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"The Stormers are an excellent team, I rate them and I picked them as finalists halfway through the season. But their emphasis on defence influences their mindset too much and limits their attack. You can see it by the number of tries they've scored," Mexted told SuperRugby in a telephonic interview from Rustenburg, where he was based while coaching at the Investec International Rugby Academy.
The Stormers have scored 33 tries in 16 matches, the sixth-lowest, while the Crusaders, Reds and Waratahs all scored more than 45 tries. But last year's runners-up have only conceded 18 tries, which gives them the best defensive record in the competition.
The flamboyant commentator said, for him, the Crusaders had been the outstanding team in this year's competition.
"The Crusaders have been the best all-round team, they are strong across the board - up front and out wide. And they play fully to the new law interpretations, which encourage a team to keep possession and exploit whatever space is available," Mexted said.
The veteran of 34 tests said the Crusaders not only boasted top-class players through the team, but had developed a tremendous sense of unity due to the terrible earthquakes that have meant they have been unable to play a single game at their Christchurch base.
"It's been a serious challenge for them to get this far, because they've had to travel much further and for every game because of the tragedy that has brought their city to its knees.
"The team have scheduled helping out around the city into their weekly programme and that has helped their morale. It's about a lot more than rugby for them now and through adversity they've become stronger," Mexted said.
The 57-year-old admitted, however, that the Crusaders would need to be at their classy best in order to overcome a gruelling travel schedule.
"I expected them to win against the Sharks, but now they have to travel to Cape Town, which is a big ask. If they win there, then they'll probably have to travel back to Brisbane. It's a huge logistical and physical challenge, and then we also don't know how much of a toll injuries will take," Mexted said.
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I have written about my dad several times now. Since our last episode, I have learned that he will receive less government assistance if he has any money in a savings account.
The amount of government assistance a person can receive is based on lots of financial factors like income, investments and bank accounts. The more money you have in investments and bank accounts, the less government assistance you will receive (if at all).
However, the problem here is, without being able to build up a savings, how can someone stop being dependent on this check. The person is forced to live paycheck to paycheck because if they save any of it, they are punished.
Unfortunately, there is not a good solution for this. It is a shame that money in a savings account is considered tangible instead of seen as an "emergency fund". However, if this were allowed, it would most likely be abused sooner or later.
What this means, is a whole lot of people who really need help with their personal finances, are not learning any of it because they just cannot relate.
All personal finance advice mentions having an emergency savings as an integral part of controlling your finances, but that simply is not an option for those living on government assistance. Saving anything is deemed bad. How can you get your finances under control when you are encouraged to spend every penny you receive?
My dad saves what little he can in a figurative shoe box in his home. It is something, but unfortunately it does not earn interest and, more importantly, is not safe.
I have given this a lot of thought and cannot come up with any viable solutions. I would love to hear what your brilliant minds can come up with!
Never knew that a savings account would work against you. Luckily savings account interest rates suck right now. We have our emergency fund/house down payment fund in a savings account that is earning all of 1.2% right now, and I can't find anything much better. So at least your dad isn't missing out on much!
Can he get a fire-proof safe with a lock? That at least helps a little with the money being safer.
One thing that you could do is set up a savings account in your name. My niece is in a similar situation because her child receives SSI benefits. I have a savings account set up for her emergency fund. Its not as convenient as it would be if she had direct access, but it is safer than a shoebox.
Why is a savings account required to build up a savings? Why not just, you know, not spend more than you make and keep it all in savings?
I realize that you're not earning interest on that cash, but if you're on government assistance, I don't think the 2% a year is going to suddenly graduate you to the Upper-Middle class of society anyway, right?
It's just a bullshit matter of terms at this point. Open up a second checking account, and label it "I SAVE MONEY HERE, LOL".
How about something like a Roth IRA? Or is the point that you want the money to be accessible in the short term (like a savings/checking account would be)?
Could he just save the money in cash form? Maybe put it in a fireproof safe if something like that is a concern? If I wanted to save up money, but couldn't do it "on the books" (with an account) I'd cash my check every month and put away whatever I want to save in an envelope or coffee can or under the mattress for a rainy day.
Oh Leslie, this is a topic close to my heart. It's the same here. You need basically no cash assets in order to qualify for help. So really it's a horrendous cycle that's near impossible to escape.
Besides using your name (which would also be huge because you can monitor…by the way simply put this is fraud)…you can also use all the cash to pay down debts which is essentially saving anyway. Almost like a forced debt snowball
This is infuriating. I can see how -some- people that don't need the assistance could potentially abuse the system and save but how is the majority supposed to get back on their feet?
Think about it – why would you be putting HIS money into YOUR account? So the gov't won't find it = FR__D
Not saying people don't do it DAILY just putting it out there
I am not trying to say to do it or not to do it, just was giving you something else to think about.
Manipulating loans is one way people plan for Medicaid, so you are on the right track lol
I'm in a unique situation where I tried getting government assistance due to medical reasons but cannot due to savings. I understand the reasoning. The government needs to help those in greatest need and resources are limited. WHile I don't have a solution, I would suggest that the government increase their maximum savings allowance. For disability, it was something like you cannot have more than $2000 in the bank. If they raised that amount, they could help people before they fall into complete poverty and also not completely discourage savings.
I agree with Evan. If you are trying to sneak a way around the system to avoid the intended result then it is in fact somewhat fraudulent by definition.
[…] talks about the catch-22 of welfare – not being allowed to have cash assets or to build any up. It's exactly the same here. […]
In regards to the whole system, it is seriously flawed. It cripples people so they become more dependent on it, encourages dishonesty, and yes, is infested with fraud.
While it may be tethering on the brink of fraud, isn't it the only way to get out of a system that's broken? I firmly believe in rendering unto Ceasar what is due… but there are things in our society that are broken that need fixing. Difficult situation. Like other commenters, if I was in his shoes I would keep my eyes peeled for a fire proof and water proof lockable safe and start saving that way. In his case interest doesn't matter. Putting money in a savings account in your name could be considered fraud but I'm not sure I can agree that having some cash saved up in your house can be considered as fraud. I'd love to see that argued if it came down to it.
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I think that you should either get a coffee can or have an account in your name. It may be a-legal, but it's something that could help your dad out in the future. Besides, if the account is in your name and he needs some extra cash, he can just take it out, and it would look like you loaned/gave him the money (which, from previous reading, would be the likely outcome anyway).
my aunt just went on disability not so long ago and there were a lot of similar issues. My mom has also decided to open an account for her. My mom loaned out 2k to her when her medical expenses got really high, so her thought process is any money she is able to save will be for "repayment" or just for any other medical expenses, etc that could come up in the future. I don't think its fraud because my mom always helps her because she doesn't know how to say no, so any money she can get her to put away for herself will slow down with all my mom dishes out which hurts my moms savings a lot!


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The Pittsburgh Penguins were swept in the Eastern Conference finals by the Boston Bruins, the fourth straight season they failed to reach their lofty goal of making the Stanley Cup Final.
That has some asking about coach Dan Bylsma's job security. Should he, despite all of this team's regular-season success and the Stanley Cup on his resume from four years ago, be shown the door? It seems a bit silly to me but it could very well happen, especially if Mario Lemieux wants it to happen.
Which could very well be the case, according to Larry Brooks of the New York Post.
Several individuals within the industry have told Slap Shots Penguins chairman Mario Lemieux, distressed by his team's fourth straight failure to get out of the Eastern Conference after consecutive trips to the Finals in 2008 and 2009, the latter culminating with a Stanley Cup victory, may instruct Shero to dismiss the coach.
There already is chatter out of Pittsburgh about how the Penguins failed to "adapt" or "adjust" to the Bruins in the Eastern finals sweep -- during which they never held the lead, were limited to two goals overall and were shut out on the power play. All those areas generally are the purview of the coaching staff.
To me it seems a bit rash to fire Bylsma, but something is going to change because with their expectations, the past seasons have been disappointments. We all know it's easier to fire the coach than the team, and if that's what Lemieux wants, it likely won't matter what GM Ray Shero would have to say.


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A COUPLE of weeks ago, Vice magazine ran a feature about how "officially old" is the internet age's most overused stock phrase.
The writer had a valid point: we prefix the phrase with mundane tasks or moments from our lives, and it's stupid.
These examples, from Twitter, show that youngsters are scrambling to assert their maturity in an increasingly infantile world: "Fell asleep last night at 9.30pm.
I think I am officially OLD."
"I don't know any of these rappers anymore. I'm officially old."
"20, I am officially old."
None of these people are, of course, even remotely old, but the point where you suddenly realise that you're not as youthful as you used to be is horrible.
Mine came in Kokomo, surrounded by a busload of 18-year-olds fresh from the British University Sailing Championships (Cambridge Blue won, in case you're interested).
They were all absolutely going for it in the style of privileged kids at an illicit mansion party, and I was just completely adrift from them in a way I haven't felt in years. It was brutal.
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Mammogram Team Learns From Its Errors
By MICHAEL MOSS
Published: June 28, 2002
DENVER— Seven years ago, Dr. Kim A. Adcock started a revolution in mammography: He decided to keep score.
Dr. Adcock had just become radiology chief at Kaiser Permanente Colorado, and he was already hearing whispers of problems with his staff. So he pored over the doctors' records, counted the cancers they had missed and printed their batting averages in bar charts and graphs.
This was deeply controversial territory. To many doctors, keeping score was yet another assault on their autonomy and prestige. It could also, they warned, be dangerous: The statistics were tricky and easily twisted. The malpractice lawyers would pounce. Worse still, if women knew how many cancers their doctors had missed, they might avoid mammograms altogether.
When Dr. Adcock looked at the numbers, though, he saw a promise of revelation, a fair and rigorous way to hold his mammography doctors -- and perhaps doctors in other specialties -- accountable for their work. That was what Americans were demanding from the health care system, wasn't it?
So he pushed on. When he discovered that one doctor had missed 10 cancers in the space of 18 months, he fired him. Over the next two years, he fired two others who were missing more than their share of tumors. He then reassigned eight doctors who were not reading enough films to stay sharp -- or for the data to show how sharp they were. ''I had to assume they might be dangerous,'' he explains.
The immediate result was sensational headlines and much in-house angst. But today, Dr. Adcock's team is missing one-third fewer cancers and has achieved what experts say is nearly as high a level of accuracy as mammography can offer.
''Every mammography program in the country should be doing something like this,'' says Dr. Robert A. Smith, the American Cancer Society's screening chief.
Very few do. In fact, what Dr. Adcock has created is a mirror image of American mammography as usual -- an industry that remains deeply troubled 10 years after Congress set out to clean it up through its own experiment in medical regulation.
At the heart of Dr. Adcock's experiment was his willingness to confront his doctors and focus on their skill in spotting tumors in the swirls and shadows of X-ray film, what experts call the hardest job in radiology. For the government, facing withering resistance from physicians, regulating doctors proved too politically risky. At the very moment in 1995 that Dr. Adcock was beginning to hold his doctors to the statistical fire, regulators were settling for a system that concentrated on the X-ray machines and the images they produced.
In that breach, a yearlong examination by The New York Times has found, the government has fallen far short of its pledge to ensure high-quality mammography for all. Here in Denver, Dr. Adcock has winnowed his team down to a few specialists. By contrast, most of the 20,000 doctors in the United States reading breast X-rays are generalists with limited training and practice in mammography. Many lack the skill needed to do so effectively, yet neither they nor their patients have the tools to find out who is good and who is not.
Keeping score, though, is not simply a matter of identifying and weeding out the worst practitioners. For Dr. Adcock and his admirers, the statistics offer a way to approach a more pervasive, and more elusive, problem that increasingly preoccupies the entire medical profession: the mistakes that, to varying degrees, all doctors make.
At Kaiser in Denver, the statistics anchor a regimen of continuous education that far outstrips the few hours a year the government requires. The Denver doctors are constantly analyzing their errors, searching for those meaningful patterns of shadow that they have missed, perhaps again and again.
The Denver group is not the first to use statistics to track doctor performance. A small but growing number of other mammography programs are beginning to keep score. Several states now publish individual doctors' death rates for open-heart surgery. But seven years in, the Kaiser mammography group has perhaps gone as far as anyone in creating a statistical system for holding doctors accountable for their work.
Still, even many of Dr. Adcock's admirers point out that he has achieved his success in the closed and relatively manageable confines of a health maintenance organization. They wonder if it can be replicated broadly, especially since the government has not fulfilled its promise of a national registry of cancer cases. At Kaiser, if a woman receives a breast cancer diagnosis, a doctor can find past mammograms and see if her case was missed. In the world at large, a doctor will often do a mammogram and never see or hear of the patient again.
In the end, though, the most delicate obstacle may be the doctors themselves. Doctors have been pushed a good distance from their traditional pedestals. But few have done so especially happily, and rare is the physician eager for the psychic roughing up that comes when the Denver doctors are forced to confront their mistakes.


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THE TAXMAN has defended tax gap calculations it supplied to the Treasury in March after the Treasury Select Committee queried the purpose of such calculations.
HMRC's calculations show that £35bn remains uncollected, while equivalent figures from Tax Research UK place the figure at £123bn.
The taxman, though, branded external work – including that of Tax Research UK – as "misleadingly high".
There is a danger, warns HMRC, that such external figures can give rise to the impression that HMRC is ineffective in collecting tax, while also encouraging the idea that non-compliance is the norm.
The select committee invited submissions on improving tax gap submissions, but HMRC maintains its figures on the tax gap are "useful in quantifying types and causes of non-compliance by tax regime and customer group", insisting it "informs deployment of resources and an assessment of long-term trends".
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Leaf loader hose questions
We have a 25 hp Billy Goat loader that came with the 10' hose & a 20' hose. Any suggestions or ideas on how to "suspend" some of the "extra" hose during use? I have seen some double arm setups on some big loaders. The 20' hose wears a guy out pretty fast lugging it around, but it sure is nice being able to reach further. Our vac is on an elevated platform on the truck which makes the 10' hose just a little short. I have posted pics of our rig in another post.
Maybe a wheel kit of some kind? Just thinking of ideas to make things easier.
Another question: we have a 4x8 opening on the roof with a mesh 8x10 tarp doubled over covering it. When it has ran for a while we start getting blowout or blow by and the tarp really poofs up, but the box isn't very full. Do u think we need more ventilation or is the doubled over tarp plugging up? We thought doubling it would increase the durability and filter the dust a little better. Maybe too much?
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I can't think of a way to really make thee wheel kit work. I'm sure it's possible it would just take some time to find something that really works. I was thinking something designed like a moving dolly, with wheels that pivot and a base that still allows the hose to articulate while still supporting it. I'd probably just try for a another arm to maybe hang off the trailer, assuming you already have one hanging from the truck.
As for the venting, I have a 6x10 opening up top with just a single layer of mesh tarp and I'm only running a 14hp loader. I don't get much if any blow by but it does puff up as the trailer fills.
Now granted your running a loader twice as big but I'd have to imagine doubling up that mesh tarp cuts down on airflow just enough to back up the venting air. 4x8 seems like a decent amount of venting area even for that size loader.
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Thanks for the reply. I can't think of any good way to make wheels work either. We have already had to wrap part of the hose because it was starting to wear thru to the wires from sliding across the ground. We do have the support/swing arm on the loader. Not sure if it would be strong enough to double its length or add another one on the side of the truck like you mentioned.
We may single layer the tarp to see. It gets so plugged it lifts up enough on the straps and bungees to let debris by. We are afraid if we screw it down tight that it will just blow out by the tube going into the box. A trip down the road and it blows or settled the dust out of the tarp and its smooth sailing, but it always seems to start trying to blow out as we are almost done with a yard, making cleanup tougher.
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Rather than screw down the tarp, I bought a long thin nylon rope from Home Depot and laced it through the grommets of the tarp and tie down buckles that a screwed into the outside walls of the trailer. It gives the tarp some room to stretch a little when it puffs up and also allows me to remove/install the tarp in a few minutes.
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What about a arm the swings off the truck and has a cable attached to it holding most of the hoses weight?
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Good idea. We keep plowing the pile to the hose and keep pushing the leaves to the hose and keep feeding it with a shovel while the hose is on the ground so you don't have to move the hose as much.
Lots of youtube videos out there with tactics/setups that are very helpful.
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I'm no engineer or anything and don't know it this will work or not, but here goes.
The red would be some sort of post that is strong and maybe mounted/welded to the frame.
The blue would be a brace for the arms that connect to the post (red) This would have to have some type of swivel mechanism that would spin with the arm.
The green would be one arm that again swivels around the post (red) .
The yellow is the same as the green, but hinged at the end of the green to be able to extend/contract as needed.
The white are cable/rope/strap supports for the hose.
Again, I have no idea if this would work, mainly where the yellow and green arm connect, as that would be a weak spot and may not hold the weight of the hose with, or without leaves.
EDIT: Just reread and saw where you already have a swing arm for it...whoops haha
Could weld "holders"(u shaped pieces of metal) that would hold a large portion of the hose where the white lines are, also. Would take a lot of weight away. Could just flop the hose up and over if you needed to extend it out.
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The Billy Goat swing arm only extends about 5'. Not sure if it would withstand an extension and the extra weight, but have been considering it.
Thanks for the illustration. That is something like we need so that it folds flush with the truck. Similar to a "cherry picker". The current arm goes back against the box and barely sticks out, so we would need a pivot if we add on.
We rake feed it a lot, but on some corner lots or curbside pickup we slowly drive along while another runs the hose, sucking up the 5' or so wide piles. Running it solo it is nice to be able to suck up from behind the truck to the front of the truck, then pull ahead and repeat.
We keep sections hook chained to the truck when we don't need them, but I was just thinking a longer support arm might be easier, but it may also fight the operator more. The hose really jerks when it sucks a good clump of leaves, wet leaves, or gets a stick, and running wide open it will suck itself to the ground.
Thanks for the ideas. This is our first season, so everything is an experiment so far.
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text: This is Easter, an 8 year old AQHA mare. I realize these aren't ideal pictures- in fact they are down right crappy. I posted a confo critique long time ago, but this is more recent and she is in better condition. I was alone and she wouldn't stand still. She is standing on a slight incline on some of these. Thanks in advance! Sorry for possible page stretch!


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simply intoxicating
Lovely crop. I don't agree that the shadow from her neck is a distraction. It matches the shadow from her breast so it's not a major issue for me. I would take some of the green tone out of her arm and armpit though. I know it's natural but it looks a little odd to me. Damn that looks cold - brrr
Beautiful shot
Beautiful shot
Thanks a lot lovely friend. . . The shadow does annoy me. I'm not talented enough to photoshop that away. . . I love the goosebumps and the soft hair. It's so real and tactile to me.
Yes the taught skin and little hairs on end are very sensual. What's a swimsuit calendar w/out breasts?
If it's not on the cover it will certainly be included! And I'm glad it's not only guys who can appreciate the beauty of the female breast.
great shot andre. i too love the close ups and i am so envious of this shot. great work
seeya andrew
seeya andrew
really lovely done
Yeah, "textures", that's what we're looking at.
very sharp details captured !!! work well done !!!
Ouch! That image is so nice, it hurts!
warm and cute photo!
love the mesh top
I do like to do closeups without the face and find afterword many models love it. I love this pic - the hair definately add to the pic - but I feel the shadow on here neck distracts
Thanks a lot. I agree about the shadow.
could you crop the whole pic with the shadow being the top edge ?
I love the close up as well. I believe the placement of the hair really adds to it though.
Great shot!
Great shot!
A closeup... how unusual from you... how fantastic!
Nice composition and it is interesting to see the details of her skin particularly the goosebumps. Also more on the composition it does leave you wondering who the person since that you don't see their face. The only thing I could offer as critique goes is the redness of the neck could have been toned down a bit. Nevertheless I don't really feel that I know what I am talking about. Just my thoughts.
Overall, I think it is a nice sensual piece of work.
Overall, I think it is a nice sensual piece of work.
thanks a lot for the feedback. . . I don't do much post-processing - as far as possible I leave images as they are. I probably shouldn't.
I really think it is up to you whether you want to do post-processing on your shots. Sometimes it feels necessary to do some and other times it can be overdone. I fully respect when people leave as it is and it all goes with the comfort zone. As long you are happy with the results, just leave as it is. Cheers
Thanks. There's post-processing I don't like (smoothing skin into plastic) but that shouldn't stop me doing editing that serves a better purpose. I should discriminate more.
I agree with you on smoothing skin which I think is quite unnatural. No, that you should not stop you from editing. You know all the best and keep up the great work that you do.


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Douglas (aka the awesome Anne Stuart) jumps headlong into the supernatural genre with this first in the Fallen series. Douglas stakes out her own fresh style of storytelling by utilizing alternating first-person POVs for both the hero and heroine. More akin to an urban fantasy, this story is edgy and darkly riveting as it follows two individuals struggling against destiny and insidious treachery. Terrific!
Allie Watson is the author of biblical murder mysteries, but she certainly doesn't expect to be thrown into an Old Testament war. Hit by a bus, Allie is picked up by Raziel, one of the fallen angels cursed to drink blood and ferry the dead. Allie certainly hasn't done anything in her life to deserve being sent to hell, so when Raziel realizes that is where Allie is headed, he impulsively pulls her back. Raziel is severely wounded by this action, and it is Allie's angry cry for help that brings Raziel's brethren to the rescue. The archangel Uriel is waging war against the Fallen and using flesh-eating Nephilim as his weapon. Allie's death has thrust her into an extraordinary and dangerous new life! (POCKET, Feb., 384 pp., $7.99)
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beautiful art!
What a cute bento! This is a creative arts for food. What did you use for the Totoro's body? Is it cheese?
C'est tout mignon
totoro! looks yummy and cute! V(=^・ω・^v
i'm hungry soooooooo hungry
wow wow wow woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow really big wow!!
aw this is so adorable XD!! like~
That looks amazing! What's in it? Thanks!
ahhhh kawaii!!!
Oh my goodness that is so cute! Great idea and it looks delicious!
oo me next me next XD totoro here be cooommmeeee
Why is this not a ben-to-toro? Punning opportunity wasted.
So cute
Simple awesome. I love it. Well done. It looks cute and delicious.
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Richard Falk is Albert G Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Research Fellow, Orfalea Center of Global Studies. He is also former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights.
The dominant reactions to the horrific bombing at the Boston Marathon on April 15 - which also happened to be the Patriots Day - have been so far: compassion for the victims, a maximal resolve to track down the perpetrators, and a pundit's notebook that reports to Americans that they have been protected against terrorist violence since 9/11 and that the best way to prevail against such enemies is to restore normalcy, avoid dwelling on the gory details, not memorialise the scene of the mayhem with reminders, and move forward with calm resolve and freedoms undiminished.
Such responses are far preferable to the war fever nurtured by leaders, the media and a vengeful public after the 9/11 attacks.
Of course, the scale and drama of the attack,
Of course, the scale and drama of the attack, while great, was not nearly as large or as symbolically resonant as the destruction of the World Trade Center and damage to the Pentagon. Also, although each life is sacred, the magnitude of tragedy is somewhat conveyed by numbers, and the Marathon incident has so far produced three deaths as compared to 3,000, or a 1/1,000th.
Also important, the neocon presidency of George W Bush, was in 2001 prior to the attacks seeking a pretext to launch a regime-changing war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and the 9/11 events, as interpreted and spun, provided a supportive domestic climate for launching an aggressive war against the Baghdad regime that was undertaken despite the UN Security Council failure to lend its authority to such an American deadly geopolitical venture.
American grand strategy
In 2001, the preferred American grand strategy, as blueprinted by the ideologues of the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution, was given a green light by the Bush/Cheney White House even in the face of the UN red light.
Although there are many distressing continuities that emerge if the Obama presidency is compared in relation to the counter-terrorist agenda of his predecessors, but there are also some key differences of situation and approach. Obama came to Washington after the failed wars of Afghanistan and Iraq that had devastated two countries, seemingly beyond foreseeable recovery, added nothing to American security, and wasted trillions expended over the several years during which most Americans still felt the hardships and pain of the deepest economic recession since the 1930s.
In other words, temporarily at least, the Beltway think-tanks and the government are doing their best to manage global crises without embarking on further wars. The brief period of easy and victorious wars (quickly concluded, and with minimal casualties), as was the Gulf War of 1991 and the NATO Kosovo War of 1999, is over. Irresponsible and unlawful warfare seems no longer to be the centrepiece of America's foreign policy as it was in the first decade of the 21st century.
What unfortunately remains taboo at this moment of 24/7 commentary on American security policy is any type of self-scrutiny by either the political leadership or the mainstream media, but at least there are a few hopeful signs of awakening on the part of the citizenry.
Boston Marathon bomb suspect 'identified'
Listening to a PBS programme hours after the Boston event, I was struck by the critical attitudes of several callers: it is horrible, but we in this country should not be too surprised, given our drone attacks that have unwittingly targeted weddings and funerals in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Another caller asked if it is not retribution for the kind of torture inflicted by American security forces acting under the authority of the government, verified by pictures of the humiliation of Islamic prisoners at Abu Ghraib or in light of the authoritative reports of officially sanctioned torture as detailed in the 577 page report of a task force chaired by two former senators - one a Republican, the other a Democrat - and containing senior military and security officials.
Is it not time that one among our politicians had the courage to connect these dots? Can we not ponder WH Auden's haunting line: "Those to whom evil is done/do evil in return"?
The American global domination project is bound to generate all kinds of resistance in the post-colonial world. In some respects, the US has been fortunate not to experience worse blowbacks, and such could yet happen, especially if there is no disposition to rethink US relations to others in the world, starting with the Middle East.
America's military prowess
Some of us hoped that Obama's Cairo speech in 2009 was a beginning of such a process of renewal, timid in many ways, yet with a tonality that seemed to acknowledge that relations with the Islamic world needed a fundamental shift in the direction of reconciliation, including a move toward a more balanced approach to the Palestine/Israel situation. But as the months passed, what became evident, especially given the strong pushback by Israel and its belligerent leader, Bibi Netanyahu, was the accelerating back peddling of the Obama presidency.
Now at the start of his second presidential term, it seems that Obama has recognised the constraints, and seeks to confine his legacy to such domestic concerns as immigration, gun control and health care, abandoning the international agenda except to handle crisis diplomacy in a manner that does not disturb the global status quo or shorten America's global reach. Obama's trip to Israel, punctuated by his speech in Jerusalem on March 21, was more in the spirit of a love letter to the Israeli public than a genuine effort to bring a just peace, and contrasted with the much more visionary outlook exhibited in his early first term visit to the Middle East.
Self-scrutiny and mid-course correction of America's global role is long overdue. Such a process is crucial both for the sake of its own future security and for the wellbeing of others. Such adjustments will eventually come about either as a result of a voluntary process of self-reflection or through the force of events. How and when this process of reassessment occurs remains a mystery.
Until it does, America's military prowess and the abiding confidence of its leaders in hard power diplomacy makes the US a menace to the world and to itself. This is as true if Mitt Romney rather than Barack Obama was in the White House. The continuity reflects bipartisan support of a globe-girdling geopolitics, which has so far refused to acknowledge the evidence of national decline that is accentuated by pursuing an unsustainably ambitious global security role.
Richard Falk is Albert G Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Hello young Delvian,
I am contacting you from the Delvian World Protection Agency.
If you know of DWPA then you should do fine, if not then it will explained upon your arrival. If you have no understanding of the word Delvian then just remain calm, it will be explained.
For now, a man is coming in 10 minutes. He may or may not take some of your things, he will then ask for you to come with him. You should agree, you will be made to come no matter what the answer and you'd rather have a pleasant journey.
See you soon,
Madam Dever
Head of DWPA
You've lived a normal life, a normal human on modern day earth.
Then you receive this message.
You are actually from a parallel world, Delva. It is the same as earth, same continents and islands and same animals. Well, Delva has some of what humans call mythical creatures such as dragons. The world is not completely inhabited by humans either for underwater there are 'mythical' beings such as mermaids and nymphs. On the land are humans, simply Maigeck humans. They possess elemental powers relating to their home environment. The environments are different to earth, being based around one specific element. The people are different too, living in small tribe's. Not savage tribal society's, but in small villages. Technology does exist, but isn't use doften as people prefer being close to their element.
The DWPA exists for one reason, to keep the peace and everything balanced. Many people work there and do many different things but each continent had it's own protectors. One family, would have a brother and sister protecting the continent during any crisis. This travelled through the female side of the family but most lines had brothers that managed to pass it down and the line split into two but still only two protectors existed.
You are one of those protectors.
Your parents and grandparents were too, but in a time of peace and no problems they were sent to try and help earth.
Now that peace is over and you have been called back to your home land to save it from the Dark Maigeck that is starting to take over. But how many of you were actually told by your parents?
1) All the basic rules
2) Dnt spek lyyk diz
3) Ask to join
4) Use your imagination
5) One guy, One girl for each land. If you want them to be related either make both or comment the other person and match up to their form
6) If you lived on earth you lived in the continent thats your land, but you don't have to look like the humans from that continent.
7) Environments surround the elements but they are survivable.
8] I'm the OP, I'm the boss
9) MY co-owner is :PSiLlY, she's Boss when I'm gone
(1- Female |~| 2- Male) [Forms page number] { If they know there a guardian}
Igni - Fire, Africa
1) Lilliana(Red) ~ 16 ~ Delva ~ Jomeimei
2) Pietro ~ 16 ~ Delva ~ earth707
Aqeu - Water, North America
1) Cassie ~ 16 ~ Earth ~ :PSiLlY
2) Demetri ~ 21 ~ Delva ~ PoisonedHuntress
Terrae - Earth, South America
1) Alex ~ 14 ~ Delva ~ mokeydokey
2) Hunter ~ 16 ~ Earth ~ Jomeimei
Ventus - Wind, Australia
1) Elle ~ 16 ~ Earth ~ Diamond543
2) Ichiro ~ 16 ~ Earth ~ kid future
Glacie - Ice, Antarctica
1) Nevae ~ 14 ~ Delva ~ Me
2) Kloude ~ 15 ~ Delva ~ Me
Linum - Wood, Asia
1) Anastasia ~ 18 ~ Earth ~ PoisonedHuntress
2) Daichi ~ 16 ~ Earth ~ Diamond543
Lux - Light, Europe
1) Rosetta(Rose) ~ 14 ~ Earth ~ earth707
2) Jake ~ 17 ~ Delva ~ mokeydokey
Aurea - Spirit, Hawaiian Islands
These islands are used as DWPA Headquarters and training areas.
Mala - Shadow, Bad Maigeck.
Taking over the world!
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Name: (Lived on Delva- Normal name is fine but abnormal is better) (Lived on Earth- Normal name)
Age: 14+
Looks: (I like descriptions but pictures are fine, I have a picture :P . No real life photos)
Lived on earth: Yes or no?
Brief Bio: *
Personality: *
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Land: Glacie
Lived on earth: No
Brief Bio: Nevae and her brother have always lived in one of the smaller tribes of Glacie. There parents died when they were young but the tribe new nothing about their parents as they had always been very secluded. An elderly couple raised them but died when Kloude was 9. They've heard of DWPA but don't really care about them. They've also heard legends of the guardian familys and the powers but they just think they're only legends.
Personality: Cold, quiet, honest, loyal and hateful.
Other: She and her brother have a cat called Garlu, he's always with one of them.
Name: Kloude
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Land: Glacie
Lived on earth: No
Brief Bio: Same as Nevae
Personality: Care free, relaxed, joker and would do anything for his sister
Other: Nope
Looks: (Approving)
Left is Nevae, Centre is Garlu, Right is Kloude
age: 16
Land: Igni-fire
looks: Red has long hair, red and glossy. It catches flame when she is mad, and floats randoms when there is no breeze. She has pale skin and hazel eyes that change color depending on her surroundings. Her eyes are quite large and slanted slightly up. Her lips are full and she has developed curves and a thin waist to go with height and swiftness.
Lived on earth: No
Brief Bio: as a young girl, Red hated her name. She preferred t be called Red. She loved playing with fire and weapons, and learned to be an incredible blacksmith. She ventured were no one else would go and searched as far she could. She developed coping to different weather and circumstances.
Perso: the ### fiery temper of hers lights like a fuse. While smart and skilled, she has ### tempers that erupt even at the slightest offense. She loves pointy objects and hates it when people object to what she says. She is curious, swift, and steady, and once you forbid her to go somewhere, you always know she's going to go exactly there. She will keep promises with her word but she can easily be deceptive and decisive. She has an eye for art and a talent for black smithing.
other: none
Name: Hunter
Gender: Male
Land: Terrae- Earth
Looks: Hunter has dark, raven black hair that sweeps to the side, often falling in his eyes. His eyes are a shocking blue, very very blue. Electric blue...but not, his eyes are very mystifying. He is tall, broad shouldered and muscular, but has a ragged look to him as well has handsome. His skin has a slight tan. There are only two ways to describe his body features. While Sharp, flexible and strong, he has a tendency to move the oddest parts to attack
Lived on earth: Yes
Brief Bio: :P don't feel like it
Perso: Hunter is dark but light, ### and cold. He is slow to be angered, but slow to forgive. While silent and deductive, he is incredibly smart and artistic. He loves to sit in the grass and stare straight up at the tops of trees. He is close to animals and is not easily fooled. He is the master of healing and invisibility and he can make the coolest things from little trinkets laying around.Hus hands don't stop moving, and you can't read his emotions from his face.
other: none
~ "Oops, it seems I've said too much! Well it's alright, its just a tall tale anyway. Call me again and at the signal, I'll tell you an even stranger tale..." ~
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Name: Cassie Adams
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Land: Aqeu
Looks: (Approving)
Lived on earth: Yes
Brief Bio: Not telling
Personality: When you first meet Cassie she seems to be cold hearted but when you get to know her she is Funny, Sweet and Caring. Cassie also has a firey spirit she is Quirky, Strange, Confident, and Passionate.
Other: You will see
"We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high."
Member since:
July, 2012
Posts: 2470
Member since:
July, 2012
Posts: 2470
Age: 8
Gender: Female
Land: (Is this for when she arrives on Delva? If so...) Lux
Looks: Much smaller than average, tiny hands and feet, light blonde hair, delicate figure, bright green eyes
Lived on Earth: Yes (Italy)
Brief Bio: Unknown, except she is hiding from her step dad who is hunting her for a large amount of money and because she ran away from him at five
Personality: Kind, sweet, innocent, timid
Other: None
Name: Pietro Di Mercurio
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Land: Igni
Looks: Coal black hair - mussed up, strongly built, average height, dark blue eyes
Brief Bio: Background Unknown
Lived on Earth: no
Personality: Tough, streetwise, smart, kind, serious
Other: None
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Brookside Valley Resort is situated on 500-Rai plot of land, resort reflects western style with unique and colorful design. The resort is embraced by mountains, trees, small waterways 30 Rai lake that ever existed, variety of flowers, and impressive viewpoints. Accommodations are offered as hotel or resort decorated with bright colors. The spacious venue is suitable for your holidays with outdoor recreational zone and Challenger Zone for team building activities (Walk Rally).