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Today being the tenth anniversary of the start of the Ramblin' with Roger blog, with content every single day, I thought I would describe how I started blogging in the first place. I'm sure I've told bits and pieces of it before, but like some oft-told tales, the details either become clearer in focus or muddier over time.
I had heard about this thing called the weblog – it was in all the standard press – in the early part of this century. However, I had not actually READ any blogs. Therefore, I concluded, without a single strain of evidence, the same thing that most "everyone" else was saying, that blogs were self-indulgent bits of drivel designed for people far more self-absorbed than I.
Then, in October 2004, I see my friend Rocco, who I knew from my FantaCo days. He says to me, "Have you been reading Fred's blog?" Of course, I had not been reading what our mutual friend Fred Hembeck had been writing, and in fact I had fallen out of touch with him over the previous decade.
Here's A News Report We'd Be Reading If Walter Scott's Killing Wasn't On Video. Also, from Albany: Chief Krokoff's Retirement And The Ivy Incident.
Orioles COO John Angelos offers eye-opening perspective on Baltimore protests. And from late 2013, David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show'.
Looking forward to watching the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight this weekend? I'm not.
Religious Freedom: Colorado's sensible middle way. Also, 'The Good Wife' Defends Gay Marriage Against 'Religious Freedom' and Matthew Vines: "God and the Gay Christian".
Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an" and Practicing Islam At A Catholic University.
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Has America gone crazy? "It's hard to know why we are the way we are, and — believe me — even harder to explain it to others." Plus ignorance as a virtue.
Barack Obama's 2015 State of the Union address: annotated. And the official website for House Republicans has posted on YouTube a doctored version of the SOTU address which cuts out comments where the President was critical of Republican rhetoric on climate change.
How Expensive It Is to Be Poor.
Iraq Veterans Against the War.
Dustbury writes: "Depressed? 'Buck up,' they say. 'Smile a little.' They are, of course, full of crap."
Last year Roger Ver renounced his US citizenship to avoid paying US taxes. "Now he's upset that the 'tyrants' in the US government won't give him a visa to visit Miami."
From Forbes, hardly a liberal bastion: Bibi Netanyahu — aka 'The Republican Senator From Israel' — May Have Made A Fatal Political Mistake.
Solving homelessness in Salt Lake City.
Hetero privilege: holding hands. Read the rest of this entry »
November Rambling: Eddie, the Renaissance Geek, turns 50; Jaquandor's book now available for purchase
John Oliver's Complicated Fun Connects for HBO. Perhaps John Oliver Is Outdoing The Daily Show and Colbert. In any case, Yet Another Study Shows US Satire Programs Do A Better Job Informing Viewers Than Actual News Outlets.
The Motion Picture Academy chose to bestow a special award to Harry Belafonte, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. "Belafonte's remarks offer both a pointed and powerful rebuke of Hollywood's past and a stirring inducement to continue the industry's more recent progress on human rights issues."
Re the Ferguson protests, which I saw described as "mind bogglingly incomprehensible": It's Incredibly Rare For A Grand Jury To Do What Ferguson's Just Did, as even Antonin Scalia could tell you. So Mark Evanier's thoughts largely echo mine. Related: video showing the moments leading up to the fatal shooting by police of a 22-year-old Saratoga Springs, Utah man, Darrien Hunt.
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Let me state that I generally hate yard sales, garage sales, and the like. Specifically:
*I don't like going to other people's sales, especially when they put out things that are, to quote Oscar the Grouch, everything "ragged and rotten and rusty."
*I don't like having our own sale, because it involved going through lots of our own stuff. It's time-consuming and enervating.
And most of all:
*I HATE bringing back into the house the stuff we decided to sell, but it didn't.
Yet we (OK, the Wife and the Daughter) agreed (and I accepted the decision) to have a yard sale on September 6. The logic of that date was that it would be after school began, but before the fall got going in earnest. Read the rest of this entry »


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World Briefing | Americas: Chile: Prison For Indians In Tree Farm Burning
By Larry Rohter (NYT)
Published: August 25, 2004
Four leaders of a Mapuche Indian group and a sympathizer have been sentenced to 10 years in prison for ''terrorism by arson'' after setting fire to a pine tree plantation in connection with a longstanding dispute between indigenous peoples and forestry companies over land ownership in southern Chile. Two of those found guilty have gone into hiding rather than accept the verdict, which has been criticized by human rights groups. More than a dozen other Mapuche leaders are awaiting trial on similar charges. Larry Rohter (NYT)

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Leak furor in Senate
In a floor statement yesterday, Sen. John McCain reiterated his criticism of the Obama White House for allegedly leaking classified information that endangered national security, and he repeated his call for appointment of a special counsel to independently investigate the claims.
Sen. McCain cited a particular incident in 2009 described by David Sanger of the New York Times in which a senior National Security Council official arranged a special briefing for Sanger in the Presidential suite at a Pittsburgh hotel about a secret nuclear site in Iran.
"I wonder how many people have the key to the Presidential suite in that Pittsburgh, PA hotel? We might want to start there" in the search for the leakers, Sen. McCain said.
But it turns out that the resulting news story that appeared in the Times did not include classified information, and the discovery of the Iranian nuclear site was the subject of a public briefing the very next day. See "John McCain swings at White House over 2009 Iran leak to David Sanger," by Josh Gerstein, Politico, August 1.
An ongoing FBI investigation into leaks of classified information is "casting a distinct chill over press coverage of national security issues as agencies decline routine interview requests and refuse to provide background briefings," writes Scott Shane in the New York Times.
The congressional response to leaks of classified information is disingenuous or hypocritical, wrote Walter Pincus in "Lawmakers, media are duplicitous on leaks," Washington Post, August 1.
"While the Pentagon insists it's not doing anything that should alarm reporters, it has yet to offer a direct response as to exactly what it means when it says it's going to monitor news reports for unauthorized disclosures." See "Defense vague on plan to plug press leaks" by Austin Wright and Leigh Munsil, Politico, August 1.
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Waterfront studio for two (No2)Montenegro, Herceg Novi
About This Listing
Located only few steps from the beach, enjoy your stay. Studio is only 15 min away from the City marina and historic Old town. It's a perfect match for couples or friends.
Space where guests can cook their own meals
Central heating or a heater in the listing
Space where guests can cook their own meals
Towels, bed sheets, soap, and toilet paper
Central heating or a heater in the listing
In the building, free or for a fee
In the building, free or for a fee
Continuous access in the listing
Breakfast is provided.
The listing can accommodate a gathering of 25 or more attendees
Easy access to the building and listing for guests in wheelchairs
Private or Shared
Free, in the building or nearby
Posted emergency information and resources
The Space
Located in the attic, 15m2, studio apartment has equipped kitchenette with private bathroom. Wi-Fi is free of charge.
The Neighborhood
You can enjoy dining in various nearby restaurants which serve local dishes.
Getting Around
Main bus station is 1.5 km away. Dubrovnik and Tivat Airport are 25 km away. Studio Jelic can assist you with airport transfers, excursions, boat trips and all other activities you are interested in.
Other Things to Note
Tourist tax is not included in price and should be paid upon arrival.
About the Host, Davor
Years of experience in tourism, working for local and international agencies. Friendly and fun-loving is what my friends would describe me as.
Hope to see you as a guest at Studio Jelic.


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A few summers ago, I arrived at the waterpark early to conduct our morning inspections. Before turning anything on, I performed a visual inspection (per our standard operating procedures). This included a dry walk of all slides as well as an examination of all pools. I felt I had covered nearly every inch of the park.
Unfortunately, I was wrong.
Though I walked the slide section, I did not actually visually
inspect the bowl portion before turning it on. That proved to be a
big mistake.
As soon as I turned the slides on, the water in the bowl ride
started bubbling up. At first, I couldn't figure out what was
happening, but soon I saw the cause: a box of powdered soap
floating in the catch pool. Apparently, it had been thrown into the
bowl overnight, perhaps even from outside. The soap had been
injected through the ride's entire circulation system. Before
long, the bubbles had risen high enough to reach up 4 feet from the
waterline of the catch pool and into the bowl.
Initially, I thought the prank was pretty funny. I even brought a
couple of the lifeguards over to have a laugh and take a picture.
However, I wasn't laughing for long. I had never dealt with
this problem before, and had absolutely no idea how to fix
I soon realized that the only solution was to drain the catch pool.
But only one-third to one-half of the pool can be backwashed, and
we didn't have a pump to help remove the water. The general
manager also thought I might learn my lesson a little better if
some manual labor was involved in the cleaning.
So I had to start pulling the water out myself, using buckets. Keep
in mind, this pool held 14,000 gallons of water total, so when I
started using the "bucket method," I was facing 7,000
to 10,000 gallons. Eventually, six or seven of us were on the
bucket brigade.
Of course, by this time, the park had already opened for the day
— without the bowl ride. Not only was it my job to lead the
soap problem fix, but I also had to explain to guests why their
favorite ride was unavailable. It took us most of the day to
finally get nearly all the water out of the catch pool.
As a result of overlooking one small area of the park, we went a
little over budget on operation for the day. We had to pay for approximately 14,000 gallons of
water to refill the pool, and a substantial amount of money went
toward wages for the employees who came in early or on their day
off to help. Not to mention the unhappy guests in the park.
The Lessons
1. Do thorough inspections. They aren't just
something to be checked off. Inspections are your best defense
against patron inj-ury and other risk-management issues. Be sure
yours are done vigilantly and completely.
2. Know your rides. It's not enough to
simply know where the on/off switch is. Staff members should be
familiar with the inner workings of water rides as well and what is
required if, say, the catch pool needs to be backwashed. Remember,
in an emergency there may not be time to contact your maintenance
3. Be prepared. With so much equipment, moving
parts, and wear and tear, facilities are bound to encounter
maintenance issues. The best defense is a good offense, so think
proactively, and have the necessary tools and equipment on hand (a
sump pump, for instance) to handle emergencies.
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September 25, 1995 in Nation/World
Blacks Given 10% More Time In Federal Prison Than Whites West Has Highest Disparity, Says Study Of 80,000 Convictions
Blacks get prison sentences about 10 percent longer than whites get for similar federal crimes, according to a computer analysis published Sunday.
Whites convicted in 1992 and '93 received an average sentence of 33 months, while blacks got 36 months, The Tennessean reported.
The computer study examined all 80,000 federal court convictions during the two years, comparing cases in which the seriousness of the crime and criminal histories were equal.
The study found the highest black-white sentencing disparity - 13 percent - in the West. The South had the lowest regional disparity, at 3 percent. Sentences for blacks were 12 percent higher in the Midwest and 10 percent higher in the Northeast.
Hispanics received sentences comparable to whites. Too few Asians and other minorities were convicted of federal crimes for a valid comparison, the newspaper said.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson blamed the disparity on the subconscious bias of the majority white justice system. The federal court system has 82 black judges and 1,382 white judges.
"It's the non-dramatic institutional racism that's the problem," Jackson told the paper.
"Cultural bias exists and some people are punished on stereotypes … so much so, it appears to be natural, it's so standard."
But Richard Conaboy, chairman of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, said some of the differences may be attributable to factors in sentencing that the study did not take into account, such as a defendant's work record.
The seven-member Sentencing Commission was created a decade ago to equalize federal criminal sentences.
It keeps the records analyzed by The Tennessean.
An analyst at the Sentencing Commission, who asked not to be identified, faulted the newspaper's method of comparing categories of crimes.
She said the seriousness of the crimes could vary within the categories.
For instance, a bank robber might be in the same category as someone convicted of bank fraud and the judge might consider the fraud to be less serious than the robbery and give a lighter sentence.
But statisticians from Vanderbilt University, the University of North Carolina, Mississippi State and Pennsylvania State universities all agreed with the method.
"This is consistent with research I've done. The race effect is there," said Darrell Steffensmeier, who heads the Research Center for Crime and the Courts at Penn State.
At least a dozen studies in the past 20 years have attempted to determine if one race received longer federal prison sentences than another, and those split almost evenly in their findings.
Critics have complained that few of those studies comprehensively compared defendants who committed the same kind of crimes and had the same criminal backgrounds.
The Tennessean said those factors were equal in its study.
The newspaper found numerous cases like those of Steve Rolen and William Hester.
Both were convicted in 1993 of possessing firearms in eastern Tennessee. The charges against them were identical. Their criminal pasts were similar. Both were sentenced to federal prison.
Rolen, who is white, received a seven-year sentence.
Hester, who is black, got more than 15 years.
Rolen, now in federal prison in Manchester, Ky., says his lighter sentence was for helping the federal government unravel several unsolved crimes he had committed.
"They've known me all their life. They like me. I got off extremely lucky - just for giving them some offenses I'd committed they didn't know I'd committed," he said.
Sumter Comp, an assistant federal defender in Nashville, said he doubted that judges could explain that all cases involving blacks were worse than those involving whites.
"The only other explanation has got to be that white guys are better than black guys, and that's just wrong," he said.
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The one "official" winner that's a non-QB is Mark Ingram. Reggie Bush also won a heisman, but had it stripped due to ncaa violations making him an "unofficial" winner
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Gonna miss Druss, made the team infinitely more fun to watch this year
Bucknuts reported that he committed to the staff March 28 on his visit, coincidence he announced it publicly just hours before JG?
first two have been addressed, but won 8 represents our 8 national championships and grind for 9, well that's self explanatory after explaining won 8 lol
Based on this comment and one or two others, I'm beginning to think I went to high school with you....
Wore 2 in baseball because of Jeter, and it kinda just became the only number that felt right so I wore it in football and basketball too
Thanks, fees are in the mail. Kitchen duty again though?!? I nearly burnt the place down last time I was stuck in there, and I was getting complaints that Ramen every night wasn't cutting it
The Lantern published an article about this stating it was the 12th murder in Columbus this year, so while that doesn't necessarily specify Campus area you are indeed correct in that a number of murders aren't heard about.
You very well may be correct in your other point as well, as I believe the suspect wasn't apprehended until the following day. Frambes was lined with cops from about 10 AM until 3 or so, rumor was they had a search warrant for his house which then led to his arrest and charging
Not disagreeing with anything you said, my argument I guess is that OSU has a crime alert system in place already so why not let students know a crime was committed in the campus area when you have that capability
It's also not like a serial rapist is on the loose everytime we get an email about a sexual assault on campus, but they still let us know because it relates to student safety. As a student living off campus, I just feel like a murder that close warrants some form of notification
Coming home from 4th street bar, and yes I realize there is crime all over the city, but there aren't many murders 2 blocks from campus
I don't get the text alerts, just the emails. But I wouldn't mind a 4 AM text telling me there was a murder in viewing distance from my house. The students off campus have a right to know that kind of thing
My issue with the handling of this
I meant on OSUs end when I said this, obviously anything as serious as murder occurring that close to campus is extremely concerning and scary. As I mentioned in another post, I went right past this corner on my way from the bar that night. Definitely makes you a little more paranoid walking home at night.
The crime occurred around 3 AM on Sunday morning, so going on 30 hours now. And while it's not usually within an hour two, we typically receive emails for campus crime alerts around 9 or 10 AM of the sexual assault/armed robbery/B&E the occurred in the wee hours of the morning. Several times those emails include that the suspect has been apprehended as that helps students feel safe. A crime as serious as murder occurring just a few blocks from campus is worthy of a notice, in my opinion
The font is not needed for good sarcasm
For campus related incidents OSU will send out a campus security email when the report is filed, I'm assuming we didn't get one because it was technically "off campus" but seeing as a majority of students in years 2+ live within a mile of the crime scene I was slightly concerned with the lack of a notice to students.
And no, I do not know either the suspect or the victim. I live close enough to the crime scene though that I had passed the corner it occurred at on my way home from the bars that night less than an hour before the incident. Really scary stuff when you consider the dispatch report that the victim was just stepping between two people trying to stop a fight.
Ahhh, the joys of being still awake when the skully is posted. 2 midterms today, project tomorrow, midterm thursday. OSU's business school loves to pile it on all at once
Not disagreeing with your assessment of Tate's role on that team, they had an unreal amount of talent that year. LeVert dropped 28 or so against us in that game despite being essentially face guarded the entire game. Contested or not, he didn't miss much of anything. We did a decent job of stopping Bess and Charlton, or at least slowing them down, but LeVert was simply not going to be denied. Lost by 5 or so I believe, and to this day I am convinced that game was really for the state title, winner of that game was clearly the best team left in the tournament.
Junior finance major at the great university that is Ohio State. Will be interning here in Columbus as a business consulting analyst this summer
Junior finance major at the great university that is Ohio State. Will be interning here in Columbus as a business consulting analyst this summer
Been meaning to talk to Ramzy and Jason. I had premium lounge status back when you only had to have 1000 hs to get in (was very frequent poster my freshman year at OSU, academics kicked my ass sophomore year and been on hiatus from posting to get my grades back up). Now that the threshold has been upped to 5 or 10k, do I still get grandfathered in or do I need to re-earn my access?
All due to respect to Hyde and that 2013 team, Give me Zeke and the 2015 Buckeyes 8 days a week
Odds are the best WR available at 12 will be Devante Parker out of Louisville, who is an absolute stud in his own right
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Oracle said Thursday that it's buying California-based DataRaker for its cloud-based analytics platform, which pulls Big Data off utilities' sensors and smart meters.
It's supposed to help electric, gas and water utilities improve their operations and efficiency.
Oracle didn't say what it's paying.
It said, "Leading-edge utilities are investing in infrastructure to collect massive amounts of data from millions of distributed smart meters and sensors, and they require modern technologies to analyze and understand the insights provided by this data."
The scalable DataRaker platform combines data gathered from smart meters, with data gathered from older legacy systems and provides analysis that helps control costs. Siemens, Toshiba and Itron have similar ventures.
DataRaker's technology and pre-packaged apps will be moved into Oracle Utilities.
DataRaker is still small with its software covering only around 17 million smart meters. It's supposed to help customers shorten the time it takes to handle calls, cut the number of field service appointments and give consumers more personalized information.
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3/27/2013 (2 years ago)
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
Hundreds of thousands of French citizens marched along the Champs-Elysees Avenue toward the Presidential palace of Francois Hollande. Their purpose was to defend marriage and the family and society founded upon it against those who oppose marriage and seek to restructure civil society by legislative or judicial fiat. They faced tear gas and clubs from the riot police representing the French Socialist regime. They were courageous and unwilling to back down. They sang La Marseillaise, the French National Anthem, and called for the resignation of the President.
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3/27/2013 (2 years ago)
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Keywords: Marriage, March for Marriage, gay marriage, marriage equality, defense of marriage, US Supreme Court, Paris March, main stream media, propaganda press, United States v. Windsor, Hollingsworth v. Perry, Deacon Keith Fournier
PARIS, FRANCE (Catholic Online) - On Sunday, March 24, 2013, hundreds of thousands of French citizens marched along the Champs-Elysees Avenue toward the Presidential palace of Francois Hollande. Their purpose was to defend marriage and the family and society founded upon it against those who oppose marriage and seek to restructure civil society by legislative or judicial fiat.
They faced tear gas and clubs from the riot police representing the French Socialist regime. They were courageous and unwilling to back down. They sang La Marseillaise, the French National Anthem, and called for the resignation of the President.
They are a part of a growing global movement I am calling a Marriage Liberation Movement. They seek to liberate marriage from the grip of propagandists and Cultural Revolutionaries. Their goal is to defend marriage against an assault by those who seek to redefine it and replace it with a profane counterfeit in an effort to foment a Cultural Revolution in the West.
If you read many main stream propaganda media reports on the March you were misinformed. You were told that these people opposed 'gay marriage', a phrase which is an oxymoron. The propaganda press uses Orwellian newspeak to fuel caricatures against those who defend true marriage. They do not report the news - they promote the Cultural Revolution.
Like propagandists of the past, they attempt to frame public perception by calling those who defend marriage against 'marriage equality', a propaganda ploy. Homosexual partnerships are incapable of being marriages. Those who defend marriage, defend marriage - and the family and society founded upon it. In so doing they also defend the true common good. Marriage 'is what it is', to use a popular expression.The effort to redefine the word and then use the mechanisms of the State to entirely restructure this institution inscribed in the Natural Law - and then replace it - is what is really at stake here.
Those who advocate giving moral and legal equivalency to homosexual and lesbian relationships are the people who oppose marriage. Their intention is to entirely reorder civil society. They use that phrase 'marriage equality' in an Orwellian act of verbal engineering. They seek to make what can never be a marriage - a homosexual or lesbian partnership - to be a marriage, by pronouncement of a Court or a legislature. They accuse those who defend marriage of being against marriage because we will not redefine the word to include homosexual or lesbian partnerships.
Those who marched in Paris are joined in solidarity by the marchers who gather in the United States of America on Tuesday, March 26, 2013. This is the first of many Marches for Marriage in the United States. It will occur in Washington, DC. when the US Supreme Court hears arguments in two cases which anti-marriage activists hope will advance their Cultural Revolution.
The day for the march was called when the docket of the United States Supreme Court revealed that the Court will hear Hollingsworth v. Perry on Tuesday and United States v. Windsor on Wednesday. These two cases seek to use the US Supreme Court to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act and misuse the Constitution's Equal protection Clause to promote and advance the Cultural Revolution opposing marriage in the United States.
To limit marriage to heterosexual couples is not discriminatory. Homosexual couples cannot bring into existence what marriage intends by its very definition. To confer by governmental fiat the benefits that have been conferred in the past only to stable married couples and families to homosexual and lesbian paramours is bad public policy. To state this so bluntly is not to be 'anti-gay'; it is simply to defend marriage and the common good.
Though the Marriage Liberation Marchers in Paris represented every segment of French society, and reflected a wide range of ages, ethnic identities and political persuasions, they were collectively labeled as conservatives in much of the international press. They were dismissed in propaganda press reports as bigoted. Get ready, you and I are soon to face the same treatment.
The struggle we face as western culture declines concerns a clash of worldviews, personal and corporate, and competing definitions of human freedom, human dignity, and human flourishing. We are involved in a contest over the foundations of what constitutes a truly human and just social order.
We insist that marriage between one man and one woman, intended for life, and the family founded upon it, has been inscribed by the Divine Architect into the order of the universe. That is because they have. Truth does not change, people and cultures do; sometimes for good and sometimes for evil.
Marriage is the first society into which children are meant to be born, learn to be fully human, grow in virtue, flourish and take their role in families and communities. We must not be afraid to make the claim that children have a right to a mother and a father. They do.
Of course we care about the single parent family and the many broken homes which characterize this age. However, their existence does not change the norm necessary for a stable and healthy society. In tact marriages and families are the glue of a healthy and happy social order. We need to be a visible, palpable reflection of this truth about marriage and family in our own lives. To live a faithful marriage is now countercultural.
Our convictions and claims concerning marriage are not outdated notions of a past era but provide the path to the future. Nor is our position defending marriage as between one man and one woman simply a religious position. We insist upon the existence of a Natural Moral Law which can be known by all men and women through the exercise of reason.
The Natural Moral Law is the ground upon which every great civilization has been built. It is the source for every great and authentic human and civil rights movement. The Natural Law gives us the moral norms we need to build societies and govern ourselves. It should inform our positive law or we will become lawless and devolve into anarchy.
There is a growing intolerance spreading across the Nations of the West against our rights to free expression, association and political participation. This is reflected in a brazen effort to censor any speech which questions the cultural slide into the abyss of relativism. Efforts to prevent our vocal and public defense of the objective truth about marriage and the family are multiplying. However, they are not succeeding.
That was evident this past weekend in the streets of Paris, France where hundreds of thousands gathered to defend marriage and the family and society founded upon them. The brave members of the emerging Marriage Liberation Movement in France also marched last January 13, 2013. Similar marched have occurred in the Philippines and Australia.
The position of the Catholic Church on the nature of marriage is crystal clear. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of the Catholic Church explained in 2003. "The Church's teaching on marriage and on the complementarity of the sexes reiterates a truth that is evident to right reason and recognized as such by all the major cultures of the world. Marriage is not just any relationship between human beings. It was established by the Creator with its own nature, essential properties and purpose."
"No ideology can erase from the human spirit the certainty that marriage exists solely between a man and a woman, who by mutual personal gift, proper and exclusive to themselves, tend toward the communion of their persons. In this way, they mutually perfect each other, in order to cooperate with God in the procreation and upbringing of new human lives."
Civil institutions do not create marriage. Neither can they create some new right to marry for those who are incapable of marriage. Government has long regulated marriage for the common good. The ban on polygamy and age requirements were enforced in order to ensure that there was a mature decision at the basis of the Marriage contract. Heterosexual marriage, procreation, and the nurturing of children form the foundation for the family, and the family forms the foundation of civil society.
What occurred in Paris this weekend is the beginning of a Movement which is spreading throughout the West. It will stand up against those who seek to undermine marriage. What began in Washington, DC on Tuesday, March 26, 2012, is just the first action. There is an international Marriage Liberation Movement gathering.
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Car-sharing/rental, supposedly beginning this month.
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Doesn't seem like anything. Just another of many campaigns, without any
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I see too many of these, to take any seriously.
Al1 | 5 Febbraio 2014
Yet not too many of them pick Tesla as a car to be shared.
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Robin Williams was in rare (okay, typical) form last night at the premiere of his new schmaltzy caper, August Rush. In it, he plays a Fagan-like proprietor of an abandoned theater, home to a gang of musical orphans (really). We asked him if he ever played a musical instrument in real life. "Yes," he said, "and I've been asked to stop." Turns out he spent some time playing the sax: "I did a black blues-player set," he said; then he turned into a black blues player: "Man, you just gotta relax! You gotta make love to it, don't hurt it, you know?" But his favorite music, he said, is the music of New York. "Look around you," he exclaimed. "It's like Gershwin flowin'! It's got music, girl, everywhere. Uptown, downtown" — he turned into a feisty Latina. "Hola, mira, Mami. You got this thing, and it just keeps you movin', ju know? You gotta have it, Papi. You know, leesten, leesten. Iss all crazy! You got to have music! And then you have the Russian clubs in Brooklyn" — with this he made some Russian-seeming sounds — "and Jewish music, Vhot, music!? It's klezmer, what! Music to flee by! That's why we take the skin off our penis — you gotta move! You can't travel with that! Then you get in a cab" — he made some high-pitched wailing sounds — "Can you turn the radio down? Osama, please." At this, the publicist began pulling him away, either because she felt enough was enough with the ethnic stereotypes or because the screening was about to begin. In his wake, however, there was a chorus of laughter. —Ben Kawaller
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CSDL Home C CEC-EAST 2004 E-Commerce Technology for Dynamic E-Business, IEEE International Conference on
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Sept. 13, 2004 to Sept. 15, 2004
pp: 100-107
Peng Liu , Peking University, Beijing, China
Zhong Chen , Peking University, Beijing, China
Web services are widely accepted and adopted to provide business functionality in business world. Especially, Web service is chosen to compose business process by companies to achieve their business objectives. Business process contains a set of activities, which represent business interactions between Web services spanning company boundaries. As Web services are built in open distributed environment, it is apt to cause security concerns. Security problems mainly prevent many companies from implementing Web services. This paper proposes an extended RBAC model, called WS-RBAC4BP, to protect web services in business process. In this model, companies and Web services are considered as subjects and protected objects, respectively. New types of constraints are introduced. Furthermore, the system architecture of WS-RABC4BP is presented. This paper also gives examples to illustrate the model.
Peng Liu, Zhong Chen, "An Extended RBAC Model for Web Services in Business Process", CEC-EAST, 2004, E-Commerce Technology for Dynamic E-Business, IEEE International Conference on, E-Commerce Technology for Dynamic E-Business, IEEE International Conference on 2004, pp. 100-107, doi:10.1109/CEC-EAST.2004.17


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|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs), finely chopped (dried)
1. Preheat oven to 350° F.
2. Using electric mixer at high speed, beat egg whites and salt in large bowl until foamy. Add almond extract; beat 30 seconds longer.
3. Add sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time; beat after each addition until soft peaks form.
4. Using rubber spatula, gently fold cocoa-flavored cereal and apricots into meringue mixture. Make mounds of 2 teaspoons each on cookie sheet with nonstick finish.
5. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes; cool slightly. Remove cookies to wire rack to cool completely.
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A man comes home to his lover, his hands are tainted by the dress of another woman. A few pages later, a couple fight for the custody of their daughter to the point where she's literally cut in two. This title is a beautiful book of visual poetry, in which all common metaphors are explained through images.
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