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Spider-Man will be the first Super Hero ambassador for Earth Hour, the global movement organized by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), with a message to inspire individuals to use their power to become Super Heroes for the planet. The announcement came Thursday, February 13th from Andy Ridley, CEO and Co-Founder of Earth Hour, and Jeff Blake, Chairman, Worldwide Marketing and Distribution, Sony Pictures Entertainment. The two made the announcement in conjunction with the launch of Earth Hour Blue – a new digital crowdfunding and crowdsourcing platform for the planet, launched to engage people around the world and participants in the famous lights out event, which this year will be held on Saturday March 29, at 8:30pm.
This year, Earth Hour and the hero of the highly anticipated motion picture "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" – along with the film's stars, Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx and director Marc Webb – are throwing their support behind Earth Hour Blue, which aims to harness the power of the crowd to raise funds for on-the-ground environmental projects from across the world.
"I'm proud Spider-Man is the first Super Hero ambassador for Earth Hour because he shows we can all be Super Heroes when we realize the power we all have," said Andrew Garfield, who plays Spider-Man in the upcoming film, in a press release distributed by Sony. "Earth Hour is a movement that has created massive impact around the world, so imagine what we can do this year with Spider-Man by our side."
"Earth Hour gives you the power to inspire anyone, even if you're just one person, and Earth Hour is much more than an hour. There are great projects from the crowd, for the planet, happening all over the world," said co-star Emma Stone in the same press release.
"The Amazing Spider-Man 2" director Marc Webb is the first celebrity ambassador to announce the Earth Hour Blue project he is backing, which aims to provide better equipment for WWF Rangers protecting Indonesia's endangered wildlife such as the Sumatran Tiger, Elephant, Rhino and Orangutan and their forest habitat.
"Earth Hour is a movement full of Super Heroes – people harnessing the power of the crowd to inspire change for the good of the planet, imagine the possibilities when we come together and do more," the filmmaker said.
Jamie Foxx who plays the villain Electro in the upcoming sequel said, "Earth Hour isn't just about lights off; it's about people across the world coming together throughout the year to join forces to improve the planet. Never underestimate your power, never underestimate what you can do."
Columbia Pictures, which is distributing "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," has pointed out that the superhero sequel was the most eco-friendly tentpole production in the studio's history.
"Spider-Man's always been a very relatable Super Hero. Peter Parker is a hero to all people, and an inspiration, so it seems very fitting that he should join forces with Earth Hour to empower every single individual to help save the planet," SONY Marketing and Distribution Chairman Jeff Blake added. "I'm also very proud of the fact that 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' is entirely carbon-neutral. We made a commitment to be as eco-conscious as possible during production itself, when we took a special effort to think green and avoid waste; now, completing that process with Earth Hour Blue is a wonderful testament to what we can achieve when we all work together."


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Tripp had known Hadleigh all of her life. Tripp and Hadleigh's older brother, Will, were best friends until Will died in Afghanistan. When Hadleigh was 18-years-old, Tripp thought she was going to marry the wrong man. He stopped the wedding and carried her kicking and screaming out of the church in Mustang Creek, Wyoming. Then, he went back to his home in Los Angeles, California.
Hadleigh remained in Mustang Creek. She and her two closest friends, Bex and Melody, became successful business women. The three of them formed a marriage pact, because they didn't want to be single forever.
When Hadleigh was 28-years-old, Tripp came back to Mustang Creek and moved in with his ailing stepfather. After the wedding fiasco ten years earlier, will Hadleigh and Tripp avoid each other or get reacquainted?
The Marriage Pact is Linda Lael Miller's first book in the Bliss County series. This Harlequin romance will be available in June 2014 at a St. Paul Public Library, Harlequin.com, or wherever books are sold. Other books written by Linda Lael Miller can be found at a St. Paul Public Library and a Ramsey County Library. For more information about Linda Lael Miller, visit www.lindalaelmiller.com.
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In a riveting speech by Reverend William Barber to Netroots Nation (listen to or read transcripts here), he gives a clear picture of the intended justice and moral goals of the 1868 American constitution. What was enlightening is how he described the "moral fusion movement" and the potential "third reconstruction" as it relates to what is happening in the 21st century American political environment today.
The "moral fusion movement" is about America's moral principles (based on and borrowed from values in the Judeo-Christian biblical text) and the establishment of justice within the constitution. Rev. Barber says this movement, also called the first reconstruction, was done by multicultural American leaders back in 1868 with a vision of making the country better using their "deepest moral values."
Rev Barber also highlighted aspects of the 1868 constitution that spoke of "voting rights, public education, labor, health care, equal protection, fair tax policy, good of the whole, and… [how] it reshaped the country… but it also brought a vicious backlash."
According to Rev. Barber, another group arose, called the "redemption movement" and out of fear and hatred against fusion policies they attacked voting rights, public education, and so forth until they undermined all the goals of the first reconstruction leaders.
It sounds like the same thing going on in the political arena today with "redemption movement" type leaders undermining the goals of "moral fusion" type leaders who are trying to bring together a moral and just multicultural America.
Barber paints the picture by informing listeners that the "redemption movement" fought "moral fusion" out of fear, dislike for racial integration, and a conquer and divide agenda for years and before long the second reconstruction of America emerged with a segregated constitution and an established, institutionalized American system of discrimination that benefited the "partial" and not the "whole."
Rev Barber sites the main goal of the "redemption movement" was to "resist and repeal any fusion political and moral alliances with…" multicultural Americans. Further, Rev Barber stated they also spewed dislike towards programs they described as "negative entitlements helping 'those' undeserving people." Sound familiar?
Rev. Barber describes how people – like those of the 1868 "moral fusion movement" - had to fight – many lost their lives - to reestablish constitutional justice and morality through battles such as Brown vs Board of Education, Civil Rights movement, Affirmative action, equal employment, economic justice, Social security amendments, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Voting Rights act, and so forth. Barber called these constitutional measures "moral based fusion" politics
Rev. Barber also posits that we are seeing:
the attack on voting rights
the attack on fair tax policy
the attack on public education
the attack on labor rights
the attack on women
the attack on immigrants' rights... Just like in the 1800s.
Are these actions by extremist politicians, secret societies, political gangs, and people a collaborative effort to start a new "redemption movement" by breaking the constitution through resistance and repealing? Are they trying to reconstruct an America without a "moral alliance" with the multicultural majority or without establishing policy that is good for the "whole" of American citizens?
Followers of Christ, the 1868 constitution during the "moral fusion" was about letting God's goodness prevail through equality, the good of the whole, free elections, abolishment of secret societies that hurt the liberties of free people, right to public education, and through benefits for the poor, unfortunate, and orphans. Is it a follower of Christ's civil and Christian duty to see their values expressed through these type of constitutional goals that aim at helping others enjoy their liberties and freedoms?
So the question remains: Is President Obama breaking the constitution or is he trying to reconstruct and establish an America that brings a multicultural people together, using America's "deepest moral values?"
Dr. Pensacola H. Jefferson
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Putting America's Veterans Back to Work
House Committee on Veterans' Affairs | Room 334 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 | Jun 1, 2011 10:00am
Opening Statements
- Hon. Jeff Miller, Chairman, Full Committee on Veterans' Affairs
- Hon. Bob Filner, Ranking Democratic Member, Full Committee on Veterans' Affairs
- Hon. Gus M. Bilirakis, a Representative in Congress from the State of Florida
- Hon. John Barrow, a Representative in Congress from the State of Georgia
- Hon. Russ Carnahan, a Representative in Congress from the State of Missouri
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- Richard A. Hobbie, Executive Director, National Association of State Workforce Agencies
- Jolene Jefferies, Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, DirectEmployers Association
- Kevin M. Schmiegel, Vice President, Veterans' Employment Program, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
- Henry Jackson, Interim President and Chief Executive Officer, Society for Human Resource Management
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Samsung's Galaxy devices get security nod
KOREAN HARDWARE MAKER Samsung reportedly is close to securing a deal to supply mobile phones to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), bad news for rival Blackberry.
At present, Blackberry holds the primary mobile phone contract with the FBI, providing most of its 35,000+ its employees with secure handsets for work.
That's about to change however, according to Reuters, which reported that Samsung is likely to steal this deal away from Blackberry, with the phone maker close to inking a deal with the FBI. Once a deal is completed it will see FBI staff, probably quite willingly, switching their Blackberry handsets for Samsung Galaxy devices.
If true, this won't come as much of a surprise, as earlier this year Samsung Galaxy devices as well as iPhones won Pentagon security approval, which means that these handsets can be used by the US government.
Samsung said it would not comment on today's speculation, but Blackberry was keen to pipe up, saying that it still believes its Blackberry operating system is the most secure on the market.
A Blackberry spokesperson told The INQUIRER, "We have been honored to serve the FBI for many years without a single security breach. BlackBerry understands that our customers, more than ever, must ensure the security of their mobile communications from malicious activity.
"We also understand that untested and unproven mobile solutions can be risky and potentially pose threats to enterprise or national security. That is why we have taken BlackBerry security to a new level with BlackBerry 10 for enterprise.
"We cannot comment on unannounced decisions of others, but remain committed to ensuring our US and other customers have the world's most secure mobile solutions."
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Solar flares could disrupt communication on Earth today, according to the scientists from NASA. One of these flares could actually come into contact with Earth on Friday, June 13 and create what is called a "coronal mass ejection," reports ABC News.
A huge cloud of plasma could hit the Earth today, this plasma cloud is called a coronal mass ejection. This solar flare shockwave could cause a minor geo-magnetic storm, predicts NOAA.
OK, so what does this all mean? The Huffington Post reports that earlier in the week powerful X-class solar flares erupted from the sun and they are making their way toward Earth. The X2.2 flare and an X1.5 flare happened on the June 10. Again on June 11, another flare, this time it was an X1.0 in strength.
The strongest class for solar flares are measured in severity of strength by using a system that goes from X1. to X10, with X1 being the weakest and X10 being the strongest. These solar flares will sometimes produced coronal mass ejections which are a cloud of charged particles. It is this cloud that may play havoc with communication systems when it hits Earth.
When an solar flare of this size erupts from the sun, it takes about three days to reach the Earth. On Tuesday and Wednesday this week these shockwaves caused scattered outages, or communication blackouts. Scientist expect one of these powerful solar flares to hit the Earth today, Friday, June 13.
Scientist expect a "glancing blow" to Earth from this solar flare event today. If it sparks a minor geomagnetic storm, it could further disrupt communications today. In February the largest flare of the year occurred so far and that was measured as an X4.9.
Scientist first thought that the sun's period of peak activity would occur in 2013, but it was weaker than first thought last year. This year it has started off with a vengeance of strength, so now scientist believe that this is actually the start of the sun entering into its active stage of its 11-year weather cycle.


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The Only Viable Christianity?
Christine Lehman
From: "Christine Lehman"
To: "Positive Atheism" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 7:42 PM
Subject: Only True Christians?
Dear Cliff,
I'd be interested in your comments on a discussion we're having in "exitfundyism," a "Yahoo" chat groups for people who have rejected Christian fundamentalism.
One of the members there stated that he became convinced that fundamentalist Christianity was the only intellectually viable version of Christianity, and once he had rejected that, he could not consider any other version of Christianity as true in any way -- that for him it was either fundamentalism ("all") or atheism ("nothing").
Even though I'm an atheist, I think that's giving wayyy too much power to the fundamentalists -- accepting their own definition of themselves as "the only way".
What do you think? Is fundamentalist (evangelistic) Christianity the only real expression of Christianity?
Thanks for your comments!
Christine Lehman :-)
aka "Atheist Gal"
This response was edited from the original.
From: "Positive Atheism Magazine" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
To: "Christine Lehman"
Subject: Re: Only True Christians?
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 3:07 AM
The problem is in seeing Fundamentalism as the only intellectually viable version of Christianity rather than simply the most intellectually viable. To call it the "only viable" version would be to call it viable as opposed to not necessarily viable. Whereas, to call it simply the "most viable" version would suggest that it would be the closest to being viable -- were there such a thing as an intellectually viable version of Christianity.
We do well to admit that this is Fundamentalism's strongest point of attraction, but at the same time, we can work to rout it because this claim is simply not true -- either way you look at it.
At one time I made the progression to the former (and thus left Christianity). Later, as an atheist, I satisfied myself with the latter for the same reasons you describe (giving Fundamentalism too much power). However, I now disagree even with that, and no longer consider Fundamentalism to be intellectually viable at all. At all.
As a "friend" of the Center for Progressive Christianity and an almost life-long student of mysticism, the panentheistic expressions amongst Progressive Christians (most recently hinted at by Bishop John Shelby Spong) are, to me, the most intellectually viable. They can be reconciled with the panentheists' own nonliteralist understanding of "Bible" as well as their nonliteralist understanding of any other religion. Also, they do not contradict or pretend to overturn any major schools of science or history with their nonliteralism and their admittedly ineffable (and thus unverifiable) panentheism. Progressive Christianity tends to reject the notion of the monotheistic personal God in favor of views that have been popular in the East for millennia. Progressive Christianity also rejects the exclusivistic tendencies that we non-Christians often find so abhorrent in the more Fundamentalist expressions of Christianity.
The problem with panentheism (which is also the atheist equivalent of its godsend), is that no form of pantheism or panentheism can be proved or disproved; thus, pantheism and panentheism are simply and admittedly expressions of personal opinion, or, as George H. Smith has put it, reports of what is going on in someone's mind. Pan-anything-ism cannot be argued in the public forum because it cannot really be described in words.
The "Ultimate Reality" of the mystics is described in detail as defying description (my oxymoron) by Andrew Newberg in his book, Why God Won't Go Away (see our Letters Index for late April and early May, 2001, for titles with Newberg's name to catch this discussion; also, get a copy of the April, 2001, edition of Positive Atheism for more in-depth discussion). Newberg, quoting Judaic scholar Daniel Matt: "Anything visible, and anything that can be grasped by thought is bounded. Anything bounded is finite. Anything finite is not undifferentiated. Conversely, the boundless is called Ein-Sof, Infinite. It is absolute undifferentiation in perfect, changeless oneness." Shri K. G. Mashruwala's "Introduction" to Gora's book, An Atheist with Gandhi exposes the problem with this thinking very succinctly, and not without a well-deserved note of sarcasm:
Gora introduced himself to Gandhiji by seeking his definite meaning of the word God. At that time, Gandhiji wrote "God is beyond human comprehension." This answer is in accordance with the famous texts of the Upanishads,
(Not this, not this -- beyond all that is cognizable); or
(From which, along with the mind, words turn back). Ordinarily, this should lead one to expect that if God was beyond human (rather, mental) comprehension, there should be very little literature about Him. The seer should say simply, "I feel the presence of Something, which I am unable to comprehend and express. I have given the name God to it. I feel that I am inisolable from It. But I can say nothing more about It." But this is not what writers and seers usually do. In spite of the above affirmation, attempts are made to explain God in terms of something known to man in a positive manner....
In other words, if God is ineffable, that is, incomprehensible and thus indescribable, then why bother telling me about Him?
Mashruwala proceeds to recount the many ways in which theologians have attempted to describe the ultimate deity of Hinduism, and then points to these attempts as the main cause of factions and disputations. Western thought and Western religion lend themselves more readily to these attempts to describe God than even Hinduism does, and thus you will see lots of intense factionalism in the West -- bitter and often bloody disputes not over land or resources or political power but over what is the "proper" description of God! Hinduism, to be sure, is not immune to this problem, but Hinduism has much less of an excuse for it than does the West, which has literally institutionalized various descriptions of what the Hindus call "indescribable."
This tendency toward factionalism reaches its peak in Western fundamentalism: God is so tightly wrapped up in the various (and varying) Fundamentalist packagings that it reaches a point where any deviation disqualifies a person from the claim to orthodoxy. If a Fundamentalist continues to think (that is, if he does not abandon the process of human Reason), the inevitable conclusion is often this -- taking it to its logical absurdity, as they say:
If any deviation from Truth is heresy,
That's the Fundamentalist corner into which I painted myself: Nobody was even close to passing the test of Orthodoxy! My reasons for leaving the Church were similar to those your associate described (although many other things were going on at the time, all of which contributed to my eventual rejection of Christianity).
Another way to see the problem is to show that the Hebrew deity can at least be portrayed in film: witness Cecil B. De Mille's spectacular 1956 film, The Ten Commandments, where the God character is portrayed as:
The closer we come to being able to describe God, the more possible it becomes to be able to test the claims that He exists, and thus (potentially) to refute those claims. If you cannot describe to me what you mean when you use the word God, then I cannot tell you whether or not I think that your "God" exists. (This atheistic response is called noncognitivism.)
Ultimately, it is the Burden of Proof that comes to play: A person claiming the existence of God is responsible for bringing forth evidence and strong argument to support her hypothesis; if she cannot do this, we have no business giving assent to her claim. Were it not for the Burden of Proof, then those God-claims about which we can say very little would be the ones we would be most compelled to believe. This is because those God-claims, being neither provable nor disprovable, are thus unassailable. However, the Burden of Proof does not rate the believability of a proposition by its unassailableness; rather, it rates a proposition's believability by the ability of that proposition's opponents to make a positive case for their claims. Ultimately, a proposition's believability is conditioned on its ability to withstand criticism, but the Burden of Proof prevents a proposition that is by nature untestable from even being considered for discussion. A proposition must at least in principle be falsifiable; we must at least in principle be able to disprove a claim. Otherwise, we have no business even considering it.
Since the pantheists and panentheistis waltz completely around the game rules for public debate regarding existential claims (claims for the existence of something), their god claims are rightly relegated to what George H. Smith described as emotional reports: "It's interesting to know that you believe in God; thank you for telling me that!" It is intellectually viable precisely because it admits to being little more than an emotional weather report and does not pretend to be talking about verifiable reality.
Fundamentalism, on the other hand, is in a very precarious position because it does purport to describe time-space reality. Conveniently for us, Fundamentalist Christianity makes many claims about time-space reality that we can easily put to the test (geographical claims, historical errors, internal contradictions). Not only that, it pretends to be The Absolute Truth in such matters, to be believed despite all evidence to the contrary. And any claim to Absolute Truth (infallibility; unassailability) crumbles upon discovery of a single flaw.
Fundamentalist Christians, far from having the most intellectually viable position, make it only too easy for their critics: "News of the Weird" columnist Chuck Shepherd once responded to my report of a pedophilic Fundamentalist Christian preacher with the reply: "Theists: fish in a barrel." (In case any readers are unfamiliar with this figure of speech, the picture is of a man with a gun shooting at fish that are swimming in a barrel: the man thinks this to be quite the challenging sport -- which, of course, it is not! Likewise, implies Shepherd, the "sport" of attacking Fundamentalism is distinctive by its lack of challenge!)
Thus, Fundamentalism not only falls apart from any internal flaws (contradictions), but likewise disintegrates upon showing it to contradict a single element of verifiable fact.
Fundamentalist Christianity also does not make a strong case that its Scripture even ought to be taken as literally as the modern Fundamentalists and Evangelicals take it. My Fundamentalism became severely challenged upon studying the alleged biblical arguments for seeing the Bible as "The Infallible, Unchangeable, Wo-o-o-ord Of The Living Go-o-o-od!" To make this case from Scripture itself is a stretch, at best: simply consult any Fundamentalist primer on the doctrine of inspiration and see how vacant this position really is, that it is based mostly on Church tradition and not at all on what the Bible actually says about itself.
My Fundamentalist belief system flew apart upon studying the process by which the early Church decided which manuscripts had been "inspired" and which had not. Later, the Protestant Reformers each rejected various books included by the Roman Catholics, and both Luther and Calvin had problems with New Testament books that are currently considered part of the Protestant canon by all Protestants. Finally, the question of manuscript variations follows the same course as the above discussion in that those who call the King James "divinely protected" must deal with the internal and external problems of that version, whereas those who admit to variations but try to come up with the most likely variant are shown to be altering the Word of their own God to fit their preconceptions!
So, Fundamentalist Christianity conforms to intellectual honesty only to the extent that it offers itself up to the scrutiny of its critics by making claims that can, in principle, be falsified (whereas panentheism and the other Easternized forms of Christianity cannot, even be falsified in principle). Unfortunately, this feeble attempt at intellectual honesty proves to be Fundamentalist Christianity's undoing. It is only too easy to disprove the material, falsifiable claims of Christian Fundamentalism. So, in order to maintain the presupposition of infallibility, Fundamentalists must engage in intellectual dishonesty of various forms, whereas panentheism can merely admit to the world that it is nothing more than the report of what certain individuals believe about things that are admittedly indescribable and thus unprovable.
I hope this provides fodder for your discussion. I would be interested in hearing any responses or further elucidation of what I have pondered here. Thanks for your time and your interest in Positive Atheism. Only through the continued enthusiasm for these and discussions (and the forums which host them) can we hope to develop powerful responses to the claims of those who would force us, by law, to follow their religious tenets -- regardless of what we think of them. And our responses will be powerful only if we continue to subject our own views to the scrutiny not only of our peers but also of the opposition. If any argument shows itself to be invalid, we need to stop using it at once.
Cliff Walker
"Positive Atheism" Magazine
Five years of service to
people with no reason to believe
From: "Christine Lehman"
To: "Positive Atheism" <email@example.com>
Subject: Re: Only True Christians?
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 15:01:00 -0000
Dear Cliff,
Thanks so much for taking the time to give such a detailed response to my question. I will post a link to this at the chat group so my friends can read it as well.
Take care
Christine :-)
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text: The 8th annual Brazil Foundation gala benefit took place at The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art last Thursday. Chaired by Nizan Guanaes, the media potentate and his wife Donata, this year's efforts raised over $2.5m stateside to assist in a host of social programs in Brazil. Some of the fashion brigade had already decamped to Europe but there was plenty of bold faced names still in New York to represent Brazil. Least of all Gisele Bundchen served as one of the hosts with Calvin Klein designer Francisco Costa. Models Fernanda Motta and Jeisa Chimanazzo, Osklen's Oskar Metsavaht, and party promoters Lorenzo Martone and Unik were all in attendance.


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Ok I don't know what to do, and decided to ask here, here's the problem :
I have a 8 GB flash disk that i use to boot image. I decided to try opensuse 12.3, and then i use unetbootin to extract it to my flash disk.
When i try to boot it says something like the machine didn't find any OS, so I do some googling and it says i have to use suse image writer to extract the image, so later my machine can detect it.
After using suse image writer, I can boot my flash disk containing opensuse, but the real problem is, the size of my flash disk is shrinked to 3.7 MB from 8 GB. I tried to format it but nothing happens.
Any hints? And sorry for the bad english.


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The coolest person in the room!
Schmoot, gimme a couple of bucks, you're the greatest.
OR, that guy Schmoot really nailed the lead guitar part!
OR, that guy Schmoot really nailed the lead guitar part!
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Don't be a schmoot. You owe me a jack and coke.
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Johnny schmooted right on Michelle's titties.
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The Pope is partly right
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The following comes from a June 28 story by John-Henry Weston in Crisis magazine. On June 26, the anniversary of the legalization of same-sex "marriage" in the USA, Pope Francis made controversial comments on his return flight from Armenia. He said that the Catholic Church and all Christians … [Read More...]
Capital punishment will be on the November Calif. ballot
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The following comes from a June 23 release on the website of the California Catholic Conference. The initiative to eliminate the use of California's death penalty law has officially qualified for this November's ballot. The measure to revoke capital punishment in the state collected almost … [Read More...]
Pharmacists thrown under the pro-abortion bus by Supreme Court
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The following comes from a June 28 Reuters story. A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away an appeal by a family-owned pharmacy that cited Christian beliefs in objecting to providing emergency contraceptives to women under a Washington state rule, prompting a searing dissent by … [Read More...]
ACLU sues federal government for giving money to the bishops
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The following comes from a June 24 release on Common Dreams, an ACLU website The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Northern California, and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California today filed a lawsuit against the federal government for awarding millions of dollars annually to … [Read More...]
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Catholic Anthony Kennedy swing vote to kill Texas abortion safety law
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The following comes from a June 27 story on the site of the Catholic News Agency. Editor: Kennedy was seen at Sunday Mass in July 2015 at the strongly pro-life parish, Our Lady of the Rosary in San Diego. Kennedy told one of the priests he comes this parish whenever he is in San Diego. On … [Read More...]
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Cecil Taylor: Tales (8 Whisps)
Tales (8 Whisps)
Cecil Taylor (piano)
Unit Structures (Blue Note 84237)
Cecil Taylor (piano), Andrew Cyrille (drums),
Alan Silva (bass).
Composed by Cecil Taylor.
Recorded: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, May 19, 1966
Rating: 93/100 (learn more)
This closing track from Cecil Taylor's Unit Structures LP is the most fully realized piano performance he had recorded until that time. This is also most keyboard-oriented work on the album, and shows that Taylor did not need elaborate horn parts to realize his musical visions. Although "Tales (8 Whisps)" lacks the full-scale fireworks of his solo piano work of the next decade (check out Silent Tongues to get a dose of those), it nonetheless showed that this artist was not a cerebral composer working with abstract concepts, but an energy-jazz radical whose works needed to be felt viscerally as much as heard. Sweeping, orchestral, abrasive - this stands as a significant moment in American pianism from the 1960s.
Reviewer: Ted Gioia
Tags: 1960s jazz · avant-garde · blue note · free jazz · piano
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Terrorism has hit citizens of China. Six Chinese people were injured in a knife attack at a Chinese train station reported Al Jazeera on May 6, 2014. In the latest in a series of brutal assaults against Chinese citizens six people were wounded in an attack on Tuesday at a train station in China's southern city of Guangzhou.
These stabbings occurred despite increased security across China in the wake of two other deadly attacks at train stations which were blamed on extremists from western China. The motives for the attacks has not been clear. The Chinese government is concerned Islamist militants may have been responsible for the attacks. A suspect in the most recent attack has been shot and wounded.
Just last week there was a suicide bombing at a train station in Xinjiang which left three people dead and 79 injured.This lead to Chinese President Xi Jinping making demands for decisive actions against terrorists. Prior to this in March five knife-wielding men and women slashed at crowds at a railway station in Kunming city in southwestern China. These attackers killed 29 people and injured more than 140. Four of the attackers were killed by police. The Chinese government has called the attackers terrorists.
In the recent stabbing incident in Guangzhou one of the suspects shouted out something prior to stabbing the victims reports Fox News. These attacks on innocent Chinese citizens are an outrage. Beijing has not been happy with a U.S. State Department report on terrorism which said China's cooperation in fighting terrorism has remained marginal and that the Chinese provided little evidence to prove terrorist involvement in incidents in Xinjiang. However, the Chinese government appears to have a point in labeling these attacks as terrorist attacks. It is after all terrorists who often brutally murder innocent civilians.


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The International Skating Union's (ISU) decision to award Worlds to Moscow and not one of the other last-minute candidates such as Canada or the U.S. was primarily a financial one.
The Russian government committed to invest more than US$7 million to cover the expenses for hosting Worlds. That financial contribution enabled the organizing committee to hire workers and eliminated the need to enlist numerous volunteers at the last minute.
Prior to Worlds, Russia's prime minister, Vladimir Putin, appealed to his sport's minister on national television to organize this event "so well that all foreign athletes and other guests feel at home." Putin and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev were filmed at several practice rinks speaking to Russian skaters and coaches three weeks prior to the event.
Putin was also shown in conversation with pairs skater Yuko Kavaguti, expressing his sympathy for the Japanese people in regard to the catastrophe that nation experienced. He also attended the opening ceremony and was greeted with loud applause from the spectators.
It was quite clear that these Championships were meant to show that Russia has stepped into the 21st century. More than that, Putin wanted to show the world that Russia is capable of organizing huge sporting events such as the 2014 Olympic Winter Games and the 2018 World Soccer Championships.
The Megasport Arena, a modern multistoried 14,500-seat venue, was the ideal place to hold the World Figure Skating Championships. Constructed in 2007 for the World Ice Hockey Championships, a practice rink sits one floor below the main one. The rink's management team has solid experience organizing skating events, as this has been the Cup of Russia venue the past three years.
The host broadcaster advertised the event nationally, which proved to be a strategic move. All tickets, other than those for the qualification rounds, were sold out in two weeks. This caused problems for foreigners, who were unable to purchase tickets in advance, which made the grey market outside the rink an intense scene every day with scalpers charging exorbitant prices.
On the flip side, the skaters' hotel was a five-minute walk to the venue, the nearest subway station was within walking distance and it was a very sunny, mild spring week in Moscow.
The event schedule was adjusted to accommodate the needs of the Japanese networks. Thus, the singles events were scheduled in the early afternoon to correspond with evening prime time in Japan.
Putin acknowledged that the Japanese and Russian federations had cooperated closely to organize the Championships on such short notice. Some of Japan's top television experts assisted the Russian network with its preparations.
When each of the 195 skaters attended at the accreditation desk, they were presented with an unexpected gift — a rolling suitcase from the Japanese federation that had been transported from Tokyo to Moscow.
Many observers commented that this was one of the best-organized Worlds in memory.
The opening ceremony in Moscow was like no other. ISU president Ottavio Cinquanta spoke of his deep regret for what had transpired in Japan and expressed his sympathy for the people of that nation.
He thanked Seiko Hashimoto, the president of the Japanese Skating Federation, for allowing the ISU to move Worlds to another venue, and presented her with a huge bouquet of flowers on behalf of the worldwide skating family.
When the ISU found a substitute host for the 2011 World Figure Skating Championships one month after the devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck Japan, it was a moment of jubilation for millions of fans around the world.
The results of the 2010 World Championships were the determing factor for who qualified in Moscow and who did not. The 18 highest-ranked singles skaters, top 12 pairs and 15 ice dance teams went directly to the short programs.
Preliminary rounds were held in the singles and dance disciplines to fill the remaining spots. No qualification round was held for the pairs due to the limited number of entries. As the organizers did not cover the cost of these qualification rounds, some of the smaller skating nations did not field any entries.
The judges gave higher component scores and more points for elements than usual, allowing many skaters to achieve personal bests.
No nation was dominant. Canada, Japan, Russia and the U.S. each captured two medals, while China, Germany, Italy and South Korea went home with one each.
To the delight of the more than 1,000 Japanese fans who made the trek to Moscow and an estimated 30 to 40 million viewers glued to their television sets back home, Miki Ando claimed the ladies title in fine style (195.79 points).
Ando laid down a clean short and a controlled long program with five solid triples and only one mistake on a combination. "It was a tribute to the Japanese people who suffered in the disaster," she said. "Maybe I was able to bring back a little smile to the people of Japan."
Her reports on Facebook indicated she had split from her coach Nikolai Morozov in March, but he was at the boards with her in Moscow. Ten days later, Russian news agencies reported the two are planning to marry.
Silver medalist Yu-Na Kim admitted to being nervous competing in her first event in 13 months. She stumbled on the Lutz in the short and popped two jumps in the long, which left her 1.29 points behind Ando. "It was mentally difficult to prepare for these Championships. I have reached all my goals," Kim said. "But I wanted to show my new programs to my fans."
To improve her uneasy relationship with Japan, Kim donated her prize money of $27,000 to the tsunami victims.
She confirmed that she will not compete in any of the Grand Prix events next season, as she is busy in her role as the spokesperson for South Korea's 2018 Olympic bid.
Italy's Carolina Kostner claimed the bronze medal, putting down her best performances in years (184.68).
Alena Leonova from Russia, one of the best jumpers in the world, ended up fourth, just 0.77 points off the podium.
The 2011 Grand Prix Final champion, Alissa Czisny, placed fifth, 2.43 points behind Kostner. If she had not fallen on the first Lutz in her long program she would have earned approximately four more points and the bronze medal. There is no doubt her spins are the best in the world.
Rachael Flatt, who skated in spite of a stress fracture in her right tibia, popped several jumps and landed in 12th. Many observers criticized her for not withdrawing and giving her spot to the first alternate, Mirai Nagasu.
Last year's gold medalist, Mao Asada, could do no better than sixth. She had serious problems with the triple Axel and looked quite unhappy during her programs.
Patrick Chan had good reason to be confident. His outstanding short program earned 93.02, giving him an 11-point lead over Nobunari Oda (81.81) and a 12-point margin over reigning World champion, Daisuke Takahashi (80.25).
Chan set another world record in the free program, earning a cumulative 280.98 points overall. He earned a number of +3 grade of execution scores and was awarded four 10.0 marks.
Takahashi had set the previous World record at the 2008 Four Continents Championships (264.41).
"I felt some pressure," Chan admitted. "Even though people said, 'It's a great big lead, you don't need to put in two quads in the long,' I really wanted to, because that's how I've been training the program."
Japan's Takahiko Kozuka was the surprise silver medalist with 258.41 points. He did not risk a quad in the short, but the free skate, which included a quad toe loop, was perfect. His downfall is that he fails to draw audiences into his programs.
Takahashi performed with much more flair. Unfortunately, his program was interrupted when he popped his opening quad due to a missing screw that caused his blade to loosen. He landed in fifth place.
Once again, Nobunari Oda lost count of his jumps and let the bronze medal slip through his fingers after performing one triple toe too many. He received zero points for his triple Axel-triple toe combination and wound up in sixth. This is a mistake he has made several times before.
Artur Gachinski from Russia was the surprise bronze medalist, thanks to clean quads and a home advantage. He scored 241.86 points.
Michal Březina from the Czech Republic, who ranked fourth, and Javier Fernandez from Spain (10th) were the only skaters to land two different quads in their programs. Březina fell twice in the last minute of his free skate, which put him out of medal contention.
The 2011 European champion, Florent Amodio who placed seventh, used a vocal version of a Michael Jackson tune for his free skate, although this is not permitted. "I will get higher component scores because the impression is more intense," Amodio said prior to his long program. "I want to provoke the ISU to allow vocals not only in ice dancing. I will accept a deduction of one point." Astonishingly, he received no deduction at all.
Brian Joubert (eighth) missed his combination in the short program, leaving him unable to move up much even with a good long program. Richard Dornbush (ninth) was the best of the three Americans, with Ross Miner skating two clean programs, but Ryan Bradley gave quite a stolid impression. He retired from competition a week later.
There were other disappointments. Neither of the two Swedish skaters managed to reach the final. Belgium lost its second spot for 2012 and the Canadians have only two spots next year because Joey Russell and Kevin Reynolds made many mistakes.
Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy from Germany won all six competitions they entered last season. But in Moscow they put down the best performances of their career, making no mistakes. Their unison and interpretation were superior.
The Russian folk music for the short program worked brilliantly. The fans began to clap as soon as the program began.
Their score of 217.85 set a new world record in pairs, overtaking that of the reigning Olympic champions Xue Shen and Hongbo Zhao by 1.28 points.
"With this title, we went beyond a border. I think this third World title will go into the history of German figure skating," Savchenko said. "If we can win three times, we can do this perhaps four or five times."
Two Russian teams were vying for a medal. Worlds was only the second international competition for Moscow's Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov. The duo claimed the silver medal with 210.73 points. Their long to "Romeo and Juliet" had many excellent elements, but their components were slightly lower because they have only been together for a year.
Yuko Kavaguti and Alexander Smirnov dropped from medal contention and placed fourth after he fell on the step sequence in the short program and she fell on the triple throw loop in the long.
The 2010 World champions, Qing Pang and Jian Tong from China, won the short program. They were elegant in their lyrical short program. However, in the free skate, Tong singled the Axel and doubled the toe loop. Although the rest of the program to Liszt's "Dreams of Love" was without error, it was only good enough for bronze, six points behind Volosozhar and Trankov and almost 17 points ahead of Kavaguti and Smirnov.
"We had a chance to win today, but maybe I thought too much of our coach's birthday today and lost concentration," Tong explained.
Caitlin Yankowskas and John Coughlin from the U.S. ended up sixth, the best result for an American pair in years. Except for the throw triple Salchow, their long program was very emotional and without error. The choice of Schubert's "Ave Maria" was a tribute to Coughlin's mother, who died last summer.
A few days after Worlds the duo split, like so many other U.S. pairs teams last season.
Canada's Eric Radford had a painful short program. As he was catching his partner Meagan Duhamel on the triple twist, her elbow hit him so forcefully that it broke his nose, which started to bleed profusely. Spectators heard the crack.
"My nose hurt a lot and I had tears in my eyes from the pain," he said. "I was thinking, should I stop or should I go, and I just kind of magically did it." He went on to execute six clean elements, despite his bloody face and shirt.
The Russian competition doctor set his nose right immediately. One hour later Radford wrote on Facebook: "Thanks for watching our bloody Worlds debut. Don't worry … Meagan's elbow is 100 percent and we are looking forward to tomorrow."
In the free program, Duhamel and Radford became the first pair to execute a triple Lutz-double toe-double toe combination. They were delighted with their seventh-place finish.
Another unfortunate occurrence occurred, this one subsequent to Worlds. Israeli pairs skater Evgeni Krasnopolski (20th with partner Danielle Montalbano) had stayed abroad longer than planned due to the delayed Championships, but without the permission of the army of which he is a member. He was arrested at Tel Aviv airport upon his return.
The ice dance event was a huge triumph for Marina Zoueva and Igor Shpilband.
For the first time in ice dance history all three medals went to one school, to their students and to North America. The coaches had five teams in Moscow (another record), all of which earned excellent results.
From the outset, it was clear that the fight for gold was between Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir and Meryl Davis and Charlie White. This time Davis and White came out on top, setting a new world record of 185.27, 14 points higher than the record they set at the 2011 Four Continents Championships.
This victory came as no surprise. Their results last season included a +3 on 47 occasions and eight 10.0 component scores, record-setting highs no ice dancers have ever achieved before.
"We're just so pleased with skating the way we did and having the result turn out the way it did," Davis said.
White added: "I think we benefit tremendously from having such amazingly talented skaters around us all the time."
Virtue and Moir performed their innovative Latin free dance for the first time this season. It was sexy and fluent but less than perfect, which motivated the judges to award them 3.48 points less than Davis and White. "The complexity of our free dance is unlike anything we've ever done before and perhaps something the ice dance world hasn't seen," Virtue said.
Capturing the bronze medal at their senior Worlds debut was a major surprise for America's Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani. The duo performed first-class elements and showed the joy of dancing, which is what the judges are looking for. They later said they were "speechless" about their podium finish and praised the creativity of their coaches.
The French couple of Nathalie Péchalat and Fabian Bourzat was favored for bronze, and after the short dance the duo was right on track. But both fell during the circular step sequence in the free dance, which cost them seven points and a medal. Still, it was close — they were only 0.25 of a point behind the Shibutanis.
"We know the rink, we train here all year, and then this," Péchalat said in frustration.
The couple was forced to leave Moscow in May because the Russian government will not allow state-employed coaches like Alexander Zhulin to train foreign skaters with medal potential in 2018. Péchalat and Bourzat have relocated to Detroit to train with Anjelika Krylova and Pasquale Camerlengo.
Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje showed a lot of sparkle and placed fifth, clearly winning the battle against Vanessa Crone and Paul Poirier (10th).
Originally published in August 2011
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014
The Push Your Writing Career Forward Test
I was able to work fast and get my day completed before meeting visiting family in the city for dinner. Plus, I was able to get my exercise in to my schedule. I'm in the middle of the T25 Workout, and thankfully it's just 25 minutes out of my schedule -- for various reasons. I make time for it instead of excuses, and I can't last longer than 25 minutes at that high of an intensity level. It's brutal. Effective, but brutal.
The switch to this exercise plan came after struggling for a year on one that I thought was intense, but didn't push me hard enough. I was challenged by the first regimen, but it was too easy to adapt. Also, there was no focus on diet change, which this new plan emphasizes. Since starting two weeks ago, I've had five pounds disappear and I feel healthier. And to think nothing would have changed had I not gone outside that comfort zone.
It's like that with our writing careers, isn't it? We send queries, answer job ads, and follow our routines because they've become such routine. What we do stays the same, and while it may work at first, we start to feel and get a bit stagnant. Writing clients we have now have limited projects in mind, or we lose a client for various reasons and don't remember how to replace them. We stay in that comfortable box we've built and don't push beyond it much, if at all.
And that's how we let a writing career die of natural causes. We are the natural causes in most cases.
Time for a reality check.
When was the last time you really tested whether you're moving forward or digging a hole for yourself? Try this simple test to see which direction your writing career is taking:
What have I done in the last month that's completely new? Anything? Did you reach out to a prospective client (one that wasn't on a job board), take up a new social media form, become active in a forum, or attend an on-site event? If so, give yourself 5 points.
Am I marketing consistently and mixing things up enough? If you've added a new way to reach out to clients, give yourself 5 points. If you've continued to market regularly, give yourself 3 points. If you're doing more of a hit-and-miss, same-old-routine process, give yourself 1 point.
How am I reacting when clients say no? If you thank them and continue to contact them at two-month intervals, give yourself 5 points. If you thank them and ask them to keep you in mind but don't follow up for at least six months, give yourself 3 points. If you say nothing or halt communications altogether, give yourself 1 point.
Am I trying to learn something new? If you're taking classes, studying grammar or style as part of your regular routine, or connecting with a mentor, give yourself 5 points. If you're occasionally reading books, blogs, or articles actively in an attempt to improve your skills or knowledge in a particular area, give yourself 3 points. If you look something up when a client or blog commenter points out a problem, give yourself 1 point.
Am I pursuing new areas on a regular basis? If you've planned a number of new things you'd like to attempt and have made a schedule around that, give yourself 5 points. If you've chosen one area you wouldn't mind going into and you're doing a little research, give yourself 3 points. If you're content being right where you are doing just what you're doing, give yourself 1 point.
Now add them up.
If you've scored 18-25 points, you're nurturing and growing your writing career.
If you've scored 14-17 points, you're doing okay, but you could be missing opportunities to grow both your business and your confidence.
If you've scored 13 points or below, get busy. You're in danger of stagnating and losing potential clients.
Do you have a plan that allows you to explore new opportunities?
How much does education and knowledge growth play into those plans?
What is your best advice to help other writers know how to push their careers forward?
11 comments:
- Jake Poinier said...
I had a speaking engagement this weekend, talking about writing and publishing to a local group of professional speakers. One of my key points was the importance of forming a creative team: graphic designers, web folks, PR, writers.
It was an unscripted Q&A, and on the fly I said that "it's really an ecosystem. And if I'm honest with myself, I'm frequently the organism that holds back evolution." Decent laugh line, but the more I thought about it, it's really true...and fits in well with what you've written here about dying from natural causes.
- Paula said...
Drat. I came in at 17 points But I split the difference and gave myself a 4 in the client reaction since I usually check in at 3 month intervals, not 2.
Good motivator for me to improve!
- Anne Wayman said...
21 points here... love new stuff... I assume this is scientific, right?
Paula, 90 days... that should count...
- Cathy Miller said...
Isn't it interesting how my first reaction was to say, I haven't done that. Yet, when I thought some more, I realized I had. Why am I selling myself short?
I started a new blog based on a decade-long passion. I wrote some really creative (in my mind anyway) introduction emails.
I do follow-up to a no, but I could shorten the time to do so.
I'm still new enough to freelancing that I am constantly learning something new. I am pursuing selling some non-writing products.
Better than I thought. ;-)
- Lori Widmer said...
Jake, I think we can all admit to similar sins.
Hey, 17 isn't bad, Paula! Good going. I think we all can find room for improvement, myself included.
Anne, you over-achiever. LOL
Cathy, it's funny how we don't even think about it after a while, but just go ahead and do new things. Sounds like you're growing like a weed. LOL
- Devon Ellington said...
I stretched to contact some new-to-me markets already this year, and have had some positive results.
I'm cleaning house of the lowest-paid, most unreliable clients.
I'm taking computational neuroscience and Environmental Law/Policy classes.
I got a grant for a new play and two new book contracts.
I want to build on the momentum.
I find follow up works better quarterly rather than every two months.
- Paula said...
Okay. Devon just made the rest of us look like total slackers. You've made an amazing start to the year, Devon.
- Lori Widmer said...
Way to move forward, Devon! I love it. Isn't Coursera a great resource?
Love that you're building on the momentum. It's so great when a wave comes that you know you can get the most of.
She does, Paula. :)
- Patty Kline-Capaldo said...
Really great blog site, Lori. Lots of good advice from some impressive personal experience.
- Lori Widmer said...
Thanks, Patty. :)
- Lori Widmer said...
Jenn Mattern, the busiest freelancer I know, just pointed out that her score on this little quiz of mine was incredibly low. How is that? Because Jenn has a different way of approaching her career than my questions suggest. As a result, my test makes her look like a slouch when in fact she's probably out-earning me. :)
The quiz -- don't take the results too seriously. It's just to remind you to put a bit more effort into what you're doing if you're not working as much as you'd like to/need to.


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Feb 12, 2011 - by Adam Martin
To follow up on our earlier report, Ric Flair is scheduled for the TNA Impact TV tapings this Monday and Tuesday night in Orlando, FL reports The Wrestling Observer. Flair was not at the last set of tapings following the company's European tour.
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Marcus Curry was captured at a motel on Lamar Ave. in Memphis eluding authorities after he was indicted by a grand jury and charged with aggravated animal cruelty for the death of a puppy he allegedly put in a dishwasher and killed according to the Shelby County District Attorney's Office reported the CommercialAppeal.com.
In June, witnesses stated they first saw the German shepherd mixed breed puppy tied on the porch with no food or water. Another witness claimed Curry opened the dishwasher and saw the lifeless body of the dog, with Curry stating he had left the pup "in there too long."
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Curry denied tossing the puppy into the dishwasher, however did admit to throwing the dead animal's body in a dumpster.
An online petition garnered more than 24,000 signatures asking that Curry be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
"Tennessee's animal cruelty statute 39-14-212 states a person commits aggravated cruelty, a Class E felony, to animals when, with aggravated cruelty and with no justifiable purpose, he/she intentionally kills or intentionally causes serious physical injury to a companion animal.
A Class E felony is punishable with a fine up to $3,000 and/or imprisonment up to 6 years."
Bail has been set at $50,000. Curry is scheduled to appear in court on March 26.
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Urban centers including New York City, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Charleston and other cities in the U.S. and around the world are no place for horse drawn carriages.
Equine Advocates is committed to exposing the truth about the carriage horse trade. Joined by the leaders of other prominent animal protection organizations, veterinarians and residents of the City of New York, EA President, Susan Wagner, has spoken at New York City Council hearings in support of legislation that would ban horse drawn carriages from New York City. We are truly disappointed that Mayor de Blasio has not kept his vow to finally put an end to the sad and pathetic existences horses have had to endure for so many years on the streets of New York City.
Update: In January 2016, Mayor de Blasio proposed legislation (Intro 573-B) that would reduce the number of NYC Carriage Horses from roughly 220 horses today to less than 100 by 2018; would confine the industry to Central Park and would require their stables to be moved to the park. If passed, it would have made a ban of the carriage horse trade virtually impossible and would not have protected the horses from slaughter (too many loopholes) or provided for their safe and humane retirement. On top of all that, New York taxpayers would have had to spend more than $25 million to fund a private business which many opposed on ethical grounds. Fortunately, the legislation is now off the table. As far as we at Equine Advocates are concerned, a full ban should be put back on the table. Nothing less is acceptable.
Horse-drawn carriages have been banned in many cities around the world, including London, Paris, Toronto and Beijing. Many U.S. cities have also banned them because of safety and congestion problems and humane concerns, and we hope that many more will soon follow.
According to both Peggy Parker, formerly of the Carriage Horse Action Committee, and Elizabeth Forel of the Coalition to Ban Horse Drawn Carriages, the average working life of an urban carriage horse is less than four years, as compared with that of mounted police horses who are able to serve an average of fifteen years before being retired. One of the worst horse and mule slaughter auctions in the nation takes place every Monday morning in New Holland, Pennsylvania. At times, you will see horse trailers belonging to some of the New York City carriage horse operators in the massive parking lot at the auction. It could be that they are there to buy horses for their trade, but there is also the possibility that they are selling old, used up and/or injured horses, and that usually means a horrifying trip to the slaughterhouse.
"By nature, horses are designed to spend at least 16-18 hours a day moving around freely and grazing on grasses and shrubs on a fairly forgiving surface of dirt," said Dr. Nina Deibel of Rhinebeck Equine. "Horses that are used in a carriage service in a city, such as those in Central Park in New York City, have their wellbeing jeopardized in several ways. First, the pavement on which they stand all day harnessed to their carriages does not absorb the impact of their foot falls thereby sending damaging concussive forces up their legs. This can result in musculoskeletal injuries throughout the horse's body, but particularly in their legs and feet. Secondly, these horses are at risk of damaging their gastro-intestinal tract since they can not take in a normal amount of roughage and feed. This lifestyle puts them at a high risk to develop gastric ulcers and other stress related health problems. Thirdly, it has been reported to me that some of these horses, when not in service, are kept in straight stalls where they are also tied up and unable to move at their own free will. This significantly contributes to the high stress situation in which they have to exist and further diminishes their physical and mental health and wellbeing."


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Name: Charles Lawrence "Red" FarmerYear of birth: He's not telling, but 1928 seems to be about right,making him at least 77 years oldBirthplace: Nashville, TennesseeResidence: Hueytown, AlabamaFamily: Married to wife Joan for 55 years; two daughters, Cindy andBonnie; one son, Michael; nine grandchildren; four great grandchildrenRacing involvement: Began running short tracks around Miami in 1948;began racing in Alabama in late '50s and became part of legendaryAlabama Gang with Bobby and Donnie Allison; has 748 wins on dirt andasphalt, from local bullrings to superspeedways; earned NASCAR Sportsman(now Busch Series) titles in 1969, '70 and '71; named one of NASCAR's 50Top Drivers in 1998; member of International Motorsports Hall of Fameand Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame; still active as a driver and works asconsultant with ARCA team.
SCR: Let's start with thebasics. How did you get started in racing?
FARMER: I had a buddy of minethat I ran around with and his dad had an old '34 Ford that he wasrunning at Opa-locka, Florida. He had trouble with his driver and theson, Earl David, asked me if I wanted to drive his dad's car the nextweekend. I didn't know nothing about it until I went out there and drovean old flathead '34 Coupe at Opa-locka Speedway in the latter part of1948. Opa-locka Speedway was just outside of Miami.
SCR: Are you originally from Miami?
FARMER: No, I'm fromNashville, Tennessee. I was born and raised in Nashville. Then I movedto Miami was I was about 14 or 15 years old. Then I lived there until Imoved to Alabama. Those are the only three places I've ever lived.
SCR: When did you move to Alabama?
FARMER: We moved up here inthe latter part of 1958 and ran some during the winter up here. Duringthe summer I would come up here and run a few races, then I would goback to Miami and work as an electrician during the winter. Bobby cameup here originally and found a place and came back and told me about it.So then I came back up here with them the next year and we ran someduring the summer and started that deal in '59. Then in '62 I moved myfamily up here.
SCR: From reading DonnieAllison: As I Recall, it sounds like you had some easy pickins' inAlabama back then. Was that why you moved to Alabama, because youthought you could win a lot of races?
FARMER: Well, we won an awfullot of races for two reasons. We learned to drive down in Hialeah andHollywood and West Palm Beach, Florida, on flat race tracks. We learnedhow to handle the cars on a flat race track. We came up here and theyhad banked race tracks. Driving a banked race track was like drivingdown the interstate for us compared to what we had been racing on. So weknew more about handling. These guys up here, it seemed the only thingthey thought about was horsepower. Then the more horsepower they got,the more they would spin the wheels and the worse they'd run. We couldgo by them and get back in the gas and outrun 'em. So basically weout-handled them through the corner. We would pull down the straightawaywith less horsepower because we could get back in the gas and drive indeeper. It was just a combination that we knew more about handling thanthese guys up here in Alabama did at the time.
SCR: So it all goes back toyour experience on those flat tracks?
FARMER: Yeah, because welearned to drive on flat race tracks and we had to learn how to get acar around a flat corner. I know the first time I came to DixieSpeedway, a little quarter-mile track down there, and they all hadcoupes with fuel injection and straight drive. You had to push them offto crank them like a Sprint Car. I came in there with a '36 coupe thathad two 4-barrels on it, with a clutch and transmission. I got in it,cranked it up, and drove it off the trailer, and they all got tolaughing their heads off because I was sitting there with a carburetorand a clutch and flywheel and transmission. They were all straight driveand fuel injected. I had no points and had to start in the rear. So Istarted in the rear at about 25th spot, or 30th spot, dead last, andthey all started racing and fighting and getting around the bottom. Ijust went up to the top, passed the whole field, and won the race thefirst night. I passed the whole 30 of 'em with those two carburetors andthat clutch and flywheel.
I just got up on top and ran next to the fence like Carl Edwards doesnow. I just passed the whole field. They said, You ain't supposed to runup there. I said nobody told me I couldn't run up there. Our car handledand I just got up on top and passed the whole field. That was at DixieSpeedway in Midfield, Alabama. In fact, Bob Harmon was the promoter atthat time. This was 1959 or somewhere in there and Bob Harmon was thepromoter at Dixie Speedway at that time. Then I went to Montgomery thenext night and won the feature down there. At that time I was unemployedas an electrician in Miami because of the Cuban Missle Crisis.Construction work was pretty well slowed down and I had a wife and kidsand my mother-in-law lived with me, and we were trying to live on anemployment check. I went up to Alabama, won those two races, and mademore money than I had been making in a long time.
SCR: How much did you win?
FARMER: It seems like it wasthree or four hundred dollars to win each race, so I won about $600 andI had only been getting about a hundred dollar a month unemploymentcheck. So winning was a big paycheck for me. I would come up herepulling my two-wheeled trailer with a station wagon all the way fromMiami, Florida, about a 27-hour trip at that time because there were nointerstates. I had to come up old 27 all the way up through theEverglades, up through Tallahassee and up through there. 27 hours tomake the trip. I used to stop in truck stops and sleep in the front seatuntil I woke up. Then I would drive some more. It was kind of a roughingit deal for a while. But it came to be a pretty good thing at the time.I would come up here and race during the summer and go back to Miami andwork as an electrician during the winter. So finally I moved my familyup here in '62, and Bobby and all of us, Eddie and Donnie and all of us,moved up here.
SCR: So eventually you gave upbeing an electrician and raced full-time?
FARMER: I worked as anelectrician up here sometimes in the winter too. I raced during thesummer and then I would work as an electrician here in Birmingham. I wasin the local IBEW and I changed my card from the 349 out of Miami up tothe 136 local here in Birmingham. I worked for quite a few years here inthe winter and raced during the summer. Finally I just got so busy thatwe were racing 10 or 11 months out of the year and didn't have time towork any more so I just quit the electrical business and started racingfull-time.
SCR: When was that?
FARMER: I guess it wassomewhere around '65, '66 or '67. I don't remember exactly when it was.
SCR: You mentioned the flattrack. It sounds like you would advise a young racer to get experienceon a flat track.
FARMER: It's true. In myopinion, if he drove a dirt track for a couple of years he would be alot better asphalt driver. I think learning to drive a dirt track by theseat of your pants and the feel of the gas pedal, being able to featherit when you needed it and back off when you don't need it. You can takea good dirt track driver and put him on an asphalt track and in a fewraces he could be racing asphalt. But you can't take an asphalt driverand put him in a dirt car. It would take him a year to learn how todrive it. It's an altogether different situation. You look at the guyscoming into the Cup ranks now, like Carl Edwards, for instance. Twoyears ago he was driving open wheel cars on a dirt track. He didn't haveany asphalt experience. Look at where he runs. He runs up there in thecushion, what I call the cushion on a dirt track, and on asphalteverybody else runs the bottom two lanes. He goes up in the third laneand goes around all of 'em. You learn to drive when a car is out ofshape. On an asphalt track when a guy blows an engine, or there's sandor stay-dry or something in front of him, half of these guys lock uptheir brakes and spin out and crash into the wall. You see these guyslike Tony Stewart and Carl Edwards, guys who were dirt track drivers,when something happens in front of them they just drive on through it orcross it up and stand on it and drive on through half the wrecks wherethe asphalt guys are crashing.
SCR: Let's go back to 1948when you got started. How long before you were winning races regularly?
FARMER: I think I won acouple of races the first year I ran out at Opa-locka. In i49 I staredwinning races and moved up to other cars. I started driving for HarryRowell. He had a three-car team and had a big junkyard down there. Hisson Eddie drove one and I drove one. Then I switched over and drove forCharlie Rowell, his son, and he owned another big junkyard. He had aone-car team and I started running for him. It was a stepping stone.Every time you thought you had an offer for a better ride, you took it.That's the way you moved up.
SCR: When you were inductedinto the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, you were listed withmore than 740 wins on dirt, asphalt and superspeedways. That's a lot ofwins. How did you keep count?
FARMER: Well, we kept countover the years. I won my 500th feature in Mobile, Alabama, in a twin50-lapper. Jody Ridley won one and I ran second in it. Then I came backand won the second 50-lapper and he ran second. That was my 500th one.Then I remember in Pulaski, Tennessee, I won my 700th on a dirt track. Ikept up with them every year. It's 748 now.
SCR: Have you ever counted thenumber of tracks you've run?
FARMER: There have been somany that I don't know how many it would be. I ran in Seattle,Washington. I ran over at Victoria Bridge, Columbia, in that corner. Iran down at Riverside and Ontario in California. I ran up at Oxford,Maine, that far north, and I ran down at Key West, Florida, down in theother corner. I ran all four corners of the United States and I don'tknow how many hundreds of tracks between there. Sometimes we ran five,six, seven times a week.
SCR: Does any track stand out as your favorite?
FARMER: Any track I win on ismy favorite. But I guess Daytona and Talladega were two of my favoritetracks. That's unusual for a short track driver. Of course, I lovedBirmingham and Huntsville and Montgomery, tracks we ran Thursday, Fridayand Saturday for 20 years. We ran Huntsville on Thursday night,Birmingham Friday night, and Montgomery on Saturday night. Then we wouldgo find a big race somewhere. Sometimes we would go all the way up toMannassass, Virginia, and run on Sunday, or up in Tennessee somewhere.We ran four nights a week a lot of times. Basically, I was always ashort track driver, but I like Daytona and Talladega. I like thesuperspeedways.


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Think about how much the banks want to keep your business. They have to stay competitive in so many areas with free checking, online banking and other free services. They hike up the fees in other places to make up for the shortfall on basic services. Look how much it now costs to use an ATM out of your network or from a different bank. Overdraft fees can take your breath away and the price of checks is a travesty.
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A Long Island man was sentenced Monday to spend the rest of his life in prison after plotting from a jail cell to decapitate a federal judge and prosecutor who sent him behind bars in a coin scam.
Joseph Romano, 51, of Levittown, repeatedly proclaimed his innocence, insisting he was entrapped by the government, in a rambling speech that lasted more than an hour before Judge John Keenan at U.S. District Court in Brooklyn.
"Had not the government provided this opportunity, this never would have occurred," Romano's defense lawyer, George Goltzer told the judge. "Mr. Romano should have the opportunity to be with his family," he said, asking the judge to set aside the sentencing recommendation of life imprisonment.
Before sentencing Romano to two terms of life in prison, the judge said Romano's actions "cannot be tolerated in a civilized society," adding the sentence would send a message to other "would-be assassins."
A jury convicted Romano in January after finding he gave orders to behead Federal Judge Joseph Bianco and mutilate and murder Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara Gatz, both of whom were involved in a prior case that left Romano serving a 15-year sentence for fleecing senior citizens in a collectible coin scheme.
Authorities allege he hatched the murderous plot from the Nassau County jail in 2012 by contacting an intermediary to hire a hit man – who was actually an undercover cop – to carry out the slayings. He then allegedly gave orders to have the prosecutor's breasts cut off and preserved in formaldehyde – for him to claim later – and then stuff her body in a steel drum and dump it where it couldn't be found.
Prosecutors said Monday that Romano has shown a "stunning lack of remorse" for his ruthless plot.
"He picked the targets, he trolled the Nassau County Correctional Center to find a hit man and he financed [the plan]," Assistant U.S. Attorney Marshall Miller said. "He enjoyed the anticipation of revenge."
Miller also said Roman was caught in a recorded phone call from jail telling his alleged accomplice he was "dancing around his cell, singing and laughing," after he heard the assassin agreed to be part of the plot.
Romano argued he was the victim of a government setup.
"I was attacked by the government," he said. "The FBI are the authors of this crime…they want me to shut up, but it's all in the paperwork and they can't shut the paperwork up," he said loudly, often gesturing to federal agents seated in the courtroom.
In addition to telling the court about his military service, charity work and tropical vacations, Romano also tried to argue he was wrongly convicted in the coin fraud case, but was stopped by the judge and reminded he pleaded guilty to that crime.
"Let's wrap this up now," the judge said at one point. "It's been nearly an hour. Let's go."


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With the arrival of William Eubanks' The Signal (in theaters on June 13) moviegoers will be treated to a second highly enjoyable and highly original sci-fi movies in as many weeks ( Edge of Tomorrow would be the other one). Though both films occupy the same genre they are quite different in premise and execution. While Edge of Tomorrow gave us a time loop and an epic war with aliens on a big budget, The Signal, which was comparably made on a micro-budget, gives us something much different, a game of wits that plays out in an isolated and eerie landscape.
The Signal follows three MIT students, Nic Eastman, his best pal Jonah and his best girl Haley on a road trip across the Southwest. When the trio takes a detour to pursue a hacker who has been taunting them they find themselves at a home that looks decidedly like something out of a slasher flick, but led by curiosity, they push ahead. A scream from Haley penetrates everything and then Nic's whole world goes dark. When he wakes up he finds himself in the nightmarish position of being in a locked room that has the trappings of both a hospital and a government compound. Nic is left with nothing but to try to piece together what's happened to him and find his friends, but thanks to the ominous presence of the mysterious man in charge, Damon, (Laurence Fishburne), that's no easy task.
Brenton Thwaites, who has recently been seen in Oculus and Maleficent and will next be seen in the iconic role of Jonas in The Giver, stars as Nic. The young actor holds up the weight of this ambitious tale admirably, he is expressive without being overstated and plays off of Fishburne, Olivia Cooke (Haley) and Beau Knapp (Jonah) exceptionally well. The risk in any high-concept project is having too much concept and too little characterization, but The Signal is at its best when the characters interplay.
The concept behind The Signal is quite a novel and clever one, that's best experienced rather than hashed over here, and the story manages to deliver some nice twists and reveals alongside the quality acting that buoys this fun, if imperfect exercise. Yes, there are a few instances where more information could be given and others where character actions don't hold up (three brainiacs who have a bad feeling still walk into a situation that feels like a trap?), but on the whole, The Signal is sleek and unique.
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