or just faded away - the Dave Winfield, Kevin Brown, Randy Johnson and Carl Pavano wing of infamy rather than the Monument Park honor roll of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and Yogi Berra.
On the day he arrived in February 2004 after the big trade with Texas, the sign board outside old Yankee Stadium proclaimed: "A Rod, Welcome to NY."
Now the message from the Yankees is pretty much: We don't want to see you ever again.
During a conference call with management to discuss treatment of his thigh injury, A-Rod insisted on having one of his lawyers on the phone, later saying he "just want to make sure that everything is documented properly."
Following his third straight postseason flameout, New York appears to be in no hurry for A-Rod to return. Each day's delay means that much more of his $153,005 daily salary is reimbursed by insurance.
For much of his career, Rodriguez has bristled at playing a supporting role to Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, wondering why his teammate receives adulation and he is met with a mixture of antipathy and scorn.
Jeter strained a quadriceps and was allowed to rehabilitate with the major league team.
Rodriguez strained a quadriceps and was sent to the minor league camp in Tampa, Fla., as if he had been a disruptive student dispatched to the principal's office for a timeout.
Wherever he goes, contretemps unfold.
"It's the nature of the business," Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira said. "Show business, right?"
This was supposed to be the best time of Rodriguez's career, when he made his mark in history. Fifth on the career list with 647 home runs, he was set to pass Willie Mays (660), Babe Ruth (714), Hank Aaron (755) and Barry Bonds (762) and become the all-time leader.
Only Ruth had hit more home runs than Rodriguez before turning 38.
But his life has seemed to unravel since Dec. 13, 2007, when his record $275 million, 10-year contract was finalized - on the same day George Mitchell issued his report on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.


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'Pacific Rim': New poster promises robot and monster destruction
A new poster has been released for Guillermo del Toro's "Pacific Rim." The highly-anticipated movie features the human race having to do battle with enormous monsters that have risen from the Pacific Ocean. A trailer released in December gave an idea of just how huge de Toro is shooting for with the film.
The best way to fight the monsters, who traveled through some kind of portal between dimensions, is to build gigantic robots, piloted by humans. The new poster features one of those robots standing in the middle of a city that's seen better days, and carries the tagline "Go Big or Go Extinct."
"Pacific Rim" stars Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi and Charlie Day. The sci-fi epic will be in 3D and arrives in theaters July 12.
Check out the poster below:
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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) June 20, 2012
LocoShake, a social discovery company focused on privacy and simplicity, has released the beta version of its Phone app and is seeking beta testers.
LocoShake shows users the real time location of nearby members and allows users to discover a tidbit of information about other members. The LocoShake community can send a message to each other with a built in IM feature.
"Real time location based services need to focus on making users comfortable with the radically new concept of sharing your real time location with the world," said Tom Lasater, Founder and CEO of LocoShake.
Customizable privacy settings that adjust to the comfort level of each user are part of LocoShake's current minimal feature-set. LocoShake has four simple levels of privacy:
"Further, refinements are on the way, but we feel these four choices are easy to understand and cover a wide range of comfort levels," said Lasater.
"Our beta version has some issues such as battery consumption, which we are solving. However, if you are an early adopter and would like to test LocoShake, please download the LocoShake iPhone app and give us some feedback," said Lasater.
About Tom Lasater
Tom Lasater is a serial entrepreneur who founded PeerMe, and in the late 1990's started several internet companies in China as well as Gigmania and ACL Wireless, a leader in mobile IM, in India and other Southeast Asian countries.
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Fur-free shopping = friendly shopping
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Last week, the National Retail Federation announced its list of top 10 retailers for customer service (the top 10 were selected by surveying 8,500 shoppers). It appears that avoiding the cruelty of fur also means an enjoyable shopping experience.
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There are times - we all have them - where I feel bored and play with my
penis. We've tried all the different games, but the ones that she's most
adept at are board games. Word games, anything that requires thought,
they're right out of the question; card games... well, I'll explain the
intricacies of holding cards with a penis later, but after trying it once,
it becomes very much not an option. We tried that trust game once, and
whilst I caught her without any problem, when it came time for her to catch
me I wasn't able to turn my back on her (despite my protestations otherwise,
I wonder if I really do fear homosexuality? Gosh, I hope not or some of my
best friends - who just so happen to be gay; I think some of them might be
black and disabled too - might use it as an opportunity to prey on my fears
and get me to get them a glass of water when all I want to do is sit down).
I also knew her slight frame wouldn't be able to catch my greater weight.
Still, I'd rather be the person in pain whose trust was betrayed than the
person who couldn't trust. She prevented a broken nose for me, but that's
about it. She couldn't think of any other types of games, and I wasn't going
to think of any as I was becoming increasingly irritated that I was doing
all the thinking, so I was doing that whole nose cutting, face spiting
stuff, just a bit lower down.
When playing a board game with penises, it's only my own dear penis that I'd let throw the dice. I know my genital hygiene; I know there's no smeggy build up likely to accumulate on the dice (I'll pretend it's a game with two dice; I don't want penis and die to be in the same sentence unless it's absolutely necessary) and alter the randomness of the roll. I won't play with weighted dice...
Quick interruption to allow the world's search engines to be a better place. The chase music in the mall played by Beethoven in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure is called Play With Me by Extreme, but more importantly, the little classical snatch [insert obvious joke if you are so inclined] at the beginning is Rondo alla Turca by Mozart.
...with my penis or anyone; I may be 100% completely non-competitive, but I do insist on absolute fairness so I can beat my competitors just by being naturally better than them. I can hear you slavering for details of how to roll dice with a penis. I'll permit a modicum of slavering - you are human after all - this is, however, socially important reportage, so we'll just put a stop to the squeals, the gasps, and the inexplicable low rumblings right now or I'll have to ask you to leave the room.
Foreskins are wonderfully elastic; I hear tell that a king of England once hid inside one when fleeing nasty people with guns. If dice are inserted underneath the foreskin they will be ejected with a spinning motion. Naturally the roll doesn't count if they end up on the floor - and then there's the awful problem of dust and grit; try explaining that to the on call surgeon - so my penis tends to aim towards the box, bounce the dice off and hope they come to a standstill before dropping off the other side of the table.
Many board games now involve cards. At times it can feel patronising drawing the cards for my penis, reading out what's said on the card, and explaining the implications. I have found that it beats the alternative though: attempting to pick up a card in the urethra just leads to an unpleasant, slightly itchy irritation. With no opposable thumbs, the penis is also dependant on you for the initial insertion; it just becomes less painful for all parties to do it for her. Let her roll the dice, but keep her away from the cards; it also makes for one less thing to wipe clean at the end.
I always keep a ouija board close to hand which is close to penis, for when she needs to make a decision. The penis places herself in the middle of the board, and as if controlled by the devil, points to the appropriate letters, spelling out her choice. Many people refuse to go near a ouija board because their best friend was beaten to death using one, equally many deny that ouija boards have any sort of power. I have seen them work, although there is a nagging doubt in the back of my mind that it's my hand moving the penis, albeit subconsciously, rather than the penis moving of its own volition. Similarly, when moving the counters around the board, as much of the responsibility is with me swaying back and forth to create a pendulum motion for the penis as there is with her to hit the counter with the required force to move it around the board. All things considered, it may be that I'm playing more with myself than with my penis.


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It's no laughing matter when a skunk nails your curious dog. And to be fair to the skunk, your dog probably deserved it by acting like a total dork. Regardless, a skunk's mercaptan oil not only stinks to high heaven, it can blind its target for up to two days, and the stink can linger for up to two years if you don't act quickly!
Here's an idea of how things usually go…
Wow! Look at that! It's furry! It's (probably) smaller than I am! It's black and white! Let's sniff it! Wait! It's purring; but it's not a cat. It's moving! It's standing up now and stamping its front feet! Huh? Now what's it doing with its tail? Gotta chase it . . . agh! What's that SMELL?
Gotcha, sucka!
How to know if it's a skunk that's zapped your dog? Trust us, the smell alone—slightly akin to searing rubber in a frying pan or lighting plastic on fire—will be your answer.
First, whatever you do, do not allow the dog inside the house, near his bed, or anything else for that matter. Leash and tie him up till you can get started on the post-skunked treatment. The mercaptan is an oil and is super hard to get out of clothing and fur and any material that can retain odor.
Second, change into some old clothing you can trash afterward. Put up your hair and hide it under a cap if you can. Got an old bandana? Pretend you are a masked fool and cover your mouth and nose—so you can breathe while mitigating the effects on your poor sniffer. And a pair of those disposable latex gloves wouldn't hurt.
Third, try to figure out where the spray hit the dog. There will be a patch where the oil has congregated. If you can, trim out that fur or cut it all the way off at the root.
Fourth, get a roll of paper towels or rags and pat and hold down (don't rub) on the affected areas. Rubbing will just spread the smell.
Fifth, apply some shampoo to a rag and clean only the affected areas.
Finally, get to bathing that pooch. And we're not talking one shampoo. We're talking more like three or four—especially if your dog has lots of fur. If you have a significant other who can drive, send him or her to the nearest pet supply to buy skunk odor remover. But if this can't be done right away, then starting the washing process immediately will be more effective. The longer the oil sits, the more it gets absorbed and the longer the stink will last.
As for tomato juice, mouthwash, or hydrogen peroxide+baking soda+dishwashing detergent (an explosive mixture, by the way), we haven't tested these, so we cannot recommend nor discourage their use.
Whatever you do, do it as fast and as thoroughly as possible. When you're done, toss everything you've used or worn into a plastic bag, seal, and throw away.


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The U.S. Might Slow Down Warhead Disassembly for Lack of Funds
A spending cut may jeopardize a 2022 goal to eliminate nuclear warheads now slated for dismantlement, the Knoxville News Sentinel reports.
The Obama administration's fiscal 2015 budget request would reduce spending on nuclear-arms dismantlement from a current enacted level of $54.3 million to $30 million in the coming funding cycle, according to the Saturday report. A planning paper says Washington will revamp its current strategy to scrap atomic arms that were retired from the arsenal prior to 2009.
A spokesman for the National Nuclear Security Administration, which manages the nuclear-arms disassembly effort, verified that the agency had said it would "consider" pushing back the 2022 cutoff date. It communicated its intention in a February statement to the congressional Government Accountability Office.
NNSA officials, though, said they are still dedicated to eliminating the retired arms by 2022.
Stephen Young, an issue expert with the Union of Concerned Scientists, said the spending plan "claims that they can still achieve the 2022 goal, but only if there are significant future increases in funding for dismantling warheads."
The budget proposal calls for a 40 percent spending reduction at the Pantex Plant in Texas, which carries out the first steps in taking apart retired U.S. nuclear weapons.
Obama officials are also pushing for a funding decrease at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee, where disassembly funds could fall from $20.4 million to $11.4 million in the next fiscal year, NNSA spokesman Steven Wyatt said.
Wyatt added that the funding changes are not expected to produce "major job impacts" at either facility.
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Students compete in annual Science Olympiad
Published: Jan 09 2013 07:00:00 PM EST Updated On: Jan 10 2013 06:58:51 PM EST
It was a science showdown at Kutztown University on Thursday.
Students from 14 different school districts put their skills to the test at the annual Science Olympiad.
Awards were presented to winners. Now, the students can move on to the regional part of the competition.
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Christina Aguilera turns 32 as she says goodbye to 'The Voice'Add to Favorites | The Voice
Christina Aguilera marked off her birthday with a big life change. After coaching "The Voice" for its first three seasons, she left the hit series the day she turned 32.
It ended up being Blake Shelton's contestant Cassadee Pope who won Season 3 instead of one of Aguilera's singers, but that didn't stop her from going out with a smile. "Thank you Fighters for the many sweet birthday messages today! Let There Be Love to you all! XoXtina," she tweeted to all her fans wishing her a happy birthday.
Aguilera isn't the only big Hollywood celebrity to have a birthday on Dec. 18. Brad Pitt turned 49 yesterday and Katie Holmes turned 34. For her part, Aguilera looked forward to aging another year.
"I am enjoying being a woman now. Every year I think, this is going to be a great year, a new chapter. And it is," she told ABC News in October. "I enjoyed being young but I would never relive my teens. Those are hard years for everyone."


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The Polar RC3 Tour de France has added a GPS based altimeter added over the original black version according to the Heart Rate Watch Company.
"GPS based altimeters are useful and while they won't be as dead-on accurate as a barometric altimeter they will tell you while cycling or running how much climbing or descending you have completed", says Rusty Squire, President of the Heart Rate Watch Company.
The Polar RC3 Tour de France is the official training computer of the 100th Annual Tour de France that begins in July of 2013 but, just like the Tour de France it is available for a very limited time only.
"The beauty of this GPS watch is its ability to do most every major cycling and running metric well including speed, distance heart rate, pace, cadence, altitude and more", says Squire.
Some of the black screens coming out in the past year boast enough contrast to work fairly well in bright sunlight, unlike screens of just a few short years ago. "The Suunto Ambit is one such screen and the Polar RC3 Tour de France seems to have the contrast as well", says Squire.
The Polar RC3 Tour de France is IPX7 water resistant, so while it will do well in an all-day rainstorm it isn't meant for swimming according to Squire. This is a run, bike and any other outdoor sport type of GPS watch says Squire.
"Our elite Nordic skier Brandy Stewart used one all winter for her training and racing and really liked it", says Squire. He added, "Chief tester John Yarington tried it our and felt it was a good product also for the duathlon, run and bike crowd".
The Polar RC3 Tour de France is now available at the Heart Rate Watch Company.


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The Hubble Space Telescope is a large telescope in space. It was launched into orbit by space shuttle Discovery in 1990. Hubble orbits about 550 kilometers (342 miles) above Earth. It is the length of a large school bus and weighs as much as two adult elephants. Hubble travels about 5 miles per second, and is powered by sunlight.
Hubble takes sharp pictures of objects in the sky such as planets, stars and galaxies. Hubble has taken thousands of images. These include detailed pictures of the birth and death of stars, galaxies that are billions of light years away, and comet pieces crashing into Jupiter's atmosphere.
Scientists have learned a lot about the universe from these pictures. Many of them are also beautiful to look at.
What Makes Hubble Different From Telescopes on Earth?
Earth's atmosphere alters and blocks the light that comes from space. Hubble orbits above Earth's atmosphere, which gives it a better view of the universe than telescopes have at ground level.
Where Did the Name Hubble Come From?
Hubble is named after an American astronomer, Edwin P. Hubble. He made important discoveries in the early 1900s. He showed that the galaxy containing the solar system - the Milky Way - was only one of many galaxies. His work also helped show that the universe is expanding. This led to the big-bang theory, which says that the universe began with an intense burst of energy and has been expanding ever since.
What Is Servicing Mission 4?
Servicing Mission 4 is the name of the next, and final, space shuttle mission to repair the Hubble telescope. This will be the fifth time astronauts have visited Hubble. The other missions were named Servicing Mission 1, Servicing Mission 2, Servicing Mission 3A and Servicing Mission 3B.
Astronauts plan to install two new instruments and fix two broken instruments during the mission. Scientists hope that the repairs and upgrades made by the astronauts will keep the telescope running for at least five more years.
What Instruments Are on Hubble?
Hubble started out with five scientific instruments: two cameras, two spectrographs and a photometer. A spectrograph is an instrument that splits light into its individual wavelengths. A photometer is an instrument that measures the intensity or brightness of light. Over the years, Hubble's original instruments have been replaced.
Astronauts on Servicing Mission 4 plan to install two new instruments - the Wide Field Camera 3, or WFC3, and the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, or COS. They also plan to repair two instruments - the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, or STIS, and the Advanced Camera for Surveys, or ACS.
WFC3 will be Hubble's main new camera. It will study everything from the formation of distant galaxies to the planets in the solar system. COS will be useful to study how stars, planets and galaxies formed and evolved, and how elements such as carbon and iron first formed. Carbon and iron are necessary for life.
STIS has helped scientists determine the temperature, chemical composition, density and motion of objects in space. It has also been used to detect black holes. ACS has taken sharp images of deep space. These images have helped scientists study some of the earliest activity in the universe.
The Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer was installed during a servicing mission to Hubble in 1997. NICMOS sees objects in deep space by sensing the heat they emit. It helps scientists study how stars, galaxies and planetary systems form.
What Are Hubble's Most Important Discoveries?
Images taken by Hubble have helped scientists estimate the age and size of the universe. Scientists believe the universe is about 13 or 14 billion years old. Hubble has also helped scientists understand how planets and galaxies form. An image called "Hubble Ultra Deep Field" shows the farthest galaxies ever seen.
Hubble has detected black holes, which suck in everything around them, including light. The telescope has played a key role in the discovery of dark energy, a mysterious force that causes the universe to expand faster and faster as time goes on. And it has revealed details of gamma-ray bursts - powerful explosions of energy that occur when massive stars collapse.
Hubble has also seen planets revolving around stars similar to Earth's sun.
Where Do the Colors in Hubble's Images Come From?
Hubble pictures start out as shades of black and white. Colors are then added to the pictures for different reasons. Sometimes colors are chosen to show how an object might look to the human eye. Other times colors are used to highlight an important detail. Or they can be used to show details that would otherwise be invisible to the human eye.
Where Can I See More Hubble Pictures?
› HubbleSite Gallery →
› NASA's National Space Science Data Center Photo Gallery →
More About Hubble:
› NASA's Main Hubble Page →
› HubbleSite →
› What Is a Black Hole?
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Heartbeats Support Rebuilding in Tohoku, Japan
The thud of the heartbeat could be heard over the din of the chatter. Bah-boom, bah-boom...that was the sound projected from a loudspeaker which led the artist SASAKI's spray paint can in waves across the canvas. A subject's finger was attached to a heartbeat monitor and their pulse is what inspired SASAKI's Heartbeat Drawing project - a series of hexagons on a canvas that represented thousands of heartbeats in support of rebuilding in Tohoku, Japan.
Nearly 200 people had their heartbeats drawn by SASAKI at the three-day Dwell on Design conference in Los Angeles from June 24th to 26th. The exhibit area was always surrounded by passers-by who were entranced by the sight of SASAKI drawing people's heartbeats.
All money raised from the project was donated to Architecture for Humanity's rebuilding program in Japan.
Thank you to SASAKI, Wakako Miyakuni, Abigail Stone, Michael Sylvester and My Linh Miles for working so hard to make the project a success.
Photos by Andrew Rollinger.


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Watch the trailer for Girls season two
Lena Dunham's critically acclaimed HBO series Girls is coming back on January 13th and now we have an official trailer to go along with it. It seems like all our characters are back inRead More »
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Episode Review: Parks and Recreation – "Pawnee Commons"
Parks and Recreation – "Pawnee Commons" (season 5, episode 8) Things in Pawnee can almost never go wrong when Ben and Leslie work together. Okay, that's not entirely true, but at least they're adorableRead More »
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The 2009 novel Under the Dome is coming to CBS next summer as a thirteen-episode series. Stephen King's novel was originally developed and pitched for Showtime but obviously CBS now has a hold ofRead More »
The fifth and final trailer for Django Unchained has been released
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Despite news that the 15 year old band is going on a hiatus, that is now untrue. Instead they are just taking a break for awhile (but not a hiatus!!!). To tide fans overRead More »
Interpol push back 10th anniversary Turn on the Bright Lights album, give us a live performance as a gift
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Watch a multi-cam, fan-made, full Radiohead set
Below is a multi-cam recording of Radiohead's show at Roseland last fall that is nothing short of impressive. From professionally shot videos to cellphones, the video is a full live set of the band'sRead More »
Watch Tegan and Sara's music video for "Closer"
Finally! Tegan and Sara's music video for their single "Closer" is here and we can finally feel vindicated of dancing to the song simply because that's what Sara does throughout the entire music videoRead More »