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Can you believe it? Democrats actually got the GOP to cave on a bill. Now the Dems can move on to other pressing legislation, like the Spit Take Clean Up Act. Ron Paul walked out of an interview after being asked about his racist newsletter (that CNN reporter's mother raised her better than that). And PolitiFact published a fact check of its fact check. Wait, shouldn't someone fact check the fact check of the fact check? And shouldn't someone THEN fact check the fact check of the fact check of the fact check? Hmm. Anyway, this is HUFFPOST HILL for Thursday, December 22nd, 2011, and we're going to go think about the nature of infinity for a while:
"It may not have been politically the smartest thing in the world."
-John Boehner
HOUSE GOP CAVES ON PAYROLL TAX - "House Republicans on Thursday crumpled under the weight of White House and public pressure and have agreed to pass a two-month extension of the 2 percent[age point] payroll-tax cut ... The House made the move after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., agreed to appoint conferees to a committee to resolve differences between the Senate's two-month payroll-tax cut and the House's one-year alternative." [National Journal]
EARLIER: MCCONNELL COVERS BOEHNER WITH FIG LEAF LEAVING LITTLE TO THE IMAGINATION - Mike McAuliff: "Moments after House Republican leaders dug in their heels on blocking a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell offered his colleagues a path out of the politically damaging position. Last week the Senate overwhelmingly passed a two-month extension of the 2 percent[age point] break, which expires New Year's Day. But House GOP leaders rejected that deal, saying they would only accept a yearlong extension, even though many in their own party have been highly critical of the opposition. So McConnell (R-Ky.), who negotiated the Senate deal, offered a new idea Thursday, suggesting that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) appoint members to a conference committee to work out a longer deal between the two chambers in return for the House passing the two-month stopgap now." [HuffPost]
We're going dark tomorrow and most of next week. We'll be back late next week with a pre-Iowa Caucus update. Now go wish Jesus a happy birthday, you crazy kids.
DAILY DELANEY DOWNER - A top-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives on Tuesday defended his party's support for cutting 20 weeks of unemployment benefits, a position that has escaped much notice in the payroll tax cut debate that has consumed Washington for the past few weeks. "There are things in this bill as we pointed out that we had to make concessions on," House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Thursday in response to a question from the Daily Delaney Downer. "That's the process. We understand that," Hoyer continued. "Unfortunately there are an awful lot of tea party activists who were elected to the Congress who don't understand compromise. That provision is one of the provisions that [Rep. Sander Levin (D-Mich.)] has concerns about." Womp womp. [HuffPost]
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POLITIFACT: WHINE OF THE YEAR - "The paradox of the Internet age is that never before have we had access to more ideas and different thoughts. And yet, many of us retreat into comfy parlors where everyone agrees and the other side is always wrong. Each side can manufacture its truths and get the chorus to sing along. PolitiFact had its latest brush with the Echo Chamber Nation this week. We gave our Lie of the Year to the Democrats' claim that the Republicans 'voted to end Medicare.' That set off a firestorm in the liberal blogosphere, with many saying that claim was not actually wrong. We've received about 1,500 e-mails about our choice and only a few agreed with us... The critics said we ignored the long-term effects of Rep. Paul Ryan's plan and that we were wrong to consider his privatized approach to be Medicare. In their view, that is an end to Medicare. We've read the critiques and see nothing that changes our findings." And so forth. PolitiFact is so brave. [PolitiFact]
@2chambers: Charlie Rangel's Christmas e-mail to supporters features Rangel & his family standing in front of a portrait of Charlie Rangel. #winning
PULLS DOCTOR CARD WALKS OUT OF CNN INTERVIEW - Ron Paul's racist newsletter from the '80s and '90s got the full media treatment today, with an impressive bout of coverage on MSNBC. "Why don't you go back and look at what I said yesterday on CNN and what I've said for 20 something years. 22 years ago?" Paul told CNN's Gloria Borger of the newsletter which compared African Americans to zoo animals. "I didn't write them, I disavow them, that's it." TPM's Benjy Sarlin isn't buying Paul's sass: "In addition to the objectionable content of the newsletters, his odd explanation contrasts heavily with his hard-earned brand as an unconventional anti-politician who always tells the truth as he sees it and never waters down his views to pander to voters. It's hard to square this with a candidate who claims that he somehow never bothered to read a newsletter published under his own name that generated as much as $1 million in revenues in just one single year." [TPM]
GREEN GROUPS HEART OBAMA, BUT LOVE COULD PROVE FLEETING - The Environmental Protection Agency's historic new rules on mercury pollution had green groups brimming with praise for the president on Wednesday. But with Obama's decimation of the EPA's smog standards and the looming specter of his decision around the Keystone XL, can the warm, fuzzy feeling last? Author and activist Bill McKibben is holding out hope. "I of course as am bewildered by the spectacle of DC policy making as anyone," he told HuffPost Hill, "but so far I haven't seen any reason to think that the administration is less than sincere in its promise to deny the pipeline if he's pushed to the wall." DEVELOPING ...
MITT ROMNEY PLAYS COY ON RELEASE OF TAX RETURNS: 'NEVER SAY NEVER BUT...' - "In an interview that aired Wednesday night on NBC News, Mitt Romney definitively answered one of the lingering questions surrounding his presidential ambitions, saying he had no plans to release his tax returns should he win the Republican presidential nomination. 'Never say never, but I don't intend to do so,' Romney said. The statement marks an interesting point in the continuous frictions between political expedience and demands for transparency, as well as the benefits and downsides of both." [HuffPost's Sam Stein]
HALEY BARBOUR RETURNS TO K STREET - Wait. Haley Barbour left K Street? AP: "When Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour leaves office Jan. 10, he'll return to the lobbying firm he founded in 1991. That's according to a person with direct knowledge of the plan who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because Barbour's plans were not yet public. The person says Barbour will return next month to the BGR Group. It is a government affairs, strategic communications and investment banking firm. The person says Barbour's new office is under construction in Washington, and newly hired people will work for him. Barbour has recently worn BGR golf shirts at public events. He cannot seek a third term as governor." [AP]
AMERICA'S FAVORITE TOE-TAPPER ALSO RETURNS TO K STREET - Larry Craig is now lobbying on behalf of the coal industry, because what the hell, why not? "It's an issue that Craig's new client, Murray Energy, knows all too well. The largest privately held coal company in the nation, Murray Energy owned a subsidiary that ran the Crandall Canyon Mine in Utah, the site of a tragic cave-in incident that took the lives of six miners and later three rescuers. The cave-in occurred in August 2007, just weeks after Craig was arrested for allegedly soliciting sex in an airport bathroom ... The addition of a heavyweight like Craig to the coal lobby serves as a reminder of just how difficult it can be to pass mine safety reform in the face of industry influence, even in the aftermath of [Upper Big Branch,] the worst mining disaster in 40 years." [HuffPost's Dave Jamieson]
'ONE STRIKE' PUBLIC HOUSING POLICY HITS VIRGINIA WOMAN WHO NEEDS KIDNEY TRANSPLANT - Sometimes Christmas comes early, and sometimes you get evicted from your home because somebody that doesn't even live there gets busted for drugs. Under the Department of Housing and Urban Development's one-strike policy, a mother of three with stage 5 renal failure may be booted from her home. Arin Greenwood: "Shelly Anderson has stage 5 renal failure and needs a kidney transplant. The 33-year-old recently found out that her mother is a match. There are more tests to do before the transplant, but within a year Anderson might have a new kidney, which she says would make her feel physically 100 percent better ... But just as her health prospects are looking up, Anderson faces another crisis: She's going to be evicted from her home in public housing unless a court intervenes. Even her illness has not stayed the hand of Alexandria public housing officials." [HuffPost DC]
'TIS THE SEASON - "It's been a frustrating, gruelingly partisan, and very weird year in America ... Here's a round-up of the 2011 Christmas season's strangest (and most painfully delightful) news stories, including the Michigan-Wisconsin mitten war and Santa Claus' machine-gun-fest for kids." You're welcome? [MoJo]
DONALD TRUMP REPEATS 'THE BLACKS LOVE ME' MANTRA Donald Trump, who's long maintained he "always had a great relationship with the blacks," on Wednesday continued to rave about how African Americans will totally flock to him as a presidential candidate. "I think I'd do great with the African American votes. I think I'd do great with that," he told Fox News' Greta Van Susteren. Watch out, Mr. President. Here he comes. [HuffPost]
BECAUSE YOU'VE READ THIS FAR - Here's a baby polar bear so in need of milk he keeps his tongue out just in case there's an opening.
JEREMY'S WEATHER REPORT - Tonight: No one likes the clouds, especially those of you hoping to escape the District before the peak evacuation days. But if you're flying, there's not much hope on the horizon. A cruddy stalled front to the south is bringing rain up to the area slowly, with some thunder in the forecast. I bet now you're rethinking the joy over 60-degree days in December, no? Tomorrow: A bit of sun returns, bringing some warmth. Thanks, JB!
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- Crazy French people walk out on highlines and then jump off of them. [http://bit.ly/sZsgPc]
- The trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is out. [http://bit.ly/sAuuyS]
- Web video series "My Drunk Kitchen" attempts to build a gingerbread house. [http://bit.ly/uHWcZe]
- The Boston Globe's Year in Pictures, Part II. [http://bo.st/rs0OX0]
- Bullfrog challenges lizard's high score at fly-swatting smartphone game. [http://bit.ly/sDauuu]
- Dogs sneeze, are cute. [http://bit.ly/szqWX1]
- Here's a guy who spends his time disarming landmines. What did you do today? [http://bit.ly/t6T9w7]
- Have you ever wondered what happens to Christmas lights after the holidays? We haven't, either. But here's the answer. [http://bit.ly/uy6WMK]
@drgrist: It's like that part in Braveheart where William Wallace says, "FREEEEEDOOO... oh, fine, two months then."
@pourmecoffee: In order to feel better, House GOP will want to name about 90 more things after Reagan, maybe even your town or state.
@brianbeutler: This is like the part in The Town where they demanded FICA cap be fixed at $110,000, despite the temporary tax holiday.
By @christinawilkie
5:00pm - 9:00pm: If the idea of wandering around a zoo at night doesn't make you nervous or depressed (it makes us a bit of both), then head to the Zoolights Celebration at the Smithsonian National Zoo. It'll be fun. You'll love it. [3001 Connecticut Avenue NW]
5:30pm: The Willard Hotel's Holiday Lobbying event features live music from the Capital Hearings, just a reminder from your friendK Street not to slack off just because it's Christmas. [1401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW]
7:00pm - 9:00pm: The Greater Washington Fashion Chamber Of Commerce has a party to raise money for DC fashion, so we can spread horn-rimmed glasses, tweed jackets, and City Sports t-shirts around. [1525 Wisconsin Avenue NW]
Evening: The Source has a special holiday Peking duck dinner served with a 15-layer carrot cake for $49 a pop. [575 Pennsylvania Avenue NW]
5:00pm - 9:00pm: Smithsonian Zoolights Celebration continues. Meanwhile, lions, tigers and bears continue to wish for one night of normal sleep. Just one. [3001 Connecticut Avenue NW]
6:00pm: The Washington National Cathedral hosts Carols by Candlelight, the perfect thing to send your visiting relatives to, because it's free, it's really pretty, and it'll keep them tied up through happy hour. [3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW]
7:30pm: Hey there, House Republicans, here's a movie about a bunch of people who help out a nice guy who lost his job. Just saying. "It's A Wonderful Life" plays at the Library of Congress. [National Audio-Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC), 19053 Mount Pony Road, Culpepper, Va.]
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AUSTIN, Texas, March 28. ARIZONA's Kevin Cordes, who has had a pair of astonishing relay splits wiped out due to disqualifications, took out his frustration on the men's 100-yard breaststroke at the NCAA Division I Men's Championships.
Cordes set the American record for the seventh time, but tonight might have been the most special as he demonstrated that the men's 100-yard breaststroke is ready to reach an incredible low of 49 seconds. This evening, he blasted the field with a jaw-dropping 50.04 after going out in 23.58. This after posting a 50.55 this morning to break his previous American and NCAA record of 50.70 from last December.
"It never gets old. It's what you work for the whole year. the team works for it. I'm really excited to bring another one back to Arizona," Cordes said. "I'm pretty excited so far. It's not over. We still have a lot of work to do but it's really a good feeling. I tried to take it out faster and it really worked with the speed in my turns."
That's three straight wins for Cordes, joining just Brendan Hansen (4), Steve Lundquist (4), Damir Dugonjic (3), John Hencken (3), Jeremy Linn (3) and Richard Nelson (3) as three time winners in the event's history at NCAAs. Hansen had the pleasure of handing out the awards this evening.
Cordes already had a 49.95 400 medley split and a 23.01 200 medley relay split wiped out by DQs.
Georgia's Nic Fink picked up second-place honors in 51.48, while Michigan's Richard Funk took third in 51.96.
California's Chuck Katis (52.02), Missouri's Sam Tierney (52.07), Indiana's Cody Miller (52.09), Michigan's Bruno Ortiz (52.12) and Western Kentucky's Fabian Schwingenschlogl (52.25) posted the rest of the swims in the historic finale.
Louisville's Thomas Dahlia prevailed in the consolation heat with a 52.08, while Florida's Eduardo Solaeche-Gomez took second in 52.35.
Louisville's Kameron Chastain (52.51), Auburn's Michael Duderstadt (52.54), Dartmouth's Nejc Zupan (52.69), Alabama's Anton McKee (52.78), Arizona's Brad Tandy (52.94) and Florida's Matt Elliott (53.04) snared the rest of the team points out of the B final.
1 Cordes, Kevin JR Arizona 50.55 50.04N 20
r:+0.71 10.54 23.58 (13.04)
36.83 (13.25) 50.04 (13.21)
2 Fink, Nicolas JR Georgia 52.37 51.48 17
r:+0.70 10.85 23.99 (13.14)
37.50 (13.51) 51.48 (13.98)
3 Funk, Richard JR Michigan 52.44 51.96 16
r:+0.65 11.03 24.45 (13.42)
38.32 (13.87) 51.96 (13.64)
Team Standings
1. Texas 249.5
2. California 248.5
3. Florida 244
4. Michigan 195
5. Georgia 178
6. Arizona 119.5
7. Auburn 91
9. Florida State 85
10. Louisville 74

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Contrary to what you may think, this is not the new installment to the "Road" pictures with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.
Instead, my wife and I spent the day driving a rental car back and forth along a 44 mile coastal road that winds along the northeast shore of Maui.
This is a famous trip that averages 15 mph, with spectacular waterfalls after it rains, lush forests, bamboo forests, and unique plants and hairpin curves.
There are at least two arboretums that we got to visit. One is free, and the other ("The Garden of Eden" --no, it's not that type of place) is a privately owned botanical garden that charges $10 to get in. It also features the view of a famous rock that appears on the shore in Jurassic Park (III, I think).
We only got half way, to mile marker 20, before we had to turn around and return the rental car. We chose to drive ourselves so that we could go at our own pace. We are pretty pleased that we got home to the hotel just at sunset, and were able to watch for whales playing just off the west shore of Maui. They are visible, breaching and jumping, rolling and lolling, most days in March near Maui.
As you may have noticed, the map of Maui forms a woman's head and torso, with the head turned left, the neck, and then the shoulders and chest as the largest part. We are staying at a resort complex (at the level of the "eyes") that boasts 27 acres and a 35 million dollar renovation. It is certainly first class.
We started our day renting the car and getting a late start, but found our way to the Iao Valley, which features a landmark "needle" of granite that rises above the valley floor. Unfortunately I left my map and reading glasses at the visitor's center in the park*, and never missed it until a half hour later down the road. I'm afraid it's gone, but my wife had other maps and she navigated while I drove.
We made it as far as Keane, where there is a YMCA camp and a spectacular view of the crashing surf at the end of the Keane peninsula. That alone was worth the drive!
After a late dinner of half a chicken on rice, purchased from the local Foodland, and remnants of our lunch, bought at a mom and pop vegetable garden and roadside market stall, we are doing laundry and planning the last few days we have left. Tomorrow, we return the rental car, and look forward to our whale watching cruise, all before noon. Then it's snorkeling and possibly some body surfing or boggy boarding, as it's known around here.
*I have just learned that our group will be visiting the Ioa valley later this week, so there is now a chance, that I may find or reclaim my reading glasses. I miss them. Have you ever mislaid something that you love? That's how I've come to feel about this cheap little pair of glasses. Unfortunately, yesterday during the whale watching tour, shoved my favorite pair of sunglasses onto my head and the sun-headed frames snapped. So, I've lost another friend. Oh well. What's lost in Hawaii stays in Hawaii, I guess! [--Update: They weren't there. They really ARE gone. Oh well!]
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As shave situations go, this one's a win-win.
800Razors.com has offered Dodgers reliever Brian Wilson $1 million to let them clear-cut his trademark bushy beard.
Your serve, WeedWacker … $2 million?
- On his birthday, Russell Wilson gives Seattle Seahawks perhaps his greatest game to beat Pittsburgh Steelers
- Update: Seahawks' Jimmy Graham suffers right knee injury vs. Steelers, will miss rest of season
- Suspected burglar dies after getting stuck in chimney
- Seattle Seahawks' swagger, hopes for playoffs are back after they slam door on Pittsburgh Steelers
- Grading the game: Seattle Seahawks' offense earns perfect mark against Pittsburgh Steelers
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• At TheOnion.com: "A-Rod incredibly humbled to be mentioned alongside all-time greats Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds, Jose Canseco."
• At SportsPickle.com: "Chiefs fire Andy Reid after 0-2 preseason start."
Going to the ink well
Former Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel will teach a class called "General Principles of Coaching" at the University of Akron this fall.
But who cares about the class? Giddy students just want to trade their course syllabus for free tattoos!
Just asking
Considering the furor over San Diego mayor Bob Filner's alleged misconduct — not to mention the Chargers' 0-2 exhibition record — is this the week to Win One For The Groper?
Drs. Kettle, Black
Let's see if we have this straight: Alex Rodriguez — who once let his cousin inject questionable substances into his buttocks — is complaining about his medical treatment from the Yankees?
Hole Truth Dept.
"Former Heat player Michael Beasley was arrested for possession of marijuana," noted Greg Cote of The Miami Herald. "Is that even news? That's like me being found in possession of a donut."
That's a first
Seahawks followers ranked near the bottom — 23rd of 32 teams — in terms of NFL fan loyalty, as determined by sports-marketing analysts at Atlanta's Emory University Business School.
How shocking — seeing the words "Seattle" and "fair weather" in the same sentence, that is.
Quote marks
• Horse trainer D. Wayne Lukas, to The New York Times, on his four divorces: "You can have a trainer's license or a marriage license … one or another, but not both at the same time."
• Jack Finarelli of SportsCurmudgeon.com, on why he can't take the Wisconsin Duck and Goose Calling Championship seriously: "None of the judges were ducks or geese."
• Times reader Bill Littlejohn, on Allen Iverson — out of the NBA for three years — apparently set to finally call it quits: "His retirement speech doesn't need any practice."
Reshow me the money
Ten former players are suing NFL Films for using their images without compensation.
An NFL Films spokesman says he can't comment until … hey, wait — they've already seen the films!
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Rick Kimbrel
It has been well documented how talented the incoming UCLA Bruin class is and the good news is they are living up to their potential. Almost to a recruit they are playing on winning teams and the future Bruin is the reason why. The following is part one.Four-star cornerback Aaron Hester (6-0, 180, 4.44) from Compton (Calif.) Dominguez are 2-2 and their two losses came against two undefeated teams in Corona (Calif.) Centennial and Redlands (Calif.) East Valley.On the season Hester has 15 tackles and four deflected passes. He's been lockdown so far only one pass caught on him in four games.Despite wishful thinking by other colleges, Hester is still solidly a Bruin. ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now!
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We're in the middle of National Library Week, and while we hope you will stop in and help us celebrate, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all the folks who help make this library a great community hub. It all starts with the people who work here, and I am blessed to have a friendly, helpful, knowledgeable, dedicated, and funny group of coworkers. Great people, every one of them.
Hi folks - Here's the latest from the Wisconsin DOT:
WIS 23 reconstruction - Green Lake to Ripon
Traffic impacts and business access
April 21 through August 2014
1. WIS 23, from the intersection of WIS 49/County A to Arcade Glen Road (Ripon) will be detoured via County A, County K, County KK, and WIS 44/49.This detour will be in place until July 2014.
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Have you recently received an 'Exclusive Dinner Invitation' from a company called Wenatex in the letter box?
The letter says:
In order to satisfy the ever-increasing demand, we would like to invite you and your partner as our personal guests to one of our entertaining information evenings, which includes a wonderful dinner. While dining…we will inform you about current trends and new scientific research into the subject of healthy sleep…attending guests will receive a fantastic gift as an additional thank you.
While reading this letter, my thoughts drifted to a hot day in Koh Samui in April 2010 and how my wife and I had been duped into giving up our afternoon in the hope we'd make some money for our back packing holiday. This is what I wrote in my journal:
Tuesday 6th April 2010: Chaweng Beach, Koh Samui:
"While walking back to our hotel room for an afternoon siesta, stopped by tanned English couple on motorbike. Gave us scratchy cards. Surprise! We'd won a great prize – cash, laptop, camera or dream holiday Next thing, we found ourselves in a cab on our way to 90 minute timeshare presentation…
That afternoon, after the sales presentation (so boring, the memory of it is completely erased from my consciousness, but it must have happened as it's in my travel journal) we were shown around expensive holiday resorts, given free cocktails and then subjected to the "hard sell" for timesharing that would have cost tens of thousands of dollars.
When the salespeople finally gave up, we received our prize: a voucher for a holiday at a resort in Thailand, not valid for immediate use. My guess is everyone gets that voucher. (A year ago I found it in an envelope among some travel mementos. It had long-expired.)
It struck me that the psychology behind the Wenatex dinner invitation is almost exactly the same as the Thailand 'con' we had experienced three years ago. You think you're getting something for free (a fancy meal + gift or expensive prize) but what you really get is a high-pressure sales pitch designed to make you part with thousands of dollars.
Wenatex Australia has been offering their free dinners all over Australia and New Zealand since coming here in 2002 from their home base in Saltzburg, Austria.
Their high pressure selling techniques were exposed on NZ current affairs show, Fair Go, which snuck cameras and two reporters into a Wenatex dinner and information evening. The video showed a lady giving the sales presentation and suggesting, outrageously, that a Wenatex sleep system had cured a man previously confined to a wheel chair.
For more of the flavour of these evenings, you can read comments on consumer forums here and here (My suspicion is that some of the more favourable reviews are written by Wenatex staff.)
So just how successful is Wenatex at signing up customers at these free dinners?
The answer, emphatically, is: Very!
I obtained a copy of Wenatex Australia's most recently filed annual accounts.
They show that for the 2007/2008 financial year the company earned a whopping $30.8 million (up 25% on the $24 million earned the previous year).
Assuming an average spend of $10,000 for a Wenatex sleep system, that's more than 3,000 customers who have been convinced or coerced into parting ways with a big chunk of money on a supposed free night out.
Profit for the year was a shade over $2 million with the biggest expense – not surprisingly – being sales and marketing (those free dinners) which totalled nearly $9 million.
Of the $2 million worth of after tax profit, nearly ($1.8 million) was paid to shareholders, which comprises a company called "Iways Pty Ltd"
There are four equal shareholders in Iways. They are Claude Wernicke, the CEO of Wenatex Australia, and presumably his sons – Stephen, Michael and Justin Wernicke.
Split four ways, the Wernickes each took home $450,000 in 2007/2008, that on top of any salaries earned. And that was five years ago. Given their rate of growth, they could conceivably be earning $1 million each by now.
Carpet salesmen-origins
The Wenatex sales strategy and the Thailand scratchy card/time-share ploy are essentially sophisticated, dressed-up versions of what you'll experience if you venture into a carpet shop or trinket store in Morocco, Egypt or India – where you will be offered free tea, and a tour of the factory "just to look" before the big sales pitch and relentless bargaining begins and previously very friendly shop owner turns less so. (In Essaouira, Morocco in 2010, my wife and I found ourselves having our photos taken dressed up in full traditional Bedouin costumes before having carpet after carpet thrown at our feet despite out protests.)
Of course – just as we did from that carpet shop, you can go along to the Wenatex dinner, stuff your belly, listen to their spiel and walk away. But as the annual accounts show, thousands don't. Instead they part with thousands of dollars for mattresses, quilts and pillows that they never really needed.
Do yourself a favour. Tear up the Wenatex invitation. Splash out a $100 of your own money and enjoy a guilt-free, relaxing fully paid for dining experience.
Unless you're really keen to spend $10,000 on bedding!


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For the better part of the summer, seven college students fanned out across the 11-mile stretch of the future Central Corridor light-rail transit line to help St. Paul neighborhood groups learn how to better access and benefit from light rail.
Among their projects, they organized walking tours with East African teens at a high-rise complex on St. Anthony Avenue, mapped historic homes in Frogtown and went door-to-door in the "Little Mekong" shopping district conducting business interviews.
The paid student interns were placed with district councils by the Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs, a partnership between 17 liberal arts colleges.
They'll make their final presentations at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Wilder Center, 451 N. Lexington Parkway. Refreshments will be served at 4 p.m.
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Ford Shows Off Demolished Taurus As Safety Movie Theater?
What to do with all of those cars smashed in federal and IIHS crash testing? In theory, you could take them back for further study to help improve safety for future vehicles. Of course, that would mean wasting an advertising opportunity. And while we prefer the RoboCop Taurus, we'll admit that showing a wrecked… »


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Jordan Shaffer was named homecoming King at halftime Friday night at Tiger Stadium. He can probably add most outstanding player in the game too.
Shaffer, the senior quarterback, was an efficient 21 of 33 passing for 192 yards as he led Benton to a 35-7 District 1-4A victory over Loyola.
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"Welcome to LPL. We are glad to have you here. I would like to ask, since you are only out and about a lot at night, if you could please help and maybe do a wee bit o' shelf reading. Also if you could pick at the holds list or shelve some books if the shelves get full in the circulation workroom. You are a welcome guest and we hope you can earn your keep!
Andy (Page @ LPL)"
Cheers, thank ye for ye welcome. I have been helping people with the knots 'n their shoes. Knots be a terrible thing, have ye noticed? I also tried to move a shelf the oth'r day, 'twere a bit rough, 'n I knocked some o' the books on the floor.


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Midsummer by Manuel E. Arguilla
Manuel E. Arguilla (1911–1944), Filipino fictionist, won 1st prize in the 1940 Commonwealth Literary Contest with his "How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife and Other Short Stories."
One story written by him, entitled "Midsummer," which was first published in the Prairie Schooner (United States), always lightens my mood every time I hear someone allude to it.
Image by Oregon State University Archives via Flickr: Prairie Schooner crossing the mountains.
In case you wonder why, let me share with you its summary.
A man, peering up from his cart, sees that the road ahead of him looks like a snake: it seems "to writhe under the lash of the noonday heat." After a while, the reader's ears are made to hear the grating cartwheels and the bull's "almost soundless shuffle"; thus, the silence of the place is emphasized. Then the man notices a woman standing at the side of the road, before she turns and disappears into a gorge.
At the exact spot where the woman earlier stands looking at the man "with frank curiosity," the man stops, unhitches the animal, walks it down to the gorge and on to a well where the lady has just filled her jar with water.
She now gracefully stands up with the jar on her head, but staggers a bit. This causes water to come down her breast and bosom, to which her wet bodice clings. She holds the jar with one hand, uses the other to shake the cloth off her flesh, walks, pauses by the man without looking at him, and walks back up the narrow path leading to the main road.
When she disappears, the young man makes two observations: white and smooth underpart of the woman's arm and thick black hair (not the underpart's but the head's). He makes his animal drink from a bucket, goes back to his cart to get a jute sack (which contains his meal) and hay for the bull, feeds the animal, and eats his meal near the well. He is half through with his lunch when the girl (who has changed her dress) returns.
With a down-from-under stare, he notices her hips tapering down to "rounded thighs and supple legs showing against her skirt and moving straight and free." He eats hurriedly when she comes near, and is almost choked by the food. Brown unembarrassed eyes meet him when he finally invites her to join lunch—which she politely refuses.
His intoning a song on "salt" melts the ice between them. When she returns his smile, she absent-mindedly tugs the rope, and the bucket splashes water on his food—causing him to jump. She is distressed; he tries to pacify her. She offers to draw him water, but he takes the bucket, lowers it to the well with his back turned to her; she, thus, notes his back's rippling muscles. He starts filling her jar with water, though she, at first, says he must not. She does not heed his suggestion that she moves to the shade; she remains near him.
When he drinks, she holds the bucket for him; he becomes "self-conscious" when his throat makes sounds. She consoles him by saying that her father makes the same sounds when he drinks.
The sun is now almost everywhere; it is then that she invites him to her home. When he says he might only be "troubling" her, she replies no, he must come—she has already told her mother about him (a revelation!). She now carries "the jar on her head without holding it" (another revelation!).
With her ahead of him (the animal between them), our young man feels "strong"; he feels that he can "follow the slender, lithe figure ahead of him to the ends of the world."
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When you think about the opera, the classic image that usually comes to mind is of a large Nordic-dressed woman singing impossibly high-pitched notes in Italian. As the obscure, Venetian folktale unfolds over the course of four hours, aristocratic audience members would be peering down through their monocles from their box seats, whispering phrases like "the librettist has really emphasized the leitmotif of this finale, well hasn't he?" In short, you probably would not picture amateur high-school students from rural, southeastern Washington.
But this summer in Walla Walla, opera isn't just for rich spectators and professional actors. You will not have to travel hundreds of miles, and, perhaps best of all, you will not have to speak Italian or German or research Scandinavian myths to understand the story.
At 7 p.m. Saturday, participants in the Walla Walla Opera Camp Workshop will be performing "Alice in Wonderland," Lewis Carroll's classic story adapted into an original operetta by local music professor Kristin Vining, at the Walla Walla High School Performing Arts Auditorium. Tickets for the event are available by donation at the door.
Saturday night's performance is the production's one and only show, and it comes at the end of a weeklong repertory experience, during which actors must learn the lyrics to all the songs and be ready to perform after just 40 hours of preparation.
The workshop, currently underway at Wa-Hi, became available to students, graduates and community members earlier this week. The project is a collaborative effort of staff and students from several schools and colleges in Walla Walla.
Brian Senter -- director of drama and dramatic arts at Wa-Hi who is directing the operetta along with Vining, Julie Jones, and Christine Janis -- described the opera camp experience and the benefits of introducing the art form to teenagers as young as 13. He portrayed the workshop as simply a "bunch of local people, all wanting to work together.
"We want it to be about connection to the text and the singing," he said. "The appeal for a lot of the kids is a chance to work with adults they know and they've worked with. They're students of all these professors. So for those kids and the audience, too, I wanted to do something that's not traditional," Senter explained. "You want to tap into their imagination, introduce the kids to something new. Everyone needs to get a shot of something they don't know every now and then and have an experience."
Appropriately, the story of Alice in Wonderland also deals with someone young experiencing new, untraditional things and allowing her imagination to create a whole new world in front of her eyes.
"In some ways, it's like bungee jumping and thinking, 'I guess I'll try that,'" Senter continued. "I've always been tickled when I can walk into a genre and not know everything about it. It's incredibly fascinating."
Senter shared his admiration for Vining, who composed the operetta using several direct quotes from the original texts of "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass."
"We have this wonderful composer at our fingertips," Senter remarked, "and I had said I would love to see 'Alice in Wonderland,' and she had written one. Now we've got this very cool piece. It's really an ambitious project."
This is not Vining's first shot at the operatic arts. For the last two years, she has written the story and composed the music for a pair of French-themed operas performed at the Walla Walla Community College, and this week, Vining brings her lyrical and musical experience to this project, which, as Senter shared, isn't all fun and games. Even small town operas come with big challenges.
"Alice in Wonderland is a particularly bizarre story," he said, "and I thought if you put it in Italian, it would be confusing. So I asked her to do it in English instead."
But while the performers might have been thankful for the lyrics being written in a more familiar language, Senter explained that operas have an unusual twist compared to other musical plays.
"In an opera and an operatta everything is sung, and it's different than the American musical in that sense. So one of the things we're focusing on is the connections the performers are making to the text, because it's all sung."
One of the most interesting parts of the production will likely be the unorthodox stage and costume design, inspired less by the original novel and more by the contents of a child's play room. The Mad Hatter wears a dog's cone-shaped space collar, and instead of a full bunny outfit, the White Rabbit sports a "huge afro." A simpler theme is also practical for the week-long preparation period and turns Lewis Carroll's classic monster poem "Jabberwocky" into a more unusual adventure sequence.
The rather strange poem comes from the pages of "Through the Looking Glass," Carroll's sequel to "Alice in Wonderland," and uses invented, nonsensical words such as "borogoves" and "Bandersnatch" in order to create an absence of objective meaning and in turn promote imagination and creativity in the mind of the reader.
"As for 'Jabberwocky,' I don't want to give too much away," Senter said. "We have a dozen black boxes that are arranged in a certain formation, strewn with ribbons, hats, masks, horns, silly string. Anything you can find in a kid's play closet you can find on stage. That's our theme, because that's what kids would do."
Senter encouraged residents to attend the performance and thanked the community for the support it has shown for this, as well as other productions performed in the past.
"It's a great opportunity to see the talent that's right before your eyes," he remarked. "The community in Walla Walla really supports what we do here. The support we have for our plays in our community has been outstanding."
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Are Christians Called to be Counter-Cultural?
February 18, 2013
Michael is the lead pastor of Denver Community Church, and is the author of Changing Faith: Questions, Doubts and Choices About an Unchanging God and ... Read More
When a friend of mine started a church more than 10 years ago, visitors flocked to it, and it thrived. But then, months later, after people started coming and getting involved, they would suddenly leave. He couldn't figure it out.
Finally, one person headed out the door told him why. He said, "You and this church do things the way you do because you want to be different from other churches. Everything is about what you are not."
My friend had never seen it this way, but it was true. His vision for the church came out of what he was against. He quickly learned that much of his time was spent being against something, instead of being for anything. And he's not alone.
When we define our lives by what we are against, we end up living horribly uncreative lives.
It's a celebrated virtue in many Christian circles to be known as "counter-cultural." We are often content to place the prefix "anti-" in front of a word and believe it is a way of stating what we are for. But I wonder if, by choosing to arrange our lives around what we stand against, we are limiting who we are called to be. If we always react against culture, the very things we rise up against will become our central point of reference for morality—which means we won't get very far.
It's easy to define yourself by what you are against. It's figuring out what you are for that presents a real challenge.
My friend had decided what his church was going to be against by what he had experienced other churches. In his experience, churches were angry, intolerant, judgmental and against everyone and everything. In reacting against such churches, he had turned into the very thing he never wanted to become.
Reacting has this effect. It keeps you so focused on what you're not that you don't have the time, energy or passion to forge a new path, a better path, forward. What we fail to see is that when we define our lives by what we are against, we end up living horribly uncreative lives.
What if, instead of reacting to something or standing against something, we learned how to live for something?
This is a more challenging question to answer but proves to be far more rewarding—for this question opens to us all kinds of possibilities that were not previously there. This is where creativity and imagination come in.
This is the kind of life we see Jesus live—and it's the kind of life into which He invites all of us. It's tempting to think differently. It seems like Jesus was against a lot of things in his day, but if we consider the cross, we may think differently.
The life of Jesus and His act of love on the cross was for us, and it powerfully stood against the forces of evil and darkness.
In the 24 hours surrounding Jesus' execution, Judas, one of His disciples, betrayed Him, Peter denied even knowing Him and His friends ran away to save their skin. Some of the priests and religious elite were determined to find a reason to kill Him, and they finally did. The Romans were the ones who nailed Him to a cross and executed Him. While He hung there, some passed by, mocked Him and laughed at Him.
Jesus was alone.
In that moment, He showed humanity what it means to be for something. It's obvious that everyone was against Him. This is why Paul said we were enemies of God—we were against Him. At the same time, Jesus, who gave His life for the redemption of the world, was for us.
There are two sides to the cross. One side is against; the other side is for. All humanity stood against Jesus in that moment. But Jesus was on the side that was for life, for hope, for grace and for our salvation. We stood against Jesus, but He did not stand against us.
The life of Jesus and His act of love on the cross was for us, and it powerfully stood against the forces of evil and darkness. Because when you are truly for something, everyone will know what you are against.
Living like this is compelling in the midst of a culture that may view things differently. It's compelling because its starting point is not boycotting companies, banning movies or publicly speaking out against a violation of conviction. Its starting point is not countering culture. Its starting point is a brand-new picture of what our world should be.
My friend Jess is an artist and teaches others how to think like this. She has an ability not to just see the world as it is and interact with it, but also to imagine things the way they should be—and, by God's grace, one day will be. People like her are those who create culture, and by doing so, they are extremely counter-cultural.
This is something fascist and totalitarian regimes have always known. That's why they don't like artists, poets and musicians. Regimes hold power by quashing imagination, and good artists undermine that power by fostering creativity and vision. They create new ways of thinking that are an alternative way of seeing our world.
Yes, there are certainly times when we need to protest and stand against what is wrong. There are times when we must cry out against injustice and call for an end to corruption. But I hope that's not all we do. I hope we remember the best form of protest is to stand for something better.
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Solid as always Michael! I think this is the same with individuals as well. We should not try to define ourselves by what we are not or what we stand against, but who we are and what we stand FOR.
It is easy to overlook the "trees" when we are deep in a forest. When we talk about culture we are referring to the masses. God's redemptive plan is offered to individuals...receiving Christ through faith is initially very personal. However, once someone truly believes he/she is born into a new community. The "church". The church must focus on reaching individuals who do not know Jesus...and, once they receive Him...be faithful to the Great Commission...."teaching them to observe all things, whatsoever I have commanded you"...As the church grows and is faithful to Jesus they begin to change how life is lived and things are done around them....Thus, the body of Christ is able to be salt and light...reflecting His goodness...other people are positively impacted...a few here and a few there...thus, we begin to "create" a new culture moving across the landscape. It begins slowly one person, one family, one small group at a time, yet authentic Christ followers are contagious and begin to multiply rapidly!
I agree with this.... completely. I get it. I abhor the judging, the legalism, the hate.
Then there is the raised eyebrow look, as I heard John Piper and Eric Metaxas talk about recently. We are afraid of that, we don't want to offend. We have come to the conclusion that we have no voice. We are called intolerant, bigots, narrow, fanatics. So we are silent.
Right now, some of my Facebook friends statuses are lighting up red for Marriage equality. For me, Fb is not the place to start that conversation, in favor or not.
I am so far from a prude and yet I hold a few moral convictions close to my heart. I wish I did not, it would be easier. However, I follow God's Word, not mine. That is where my wisdom comes from, not man.
The areas are becoming grayer I fear. God remains clear in how we are to love. I understand that, but I fear for our youth and those young in faith. Will we retain any absolutes according to God's word?
Excellent points! It's definitely more productive to create culture that reflects God than bash the things that don't. I just finished writing my own confession about a time when I was guilty of exactly this type of thing http://wp.me/p4jQXJ-2o It's such an easy trap to get sucked in to, and one that we, as followers of Jesus, have to continually guard against.


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A strong January has analysts betting that businesses travelers are ready to put up with higher airfares, but the still undetermined effect of the U.S. budget cuts could reverse the current trend in coming months.
Global air travel demand rose 3.7 percent in January from a year earlier and may pick up pace in 2013, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said on Tuesday.
"Passenger travel is growing in line with business confidence levels. Recent months have seen some positive economic signs emerge in both the U.S. and China, and the euro zone crisis seems to have stabilised," said IATA Chief Executive Tony Tyler.
Challenges for the sector include high fuel costs and uncertain demand as the world's top economy the United States prepares to make across-the-board U.S. government budget cuts, he added.
"But even with those headwinds – real and potential – we still see underlying support for continued and potentially even strengthened growth," Tyler said.
Passenger traffic grew more rapidly than available capacity, which rose by 2.7 percent in January on international routes, meaning planes flew with fewer empty seats.
Air freight demand, also seen as a short-term leading indicator of economic growth, also grew strongly in the same month, driven by growth in Asia and the Middle East, IATA said on Monday.
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Importance of Native Plants in the Ecosystem Garden
It has been my feeling for many years that native plants were the key to developing habitats for wildlife in our gardens, but there was no "proof." Although much has been written on this subject, none of it was based on a scientific exploration of the subject, mainly because there was none. But now all of that is changing, thanks in large part to Doug Tallamy and his students at the University of Delaware. The publication of Bringing Nature Home: how native plants sustain wildlife in our gardens was just the beginning.
This book makes the best argument I have ever read about the absolute importance of the use of native plants in our gardens, and should be required reading for every landowner.
Tallamy clearly lays out the connection between native plants and insect biomass. No native plants means no insects, which means no birds, bats, frogs, toads, or other amphibians. Plants are the only organism able to take the energy of the sun and transform it into a form that can be used by other organisms. The largest group of these organisms is the insects which provide a crucial link in turning energy into protein, so critical for the continuing success of all other species.
Insects provide the necessary link in the passage of energy from the sun, through plants to insects, which are a huge part of the food web for other wildlife. Most song bird species, whatever the adults may eat, require insects to successfully rear their young. The protein that is obtained from insects is not available in any other form. Without the plants, the insects cannot survive. Without the insects, the birds are lost.
Exotic Plants Do Not Support Much Wildlife
Mr. Tallamy presents a very compelling argument as to why exotic plants are less desirable, why invasive plants represent such a danger to our ecosystems and may carry diseases that our native plants have no immunity to, and why native plants are so necessary to the survival of all other species.
"Proof" of the necessity of native plants in the conservation garden continues to be collected at the University of Delaware. One of Tallamy's students, Karin Burghardt, studied the difference in avian (bird) numbers and larval lepidopteran (butterfly caterpillar) biomass between suburban sites landscaped primarily with native plants versus more traditionally landscaped sites with exotic plants.[1]
She found that the higher the percentage of native grasses, forbs, and shrubs there was at a site was directly correlated to higher numbers of native nesting birds, butterflies, and moths. Correspondingly, those sites with a higher percentage of exotic plants had far fewer native nesting birds and lepidoptera. This is very reminiscent of the research on the coffee farms in Mexico, Central, and South America, where it was found that higher proportions of the native forest correlated very strongly with higher numbers of birds, insects, and other wildlife.
What do we take away from this? We need to break away from the "sameness" model and incorporate more locally native plants into our landscapes. If you are trying to attract birds and butterflies, you need to have native plants!
Native plants Support Huge Numbers of Butterflies and Moths
Another of Tallamy's students, Kimberley Shropshire, took on the enormous task of plodding through thousands of academic research studies and compiling, for the first time, a list of plants with the numbers of lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) using each as a host plant.[2]
She correlated the plants in each study with each species of lepidoptera that relied on that plant. Reading this spreadsheet is a fascinating experience, and a dream come true for me: to have a list of plants and know for a fact just how much each plant really does benefit wildlife. So now we can resoundingly answer the question I am asked more than any other: Which plants should I choose? And the answer is now so easy: choose locally native plants based on how many species each can support!
Listen to my interviews with Doug Tallamy:
Tallamy's book should be required reading for every homeowner and gardener (and all other land owners/managers, too). Have you read it? What do you think?
[1] Burghardt, K. T., Tallamy, D. W., & Shriver, W. G. (2009). Impact of native plants on bird and butterfly biodiversity in suburban landscapes. Conservation Biology, 23(2), 219-224.
[2] Tallamy, D. W., & Shropshire, K. J. (2009, in press). Ranking Lepidopteran Use of Native Versus Introduced Plants. Conservation Biology.
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Latvia Residence Program
Latvia is a baltic country in the northern Europe. Latvia joined the European Union in 2004 and the currency in Latvia is LVL (Latvian Lats) which is approx 2.08 US dollars.
Latvia offers a new residence program for investors and the residence program allows visa free travel in other European and schengen countries. This new program was adopted by latvian parliament and came into force on July 1, 2010.
As per the program a `Temporary Residence Permit` (TRP) is given to the foreign investor, for either deposit a money in a latvian bank or real estate or create a new business.
The Latvia real estate option is the cheapest way to get residence permit in Europe but bank term deposit is the fastest method with minimal formalities. The deposit term in 5 yrs and interest guaranteed is usually about 5-6%. For starting a new business in Latvia, residence permit can be obtained through invitation only. For real estate investments in Riga and major cities, the minimum is EUR 150'000 and of other lesser known regions in Latvia the property investment should be a minimum of LVL 50'000 ( approx EUR 72'000).
Investors will be issued a `temporary residence permit` for period of 5 yrs with annual renewals. The permit issued allows visa free travel to all 25 schengen countries. It is also issued to any family members accompanying with the investor. The temporary residence permit grants the investor right to work and free movement to other European countries in schengen zone. The investor is free to leave the country anytime and is not required to stay permanently in Latvia.
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Pilgrims' Progress: A "Marshall Plan" for the Holy Land
Project Encourages Trips to Keep Sites Afloat Economically
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ROME, FEB. 13, 2004 (Zenit.org).- The Church in Italy has launched a "Marshall Plan" of pilgrimages to help boost business for Holy Land sites in crisis since the outbreak of the intifada.
The main source of income of these institutions and those who work in them are pilgrims. For this reason, the 12th Theological-Pastoral Congress held this week by the Roman Work of Pilgrimages (ORP) invited all Italian dioceses to send spiritual expeditions to the land of Jesus.
"There are 230 dioceses in Italy," observed ORP administrator-delegate, Monsignor Liberio Andreatta.
"If each one succeeds in organizing a group, there would be pilgrims all year-round in the Holy Land," he said. "This would be a real 'Marshall Plan' of the Italian bishops themselves to save the Holy Land and its economy."
In fact, the plan of the Italian episcopal conference began in January. Nine groups have already gone abroad, the monsignor said.
"The Holy Land's door is open; we must not be afraid," he said during the congress that celebrated the 70th anniversary of the ORP, an institution of the Diocese of Rome.
Among the ORP programs is the "marathon of peace," which will be led April 23 by Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the Pope's vicar for Rome, to join Jerusalem with Bethlehem.
The marathon, of some 15 kilometers (10 miles), will include Italian athletes. Its purpose is to say "no" to violence and to drew world attention to help Palestinians and Israelis return to the negotiating table.
The race will be held in the framework of the pilgrimage "Italian Athletes in the Holy Land: Ambassadors of Peace."
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I wonder why?
for decades NASA and the US Government haven't even bothered acknwledging the Moon Hoax Conspiracy people....
I didn't have to read very far to get an answer to that question.
With all the lies the government spews every day, I for one wouldn't believe them if they sent me to the moon myself to inspect the sites.
I'm more apt to believe that since home based telescopes are getting powerful enough to actually see these sites, the government has decided to pre-empt any amateur astronomers claiming the sites don't exist.
Any Hi-Resolution images of these exist??
Or is that asking too much?...
I don't get it. We have such beautiful images of Mars, a much larger and further away.
But still can't get a Hi-Res Picture of the Apollo Missions...
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This latest vulnerability on Cisco WLAN (AP Skyjacking) points out the importance for customers to deploy overlay WIPS to have a zero day response capabilities in place. Making changes to your WLAN controller, APs, and firewalls takes time and new vulnerabilities like this will continue to surface. A dangerous exploit that can be carried out using this vulnerability… Read More
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Skyjacking vulnerability which allows Cisco LAP to be diverted to connect to rogue controller by manipulating OTAP could be more dangerous than what has been clarified by Cisco in its advisory. The advisory says that "An exploit could prevent the device from functioning properly, resulting in a DoS condition. There is no risk of data loss… Read More
Cell Phone Jamming in Prisons – Could it be done?
I recently read a statement put out by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison urging support for her bill, " The Safe Prisons Communications Act creates a framework for the FCC to test and approve jamming equipment and to review applications from corrections facilities seeking to install cell phone jammers. Most importantly, to ensure the integrity of… Read More
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Moxie Marlinspike presented SSLstrip at Blackhat early this year. The author made observation as to how most people initiate access to secure (HTTPS) websites using insecure connection (HTTP) which creates opportunity for the man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacker to get into the middle of the connection without flashing certificate mismatch message on the user's machine. It is… Read More
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What % of WiFi laptop users in your organization are vulnerable to WiFishing attacks? The odds are very high that you don't have an exact answer. WiFish Finder is a tool for assessing whether WiFi devices active in the air are vulnerable to 'Wi-Fishing' attacks. Assessment is performed through a combination of passive traffic… Read More


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But one magical day (about the time I started this blog) something happened. It's like I woke up one morning and realized I've been wasting precious time waiting for approval to do what I love. I don't need someone else to give me permission to do what I want. If I want to write about yoga (or purple unicorns for that matter) I'm going to do it, by God, and I don't care what anyone else thinks!
I was tired of having great ideas, but never doing anything about them. I was tired of seeing those ideas in the pages of my favorite magazines, written by someone else because I was too scared to pitch them. It is possible to respect the knowledge and experience of others without letting those opinions stop you in your tracks. I'd rather write a thousand mediocre blog posts than nothing at all. Life is too short.
I've had some time to ponder my great epiphany, and I still have no idea what happened to cause it. Am I just getting older and wiser? (I do have a lot more gray hairs lately.) Has all that business about seeing the value and beauty in even the most flawed of yoga poses finally spilled over into my philosophy on life? Was it something I ate? It doesn't matter.


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Global Unichip to volume produce 40nm PCIe Gen2 IP by end of 2009
Press release; Meiling Chen, DIGITIMES [Tuesday 11 August 2009]
Global Unichip has announced that its recent success on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)'s 40nm G process PCIe Gen2 IP has been validated in the data rate that ranges from 1Gbps to 6.25Gbps, while it consumes less than 100mW per lane. Furthermore, the company plans to unveil a series of Gbps interface IP solutions, including DDR2/3, SATA, USB3.0, XAUI, and 10G SERDES by the end of 2009.
Global Unichip has firstly introduced its Gbps-level high-speed total solution that includes comprehensive IP portfolio, ASIC implementation, chip with package co-design, and production testing solution targeting high speed networking, video processing, and mobile handset segments.
Global Unichip's high speed interface design flow ensures challenges including signal integrity, bus skew control, system jitter compensation, power delivery network, and overall power reduction are resolved at early stages in an ASIC design cycle, according to the company. The package substrate design follows immediately after chip's floorplan is finished. This allows the packaging model to be referenced by ASIC designers in order to verify the design specifications at the earliest possible stage, the company indicated.
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Welcome to the Neverwiki - your source for community-driven Neverball/Neverputt information!
Have a look at the FAQ:
If you have a specific question or suggestion or if you have a bug to report, check out the following:
TODO lists are in the form of tickets in the NeverTrac.
Here is an old Neverputt TODO list:
To see how the game is looking, take a gander at the screenshots page of the official site, or the following ones:
To see some crazy fast runs, speedy coin collecting, and crazy/skillful freestyle runs, visit this site:
Here you can find more information about Neverball features and related projects:
There are several ways to contribute: level designing, music composing, graphics, sounds, translations, documentation… You can play with Neverball content, try to add your own, and feel free to visit the forum and ask for help if you need it.
Here resides the information you need in order to create/edit levels in Neverball: Step by step instructions to get you started, and a wealth of editing tips and tools.
Here you can find more stuff to enjoy Neverball.
Neverball / Neverputt (en) - The Official Neverball Website - Download binaries and source here.
Nevertable (en) - High Score table for Best Times/Best Coins/Freestyle replays.
Neverforum (en) - Discussion Forum for all things Neverball- & Neverputt-related
the Linux Game Tome Neverball page (en)
Neverball on Jeux Libres.net (fr)
rlk for his original mapping documentation merged here,
gillux for his howto about level creation,
canuck who has shown me DokuWiki,
Mehdi (alias mym) for level editing experience,
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The Best of 2012
Hi loves!!! 2012 was BIG for me in many ways. My husband and I found out at the end of 2011 that we would be starting the next chapter in our lives. I shared my good news with you all here. I must say that going into the year 2012, was THE BEST thing that happened, this year. Nothing else can quite top what God has blessed us with!!! Baby M is such a JOY and is truly a gift from God!!! It was my pleasure to share with you my pregnancy updates and to introduce him to you all.
When I announced my pregnancy, I recieved so many Congrats and Well Wishes from all of you, which I appreciated so very much! I tried to stay up on maternity outfit posts but I was so exhausted I only was able to upload a few… Sorry about that! hahahaha So here is a walk down memory lane.
My Pregnancy…
The Hubs!!
My mom gave me the BEST Baby Shower…
Blogger BFF's came out to celebrate with me! Breck, Eboni, Adrienne & Trina – LOVE YA'LL!!
And of course my son was born and he is one little boy that totally has my heart…
Thank you so much for being patient with me when I go A.W.O.L and still be so supportive!! I love you ALL and my family and I are hoping you and yours have a HAPPY, PEACEFUL, JOYOUS 2013!!!!!


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