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We've all heard the phrase; life is a marathon, not a sprint. For the homeless veterans that participate in the St. Joe's Street to 5k Walk/Run program, that phrase has taken on new meaning over the last few months. This past June, the St. Joseph's Home for Veterans (St. Joe's) launched a running program in partnership with a coaching group, Revolution Running, to connect veterans with a health and wellness conscious community. The veterans who have committed themselves to the program have made real and lasting changes in their lives.
Every Thursday evening and Sunday morning, coaches and mentors throughout the Denver and Boulder metro areas partner with the veterans for a fitness session to educate them on nutrition, racing strategies and the importance of proper stretching and conditioning techniques. Each veteran receives a personal training program based on his personal goals, current fitness level and a new pair of running shoes.
As the weeks of training and racing pass, many meaningful relationships have developed between the veterans and their coaches. One of the devoted mentors, Susan, who has been involved with the running program from the very beginning, shares memories of when she experienced first-hand the difference a program like this can have.
Susan worked side by side with one of our veterans, John, who struggles with severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Susan noticed John enjoyed the running aspect of the races but always made a quick exit afterward without partaking in the post-race events. She eventually discovered that the crowds made him too anxious.
After the smaller race in which John beat Susan to the finish line, she invited him to sit with her and a couple she just met. She introduced John as a friend and teammate and watched in amazement as he sat causally chatting and laughing about their common interest− running. For those 30 minutes, John stopped being a homeless veteran haunted by PTSD. He became a runner, part of a team and community, just like everyone else.
Through muscle cramps, twinges, untied shoelaces and messy water stops, the veterans at St. Joes have been welcomed with open arms into the greater running community. They have found a way to reconnect, not as homeless vets battling addictions, mental and physical challenges and PTSD, but as a part of a compassionate and active world. Stride by stride, with the help of the running mentors, our veterans are taking on their personal challenges and putting them to the pavement.
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A common challenge in painting summer landscapes is that there is usually so much green. In these cases artists can take lots of "artistic license" and have fun mixing lots of different greens, which can either be so warm that they are close to red or so cool that they read as blue. Artists should use warmer greens in the foreground and cooler ones in the background.
In this landscape there are some nice yellow-greens on the ground plane, but I would add some warmer yellows in the foreground. There isn't much color in the sky (although this may just be an issue with this jpeg image), and it appears unfinished. Gray is OK, but I would suggest some variation.
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I don't have a problem at all with the colours/values in this piece, (including the sky; it seems to read quite well with the other values) but I am surprised that there was no mention of the confusing compositional setup with the fence.
The first thing my eye goes to is the shine on the diagonal of the fence that is cutting across the piece, placed dead centre. And then I try to figure out the actual fence structure, but it is confusing, & in this case, less would have been more. A fence boundary alongside the path would have worked much better than sectioning it, don't you think?
Just a suggestion... ultimately, I think it has a great mood of hot summer.
When a fence is in a painting at the bottom where an eye can enter, it seems to say "Do not enter". If the painting is about the fence, then make it more dominant and recede the background. Otherwise, as the previous commenter said, the fence is confusing. The color and greens do not bother me as much as the confusing fence issue. Perhaps the gate should have been painted as being open to invite the viewer to stroll through the painting and simplify the other diagonals.
The fence leads your eye right off the picture. The rest is nice. maybe develop some other plants that are softer and add some other colors in that area..The focus should not go off the canvas ,maybe even put vines growing over the fence would soften and give more focus and blur the fence lines..
I would push back the bushes in the upper center by making the greens there less intense. They are so strongly colored that they lose atmospheric perspective and also compete with the fenced area for the main focus
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It's time once again to welcome Royce Reed back to the blog so she can tell it like it is. For the past two seasons of Basketball Wives, Royce has recapped every episode, all the highs and lows, and given us her completely honest and unfiltered opinion. We're thrilled to have her back for season four.
I have to be honest. I've watched the show three times and I'm still lost on what was really was going and what happened. I guess it basically all lead up to Jenn getting slapped in the face over a key at the race track while promoting Think Like A Man, while Kenya was absent and I was on cloud nine with my man. Is that about it? Ok till next week…I'm Outtie!
Ok, I'm back…VH1 told me my blog couldn't be five sentences…With that said…
I'm still questioning why they keep having conversations about Jenn and her new friends, old friends, fake friends, her changing, etc. Nia, if you wanted your key, just ask for it. Better yet, change the locks! That easy! If Jenn doesn't want to be your friend…so what. I will say this though…Jenn, you really need some boxing lessons. I'll be DAMNED if a chick WALKS over to me and SLAPS ME IN MY FACE! "IN MY MOFO FACE?" (Kevin Hart voice.) I would've turned CERTIFIED PSYCHO. That's the moment you wipe the floor with someone in self-defense, THEN press charges! Jenn, Steve Harvey said it years ago…you don't tell someone "I wish you would" when you're not a fighter. That's a dare and she gave you truth!
As far as the statement being made about Jenn judging someone based on what they have…"Let me put my Green Tea down"… EVELYN, DID YOU NOT JUDGE ME BECAUSE I WASN'T WALKING AROUND IN RED BOTTOMS, OR UP ON THE FASHION SCENE WEARING $2000 DRESSES? But I digress. I understand growth, but at least admit you've been wrong in the past for passing judgment. I apologized for calling you a garden tool, so hell I'm still waiting on the apology of calling me a bum b*tch when last I checked my net worth was more by myself, not including my man. Just saying…I'm not throwing shade, but be real since that's what you claim to be. Material things shouldn't define anyone.
Out of respect for my relationship I'm only going to touch on previous relationships in this one blog:
I have not had a man every season! First season I WAS single, second season I was with Dwayne (lasted 9 months) and I ended it because I was about to make a huge mistake trying to force love into a situation I wasn't honestly feeling. My fault yes, I'll take that. Third season I DATED Brian. We dated a few months. Now I am with Dezmon and we are going strong. When I get asked about the difference between myself and my co-star I simply respond that I'm a relationship girl. I've never been one to just sleep around and have one night stands. I was with my son's father for four years, so don't believe the jump off stories. Before I dated Dwayne, I was single and not dating for over two years because my concentration was my son and WORKING!
With that said…let's move on to Dezmon.
Yes, I'm in love. No, I'm not crying wolf. If you believe that, great. If not, I don't care. I don't have to prove my status to anyone as long as I'm happy, glowing and smiling from ear to ear. Our age difference is always part of a discussion when people first see us together and realize we aren't in high school, but at this point we joke about it ourselves. To everyone judging, let me ask you how many people did you date before you found "The One"? Love doesn't have a recipe…it has a definition. Love is also used in a sentence in which Dezmon and I are the adjectives to the verb and the preposition to the noun. Yes, I just took y'all back to elementary school with the parts of speech.
Sidenote: I've worn lingerie one other time on this show, so let's not fabricate and since when does surprising your man by wearing lingerie get old? I will say I've come a long way from those polka dots though, hahaha. I am currently hiding from my parents though after that scene lol.
I know this blog was all over the place but that's kind of how the show was this week. I found myself rewinding and fast forwarding because I couldn't understand what lead to the slap. Over a key? A broken friendship? What happened to two tears in a bucket? F^ck it?
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With her enviable combination of brains, beauty and regal connections Gabriella Windsor constantly tops most eligible lists and is at the centre of the aristocratic social scene. But like Zara Phillips, Ella is one of the new set of young working royals determined to retain her independence and make her own way in the world without flaunting her famous surname.
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The most advanced e-government in the world is in Estonia - a tiny country, only independent for 21 years but that has 100% Wi-Fi coverage, where 98% of banking transactions are done over the Internet and where since 2005 it has been possible to vote in national elections over the Internet, and since 2011 also by mobile phone. The country has an advanced system of integrated databases that allows all interaction between citizens or businesses and government authorities to take place from one web portal. For example, it takes 17 minutes to register a company and have it up and running with all necessary registrations. Countries as diverse as Albania, Afghanistan and Georgia are among those copying parts of the Estonian experience. The topic of the lecture is how e-government works, what the legal implications are and what other countries can learn from the Estonian example.
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Professor Nyman-Metcalf is a visiting fellow at the Stanford H-Star Institute. Her main interest both for research and practical work is communications law in a wide sense (ICT, e-governance, media law) especially in post-conflict and developing nations. She has published extensively on these topics. Apart from her academic work, Professor Nyman-Metcalf works as an international consultant with communications law and e-governance projects. She regularly performs legal analysis for various international organisations like the OSCE Representative of Freedom of the Media. She has worked in more than 40 countries. She has for example worked on e-governance issues in Albania, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Palestine and Tajikistan.
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Philip N. Howard, University of Washington:
Since the beginning of the year there have been significant changes in North Africa and the Middle East. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali had ruled Tunisia for 20 years, and Hosni Mubarak reigned in Egypt for 30 years. Yet their bravest challengers were 20- and 30-year-olds without ideological baggage, violent intentions, or clear leaders. Political change in these countries inspired activists across the region. Some tough authoritarian governments responded with tear gas and rubber bullets, others with policy concessions, welfare spending, and cabinet shuffles. The groups that initiated and sustained protests had few meaningful experiences with public deliberation or voting, and little experience with successful protesting. These young citizens were politically disciplined, pragmatic, and collaborative. Where did they come from? How do young people growing up in modern, entrenched, authoritarian regimes find political inspirations and aspirations? Are digital media important parts of the contemporary recipe for democratization?
Evgeny Morozov's The Net Delusion offers good illustrations of the ways in which authoritarian regimes have used information technology to constrain social movements. Doing so provides an important intellectual corrective to too much enthusiasm about the role of digital media in resistance to authoritarian rule. But the book comes at a time when current events in North Africa and the Middle East— and the growing research consensus—suggest that for the most part, the proliferation of information technologies has provided occasions for introducing democratic practices in surprising ways and unexpected places. Not everyone will agree that information technologies changed the opportunity structure for opposition, improved the logistics of protest organizing, or carried stories of success across North Africa and the Middle East to inspire other citizens to challenge their dictators. But it no longer seems delusional to contemplate the political consequences of the diffusion of Internet access and mobile phones. At the same time, Morozov's book offers an important corrective to simplistic ways of thinking about the political effects of the new technologies, and scholars working on these issues will find his arguments well worth engaging.
Morozov makes several important points in forceful ways. First, most Internet content, in terms of bandwidth and hard drive space, is not dedicated to politics but to porn and illegally shared movies. Most online transactions involve shopping or entertainment, not interactions with candidates for political office. Digital media are rarely used for political content (though we have not been able to measure how this might be changing).
Second, digital media can also be key tools for regime propaganda, political surveillance, counterinsurgency and corporate espionage. These uses are on the rise, and only a few people (such as Ron Deibert at the University of Toronto) track their political consequences in systematic ways. Activists are not as safe as they might think, and may even weaken their movement by being too dependent on information technology. "The problem with most technological fixes," Morozov writes, "is that they come with costs unknown even to their fiercest advocates" (p. 303). Peer-to-peer file-sharing systems, mobile phones, and cloud computing all have technical limits and security vulnerabilities.
Third, efforts to craft a tech-savvy foreign policy have not gone very well. Morozov points out the absurdity of imposing economic sanctions that prevent some U.S.- based online services from being available in authoritarian regimes (for citizens' use) but of not regulating Silicon Alley's export of excellent censorship software (for dictators' use). On its own, encouraging internet access is not a sensible foreign policy goal. Some policymakers are just too gung-ho about technological solutions to social problems.
Yet it may be going too far to argue that having a social media strategy as part of a modern foreign policy is delusional. Public diplomacy can mean many things with regard to specific bilateral relations. But the Internet is now one of the primary means by which people in other countries keep in touch with family and friends living in the West, a supplementary means by which people expand their news diets with international content, and an important means by which middle-class youth develop a political identity. So it would be delusional not to work toward some integration of digital media in the program of statecraft and give even the most seasoned foreign policy experts a better understanding of the new media environment. Dismissing digital media altogether would be dangerous for foreign policy.
Ignoring the role of digital media in contemporary political life means being out of tune with how young people form political identity, how civil society leaders organize, and how political communication is currently structured in media systems around the developing world. Most technology use, most of the time, does not concern politics. But in times of military or political crisis, people do use information technologies in important ways. They check the news reported domestically with what is reported elsewhere, and they corroborate events with family and friends. Increasingly, people become their own media producers. What inspired many people to take to the streets in the summer of 2009 in Iran and in the Arab Spring of 2011 was not just the fact of stolen elections, but the personal stories of police abuse and government corruption that spread through digital media over social networks that crossed the region.
If anything, this book demonstrates why scholarly research is important. One of the challenges of studying technology and politics is in the difficulty of adding it all up. Morozov is most systematic in pointing out the flaws in particular tools and software. And he assembles some of the most discouraging incidents of political debate and activism gone wrong. Most of the evidence is anecdotal, occasionally it is testimonial, but rarely is it systematic or analogical. In an important way, current events do the most to undermine the overall arguments in The Net Delusion. For several years, experts and pundits were most worried about how terrorists used digital media to organize, promote hatred, and launch attacks on states and firms in the West. These things do happen, but at this point there are much more dramatic and high-impact cases of civil society groups, mainstream political parties, and journalists using information infrastructure in innovative ways. Digital media are part of the story of democratic entrenchment in countries such as Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Turkey. Sometimes, as in North Africa and the Middle East, digital media are used with surprising political effectiveness in rapid regime change.
Morozov is right to point out that several key firms— among them Facebook, Twitter, Google—do not fully appreciate the way they have become fundamental infrastructure for social movements. They cave in to government demands for filtering tools and back doors to software systems. He makes a convincing argument that any sensible theory of democratization should not be pegged to a particular piece of software or hardware. And he is right to point out that political scientists—and journalists—rarely have the technical literacy to be able to talk sensibly and critically about the interplay of technology trends, telecommunications policy, and politics.
Political science, as a discipline, is generally afraid of studying information technology because doing so is difficult. We train graduate students to use statistical inference to explain variation in a sample of data, but only the smaller community of comparative and qualitative scholars have the methodological rigor to teach us about causal patterns with confidence. Only a few social scientists have the analytical tool kit to process terabytes of log files, understand the nuances of telecommunications policy, preserve network relations in data, and think philosophically about the causal role in which software and hardware provide capacities and constraints on human action. Studying information technology and politics requires that a researcher be good at the very least at two or three of these things. Morozov himself has several of these skills, and so here is why this book is important: It will inspire a new wave of research on information technology and politics because it so convincingly demonstrates that, in political terms, technology matters.
There are intriguing debates developing in journals like the Journal of Information Technology and Politics, and some ingenious new ways of collecting, organizing, and analyzing static, dynamic, and network data about technology and politics. Nonetheless, there is an urgent need to move beyond a few favored examples and longer-than-sound bite punditry. Morozov offers a string of casual examples to show how information technology can slow down group productivity or encourage self-promotion online, but does not advance our understanding of the process by which thousands of Tunisians, then Egyptians, then Algerians, Bahrianis, Jordanians, Moroccans, and so on mobilized with astounding political effect. Given the rising number of incidents in which digital media have become part of the narrative of social movement formation, regime change, and democratic entrenchment, it no longer seems misguided to explore the possibility of causal connections between technology diffusion and political outcomes.
The Net Delusion is an important book to read because every important debate needs naysayers, and this is the best statement yet against the growing consensus that information technology opens up new supplies of information about life in democratic countries for those living in dictatorship, that such technologies improve the capacity of social movement leaders to organize even more than improve the capacity of the state to repress, and that a young generation of citizens is having—once in a while—important exchanges of ideas through which they are developing their political identities. Morozov's book is an impressive catalog of all the depressing examples of unexpected consequences and disturbing side effects of technology diffusion. The subtitle is The Dark Side of Internet Freedom. It is always possible to compose an argument about the downside of freedom, but most people would still chose to have both freedom and the Internet. Morozov does not really convince us that we can have only one of these things.
What are the key ingredients in the modern recipe for democratization? How could democratic states make good foreign policy interventions and promote democratization elsewhere? Morozov convincingly argues that technology is not the answer. In the end, not many people argue that it is the only answer; most of us argue that the modern recipe for democratization is complex, with digital media one of several key ingredients. So even after finishing the book, most readers will retain the sense that digital media can be part of the answer to several contemporary questions in political science.
Part II
Morozov Responds To Howard:
I'm grateful to Professor Howard for writing a thoughtful review of my book. I agree with some of his charges but find the policy agenda that follows from his critique to be somewhat naïve.
I concede that The Net Delusion "does not advance our understanding of the process by which millions of thousands of [people in the Middle East] mobilized with astounding political effect." But, to borrow a phrase from software developers, I think that this is a feature, not a bug. My initial assumption in writing The Net Delusion had been that both journalists and academics spend too much time extolling the positive (i.e. democratization enhancing) uses of social media and technology, leaving their more repressive uses almost invisible, both to the general public and to policy-makers (Internet use by terrorists is one exception; Howard is right to suggest that most such accounts are overblown.) As such, I didn't want to produce yet another Kumbaya account of the Internet's impact on democratization, for I feel that that side of the story is already well-covered elsewhere. I also agree with Howard that "…it may go too far to argue that having a social media strategy as part of a modern foreign policy is delusional." As Howard himself acknowledges, part of my overall project has been to show that technology matters—and it matters in ways than most Western policy-makers don't even anticipate. But simply acknowledging technology's importance is not enough to turn it into a potent tool of promoting democracy.
Politically, the Internet is not a neutral space and America's foreign policy carries all of its historical baggage to cyberspace with it.We need to think much harder about the costs of having an explicit "Internet freedom agenda." The same goes for the costs of designing that agenda in a certain way—both factually and rhetorically—for any strategy to use the Internet to promote democracy is bound to have effects on other strategies and domains (including non-digital ones). So while Washington's intent in promoting an "Internet freedom agenda" might be pure and noble and in touch with the times, I can't complement it on its nuance so far.
Moreover, I am much less sanguine than Howard about Washington's ability to avoid charges of hypocrisy— which may undermine the rest of their democracy agenda— that are bound to arise, as Western governments try to control the Internet in similar ways than their authoritarian counterparts (Britain's attempts to control social media to thwart any future riots and San Francisco's decision to shut down mobile networks to disrupt protests are cases in point.)
Translating Howard's main research finding—i.e. that information technology has a positive effect on democratization—into a set of Western policy objectives would be far more challenging than he seems to realize. This is so because Western governments have their own domestic concerns about the Internet, while Western companies are eager to abet most repressive governments in their push to keep in the Internet in check. The "delusion" that I am attacking in the title of my book refers not only to our tendency to view the Internet as the "ultimate liberator" but also to our false belief that the Internet is a tool that Western policy-makers can wield at will and without consequences.
Part III
Howard Responds to Morozov:
Morozov is absolutely right to point out that other countries—not in the set analyzed in Digital Origins— might reveal different paths toward or away from democratic government. But a quick look at some of the examples shows that they do not directly conflict with my argument that the proliferation of consumer electronics in countries with an active civil society and limited resource wealth seems to come with democratic consequences. China, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Russia, and Venezuela are often offered as examples of how a tough regime can use digital media to oppress their citizens.
Understanding political trends in these countries is an important project on its own. But as cases, they do not contribute much to our understanding of how technology proliferation advances democratic norms and practices because they are not directly relevant. They are important in that large numbers of people suffer under their authoritarian rule. China has effectively built its own Internet, with choke points, "joint ventures" that constrain private technology partners, and peculiar telecommunications standards that privilege domestic firms and allow easy access by national security agencies. The Chinese use hobbled search engines, and Chinese youth do not use Facebook; they use QQ. Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela have prominent civil society groups, but are countries where ruling elites built distinct cultures of technology use. Iran and Saudi Arabia have created a culture of fear and self-censorship around technology use, while Russia and Venezuela have effectively redesigned how all media works domestically. If anything, these cases reveal that the best way for an authoritarian government to maintain control is to not connect to global networks, import consumer electronics, or work on raising the informational sophistication of their citizenry. Russia and Venezuela are countries that over the last decade have worked to unplug their domestic media system from global information networks: the nationalization of media services, the assassination of journalists, and active surveillance will discourage the political uses of digital media. These cases do not contradict the finding that once a country's information infrastructure—and political culture—is wired up, there are political consequences.
Morozov is also correct to point out that there is a political economy to the technology services provided by YouTube, Facebook, and blogging applications. In interesting ways, the behavior of these firms demonstrates that they don't fully appreciate the ways in which their technology services are treated as public information infrastructure by many citizens. These large technology companies design tools for their "users" or "clients." Yet, in times of crisis, it is "citizens" who put political content into these tools for distribution across their social networks. Technology firms sometimes act constructively to either serve the public or capture market share. For example, Google rushed its launch of Speak2Tweet, an application that bypassed Mubarak's attempt to block Twitter use by translating phone messages into text messages. Several tech firms built dedicated portals to allow in-country users to share content. But as Morozov points out, information technologies—and the businesses designing them—do not always do things to support democratization movements.
Opposition leaders in countries where political parties are illegal sometimes use pseudonyms to avoid government harassment. But doing so on Facebook is a violation of the company's user agreement, and so the company actually shut down one of the protest-group pages in December. Supporters eventually advocated to have the page reinstated, but the incident demonstrated the way in which businesses such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter may not fully appreciate the way in which their users treat these tools as public information infrastructure, and not just as a cool new application. Whereas Google has signed the Global Network Initiative—a compact for preventing web censorship by authoritarian governments—Facebook has refused. It might be technically possible to require Facebook users in Western countries to use real identities but then to also offer levels of anonymity to people living in dictatorships, but no such feature exists.


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Despite being winless in his last four starts and making his North American debut, Bated Breath was made the 3-1 morning-line favorite for the $500,000 Nearctic Stakes (Can-IT) Oct. 16 at Woodbine.
The six-furlong Nearctic, the first of three grade I turf races on Woodbine's Sunday card, drew a field of 13. The winner will gain a paid berth into the $1 million Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (gr. IIT) Nov. 5 at Churchill Downs.
A homebred of Juddmonte Farms, English-bred Bated Breath was second by a nose in the Sept. 3 Betfred Sprint Cup (Eng-I) in his last start. The winner, Dream Ahead, came back to defeat champion Goldikova in the Prix de la Foret (Fr-I) Oct. 2 at Longchamp.
Bated Breath, a 4-year-old son of Dansili, was also a narrow runner-up in the Darley July Cup (Eng-I) at Newmarket in July and won the Sportingbet.com Leisure Stakes in May. Trainer Roger Charlton has assigned Garret Gomez to ride the bay colt.
The 4-1 second choice is Ghislaine Head's Right One, who missed by a neck when third in the Ricoh Woodbine Mile (Can-IT). In good form all season, the French-bred son of Anabaa has won three of five starts including the Jaipur (gr. IIIT) in July at Belmont. He has hit the board in all five tries in 2011. Julien Leparoux flies in for the mount for Christophe Clement.
Another main contender is New York-bred Fiddlers Patriot (6-1), who was second by a nose in Woodbine's Highlander Stakes (Can-IIT) in July and was an optional claimer winner in May at Monmouth. The Proud Citizen gelding is based at Saratoga with trainer George Weaver.
Also coming out of the Prix de la Foret that Dream Ahead won is Irish-bred filly Bewitched (8-1). The daughter of Dansili was fourth in that race, but is a two-time group III winner in Ireland this year. Top California rider Joel Rosario will come in for the ride.
The second- and third-place finishers of last year's Nearctic are also back, though neither one has had a strong season so far. Sam-Son Farms' Grand Adventure, runner-up by 2 1/2 lengths in 2010, is winless in five starts this year and has not hit the winner's circle since June 2010. Based at Woodbine for Mark Frostad, the 5-year-old son of Grand Slam was ninth in the Woodbine Mile in his most recent start.
Bear Stables' Fatal Bullet, Canada's Horse of the Year and champion sprinter in 2008, missed by a head when third in the Aug. 28 Play the King (Can-IIT) in his last start. He has won once in five starts this season, that coming in an optional claimer at Woodbine back in June. An earner of more than $1.2 million from 26 lifetime starts, Fatal Bullet will be ridden by Emma-Jayne Wilson.
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I did the audio book on the way back from King Kon and couldn't help noticing the landscape as we drove back through Pennsylvania and Ohio... seeing all the vast fields of grass untamed by man and beckoning people to adventure into the depths.
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How Sreedevi Made This - South Indian Pal Kova
By Sreedevi Gokul | Posted on Jan 27, 2013
I made pal kova with 4 litres of milk and 3 cups of sugar, it come really outstanding. The taste was amazing,my family members enjoyed the sweet.
The original recipe from which this was made...
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Soon you shall all ph33r my plethora of ficcage.... lol.... *ph33rs it herself*
Eh, it's not quite R, and it's hardly PG-13, so I averaged the two. Hawthorne style. n33. -^^-
"Müto": Ditto.
Darkness haunted this depressing and unwholesome day. It was overcast, and it had rained heavily earlier in the town of Timpor. The unpaved streets became cementlike to travelers, be they on foot or by carriage, and proved to be the death of the smaller creatures which tread into the once sandy bowels of the town's paths.
Timpor was a small town, just east of Goldenrod. It didn't have much more than houses and a central cluster of shops where the locals obtained their food and other necessities. Few people from more recognised cities even knew that the place existed.
On this particular day, a traveler might have described his stay as horribly solemn, and might even stretch as far to say that it had frightened him. With due cause fear would come to this traveler, for the birds of ancient lore—the ravens, the Murkrow—had come to town on that day, come to rest upon the rooftop of the chapel of Timpor, come to cast their veil of despair.
On the hour that this traveler, this cloaked, mysterious individual, appeared before the chapel in his journey, the bell pealed thrice, and, with each tinnination, a cloud of Murkrow fluttered up from its domination over the church roof, only to come down over this person.
He folded his shadowlike cloak down from his head, revealing hair in dark, youthful ringlets which fell just past his shoulders. With his glittering blue eyes he glared up at the flock of dark and evil birds, horrified beyond belief at such a sight.
"Never before have I seen such a terrible yet fantastic sight!" he uttered to himself.
In response the Murkrow simply cawed in garbled unison, making themselves comfortable in a nearby mulberry tree.
"There must be at least a hundred of them," he continued in awe, still watching them. "Whatever could they be doing in such a mass?"
"Someone's death is marked today," a figure replied from behind him.
He whirled around to find an old woman, short but obviously not frail and incapable of defending herself should the need arise, standing there. She arrayed in pale yet obviously many—layered attire, and seemed as though she had already met Death, but she had not. Her gaze was piercing, possessing the flame of awful knowledge; anguish and anger crinkled her sharp face. A sturdy, stout cane supported her step.
"Of whose death do you service today?"
"One named Müto," she replied, her gaze stinging the boy's heart with a blaze of such horror that he cried out.
"Stop, surely, witch! Your icy blaze has frozen me!" He glared at her, in denial of the name she had spoken. "You must cease in your terrible falsities, for I am called Müto!"
"Forgive me," she mumbled, weary. "But I could not resist that I mourn in such a way the loss of such a beautiful young man."
Then in an instant, both looked to the chapel a distance away from them, noticing the double wooden doors open wide. As did come forth from the holy place a funeral procession.
Müto merely stood there in pain that this woman rack his mind and heart in such a way. "Tell me, demon which torments me, why, then, does this dredge carry a coffin?"
"The coffin does not carry its contents," she told him, not turning away from watching the black mass. The Murkrow followed the mourning.
Suddenly the pallbearers came to a region of the street where the rain had created an abhorrent thickness of mud. None of the six could pull themselves from its grasps, and soon in their struggle they dropped the coffin open in the mud. Spilling from the bone-box came forth a mort. Its pallid complexion was foiled by its dark, beautiful hair. The body lay face-down in the mud, sinking slowly to the bottom.
Müto rushed instinctively to save it, jumping into the pit and wrenching it from the mud's attraction. Now also covered in mud like all the others, the boy turned the corpse over cautiously, fearing dearly that his precognitions would be correct. And they were.
Staring into his own gaze, a mirror albeit one dead, one alive. In an instant the corpse strangled both pale hands around the boy's neck, seeming to hiss as it slowly choked the life from him. The pallbearers did nothing to help him as he struggled with his wraith, his duplicate, his doppelganger.
Müto fought hard against the being, unable to break its grips upon him. He grappled in his sash to withdraw a dagger, and thus proceeded to disarm the corpse. The appendage laying bloodied in the mud, Müto cried out in pure pain and shock as he saw that the assault had only severed his right arm, not the undead's. Clasping what remained of the arm by the elbow in attempt to stop the blood from escaping him, he cried out, "What horrible curse have you cast upon me, witch?" He glared at her from where she stood, which was not far from where the coffin had fallen.
"I have done nothing," she replied. "I merely see the truths of Fate. The servants of Fate, they come to me; they tell me what shall become of the future. These servants, the Ditto, they only do as are told. They are the cursed ones, forever to give nothing but Death to the world."
Not an instant after the old woman had uttered the last word, the doppelganger corpse lashed out at Müto with its other arm. The boy leapt back in exclamation, kicking the creature back.
"But why? Why me, old woman?" he asked her.
"You will know all soon enough," she stated. At this point, she and the six pallbearers encircled Müto and plucked him up from the mud by what of his arms they could get hold of. The doppelganger picked up the dagger and ceremoniously proceeded to slowly cut a shallow path from its forehead to its breast, and drew but one deep breath before it ran its heart through. This action wrenched the boy into throes, and, as the seven let him fall to his knees in the mud, he clutched at his heart in agony, blood staining his hand and clothes. Breathing scarce, he proceeded to glare up at the old woman.
The woman motioned to the again lifeless body. "The Ditto's effect is what has cursed their race: any wound they inflict upon themselves is also inflicted upon their essence-mates. Death is Change, my boy. I am sorry that Change has come so soon to so beautiful and young a boy, Müto, but it is Fate."
With his final moment of life, Müto once more set his eyes upon the Ditto. "Müto: 'I Change'...." Then he died.
The pallbearers set him in the coffin, dagger in his left hand, left arm crossed over his chest. The doppelganger reverted to its true form—an amorphous being with no shape of its own—and was placed in this way at the foot of the coffin.
The Murkrow and the procession marked upon that day where Müto—Change—would pass.


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CAPE ELIZABETH—Behind a superb effort from every player on the field, the Falmouth field hockey team improved to 2-0 Friday afternoon.
Two days removed from an emphatic and surprisingly easy 3-0 home victory over rival and preseason favorite Greely, the Yachtsmen went to Cape Elizabeth, which was coming off a big opening win itself, and turned heads once more.
Falmouth's potent and balanced offense was once again on display, as three different players, sophomore Dayna Vasconcelos, junior Jillian Rothweiler and junior Leika Scott, scored goals, senior captain Katie Cooleen paced a defense which successful killed off eight penalty corners and the Yachtsmen improved to 2-0 with a 3-0 win over the 1-1 Capers.
"We have different players stepping up so far," said Falmouth coach Robin Haley. "It's just two games, but i'll take it after what we graduated. I'm really pleased. It's a good start."
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The Yachtsmen were very impressive in their opener and looked to keep the good times rolling in their first road test versus against a Cape Elizabeth squad which dominated in its first outing, an 8-0 victory at Gray-New Gloucester Wednesday.
Last fall, Falmouth won both meetings by 4-1 scores.
This encounter had a similar result, but the Capers didn't lack for chances.
In the early going, Rothweiler was denied by Cape Elizabeth senior goalie Julianne Ayers, Rothweiler shot just wide and Rothweiler and then sophomore Elle Fitzgerald had shots saved by Ayers.
At the other end, Yachtsmen junior goalie Hillary Nash denied Capers senior Lauren Steidl's shot on a penalty corner.
With 8:44 to go before halftime, Falmouth struck on a penalty corner of its own.
The ball bounced to Scott, who was coming off a big game against Greely, and she found Vasconcelos, who banged it home to make it 1-0.
That would prove to be the only goal the Yachtsmen would need, but they added to the lead in the second half.
First, the Falmouth defense had to kill a penalty corner and dodged a bullet when junior Abby McInerney's shot deflected just wide.
With 23:05 to play, the Yachtsmen got an all-important second goal as in transition, senior captain Sarah Sparks fed Rothweiler and Rothweiler finished to make it 2-0.
"The give-and-gos are really what we're capitalizing on this year," Rothweiler said. "Overall, our offense is really stepping up. I had high expectations for our team this year. Cape is always a tough game. We couldn't let our guard down."
The Capers continued to press and earned six corners in the second half, but couldn't convert on any of them.
Nash made a pair of big saves on Cape Elizabeth senior Jane Coffrin and junior Hannah Newhall shot wide.
"We have a really strong defense," said Cooleen. "I can trust everyone. Hillary's a great goalie. We have certain positions that we cover (on corners), but mostly, it's how (the other team) reacts and we react to what they give us."
Then with 1:20 to play, Scott delivered the coup de grace, getting to a scrum during a penalty corner and steering a shot past Ayers to account for the 3-0 final score.
"We worked really hard" Cooleen said. "It's not a complete surprise. It's nice to do well against teams like Cape and Greely that are tough to beat."
"We're still trying to put things together," Haley added. "It was a little sloppy at times, but I was really happy with how we went into the second half. We did a better job with small passes and got a couple goals. Some of the girls came up big defensively."
Falmouth had a 9-3 edge in shots. Nash made three saves.
The Yachtsmen play at Yarmouth Tuesday, return home to face Lake Region Thursday, then have a huge test Sept. 10 at nemesis York, the reigning regional champion.
Falmouth has dazzled so far, but still has a long way to go.
"We lost a lot of good players, so we have to step up and play as a team," Rothweiler said. "It's coming together."
"We have a good passing game, but we can improve on that," Cooleen said. "Overall, we're doing well."
Cape Elizabeth, which had an 8-4 advantage on penalty corners and got six saves from Ayers, wasn't overly discouraged by the loss, knowing it had ample opportunities to score.
"We had plenty of chances," said Capers coach Darci Holland. "We didn't take hard enough shots on goal. We need to finish. It didn't happen today. I thought it was an evenly matched game. We didn't mark as well as we should have. It's a lesson learned. We'll see them again. We know the game and how each other plays. It's just a matter of scoring."
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Well, I never thought I'd agree with anything Gorski said after he introcduced us to "Gorski-Care".
But in this context, he has a point.
Regarding the RRS, their failure to not only cover important news events, is only exceeded by their complete failure to dig into any issue. They accept statements from local politicians at face value.
I subscribe to the Chicago Tribune. Pick up the Sunday edition and compare it to the RRS for that day. You would think these publications came from different states.
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Public debates on religion between Jews and Christians were a frequent occurrence in Europe during the Middle Ages, when the representative of the Church, who was most often a converted Jew, sought to triumph over his reluctant Jewish antagonist by demonstrating out of Jewish texts themselves that Christianity was the "fulfillment" of Judaism.
Such a debate was held in July and August of 1263 in Barcelona at the court of King Jayme I of Aragon. The subject was the Messiah : whether he had come or not, whether he was divine or not. The disputants were Rabbi Moses ben Nachman (Ramban) of Gerona, the most famous rabbi in Spain, and Fra Paulo Christiani, a converted Jew employed by the Dominicans as missionary to the Jews.
Raymond of Pennaforte, the king's confessor, who figures in the debate at several points, had been Master General of the Dominican Order, and the historian Graetz believes that the king commanded the disputation at his urging, in the belief that through it Nachman might be converted and with him the whole of Spanish Jewry.
Shortly after the debate had been concluded, with both Jews and Dominicans claiming the victory, Nachman published an account of the proceedings. For this he was banished for two years and his pamphlet burned. Later, at the insistence of Pope Clement IV, this sentence was altered to perpetual banishment. Nachman then went to Palestine, where he lived out his days.
These excerpts from the debate are from Nachman's account, as translated from the text edited by Moses Steinschneider, and included in Jewish Religious Polemic, by O. S. Rankin (1956). They are reprinted by permission of the Edinburgh University Press.—ED.
Our lord the king had commanded me to debate with Fra Paulo in his majesty's palace, in the presence of himself and his council, in Barcelona. To this command I replied that I would accede if I were granted freedom of speech, whereby I craved both the permission of the king and of Fra Raymond of Pennaforte and his associates who were present. Fra Raymond of Pennaforte replied that this I could have so long as I did not speak disrespectfully. . . .
Then Fra Paulo began by saying that he would prove from our Talmud that the Messiah of whom the prophets had witnessed had already come. I replied to that, that before we argued on that, I would like him to show and tell me how this could possibly be true. . . . Did he wish to say that the scholars who appear in the Talmud believed concerning Jesus that he was the Messiah, and that they believed that he was completely man and truly God in accordance with the Christian conceptions of him? Was it not indeed a known fact that Jesus existed in the days of the Second Temple, being born and put to death before the destruction of that Temple? But the scholars of the Talmud were later than this destruction. . . . Now, if these scholars had believed in the Messiahship of Jesus and that he was genuine and his religious belief true; and if they wrote those things which Fra Paulo affirms he is going to prove that they wrote; then how was it that they continued to hold by the Jewish faith and their original religious usage? For they were Jews and continued to abide in the religion of the Jews all their days. They died as Jews, they and their children, and their disciples who heard all the words they uttered. Why did they not apostatize and turn to the religion of Jesus as has done Fra Paulo who understands from their sayings that the Christian faith is the true faith? . . .
Here Fra Paulo . . . brought forward that Haggadic story, contained in the Midrash to the Book of Lamentations, about the man who was ploughing when his cow began lowing. An Arab was passing by and said to the man: "O Jew, O Jew, untie your cow, untie your plough, untie your coulter, for the Temple has been destroyed." The man untied his cow, his plough, and his coulter. The cow lowed a second time. The Arab said to the man: "Tie your cow, tie your plough, tie your coulter, for your Messiah has been born."
To this I answered: "I do not give any credence at all to this Haggadah but it provides proof of my argument." At this the fellow shouted: "See how the writings of his fellow-Jews are denied by him!" I replied: "I certainly do not believe that the Messiah was born on the day of the destruction of the Temple and as for this Haggadah, either it is not true or it has another interpretation of the sort called the mystical explanations of the wise. But I shall accept the story's plain literal statement, which you have put forward, since it furnishes me with support. Observe then that the story says that at the time of the destruction of the Temple, after it had been destroyed, on that very day, the Messiah was born. If this be so, then Jesus is not the Messiah as you affirm that he is. For he was born and was put to death before the destruction of the Temple took place, his birth being nearly two hundred years before that event according to the true chronology and seventy-three years previous to that event according to your reckonings." At these words of mine my opponent was reduced to silence. . . .
Fra Paulo then said to me: "Then you do believe that the Messiah has come?" I replied: "No, but I believe and am convinced that he has not come and there never has been anyone who has said concerning himself that he was Messiah—nor will there ever be such who will say so [viz., concerning themselves]—except Jesus. And it is impossible for me to believe in the Messiahship of Jesus, because the prophet says of the Messiah that 'he shall have dominion from sea to sea and from the River until the ends of the earth.' Jesus, on the other hand, never had dominion, but in his lifetime he was pursued by his enemies and hid himself from them, falling finally into their power whence he was not able to liberate himself. How then could he save all Israel? Moreover, after his death dominion was not his. For in regard to the Empire of Rome, he had no part in the growth of that. Since, before men believed in him the city of Rome ruled over most of the world and after faith in him had spread, Rome lost many lands over which it once held sovereign power. And now the followers of Mohammed possess a larger empire than Rome has. In like manner the prophet Jeremiah says that in the Messianic age 'they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me,' while in Isaiah it is written, that 'the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.' Moreover the latter prophet states that, in this time, 'they shall beat their swords into ploughshares . . . nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.' But since the days of Jesus up to the present the whole world has been full of violence and rapine, the Christians more than other peoples being shedders of blood and revealers likewise of indecencies. And how hard it would be for you, my lord the king, and for those knights of yours, if they should learn war no more!" . . . At this juncture my opponent called out: "Such is always his method—to make a long speech when I have a question to put to him." . . .
Our lord the king had arranged that on the next Thursday the debate should be held in his palace and had commanded that it be in private. So we had our session in the fore-hall of the palace, Fra Paulo beginning with an airy speech in which there was no substance at all. After this he declared: "I bring the testimony of a great Jewish scholar named Master Moses of Egypt [Maimonides] the like of whom has not been in Jewry for the last four hundred years. This scholar says that the Messiah will die and his son and son's son rule in succession. Thus he does not say, as you have said, that the Messiah is not mortal like other men are." Then Fra Paulo asked for the Book of Judges [by Maimonides]. . . .
The book which Fra Paulo had asked for was now brought, and he sought for what he wanted in it and could not find it. So I received the book from his hands, and, calling for attention to the statements of the work which he had introduced into the discussion, read aloud from the beginning of the chapter where it is said that the king Messiah is in the future to be designated for Israel and that he will build the Temple and gather together Israel's dispersed. At these words of Maimonides, Fra Arnol of Segura exclaimed: "He is speaking lies." To which I replied: "Up till now he has been a 'great scholar' that has 'none like him' and now he is a liar!" But the king rebuked Fra Arnol, observing that it was not seemly to offer insults to the learned. . . .
When they came to the synagogue on the following Sabbath I addressed our lord the king in words that were worthy of the occasion and of his office. When he expounded earnestly to the effect that Jesus was the Messiah, I rose up and said: "The words of our lord the king in my eyes are noble words, exalted and to be held in honor since they proceed from the mouth of a nobleman highly esteemed and honored, the like of whom is not in our time, but I do not appraise them as the truth in as much as I have proofs and arguments clear as sunlight that the truth does not correspond with his words. . . ."
After I had spoken thus Fra Raymond of Pennaforte rose up and gave a discourse on the subject of the Trinity and asserted that the Trinity was wisdom and will and power. . . . To which I replied that I acknowledged that the deity was wise and not foolish, and will without passibility and powerful and not weak, but that the expression Trinity was entirely misleading. For wisdom in the Creator is not an unessential quality but He and His wisdom are one and He and His will are one and He and His power are one—and, if this be so, the wisdom and the will and the power are one whole. And even if these were unessential qualities of God, the thing which is the Godhead is not three but is one, bearing three unessential qualities.
Our lord the king here spoke, drawing an analogy which they who err had taught him. He said that in wine there are three things, color and taste and fragrance, and that these constitute one thing. . . . But this is entirely erroneous, since the redness and the taste and the fragrance in wine are three distinct things each of which might be present without the others. For there are red and white and other colors of wine. The same holds true in regard to taste and fragrance. Moreover the redness is not the wine, nor is the taste the wine, nor is the fragrance the wine. But the essence of the wine is the thing which fills the whole, and is a body which bears three distinct accidents; a body in which there is no unity. And if (in regard to the deity) we should proceed on this false analogy to calculate as has been done we would be compelled to affirm a quaternity. For the thing which constitutes deity together with his wisdom and his will and his power when counted up is four. Further, you could have a fivefold deity, since God is a living being and just as wisdom is in Him so is life; in which case his definition would be: a living being, wise, willing, powerful, and having the essence of Godhead. All of which comes to five. But this whole mode of thought is manifestly wrong.
Then Fra Paulo stood up and said that he believed in the perfect unity of the Deity but that nevertheless there was in that unity a Trinity, and this was a doctrine very profound for neither the angels nor the princes of the upper regions could comprehend it. My answer to this was: "It is clear that no person believes what he does not know. Hence it is that the angels do not believe in a Trinity." The associates of Fra Paulo made him remain silent. Our lord the king rose up and he and those with him descended from the place where the prayer-desk was, each going their several ways. On the morrow I had audience of our lord the king whose words to me were: "Return to your city in safety and in peace." Then he gave me three hundred dinars and I took my leave of him with much affection. May God make him worthy of the life of the world to come. Amen.


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Revenge Season 2: Will Emily Thorne and Daniel Grayson Get Married?
Cartier is certainly making bank with all of the Grayson engagements on Revenge. In Season 1, Daniel Grayson proposed to his lady love, Emily Thorne. And though the engagement was later called off, we'll never forget that massive canary diamond.
Now we know that Danny's about to propose again to Ms. Thorne, but this time things seem to be even more complicated. Ems is actually dating Aiden Mathis while continuing to seduce Daniel to further her revenge mission. Aiden's not pleased that his girlfriend is in the arms of another man, but he doesn't run the show around here.
So will Emily and Daniel finally make it down the aisle this time? Not if Victoria has anything to say about it! This bandage dress-wearing Hamptons matriarch loathes Emily and is hell-bent on keeping her out of the family.
Vicki shouldn't underestimate Emily's cunning, though. This blonde bombshell has Daniel wrapped around her finger, so if she wants it to happen...it's going to happen.
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After winning the British talent show ?The X Factor,? 22-year-old Lewis also managed to win favor from Arista music impresario Clive Davis and ?American Idol? judge Simon Cowell.
The two music bigwigs will supervise her debut album, due out on J/Syco records. Davis and Cowell will work together to pick both songs and producers for Lewis record.
?Leona is one of the most gifted singers I have ever come across and it is an honor to work alongside Clive? Simon Cowell said in a statement.
?Leona is so talented that when she showcased for our best songwriters in LA right before the Grammys, she received a tumultuous reception. Simon Cowell and I will have a great time working together on her album,? Davis added.
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