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Cigaretticus Brandus Idioticus
These bastards are just too fucking precious. Smokers. For those of us who don't smoke, there's a whole little world that revolves around goddamned cigarettes. Lots of strange territory in The Land of Cigarettes.
Not least of which is what brand is the sonofabitch smoking.
Cigarettes, in case you didn't know, come in more damn varieties than you can imagine!
And so, even though you never huffed a weed in your fucking life, you come to learn all the peculiar arcana of cigarette brands.
The shit is unbelievable! There's more different kinds of smokes out there than there are different garage bands! Zillions of 'em. And, like garage bands, they come and go. The big tobacco companies are always on the lookout for another Marlboro or Winston to come along and take over half the market, putting all the Lucky Strikes and Old Gold's out of business.
And it's not enough that there's ten thousand different kinds of smokes. Oh no. Each different kind of smoke comes in it's own bewildering array of types and subtypes.
We'll take Camels as an example: nonfiltered, lights, wides, menthols, reds, filters, specials, wide lights, menthol lights, red lights box, wide lights king size (the smaller ones, what's up with that?) soft pack, wide light 100's (the longer ones) box, wide king soft pack, wide 100's box, special light king, special light 100 soft pack, menthol king, menthol 100, and on and on it goes. Honestly here, I'm not kidding. All this shit is real, all of it is for just ONE brand, and all of it is something the idiot smoker HAS to have exactly right. Fuck up the tiniest detail of any of this shit, and with a sneering tone the motherfucker across the counter says, "I TOLD you box, not soft pack! What the hell's wrong with you? Whyn't'cha clean out your damn ears?"
Oh. Of course. Shouldda cleaned out my damn ears. Why didn't I think to do that before I came in here? Silly me.
Enter Cigaretticus Brandus Idioticus.
This goof don't know from ten zillion types of cigarettes. All this motherfucker knows is what HE smokes and to hell with the rest of the world. Which would be alright, I suppose, except for one small detail.
The dumb sonofabitch thinks YOU should know what brand he buys too.
But you don't.
All you know is that great shoals of idiots smoking various kinds of cigarettes swarm past your counter every day and ask you for this or that particular brand. You turn around, go to The Great Wall Of Cigarettes, and pluck out the variety the dope specified.
End of story, yes?
Brandus Idioticus has taken it into his head that unless you can connect his misshapen face with a particular brand of slow poison, he's been insulted.
Gravely insulted.
Count on these bastards to cop a major attitude every time you ask them, "What kind?"
Fuses are blown and heated words are emitted.
"Goddamned Vantage menthol light regulars in the fucking soft pack! What the hell's wrong with you? I come in here every day and buy the same damn thing! Why can't you just GIVE me the motherfuckers and not give me the third degree about what kind of fucking cigarettes I smoke? Just HAND 'em to me asshole and let me the hell out of this fucked up store!"
These dopes will NEVER understand that there's only so much memory available in your brain, and not ALL of it is going to be devoted to cross indexing buttholes with matching brands of cigarettes.
Which, as it turns out, is a secret weapon at your disposal.
Brandus Idioticus don't know it, but he's just handed you a little something on a silver platter.
You are now in possession of a surefire method of pissing him off, EVERY TIME.
Clean my ears out? Maybe not, Brandus. Maybe instead I'll just PUNISH you for being an asshole. Maybe I'll just decide that I'll NEVER learn what kinda fucked up cigarette you smoke, you worthless piece of shit.
And so you do.
"What kind?"
A lifetime resident (despite having travelled all over the damn place at one time or another) of Central Florida, James MacLaren took a four-year degree in death thrills riding giant waves on the North Shore back in the 70's. Wound up in the inconvenience store following a lay off from the Cape, where he was involved with the construction of the Space Shuttle launch pads, among other things. Father of best son in the world.


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Changes at Conde Nast; Layoffs At PatchAugust 16, 2013
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There are some changes at Conde Nast as Pilar Guzman returns to the magazine giant. The founding editor of Cookie, who had been heading up Martha Stewart Living, takes over Conde Nast Traveler. She replaces Klara Glowczewska. The latter woman had been at CNT since it launched in 1987 and was steering the ship since 2005. In a nice twist to the narrative, Guzman's husband Chris Mitchell served as publisher of Conde Nast Traveler before jumping to GQ in 2011. Eric Pike replaces Guzman at the top of MSL. He has been with the magazine since 1992, rising from associate art director all the way to the top. Not bad. Elsewhere at Conde, Self hires former Rolling Stone publisher Matt Mastrangelo as associate publisher...
The New York Post cancels the freelance contract of V.A. Musetto, the man who dreamed up the headline, 'Headless Body in Topless Bar.' He retired two years ago but had continued doing film reviews. "Dear Vincent, I'm sorry, but because of budget cutbacks we cannot give you any further reviewing assignments. Your review of The Grandmaster next week is your final assignment," film editor Lou Lumenick wrote in an email that Musetto subsequently forwarded to the entire Post staff...
Dennis Publishing's The Week and Mental Floss announce a host of new hires. Storyful's Erica Berger is the new consulting editorial product manager, while Tracy Monahan departs Departures for a spot as marketing director. Conde Nast Media Group's Jamie Altschul takes over as national advertising director for the growing publications, and Thrillist's website content and strategy head Richard Blakeley joins as director of digital products and strategy... Sarah Bruning leaves Time Out New York, where she had been associate features editor, for a features editor role at Natural Health and Fit Pregnancy...
Herb Greenberg leaves his full-time job at CNBC to return to TheStreet.com where he will edit a subscription newsletter called "Herb Greenberg's Reality Check." He will continue to contribute to CNBC... Fusion hires Dan Lieberman as daytime anchor and producer. He had been part of the investigative unit at Nightline...
About 350 Patch staffers lost their jobs today, and the fates of another 150 employees remain uncertain. Prospect Heights Patch editor Amy Sara Clark bade farewell to her readers, writing that despite being laid off, "I believe with all my heart that Patch, with its goal of bringing hyperlocal news back to communities, will survive and thrive."... Dave Daley takes over as editor-in-chief of Salon, replacing Kerry Lauerman who left in June. At the time, Salon CEO Cynthia Jeffers installed Daley as interim EIC... And there are changes at New York, The Economist Group and more...
August 16, 2013: Carole Smila has been named head of project management at TBWA C\D NY. She had been senior project manager at Anomaly. (AgencySpy)
August 16, 2013: Jim Rosenfield has been named anchor at WCAU in Philadelphia. He had been weekend anchor/reporter at WRC in Washington. (TVSpy)
August 16, 2013: Sheba Turk has been named anchor of The 504 on WUPL at WWL in New Orleans. She had been associate producer there. (TVSpy)
August 16, 2013: Farrin Jay has been named PR coordinator at New York. She had been publicity coordinator at Sesame Workshop. (mb)
August 16, 2013: Meghashyam Mali has been named assistant managing editor at the Washington Examiner. He had been web editor at The Hill. (FishbowlDC)
August 16, 2013: Erika Nardini has been named chief marketing officer at AOL Advertising. She had been VP of marketing solutions there. (FishbowlNY)
August 16, 2013: Eric Pike has been named editor-in-chief at Martha Stewart Living. He had been editorial and brand director there. (FishbowlNY)
August 16, 2013: Herb Greenberg has been named editor of "Herb Greenberg's Reality Check" at TheStreet. He had been senior stock correspondent at CNBC. (FishbowlNY)
August 16, 2013: Brian Ritchie has been named executive creative director at space150. He had been group creative director there. (AgencySpy)
August 16, 2013: Marc Jensen has been named managing partner/CTO at space150. He had been president/CTO there. (AgencySpy)
August 16, 2013: Billy Jurewicz has been named founder/CEO at space150. He had been CEO/chief creative officer there. (AgencySpy)
August 16, 2013: Milan Martin has been named president of the San Francisco branch at Grey. He had been managing director/chief strategist at Anthem Worldwide. (AgencySpy)
August 16, 2013: Joshua Hirsch has been named EVP/chief technology officer at Publicis Kaplan Thaler. He had been minister of technology at Big Spaceship. (AgencySpy)
August 16, 2013: Lauren Petrowski has been named weekend evening news anchor at KTBC in Austin, Texas. She had been general assignment reporter there. (TVSpy)
August 16, 2013: Miri Mashall has been named weather anchor at WBAL in Baltimore. She had been weathercaster at KCEN in Waco, Texas. (TVSpy)
August 16, 2013: Rashi Vats has been named reporter at KRIV in Houston. She had been weekend anchor/reporter at KBTX in College Station, Texas. (TVSpy)
August 16, 2013: Meaghan Smith has been named reporter at WCYB in Bristol, Va. She had been reporter at WBBH in Fort Myers, Fla. (TVSpy)
August 16, 2013: Noah Bond has been named reporter at KOMO in Seattle. He had been reporter/anchor at KTVX in Salt Lake City. (TVSpy)
August 16, 2013: Jonathan Radford has been named general assignment reporter at WCYB in Bristol, Va. He had been associate producer at WSMV in Nashville, Tenn. (TVSpy)
August 16, 2013: Jeff Mulligan has been named assistant news director at WISH in Indianapolis. He had been assistant news director at KFVS in Cape Girardeau, Mo. (TVSpy)
August 16, 2013: Dan Lieberman has been named dayside anchor/producer at Fusion. He had been investigative reporter at ABC News. (TVNewser)
August 15, 2013: Adam Mirabella has been named senior vice president at Fanscape. He had been senior vice president at MSL Group. (mb)
August 15, 2013: Bill Drolet has been named senior vice president of video platform sales at Vertical Search Works. He had been vice president of digital sales at The Weather Channel. (mb)
August 15, 2013: Pilar Guzmán has been named editor-in-chief at Condé Nast Traveler. She had been VP and editor at Martha Stewart Living. (FishbowlNY)
August 15, 2013: Erica Berger has been named consulting editorial product manager at The Week and Mental Floss. She had been director of publisher & partner development at Storyful. (mb)
August 15, 2013: Tracy Monahan has been named marketing director at The Week and Mental Floss. She had been executive director of creative marketing at Departures. (mb)
August 15, 2013: Jamie Altschul has been named national advertising director at The Week and Mental Floss. She had been executive director, corporate sales development, at Condé Nast Media Group. (mb)
August 15, 2013: Richard Blakeley has been named director of digital products & strategy at The Week and Mental Floss. He had been head of website content and strategy at Thrillist. (mb)
August 14, 2013: Valerie Williamson has been named VP of business development and strategy at The Economist Group. She had been VP of business development at OtherLevels. (release)
August 14, 2013: Matt Crenshaw has been named president at Mother Nature Network. He had been VP of publishing at Discovery Channel. (release)
August 13, 2013: Mark Coleman has been named SVP of global sales at my6sense. He had been NAM sales director at Google. (mb)
August 13, 2013: Brian Bennett has been named VP of sales and customer development at PPC Associates. He had been VP of channels and partners at Conductor, Inc. (mb)
August 13, 2013: Andy Slater has been named SVP of sales at TheaterMania.com. He had been VP of sales at Steel Media. (mb)
August 13, 2013: Sarah Bruning has been named features editor at Natural Health and Fit Pregnancy. She had been associate features editor at Time Out New York. (mb)
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As if America's right wing doesn't want to tongue-kiss Putin already, now he's signed a law banning profanity in the arts.
via BBC News – Russian law bans swearing in arts and media.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law banning all swearing in films, television broadcasts, theatres and the media.
Offenders will face fines – as much as 50,000 roubles (£829; $1,400) for organisations, or up to 2,500 roubles (£41; $70) for individuals.
Where disputes arise a panel of experts will decide exactly what counts as a swear word.
Books containing swear words will have to carry warnings on the cover.
Russia's Vesti news website says that, according to sociologists' research, swearing is common in two-thirds of Russian companies.
The law will take effect from 1 July and will not apply to cases of swearing at performances before that date.
A leading pro-Putin film director and now MP, Stanislav Govorukhin, was one of the new law's architects.


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Grossmont 5, Mira Mesa 2
Tyler Gardetto has been struggling at the plate in the playoffs.
So the Grossmont High senior first baseman put in extra time working on his batting stroke.
Hard work paid off Friday night when Gardetto delivered a base-loaded, fourth-inning double, driving in three runs as the Foothillers beat Mira Mesa 5-2 in the San Diego Section Division I baseball championship before an estimated crowd of 1,400 at USD's 1,750-seat Fowler Park.
"I was just trying to relax and have some fun," Gardetto said. "The first pitch in that at-bat was a tailing fastball for a strike. So I figured I'd get it again. I did, and I hammered it. The feeling was indescribable."
Grossmont (26-8), seeded second, struck in the fourth when Nico Maida and Brett Stone started the inning with line singles to left.
Hunter Stratton followed with a booming double off the right-field fence, chasing home Maida. Payton Lindsay was walked intentionally to load the bases and Derek Rustich was hit by a pitch to force in a run.
Gardetto followed with his double, driving in three runs against No. 9 Mira Mesa (21-15).
"Our M.O. all season has been to score runs in bunches," said Grossmont coach Chad Williams. "And we did it again. Stratton's hit was big, but Gardetto's was huge. He'd been struggling, and he kept working. This couldn't have happened to a nicer kid."
Foothillers starting pitcher Brandon Weed gave Grossmont exactly what Williams was looking for — five solid innings.
"My goal was at least five innings," Weed said. "My curve wasn't there tonight, so I had to rely on my fastball and cutter.
"It was kind of crazy in the first inning — big crowd, championship game, college field. It doesn't get bigger than this, and I'm glad I was able to come through."
This championship was the 10th for Grossmont, the first since 2010.


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Case Power and Equipment adds three branches in Southern California
Posted By Tina Grady Barbaccia On August 27, 2011 @ 3:06 am In eRoadPro Newsletter | No Comments
Case Power and Equipment has added three branches in Southern California. All three locations had been owned by D3 Equipment and the D3 staff will continue to manage the locations and support customers in the areas.
"It's really just our name that's changing," says Chris DeNardi, vice president/general manager at Case Power and Equipment. "The same friendly faces will be at each location, and all the same services will be available, including new equipment, quick turnaround on parts and equipment repair and maintenance."
The new branches are located in El Cajon, Fontana, and Santa Fe Springs. The entire line of Case Construction equipment is available at all three branches, which includes excavators, compact track loaders, crawler dozers, loader backhoes, motor graders, compaction equipment, roughterrain forklifts, skid steers, articulated trucks and wheel loaders.
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Tribal Prevention
Tribal Prescription Drug Campaign
- HRSA Presentation (2 MB pdf)
Launched January 2012
Prescription drug abuse has increased over the past decade. The misuse of prescription drugs impacts our families, friends, and communities. The goal of this prevention campaign is to encourage community members to become aware of prescription drugs in their homes and environment, and to safeguard these medications to prevent abuse. Who needs to be involved in this effort? Everyone.
General Information
- Tribal Prescription Drug Video PSA (1:40)
- Tribal Prescription Drug Radio PSA (:30)
- Prescription Drug Poster - Lock it Up (3.92 MB pdf)
Spirit Lake Nation
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians
Infuse substance abuse prevention messages into your daily work with youth!
- Living Healthy and Drug-Free Through the Seven Sacred Teachings: Live Your NO! - Activity Book for Grades 4-6
- Seven Sacred Teachings themed worksheets & classroom/group room activities
- Medicine Wheel themed worksheets & classroom/group room activities
- Youth Activities for the Classroom and Beyond for additional prevention themed classroom/group ideas and activities
For more information on substance abuse prevention in the schools visit our Education page.
Utilize the FREE resources in your work with youth and in the general community at the Prevention Resource & Media Center.
Tribal Prevention Coordinators
The overall role of the North Dakota Substance Abuse Tribal Prevention Coordinators is to help tribal communities enhance their capacity to address issues related to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
We provide culturally appropriate technical assistance and resources to:
- Schools/Universities/Colleges
- Law Enforcement/Juvenile Justice/Probation & Parole
- Tribal Health Programs
- Community groups
- Workplaces
- Persons or Groups Interested in Prevention
Tribal Prevention Coordinators also serve as a liaison for the North Dakota Department of Human Services' Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services providing updated and pertinent prevention information.
What We Offer
- Brochures/Posters
- Provide resources for youth, families, workplaces, and community educational programs
- Collaboration with drug and alcohol free activities
- Assist in multi-agency planning efforts
- Help promote and establish drug and alcohol law and order codes


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The two-victory Timberwolves are back to struggling, but not nearly as much as the winless Wizards, who play host to Minnesota this afternoon in Washington.
"For us, it's a huge game just because we haven't been able to scratch one out yet," Wizards coach Flip Saunders said Saturday.
It'll be a huge game for the Wolves, too, who have lost two straight, to Memphis and Cleveland.
Saunders, a former Timberwolves coach, is in the third season of a $19 million, four-year contract in Washington. The 0-7 Wizards are the only NBA team without a victory.
"We've had a rough schedule," said Saunders, 56, a former Gophers guard who lives in Medina. "We've played some pretty good teams. We've had Boston twice, Orlando, Atlanta and New York. We were up big against New Jersey and should have won and let it get away.
"And (Friday) night, we really played pretty good, but Carmelo (Anthony of the Knicks) hit a shot at the buzzer to beat us (99-96). We're going to keep on working."
Saunders said the Wolves will see a "very young" team when they play Washington.
"I think we've got nine guys under 22 years old, and basically eight or nine guys in their first or second years" in the NBA, he said. "We're going through that learning process similar to what the Timberwolves are doing in a lot of ways."
Saunders said he's been impressed with the Wolves.
"I think Rick's done a good job with them," he said of first-year coach Rick Adelman.
Early this season, the Los Angeles Lakers offered Pau Gasol to the Timberwolves as part of a hoped-for trade for Kevin Love. The Wolves, who intend to sign Love to a contract extension within the next couple of weeks, never considered the deal.
Twins catcher Joe Mauer picked up the tab for 200 guests at a New Year's Eve party at Plums in St. Paul. Partygoers were asked to write a check for $25 to a charity.
Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo, who is salivating over Apple Valley's Tyus Jones, was back in town again Friday to watch the sophomore point guard play against Lakeville South.
It's likely that 2012 will be a one-season tryout for newly appointed Vikings general manager Rick Spielman and second-year head coach Leslie Frazier.
At the end of next season, Brad Childress, fired as coach in 2010, will have received his final-year salary of about $3.3 million. And the final contract year for Frazier's assistant coaches will have expired.
Frazier's contract is believed to be a two-year deal with a team option for 2013. Contracts for Vikings front office personnel, including Spielman, are believed to expire in the spring of 2013.
Bottom line: It would be financially viable for Vikings owner Zygi Wilf to clean house at the end of next season.
Twins general manager Terry Ryan said he's not finished seeking players for next season's roster.
"There's some people out there we have some interest in," he said.
Reliever Michael Wuertz, the former Austin (Minn.) High School strikeout king who finished last season with the Oakland Athletics, remains a free agent.
"I'm aware of that," Ryan said.
Timberwolves President David Kahn, who hired Adelman in September for $20 million over four years, said he's pleased with his new coach's early performance.
"He's even better (than expected), though that's not to say I didn't expect great things from him," Kahn said. "He's had a great feel and touch for the team, and I think the entire organization has been lifted by his quiet, confident approach."
Kahn declined to compare Adelman with his predecessor Kurt Rambis, whom Kahn fired after the Wolves won just 32 games over two seasons.
If the NHL season ended today, the faltering Wild would be the seventh seed in the Western Conference playoffs.
Henry Bibby, who played on three NCAA championship basketball teams under legendary coach John Wooden at UCLA, was in town as an assistant for the Memphis Grizzlies, who played the Timberwolves last week. Bibby recalled playing the Gophers at Williams Arena during the 1969-70 season, his sophomore year, en route to a national title.
"That's the old one," Bibby recalled of The Barn. "It was interesting playing there because of that raised court. You sat down below and looked up - I had never seen anything like that before in my life. It was interesting for us to come in and make that adjustment to the cold, coming from California. We didn't beat them convincingly. It was a close game, I think."
It was on Dec. 6, 1969, and UCLA edged Minnesota 72-71.
Bibby, who averaged 15.6 points that season, is 62 now.
"I was probably 19 then," he said. "That was the first time I was in Minnesota."
What made Wooden such a great coach?
"He was a good person, and good things happen to good people," Bibby said. "He always treated people fairly. He was a great coach who taught fundamentals, something that's not taught this day and time. Little things.
"He never beat you up. Some coaches want to beat you up. He was more like a dad."
Bibby played nine seasons in the NBA as a point guard. He likes Wolves point guard Ricky Rubio.
"I think he's going to be a very, very, very, very, very, very, very good player in this league," Bibby said. "At 21 years old, he's the ultimate court general that you don't find anymore."
The funeral Mass for beloved Charles "Lefty" Smith, the former South St. Paul and Notre Dame men's hockey coach who died at age 81 last week, was Saturday at Notre Dame. Officials had planned for a four-hour visitation, but many well-wishers waited in line for two hours, and the visitation lasted for more than seven hours.
Among visitors were former South St. Paul and Gophers hockey coach Doug Woog, and Dave Metzen, the former South St. Paul and Gophers hockey player who went on to become chairman of the University of Minnesota Board of Regents. Metzen and Smith's seven children were pallbearers.
At Smith's funeral, it was pointed out that among the 127 players he coached at Notre Dame, 127 graduated.
A memorial service for Smith is under consideration for the University of St. Thomas, from which he graduated.
Ex-Twins closer Eddie Guardado will be a first-time spring training instructor for the Twins. It could be an audition for the left-hander to see whether he wants to consider a future as a pitching coach.
Former Wild forward Mark Parrish from Bloomington leads the Binghamton Senators in goals (11) and total points (21). Binghamton is coached by Kurt Kleinendorst from Grand Rapids, Minn.
The Gophers' pro-alumni baseball game is Feb. 4 at the Metrodome.
Look for a Minnesota Twins restaurant-bar to open at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport's concourse C this spring.
The University of St. Thomas will honor former men's hockey coach Terry Skrypek on Friday at its game against Hamline in Mendota Heights. In his 37 seasons as coach at Hill-Murray High School and St. Thomas, Skrypek's team finished first or second in its conference 35 times - and third the other two times.
The 27th Mancini's St. Paul Sports Hall of Fame banquet is May 14 at the Char House.
Rod Carew, Ron Gardenhire, Terry Ryan, Tom Kelly, Glen Perkins, John Anderson and Tim Tschida will be at the head table for the Original Old Timers Hot Stove Banquet on Jan. 30 at the Prom in Oakdale. For tickets, call 651-379-2325.
Twins second baseman Alexi Casilla is playing well in the Dominican Republic, and pitcher Anthony Slama is pitching well in Mexico this winter, according to reports. The Twins still have to sign Casilla and fellow salary arbitration-eligible players Francisco Liriano and Glen Perkins.
Dennis Denning, the retired University of St. Thomas baseball coach who on Friday was inducted into the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in Anaheim, Calif., mentioned during his speech in front of a capacity audience that he wanted each of his players to seek to be the team's "best teammate," and if that happened, winning would take case of itself. Denning's teams during a 32-year college and high school coaching career were 901-233.
Forest Lake High School grad Griffin Lentsch, who scored a Division III-record 89 points for Grinnell in its season opener, is averaging 30.6 points for the Pioneers, who are 9-0.
Gophers men's and women's hockey coaches Don Lucia and Brad Frost, respectively, are featured speakers at a Dunkers breakfast Tuesday at the Minneapolis Club.
Baseball hall of famer Dave Winfield, on fellow St. Paul native Jack Morris' chances for Hall of Fame election, to be announced Monday: "He's great. I hope he makes it."
Since trees were removed from the center-field backdrop at Target Field to improve the ballpark's batting eye, the Twins say their batters, as well as opposing hitters, have told them they have the best batter's eye in baseball.
Still, the Twins are considering ideas to make it more aesthetically pleasing.
Tuesday against San Jose, the Wild's Matt Cullen is expected to become just the seventh Minnesotan to appear in 1,000 NHL games. The others: Phil Housley, Neal Broten, Jamie Langenbrunner, Mike Ramsey, Bret Hedican and Dave Christian.
Visitation graduate Keri Herman has been named to the inaugural U.S. Olympic slopestyle ski team that will compete in Sochi, Russia, in 2014. In slopestyle skiing, Herman, 29, is ranked No. 1 in America and No. 2 in the world.
Luke Watson of Stillwater will compete in the U.S. Olympic marathon trials in Houston on Saturday. He needs a top-three finish to qualify.
It looks as if the Twins, who are expected to be awarded baseball's All-Star Game for Target Field for 2014, won't be getting the NHL's Winter Classic, which is expected to end up at Yankee Stadium that year for a game between the New York Rangers and New York Islanders.
Mike Grant, coach of high school state football champion Eden Prairie, speaks at noon Thursday at a CORES luncheon at the Knights of Columbus in Bloomington.
Former Cretin-Derham Hall assistant coach Andy Bischoff of the Montreal Alouettes was director of football operations for the U.S. Army All-American Bowl prep all-star game in San Antonio on Saturday. And he had a couple of Raiders assistants - Charlie Reed and Frank Jackson, a former Gopher - assisting him.
Bischoff, who is running backs coach and special-teams coordinator for the Alouettes, said Montreal ownership is trying to negotiate a new contract for head coach Marc Trestman, the former Gophers QB who led the Alouettes to Grey Cup titles two of the past three seasons. Also on the Montreal staff is defensive coordinator Tim Tibesar from St. Paul.
The Char House's John Mancini of St. Paul has become engaged to Minnie Owens of Shoreview. No wedding date yet.
The Minnesota Swarm's Ryan Benesch, who led the National Lacrosse League in scoring last season, will participate in a Swarm season-ticket bowling event this afternoon at the PINZ arcade in Oakdale. The Swarm have sold about 3,000 season tickets for this season, which begins Saturday in Colorado.
All proceeds from this weekend's Soapy Joe's car wash in St. Paul will be donated to the Jack Jablonski Fund for the Benilde-St. Margaret's sophomore who is paralyzed after being checked in a junior-varsity hockey game Dec. 30.
Notre Dame hockey players, in town to play the Gophers, signed an Irish jersey with a letter of encouragement for Jablonski.
Pssst: The Tampa Bay Lightning are desperate for a goaltender, and the Wild's Josh Harding can become an unrestricted free agent after the season. It's a good bet the Wild would give up Harding for right wing Brett Connolly, 19, but the Lightning aren't about to make that deal.
Tampa Bay, though, might be willing to give up left wing Ryan Malone (32) and/or right wing Steve Downie (24) for Harding, if the Wild would include a defenseman.
A little birdie says Windsong Farm, the Independence, Minn., golf club that recently shut down for financial reasons, has a potential deep-pocketed new owner from Minneapolis and could become solvent before long. The way it looks now, Windsong will reopen this spring.
There are whispers that Tubby Smith's Gophers men's basketball staff could undergo a shakeup if the team doesn't begin winning soon.
Vikings owner Zygi Wilf has a lot of gall not only to ask for some $600 million in public financing for a new stadium so he can become even wealthier but also for expecting season-ticket holders to renew with no playoff hope for next season. This guy's amazing.
Twins infielder Tsuyoshi Nishioka will be in spring training in Fort Myers, Fla., next month but not at the Metrodome for TwinsFest on Jan. 27-29.
Former Gophers basketball player Ron Behagen, 60, was sentenced to three years probation the other day and ordered to pay restitution after pleading guilty to stealing money from a 68-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease last year, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
Behagen, with an accomplice, made 40 ATM cash card withdrawals totaling $7,140 from the victim's bank account. After his Gophers career, Behagen played seven seasons in the NBA. He was in Minneapolis last month with former Gophers teammates for a 40th reunion of their 1971-72 Big Ten championship season.
Percolating: Twins pitcher Glen Perkins, who made a significant contribution toward a new on-campus baseball stadium for his alma mater Gophers, even bought a new coffee maker for the Gophers coaching staff's office when the old one broke down the other day.
Former Iowa star Ricky Davis, who might have been the most selfish player in Timberwolves history, is playing this season for the Maine Red Claws in the NBA D-League.
"I definitely have been humbled," Davis, 32, told the Cedar Rapids Gazette. "I know what it is to be a teammate instead of 'I, I, I.' "
The upstart National Collegiate Hockey Conference missed a big-time opportunity to hire popular former Wild VP Billy Robertson as its commissioner, a job that ended up going to Jim Scherr, a former U.S. Olympic Committee CEO.
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Those who love the voice of John Arch from his tenure with Fates Warning back in the early/mid 80's were given a teaser of a return back in 2003 with his EP "A Twist of Fate". Arch is back now with a full album, featuring the entire current lineup of Fates Warning (minus Ray Alder, of course) behind him. As a result, the musicianship is absolutely top-notch, not question about it. The production also shines, and the songs (only 6, but 3 are over 10 minutes) are very strong as well. The only thing that stops me from loving this so much more is that I just am not a huge fan of John Arch's voice. I never have been, and that probably won't ever change. If Alder had sung on this as a Fates Warning record, it would probably be in the top 10 or 15. Nevertheless, it's still a great record.
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DC Universe Online for the last week. We've talked about superpowers, factions, and questing, among a host of other issues. Today we want to be sure to highlight a fascinating exchange we had with DCUO Creative Director Jens Andersen and SOE Austin Creative Director Chris Cao about the role of fun in DCUO. Check out our back-and-forth on this issue in our new interview-style format below.
| What is it about DCUO that's compelling the team to concentrate on the amount of fun a player is having moment by moment? It seems as thought that's a major focus for the the game.
| Jens Andersen: It's a design philosophy. The key to us is: the most valuable thing the players have is online time together. So anything we do that provides an obstacle to that means we're wasting your time. It might be a great way to keep players in the game, when we ask you to run across an entire continent to go get something for your group. For you guys, it stinks. We don't want to waste your time.
| What we're really interested in generally speaking is: on a given night, what are players going to jump in and be doing? What's the gameplay going to be like?
| Jens: It's kind of like what you're seeing right here. We want to make sure is that the city feels like a real city. This is an event that's going on in this part of Metropolis. This is a two-block area in a city that has hundreds and hundreds of blocks, and different zones and different areas and different flavors. Some are friendly toward villains, some are friendly toward heroes, some are kind of in the middle. Something like this might literally pop up, where you have this event come in and take over this area of the city. Ships come down, the Brainiacs are running around, people are getting converted. The group of heroes and villains come together with conflicting – or sometimes similar – goals, because sometimes it's not good for anyone if the earth gets destroyed or taken over, so you might have to ally with each other.
|That's for this special event. What can we expect to see in Metropolis normally? We really want to be sure that players understand what their normal gameplay night will be like.
| Jens: Normally what you'd do is you'd still see these same kind of encounters. However, they would be flavored a little different. If I'm going down the street and I see a robbery at the jewelry store, I'm going to see cops and some criminals, maybe a getaway car. Some civilians might need to be secured and protected, something like that. And then, that would resolve. If I don't deal with it, that doesn't stay there and play out forever. There's no mob field that we have running, populating the city. We don't have demon crack dealers on one corner and robots from the future across the street, evil cultists on the top of the buildings summoning up things from a cauldron.
| Gotcha. It seems, though, like something that other games are still offering. You've implied that there are other elements to take into account that aren't just the same old questing.
| Jens: Think of it more like a living breathing city where things happen. And if they're not dealt with, they go away, and it returns to normal. But yes, that's just our base population. That's how we're handling base pop. We have these encounters popping up all over the place, and they're reactive to your presence. Then we do things that are like events, which are more like shared things that'll have a longer duration. And then other gameplay is going into locations, either larger locations like Arkham Asylum, or maybe you get a quest from Jim Gordon in Gotham that Catwoman has been doing nefarious things, burglaries going on in the penthouses of Gotham uptown. So you go uptown, and you get this ability to go into a penthouse in this high-rise, and there's Catwoman there and she's doing a heist, and you actually fight her.
|What is the soloability of the game going to be like? From what you've said there are a lot of built-in solo elements as well?
| Chris Cao: You're going to be able to play by yourself, if you want to play a little, get in to PvP or PvE, play with a group of people, or play with a raid sized group of people. So we have all of the conventional classifications, we just also have a superhero action game. You'll be running around, and you'll get communications from Superman or Batman, and Superman might say 'Hey, I need you to help me, I got trouble downtown.' And then you get some information about what he's talking about. So you go there and deal with it, or... not! And if you don't, then next time you go, Superman might contact you and say 'hey, you let me down last time, you never showed up.' He'll remember.
|So the thing that springs to mind is, what's the balance going to be between just running around and really enjoying being a superhero out in the world? Obviously in the fantasy MMOs right now, questing is sort of the be all and end all of gameplay right now.
| Jens: One's going to lead into the other. We have collections you can be doing that are either clues or other piecing things together, and content will actually spawn out of that, these encounters that you have. So we sort of bring it to you, in a way. There's other opportunities where you actually go to a contact. You would say 'hey, dude Gordon, what's up?' or 'Hi Lois Lane, what's up'? And she'd go 'oh, I've been investigating this story... ' And you might go investigate something somewhere and get a clue that would start a collection chain, or a map.
|So you're going to be able to go and do this freeform stuff, and quests will sort of pop out of that, instead of going to a new hub and the being lots of guys with their quests?
| Chris: Our entire content paradigm is built around making content for you. It's a crazy concept, but we believe we should entertain you! So we look at who you are, what level you are, what quests you've done, what you've completed, where you are in a city, and we spin up stuff around there that's relevant to you. Or we spin up a little ways away, to make you travel.
|Is that what you meant about it being a living city? There's no 'default' content that just sits around?
| Chris: This is all encounter based. We call it 'content scheduling'. That's what lets us swap out all the normal crime that would normally be in a city for a Brainiac event on the fly. We built the whole thing around the idea that it's not really natural for, as Jens was saying, for there to be a static population of crazy villains or heroes in a city, right? There should be people living there, and things should happen to those people. And so it's a very naturalistic approach. We want you to feel like a superhero really would. You're prowling, or you're patrolling, and you're finding things, and that's leading you on to greater levels of content. And if course if you just want to PvP, or you just want to go into an instance, you can do that at any time.
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Bertha is a Master Ground-type Trainer and member of the Sinnoh Elite Four.
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The male protagonist of Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. He is the rival of May and Wally.
Drake is the final opponent in the Hoenn Elite Four. He specializes in dragon-type Pokemon.
Flannery is the fourth gym leader in the Ruby/Sapphire Pokemon games. She is located in Lavaridge Town and specializes in fire-type Pokemon.
Glacia is the third person in the Hoenn Elite Four. She specializes in ice-type Pokemon.
Jigglypuff is a Pokemon that is able to sing others to sleep.
Lanette is the younger sister of Brigette, and, like her sister, is a computer technician.
Liza is the seventh gym leader in the Ruby/Sapphire Pokemon games. She is located in Mossdeep City and specializes in psychic-type Pokemon. Tate is her younger brother.
May is the female Pokémon Trainer counterpart to the player in Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire /Emerald. She has shown giving a liking for competitive battles and in certain times presented as a Pokémon enthusiast of contests and co-ordination.
Mewtwo is considered to be one of the best Pokémon of all time.
Norman is the fifth gym leader in the Ruby/Sapphire Pokémon games. He is located in Petalburg City and specializes in normal-type Pokémon.
Phoebe is the second person in the Elite Four in the Ruby/Sapphire games. She specializes in ghost-type Pokemon.
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A one-year affair inspired by the city of lights.
I could recall sunny January
In the Eiffel Tower one day
I met hundreds of tourists
But you touch my heart the best
I remember the lovely February¦.
When we walked in the Elysian field,
We reveal our hidden love
While walking with holding hands
A lot of kisses and a number of hugs¦
We shared as months passed very fast
We made many wonderful promises
With the Notre Dame our only witness
I could never, never forget
When the calendar reached October
You left me with no reason
You left me with no explanation
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December came with a cold day
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In the future, the indecent haste with which Barack Obama sought cover under the umbrella unfurled by his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in the Syrian chemical weapons crisis will be viewed as a watershed moment when it comes to America's waning power in that region. In the aptly named "arc of instability," the lands from the Chinese border to northern Africa that President George W. Bush and his neocon acolytes dreamed of thoroughly pacifying, turmoil is on the rise. Ever fewer countries, allies, or enemies, are paying attention, much less kowtowing, to the once-formidable power of the world's last superpower. The list of defiant figures—from Egyptian generals to Saudi princes, Iraqi Shiite leaders to Israeli politicians—is lengthening.
The signs of this loss of clout have been legion in recent years. In August 2011, for instance, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ignored Obama's unambiguous call for him "to step aside." Nothing happened even after an unnamed senior administration official insisted, "We are certain Assad is on the way out." As the saying goes, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
Similarly, in March 2010, Obama personally delivered a half-hour-long chewing out of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a politician Washington installed in office, on the corruption and administrative ineptitude of his government. It was coupled with a warning that, if he failed to act, a cut in U.S. aid would follow. Instead, the next month the Obama administration gave him the red carpet treatment on a visit to Washington with scarcely a whisper about the graft and ill-governance that continues to this day.
In May 2009, during his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Obama demanded a halt to the expansion of Jewish settlements on the West Bank and in occupied East Jerusalem. In the tussle that followed, the sole superpower lost out and settlement expansion continued.
These are among the many examples of America's slumping authority in the Greater Middle East, a process well underway even before Obama entered the Oval Office in January 2009. It had, for years, been increasingly apparent that Washington's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, along with several lesser campaigns in the Global War on Terror, were doomed. In his inaugural address, Obama swore that the United States was now "ready to lead the world." It was a prediction that would be proven disastrously wrong in the Greater Middle East.
Afghanistan and Pakistan
Invaded and occupied Afghanistan was to be the starting point for phase two in the triumphant singular supremacy of Uncle Sam. The first phase had ended in December 1991 with the titanic collapse of its partner in a MAD—that is, mutually assured destruction—world, the Soviet Union. A decade later, Washington was poised to banish assorted "terror" constellations from nearly 80 countries and to bring about regime change for the "Axis of Evil" (Iraq, Iran, and North Korea). Having defeated the "Evil Empire" of the Soviets, Washington couldn't have felt more confident when it came to achieving this comparatively modest aim.
Priority was initially given to sometime ally and client state Pakistan, the main player in creating the Afghan Taliban in the 1990s. Much to the chagrin of policymakers in Washington, however, the rulers of Pakistan, military and civilian, turned out to be masters at squeezing the most out of the United States (which found itself inescapably dependent on their country to prosecute its Afghan war), while delivering the least in return.
Today, the crumbling economy of Pakistan is in such a dire state that its government can keep going only by receiving handouts from the U.S. and regular rollover loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Since the IMF arrangement is subject to Washington's say-so, it seemed logical that the Obama administration could bend Islamabad to its diktats. Yet Pakistani leaders seldom let a chance pass to highlight American diplomatic impotence, if only to garner some respect from their own citizens, most of whom harbour an unfavourable view of the U.S.
A case in point has been the daredevil actions of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the founder-leader of the Lashkar-e Taiba (Army of the Pure, or LeT), listed as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department and the United Nations following its involvement in the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, which killed 166 people, including six Americans. In April 2012, the State Department announced a $10 million reward for information leading to Saeed's arrest and conviction. The bearded 62-year-old militant leader promptly called a press conference and declared, "I am here. America should give that reward money to me."
He continues to operate from a fortified compound in Lahore, the capital of Punjab. "I move about like an ordinary person—that's my style," he told the New York Times's Declan Walsh in February. He addresses large rallies throughout the country and is a much sought-after guest on Pakistani TV. According to intelligence officials based in the country, the militants of his organization participate in attacks on NATO forces and Indian diplomatic facilities in Afghanistan.
In August, when Saeed led a widely publicized parade on the nation's Independence Day, protected by local police, all that a spokeswoman at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad could helplessly say was: "We remain concerned about the movements and activities of this person. We encourage the government of Pakistan to enforce sanctions against this person."
Far more worrisome for Washington was the critical role that the al Qaeda-affiliated Pakistani Taliban, also listed as a terrorist organization by the State Department, played in determining the outcome of the country's general election in May. It threatened to attack the public rallies and candidates of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) because its membership was open to non-Muslims. This tied the party's hands in a predominantly rural society where, in the absence of reliable opinion polls, the size and frequency of public rallies is considered a crucial indicator of party strength. The outcome: a landslide victory by the opposition Pakistan Muslim League led by Nawaz Sharif, which drastically reduced the strength of the PPP in the National Assembly.
In mid-September, Prime Minister Sharif returned the favour by securing an all-party consensus in the National Assembly to negotiate peace with the Pakistani Taliban without conditions. Militant leaders then raised the stakes by insisting that his government first devise a policy to halt the ongoing U.S. drone campaign against them in the country's tribal borderlands.
This compelled the Sharif government to announce that it would raise the issue of the American drone campaign at the United Nations General Assembly. Its move is likely to coincide with a report by Ben Emmerson, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism, on U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia to be presented to the General Assembly in October. Emmerson has already described Washington's drone campaign as a violation of Pakistan's sovereignty.
In addition, ignoring Washington's reported disapproval, Sharif's government has started releasing Afghan Taliban prisoners—one of them "of high value" in the lexicon of the White House—from its jails to facilitate what it calls "reconciliation" in Afghanistan. As yet, however, there is no sign that Mullah Muhammad Omar, the supreme leader of the Afghan Taliban (widely believed to be under surreptitious Pakistani protection), is ready to negotiate with the government of Karzai whom he regularly denounces as an American puppet.
In early August, in his annual Eid al Fitr (Festival of Breaking the Fast) message, Omar was unmistakably hawkish. "As to the deceiving drama under the name of elections 2014, our pious people will not tire themselves out, nor will they participate in it," he said. He then called for continued struggle against U.S.-led NATO troops and their Afghan allies, and urged Kabul's security forces to direct their guns at foreign solders, government officials, and Afghans cooperating with the U.S.-led troops.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration has been pressuring Karzai to sign an agreement that, among other things, would allow the Pentagon to maintain a significant "footprint" in Afghanistan under the rubric of "training Afghan forces" after the withdrawal of U.S. and other NATO combat troops by December 2014. So far, despite his dependence on Washington for his political survival, Karzai has been playing hardball.
In this, Washington is heading down a familiar path. In Iraq, both the Bush and Obama administrations tried to reach an agreement with a government the U.S. had helped install to leave behind 10,000-20,000 military trainers and special operations troops. It failed when the pro-Tehran, Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki doggedly refused.
These days, despite the repeated U.S. complaints and requests, the Maliki government continues to allow Iranian arms to be sent overland and through its air space to the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad. In late August, during the Syrian chemical weapons crisis, Iraq even declared that it wouldn't allow its airspace to be used for military strikes on Syria.
The Diminishing "Coalition of the Willing"
In a controversial New York Times op-ed on September 11th, Russian President Putin wrote of President Obama's plan to launch a military strike against Damascus, "It is alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts has become commonplace for the United States... Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions together under the slogan, 'you're either with us or against us.'"
Only days earlier, however, President Obama had failed to form a "coalition of the willing" on the Syrian issue at the G20 summit in St. Petersburg, managing to rally only 10 members. Those who opposed military strikes against Syria without a U.N. Security Council mandate included the five-strong BRICS powers—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—along with Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, and Argentina.
A week earlier, the British parliament defeated a motion to join a U.S.-led operation against Syria. With the British "poodle" slipping Washington's leash—an unprecedented act in recent memory—Obama was lost.
In desperation, he turned to Congress, where, thousands of miles from the Greater Middle East, only a minority tuned in. Responding to the overwhelming sentiments of their constituents and opinion polls showing that remarkably few Americans believed an attack on Syria in national interest, the lawmakers started lining up to give Obama a resounding thumbs-down. It was only then, after an offhand remark by his Secretary of State John Kerry was taken up by Moscow, that Obama went on television and accepted the outlines of Putin's proposed plan for Syria's chemical weapons.
A Landmark Deal Underscores U.S. Decline
Undoubtedly, the Syrian deal struck in Geneva between Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov favored the Kremlin. It put any American attack firmly on the back burner. It brought the U.N. Security Council, earlier skirted by the Obama White House, center-stage as the primary agency to implement and supervise the deal. In the process, it underscored the continuing influence of Russia as a permanent member of the Council with a veto. Moscow also managed to spare the Assad regime the degradation of its military capabilities that would have resulted from the Pentagon's strikes. In so doing, it enabled the Syrian leader to maintain the current battlefield superiority of his forces. Overall, the Syrian rebels and Washington were unmitigated losers.
Among other losers were Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Jordan. On the opposite side of the equation were Iran and the military rulers of Egypt, albeit for diametrically contrary reasons. For Tehran, a Syria governed by Assad, a member of the Alawi sub-sect within Shiite Islam, is a linchpin in the axis of resistance against Israel. For the generals in Cairo, the demon is the Muslim Brotherhood, whose Syrian branch is the foremost foe of Assad.
Having overthrown Muhammad Morsi, the first democratically elected ruler in Egypt's long history, the generals are now busily attempting to eradicate the Brotherhood itself, the oldest political party in the region. Following their July 3rd coup, they were reassured when Obama, though perturbed by their actions, meticulously avoided using that word "coup," which would have resulted in a suspension of aid as mandated by the U.S. Foreign Assistance Act. In contrast, his administration did suspend aid to the African state of Mali in March 2012 when, in a bloodless coup, the military toppled democratically elected President Amadou Toure.
If Obama was having second thoughts on his Egyptian policy, "marathon phone calls" from Jerusalem evidently ensured that no significant action would be taken against the military junta.
Israel's prime minister and foreign minister Benjamin Netanyahu, defense minister Moshe Yaalon, and national security adviser Yaakov Amidror engaged their American counterparts—Kerry, Chuck Hagel, and Susan Rice—in telephone conversations urging them not to freeze the $1.3 billion in military aid to the post-Morsi regime.
To the delight of the generals in Cairo, Israel's lobbying continued unabated in Washington. Among others, Michael B. Oren, Israel's ambassador in Washington, argued forcefully for an uninterrupted flow of U.S. aid. "Israel has been waging an almost desperate diplomatic battle in Washington," wrote Alex Fishman, a leading Israeli columnist, in Yediot Aharonot on August 25. That was just 10 days after Egypt's Interior Ministry troops had massacred nearly 1,000 Brotherhood supporters while clearing two protest sites in Cairo where pro-Morsi partisans had been staging peaceful open air sit-ins. Obama responded by saying, "Our traditional cooperation cannot continue as usual when civilians are being killed in the streets and rights are being rolled back." But all he did was to cancel an upcoming annual joint military exercise with Egypt.
The evident impotence of Washington before yet another client state with an economy in freefall was highlighted by the revelation that since the ouster of Morsi, Secretary of Defense Hagel had 15 telephone conversations with Egyptian Defense Minister General Abdul Fattah el-Sisi, the coup leader, pleading with him to "change course"—but in vain—a repeat of Washington's experience with Karzai, the Pakistani leaders, and Assad.
The threat that Washington might cut-off its military aid to Egypt was promptly countered by its long-standing ally in the region: Saudi Arabia. In a gesture of undisguised defiance of U.S. wishes, Saudi foreign minister Saud al Faisal pledged publicly that his country would fill any financial gaps left if the U.S. and the European Union withdrew aid to Cairo. With Riyadh's budget surplus of $103 billion last year, his words carried weight.
Within a week of the coup in Cairo, the three oil-rich states of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates—each dependent on the Pentagon for its external security—poured $12 billion into the bankrupt Egyptian treasury. In this way, these autocratic monarchies encouraged the military junta to defy Washington's pleas for a return to democracy.
Launching a blitz of jingoistic propaganda and pumping up Egyptian xenophobia, the generals have gone beyond thumbing their noses at Uncle Sam. They have even concocted wild theories about how Washington has colluded with the Muslim Brotherhood. These are now being assiduously peddled through the state-controlled media and its compliant private sector counterpart.
In late August, for instance, the state-owned newspaper, Al Ahram, citing "security sources," published a sensational front-page story by its editor-in-chief Abdel Nasser Salama. It claimed the authorities had foiled a plot involving U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson, Brotherhood leader Kharat El Shater (by then under arrest), "37 terrorists," and 200 Gaza-based jihadists to infiltrate the Sinai Peninsula through clandestine tunnels between the two territories, and create chaos. This was to be a preamble to isolating Upper Egypt and declaring it independent of Cairo. In response, Ambassador Patterson did no more than send a note of protest to Salama. Such stories have become grist for the Egyptian rumour mill and are transforming fantasies into facts in the popular psyche.
At the turn of the century, who could have imagined that barely a decade later an official mouthpiece for an emergent military dictator in Egypt, a client state of Uncle Sam for a quarter of a century, would have the audacity to malign Washington in this way while its generous aid package continued to flow in uninterrupted? If you need a marker for the waning of American power in the Greater Middle East, look no further.
Dilip Hiro, has written 34 books, including After Empire: The Birth of a Multipolar World. His latest book is A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Middle East (Interlink Publishing Group). Copyright 2013 Dilip Hiro. Courtesy: TomDispatch
Thank you to all those who have taken the trouble to read the article and share their thoughts. Out of the arguments made here, there are two that perhaps need answering. So here they go.
1. The first part of the article compares outcomes (relative percentages of population of the religions concerned) irrespective of the process that led to those outcomes - whether immigration, relatively faster population growth or conversions. This was for two reasons. One, to put the figure of 2.3 per cent in "numerical perspective", as the article itself explained. The second reason was that outcomes are ultimately what the crux of debate is about. The rest of the article in any case dealt with process - or conversions in this case, from both a contemporary and historical perspective.
2. Some commenters have tried to cast doubts on the reliability of Census 2001. Those who do this should bear in mind that Census 2001 was conducted by a BJP government. Considering the extreme importance that BJP gives to this issue, it would be reasonable to expect that IF it had perceived a problem with the methodology that was distorting the numbers, it would have fixed it. As the article mentioned, BJP or BJP-supported governments have been in power for 10 of the last 40 years, or about a quarter of the time, and the only reasonable conclusion one can arrive at is that any misreporting of numbers, real or perceived, would be marginal and hence, not of importance.
To all other arguments made, my answer is the following: Please read the article again, with particular focus on the quotations of Vivekananda and Monier Williams, and the history of the missionary efforts in Bengal and their outcome.
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For decades the US fought covert war against Communist Russia spending probably trillions of dollars. Internally easy credit was the economic force. Ultimately, while, seemingly the US Capitalism won over Russian Communism, the US was biggest loser!
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EAST GREENWICH ŌĆö With the final draft virtually complete, the townŌĆÖs new comprehensive plan may be ready for both review by the public and approval by the Town Council before the holidays.
EAST GREENWICH ŌĆö Just as white Christmas may have arrived early last weekend, fiscal 2013 has knocked on East GreenwichŌĆÖs door a little earlier then usual.
EAST GREENWICH ŌĆō The auditorium at East Greenwich High School was turned into Le Chat Noir for two nights last week, as the drama department wowed an audience of about 250 with their 10th Annual Cabaret.
Dr. Mark Schwager didnŌĆÖt wait for the close of 2011 to declare his candidacy for the state House of Representatives in the 2012 election.
EAST GREENWICH ŌĆö Local students and public safety officials are making sure that Red Ribbon Week is not just nine days of building awareness of drug and alcohol issues and how to avoid them.
EAST GREENWICH - The owner of a South County Trail seafood restaurant didnŌĆÖt get the increased seating capacity she wanted from the Zoning Board of Review Tuesday night.
EAST GREENWICH ŌĆö With the pension reform debate officially under way, the Town Council made its support for the cause official Monday night.
At last Thursday's Red Ribbon Week conference, sponsored by Citizens Who Care at the East Greenwich Police Station Community Room, both sides of the equation discussed the steps they're taking to battle the problem and make sure the town keeps the week's message in mind.
The owner of a South County Trail seafood restaurant didnŌĆÖt get the increased seating capacity she wanted from the Zoning Board of Review Tuesday night.
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After tabling a support resolution last week while awaiting the unveiling of the plan, the council unanimously voted Monday to send a strongly-worded measure to state officials backing the legislation proposed by General Treasurer Gina Raimondo and Gov. Lincoln Chafee.
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|Extracellular volume expansion in peritoneal dialysis patients.
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|Introduction: Cardiovascular mortality remains high among peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients. Several small studies have suggested that PD patients are volume expanded, and as such this could be a cardiovascular risk factor. We therefore wished to investigate factors which could lead to extracellular water (ECW) expansion. Methods: Retrospective cross-sectional audit of 600 prevalent, adult PD patients attending two tertiary university PD centers, with corresponding assessments of PD adequacy, transport status, and multifrequency bioimpedance measurements of extracellular water to total body water (ECW/TBW). Results: 600 PD patients, median age 57.5 (46.9-67.9) years, 54% male, 31% diabetic, 47.6% Caucasoid, median PD vintage 16 (3.7-38) months, (64% prescribed icodextrin, 34% hypertonic glucose dialysates, and 74% antihypertensive medications). Mean ECW 15.1±0.2 L, ICW 20±0.2 L, ECW/TBW ratio 0.437±0.007. On multivariate analysis %ECW/TBW was associated with age (F=13.1 ß=0.045 p=0.000), number of antihypertensive medications (F=10.3 ß=0.43 p=0.001), log CRP (F=12.9 ß=1.3 p=0.000), and negatively with serum albumin (F=25 ß=-0.22 p=0.000), and residual renal function (urine volume mL F=9.96 ß=-0.001 p=0.002) (weekly Kt/Vurine F=8.82 ß=-2.05, p=0.003). Conclusions: Overhydration as assessed by ECW/TBW is prevalent in adult PD patients, and is associated with loss of residual renal function, inflammation, malnutrition and hypertension - as assessed by antihypertensive medications. As this was a retrospective cross-sectional audit, whether loss of residual renal function, inflammation, and protein energy wasting lead to volume expansion remains to be determined in prospective longitudinal studies.
|Stanley Fan; Rabya H Sayed; Andrew Davenport
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Buon Natale! We look forward to upcoming videos. Now if I could just learn how to get mine on the computer, let alone my blog!
Kim, cool gift! What fun you will have :)
Oh no. I've been so good about not spending money. Now I may have to visit Best Buy.
That is an impressive looking fire. I'm with Palma - if only I could learn how to edit and post 'em! LOL
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Google Glass' early luxury brand pricing appears to have put it in good stead, with the elite at New York's Fashion Week getting an early close-up look at Google's wearable camera future. Diane von Furstenberg, who's no stranger to a tech tie-in, has added the lightweight frames to her latest show, using them to make a documentary about fashion's creative process. The project is set to appear on von Furstenberg's Google+ page later this week, but if you're not a world-renowned fashion designer (or model), we'd be paying more attention to that two-year wait.
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Don't let me go.
Please don't ever say that dreaded word.
When I wake up in the morning,
Will you still be here...
Don't let me go,
For you are my life support.
I need you to breathe,
Let me prove my love,
Just never leave....
Where are you going my love...
Why are you leaving me,
Please don't go,
Stop my pain.
Don't ever walk away...
You see me crying,
Stop my tears,
Please dry my eyes,
And stop my fears.
Tell me everything will be alright.
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Yemeni security forces have foiled a plot to carry out 10 suicide bombings against government buildings in the capital Sanaa, the defence ministry's news website reported on Monday.
A wave of arrests targeting a suspected al-Qaeda cell held responsible for a May attack that killed more than 100 soldiers in the capital netted the 10 militants charged with carrying out the bombings, the 26sep.net website quoted "informed sources" as saying.
The arrests "foiled 10 terrorist suicide bombings in the capital Sanaa which the group was planning to carry out against several government facilities," it reported.
Security services have also found the last testament of the May 21 bomber, who was less than 18 years old, 26sep.net added.
National security chief Ali Mohammed al-Ansi said in comments published by the ministry's 26 September newspaper on Thursday that the security forces had made multiple arrests.
They followed the announcement on June 20 of the arrest of Majed al-Qulaisi, a suspected member of the cell that planned the May attack against troops rehearsing for a military parade.
Ansi vowed to continue the "hunt" for al-Qaeda fighters, saying security forces have carried out a "series of operations against al-Qaeda terrorists" across Yemen.
Last month, Yemeni troops recaptured a string of al-Qaeda bastions across the troubled south and east where the militants had seized control last year. - AFP
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Lion escapes in midlands
The people of the village of Kilcormac in King's County were terrorised yesterday after a lion escaped from a visiting circus. The lion escaped from its cage on the Fair Green in the village in the afternoon and made for the open countryside.
The circus hands armed themselves and set out in pursuit, led by the circusmaster, Buff Bill, who carried a Colt .45 revolver. After a couple of hours, the lion was captured using a huge net and was returned to its cage.


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By Dr. Karen J. Horne,
MD, Randolph OB/GYN
Sexual dysfunction is an extremely common problem that many women deal with, but are too embarrassed or afraid to seek help. Almost 50% of women have sexual concerns, and up to 70% of couples report difficulties with their sex life at some point during the relationship. Problems can stem from lack of desire, trouble becoming aroused and maintaining arousal, inability to achieve orgasm, and pain or discomfort during intercourse. Also, as the female body matures and transitions into menopause, new issues with sex can arise that may seem overwhelming and frustrating.
As a gynecologist, I speak to many women each day and almost half of them report concern with lack of desire and waning libido. Too often women have so many other tasks to accomplish that they are completely drained at the end of the day to consider mustering enough energy to be intimate at night. Keep in mind that medications, physical conditions, emotional stress, and unresolved conflict within a relationship also add additional layers of issues to overcome before sex is enjoyable again.
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