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Catholic Liberals Take Note, all others read Ross Douthat
In the usually lame "Sunday Review," the NYTimes has this essay offering the Democrats some excellent advice, "The Power of Political Communion." The author Molly Worthen hits a number of points on the head, and the Democratic party as well.All others: Ross.
About the Author
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, a former editor of Commonweal, writes frequently in these pages and blogs at dotCommonweal.
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Maybe.Ms Worthen makes some valid points, and the essay is good food for thought. Once or twice I couldn't quite figure out if she was criticizing the Dems for not listening to us, or us for not shouting above the din to be heard.On the other hand, maybe a lot of us liberal Catholics are more comfortable active in our parishes and local communities where we believe that we can make a legitimate difference. I could never see myself involved in politics on a national scale. But I could make a difference on city council, perhaps, with my neighbors and friends.It might be that we're not harping in the public square like we were/might have been a generation or two ago because we're disgusted at the similarity between the two major political parties. Both parties are bloated, gas-filled carcasses on life support. They should have each died in the last century.It might be that many of us find more meaning in acknowledging we may well be living in a time of planting, not harvesting. The martyr Alfred Delp said what's on my mind, "This is seedtime, not harvest. God sows the seed and some time or other he will do the reaping. ... If this is the way God has chosen--and everything indicates that it is--then I must willingly and without rancor make it my way."Maybe some of us liberals have moved on. The Catholic Right is about forty years late to the party. So let them have their time to trumpet and crow and make mistakes and fall all over themselves. I for one have no wish to get involved in the lunacy.The president, by the way, has yet to earn a second vote from me, Bill Clinton back-thumping notwithstanding. Swing state talking here, Mr President. Listen up, sir.
"The handful of nationally known Catholic political thinkers who might be called progressive, or at least compassionate and cosmopolitan like the journalist-scholars Garry Wills and E. J. Dionne Jr., blogmeister Andrew Sullivan, or the feminist nun and blogger Sister Joan Chittister are far outnumbered by the ranks of prominent Catholic conservatives in the trenches of activism and policy making."I wonder whether this is true or not. If you add Commonweal, America magazine and not a few Catholic universities, Catholic progressives are well represented. My big problem with Catholic progressives is that they let Conservatives and the Dolan hierarchy phrase the issues (like abortion) rather than concentrating on helping people "Behind the beautiful forevers."Digressing to the Health Care imbroglio we should remember that there is some confusion in the Catholic population. Even some educated people think the government's policy is to force Catholic hospitals to perform abortions rather than to allowe Catholic employees (many of whom are non-Catholic) to avail themselves of covered abortion. Peggy, as far as the Ross article you reference, tell me where the partisanship lies. Seems a balanced piece to me.
Bill: right, Ross has the balance conservatives need on this subject....that's why I recommended they read it instead of the Worthen piece; with that, they's only start frothing at the mouth.
Mr. Flowerday: Curious about what Obama needs to do to get your vote.
If you add Commonweal, America magazine and not a few Catholic universities, Catholic progressives are well represented.--------Commonweal's circulation is 20,000; America's is 45,000. (And the editors of those once-liberal magazines have veered waaaay over to the right. Their anti-Obama editorials and articles hardly represent "progressives".) (What's a progressive?)As to Catholic universities? Any reason to believe their students are Democrats? (Just asking. Imho, Steubenville, Notre Dame, et al. are staunch supporters of the RCC -- Republican Catholic Church.)
Nice piece. Thanks. But neither Democrats nor Republicans are interested in philosophy - or in philosophical consistency, life centered or other. No deep thinking goes in among politicians - deep thinking and political thinking are inimical. Democrats don't care about progressive Catholic intellectuals because there aren't enough of them. And they're aging.
Commonweals circulation is 20,000; Americas is 45,000. (And the editors of those once-liberal magazines have veered waaaay over to the right. Their anti-Obama editorials and articles hardly represent progressives.) (Whats a progressive?)
A progressive is a political believer who holds that truth just keeps getting better.
David Smith... wrong... A Catholic progressive is one who did not flee to the suburbs in 60s 70s. , He/She was not afraid of different colors and did not fear minorities as neighbors, The progressive also did not want to move as close as possible to a GOP golf course as their salary would allow. Catholic Religion/Dogma played absolutely no part of any of these Dem turned GOP flight decisions. Yes, the flight mice elected and re-elected Nixon and how did that work out?
Why use the term "progressive"? What's wrong with being a LIBERAL? The Progressive Movement was a specific era in American history (one of my faves), and it comprised Republicans as well as Democrats. I get the impression that liberals who are too intimidated by Republicans to call themselves liberals have taken to calling themselves progressives, not because they identify with the historical movement, but with the hope of mollifying Ryan/Romney/Rush/etc.
Gerelyn - just a suggestion from a poor history teacher. Progressive has been a label for one specific period of American history but, in reality, historians have used the term *progressive* form many different time periods; specific state movements and even local movements.Thus, most US historians would probably qualify Teddy Roosevelt as a *conservative* progressive - but, that defines *conservative* in a very classical sense. You also had the term progressive applied to populists, to Huey Long, JFK's New Frontier....some of those were liberal (in the usual sense that it is defined today) and others such as Long fit into their own categories. (Teddy brings up a whole other historical analogy since his Republican stance took on big business and the Gilded Age - some wonder if the current Tea Party Republicans even understand that Republican Party history and narrative?)Progressivism can be made up of both classical liberal and conservatives in terms of the political actions they support.
Gerelyn, "liberal" is confusing because in this country until very recently it was used to mean something very different from what it means today. It still means something rather different elsewhere. "Progressive", on the other hand, refers to people who are committed to continual reform. Not a bad idea, at first glance.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalismhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prog...
Agree, Bill, that today's Republicans could stand a refresher course or two in American history. Agree, David that today's Democrats could stand a refreshed course or two in American history. ----------- L'shanah tovah!~~ 5773 ~~
I attended the Catholic Theological Association meeting in Durham where blogger Fr Tim Finigan held forth, presenting the Catholic blogosphere as a new movement in the Church; I pointed out that there was a well represented liberal wing to the blogosphere, quoting Michael Bayly, Praytellblog.com, William Lindsay, and Commonweal, America and NCR. The "alternative Catholic media" are of such low quality that they cannot be represented at these more respectable venues. The Tablet dislikes them, as Fr Zuhlsdorf indignantly notes (follow the links to get to Fr Finigan's CTA presentation): http://wdtprs.com/blog/2012/09/the-tablet-losers/
For what it's worth, I really liked the Worthen piece. It would be helpful if the present clerical leadership in the U. S. Catholic community spent some time and energy applauding the contributions that what she calls liberal Catholicism have made to our political history instead of doing a fundamentalist dance on a few chose hot button issues. It may be that the Democratic party leadership would still not take this message to heart. But at least it would have to acknowledge that therre is this strong message.
Here's the Finigan presentation (JOL, 5:04):https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1bzAUcmXSkmIUtIpvC4oD1xpFVypEEpz...
Ed Gleason ==Interesting housing development in New Orleans. Yes, there was white flight. That left a couple of nice old neighborhoods to decay, including my old one. But now with oil getting more and more expensive, those old neighborhoods which are not far from downtown are starting to be re-gentrified. And what will that do to the suburbs when things (not just gas) get expensive? I expect life will get more expensive because most products require energy to produce, and that will raise the prices of the products. We brought this on ourselves, of course. We refused to invest in alternate energy sources 50 years ago when it was obvious this was coming. (Can't trust those scientists, ya know -- they're those liberal academics.)
There is one politician who reads heavy stuff. See Michael Lewis' biog of Obama in Vanity fair. According to Lewis, St. Augustine, Churchill, Ghandi and Niehbur are among those Obama admires.http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/10/michael-lewis-profile-barack-...
Ann Olivier.. what you say is happening to NO with gentrification has already happened in San Francisco. And happening nation wide. SF Median house price is now 700k and climbing quickly. The Far suburbs in the Bay Area that were the landing zones for the 60s 70s white flight are now in steep foreclosure. Being stuck in an underwater mortgage , $5 gas, and your newly adult children re-locating to the inner city, was not part of the GOP agenda for the USA. Now if we can get the youngsters to register and get out to vote we progressive/liberals can keep the ball possession for 12 more years and re-vitalize USA.
I was struck by the use of the words "Catholic liberal" in the title of this post.All in all I think they are probably more accurate, but I expected Ms. Steinfels to define herself a "liberal Catholic." We seem to be still stuck in the situation Augusto Del Noce described in 1969:"In every area a dividing line has been established between traditionalists and progressives, and a progressive from any given background feels closer to a fellow progressive than to a traditionalist from his own group. For instance, nowadays a secular progressive is certainly closer to a Catholic progressive than a Catholic traditionalist is to a Catholic progressive1. Catholic and secular progressives think less about their metaphysical differences than about their agreement in formulating judgments of value regarding the contemporary world."
To make my thought clear: I personally think that a Catholic should firmly refuse to categorize himself/herself as liberal or conservative, because both terms carry too much philosophical baggage from the philosophies of history of the XIX century and from the US political divide.
Ann (7:46), I had to look really hard to find your evidence in that behind-the-scenes article for your assertion that Obama "reads heavy stuff". I think I found it in a single paragraph on page seven:
Obama asked his speechwriters to dig up for him writings about war by people he admired: Saint Augustine, Churchill, Niebuhr, Gandhi, King. He wanted to reconcile the nonviolent doctrines of two of his heroes, King and Gandhi, with his new role in the violent world. These writings came back to the speechwriters with key passages underlined and notes by the president to himself scrawled in the margin. (Beside Reinhold Niebuhrs essay Why the Christian Church Is Not Pacifist, Obama had scribbled Can we analogize al-Qaeda? What level of casualty can we tolerate?) Here it wasnt just that I needed to make a new argument, says Obama. It was that I wanted to make an argument that didnt allow either side to feel too comfortable.
That's it, right? Don't you think every college graduate has read the same stuff?
Hi Bill M. and Peggy,About Douthat's balance: Is "balance" of any value if it misrepresents the case?Here's what I mean. He writes: "There is a cringing way to make this mistake, embodied by the apologetic press release that issued from the American embassy in Cairo on Tuesday as the protests outside gathered steam, by the Obama White Houses decision to lean on YouTube to take the offending video down, and by the various voices (including, heaven help us, a tenured Ivy League professor) suggesting that the videos promoters be arrested for abusing their First Amendment liberties. "What apologetic press release? What cringing? To keep repeating this meme of the Cairo embassy's "apology" (which wasn't an apology) is not to respect the facts.And to complain about President Obama leaning on YouTube to take the offending video down? By all accounts it was a piece of trash and it was the occasion of plenty of offense and trouble. Here's a balance question: Does RD object when Bill Donohue pressures organizations to pull down anti-Catholic ads, slogans, or art exhibits? When the Jewish anti-defamation league pressures groups to withdraw anti-Jewish expressions?
Further, to call for some penalty levied on whoever produced the video isn't cringing. It's aggressive. I wouldn't advocate this, but neither can I deem it a cringing response.In sum, the examples he dumps together into his "cringing" alternative aren't what they seem to be. Their unifying factor instead seems to be that they assume that Muslims have rights and deserve respect.
No, David, I do not think that most college graduates have read those works. You have an exalted notion of American college education.
David R., thanks for the Atlantic article. It names a lot of the policies that fuel rage in the Muslim world, and I am glad to see it. Please note: I didn't say that RD was wrong to point out that there is more to this case than the video. I've said as much myself, here on dotCommonweal. What I am objecting to is the idea that "balance" is achieved by misrepresenting views. Because "balance" is so prized by American journalists, as if it guaranteed fairness, I felt this needed to be said. We've had lots of "both sides" reporting in recent times which has done little to point out that one "side" or another is weak or groundless. Thus talking points get repeated, which is nice for political candidates, but doesn't represent any sort of really balanced view of a situation.
Oops, make that David Smith. Sorry!
Although I suppose I'm a "conservative", I went ahead and read the Worthen piece, and blogged a short response to it, at Mirror of Justice, here: http://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2012/09/worthens-power-... hope the response doesn't seem like "frothing at the mouth"; as I say, Worthen makes some really good and valuable (for "both sides") points, but also (in my view) gets Joe Biden, Roe, and Murray wrong.
Here's where I saw balance:"THE greatest mistake to be made right now, with our embassies under assault and crowds chanting anti-American slogans across North Africa and the Middle East, is to believe that whats happening is a completely genuine popular backlash against a blasphemous anti-Islamic video made right here in the U.S.A."And here: "Todays wave of violence, likewise, owes much more to a bloody-minded realpolitik than to the madness of crowds. As The Washington Posts David Ignatius was among the first to point out, both the Egyptian and Libyan assaults look like premeditated challenges to those countries ruling parties by more extreme Islamist factions: Salafist parties in Egypt and pro-Qaeda groups in Libya. (The fact that both attacks were timed to the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks should have been the first clue that this was something other than a spontaneous reaction to an offensive video.)"
Rita,The fact that you don't understand why there is a difference between Bill Donohue calling for removal of offending material and President Obama doing so is "cringing" to anyone who understands the fact that the First Amendement protects against government infringement of speech (even if offensive) and does not apply to private conduct. Are you seriously forgiving the administration ("aggressive, but not cringing") seeking punishment against someone for merely producing a movie because it is offensive to particular religious adherents? Certainly you don't think Martin Scorcese should have arrested and questioned by police for directing "Last Temptation of Christ"? Maybe you think it would be right for President Obama to call on broadway to remove "The Book of Mormon" from theaters?
Mike D,There's no evidence that the Obama administration is seeking punishment, that was a suggestion of some Ivy League professor, remember?And I think you are confusing cringing (fear) with embarrassment. If you are embarrassed by my comment, fine. That's not what RD is talking about. Certainly I understand free speech. Is the president's intervention that of a dictator? No. He has every right to put on pressure whenever an ill-considered action puts American lives at risk and is causing unnecessary turmoil. Crying "fire" in a crowded theater, anyone?
---- A progressive is a political believer who holds that truth just keeps getting better.----"A progressive is someone who keeps making the same mistake, while a conservative is someone who prevents a mistake from ever being corrected." G. K. ChestertonThe modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." John Kenneth Galbraith
There is a cringing way to make this mistake, embodied by the apologetic press release that issued from the American embassy in Cairo on Tuesday as the protests outside gathered steam, by the Obama White Houses decision to lean on YouTube to take the offending video down, and by the various voices (including, heaven help us, a tenured Ivy League professor) suggesting that the videos promoters be arrested for abusing their First Amendment liberties. I wonder if Mr. D has ever been in a situation where there was more than a reasonable expectation of extreme bodily harm up to and possibly including death? If those people in Cairo had reason to believe that their lives were threatened by the rantings of some idiotic person in the US who loves the idea that he can say whatever stupid thing he wants and is defended by people who have been beaten over the head with the idea that almost anything said is fair game and can't be removed after the fact, then I can't blame them for trying to dissociate themselves from this form of idiocy.I'm sure the survivors of the 4 dead in Benghazi might have decided opinions on the untrammeled "freedom of speech" that cost the live of their loved one. I don't mean the public opinions that they might have given; I'm talking about what they say when the recorders and cameras have moved on to the next salaciousness of the day.


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Why does it pain you to say it? The truth is the truth. And that backlit video really does give a better picture of what's going on, doesn't it? The first video left one with the impression everything was horizontal, but the backlit video shows that's not the case, so that really cleared it up for me.
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Second video.........I'm hearing what ya saying buddy.
Coming over to the dark side on this one! Booooooo! Thanks for finding that other vid. Matches explanation much better..........Pains me to say it
Oh well, on with the next.
Hey, got any good UFO vids that you can't explain? Hmmmm?
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Here's to hoping you're part of the 11 percent who won't fail to recognize astronomical objects, like some of the pilots in those FAA recordings of UFO sightings.
One of the world's first genuine UFO investigators, Allen Hynek of Northwestern University, came to believe that some encounters really could have otherworldly causes. But he was much more skeptical about the reliability of pilot testimony. "Surprisingly, commercial and military pilots appear to make relatively poor witnesses," he wrote in "The Hynek UFO Report."
Hynek found that the best class of witnesses had a 50 percent misperception rate, but that pilots had a much higher rate: 88 percent for military pilots, 89 percent for commercial pilots, the worst of all categories listed. Pilots could be counted on for an accurate identification of familiar objects — such as aircraft and ground structures — but Hynek said "it should come as no surprise that the majority of pilot misidentifications were of astronomical objects."
Where did you get that "visit people in the night" part?
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Worst fear realized. My 1998 Nissan Altima GLE with 140K miles has been in need of timing chain replacement (confirmed diagnosis) for a " while". I haven't been hammering it, and fully intended to have the work done once I got paid (. It's been about five months since I received my last commission check). As cruel irony would have it, the night before (literally) I got paid, accelerating from a stop light on the way home the vehicle instantaneously lost compression (for lack of a better descriptive), only reaching about 20mph. No idiot lights, no whacked gauges, no smells, etc. I was so close to home, I continued. The car dropped to about 10mph for the last mile, and then completely crapped out. Would not (and now won't) start, but does crank. Is this immediate, yet gradual, loss of power indicative of the timing chain having finally failed and the gradually diminishing performance/compression(?) The result of valve deformation? Or could it have been something else? (. Which would be the 'good' news, leaving me the timing chain replacement as a needed repair subsequent to this). Would not a timing chain failure result in the 'immediate' failure of the vehicle to be propelled? Thanks!
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A loss of the chain, more likely a loss of the guides and tensioner. That can let the chain jump on the cam and crank gears resulting in loss of power and if it jumps enough, the engine will die. Have a compression test done to see if the chain is on. If you knew in the first palce it needed a chain set, then it probably still will.
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Thanks. What is the likelihood the chain jumped teeth accelerating from the light? Also, I had presumed the aging chain had 'stretched' somewhat. Shouldn't it be replaced if/when tensioners/guides are replaced? Finally, how likely is it there has been valve damage, if the chain jumped teeth to the point of killing the engine?
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My son was asking about what the pilings were for. We live inland where there are no tides, so I explained how the deck floated guided by the piles. Looks like the dock is built to accomodate quite a tide and storm surge.
The overmat was very nice. I would recommend you fiddle with the blade depth on your angle cutter, or amount of overcut needed if you are angle cutting freehand thought.
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Bernadine Towne
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Bernadine Towne, Weston, passed away Jan. 27, 2013, at Providence St. Mary Medical Center in Walla Walla, at the age of 88 years. Funeral services will be Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, at 10 a.m. at the Munselle-Rhodes Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Duane Geyer officiating. Concluding services and interment in the Weston Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the charity of the donor's choice through the funeral home.
Bernadine was born Aug. 12, 1924, in Weston, the daughter of Roscoe and Winnie York Beamer. She attended the first three grades of school at the Dry Creek School. The school closed in 1933 and she continued her schooling in Weston, graduating from high school in 1942. During the summers Bernadine cooked for her aunt and uncle for the harvest crews. In 1943 Bernadine began working at the McCaw Hospital in Walla Walla in the Post Engineers Office. In 1944-1945 she worked at the U.S. Bank in Athena. In 1946 she began working as the only employee in the office of the new Eastern Oregon Canning Co. She ordered all the machinery and equipment from New York and Michigan. On Jan. 31, 1947, she married Lester E. Towne in Walla Walla. In her spare time she was a member of the PTA, den mother, room mother, church choir, square danced, drove school bus for 17 years and one year at Mac-Hi, attended football, basketball and baseball games, working with the cheerleaders, and bowling. She was an avid Mariners fan and rarely missed a game. Bernadine had worked for 17 years at the cannery in the scalehouse. She retired in 1981 to enjoy her yard and flowers and attending her grandchildren's ball games, sometimes two or three a day. In 2003 she was named Queen of the Pioneer Picnic. She considered it quite an honor as she hadn't missed one in 79 years. Mr. Towne preceded her in death on Oct. 5, 1996.
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are expected to hurt the performances of the industry behemoths.
In fact, the sector has easily outpaced the broad S&P 500
index over the trailing three months by wide margins.
The sequester, which was put into effect in March 2013, has
resulted in broad budget cuts. Generally, spending on nearly
every U.S. defense budget item has been lowered by 10%. The
impact of budget sequestration proved less-than-feared, thereby
leading to a rally in the defense and aerospace securities across
the board (read:
2 Sector ETFs Surging This Earnings Season
This is largely thanks to technological innovation, big
contracts, international orders, acquisitions, and growing
commercial demand. Further, a pickup in defense spending in a
number of new emerging markets as well as developed nations such
as India, Japan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and
Brazil have opened doors to the U.S. aerospace and defense
Strategic alliances with other foreign nations often entail
the U.S. to share its military technology and supply weapons to
its allies, which in turn boost the sector's revenues.
The bullish trend in the aerospace & defense space is
expected to continue to close out the year on the back of solid
earnings by top players (read:
Winning ETF Strategies for the Second Half
). The industry giants - Boeing (
), Lockheed Martin (
), United Technologies (
), Northrop Grumman (
), Honeywell International (
) and General Dynamics (
) -reported better-than-expected results this earnings
Further, earnings estimate revision ratios for these firms
have been among the highest in the S&P 500 for both 2013 and
2014, suggesting a bright outlook for the space. The rise in
commercial orders will also help to counter government issues
should those start to plague the sector.
How to Play
Considering broad opportunities as well as remarkable earnings
by defense giants, investors seeking to play the defense market
could consider the following
for broad exposure to the space:
iShares Dow Jones U.S. Aerospace & Defense Index
Fund (
This fund follows the Dow Jones U.S. Select Aerospace &
Defense Index, giving investors exposure to the broad aerospace
and defense industry. With holdings of 35 stocks, the fund
allocates higher weights to the top two firms - UTX and BA - at
9.46% and 8.33%, respectively. Other securities hold less than
6.12% of total assets each.
From a sector perspective, aerospace has been the top priority
representing 55.5% of ITA while defense takes the remainder of
the basket. The fund has accumulated $115.4 million in AUM while
charging 46 bps in fees a year. Volume is light, probably
increasing the total cost for the fund.
The ETF is up over 11.5% in the trailing three month period
and over 28.4% so far this year. The fund currently has a Zacks
ETF Rank of 1 or 'Strong Buy' with 'Low' risk outlook (read:
3 Hot Sector ETFs Surging to #1 Ranks
). This suggests that the product is expected to outperform its
peers over the next one year.
PowerShares Aerospace & Defense Portfolio
This ETF tracks the SPADE Defense Index, holding 48 securities
in its basket. The fund so far has managed assets of $61.3
million while average daily volume is light, suggesting
additional cost in the form of wide bid/ask spread beyond the
expense ratio of 0.66% per year.
In terms of holdings, UTX, LMT and HON occupy the top three
positions in the basket with at least 6% share each. Though the
aerospace and defense sector takes nearly 81% share, information
technology and materials also have a decent exposure in the
basket (read:
Time for This Top Ranked Defense ETF?
PPA returned over 10.3% in the trailing three-month period and
added nearly 26.4% in the year-to-date timeframe. The ETF has a
Zacks Rank of 2 or 'Buy' with 'Low' risk outlook.
SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF (
This fund seeks to invest its total asset base of $20.9
million in 36 stocks by tracking the S&P Aerospace &
Defense Select Industry Index. The ETF charges 0.35% in fees and
expenses while trades in paltry volume on a daily basis.
The product follows equal allocation strategy that prevents
heavy concentration and suggests higher diversification benefits.
Spirit AeroSystems Holdings (
), Alliant Techsystems (
) and UTX are the top three spots in the fund's portfolio (see
more in the
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In terms of performance, the ETF surged nearly 11.6% over the
past three months and 28.6% year-to-date. XAR currently has a
Zacks ETF Rank of 1 or 'Strong Buy' with 'Low' risk outlook.
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- Cartoon Characters: Andy French, Kevin French, C-Dog, Jim Kuback, Posey Tyler, Natalie Leibowitz-Hernandez, Gus Duncz, Mr. French, Stogie, Ron, Weirdo Beardo, Howard Bang, Wally Langford, Fechstein, Sasha, Griffo, Mr. Cresto, Nice Freak, Carlos Hernandez-Leibowitz, Mrs. French, Mrs. Mundorf, Dr. Yvonne Farley, Dakota, Shelly, Receptionist, Miss Peck, George Bang, Utility Player, Mr. Czelanski, Toby Mundorf.
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- Music: Eric Speier.
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- Originally Released on May 26, 2002.
- Running Time: 30 minutes.
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After having a bit of a struggle with configuring crawling for anonymous SharePoint site I decided to put a couple of points here in my blog.
Some sources recommend that if you need to crawl anonymous SharePoint site, you should create a content source with type 'Web Site'. This is not really the best way because you will loose the intelligent incremental crawl. 'Web Site'-type can have incremental crawl scheduled but it will still crawl through the whole site creating unnecessary load. If you use 'Web Site'-type you also need to create crawl rules to include the content you want to be crawled.
What you should do is create content sources with type 'SharePoint Sites'. This way crawling will happen using SharePoint's web services and incremental crawl has a better understanding what has changed by investigating timestamp information from the content. Also you don't have to create any crawl rules to make the crawling work. You can create them if you need to for example to exclude something from being crawled. Authentication configurations are a bit different for 'SharePoint Sites'-typed content sources, and if these configurations are wrong, they can easily lead to the infamous 'Access denied'-errors in crawl logs. Here are the basic requirements for the authentication configurations when using 'SharePoint Sites'-typed content sources:
First of all anonymous SharePoint-site should have Windows Authentication enabled. Make sure that you enabled it for the web application in CA:
Second thing you need to check is the configuration of you anonymous web site under IIS. You need to check that Windows Authentication is enabled for your IIS web site. You have to perform this task to all crawl servers.
For IIS 7:
Select Windows Authentication and click Enable from the Actions-pane on the right side of the window
You should have a dedicated domain account that is used as a default content access account. This is important since this account is used by the crawler in any of the servers in your farm that has been assigned as crawl servers.
Default content access account needs to have Full Read-permissions to the SharePoint web application you are crawling.
You need to define a default content access account in the Search Administration.
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That's how employers describe UW-Stout graduates. Our innovative, career-focused degrees combine applied learning and the liberal arts.
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A tall sculpture on the banks of Lake Menomin has a tall tale to go with it, thanks to a UW-Stout instructor.
David Tank, who teaches journalism and mass communications courses, has written "The Lumberjack and the Eagle," a children's book that brings to life the wooden sculpture on Crescent Avenue, in downtown Menomonie.
Tank, who published the book earlier this year, will give a reading at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, at the Menomonie Public Library and sign copies. He also will perform a new song based on the book.
"The Lumberjack and the Eagle" provides a fictional accompaniment to the chainsaw sculpture created in 2009 by Justin Howland of Maple. An eagle is perched on a dead tree above a lumberjack, who Tank named "Jake."
"He needed a story," Tank said.
Brash and boastful "Jake" pledges to cut all the trees in the forest with his ax, but before he finishes the job an eagle tries to stop him.
"Jake" represents 19th century logging philosophy. "The story has a good message about caring for our environment. We have very different practices for logging today," Tank said.
In addition to writing the book, Tank took the photos and created the photo illustrations. He has authored two books on 3D photography, "The Magic of 3D Photography" and "Wisconsin Wildflowers in 3D."
For more information, contact Tank at 715-232-2177 or go to www.lumberjackandeagle.com.


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BAYONNE, N.J. Passengers aboard a cruise ship on which hundreds fell ill are recalling days of misery being holed up in their rooms and ruined vacations.
The Explorer of the Seas returned to its home port of Bayonne, N.J., on Wednesday after a Caribbean trip cut short when an outbreak of suspected norovirus sickened nearly 700 passengers and crew.
Sixty-one-year-old Bill Rakowicz from the city of St. Thomas in Ontario, Canada, says at first he thought he was just seasick. Then he says he left his room and saw people with gloves and "people sick everywhere."
He says he suffered from vomiting, pain and diarrhea and that his experience was simply "awful."
But he gives high marks to the Royal Caribbean cruise line for going "above and beyond" in its response.
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"Top Chef" Recap: First Day Jitters
Top Chef's back—and so are our next-day recaps! In the premiere ep, a double elimination, a pair of swaggering Europeans, and a whole bunch of apples shake things up.
The show kicks off with a flurry of introductions, complete with trying-to-be-intimidating sound bites ("I love that no one tells me what to do," says shiny-lipped San Francisco-based chef Jamie), honest admissions ("My inner queen just wants to know where Padma is and what she's wearing," says the tall, bearded Richard), and downright incomprehensible mumblings (the Finnish Stefan and Italian Fabio have an excuse, but Danny, you bulldog, move those jowls—we can't understand you!).
The group gathers for Padma and fellow judge Tom Colicchio's first Quickfire Challenge: Peel 15 apples as quickly as possible. The catch? No vegetable peelers allowed. In possibly the lamest start to Top Chef ever, the slowest eight peelers must prove their worth by cutting the apples into a brunoise, a minuscule dice. The last four snails finally have to cook something with the apples to convince the judges they should stay.
A knife block appears, so that means the next challenge is going to be based on what's written on the knives, right? Each knife reveals an ethnic neighborhood in New York such as Long Island City, Brighton Beach, Little Italy, and Chinatown. Two chefs, assigned to an area for inspiration and ingredients, will pit their ethnic dishes against each other.
Before the chefs run off, they settle in their new home long enough for a clique to form: Jamie, Richard, and Patrick deem themselves "Team Rainbow"—and Fabio and Stefan, the two Europeans, are attached at the hip ("We both like soccer," claims Fabio).
The cooks come back from their grocery shopping to find celeb chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten as the guest judge, whose Asian culinary background makes him an especially harsh critic for Chinatown travelers Patrick and Daniel. While he politely finds Patrick's salmon in need of some spice, it's Tom who finally shows his ruthless side and reminds us why we're still watching: The salmon was a "sanitized version of Chinese food" and Daniel's dish was something that "Wolfgang Puck made popular 20 years ago."
It's no surprise that Hawaii native Gene, ponytail-swinging Leah, and Stefan are the winners. Padma can't stop praising Gene for his authentic Indian dish, which she says is a staple in all South Indian homes and "Oh, my gosh, he's never eaten Indian food before!" It doesn't take rocket science to figure out the chopping-block losers either, but it's way more fun to hear fake-tanner Ariane tell Tom she doesn't need to travel outside of New Jersey because she has cookbooks at home to teach about ethnic cuisine. Despite her grossly undercooked farro, it's red-faced Patrick who has to pack his knives and go back to the Culinary Institute of America.
But, to get all seventh-grade about it, we really just wanted to tell judge Gail Simmons to march on over to the set of Project Runway to get Tim Gunn to help her with that tragic Marcia Brady dress.
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Epic Confrontation
go blair..take the Bxxch down ...cant wait this scene
..go blair, take the girl down, waaay down that she can never be back. btw that dress is on point!!!
Thank you Sammyyy. I agree completely with you. Neither Juliet or Nate seem to be in this episode...But then again, this is all about the Chair war and Jenny brief (hopefully) appearance.
C is standing behind B like he was supporting whatever she's saying. I wonder what these two are up to. :P
Now Juliet , Look at Blair Waldorf and learn how to rock a nude dress . Love to Leighton Meester and Blair Waldorf
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Peter Carroll
I am in Ithaca to shoot part of the big Cornell 150th celebration and am staying with my pal Peter Carroll. I like this photograph of him. / It was snowing yesterday when I arrived, and is cold and cloudy today. C,mon Spring!
Elli Carroll
I am in DC for a few days. Yesterday I hung out with my friend Peter Carroll and his brother Alan while they sorted through their late mom Elli's photographs. Peter is doing a bit of an imitation of Elli's friend Giancarlo, who featured in quite a few of the photos. Here is a link from the Holocaust Museum that talks about Elli's life. She was a wonderful and fascinating person and I always enjoyed seeing her, and from time to time going to lunch at The Pines of Rome in Bethesda.
In recent years, Elli lived at the Westchester. It is a beautiful pre-war complex not far from the Cathedral, with amazing details like this peep hole in the door.
Sunday Evening
I made this corn chowder recipe tonight. Perfect for a cold Sunday. I always buy extra ears of sweet corn during the summer and freeze what we don't eat for days like this. Very nice; give it a try sometime.
One of the great things about the suitcases project is hearing from people who find other work that is related to institutionalization. Charlie Seton sent me this link today. What an interesting project. Thanks Charlie. And my great buddy Hank who has been following the suitcases from the beginning sent this link about Letchworth Village in Rockland County. It is interesting to me that surnames are used on the commemorative plaque.
I know some of you know a lot about plants. I started seeing these guys in the early Autumn. I don't think they are plants that lost their leaves; I am quite sure that this is the whole deal.
And I have discovered some new trails above the house. Before the snow last week I saw a few of these evergreen-like plants that I have never seen before. If any of you can help identify them, I would love to know.
Sorry the top is out of focus. I only had my phone with me and as this little guy was only a few inches long, there wasn't much depth of field.
Wishing you all a great week, my dear online friends.
A Lovely Sunday
I thought it might be a nice day today as this happened this morning when I threw a handful of things from my pocket on the bed.
John, Flora, Violet, and I drove to Broadway in the Cotswolds to walk from there to Snowshill and back.
We started on the outskirts of Broadway and we were immediately in fields.
Blackberries were plentiful.
Quite quickly we climbed up to the ridge where the view was spectacular.
As we were walking next to this pasture, we were passed by a horse carrier that contained one of this fellow's mates. They were both whinnying and it was obvious that they weren't happy about being split up. Horses are really interesting animals.
The footpath at times was on public roads, and at times just a narrow trail through the woods.
This is the view of Snowshill when we were about 10 minutes walk away.
Here's another example of when the public footpath shares a country lane.
I have always liked these convex mirrors.
St. Barnabas is directly arcross the road from our halfway stop.
The Snowshill Arms is a great place for a couple of pints and the Sunday Roast. It was excellent.
After lunch, I stuck my head inside the church. It is very simple and not old (in relative terms), and the windows are beautiful.
This sweet little cat followed us for a bit and mewed the whole way.
Once outside the village, we were pretty quickly back into the woods.
It is such a peaceful walk, and we rarely saw others on the path.
Violet gave me this stone with moss growing on it.
This property is called Middle Hill House. It is pretty easy to fantasize about living in a place like this.
This sort of day is so exotic to me; for my friends who live less than an hour away it is a regular trip to make at the weekend.
It is so interesting to me that the public footpath goes right through the middle of farms and fields. We shared our walk with horses, cows, dogs, cats, and of course, lots of sheep.
This particular horse was very friendly though he could be a bit nippy.
A farm just on the outskirts of Broadway breeds dogs for the hunt, and these very friendly pups loved the attention.
A great day. Thanks to John, Flora, and Violet. Wonderful.
Violet on "Clunky"
Here is my godchild Violet on what she calls "clunky". It is a zip line in a nice little park in Stratford upon Avon. I even got a ride on it and it is FUN.
Another Walk and a Baby
Cris and I took the Olive up into the woods late this afternoon. Thanks to Sarah, Leonard, and SCJ (all readers of this blog) I think I can safely say that this is a ghost plant (aka Indian Pipe, monotropa uniflora, or monotropa hypopithys).
And there is no doubt this is a dirty yellow labrador retriever . It hasn't rained much lately so the woods (is?) are full of lots of mud holes and very little running water. What is most amazing to me is that within an hour she is completely clean again.
And my lovely niece Heather just had another girl. On Sunday, we got to meet her while she was chillin' with her big sister.
I am off to the UK on Thursday for some work and some fun. My great friend John Wilson just sent me this link to a wonderful article on lists. It is a great story. He'll pick me up at Heathrow Friday morning and I can't wait to see him.
Peta Pixel/Peabody Essex Museum/Farnham's
There was a very nice mention of the suitcases project on PetaPixel yesterday. Thanks DL Cade!
Cristine, our friend Kate, and I drove to Salem today to see the J M W Turner exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum. It is amazing and worth the trip. No photos allowed in the gallery, but it is a very cool museum. Note the early Airstream trailer (lower right) that is part of the mid century LA exhibit.
We then drove up to Essex to eat some clams at Farnham's. For those of you who follow this site, I have posted about this place before.
The upcoming 10 days are going to be very hectic for me, so please be patient if I don't respond directly to email. I'll do my best.
Pingry and Travel
I just spent the past four days shooting a project at the Pingry School in New Jersey. The days were very full, the work was great and since it was with my friends at the Herson Group, we enjoyed ourselves tremendously. / I have been photographing Peter Carroll jumping almost as long as I have known him (which is a very long time). And while I was living in Ithaca, I spent a lot of time photographing portable toilets, and had a very one sided postcard correspondence with The Portable Sanitation Association. These toilets were on the high end of comfort and I believe they were even air conditioned.
The spring is much further (farther?) along in New Jersey than it is in Massachusetts, and these dogwood blossoms were at their peak. Ours don't even have leaves yet.
As I was driving through Springfield, the sky got really interesting and I pulled into a scenic area on the 91 to check out this beautiful rainbow. Not a great shot, but a lot of cars had stopped to watch it and there was a nice little collection of people taking in the scene. / Enjoy the weekend everyone.
Sebastian Lindstrom
I have always liked driving people to airports, train stations, and bus stations. I make it clear to friends that if my schedule allows, I am in. One of Cristine's students is (was) Sebastian Lindstrom. He is leaving Amherst for good and we will miss him. It is always bittersweet to get to know the students, as we know they will eventually be gone. He is already doing interesting work with his organization What Took You So Long. Here he is standing in front of the MegaBus. Gone but not forgotten. Safe travels Sebastian.
Yale / The Cushing Center
I was at Yale today talking about the suitcases to Jessica Helfand's freshman seminar class on visual biography. She was one of the first people to connect with the project and has been a huge supporter from the get-go. This is the third year I have spoken to the class and it always helpful to get feedback from the students on my work with the cases. / After the class I usually head over to the School of Medicine Library and visit The Cushing Center. It is one of the most amazing displays of someone's life one can ever see. I have posted about it here and here, and if any of you are in New Haven, it is absolutely not to be missed. / Thanks to Jessica and her students for a great day.


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The Micro Machine sets
I'm sure I'm not the only one here with fond memories of these little guys. To this day, I'll occasionally take a gander at that third set I was never able to acquire on eBay, invariably going for two or three Benjamins.
One thing I've always wondered is who exactly was in charge of picking which ships they'd make a toy out of?
Now you have the obvious ones: We had all the Enterprises up to that point, and all other "hero" ships and stations (DS9, Voyager, Excelsior, Runabout, Defiant).
You had pretty much all the ships of best known and/or often seen aliens (Klingons, Romulans, Cardassians, Borg, and eventually Jem'Hadar). You also had all the Kazon ships, which were pretty regular on Voyager at the time, plus the Maquis ship and Caretaker array, both of which were pretty prominent in the premiere.
You had a couple of other notable Starfleet ships: Reliant, Grissom, Stargazer, Saratoga, Farragut (which was really only notable for being the best shot of a Nebula class ship, but I'm glad they included one of this class), and a few shuttles and space stations.
By the end, though, they were starting to do a number of "ship of the week" types. like the Miradorn, Klaestron, Numiri, and Karemma ships (or that weird "solar sailing ship"). I don't have a problem with this. I'm curious what made some get picked and not others:
-I'm surprised, for instance, that they never made one for the Merchantman despite being pretty clearly seen in ST3. (I'd rather have seen that than the Spacedock shuttle). The Jenolan certainly wasn't one of the more graceful looking Starfleet ships, but that one might've been nice.
-I'm not sure who picked the inaccurately named "Cardassian Obsidian" (really a Keldon-class, which was just a Galor with some spare parts slapped on). I'd rather have seen the smaller Cardassian ship we saw in "Profit and Loss" and "Tribunal".
-The T'Pau is one that might've been interesting to see, along with the Batris/Xhosa.
-I'm not generally a fan of asymetrical ships (except the Breen one), so probably just as well they never did the Borg ship from "Descent"
-The Tholian ship might've been the one notable TOS ship they missed.
-I would've liked to have seen the Groumall from "Return to Grace" and the Vidiian ship from "Deadlock", but it might've been too late for those ships.
Of course nothing got released after '96, meaning no Dominion warships, Phoenix, Prometheus, Dauntless, Equinox, Delta Flyer, or Breen ships, let alone anything from "Enterprise". Pity. I think they may have been the best licence "Trek" toy makers (or at least a tie with Playmates and Johnny Lightning).
Thoughts? Any other pre-1996 ships you think they missed?
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I didn't have very many of these except for the set where all the ships were "chromed". I've been looking around for years for Defiant. I have the Playmates Deep Space 9 station and a fiber optic DS9 that I haven't put together yet. They both need a Defiant.
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I've got all 3 mega-sets, I just can't remember where I put them!
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I was able to get the first one (plus the Star Wars set) up here, but, for reasons I'll never understand they never sold the second or third in Canada. My dad was able to pick up the second one for me on a business trip in Vegas, but that third one torments me. It haunts my dreams. (Okay, maybe not that much, but I still want it).
As I said, I'm curious who got to decide which ships they'd make.
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I own all the Trek micro machines except for the H.M.S. Bounty (the BoP that had adjustable wings). I agree about their awesomeness and that they were cut short before their time (although I still scratch my head as to why the Saratoga doesn't have its side guns, or why the Stargazer is yellow to match the desktop model and not gray to match the studio model...).
As to who was in charge of selecting them...who knows? But yeah, some of their choices were just bizarre...I mean, the Numiri ship? Who the hell were they?
I think the problem at the time was that during both DS9 and VOY, both series had lots of one-off aliens and not a lot of new Starfleet, Klingon, or Romulan ships other than what we saw in TNG. Plus, the Akira, Saber, Steamrunner and Norway class ships were seen so briefly, and had zero info about them at the time, that I can understand their omission (but there's really no excuse for not having the Phoenix or the T'Plana'hath IMHO...)
Also, they could have made another three-pack of TOS with the Tholian ship, the Aurora, and the Fesarius. The Merchantman would have been another good choice (I remember FASA's miniature of that ship, and it was quite cool-looking). Ditto your feeling about the Jenolan. I also wouldn't have minded seeing the original large TNG shuttlecraft, a workbee, a travel pod, Regula One, and the Bozeman.
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Look for the Hallmark mini-Defiant (it was part of a 3 set but I don't remember which other ships it came with.) Drilling a small hole into it's nose and a DS9 docking port, it fits perfect. And when I say a "small hole" that's what I mean, I used dental drill bit. Speaking of neglected ships, I've always been disappointed not to have a physical representation of the Vidiian warship from Voyager. (This one, http://www.yourprops.com/Original-Vi...rop-61109.html, not the redressed Batris.) No model, no Micro-machine, no Johnny Lightening, nothing.
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I used to play with these all the time when I was a kid. I'd line the ships up and make little fleets. :)
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I loved the Galoob Micro Machines. I don't have all of them--I really only picked my favorites--but still, I have most of them nonetheless. My favorite set was the classic TOS 3-piece--the Enterprise, Klingon battlecruiser, and Romulan Bird of Prey. Conversely, I also loved the basic TNG 3-piece of the Enterprise-D, Klingon Vor'cha-class cruiser, and Romulan D'deridex-class warbird.
My biggest toy wish is a set that features all of the Enterprises in scale with the Micro Machine TOS Enterprise. With Hasbro now having the license to make toys from TOS to Star Trek XI, they could make that happen.
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Same goes for the other one-shot ships I mentioned. One upside to this, however, is you can pretend a Klaestron ship is a T'Lani ship, or Tamarian ship, or even a totally new alien ship.
Why did the Saratoga lack the "guns" (if that's what they were)? Not sure. Perhaps they simply took a look at the studio model and assumed it was simply a Reliant look-alike without the roll bar. Interestingly, though, they didn't use the same molds they did for Reliant. The Saratoga's noticeably thicker.
I think you gotta give them a pass for not making any "First Contact" ships, other than the big "E": Being the "hero" ship, the E was almost certainly designed long before any other ships from the movie. It's likely Galoob's time making Star Trek ships ran out around that time, meaning any other ships from the movie probably would've been too late. (Possibly true of the Groumall and Vidiian ship as well, both of which, I think, were first seen in spring of '96).
The yellow Stargazer was clearly because the Ready Room model got a hell of a lot more screen time than the studio model. In fact, the packaging on the back shows the incorrect registry (NCC-7100) that the Ready Room Stargazer had.
A Merchantman would be nice. Same goes for a Tholian ship (since they were the same model, I doubt they'd to an Aurora). Forgot to add earlier that a Maquis/Federation fighter would be nice too. I agree with Regula One. That smaller Cardassian ship (I think they're called Hideki class) would've been a better choice than the Keldon Class. And, yes a Jenolan wouldn't have been bad either. A T'Pau too.
Honestly, I don't need to see all that many types of shuttles, though. I think the Galileo, the TNG shuttle, and the Voyager shuttle are enough. The Spacedock shuttle didn't excite me (especially when they could've made a Merchantman instead). Seeing other TNG shuttles, the travel pod, or a Workbee really didn't interest me. I'm not sure a Fesarius would work either.
I don't a problem with it myself, but I'm not sure they'd bother with the Bozeman, after doing two other VERY similar looking ships.
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I always wanted to get the Enterprise-A, then in the later releases all the really cool looking alien ships and the Pasteur, but unfortunately I never could find them. I would get them from eBay, but they're stupidly expensive for a toy so I'll just live with my happy memories.
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My memory isn't the strongest here, but I think it was around 1997 that Star Trek's popularity began losing steam, and as a result, the Trek Micro Machines were dropped. Which is a bit of a shame since at this point Trek really began delivering new ship designs which could have kept the line thriving had the sales been there. Hell, they could have done a special set devoted to the ships of First Contact alone.
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Some of my best childhood trek memories was when we went to get our christmas tree one year, my brother had the Enterprise D, I had the Enterprise B, and we'd play with them all the time, still have that B, -1 nacelle. I've collected as many as I could though as a few years ago they were really cheap on ebay.
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Oh the micro machines, I loved those while i was a kid. 2 weeks ago at NYCC i saw the infamous 3rd set for 45 bucks and snatched it up immediately. My childhood dreams came true when i grabbed that thing!
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Early on, one of the nacelles on the Reliant came off (I know what you're thinking, but it was the WRONG nacelle! :lol:) Eventually the other one came off too, but both can still be fitted back into place.
Set II is in much better shape, because I was older when I got that, but whoever made it did a sloppy job with a couple of them: With the saucer-separating Enterprise-D, the "neck" is seriously sticking out of the secondary hull, and the phaser ring on top of the saucer is totally from where it should be. I hardly ever did anything with that one, just because it looked so bad.
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Human Rights in Guatemala and the `Rule of Law' the Government's Unwillingness to Protect Human Rights Puts Democracy on Precarious Footing
Kenneth Anderson, Stephen L. Kass, and Morris Panner. Kenneth Anderson, Stephen L. Kass, and Morris Panner are the s of a recent report "Human Rights and the Administration of Justice in Guatemala," published the Committee on International Human Rights of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York., The Christian Science Monitor
UNTIL the last week in May the world had once again forgotten Guatemala, precisely as its military rulers wished.
During the 1980s, when El Salvador's brutal civil war and United States relations with Nicaragua's Sandinista government seemed to dominate hemispheric relations, Guatemala's army quietly massacred tens of thousands of civilians whose loyalties to an oppressive status quo were suspect.
Yet, when former President Jorge Serrano Elias failed in his "self coup" attempt and the Guatemalan Congress named former human rights prosecutor Ramiro de Leon Carpio as president last month, Guatemala and its fragile transition to democracy were once again in the international spotlight.
President de Leon, a man with a brave record on human rights, has pledged to strengthen the rule of law and safeguard human rights in Guatemala. While we laud his pledge, we urge that he be judged by his performance with respect to three critical cases that have made a mockery out of Guatemala's supposed transition to civilian rule.
The first case, the murder of Myrna Mack Chang, a prominent Guatemalan anthropologist who was stabbed 27 times in front of her downtown office in September 1990, is the best known proof that high-ranking military officers routinely get away with murder in Guatemala.
Although an enlisted man has been convicted of her murder, he did not plan the crime. He took orders from senior officers.
De Leon must reopen the investigation into the men most likely behind the crimes - high-ranking officers in the elite presidential guard - something that the Serrano government cravenly refused to do.
The second case, concerning Judge Roberto Lemus Garza, a Guatemalan judge who was forced to flee to the US because of his efforts to investigate human rights abuses (using techniques learned in a US-sponsored judicial training program), illustrates that no amount of training and foreign aid will allow Guatemala to achieve democracy until its rulers summon the political will to protect those who seek to enforce the rule of law.
Mr. Lemus, a distinguished human rights scholar, continued to be the target of public attacks by the former minister of defense - the same man who backed the Serrano coup attempt - even while in exile.
De Leon should publicly apologize to Lemus for his ordeal and seek to provide him with guarantees of safety so that it would be safe for him to return to his position as a judge in Guatemala. …


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United States calls plan a 'deal breaker' under terms of food aid agreement
PYONGYANG, North Korea North Korea plans to blast a satellite into space next month to mark the centenary of the birth of its founder, Kim Il Sung, which the U.S. quickly called a "deal breaker" for a new agreement where the U.S. would exchange food aid for nuclear concessions.
After Friday's surprise announcement, the United States said it is "very hard to imagine" it could go through with the exchange if the launch of the long-range rocket took place, and U.N. Security Council members said it may violate sanctions.
The North agreed to a moratorium on long-range launches as part of the food deal with Washington, but argues that satellite launches are part of a peaceful space program that is exempt from international disarmament obligations. The U.S., South Korea and other critics say the rocket technology overlaps with belligerent uses and condemn the satellite program as a disguised test of military missiles in defiance of a U.N. ban.
The launch is to take place three years after a similar launch in April 2009 drew widespread censure.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the U.S. now had "grave concerns" about the Feb. 29 agreement under which the North agreed with the U.S. to nuclear concessions and a moratorium on long-range missile tests in return for 240,000 tons of food aid.
Nuland said a rocket launch would call into question North Korea's good faith. She said that during the negotiations for the U.S.-North Korea agreement, "we made clear unequivocally that we considered that any satellite launch would be a deal breaker."
Britain's U.N. Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant, the current Security Council president, said the rocket launch would violate U.N. sanctions.
Japan and Russia urged Pyongyang to abandon the launch, calling it a violation of a U.N. resolution restricting the North's use of ballistic missile technology, and South Korea's Foreign Ministry called the plans a "grave provocation."
"We call on Pyongyang not to put itself in opposition to the international community," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Liftoff will take between April 12 and 16 from a west coast launchpad in North Phyongan province, a spokesman for the Korean Committee for Space Technology said in a statement carried by state media.


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Nah, I managed to unwatch this by clicking the link, but by accident, not because I hate you. But I clicked it again, so I am re-watching/getting all the updates.
I write code.
Nah, I managed to unwatch this by clicking the link, but by accident, not because I hate you. But I clicked it again, so I am re-watching/getting all the updates.
Agree with Ninjadave. Since the modcast didn't produce any new episodes, there's a void that you guys can fill it. Podcast 17 is waaaay to focused on Valve (no offence to the guys making it) and I'd like to hear of other games and mods besides HL/HL2/any-valve-game.
Just one advice: relax :) . You're doing good.
Of course not. Both red and blue team can use marines, preds, aliens and even synthetics.
Lol, thanks man! Yeah, I did screw up the link. Again, thanks!
"Capturing towns and whorehouses for money is simple, fun, and different"
... whorehouses? Really? Was the US Army so badly funded they had to resort to that? lol.
I'll give the mod a play though.
I understand why the confusion :)
The nickname is a mix triggered/influenced by the two games that I was playing: AvP2 (as the alien drone) and MOHAA (as a german officer, in MP).
Erm, no, I'm Romanian. So, AvP3 didn't give you a good impression? TO be honest, it didn't impress me that much either. But I am biased (I like AvP2 a lot), so until I see their single player in action I don't want to lash out against it.
Ha :) I'll pass the idea to Guus.
Regarding turbolifts, those are a no-no. All doors in AvP2 are no-no, since their position is actualised by the server. That also means colision detections for players that, unlike SP, have a latency different of 0.
How did that attempt end up?
Not quite so, if you ask me. It's more of a drumm & base approach for the ambient one. The drums are a bit too strong if you ask me, true, but the piece definitely hasy rythm and theme.
Well, belive it or not, the map was made by an Alien fan. As for the series being family-compatible, that's ok. We're just interested in the level, and from what we played on it, it provides a very nice experience for teams of 2 - 3 payers.
I say try it :)
True. Still, I love the idea of using google maps the way you guys do it. Every mod that's aware of what's good will start doing the same :)
You guys did a nice job there.
If you've really added poop in it, then thanks but no thanks, lol.
Hmm, can you please detail this a bit more?
For all it's worth, I admire your persistence. You experienced a lot of approaches, and didn't givr up. It will pay off at one point. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you guys!
Hi there!
Well, unfortunately it will not work on AJLs. Both Savior and AJL have a common file that get's changed, so the mods are not compatible. Good news is that AJL is working on having his mod use the new master server. For more details you should contact him on their forums.
I think it's also a demand issue: their work is needed only after the first concepts are done, then only later on, for further aditions/corrections.
But no matter the cause, the graph does look right.
Well, we're still in the process of improving the netcode. Thanks for the vote of confidence :)
Holly crap!
Guys, put it on as many distribution platforms as possible. Seriously.
Eh? That's the picture, that's what caused it. Now, having this feedback, you know what can be improved. Heck, everybody has to start from somewhere.
Good luck with the mod!
I think he means the UV unwrap for "A brand new shipyard for the Ancient:". There is one face visible that has looong stripes on it, that look like being caused by having the face shrunk when unwrapping.
Hmm, I did experience slower downloads. And from what Greg says, it makes sense now: I'm romanian, so I do use EU mirrors.
I choose forums, mainly because it's the first communication means we used. But at this point, we're using at least 3: e-mails, forums and Skype.
Thanks for the vote of confidence :) We're also working on improving the netcode of the game, so that it will feel better than vanilla AvP2.
Well, the setup is straight forward, really. What's the issue?
He he he :)
That kinda reminded me of the first "The Ring" movie,
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when they find and free the girl. You get that serene scene, with the lead character and her son just chilling out. She tells him something like "It's ok now, we found her and we set her free". The kid gets scared by that and tells his mom: "You set her free?! You were not supposed to do that!"
So ... Dave ... were you supposed to set those cows free? :)
Wow!!! :))
That's creative right there!!! Good job!
Play Shaddow of Chernobyl. It's the first game in the STALKER series. It's less frustrating. Ok, the pistol sniping is still there, but at least you can take cover using trees.
Well, we planned to have it mode like the Father computer on Auriga; because of this, text to speech programs work OK for it.
The alternative would be to actually get somebody record the announcements :O :)
Well, it became a pain for the Domination game mode, because triggers are used a lot in it. In the other modes (CTF, 1FCTF), the players interract with triggers only when taking the flag or making the capture. That's not that often, so the issue didn't became known until we added Domination.
Your voices are sooo similar ...


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